@chipsnblip said in Savestates save slowly:

avestate_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/SaveS

I thought of this solution but I also use the hard drive on PC with Retroarch. It's helpful to have the savestates in the same folder as the rom! ;)

@charlied43 Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first (as agreed when registering)

@herb_fargus Oh sorry I did not know that this was also forbidden :-/ I edited it out

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.

@rbaker I already tried with F7 + any key or ShiftF7 + any key, doesn't work, the sav folder, of corse, is present.

I start to think simply save state it is not supported by mame4all.

Last thing, i have some problem to write correctly in English so I do what I can, sometimes it's not enough, anyway before post this discussion, I assure you, i have tried alone for one week to solve the problem, i have read here and in whole internet lot of msgs but 99% of info was about normal mame (not mame4all) and in normal mame (that i use in my real arcade cabinet) works perfectly and in effect the tab menu (contrary to mame4all) has the two line load state and save state present.
At this point I ask the moderators to close this topic, 90% of topic is out of topic and doesn't help anyone sorry.

Thanks a ton. I didn't even have to do the bindings because the disk control options are easily accessible in the retroarch quick menu. I found it by accident when I tried to figure out how to do it; turns out I was pretty close... The only thing I missed was that I was supposed to swap the disk input in between ejecting and closing the virtual tray.

Thanks so much for helping, you managed to find the missing pieces to my puzzle.

@MRL2051 Don't bump a 4 year old topic. Start a new topic and read the pinned topics first. See my signature.

@theink
Just a tip to better describe you issues:
It would be better if you explicitly say what software you are using. ;-) Because GUI can be confused with RGUI (RetroArch GUI).

When you say GUI in your previous post it seems that you refers to the emulationstation, anyway.

@dankcushions For info, I just installed Recalbox and tried doing the same with Bubble Bobble (using the autosave/autoload config), and in this caase it just won't load anything.

@Patl Thanks!

Perhaps something like a custom runcommand that would pass the name of the save state to the emulator. But I don't know if the emulators have that kind of commandline functionality. Seems like a lot of effort when there's already an option to load a save state on startup in retroarch.

@xFlesk Really appreciate the detailed instructions, will give it a shot!

@vincedj I have tried the config updates and is fine but wanted it with minimal loading times. Savestates are perfect on most systems but doesn't look possible to launch directly into one here.