Issue: Quick Menu puts Saves and Save States in content folder

[laesetuc]

I have noticed that there save states are being saved inside the Roms folder instead of the States folder.

For example with Castlevania - Symphony of the Night on Playstation using the pcsx_rearmed core, this is what I see in the various folders:

Roms

/Roms/PS/.pcsx_rearmed_libretro/Castlevaina - Symphony of the Night.0.state /Roms/PS/.pcsx_rearmed_libretro/Castlevaina - Symphony of the Night.0.png /Roms/PS/Castlevania - Symphony of the Night.chd

Saves

/Saves/PCSX-ReARMed/Castlevania - Symphony of the Night.srm

States

/Saves/PCSX-ReARMed/Castlevania - Symphony of the Night.state.auto

I think the state and png files should be in the States folder...

[XanXic]

Go to Retroarch and under Settings > Saving make sure the setting Write Saves to Content Directory and Write Save States to Content Directory are turned Off. Spruce doesn't use this option by default so something must've happened on your device to turn it on. That's about the only way RA would be saving them next to the roms.

[laesetuc]

Hi XanXic thanks for your reply. Both those options are turned off for me. For clarity, it seems auto-saves (state.auto) taken by retroarch go to the /Saves/ folder, but any done manually by Spruce using the in-game menu (state.0, state.1 etc.), seems to go to the /Roms/ folder.

Could you double check on your device to see if this is happening as well?

There's also some discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/miyooa30/comments/1fd3ohr/save_states_location/

[XanXic]

Ah okay, good to know. Yeah that seems to be more specific and an issue. We'll look into it.

[laesetuc]

Thank you!

[NerfHerder421]

I think this behavior may be hardcoded into the ra32.miyoo binary. The TrimUI Smart Pro has the same behavior with its custom build of RetroArch

[XanXic]

We are going to close this and call it a "known limitation." There's the possibility of us editing the ra32 binary but it's a low priority for us.