@sugarfree sounds like I'm going to be out of luck then :(

Can't back up the current memory, as I don't think you can really do that unless you're a dab hand with forensic style tools (I'm certainly not!)

Would hot swapping the flash drive possibly work? As in, if I remove the drive and plug in a different one, would RetroArch write to it on exiting the emulator? Or is the mount restricted to a specific disk identifier?

@Melchior said in Pi5 - SNES - 8bitdo SNES30 - Down & Diagonals triggering State Selection and Resetting Game:

Any idea where I might have gone wrong? 😅

Did you delete any configuration file(s) hoping you'll 'reset' the mapping ?

Sounds like you've deleted es_input.cfg from EmulationStation's configuration folder, in which case follow the steps in the docs to reset your inputs and re-configure your gamepad once again.

@VictimRLSH That worked! Thank you very much for the help

@quicksilver Awesome, thank you for the tip and info!

Wow, I posted this question 3 years ago, and never responded to anybody's suggestions... my bad! The solution to my problem was embarrassingly stupid and simple. Retropie had copied all the roms over from my usb drive, and this filled up my micro sd card to a point where there just wasn't any room left to save game data. THAT is why I kept seeing "task failed: saving state".

Hopefully this is helpful to someone.

@Patl Thanks!