Installation problem?

Geno Whirl · Post by **Geno Whirl** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:45 pm

I recently let my freind download the ZSNES on to his computer, but he says that everytime he runs it, he has load the games and none of his data was saved. Did he install it incorreclty or something?

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:49 pm

Exactly, *what* data is not saved? In-game saves or save states?

Is the folder read only? Is he playing from a cd?

Post by **Agozer** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:52 pm

So let me get this straight, since you're not being too descriptive.....

your friend unzipped ZSNES to a folder and then started the emulator and loaded a game. He played a little and either saved a state or made an in-game SRAM save. Next time he tried to load the save, it wouldn't load.

Am I even close?

Chances are that the folder ZSNES creates the save fils is Read-Only (if no save path is defined, then savestates and SRAM are saved in the ZSNES folder). If ZSNES is run from a CD with no save path defined, the emulator would attempt to write to the CD which doesn't work.

Geno Whirl · Post by **Geno Whirl** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:28 am

Sorry about the lack of information, I'm not even 100% sure what he means either.

I lent him the CD with the zsnes on it and he said he put the cd in and ran it and then he started playing it. He was playing Final Fantasy III and when he saved and everything, but when he quit and opened the zsnes again he had to find the list of games again and it wasn't saved on the state or on the actual game.

He also tried it with other games, but they still didn't work.

By they way, Joe, is that kikaider as ur sig?

Post by **Agozer** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:52 am

Sound exactly like he ran ZSNES directly from the CD and didn't edit the savepath so that ZSNES would save everything to the hard drive ---> ZSNES tries to write the save data to the CD, which just doesn't work.

Tell your friend to set up a valid savepath that doesn't point to the CD-ROM drive.

OutrightOwnage · Post by **OutrightOwnage** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:55 am

yeah, its prly 'cause hes running it off the cd. have him copy it to his hard drive, then right-click the folder and hit properties and make sure it isn't read-only.

Poobah · Post by **Poobah** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:25 am

Doesn't ZSNES even warn users if it can't write to the file? It'd be quite reasonable to prompt users to save the file somewhere else before completely discarding all save data.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:26 pm

Poobah wrote:Doesn't ZSNES even warn users if it can't write to the file? It'd be quite reasonable to prompt users to save the file somewhere else before completely discarding all save data.

I don't think this is limited to ZSNES actually, as this is specifically user error. Prompting a user to save the srm file somewhere else is a little less intutive as (any) emulator will try to read the srm either in the same folder as the ROM, or in the defined save directory (both of which are issues if ZSNES is not configured properly when burned to cd).

Besides, what emulator actually has done as you have suggested?

Post by **Agozer** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:29 pm

Well, ZSNES does inform the user that it was unable to save/load a state at the very least.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:38 pm

Agozer wrote:Well, ZSNES does inform the user that it was unable to save/load a state at the very least.

Fixed.

Post by **Agozer** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:40 pm

Deathlike2 wrote:
Agozer wrote:Well, ZSNES does inform the user that it was unable to save/load a state at the very least.
Fixed.

Gah. Yes, that's what I meant. Fixed.

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:41 am

Deathlike2 wrote:
Poobah wrote:Doesn't ZSNES even warn users if it can't write to the file? It'd be quite reasonable to prompt users to save the file somewhere else before completely discarding all save data.
I don't think this is limited to ZSNES actually, as this is specifically user error. Prompting a user to save the srm file somewhere else is a little less intutive as (any) emulator will try to read the srm either in the same folder as the ROM, or in the defined save directory (both of which are issues if ZSNES is not configured properly when burned to cd).

Besides, what emulator actually has done as you have suggested?

Snes9x for Windows will prompt the user if the current save directory is read-only.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:54 am

xamenus wrote:
Deathlike2 wrote:
Poobah wrote:Doesn't ZSNES even warn users if it can't write to the file? It'd be quite reasonable to prompt users to save the file somewhere else before completely discarding all save data.
I don't think this is limited to ZSNES actually, as this is specifically user error. Prompting a user to save the srm file somewhere else is a little less intutive as (any) emulator will try to read the srm either in the same folder as the ROM, or in the defined save directory (both of which are issues if ZSNES is not configured properly when burned to cd).

Besides, what emulator actually has done as you have suggested?
Snes9x for Windows will prompt the user if the current save directory is read-only.

I've never encountered that problem to find out.. on the other hand, I don't think it's that simple for ZSNES to do the same...

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:53 am

You can try to create a temporary file... the OS might also return an error code if you try to open a read-only file with write-access flags. There might even be a way to get the directory attributes.

(I've always worked with non-readonly files, so I never bothered to find out.

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Installation problem?

Installation problem?

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