[vcolombo]

So, it turns out I had a typo in my configuration file and the “savestate_auto_save = true” was not actually doing what it was supposed to be doing. Now that I fixed it I am seeing the same thing as you, games are saving at the exact location I exit Retroarch rather than simply saving from where I saved in-game.

How are you exiting Retroarch? This discovery has me rather confused, as it would seem to imply that Retroarch actually was saving my games properly without any change to the configuration file.

[vcolombo]

The setting I mentioned automatically saves the game’s SRAM when exiting Retroarch, so if the game had built in saving capability ( like Super Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, etc.) and you perform a save within the game, then that save will be retained by Retroarch and loadable in-game the next time you run that game. This is different than Retroarch’s built in saving, which allows you to save whenever and wherever you are in the game, and regardless of whether the game itself ever supported saving.

For me, I was playing Super Metroid and saved within game. The first time I resumed after doing this, I realized my saved game was gone and I hadn’t saved via Retroarch. Found this setting, and now I’m able to save and resume within the game.

-Vince

[vcolombo]

I’d be interested in more details about your configuration and how you’ve gotten those emulators to run at full speed without any overclocking. I’ve been trying to play Super Metroid and cannot get that to run full speed unless I overclock to Turbo (1000 Mhz), but when I do that my Pi is unstable and will inevitably crash. The highest overclock setting that works for me is the 950 Mhz, but that still leaves Super Metroid lagging.

Thanks,

Vince

[vcolombo]

I had to enable autosaving in the Retroarch config file before this worked (from the retroarch sample conf):

# Automatically saves a savestate at the end of RetroArch’s lifetime.
# The path is $SRAM_PATH.auto.
# RetroArch will automatically load any savestate with this path on startup.
# savestate_auto_save = false

So adding ‘savestate_auto_save = true’ to ~/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg will tell retroarch to automatically save the SRAM when exiting.

-Vince

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