Saving Emulated Games That Had A Battery Backup

[prof1515]

No doubt this has been asked before but I haven't had much luck finding an answer that worked on my own and probably don't even know what to look for to do so thus my question here.

Some Sega Genesis ROMs are of games which had battery backups (Pirates! Gold or Starflight for example). These ROMs will allow you to save the game but as soon as you shut down the emulator the saved game is lost. With some games I've even noticed that this option doesn't save while the emulator is still running, ie. loading a saved game while in play doesn't work. Is there a way to maintain the saved games on my computer and have the emulator draw from that as opposed to the non-existent battery backup?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

J

[jmurjeff]

What emulator are you using? I have saved tons of games using the save feature of the game and reloaded no problems. Now if that does not work just click save state. Then you can load the state the next time you play.

[prof1515]

The ROMs (all from here) that I've been unable to use the in-game save:

Pirates! Gold
Starflight
Shadowrun
Bill Walsh College Football
Maddon '94

None of these work. The second the emulator is shut down the data is lost.

I use Fusion364 and the save state didn't work with Starflight.

[Ragnar]

Every emulator I've ever used outputs saves to a .sav file or the like. I'm talking emulators that are 15 years old now... If Fusion364 isn't supporting such a simple feature you should stop using it.

[Zorlon]

this is possibly folder restrictions or some other user restrictions that are maybe stopping sav files and save states being created

you could try running the emu from the documents folder or something, make sure that saves are setup to save there aswell

you can also try running the emu as admin

*does no one even try and help nowerdays*

[Kool Aid Man]

Open Fusion, click Options on the main menu, select Set Config and choose the Genesis tab. Make sure the SRM and State Files match the location where Fusion is stored on your computer. If you downloaded Fusion and then moved the emulator somewhere else, the games will not save. You could also use Save State As...(File on main menu or Shift-F5) if your still having problems.