Game saves don't work

[TheTrveAnthony]

Hi,

I have just starded using this emulator to play gba games instead of vbagx because the latter runs slowly.
Everything works fine, except game saves (real saves, not save-states), I have tried creating a "saves" directory (just like for vbagx) in sd/wiimednafen and also in sd/apps/wiimednafen, but nothing gets saved this way, so how is it supposed to work ? The info is not in the readme file, I also checked source code and couldn't find (I may have missed it)
Also, is it possible to load saves from vbagx ? (.sav files)

Thanks

[raz0red]

Hi-

I tested that functionality early on, but haven't tested it in some time. If you can let me know what game you are using, and how to trigger the save, I will give it a shot. If it is an issue, I can probably put together a quick build for you to fix it. I have a build that I have been working on for some time that has several other minor fixes, so this would be good to include as well if it is an issue.

Thanks,
Chris

[TheTrveAnthony]

Thanks for your response,

I tried it with Pokemon brutal Version (ruby rom hack) and Castlevania Circle of the Moon. On both, I could load the save only after resetting the game (also pokemon said that the game file is corrupted), but not when I shut down the emulator and relaunched it, so I guess the save only goes to RAM and that's it. As I said before I created a "saves" dir as for vbagx and also a snes emulator but it doesn't work here.
I'll check if the same issue appears for other consoles and let you know.

[raz0red]

Ok, sounds good. I will give Castlevania a shot tonight and see what is happening.

Thanks,
Chris

[TheTrveAnthony]

Hi,

I have been trying to save other games:
On GB/GBC: Pokemon Blue, Pokemon Dark Energy (gold/silver rom Hack) and Metroid 2
on GBA: Sword of Mana, Breath of Fire and Metroid Zero Mission
on Mega Drive: Story of Thor

Saves from Mega Drive and GB/GBC games work fine. On GBA I had the same issue for every game I tested.
Also save files are all stored in sd/wiimednafen/sav as ".sav" files, including for GBA games, so there must be something missing in GBA emulator.
Hope that helps

Edit : here is the content of the save dir

l wiimednafen/sav/

'0032 - Castlevania - Circle of the Moon (E)(Eurasia).b7b0e7a5f8e8bd22ac9f5766d1acef56.sav'
'Breath of Fire (Europe).1cb94e81dd0168c33e0eb8b070fddb6e.sav'
 METROI~1.SAV
'Metroid II - Return of Samus (UE) [h1] (Add Color).b833526b369567b0f8f64e99df1e4ef5.sav'
'Metroid - Zero Mission (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It).07930e72d4824bd63827a1a823cc8829.sav'
'Pokemon - Blue Version (UE) [S][!].50927e843568814f7ed45ec4f944bd8b.sav'
'Pokemon Dark Energy 4.1.aa7e8cec4ea6e74baceb6ab367341fc8.sav'
'Story of Thor, The - A Successor of The Light (8) (Eng).475519d9cbdeb91db301780bff83d81e.sav'
'Sword of mana.1fb4a4b0891ed489183ba487e2f9046e.sav'

[raz0red]

Perfect, thanks a lot for digging into this. I should be able to look into tonight.

If not tonight, then over the next couple of days. Hopefully it is a straight forward fix, and I can get you an updated build.

Thanks again for all the work,
Chris

[TheTrveAnthony]

Hi,
Could you investigate on what is missing ?

[raz0red]

Yes, sorry for the delay. Work and real life has been taking up most of my free time recently.

I will take a look and let you know wheat I find in the next couple of days.

Thanks a lot,
Chris

[TheTrveAnthony]

That's fine, there's no hurry, I was simply wondering