ZSNES 1.51 on fedora 14

[Mudfish94]

I have zsnes on my flashdrive to take anywhere to play my roms but when i installed the linux version for fedora 14 i couldnt load my saved games. is there a way to access them on linux or will i have to start over?

[paulguy]

I suppose the issue you'll have is zsnes for linux isn't portable. Or looks in specific locations in the user's directory for all of it's files. Not sure of a way to override that. Although making a zsnes binary that runs portably will probably be pretty difficult.

[odditude]

I have zsnes on my flashdrive to take anywhere to play my roms but when i installed the linux version for fedora 14 i couldnt load my saved games. is there a way to access them on linux or will i have to start over?

if your save data isn't on the flash drive, no.

if it is, just adjust your save path to the flash drive.

[Mudfish94]

The save file is in the same folder as the rom but it doesn't read it. Just goes to the new game screen.

[Mudfish94]

I suppose the issue you'll have is zsnes for linux isn't portable. Or looks in specific locations in the user's directory for all of it's files. Not sure of a way to override that. Although making a zsnes binary that runs portably will probably be pretty difficult.

The Linux zsnes is installed to the hard drive I'm just loading roms from the flash drive while on that computer

[kode54]

ZSNES Linux doesn't read SRM or ZST/ZS* files from the ROM directory. It reads them from the configuration directory, which I believe is ~/.zsnes.

[odditude]

adjust your save path to the flash drive.

[paulguy]

You could probably set the save path to "." to get the windows behavior, assuming your saves are in the ROM directory and you run zsnes from that directory. The side effect is that it'll do this globally, regardless if you're doing it from your flash drive or not.

[odditude]

You could probably set the save path to "." to get the windows behavior

...no, then it would read from the install path (OP stated he installed zsnes on the host machine).

[paulguy]

Wry would it read from the install path? . Is current working directory, which should be the directory the Rom is run from.

[kode54]

ZSNES does not change the current working directory when searching for or loading files, as far as I know. Or at least, doing so is not required for a program to read from or write to arbitrary directories.