Saving games

RetroArch Apple devices
#1

New to this and I’m not quite sure what I’m doing. I was able to get some SNES games running. I’m having difficulty saving games however. The in game save doesn’t work. Do I have to choose “save state” from the retroarch menu each time? There were about 10 save slots. Does that mean 10 for each game or 10 total for all my games? I don’t want to accidentally overwrite anything

Once I figure out PS1 games(help?) how will saves work when you have to switch discs for certain games. A game like Final Fantasy has 3 discs with 3 seperate ROMs. How would my save carry over to the next disc.

Like I said I’m a noobie so any and all detailed help is greatly appreciated!

#2

Generally, if your in-game saves aren’t being kept, it’s one of two problems: 1.) you don’t have write-permissions to the destination directory 2.) you’re not exiting the emulator cleanly

For #2, RetroArch doesn’t immediately write SRAM to file in case the game uses it as scratch space. Instead, it writes it to file when you exit the emulator. You have two potential solutions to this. You can enable the option to automatically write to SRAM periodically (available in the in-game RGUI menu) or you can make sure you always exit cleanly, which is most reliably achieved by using the ‘quit RetroArch’ entry in the aforementioned RGUI menu.

For PSX games, you’ll need to use the ‘append disc’ option from the RGUI menu when the time comes to swap discs. Save files can have odd behavior in these cases, unfortunately, and I have zero experience with it, but perhaps someone else will post with more detailed information.