Question about saving

drpsikey · Post by **drpsikey** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:49 pm

I'm new to the group, but I've been using Zsnes since the beginning. I'm having some trouble with a couple of games and saving them. The most noticeable is FF2. I save in-game when I can, even trying to overwrite a previous file. When I power back up, I'm back at the point I saved before I saved the last time! Not sure what I'm doing wrong, haven't touched any options at all. What am I doing wrong? Any info would be a big help.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:51 pm

Try not to use savestates... Sometimes, when you load an old savestate, it will also load the in game save, well, that's what happens to me sometimes.

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:01 pm

Obvious question: are your savefiles read only? This happens if you copy them back to your HD if you made a backup CDR previously. I always forget about that. >.<

jdratlif · Post by **jdratlif** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 1:09 pm

drpsikey wrote:I'm new to the group, but I've been using Zsnes since the beginning. I'm having some trouble with a couple of games and saving them. The most noticeable is FF2. I save in-game when I can, even trying to overwrite a previous file. When I power back up, I'm back at the point I saved before I saved the last time! Not sure what I'm doing wrong, haven't touched any options at all. What am I doing wrong? Any info would be a big help.

I always used to forget to save in-game first, then do the save state. When I would load the save state back, my sram (the in-game) wouldn't have any of my saves. Couldn't figure that out for the longest time.

But since I remembered to do that now, I haven't had any problems with FF2 or any other game.

Kagerato · Post by **Kagerato** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 6:56 pm

Yeah, loading a state or movie overwrites the area of expansion memory commonly used for static ram.

A while back (before this reincarnation of the board), there was a thread with some intelligent people stating that SRAM was not stored in save states. I recall being confused at that.

Post by **grinvader** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:37 pm

I can cite some games where save-stating does NOT overwrite the sram.
And other games that do store something but not everything in save states.
Try to use save states in THG for example.

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