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    Virtual Boy - lr-beetle-vb can't quick save

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      gaavoid
      last edited by gaavoid

      Hi. Thought I'd give this a try. Works ok but can't quick save or quick load. When I try either (select and R or select and L) I get forced back into emulation station. I've checked the roms folder and there are save states being made but they're useless. I've tried this on 2 separate builds of retropie 4.0.2.
      Save states work fine in every other emulator.
      Is there something else I should have modified after installing the virtual boy emulator? I can't seem to find any answers anywhere.

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        herb_fargus administrators @gaavoid
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        @gaavoid disable rewind

        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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          gaavoid @herb_fargus
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          @herb_fargus
          Thanks. Can you tell me how to do this? Rewind is already disabled in /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/retroarch.cfg

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            gaavoid
            last edited by gaavoid

            /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg reads

            Enable rewinding. This will take a performance hit when playing, so it is disabled by default.
            rewind_enable = "false"

            Rewinding buffer size in megabytes. Bigger rewinding buffer means you can rewind longer.
            The buffer should be approx. 20MB per minute of buffer time.
            rewind_buffer_size = "10"

            Rewind granularity. When rewinding defined number of frames, you can rewind several frames at a time, increasing the rewinding speed.
            rewind_granularity = "2

            but /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/retroarch.cfg reads

            Enable rewinding. This will take a performance hit when playing, so it is disabled by default.
            rewind_enable = false

            Rewinding buffer size in megabytes. Bigger rewinding buffer means you can rewind longer.
            The buffer should be approx. 20MB per minute of buffer time.
            rewind_buffer_size = 20

            Rewind granularity. When rewinding defined number of frames, you can rewind several frames at a time, increasing the rewinding speed.
            rewind_granularity = 1

            They both say false or ("false"), but why are they different (buffer size/granularity)? This is a fresh install, so I haven't changed anything.

            I've also tried adding rewind_enable = false to /opt/retopie/configs/virtualboy/retroarch.cfg and it still crashes on quick save.

            Where am I going wrong?

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              gaavoid
              last edited by gaavoid

              Sorry for the triple post. Is there a specific config file for each emulator that has its own settings for retroarch that overrides the overall settings? I'm struggling to find it, if so.
              And if there is, it must have enable rewind set to true which is overriding my retroarch setting.

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                gaavoid
                last edited by gaavoid

                If anyone is interested or has this problem in the future. I fixed this by updating lr-beetle-vb from source rather than from binary. Quick save is now working perfectly.

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                  BuZz administrators
                  last edited by

                  I have updated the emulator binary.

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