Batocera save state manager doesn’t work, plus a couple ideas.

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Batocera save state manager doesn’t work, plus a couple ideas. #123

Closed Teh-Ghost closed 3 months ago

Teh-Ghost commented 4 months ago

Hello. While testing, I noticed that the batocera save state manager functionality doesn’t work.

I also noticed a couple other areas that might be worth looking into.

additional shader sets would be useful…for example, the scanlines one has vertical scanlines only
The ability to launch retroarch to adjust settings might be useful (maybe via app game collection category)
a file manager might be useful too
Leverage the rg35xx+ menu button for a single press menu of common navigation items.

great work so far…seems stable and is my go to release for the rg35xx+!

DutchmanAZ commented 4 months ago

Check out batocera.org if you haven't already for some tips and tricks.

You can access the RA menu by hitting the hotkey and the south button to adjust per game or per core configs. Some things can be adjusted in the ES menus by hitting select while in a Games list or holding the south button rather than tapping it when launching a game.

DutchmanAZ commented 4 months ago

Save states only work with RA Libretro cores. Are you sure it is using one of those when it doesn't work?

Save states seem to be working fine for me when I press the hotkey and Y. Load with hotkey and x

Teh-Ghost commented 4 months ago

The save state functionality within retroarch is working. However, the save state manager within batocera does not appear to be working.

A-Bony-Mouse commented 4 months ago

As Teh-Ghost said, in Batocera there is the option to open a save state manager before starting the game. Unfortunately even when there are save states, the save state manager does not see them. Maybe the save state manager is pointed at a different directory to what retroarch is using? As DutchmanAZ mentioned, I can save and load save states within a game using the hotkeys. And the retroarch menu also lets you change slots save, and load. The auto-load save state also worked after I manually loaded the save state once.

acmeplus commented 4 months ago

Yeah, save state manager is currently broken, I need to investigate what's happening.

Teh-Ghost commented 3 months ago

This looks to potentially be fixed in the latest “Batocera v40 Beta for RG35XX Plus and RG35XX H - 20240306” release. I’ll continue testing a bit to see if the assumption is correct. Thank you acmeplus for all of your work on this!

Teh-Ghost commented 3 months ago

Oops…accidentally closed the issue with previous comment…reopening until testing is done.

rooster85 commented 3 months ago

Save state manager works for me on latest V40 beta, for existing save states you need to move them up one level in the folder structure (e.g. from saves/nes/fceumm to saves/nes) and they will show up correctly. New save states get created in the emulator save folder already which is also a new change in V40.