Game Save States

[CJ7]

I have not found an easy way to manage my MAME saved games/states. I think it would be an incredible feature if you (Tom) could create a section that manages/reads MAME saved games and loads them for you on request (using "-state" option I guess). Is this possible? Is there an easy way of loading game states that I don't know about? I am guessing that it would be a bit of a bitch to do it for every emulator, but were focusing on MAME here! Maybe i'll just write a program that I can link to externally from GameEx and have it call MAME with the right options... If so, is anyone interested in developing it with me? We can make it open source and give the code to Tom for him to implement if he doesnt have time to do it. Anyone have any solutions or opinions?

BTW, Great job on the program bro, its awesome.

[Tom Speirs]

I have not found an easy way to manage my MAME saved games/states. I think it would be an incredible feature if you (Tom) could create a section that manages/reads MAME saved games and loads them for you on request (using "-state" option I guess). Is this possible? Is there an easy way of loading game states that I don't know about? I am guessing that it would be a bit of a bitch to do it for every emulator, but were focusing on MAME here! Maybe i'll just write a program that I can link to externally from GameEx and have it call MAME with the right options... If so, is anyone interested in developing it with me? We can make it open source and give the code to Tom for him to implement if he doesnt have time to do it. Anyone have any solutions or opinions?

BTW, Great job on the program bro, its awesome.

Hi,

If you can show the value and provide detail on exactly what this should do and the beneift, I'll certainly at least consider implementing it myself.

Thanks

[CJ7]

Hi,

If you can show the value and provide detail on exactly what this should do and the beneift, I'll certainly at least consider implementing it myself.

Thanks

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Hey Tom, my thoughts on the saves section are to have the program enumerate the saves in the states folder and show them in a list. Then the player can choose which save they want to load for whatever game to continue their game. As the current list does, it can show a screenshot of the game and an icon. With thousands of mame games, it is hard to remember all the saves you have, especially if your on an arcade cabinet and want to check out your save games without having to use a keyboard and mouse. It does not have to be anything big, just a list of save games from a particular folder and their screenshots/relative information. We can even go as far as having one saves folder per emulator so that you can look at all your saves from other systems in separate lists. Are you following what i'm thinking?