TrexCharles Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 Hey Guys I have a bit of a problem. First off thank you guys for making LaunchBox the #1 hookup to play games in style on a nice big 50 inch TV. Well, here's my question. I'm trying to save games when I'm playing MAME. Can someone please help me to be able to do save states on my games. MAME or RetroArch is working so I can save game progress in MAME games. Can someone help me out please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrexCharles Posted June 10, 2023 Author Share Posted June 10, 2023 Just to clerify because my post I missed a few letters in words. I can't save games in MAME at all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, TrexCharles said: Hey Guys I have a bit of a problem. First off thank you guys for making LaunchBox the #1 hookup to play games in style on a nice big 50 inch TV. Well, here's my question. I'm trying to save games when I'm playing MAME. Can someone please help me to be able to do save states on my games. MAME or RetroArch is working so I can save game progress in MAME games. Can someone help me out please? Look at your MAME.INI file located in your MAME emulator directory for this setting: Change the autosave setting from the default of 0 to a 1. This assumes you are using the MAME emulator as standalone and not within Retroarch. Edited June 10, 2023 by sundogak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrexCharles Posted June 11, 2023 Author Share Posted June 11, 2023 Ok I've made the change to the mame.ini file using notepad. How do I save & load states? Can I configure the save and load states using a controller button on my xbox one controller? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 22 hours ago, TrexCharles said: Ok I've made the change to the mame.ini file using notepad. How do I save & load states? Can I configure the save and load states using a controller button on my xbox one controller? Per MAME Docs the AutoSave function automatically creates a save state file exiting the system. MAME will the load that save file when you restart. Thus, if you just want to start off the game from where you exited the above will work without controller bindings. Note not all games support save states. Save states are stored by default in the MAME\sta directory. If you want to manually make a Save State you can use the default Shift F7 to save. It will ask for a "slot". Then the reverse if you want to load a saved state you use the F7 key and select the slot you made earlier. If you want to do by controller the easiest way is to use LB built in Pause Menu feature which has options for save/load state and you avoid getting into conflicts on your controller with normal key commands for games. I have my controller XBox button (Button 11) to bring up the pause menu in LB. You would then have the MAME emulator setup as such to save to slot 1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrexCharles Posted June 12, 2023 Author Share Posted June 12, 2023 Interesting Will this work for RetroArch to for all my other systems? Like Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrexCharles Posted June 12, 2023 Author Share Posted June 12, 2023 The setting I have in my mame.ini file. What does it do? I have the AutoSave changed to 1. When I play a mame game say The Simpsons. I get far in the game, now I am done playing. With the command of 1 for AutoSave does what? And I'm going to try the LB feature of the Pause Menu, sounds interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted June 13, 2023 Share Posted June 13, 2023 7 hours ago, TrexCharles said: Interesting Will this work for RetroArch to for all my other systems? Like Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and more? The above is all Mame standalone specific. You would need to check which RA emulator cores you are using for those systems to see if save states are supported. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GennadijK Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 @sundogak Please tell me, in the new version of Mame (0.268) how to enter this pause menu? I found only just pause and it's just a pause. But how to enter such a menu as you showed above in the screenshots? I still don’t understand what it’s called in Input assignments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 18 minutes ago, GennadijK said: @sundogak Please tell me, in the new version of Mame (0.268) how to enter this pause menu? I found only just pause and it's just a pause. But how to enter such a menu as you showed above in the screenshots? I still don’t understand what it’s called in Input assignments. That is the Launchbox pause screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GennadijK Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 18 minutes ago, sundogak said: That is the Launchbox pause screen. There is no such description, but simply a pause that pauses the game and makes the screen a little darker. That is, a regular pause. How exactly do you enter the Launchbox pause screen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GennadijK Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 (edited) I got it. It turns out that launchbox is such a shell But I use a separate emulator Mame :)) I didn't know about Launchbox, I thought it was just a website called that :)) Edited August 5 by GennadijK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 12 hours ago, GennadijK said: I got it. It turns out that launchbox is such a shell But I use a separate emulator Mame :)) I didn't know about Launchbox, I thought it was just a website called that :)) LB is a frontend to help organize your games. It can launch games using the emulator you choose. The Pause @sundogak is referencing is LB Pause theme features. If you are not even using the LB frontend then you would not see the Pause theme image that sundogak showed in the post. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anttonm Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 Hello, I tried the `autosave = 1` but I still can't use savestate from mame (under launbox/emulators directory). MAJ+F7 : I allays got error 'Failed to open "rygar\quick.sta" for save state operation". F7 : allways ask to select a slot, but I can't the list is empty, no choice possible No problem for my separate Mame.exe How can I do please ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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