Failed to load state from"/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/Megaman X (USA).state".

meleu

The topic title says ".../pi/RetroPe/...". Is this a mistyping? It should be "/home/pi/RetroPie/..."

Can you access your RetroPie via SSH and paste here the output of this command:

ls -ld /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes

mattw24

@meleu yes it is sorry and like I said I'm very new to this so what is ssh?

mattw24

drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jul 22 12:24 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes

if I did that right

meleu

@mattw24 Yeah man! I'm glad to see a person who didn't know SSH accomplished this task! No joking! I'm talking seriously! :D

You said you wish to get comfortable with linux commands before. Well... Let me try to explain what I is my strategy to solve your problem, maybe you can learn something with this info.

Your title says "Failed to load state from...". If it failed to load, maybe the state aren't even saved.
You said that nothing happens when you try to save the state. Well, if there is no state saved, obviously it'll fail when you try to load. So your problem isn't the load failure, it's the save failure.
What do you mean with "when i try to create a save state in Megaman X nothing happens". Is "nothing" really nothing? Not even a "failed to save" message in the bottom left?
If "nothing" is really nothing, maybe your hotkey to savestate isn't properly configured. Usually the hotkey for this task is Select+R1.
If you get a "failed to save" message, the problem can be file/directory permissions. When I asked you to paste here the output of that ls command, I wanted to see if the user pi has permission to create files on the ".../roms/snes/" directory. By the way: you pasted the output for the nes directory, not the snes.

Can you ask the question in 3, so we can decide if we go to 4 or 5?

mattw24

@meleu when I press select and r1 it gives me the error in the title

meleu

@mattw24 said in Failed to load state from"/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/Megaman X (USA).state".:

@meleu when I press select and r1 it gives me the error in the title

Then Select+R1 is configured to load. You must discover what is the hotkey to save.

What about Select+L1?

mattw24

@meleu when I press select and l1 no text comes up

meleu

@mattw24 OK, let's continue our investigation...

Please, paste here the output of this command:

grep -R save_state_btn /opt/retropie/configs/all 2> /dev/null

mattw24

@meleu I tried entering that many times but no text came up afterwards I also tried it with a capital "R" and "P" in retropie

meleu

@mattw24 It seems that you have no hotkeys to savestate, and this is why it is not working.
Try it without the trailing 2> /dev/null (this let us see the error messages, if they exist). Just:

grep -R save_state_btn /opt/retropie/configs/all

I suggest you to reconfigure your joystick in emulationstation: press Start and select CONFIGURE INPUT.

Reading suggestions:

I'm sure your problem is very simple to solve, and I'm sure that if you read and understand the links above, you'll solve it easily.