Zsnes won't read older savestates, battery saves, patches.

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:52 pm

I think this is a problem on my side because surely otherwise I would've seen twenty threads about it already. I don't know where else to put this though.

The latest WIP won't read any savestates, battery saves or ips patches anymore. It's as if the files aren't there. I don't know what version had this problem occuring first, because I haven't really played any games more than 5 minutes at a time since 1.40 was released.

So far I've tried deleting the config files, checking whether the rom and zst/srm/ips names matched perfectly, checking whether they were marked read only (although that shouldn't have any influence on reading them?), I've tried redownloading the latest WIP altogether, I've tried downloading a new rom + ips patch (Bahamut Lagoon (J) [!], and Dejap's patch, and it didn't work) and I've also tried to just make some new savestates and battery saves, and Zsnes would read those, but that doesn't solve the ips problem. And my old saves (both states and sram) are still gone.

Oh and, I'm on win2k, in case you wanna know.

Any takers?

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:53 pm

Do you have the stuff in separated folders? try putting them all together, that's all I can thing of.

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:56 pm

Nope, it's all in one big folder.

Oh and before anyone asks, yes, I used the emulator patch, not the copier patch.

Post by **Nach** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:00 pm

Is the save path pointing to the correct location?

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:13 pm

Ah. Don't I feel stupid. Yeah, that was it.

Although, the reason the savepath was blank was because of me deleting the config files trying to counter the problem in the first place. And it's always pointed to the right directory before, there wasn't any reason for me to change it.

Doesn't matter now though. Thanks.

Flash · Post by **Flash** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:26 pm

i have same problem - i hape .ips files in save directory (for example /mnt/dos_f/Emulators/SNES/save ) but when i start game emulator doesn't load ips file - Bahamut Lagoon still japanese. If ips in rom directory it works, but roms and patches in same directory - not quite good idea for some reasons.

P.S. Feature request - patches directory support. It will be very good idea to use separate directory for patches.

Mexandrew · Post by **Mexandrew** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:36 am

The IPS patches should be on the ROM directory for now. And remember, you need to follow your patch's instructions to get it to work on Zsnes' softpatch.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:54 am

You should have no problems putting the IPS patches in the "SAVE" directory that you should have defined.. (the save directory is where all the .srm and .zst files go, it also needs to be defined...)

You also may want to try deleting the .dat+.cfg files in your ZSNES directory and run ZSNES again (and then change the directory save patch in the .cfg file afterwards)

Post by **grinvader** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:40 pm

Don't spread wrong info:

DOS - Win ports -> put your IPS files in the Save directory.
SDL port -> put your IPS files in the ROM directory.

Mexandrew · Post by **Mexandrew** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:46 pm

Well, What I said is based on my own experience =)

Post by **Nach** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:39 pm

Mexandrew wrote:Well, What I said is based on my own experience =)

Does your experience include setting your save path to be the same as your ROM path?