Imported GC saves in GCI folder do not save progression

[Shadorino]

Don’t know if it’s a bug, a missing feature or me not knowing how to use the GCI folder.

When I import a save file, it stays in the exact same state, it never saves what I do in the game.

[JosJuice]

How are you importing the save file?

[Shadorino]

Juste pasting in the folder. I tried renaming the file with the name generated by Dolphin, it didn't work.

[Shadorino]

Is that not the way to do it?

[AdmiralCurtiss]

I'm guessing it's a rights issue, like your user has permission to read the file but not permission to write the file. Our GCI folder code also looks like it just silently skips writing if it can't open a GCI file for writing, which should probably be improved...

[Shadorino]

(09-29-2022, 02:02 AM)JosJuice Wrote: How are you importing the save file?

So this is the expected behavior then? Just trying to understand. If it’s a bug/missing feature, I’ll make a ticket in Issue Tracker.
 
For example:
in Mario Party 4 (NTSC), the game is supposed to save after each mini-game, a text is displaying in-game, but in this case it doesn’t, like if there was no memory card.
If I remove the imported save, and let the game create a brand new one, it saves normally, with Dolphin’s OSD notifications.
 
Its saves just fine for Wii games.

[AdmiralCurtiss]

No, this is not intended behavior -- but like I said, your user account probably has no rights to write to the file you copied into the folder. Right-click -> Properties on the file and see if eg. the Read Only bit is set, or if you don't have Full Control over it in the Security tab.

[Shadorino]

I'm the admin of my PC, I have full control by default. But just for the sake of being thorough, I added full control rights to Users on the save file. Did not work

[AdmiralCurtiss]

Hm, not sure what's the problem then. I have added an OSD error message if writing to the GCI fails, can you update to the current dev build (5.0-17547 or later) and check if that complains?