Transfer game save states doesn't work

[geneworld]

Hey guys I’ve run into an issue that i’m wondering if anyone else has also. I have a version of RetroPie2.x (I think 2.3?) running and i have some SNES games that I’ve been playing with game saves.

I recently built a new version (3.0) on my Raspberry Pi 2 from source and after setting it up i found that the game saves I transferred over don’t work. I get, for example an error that says:

“Failed to load /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/Super Mario RPG – Legend of the Seven Stars.state”

I have enabled save states from retroarch.cfg and i can save and load games i started on the new system.

Has anyone else run into this issue and if how were you able to get it fixed? I can’t wait to continue my games on my new build but I don’t want to start over :/

[Floob]

When you do “ls -lah” what are the permissions shown on that file you want to load (and what are the permissions on the saves that do load?)

[herbfargus]

This isn’t related to your issue… But that being my favourite game I’ve been working on a project that you may find useful for once you do solve your save state problem (its still a work in progress)

http://super-mario-rpg-legend-of-the-seven-stars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

[jimgdawg]

Are you sure you are loading them with the same emulator that created them? For example, were they saved using snes9x-next and now you are using pocketsnes?

[geneworld]

[quote=102534]When you do “ls -lah” what are the permissions shown on that file you want to load (and what are the permissions on the saves that do load?)

[/quote]

Hi Floob the permissions are both for pi but i will verify when I get home today!

[quote=102536]Are you sure you are loading them with the same emulator that created them? For example, were they saved using snes9x-next and now you are using pocketsnes?

[/quote]

Hi Jimgdawg you know that is something I didn’t even think about I will have to check that out!

Thanks for the great advise guys I’ll check them both out after work and report back!

[geneworld]

[quote=102535]This isn’t related to your issue… But that being my favourite game I’ve been working on a project that you may find useful for once you do solve your save state problem (its still a work in progress)

http://super-mario-rpg-legend-of-the-seven-stars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

[/quote]

herbfargus that looks great so far good luck on your project!

[geneworld]

Floob, Here is some information on the permissions of the directories. The is for the RaspberryPi I am having issues with. I included the directory with the roms folders to show only gb and snes. I also included gb to show what the permissions look like on a working system

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ls -aplh RetroPie/roms
total 168K
drwxr-xr-x 42 pi   pi   4.0K May  5  21:08 ./
drwxr-xr-x  5 pi   pi   4.0K May  5  21:30 ../
...
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi   pi   4.0K May  5  03:51 gb/
...
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi   pi   4.0K May  5  02:11 snes/

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ls -aplh RetroPie/roms/gb
total 1.3M
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi   pi   4.0K Jul 16 03:51 ./
drwxr-xr-x 42 pi   pi   4.0K May  5 21:30 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi   1.0K May  9 16:45 Pokemon Blue.gb
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi    32K Jul 19 00:26 Pokemon Blue.srm
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi    59K Jul 19 00:26 Pokemon Blue.state
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi    59K Jul 16 04:01 Pokemon Blue.state1
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi    59K Jul 16 04:00 Pokemon Blue.state2

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ls -aplh RetroPie/roms/snes
total 15M
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi   pi   4.0K Jul 16 02:11 ./
drwxr-xr-x 42 pi   pi   4.0K May  5 21:08 ../
...
-rwxr-xr-x  1 pi   pi   4.0M Jul 16 02:11 SuperMario RPG - Legend of the Seven Stars.smc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 pi   pi    32K Jul 16 02:18 SuperMario RPG - Legend of the Seven Stars.srm
-rwxr-xr-x  1 pi   pi   422K Jul 16 02:11 SuperMario RPG - Legend of the Seven Stars.state
-rwxr-xr-x  1 pi   pi   422K Jul 16 02:11 SuperMario RPG - Legend of the Seven Stars.state1

Below are the rights from my older working system:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ls -aplh RetroPie/roms
total 144K
drwxr-xr-x 36 pi root 4.0K Sep 10  2014 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 pi root 4.0K Aug  1  2014 ../
...
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi root 4.0K Apr 22 23:48 snes/

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ls -aplh RetroPie/roms/snes
total 17M
drwxr-xr-x  2 pi root 4.0K Apr 22 23:48 ./
drwxr-xr-x 42 pi root 4.0K Sep 10  2014 ../
...
-rw-r--r--  1 pi root 4.0M Aug 28  2014 SuperMario RPG - Legend of the Seven Stars.smc
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi    32K Feb 23 02:35 SuperMario RPG - Legend of the Seven Stars.srm
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi   422K Feb 23 02:31 SuperMario RPG - Legend of the Seven Stars.state
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi   422K Feb 14 02:34 SuperMario RPG - Legend of the Seven Stars.state1

You can see the rights are different. Should this matter?

[Floob]

Can you confirm the error is

“Failed to load /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/Super Mario RPG – Legend of the Seven Stars.state”

and there isnt a number on the end of that, i.e. its not trying to load stat3 or anything?

[geneworld]

Hi Floob, yeah that is what the error was..i made sure i was on the correct game save state.

[geneworld]

[quote=102536]Are you sure you are loading them with the same emulator that created them? For example, were they saved using snes9x-next and now you are using pocketsnes?

[/quote]

Well this was the issue. I checked and once I set the emulator to the same one (pocketsnes) on both systems the save state worked! Figured I’d update this for anyone else who runs into a similar issue.

Sucks that the save states don’t work on different emulators though.

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