I just played through the game some and got to the first save point walked up to it saved the game it said successful I go to save again instantly after and the save I just created is not there in game wtf is going on. And I just tried playing Resident Evil 2 on the exact same emulator and I got to the first save spot on that game and the save worked perfectly fine and I could close the emulator restart it and load the save instead of having to use save states.
Are you using a legit BIOS image, and is the core actually finding it? The HLE BIOS can cause issues with saving in some games.
I honestly have no clue I just went through the step by step setup from a guide I found for IARL on kodi and it uses retroarch as its emulator. IARL is where I downloaded Legend of Dragoon and Resident Evil 2 and RE2 in game saves work so that is why I am baffled on why I cannot save in game for LoD or get a save I downloaded on gamefaqs to work.
Ok, that probably means ‘no’ then. You need a BIOS image with the correct name to be placed in your ‘system’ directory.
This is the one you want for US-region games:
scph5500.bin (md5): 8dd7d5296a650fac7319bce665a6a53c
Ok what exactly do I do with that stuff I am not exactly the greatest when it comes to customizing files/folders
@hunterk Any chance you can help me out with what I am suppose to do with what you said in the last post?
You need to get a copy of that file (scph5500.bin). It’s copyrighted, so be sure to dump your own copy from your own console… The MD5 checksum there will let you know if it’s the correct file.
Once you have it, put it in your ‘system’ folder.
@hunterk Well I think I got the correct file and I downloaded a progrma that I think verified it and it is what you said the 8dd7d… The file name is ps-30j.bin do I need to leave it like that or change it to the scph5500.bin and then put it in the retroarch system folder?
@hunterk Well I tried putting it in the folder as the ps-30j.bin and launched the game and it still said at the bottom in yellow letters at the start the “No Bios…” so I closed it and changed the name to the scph5500.bin and launched retroarch again and booted up the game and this time it did not say anything about “No Bios…” but I went to the save point and it still is not saving.
I cannot get any game that I download a save from gamefaqs to work so that I can load in game… This is really irretating. Just tried a Castlevania SOTN save from gamefaqs and still nothing
Dunno what to tell you. Do other games save, Gamefaqs saves aside?
@hunterk I tried saving in game on both Castlevania Symphony of Night and Resident Evil 2 and both games saved and I was able to exit the game and open it and I could load it so it seems to be just Legend of Dragoon or something.
Yeah, could be game-specific. Looks like someone else had a similar problem awhile back:
Bleh nothing like my basically favorite game of all time being ruined beings I cannot use save files and lost like 3 hours of progress and do not feel like doing it all again.
@hunterk So I assume you do not know a fix to legend of dragoon save problem or how to load a save file in game that i download from gamefaqs I have tried it on several games and cannot get any of them to work.
@hunterk Lol I just cannot catch a break on this game so I bit the bullet and just started fresh again and I am now in to disk 2 which I was able to switch disk easily and perfectly fine but now when I get to a random fight in giganto after the battle it gets a black screen and stays there I have tried googling it but cannot find anything about a fix for pcsx-remastered all the espxe or whatever.
You can try changing the CPU from dynarec to interpreter in the core options. However, getting back to your OP, why are you using PCSX-ReARMed in Windows 7? Have you tried Beetle-PSX?
@hunterk I tried doing the beetle-psx but I can load the core and then when I go to load content find the game and load it then it just pops back to the menu screen saying failed to load content and I have went to the online updater and downloaded every single core and double checked the beetle one and still nothing.
Holy crap that fixed it I had the scph5000 but I added the other 2 and now I can load/save the game correctly thank god I attempted to save because my save state did not transfer over from rearmed to the beetle.
@fergdog and @hunterk Thank you both so much for the help I was able to load my in game save and thankfully I had just attempted it before the spot that keeps freezing and now I am able to play with the beetle core.
I just played some and it did not give me the black screen so that fixed it for now I would like to try a custom load thing but I do not want to attempt it and screw up my current save lol.
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