Looking for a little definition on they "hotkey" meanings

scrappbrapp

I know.... Another one of these posts from me...If i'm not careful, yall are gonna nickname me "Mr.Questions."

On the Wiki page, it states that "select + left (or) Right will result in a "Input State Slot Increase" or "Input State Slot decrease".

But frankly I dont know what this means.... I'm assuming it somehow creates a NEW state save? Or is it how you navigate between multiple state saves?

I could use a little clarification as to how to use this hotkey, because I hope it does what I think, I would love to have multiple save states for a particular game, but I dont know how to use it to my advantage.

(PS: possibly adding to the wiki for "select + N/M" for shader select, might be useful.... I had to find that one on my own...)

Floob

Save state slots are virtual positions to save a snapshot of a game state. It doesnt make the save in itself, just sets the slot, i.e slot 5, slot 6 etc..
You can scroll through them with hotkeys mapped to increase or decrease the slot position.

Check here to see the default hotkey setup for your controller:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration

# State slots. With slot set to 0, save state name is *.state (or whatever defined on commandline).
# When slot is != 0, path will be $path%d, where %d is slot number.
# input_state_slot_increase = f7
# input_state_slot_decrease = f6

# Save all save states (*.state) to this directory.
# This will be overridden by explicit command line options.
savestate_directory = /home/pi/RetroPie/saves

# Automatically saves a savestate at the end of RetroArch's lifetime.
# The path is $SRAM_PATH.auto.
# RetroArch will automatically load any savestate with this path on startup if savestate_auto_load is set.
# savestate_auto_save = false
# savestate_auto_load = true

# Saves state.
# input_save_state = f2
# Loads state.
# input_load_state = f4

# When saving a savestate, save state index is automatically increased before
# it is saved.
# Also, when loading content, the index will be set to the highest existing index.
# There is no upper bound on the index.
# savestate_auto_index = false

Some info here:

scrappbrapp

Thank you @Floob (or is it PRB?) I understand now how it works. I can use the left and right to select WHICH save state slot I want, and proceed to save OR load.

BTW, Ive watched many of your "how to" videos on youtube... Not to be a lurker, but thank you for much of the help in the past that you dont know you did.