So after re-downloading the rom and extracting the folder and adding the save and Emerald .gba file and renaming it, I fixed the game! And the "corrupted" version looks surprisingly familiar XD

So I'm thinking... That instead of it being "corrupted" necessarily... After the SD card crisis, I think it was actually missing the .ups patch file that makes it into a rom hack and all it did was use the save file since the name matched the game and because of the map being completely different and the textures missing, it loaded the game as Pokémon Emerald instead of Pokémon Glazed.

And as a result of that I also noticed another difference between the two that confirmed it.

Glazed:

Emerald...ish:

Did you see it?

Well

If you didn't

Stranger kind of...

Turned into a Skitty XD

No joke look

It even changed the ability and location where they were found. I didn't realize that at first when I was messing around with the corrupted version and I was wondering why my Riolu wasn't in my party XD. The Skitty even has the same Dex No. (which is probably why it turned into Skitty), nature, stats, and moves as Riolu.

Wait...

Couldn't this be the way to get Pokémon that are available in rom hacks (like Pokémon with different move sets or stats) into newer games via Pokémon Bank?? (since you can hack your 3DS into having roms)

Like if they use an op Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow/Gold/Silver rom hack and rename the R/B/Y/G/S .whatever file to the same name as the save from the hack (or more logically compatible rename the save to the game) and then open Pokémon Bank and transfer those Pokémon (that still have compatible Gen I & II Pokémon of course) into games like X and Y or S/M and US/UM???

I think I'm on to something here

Sorry if that confused you

But...

Seriously...

Is that how they do it??

(just looked up games compatible with Pokémon Bank and apparently BW and B2W2 would probably work too)

Like...

I wanna know now dammit

But oh well