STATE 4 TOO OLD (HELP)

Hellrazer · Post by **Hellrazer** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:15 pm

I somehow managed to lose my saved states while attempting to update the files on my jump drive. I managed to use a recovery program to find and restore my missing save state. However, when I try to load it I get the following error:

STATE 4 TOO OLD

Please help. I was more then halfway through shadowrun w/ all stats maxed but body & magic.

Thanks,
-Hellrazer

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:49 pm

Well, it means just what you'd expect it to mean. The save state was made with an older version of ZSNES and those are not compatible with newer versions. That or then the save state is corrupt.

Learn to use in-game saves.

Post by **Nach** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:37 pm

Agozer wrote: Learn to use in-game saves.

If the file is corrupt, that won't make a difference.

Hellrazer · Post by **Hellrazer** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:19 am

It could not possibly be from an older version, because I only have one version. The in-game saves have been even less reliable for me. Shadowrun has 2 slots, but only seems to remember one of them. The file is obviously corrupt somehow. I was looking for something a little more constructive. Does anybody have any experience manually editing saved states?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:51 am

Hellrazer wrote:It could not possibly be from an older version, because I only have one version. The in-game saves have been even less reliable for me. Shadowrun has 2 slots, but only seems to remember one of them. The file is obviously corrupt somehow. I was looking for something a little more constructive. Does anybody have any experience manually editing saved states?

It almost sounds like you have a bad ROM from less reputable romsites if it isn't saving properly.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:45 am

I would bet that, contrary to what your recovery program said, the file wasn't recovered correctly and zsnes recognizes it as an old savestate.

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:57 am

if zsnes says "checksum bad" when you play the game then don't expect anything to work at all, unless it's a translation, in which case make sure the original rom says "checksum ok". other than that, if you erased the savestate off the flash drive, then wrote data to it, it probably overwrote where the savestate was, thus corrupting it. your program then recovered the data as it found it, with random shit like gay porn jpgs and spit out a zs4 file. next time learn how to use a computer and you won't be crying to us.

best chance now would be to find where the .srm data is stored in snes ram, and copy that section out of what's left of the savestate into a .srm file, and be sure to fix the checksum. good luck with that.

p.s. things like this also happen when you use cheat codes.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:17 am

what if it happens to be some game where it didn't use s-ram?

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:23 am

Hellrazer wrote:The in-game saves have been even less reliable for me. Shadowrun has 2 slots, but only seems to remember one of them.

I believe it does use sram .

Kajuru · Post by **Kajuru** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:33 am

PHoNyMiKe wrote:with random shit like gay porn jpgs

franpa wrote:
Hellrazer wrote: The in-game saves have been even less reliable for me. Shadowrun has 2 slots, but only seems to remember one of them.
I believe it does use sram .

Isn't that what he just said?

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:44 am

adventure_of_link wrote:what if it happens to be some game where it didn't use s-ram?

AOL proposed the game he was playing didnt support sram.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:57 am

Translation: franpa is quoting poorly.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:22 am

Oh, no, I was pointing out where he said it used sram to AOL. You can't just post a quote so I had to say something >.>

Hellrazer · Post by **Hellrazer** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:31 pm

Ok let me breakdown how stupid/ignorant I am. I installed ZSNES on my 4gig flash drive so I could play it on the public computers at the UTK library. I did that for a couple days no problem. Then on the weekend I decided it would be better to play of my C drive. So, I copied the whole folder that ZSNES was in from my flash drive to my C drive. Then I played off the C drive for the whole weekend (it would only keep up with one in-game save though) and decided to update the flash version so I copied the C drive ZSNES to the flash drive. Much to my horror I realized afterward that even though I was playing off the C drive copy it was still saving to flash drive. Which means that I overwrote my saves on the flash.

I guess the recovery was unsuccessfully because it had already been overwritten & the file is FUBAR. My lesson learned is to make sure I know exactly where ZSNES is storing my save states. From here with Shadowrun since I was less then an hour away from having all my stats maxed out I will try to use game genie codes to give me a ton of karma so I can restore my stats, then just run through the game as fast as I can to catch up. Problem is the game freezes every time I try to load it after saving it w/ game genie codes. I tried using the "FIX" button in the cheat dialog box. After the game would start, but the cheats were not there.

Thanks for the input guys,
-Hellrazer

ps- I dl'd my emulator from:

http://www.emulator-zone.com/

and my roms from:

[Edit by moderator, post a ROM link again, and you will be banned]

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:11 pm

Both ROMS are legit, make sure your not using the BETA version as that could be why the 2nd save slot fails, also could be why the cheats are less reliable.

whenever saving you should disable cheats and enter a new area/level then save (to remove the cheats effects).

Hellrazer · Post by **Hellrazer** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:03 am

sorry moderator, didn't read posting rules. Ignorant mistake. Wont happen again.

-Hellrazer