Request for Pcsx to adapt the mem card system of mednafen

RetroArch General
#1

Instead of having each psx games create its own psx game save,I request that retroarch only use two psx game saves to be used by all psx games

Why am I asking this

Well it is really not a problem for games like crash bandicoot But when it comes to games like legend of the dragoons which has 4 discs that nneds to be swapped at many times,it becomes a tedious hurdle.

What do i mean by tedious hurdle? well here are the steps I do whenever i swap from disc 1 to disc 2 1.copy the disc 1 game save to a folder 2.rename it to be the same as the disc 2 game save 3.copy this back to the game save folder 4.all done

It looks very easy at first but when you have to do it many times,that’s when things get roough.

Plus,many users are getting very lost with the psx save file sytem

I don’t think this will be much of a problem implementing since the original pcsx rearmed already used this system’

One retroarcg only uses two save games for all psx games,the above problem will be eliminated.I suggest though that you make it optional Thank you in advance

PS:if you won’t mind,i’ll be also posting this as an issu in github

#2

I don’t know about PCSX-ReARMed as I use retroarch mostly in my PC but there is some reason for your request. Actually I’ve been thinking about doing something like this for the mednafen-psx core, mednafen’s memory cards are saved like this:

Gran Turismo 2 (USA) (Simulation Mode) (v1.1).0b7d3b32751bf7f5c63ae8deb103a699.1

I’ll try to add something like this to mednafen-psx, I can’t say for PCSX since… well I don’t know about it

#3

You can create a text file with the extension .m3u and add lines inside it with the file names for each disc. If you load that .m3u, then you can swap between discs on the fly with your disc eject and disc next keys. When you do that, all discs specified in the .m3u file will use the same memory card files.

I’ve always liked the way Mednafen makes per game memory card files since PSX cards are so small.

#4

Does that work with mednafen already?

#5

Yep. I suppose that method doesn’t get around the issue of having to copy a memory card file and rename it for games like MGS which can detect other Konami saves or for the bonuses you get going from Suikoden I to II though. Using a .m3u to load those like multi disc games wouldn’t really make sense. But there aren’t too many games that do that, so I don’t mind it much.

#6

Looks like mednafen’s method is cooler… If only pcsx rearmed can do what mednafen can do when it comes to mem cards

#7

okay i’m changinh my request.It will be great if pcsx reArmed would adapt the sytem used by mednafen in which you create a file wherein you will put the names of each of the rom images that will share each others memory cards