Feature Request: hotkey to exit emulator

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run demul with any game
2. Try and exit with one key, while retaining high scores, etc.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Save the internal memory of NAOMI and close the emulator. This is not a bug but 
an enhancement request. It would make it a lot more integrateable in an arcade 
front-end. That way, high scores can be retained.

I am not asking for a save-state/load-state functionality, but merely what I 
believe will happen when you Exit from the File dropdown. I can create an 
autohotkey script to terminate the program with a single keypress, but it won't 
save the current high scores (obviously).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.5.8.2 on Windows 7 64-bit.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pra...@gmail.com on 31 Jul 2014 at 12:51

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internal momeries of any games already saves before emulation close, always... 
sometimes, the games itself doesn't update often it's nvram data frequently and 
keep it is RAM, so you may loose some progress if quit in particular time, but 
this is not socommon, so mostly I can say, any NVRAM is saved automatically 
into NVRAM folder of your demul...

hotkey for exit yet to be implemented

Original comment by cah4e3 on 31 Jul 2014 at 6:19

• Changed title: Feature request: hotkey to exit emulator
• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Priority-Low, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

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Hm. I'll have to try that again. I was testing with Ikaruga and it may be that 
it doesn't save that often. Thanks!

Original comment by pra...@gmail.com on 31 Jul 2014 at 2:19

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I tried again. It looks like the eeprom and sram files are only written to when 
properly exiting the emulator.

E.g. run demul, play any game, and run:

taskkill /f demul.exe -- none of the sram/eeprom files were ever updated 
throughout 30m of playing

Now if you run the emulator, un-fullscreen, go to the file menu and hit exit, 
the eeprom and sram files are written regardless.

Possible bug then?

Thanks for replying!

Original comment by pra...@gmail.com on 1 Aug 2014 at 4:22

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sorry:
taskkill /f /im demul.exe

Original comment by pra...@gmail.com on 1 Aug 2014 at 4:24

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you SHOULD exit properly in order to save nvram properly. forcing process to 
shut down obviously is a bad idea.

Original comment by cah4e3 on 1 Aug 2014 at 11:07

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Yup, thanks. I was under the impression that you had said it would save 
continuously. Thanks for the answers.

Original comment by pra...@gmail.com on 1 Aug 2014 at 2:07

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That would be great if implemented ! using demul in a mamecab with joysticks 
would be easyer then

Original comment by baptiste...@gmail.com on 19 Oct 2014 at 11:32

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Original comment by cah4e3 on 12 Mar 2015 at 8:21

• Changed title: Feature Request: hotkey to exit emulator