save/savestate organizing over network

[Vodkanakas]

So ive got 2 pi4s mine and my sons. i have both set up to load over network. now the issue is trying to get saves/savestates to be stored seperately on the network as so we dont override one anothers

savefile_directory = "~/RetroPie/Saves/Vod/%system%/saves"
savestate_directory = "~/RetroPie/Saves/Vod/%system%/savestates"
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savefile_directory = "~/RetroPie/Saves/Son/%system%/saves"
savestate_directory = "~/RetroPie/Saves/Son/%system%/savestates"

Defaults to "Content Directory" in retroarchs directory menu. Is there a way to tell retroarch to globally to save to a different path or is the manual way the only way?

[ridgekuhn]

They're probably getting overridden by the settings below in some other file. Try adding these lines to your retroarch.cfgs:

savestates_in_content_dir = "false"
savefiles_in_content_dir = "false"

[Vodkanakas]

both are present already. maybe i just dont understand how it actually work.

[mitu]

You should add the settings in the global retroarch.cfg, located in /opt/retropie/configs/all (or \\retropie\configs\all).

[Vodkanakas]

@mitu i did that and still no go. Still shows Content Directory under Directories and saves in rom folders. maybe its not understanding %system%

[mitu]

@vodkanakas Did you toggle 'Save Configuration on Exit' in RetroArch ? This would make each system to use its own configuration file and the global retroarch.cfg would not apply.

[Vodkanakas]

@mitu that is switched off

[mitu]

Try using the full path, without ~ or %system% (%VAR% is a Windows shell expression anyway, it wouldn't be expanded anyway).

[Vodkanakas]

If its just savefile_directory = "~/RetroPie/Saves/Vod/nes/saves" it works but every emulators retroarch.cfg would need to be edited for this. Was hoping to fasttrack it by only editing /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

[mitu]

RetroArch doesn't have the concept of a system, this is a front-end configuration convention (EmulationStation/runcommand). So you'll either have to modify each system's config or use a global save folder and hope you don't run into a situation with identical ROM/game names for multiple consoles/platforms.