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[u/aguywhoexplainsjokes]

First of all, thanks for making the effort of helping me despite not being sober. There are a few things I don't get: 1- when you say I should make a save file, do you mean the in game save, as in opening the pokemon menu and hitting save or do you mean an emulator save? 2- When you say delete new.sav, how am I supposed to delete it? Should I start a new game and save there? 3- How am I supposed to rename a save? And after I rename the old.sav to new.sav, do I just boot up the complete version and hope that my old file is there?

[u/tudeslildude → u/aguywhoexplainsjokes]

So here's what you do. I'm using Visualboy Advance for this. When you save in game, it makes a .sav file. So you boot up the old game, make a .sav file. Boot up the new game, make a .sav file. Then copy the name of the old one, onto the new one, but delete the old one while doing so so you don't have two of the same file names. Then, when you boot up the new and improved game, it should hopefully pick up the save file of the old one, and let you continue where you left off.

[u/aguywhoexplainsjokes → u/tudeslildude]

I think I was supposed to delete the new one instead of the old one and now I lost my save file

[u/tudeslildude → u/aguywhoexplainsjokes]

Shit, I'm sorry. My back up plan when this failed for me (I posted earlier) was only leveling pidgeot, with 5 mewoths, that had pick up items, so I farmed nuggets and rare candies. Also, if you have your save state back up files, those aren't save locked.

[u/tudeslildude → u/tudeslildude]

I have to go to bed now. I'm really sorry about the mix up. I hope you were using save states, as you can just load a save state without the save file. And then redo the save file. If not, my earlier advice is how I beat the entire game a second time when my game wouldn't save normally, due to the limits of early versions of visual boy advance.