@tomwaitforitmy said in Game states are lost in Chrono trigger?:

Is there a decent way to prevent a simple select + L from destroying all my save states?

You could remap or remove the input_load_state_btn value in your controller's autoconfig file at /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig/[DEVICE_NAME].cfg

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/82s737/howto_sync_savegames_and_savestates_via_dropbox/

Continue with what you have to #4 in these instructions.

In this line of code:

# get parameters direction="$1" system="$2" rom="$3"

I changed it to:

# get parameters direction="$1" system="" rom="$3"

Too many folders are created with the first option.

Also, be sure to make the necessary location changes in these:

# path to RCLONE rclonePath="/home/pi/rclone-v1.39-linux-arm/rclone" # local base directory for your saves localPath="/home/pi/RetroPie/saves" # remote directory for your saves, has to be configured via "rclone config" first remotePath="dropbox:RetroArch"

One thing to mention, if for some reason your Retropie is offline, your system will freeze and you will need to power it off.

@stumcbill
The only two things I can think of are

Drive is full File permissions issue

#1 is easy enough to check, #2 shouldn't be an issue as long as your USB drive is using the FAT32 file system.

When you say you manually save, if you mean through the game's normal save feature, you could try using a save state as an alternative. If a save state worked then it likely would mean that none of the above applies and it is something else.

@joelkolb Wow! Thanks for the really detailed explanation!

Thank you for confirming it for me .

@psychol324 Hello

Choose all ... this uses config /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg - you did that already.

The parameter for the save pathes can made dynamical if you use $1
So /home/pi/RetroPie/savegames/$1 for a GameBoy game will be /home/pi/RetroPie/savegames/gb
/home/pi/RetroPie/savegames/$1 for a NES games will be /home/pi/RetroPie/savegames/nes....

In my humple opinion /home/pi/RetroPie/scripts/SavePath.sh "all" "/home/pi/savegames/$1" is the best setup

It saves STATEs and SRM files into one location in depence of the system (gb, nes, snes) and used the config file for all base settings.

Instruction point 5 can be understand following. Usually the setting for savefile_directoryand savestate_directory are commented out with a #.
So you have to set them "active" by uncommenting them.

So if you already have setted them up like savefile_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/savefile" you are fine.
So the script will always overwrite this: like savefile_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/savegames/gb"
Hope I was clear now ;)

@hiulit Here you are ;)
https://github.com/crcerror/
My best repo is the binary archive for old ES versions ;)

Ok. I understand. Thx for the help.

This is very interesting idea, if some one could get this to work it would be much clever :)

Sorry for necropost, but it is on-topic.

I suppose you are running RetroPie on RaspberryPi. If you do, you should be able to overcome the issue by using symbolic link (command named "ln" with parameter -s). You enter the folder with the savegame in command line via ie: "cd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx" and then you make the symbolic link via ie: "ln -s gt2_(simulation).srm gt2_(arcade).srm" The first one should be the already existing file and the second one should be the name of the link. After that the gt2_(arcade).srm points to the gt2_(simulation).srm and that means whatever disc you load both of them would actually load the same file.

Before trying, make backup of the .srm file!

I have experienced the same issue in RetroPie 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3: the the *.srm file gets created when doing an in-game save, but the game can't seem to find the save file when you go to load your saved progress. I have tried various BIOS files, unfortunately without success.

@leoleopold said in Why failing to save game process of FFIX in PSX?:

@lostless Yes, save state can be saved by Select + R1 and loaded by Select + L1. You can change the save state Select + arrow-key-left/right. I think it works. Thank you!

Those are called "save states", I thought you had problems with the normal in-game saving. Well, enjoy FFIX it's a great game.

This tool MPKEdit does what you want. load the .N64 file then save it as a normal .MPK which can then be converted to Mupen's .srm format with whatever tool you have.

Edit: OK so you're trying to extract EEPROM saves from an MPK file, not trying to use an actual controller pak save. Open the .N64 in MPKEdit, then Hold Control (save icons for note should turn red) and click the save icon. then rename it as required, convert it to SRM as required, etc.

For anyone wanting to attempt this with Stretch, it's actually a lot easier. The owncloud client and command line client are now included in Stretch. Run apt-get install owncloud-client-cmd to install the client this script needs. Then edit the script so that it is checking for owncloudcmd in /usr/bin/owncloudcmd instead of /usr/local/bin/owncloudcmd. Run the edited script through sudo and away you go. Everything works swimmingly aside from the fact that old saves are not moved to the new location.

@Shakz I don't know how to launch RetroArch loading a specific saved state file. This feature is a must-have to start making it doable.