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Colson Rice fe31293566 Refuse a Gen 2 cart save as a Gen 2 save, not as a broken Gen 1 one
#1832 reports a Crystal .sav failing to import with "save data checksum
invalid (main data checksum mismatch)". The save is fine. It is being
measured with the wrong generation's ruler.

SaveFileIO.importToSlot sends anything that is not exactly SAVE_SIZE into
mainChecksumValid, which is pokered's main-data checksum. Gen 2 carts are
MBC3+TIMER, so a real Gold, Silver or Crystal battery save carries an RTC
footer: 32786 bytes, never 32768. It misses the size test, falls into the
checksum branch, and is told it is damaged by a rule written for a
different game. Every real Gen 2 cart save takes that path, every time.

The generation check already exists, it just lives too late, inside
importSav and behind the size gate that has already rejected the save.
This lifts it into SaveConvert.importSupported and exportSupported and
asks before the bytes are measured. Both existing guards route through
the same predicates now, so the early caller and the late one cannot
describe the same game two different ways.

Nothing changes for Gen 1, and Gen 2 is still refused, for the real
reason and in a sentence a player can do something with.

tests/gen2_save_import_message_test.lua covers it. Against the code as it
stands it is 20/26, and the failures are the report itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-26 14:52:44 -04:00
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