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  • 09/04/2014 at 04:15 #52696
    Travis
    Guest

    To Anyone:

    I haven’t been able to get my SRAM files to save. When I cleanly exit the emulator (with select/start on my USB gamepad), I get an error in saving the state and it writes to a recovery file instead. I have tried manipulating the retroarch.cfg to force it to a specifice savefile_directory and it still got the same error. I’m at a loss. Any ideas?

    09/04/2014 at 06:20 #52791
    twgillison
    Participant

    Well, I have some additional information on this. After trying some configuration file manipulation, I finally decided to just try deleting an srm file to see if it would create a new one. It did…so, for some reason, all my backed up save files (I had recently formatted my SD card and started over with RetroPie) are not being overwritten. So, either they have a lock on them, or the emulator just doesn’t like the file. I’m thinking I can probably rename them .old while the game is in progress and force a new save upon exiting.

    09/04/2014 at 06:23 #52796
    twgillison
    Participant

    That works. So, if anyone runs into this, run the game (it appears to load the save file just fine) and while the game is in progress, rename your old srm file (just in case) and then cleanly exit. It will create a new one, and you should be good.

    09/08/2014 at 15:28 #57671
    zatenzu
    Guest

    I have this problem. I’ll try to rename my srm file.
    Can you tell me where it’s located?

    09/09/2014 at 21:46 #58947
    twgillison
    Participant

    In this case, the files are located in the SNES folder where all of the emulators are listed (/home/pi/RetroPie/emulators).

    10/25/2014 at 22:36 #82026
    Floob
    Member

    Theres a chance this is a permission issue. Make sure user ‘pi’ has rights to write to the roms folder itself.

    I’ve got a bit of info here:

    How to save games in RetroPie / RetroArch

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