Converting KEGA Fusion saves to Retroarch's Genplus

RetroArch General
#1

Hey, first time posting here, hello everyone.

So, I’m currently in the middle of the process of moving from Kega Fusion to Retroarch’s Genplus core, and the *.srm save files seem to be incompatible between both platforms, I’m wondering if there is a a way to convert them, as I don’t want to lose all of them, and some I’m halfway through the game.

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So from what I can gather is that Kega Fusion trims their files, as an example my Monster World IV save in Kega Fusion is 1KB and in Retroarch is 64KB. I Imagine Retroarch’s saves just fill them out with blank data or whatever, so assuming this is true, there’s probably a way to take Kega Fusion’s saves and fill them out so they become 64Kb files as well, but I’m just digressing, I have no idea how these things actually work, so I’m wondering if you guys have any clue about it.

Sorry to barge in, but I did google it and tried asking somewhere else, but I found no answers.

#2

You should be able to use the KEGA srm in RetroArch just fine, even if it’s shorter. When it’s saved, it’ll probably be 64kB again though.

#3

Yeah, I thought as much, considering I didn’t have any problem with any of the other cores, but unfortunately it doesn’t really work, and I’ve tried with multiple games, it just wipes the save and starts a new one (with 64KB indeed), there isn’t any error or warning message in the log either. And congratulations on the Retroarch project by the way, I’m loving this thing.

#4

That happens with most of my Kega saves too. The only one I noticed that worked was Wonder Boy in Monster World. A lot of my saves from VBA-M don’t work in the VBA-Next core either (Boktai, Ninja Five-O…).

#5

That’s somewhat funny because I’m actually playing Wonder Boy in Monster World in my actual Mega Drive for the first time right now.