Posted: 7/20/2014 3:02 PM
Post subject: Autosave/Autoload
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dimitribzh
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Hi Need an automatic savestate/load option!
Posted: 7/20/2014 4:13 PM
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Dimon12321
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Why? Too lazy to make a savestate? You can pause the emulation, make a savestate and continue playing! Load option is already imported. If you're TASing a game, autosave can be done when you're already failed it or a long time before! Are you making quicksaves or save the progress as different file and then loading it "by hand"?
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Posted: 7/20/2014 10:46 PM
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Patashu
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If you made a mistake very recently, you can use rewind to fix it.
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Posted: 7/20/2014 11:08 PM
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zeromus
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Maybe he means for the emulator to save a state when it exits automatically and try to reload that state when loading a rom.
Posted: 7/20/2014 11:49 PM
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If that's what he means, there is a solution. File -> Recent Rom -> autoload. And File -> Load State -> Autoload Last State will achieve those results. However, I think he means that after every X frames he wants it to savestate. That too is achievable with rewind. EDIT: And thirdly, it can be done with a simple lua script.
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Posted: 7/21/2014 12:17 AM
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zeromus
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Well, its pointless to guess what he wants, without him chiming in, but if it's what I said then AutoloadLastState isnt sufficient; it would need to save when exiting the emulator. This is an oft-coveted feature for a certain type of user. Also see https://code.google.com/p/bizhawk/issues/detail?id=214