Saving game progress

tifasho · Post by **tifasho** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:28 am

How do you save your progress on zsnes when finished?

Poobah · Post by **Poobah** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:54 am

It's emulating a SNES, so just save the way you would on the real thing. (You can also use the F2-F3 keys to produce instant saves, but they aren't as reliable, and you could end up using them to cheat.)

If you want ZSNES to automatically save and load when you quit and restart, enable the "Auto state save + load" option.

Sertile · Post by **Sertile** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:58 pm

I'm somewhat new to emulation and also having a problem with in-game saves, and I didn't want to start a new thread just to ask a similar question. Mine's a little more complicated, though.

I recently downloaded Fusoya's variable width patch to fix the text in Secret of Mana, made a copy of the original secretofmana.smc, patched it, and renamed it secretofmana (patched).smc. So far so good.

I played about an hour into the game, saved, and quit. After doing so I got a save file in the same directory, secretofmana (patched).srm. Later, I tried going back and loading that save, and ZSNES acted as though it couldn't find it. I checked the path, but that seemed to be in order, and everything was in the same folder anyway.

Then I tried loading the non-patched version, and I was for some reason able to access my saved game from the patched rom, which - oddly enough - still had the patched text, despite the fact that I was running the unpatched rom.

I guess what I'm asking is if there's some way I can just load the patched save using the patched rom. It's not all that important since I can play it either way, it's just giving me a headache.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:05 pm

Are you loading the rom from the quickmenu? You probably want to load from the file loader instead due to various bugs in the file loader.

Alternatively, you could use a WIP that fixes many file loader issues... Obtain one of the later WIPs here http://zsnes.ipherswipsite.com

Sertile · Post by **Sertile** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:19 pm

Er... I'm loading from the menu that appears at startup, or whenever I hit escape. I'm assuming that's the main menu.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:21 pm

My guess is that you have two roms in the same place. There is no need to keep them in the same folder. So once you load the one in which you don't play, it doesn't have a corresponding .srm file.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:22 pm

That would be the quick menu. It has many different bugs in 1.42.. you want to use one of the latest WIPs in the link I provided to resolve your problem.

Sertile · Post by **Sertile** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:53 pm

Yeah, they're both in the same folder, and I know I don't need them both in there. I don't think that's the problem, though. The problem is I have two different roms (one patched, one regular) with two different names, and the .srm file is clearly from the patched version, but it will only load on the non-patched version, which I never actually played.

Is it even neccesary for me to create patched roms, or does ZSNES auto-patch if the patch and rom are both in the same folder? If so, that might be a big part of the problem.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:45 pm

Zsnes auto-patches, they need to have the same name. (ROM and patch)

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:00 pm

Sometimes I wonder if what I say passes through people..

Sertile, part of the reason why you are experiencing the problem is that in 1.42, there is a bug in the file loader/quick menu where a check for duplicate entries when you are loading a game from the file loader. What happens is that when you are loading the patched Secret of Mana, it happens to match the quickload entry (due to bad logic). So, the result of this bug is what you are experiencing.

As I said for the 3rd time, go get a WIP that has this fixed at the link I've provided much much earlier.

Sertile · Post by **Sertile** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:54 am

Sorry, I did read your previous posts and I downloaded the WIP as you suggested. I also cleaned out the patched roms in light of the fact that they were unneseccary and allowed ZSNES to just auto-patch it. My saves are loading just fine now, and I think I'm getting the hang of it (played a lot of SNES in my day, but not on my computer). Thanks!

kemurray · Post by **kemurray** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:41 am

this question isnt quite related but id appreciate any help....i work at a computer lab and overnight have nothing to do so i set up zsnes and secret of mana and played for a while and then i wanted to save. i saved it to state0. i want to continue there from home now. i saved all the files in the folder like the .zst, .zs1, .srm. Is there anyway to load my game back up. Thanks.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:45 am

You load the game normally (.srm files are for in-game saves). If you are using savestates, use F3 to select the state, and F4 to load the state.

kemurray · Post by **kemurray** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:53 am

it says unable to load state0 like the .srm file doesnt exist.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:56 am

I did say to load the game normally (eg. the rom, like Secret of Mana.smc). In-game save files (.srm) will load automatically.

As for the state issue... what save options did you enable? It helps if you set a save directory and put your .srm+.zs? files there. (.zst, .zs1..., .zs9 are the savestate files)

kemurray · Post by **kemurray** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:04 am

i got it now...didnt totally understand the roles of the srm, and zs files. found out i didnt have in the right path. thanks for your help and explaining everything.