Is there a way to have games auto save the state on exit and auto load the last saved state when starting the game up again? It’s pretty dangerous to have to manually save and load. For example, if when trying to play again you accidentally tap “Save” instead of “Load” there goes your entire game and you’ll have to start over.
Frontend -> Global Core Config -> Emulation. Turn on Auto Save State and Auto Load State.
Thank you sir! Now I’m nervous to turn it on though. What if I load a game and it autosaves the start screen over the top of my previously saved state?
That’s exactly the reason I hate this feature. I use auto save but I never use auto load… if I need a save I’ll rename it from save.auto to save.9 or something.
I play on my PCs and on my phone, sometimes I close the game on my phone, then go play some more on PC… I get back to the phone and it autoloads and overwrites SRAM… I hate when that happens.
You might lose some progress by using auto load… I have already had that.
Auto Load will only load save.auto, if no such thing file exists you’ll be fine
Is there a way to make auto save only take effect upon exiting the game? And by “Autosave interval” can I assume the number there refers to minutes?
Autosave interval is for SRAM not for save states
The other autosaves work only upon exit
AutoLoad feature will work only when you manually make the first savestate after turning on the AutoLoad.
I opened an issue about this and Maister responded, you can build yourself or wait for a release https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/c … 05ab8908fe
Now autosaves are slot -1 your can load them by hand
By first save state, do you mean 0 or 1?
By first save state, do you mean 0 or 1?[/quote] No, I mean that after turning on these two options you should launch your game, manually load your savestate and save your game again. After that whenever you launch your ROM-file, game will load savestate and save game on closing automatically by itself. But you have to close game correctly with Close Content option.
By first save state, do you mean 0 or 1?[/quote] No, I mean that after turning on these two options you should launch your game, manually load your savestate and save your game again. After that whenever you launch your ROM-file, game will load savestate and save game on closing automatically by itself. But you have to close game correctly with Close Content option.[/quote:3fth41i7]
Oh. Well if I have to remember to use Close Content, that’s not any better than having to remember to save in my opinion. With Robert Broglia’s emulators (SNES9x EX+, NES.emu, etc.), closing the app auto saves for you. I wish RetroArch did the same. Thanks for your help.