@YFZdude said in Save States: The SELECT button is it's own button. The HOTKEY can be a different button. You may not have any games that use SELECT. What matters is that you have a mapped HOTKEY button. To save states it should be HOTKEY + R1. Yeah, the hotkey +R1 is working fine now. Silly me. I understand now. Thanks for your explanation though. Now for some retro gaming fun!

Finally i get rid of save/load state functionality. i change the following: 1- This is for the gamepad. From/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads i remove the lines for save/load states. 2- This is for the keybord. From /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg i change the lines from # input_save_state = f2 # input_load_state = f4 to input_save_state = f22 input_load_state = f44 3- This is to hide save/load state option, in rgui quick menu. i add to the/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg the line quick_menu_show_save_load_state = "false"

Got it solved. I outsourced the config-files to "/home/AMIBERRY Inputs". Now everything works, i learned that retroarch seems to browse also the subfolders within "opt/retropie/configs/all/autoconfig/" ;)

@mitu said in lr-mame2003 dosent support save states on one game: Try a different emulator - lr-mame2010 may support save states for this driver. Thank you Mitu, I will try this after work ^^

@mitu said in Suddenly my save states dosent work.: Save states are not always portable between emulators, so a save state from lr-gambatte might not worth with lr-mgba . Is the emulator version the same as the one you used for the save states ? Sometimes an upgrade of the emulator makes it incompatible with previous versions' save states. Hmm maybe it's because of an emulator upgrade. I played the game for a couple of month before I did the backup. And after I think I did an update. Thanks, I did not know it might cause a problem. At least the "normal" save file works. @cyperghost said in Suddenly my save states dosent work.: @lesk ... and it's more likely that a battery savestate gamename.srm will work more reliable and may be portable to other emulators ;) Thanks, yeah the normal game save seems to work just fine ^^

@mitu Thx for this. would you happen to know if I define a location of a folder that does not exist, will it create said folder for me or return an error instead?

@mitu This makes sense. Oh well, I'm just glad it's not something I was doing wrong. Thank you!

Hi, I asked the developer of lr-caprice32 if he would add save states to the core and he has now kindly implemented them. https://github.com/libretro/libretro-cap32/commit/8dc1fe206abc480cfd55c419a4f24f227495488b You can enable this functionality by running the "update from source" option for lr-caprice32 under RetroPie setup.

@vahnxdean Login via SSH or get to a command prompt by closing Emulationstation. Open the File Manager (mc) and browse the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms folder, which will contain your ROMs and save states - under each system (nes, snes, etcc). Copy/move the saves (they have the .stateX extension, where X is a number) to a folder inside /home/pi/ - let's say /home/pi/saves. Configure the save states folder to be /home/pi/saves. This way the save folder will be on the SD card, but your ROMs will still stay on the USB HDD. The reason you're not seeing the ROMs from the SD card is that Windows doesn't know how to read the Linux partition on it, and you're only looking at the /boot partition, which only contains the bare minimum to start the RPI system (kernel files and device tree files).

shows how much of a noob i am haha. you are right i accidentally set the hot key to a. thanks alot.

@xdrak Sometimes you can't see for looking! It's a pretty obscure emulator, not sure a lot of people on here use it. I use it for DRAGON32.

@ mitu Thanks a lot, it worked!

Cool solution ;) I posted annother small script for such purposes here This creates a zip file for each rom and takes as backup the same folder as the rom located. It took annother branch instead of searching all files that "could" be a savestate I said, every file with same name except the ROM-name is a savefile. Thanks for this small script. I appreciate it :)

Duhhhhhh... Solution is here. Can't delete this, but sorry for wasting server space... In case anyone searches this in the future... Go into ScummVM and navigate to Options >> Paths and change the path location to whatever you'd like. For me it was ./roms/ScummVM/saves/. To recover your previous saves, navigate to /opt/configs/retropie/ScummVM/saves/ with a program like Filezilla and copy them to the desktop then move them to your USB for example. Another option would be to, in the command line, use the mv -i /opt/retropie/configs/ScummVM/saves ./roms/ScummVM/saves/ for example.

I know this is late, but what are your settings to get HM64 to run?? I cannot for the life of me get it to even start.

@chipsnblip Sorry, thanks. Pi Model or other hardware: 3 RetroPie Version Used 4.2 Built From: Retropie Website USB Devices connected: keyboard and Xbox controller Controller used: Xbox controller File: LunarEternalBlue Emulator: lr-picodrive

@Danorak1981 That's funny. I was thinking of this very same things as my backup workaround to this problem. I'll probably set it that way for the meantime (L being my hotkey instead of Select), but I'd really like to figure out a way to do this properly. It's strange. Retroarch is so customizable, but it won't let you just hit a button or combination of buttons that you'd like to perform actions like this. It would be nice to have it prompt you to hit the button or buttons you'd like to perform whatever action. Kind of how it does when you set up a new controller in Emulation Station. Anyway, if anyone has the solution or workaround to this, I'd be very happy to know it!

@Acidbased said in Save state failed: So I can't figure out how to get my save state to work. I have the buttons configured but when attempting it always says failed You do realize that you need to set up the save folders manually right? If you didn't set up the folder RPi doesn't know from which directory to load them from. You can do this very quick via SMB. If you;re on windows open the following file: \retropie\configs\all\retroarch.cfg The first two things you'll see are: . Save all save files (*.srm) to this directory. This includes related files like .bsv, .rtc, .psrm, etc ... . This will be overridden by explicit command line options. savefile_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/SAVE/SAVE_FILES/" . Save all save states (*.state) to this directory. . This will be overridden by explicit command line options. savestate_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/SAVE/SAVE_STATE/" In my example you see that I already added the paths of the folders. Just use the same paths as I did and save the file. Now we need to make the folders, open up the following directory: \retropie\roms Create one folder and name it SAVE. Open up the SAVE folder and create two new folders. Name one SAVE_FILES and the other SAVE_STATE. So now you have one folder (SAVE) which includes two folders SAVE_FILES and SAVE_STATES. Keep in mind everything is case sensitive.

Capeman : thanks for clearing that up, I didn't know that this was how it has always worked. dankcushions : I found the undo load state option but only after resetting and noticing the problem. It was obviously too late... well, now I know.

@Mobile.Rodri said in MAME Savestates not working in Retroarch: @illuminerdi I was able to save state using Lr-mame2003. I tried several games and all worked. I can try a specific game but it seems ok. I forgot to get my version, I'll double check when I get to the train, but it's relatively recent. I updated right around Christmas. It worked for me too with Neo Geo games with the emulator you mentioned. I don't use them when I play arcade games, you basically have unlimited coins in most games one coin is equal to 1 credit/life. You beat the majority of the games within a hour.