DreamSNES .95 Saving!

Echidna86 · Post by **Echidna86** » Thu Feb 14, 2002 11:01 pm

YES! A new version has finally come! I love the speed improvements, but what's up with the saving? It'll show the VMU thing to let me know it's saving, but when I go back in the game, my game is erased!

Is this happening to anyone else?

Echidna86 · Post by **Echidna86** » Thu Feb 14, 2002 11:29 pm

...Is anyone not having a problem saving? If so, I must be doing something wrong...

bkcomic · Post by **bkcomic** » Fri Feb 15, 2002 11:00 am

How odd... I can't believe I'm the only one replying to this topic... but yes, I cannot get saving to work correctly either. Well, saving does work, but actually loading that file is where the thing fails... I've disconnected all my controllers, and left nothing but an official sega VMU in port A slot 1, and no luck. The 2 block file is created, but as soon as I enter that game again, it is ignored.... hmm... I wonder if it has to do with the roms.lst file not matching the header names of the roms? Just a guess...

Echidna86 · Post by **Echidna86** » Fri Feb 15, 2002 12:47 pm

It seems as if it overwrites the file everytime you load the ROM. This really sucks because finally when I get good speed for Chrono Trigger, I can't save!

bkcomic · Post by **bkcomic** » Fri Feb 15, 2002 3:08 pm

Ok... I've got one more theory... how many characters are the names of your rom files? When I save Chrono Trigger (file named Chrono.smc) it saves the srm file as Chrono__.srm. So perhaps the filenames need to be 8 characters or more? I can picture DreamSNES looking for Chrono.srm when all it sees is Chrono__.srm, and not making the connection... gonna try it out, I'll put a response here in about 1/2 hour...

bkcomic · Post by **bkcomic** » Fri Feb 15, 2002 4:29 pm

Ok, that didn't work... evidently a large majority of the people here are getting this to work, so I've got some questions. Where do you have your roms.lst file, and what folder are your roms in? Also, what games are you saving in, what are their file names, and what is the header name on each? Your answers are greatly appreciated. I currently have a roms folder, the roms.lst file in that particular one, and have tried both long name (joliet) files for the roms as well as short (8.3 format).

qreturns · Post by **qreturns** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 3:32 am

I can't get it load from the vmu either. I thought the problem might be that it was overwriting the save everytime i opened a rom. But than shouldn't turning autosave off remedy the problem, which it didn't? Also, with autosave off the game locked up when I returned from the menu. I would like to know if anyone has successfully loaded from the vmu.

breakthis · Post by **breakthis** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 12:12 pm

Hey man this may sound simple, but when my vmu batteries are getting low my saves don't work. They could need replacing . . .

EvilSporkMan · Post by **EvilSporkMan** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 1:05 pm

Seems to me that all of us who can't load the save have to have SOMETHING in common...let's see...

NO ROMS.LST file for me
dead VMU batts
v 0.9.5 (duh)
game IS saving, not loading

Seifer_Almasy · Post by **Seifer_Almasy** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 1:33 pm

Same problem here......
I know that in NesterDC all rom's names must be in DOS 8.3 format in order to save.

Does anyone have that format in the names? does it load?

I'll try it when I have some time....

Mr._Chips · Post by **Mr._Chips** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 1:52 pm

Same problem here......
I know that in NesterDC all rom's names must be in DOS 8.3 format in order to save.

are you serious??? That is a huge bug! c'mon, who would want to name all there games with only 8 letters just to save when then is a max of 32!

Oh, and I'm having the same saving problem, although I DO have a ROMS.LST file in the root and in the roms directory. I have no VMU, only 2 mem cards so the 'dead batteries' idea we can rule out...
ARRGG!

bkcomic · Post by **bkcomic** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 3:14 pm

I've tried both 8.3 format and long names, and neither has worked... so we can rule out that problem... jeez... anyone out there get this to work!?! I haven't seen one post saying "Yep saves it's great."

katraqueyous · Post by **katraqueyous** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 3:40 pm

AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! MY CHRONO TRIGGER FLIE IS GONE!!!!!!!!! ALL THE HOURS!!!!!!!!!!! DAMN .95!!!!!!!!!!!!! (starts crying)

qreturns · Post by **qreturns** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 3:40 pm

It can't be the batteries because a vmu doesn't need batteries to save, only to display images on the screen. I don't think we know for certain that the file is retrievable, so the problem could be saving. Again, has anyone been able to load a file from the vmu?

EvilSporkMan · Post by **EvilSporkMan** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 5:20 pm

Noooooo...never to relive EarthBound! never to relive SMRPG!!! AAAAAA!!! What's worse is that the devs prob'ly won't bother patching the release anyway, so we're screwed unless it's just us who can't save or somebody else patches it...

billy · Post by **billy** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 6:41 pm

I just lost the very final fantasy 3 save that I was anxious to keep... arse
I'm using one of those multi-page unofficial vmus, but it's worked fine for me before... that new fangled compression really ate my balls

fesh · Post by **fesh** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 7:57 pm

I'm having the same problem, fortunately i wasted about an hour of my life.

billy · Post by **billy** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 8:42 pm

I'm just annoyed that it seems that they didn't test it, they've spent all this time on the new cpu core (which works great from the looks of it) and now they add some dodgy compression to the save files to almost queer the deal, same thing with the mp3 + file header loading...

WeAreVigilant · Post by **WeAreVigilant** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 9:01 pm

dont bitch
first they release a patch to fix saving
so you people whine about speed
they release a version to fix speed and you whine about saving
WTF DO YOU WANT?!?!?!?!?!?!? SPEED OR SAVING?!?!?!?!?

Bruce_Deluxe · Post by **Bruce_Deluxe** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 9:15 pm

Well I guess The Saving does work, or at least Shadow BOB Indicated it did in this forum :
http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=5290

but he only said it takes up less space so.....[/url]

DreamSNES .95 Saving!

DreamSNES .95 Saving!

I can't get it to work either...

Sniffle...