SRM files - Help Me!!!!!

Tripleb84

I am new to the retropie thing. I have a raspberry pi running 3 (I think). It was a gift from my wife. Anyway, i’m a huge wrestling fan and have wanted to play an english version of Fire Pro Wrestling on the SNES.
I have managed to download a version and patch a translation. THEN I found a load of downloads for extra wrestlers and other things that a grapple geeks would love. When I downloaded these on to my Mac, they saved as .srm files. So, i’ve added them remotely to my my Rom files but they just don’t seem to work at all. I am sure that I am doing something really simple wrong, but i’ve been trying to read forums for two weeks and I just can’t sort it.

Please be gentle with me! Your support would be so appreciated (aside) my wife is REALLY regretting buying me this!

dankcushions

@tripleb84 the file name has to be the same as the rom.

eg, if your game is mario.sfc, then your save has to be mario.srm.

please fill out https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first for more specific advice, including the name of your save file.

Tripleb84

@dankcushions thanks so much for your response, I will try and answer this the best I can:

It is raspberry pi 3
The power supply is just a standard usb to micro usb cable
It’s retropie - i’m really sorry I don’t know what version
It’s on emulation station

This is the file

Super Fire Pro Wrestling X (J) (Patched).smc

I have renamed the save files to match this but had to add a number as it wouldn’t let me have the same file name, obviously. This still hasn’t worked however. I must be doing something stupid! Haha

Any help would be really appreciated

saccublenda

@tripleb84 The filename should be the same, but the extension must be srm, so in your case Super Fire Pro Wrestling X (J) (Patched).srm.

Tripleb84

@saccublenda

I’ve just done that and when I load it up there still isn’t any extra wrestlers either in the game or in the create a wrestler section. Any ideas?

saccublenda

@tripleb84 I would check if the emulator used to create the srm file you downloaded is compatible with the emulator you are using on the pi.

dankcushions

@tripleb84 the game would have generated its own srm file so you should have had to delete that one as it would have had the same name.

we’re going to need you to show your working. please show us screenshots of the directory showing both files, and a verbose log as per my previous link.

lostless

@tripleb84 I think there may be confusion here. .Srm files are just save files that backup a games progress. Unless the game has a create a wrestler mode of some sort, there’s no way it can contain a updated roster. The updated roster would be In the rom hack, other wise known as an .ips file. The .ips file contains the changes to the original code. Now for retropie, you don’t have to patch the original rom. As long as rom name and ips file names match, other than the .ips and .smc/sfc extension, snes9x will just auto patch the rom.

lostless

@tripleb84
https://www.romhacking.net/translations/3238/
is this the mod you want to use?
It comes in an IPS mod and like i said before, if you have the right base rom, you only need to change the name if the rom and IPS file to match.

Tripleb84

@lostless Thanks so much for your reply, yeah i’ve done that patch and loaded this on to my Retropie. What I have also downloaded is a few .srm files that claim to have created wrestlers on them from WWF, WCW, ECW and it’s these files that I simply cannot get working. I have named the file the same as the rom to no avail. Where would I be able to see if this .srm file is compatible with my rom?? It’s driving me insane! Haha thanks for your help!

Tripleb84

@saccublenda how would I check that? (Sorry, serious newbie to all this)

saccublenda

@tripleb84 on the website where you downloaded these srm files, do they say something about the emulator they used?

sleve_mcdichael

.srm files are the saved RAM, used for in-game saves. It sounds like someone has shared a customized character that they have created in-game. You will have to load this character through whatever in-game save/restore method is available. It won't be something you can start a new game with from a "character selection" screen. That would be more along the lines of a ROM hack, which it doesn't sound like this is.

Tripleb84

@sleve_mcdichael yeah it should have saved wrestlers in the creative wrestler slots, however, they are not in the saved area when I add the .srm file.
I’ve looked at the website where I downloaded it and as far as I can see there was no information on the emulator used.

saccublenda

A question for the moderators: is it possible to share the website that hosts the srm files, provided that it does not contain actual roms?

dankcushions

@tripleb84 please answer my questions above. so far we are unable to verify if your .srm is even loading, nevermind if it will do what you want.

@saccublenda it's probably fine but i don't think it's needed at the moment until we get more info.

lostless

@tripleb84 I’m assuming that the wrong rom is being used. If the game is modded with an ips file, the srm may be for the base game. Or even a version difference or region difference. Many reasons why an srm file may nor be working.