I just recently turned my Raspberry pi 3 into a retro gaming system using the Retropie software with Raspian. So far all the emulators that I've been playing games on, N64, NES, SNES, and PS1, have been working fine. My issue comes with the PS1 emulator playing Legend of Dragoon. The game runs fine but the issue is when I try to save the game.

When I'm in the save zones I go into the main menu and select save, and watch as one of the 15 slots is written with my current progress, but when I go back in to save again I don't see the saved data or any data. When I close the game and try to reload a saved game it states again that there is no saved games. I checked the psx roms folder and I can see that a .srm file was created for the game (which from other ps1 games I know that this file is the saved data). Any ideas of why this particular game isn't seeing the saved games? is there something that i need to edit or add?

I believe the ps1 emulator that comes with Retropie is the lr-pcsx-rearmed.

Things that I've tried.

1. Play a different ps1 game and verify that the game saves.
-This worked. I started Crash Bandicoot and successfully saved and re-opened the saved game. The saved data was in a .srm file.

2. Download a different type of rom for the game.
-I've tried an .iso and .bin rom sets. Both make the .srm file but won't read it.

3. Setting up the autosave interval to =5
-still nothing