Homebrew Question RetroArch 1.7.6 Switch - Cannot Do Save States or Save In-game

saishowaguu · Mar 23, 2019

Hi.
I am running the latest RetroArch 1.7.6 for switch as NRO hombrew on the latest SXOS CFW 2.6.1
My SD card is formatted as ExFat. I copied the files over from the RetroArch Switch .7z file to my SD card.
I can download cores and load games just fine, but when it comes to in-game saves or save states, they don't work.
When I try to do a save state, no matter the core or game, it just says: "Task failed: Saving state".
In-game saves, for example: an RPG using PSXRearmed, give no error when saving during the game, but when I quit Retroarch (cleanly) and reload it, it doesn't find the save data and I have to start the game over from the beginning.
I can confirm that the save state folder is there and is set correctly in RetroArch settings.
What can I do to fix this?

bad361 · Mar 23, 2019

You can try another CFW, and also you can try formatting to fat32. There's no doubt the problem is on your end. Firstly try another cfw. If it doesn't work there, do a clean install of RA on f32 sd.

metal921 · Mar 23, 2019

Having same problem it’s a bummer. I was told to format everything to fat32.
Maybe file corruption

Guaricana · Apr 8, 2019

Having the same problem, I tried reinstalling but didn't help sadly. Kinda don't want to format if there's a way to fix without it..

dragnipur · Apr 8, 2019

Guaricana said:
Having the same problem, I tried reinstalling but didn't help sadly. Kinda don't want to format if there's a way to fix without it..

All your files should already be split in 4GB chunks (unless you have an nsp you didnt delete after installing) so formatting isnt as bad as it might seem.

But yeah, there’s no way around it.

Switch_Maniac · Apr 9, 2019

More than likely that is 100% corruption if you are using exFAT. Homebrew an exFAT do not play well, especially if the homebrew crashes or is quit using the home button. If you have another SD just format that fat32, put RA and a couple games and test the save state.

n0where · Aug 10, 2019

I had this problem with savestates playing SOTN. I changed the save state from 0 to 1 and it worked. I even have my card formatted as ExFat.

Ninjadust · Nov 15, 2019

Hello Im Having a similar Problem, when i press the - and + buttons on my switch the menu comes up just fine but then when i click down to hover over the save state button it crashes..

error code 2168-0001 (0x2a8)

just trying to save states with Retroarch

Ninjadust · Nov 15, 2019

This is the actual image of what I get when I try to scroll down to save state..

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Ninjadust · Nov 17, 2019

Hey Everyone Good News with some of your save states.. Some Menu Drivers don't work for me RGUI is my goto on that 100% works. If it ever freezes and it keeps loading frozen. Delete the Retroarch.cfg file and it will load back to defaults.

Thank you but I figured it out before I could get a reply

Woot!

sli4 · Apr 30, 2020

I'm running into this or a similar issue as well.
I have my sd formatted fat32. Have had no problems with my cfw, retroarch seems to work completely fine - EXCEPT I can't get it to load backed up save files. I've tried with save files that were sra and converted via the project64 converter to srm and i've tried with dexdrive .n64 save files that i renamed and later tried converting to srm.
If i put an srm file into the savefiles folder (which i've made sure is selected) It starts the game as if there's no save at all and then rewrites the save I put there with a new one when I close content.
I have tried:

renaming .n64 dexdrive saves to .srm (every attempt uses .srm extension and matching srm/rom names)
extracting the raw save data as a .note file via online mpk extractor then renaming .note to .srm
converting from dexdrive to mpk via online converter
changing the /savefile folder location and forcing it to create folders for each core
putting the files in the same folder as the roms
renaming everything to not have any spaces
I even played through and beat Super Smash Bro 64, 2 levels on star fox 64 and won a trophy in Mario Kart to make sure the game would be looking for a save file the next time I opened it.
completely removed retroarch and tried fresh.

EDIT: I should point out it seems games do save in retroarch they just wont load and then new saves are saved over them.
also I found an an eep(?) file for mario kart, renamed it to srm it did not work - but then after i closed and reopened the rom it started working. still no luck with any of the others - so i think it's a file/format issue?

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