Reverting Save States

[Answer]

I was playing final fantasy 3 last night, I was in a boss fight. I had a save state right before the boss fight. I lost the fight the first time, and I was going to press esc to open my old save state from right before the boss fight when I accidently pressed F2 instead at the screen where your characer is standing alone on a black screen, so every time I open my save state I just automatically die (>.<) Is there anyway to open the save state at the beginning of the boss fight instead of dying every time I open my state?

[Mike]

I'm sorry my friend, it cannot be done. It has happened to me before also, now I don't use save states only in game saves. I only use save states for games that I can't save. BTW you could of just pressed f4 to load state instead of pressing escape and doing it the long way.

[Deathlike2]

I'm sorry to tell you.. as I think I did with another guy...

You cannot recover that state...

The only actual prevention (that dawned on me) is to use the enable feature "Auto Increment Save Slot"...

So when you save a state, it will create a new file containing the state.. and when you accidentally save.. you can select the last savestate you made and hopefully be not to far back from where you accidentally saved...

Then again, this reinforces the notion of saving the game regularly (for games like FF3)...

[Answer]

So I'm screwed? I really don't want to redo those 10 hours I spent playing it =(

[Joe Camacho]

You just learned the hard way to use the in-game saves in rpgs. I'm sure you'll be careful from now on.

[Answer]

Well, when final fantasy 3 starts up, it automatically stats a new game, it doesn't give me a choice to load a new game. Will that option come up once I actually make a saved game or what?

[Joe Camacho]

Well, when final fantasy 3 starts up, it automatically stats a new game, it doesn't give me a choice to load a new game. Will that option come up once I actually make a saved game or what?

... Yes.

[SquareHead]

You didn't use any ingame save points?

[sweener2001]

Well, when final fantasy 3 starts up, it automatically stats a new game, it doesn't give me a choice to load a new game. Will that option come up once I actually make a saved game or what?

that would be because it can never find a saved game. save-states and in-game saves are very different things. i've only used save states in the moira gallery in ToP. i prefer in-game saves. it's more realer.

[SquareHead]

You didn't use any ingame save points?

Damn, if he only used save-states, and not in-game saves, then if he dies the game really is over isnt it? If I remember right, FF3 returns yo to the last savepoint in which you saved, so, if you had never saved at one, would it start the game over?

Also did you save state after you were hit and died, or just before? If its just before, you may be able to cheat youre way out of that battle.

[badinsults]

You didn't use any ingame save points?

Damn, if he only used save-states, and not in-game saves, then if he dies the game really is over isnt it? If I remember right, FF3 returns yo to the last savepoint in which you saved, so, if you had never saved at one, would it start the game over?

Also did you save state after you were hit and died, or just before? If its just before, you may be able to cheat youre way out of that battle.

That is an interesting question. I am almost tempted to try it out.

[PHoNyMiKe]

you must make activateable your in game saves.

[ShadowFX]

He could have used the Rewind Key, but that only brings you back a couple of steps.

[SquareHead]

He could have used the Rewind Key, but that only brings you back a couple of steps.

Is that a feature you have to activate? Or is it constant? (You know I should actually try some of this stuff every once in a while.)

[ShadowFX]

I believe it not activated in standard config, look under Game Keys to set this feature on a key of your choice.

[Jipcy]

Is that a feature you have to activate? Or is it constant?

With the latest WIP, it's on by default. Meaning, the rewind states are saved by default. There's just no key set. So once you set a key, it should work.

[Answer]

Okay so If I set a key for the rewind key, then open my save state and press that key it will literally rewind the game so I won't keep dying?

[blackmyst]

Uhh, no.

The rewind function only starts recording rewind states each time you start Zsnes, and because they only exist in RAM they're lost after you close the program.

There's nothing you can do. Next time, use savepoints and/or more than one savestate.


Oh, and I'd tell you to just redo the parts of the game that you played because after continuing at game over, you get to keep all your experience points....but I'm not sure if that works if you've never even saved yet. You could try it though.

Also did you save state after you were hit and died, or just before? If its just before, you may be able to cheat youre way out of that battle.

He said he was at the black screen, so I guess after.

[k77]

just save in more than one save state the same thing

[SquareHead]

I think this topic has long been buried. I mean last post was somewhere around 2 years ago

[Deathlike2]

It looks more like a year+couple of months. However, the thread necromancy is very unnecessary.