Problem with loading in-game saves in PSX

Libretro Lakka
#1

Hello! I recently started playing Tales of Phantasia in lakka. Tales of Phantasia for PSX is only released in Japan, so I used a english patch to translate the game. Since the Phantasia Productions Patch won’t work in Mednafen, I used the Absolute Zero patch.

I discovered that I cannot load in game saves unless I load a savestate from previous gameplay! totally strange!

When I load “Slot 1”, It says that the card is not formatted (which I am sure that the game already formatted it when I first saved my game). And when I try to load saves from “Slot 2”, it says that there is no Tales of Phantasia save in it (which is true, I only save in the Slot 1 memory card).

Thanks in Advance, TD.

#2

The Phantasian Production patch does work in Mednafen. Cless took out a certain logo screen that was messing it up after I mentioned it.

#3

hm? Its not working for me. Mednafen crashes when I load the ROM.

I will repatch and test again… see if it works somehow, a user in IRC reported the same issue (although, in RPi2)

#4

There is a patch he posted on his forums that allows it to run on Mednafen. Pretty sure it’s linked in that forum post you linked but the website is down.

#5

While their forum is down, I found a link to the Mednafen compatible patch using Google cache: http://www.tales-cless.org/patches/ToP%20test%20fix.7z

#6

Your powers amaze me. I tried to find that for about an hour yesterday using cache and failed.

I believe you just apply that patch to a clean file since that patch and the normal one are nearly the same size.

#7

Same here, tired to find the link everywhere… Why did Cless not post the link in the downloads page for the original patch? Anyway, will try the patch now.

#8

I saved my game to slot 2 before going to sleep yesterday, and when I tried to load the game from slot 2 this morning, it worked perfectly!

I wonder what’s up with Slot 1 :-/

Still haven’t tried the ToP PP patch, will report back once I try.

#9

Update on the Tales of Phantasia English Phantasia Productions patch, still does not work!

#10

How are you patching it? I just patched a clean .bin of the game and it loaded fine. What happens when you load?

#11

Using XdeltaUI

When I load the ROM, RetroArch crashes(?) and the lakka start screen appears, after a few moments RetroArch starts again.

btw, can you give me the MD5 Hash of the patched .bin file? I want to make sure that the ROM is not at fault…

#12

Patched bin: ff902e033894910b26944cfc2a4cc3fc

Patched with Delta Patcher Lite

#13

The MD5 was a perfect match!