SAVE STATE STUCK AT 0% ISSUSES

thomas.ap

I tried to savestate in EchoNight in the PCSX emulator and it would stay at 0% and eventually never save. This would carry on to other games and emulators. I saw some tips saying to go to Retropie Setup, then configuration/tools, and look for resetromdirs (Reset Rom Directories) which would reset ownership. It worked, I was able to save my state again, until I tried saving my state on EchoNight once again which went back to the problem of attempting to save state and staying at 0% on that game and others and other emulators.
This is getting really annyoing, and I'm not aware if this effects in game saving.
I also saw that it possibly might be because my SD card is full but it says it's at 12% so that wouldn't be the problem.

PROBLEMS:
-SAVE STATE AT 0%

WHAT I HAVE:
-Raspberry pi3b+
-Ps4 controller
-not correct power supply
-Version 4.5.19
-image downloaded from Retropie website

mitu

Does this happen for every psx game ? Do other platforms have this issue ?

thomas.ap

@mitu The problem starts when I specifically start up EchoNight, but I did the resetromdirs thing and other PSX games and emulators save state fine until I try EchoNight where it goes back to the 0% percent problem for all games

sirhenrythe5th

Usually i only use the ingame saving options because state-saving is some kind of cheating for me ;), but after i read about your issue i tested it with "Echo Nights" on my system.
No problems here with state-saving using the default hotkey-combo :/
I dont know what the differnce is to your setup, maybe the file format?
Echo Nights is still *.PBP in my rom-folder.

Zering

I had the exact same issue a few months ago, a better power supply mostly solved it.

It only ever happens now when I use my Ps4 controller. Changing controllers generally resolves it in my experience. Maybe that will work for you?

pokevania

It's usually a permissions issue for me because I load/ save everything using a network share. The other times, it's because the SD is full. I know, who would fill an entire SD card and not know it. As it turns out, compiling/ updating from source can use gigs of temporary SD card space. If something goes wrong, it doesn't get deleted. BAM! Full SD!

mitu

@pokevania said in SAVE STATE STUCK AT 0% ISSUSES:

As it turns out, compiling/ updating from source can use gigs of temporary SD card space. If something goes wrong, it doesn't get deleted.

Yes, but after it fails, you have the option to clean-up the space used for the build in the package menu.

thomas.ap

@Zering So 7 days ago I ordered the proper power supply and I still have 0% issue on EchoNight sadly.

thomas.ap

@pokevania I checked my SD and it's at 4 gbs so I know it's not a storage issue

thomas.ap

@mitu The odd thing is that I never get an error code

thomas.ap

Today is also the first time since I posted this and now Other games are having the 0% save state issue. I did resetromdirs and Spider-Man has 0%

mitu

@thomas-ap said in SAVE STATE STUCK AT 0% ISSUSES:

@pokevania I checked my SD and it's at 4 gbs so I know it's not a storage issue

How large is your SD card ? Depending on the size, 4Gb might be under 5% of its capacity and you might have issues writing to is, since - by default - 5% from the formatted capacity is reserved for the root user.

Do an experiment and remove one of the larger disc images from the your ROM set, freeing up some more space. See if you can save.

thomas.ap

@mitu Sorry for responding late, I have a 32 GB micro SD and how would I do that??

mitu

Do what, exactly ? If you're asking about removing ROMs, then it's easier to delete the files from \\retropie\roms\<folder>.

blgmadresh0000

I am having trouble with retroarch on my autobleem whenever I save useing a savestate it says saving state 0% with and hourglass flipping but the percent does not increase?

deskjobo

@blgmadresh0000 Hello, by any chance did you manage to solve this issue?

theotherdan

@deskjobo

All, apologies on a reply on an old thread, but wanted to provide some insight...

I am in the process of setting up a custom image and was looking for some feedback on the same issue while troubleshooting
Turns out the custom image has no changes to the save location

There are a number of ways that you will see 0% while attempting to save a state...

As mentioned, there is not enough free space on the storage device

To determine if this is your issue, you will need to connect a USB keyboard to your RaspberryPi and press F4, this will close EmulationStation and drop you to the command line
From the command line, run the following command: df -h
This command will print a number of stats about your storage device

Example: You are looking for the total amount of space left in 'root' under 'Avail'

pi@retropie:~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 235G 150G 75G 67% / <---- What you are looking for
devtmpfs 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1.9G 9.5M 1.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1 256M 49M 208M 20% /boot
tmpfs 384M 0 384M 0% /run/user/1000

If you do not see any space, you SDCard is full, if you are booting with HDD/SSD over USB3 with no SDCard, that device is full

The /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx or any other emulator that is having issues in substitute for 'psx' in the path does not have permissions for the user 'pi' set properly

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/<emulator> is the default location that Retropie saves save state files to
If you do not have the proper permissions set, the on screen overlay will stay at 0% indefinitely
To determine if this is your issue, run the following command: ls -al /home/pi/RetroPie/

Example:

pi@retropie:~ $ ls -al /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/
total 312
drwxr-xr-x 38 pi pi 4096 Dec 25 11:55 . <---- What you are looking for
drwxr-xr-x 6 pi pi 4096 Nov 4 2020 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 4 2020 amstradcpc
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 Dec 25 11:25 arcade
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 20480 Dec 25 11:25 atari2600
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 4 2020 atari5200
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Dec 25 11:25 atari7800

From this output, you are looking for the emulator in question
For the sake of this example, lets say you are looking for atari2600
From this output, we can see that 'pi' is both user and group, this is the 3rd and 4th column
The modebits in the first colume show that they are directories, denoted by the 'd'
The modebits also show that own has read/write/execute, and group and other have read/execute
For atari2600, RetroPie should have no issue writing save states
But, let's say that instead of 'pi', you have 'root', which would be a common condition if you use 'cp' commands to move files from a USB device, as you will most likely run 'sudo cp'
The owner and group would be 'root', and ask other can only read, RetroPie cannot save state files
You will need to update the owner, to do so, run the following command: sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/<emulator>
This will update the owner and group on the emulator directory you specify, and the -R will make it recursive and update the owner on all files and folders under it
If you run 'ls -al' again, you will see that the owner and group is 'pi'

A bit late, but hopefully it helps anyone still dealing with the problem

deskjobo

@theotherdan Thank you so incredibly much for your response. I followed both sets of steps you gave, and my results are as follows:
After using df -h my available storage is shown to be 785M out of 3.3G size.
For the command ls -al /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ all the emulators appear to have 'pi' in both the user and group, as well as all the correct modebits.

Is 785M enough of an available storage or could that be the cause of the problem?

ps. All my roms are stored in a usb drive instead of in the sd card with the image.

theotherdan

@deskjobo

@deskjobo said in SAVE STATE STUCK AT 0% ISSUSES:

@theotherdan Thank you so incredibly much for your response. I followed both sets of steps you gave, and my results are as follows:
After using df -h my available storage is shown to be 785M out of 3.3G size.
For the command ls -al /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ all the emulators appear to have 'pi' in both the user and group, as well as all the correct modebits.

Is 785M enough of an available storage or could that be the cause of the problem?

ps. All my roms are stored in a usb drive instead of in the sd card with the image.

@deskjobo
785M will be 785 Megabytes, so a decent amount of space. For save states, I would say that space is not an issue..
Now, since you are not using the default location for saving, you will need to adjust the process a bit.
You can look at /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg by running 'cat /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg'. This file should show you where the save states and saves games are stored:

#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 = "/media/usb0/savefile" <--

#Save all save states (*.state) to this directory.
#This will be overridden by explicit command line options.
savestate_directory = "/media/usb0/savestate" <--

Based on the output, and where the USB device is loaded, you will have to append the command to meet it:

sudo chown -R pi:pi /media/usb0/<emulator>

Let me know how that turns out.