Saving With Gpsp

[trentg]

I've tried every different way I can think of, but I can't seem to get gpSP to retain save states from my game. The game I'm playing (from the very beginning each time >_<) is Summon Night. This is my procedure which I've learned from another thread about SNES saving: play game, when you reach a save point in the game, save it in game. Then go to the gpSP menu and press B on "Save state to slot 0". Just to check I've even tried saving to all 10 slots. However, when I return to my game, and press "Load state from slot 0", it just bounces me back into the game at the point I was at when I entered the gpSP menu. If I go back to the menu in game, there is no "Load" option and thus nothing saved to load. If I restart in the gpSP menu, same thing, nothing to load. I have no .sav files on my SD card after exiting gpSP.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[trentg]

I put the emulator and rom on the nand and I can save now... weird.

 

[Exophase]

Sounds like something was wrong with your SD card. My Wiz has often stopped being able to create or modify files on SD. I think this problem is likely to occur if you remove the SD without correctly unmounting it, but I think I've seen it happen in other cases too. The SD support on Wiz seems pretty buggy.

 

[trentg]

Ya well, I'm happy with it. Far better visually than my real gba which is too dark for me to play. I'm getting a GBA SP soon... not sure if I'll prefer that or the wiz. Too busy to play the game now anyway, I bought it for research but I have to finish the game I'm working on now first

 

[trentg]

It turns out it is something to do with the sd card. Originally I was using an 8GB SDHC card when it wouldn't save (I checked it and there were no errors on the card -- note also that gpsp would not save my rom directory when I exited in addition to not saving save games). I had an unused 32MB regular sdc card, and decided to try that. With just gpsp and the gba rom on the card, it saves! Since I won't be swapping to play many other games (I suppose I could fit a couple more on if I really want) this will work just fine.