Is it possible to change the location of the GC folder?

[boran_blok]

Hello,

I am using dolphin on my nVidia shield mainly to emulate some gamecube games, this works rather fine (much better than I expected) but I have an issue that saves etc are stored in the golphin-emu/GC folder. I do not consider my shield a safe storage medium, and it is very hard to make backups of that location.

Ideally I would like to move the location where dolphin stores its saves to the mapped network drive on the shield. It can read the disc images from there, but I cannot seem to find the setting to change the save folder anywhere.

Will I have to edit some ini file somewhere to manage this? The article on here about the user folder does not mention an android method.

[JosJuice]

I believe you can change this (in the Paths settings) if you're using a raw memory card, but not if you are using a memory card folder.

[boran_blok]

As far as I can see there are only wii related settings there:

   


Or do these wii settings impact GC saves as well?

I can play around with these and see what happens.

But if I changed the save to raw memory card it created a MemoryCard file in the GC folder, and not in the Wii folder set here.

[JosJuice]

Oh, sorry, I misremembered. It seems like you can't change the paths for raw memory cards in the GUI after all. You should be able to do it by editing Dolphin.ini manually, but I don't remember the exact details.

[boran_blok]

For anyone searching for this info in the future.

I found the solution by fiddling around in the windows version.
On Android when you select memory card you do not get an option to choose a path, on windows you get a [...] button where you can select a location.
When you do this on windows a new setting is written to the ini file under the [core] section. (NOT general, where the other folder settings are)

This was the value I had to give it.

MemcardAPath = /storage/NAS/shield/Gamecube/dolphinSaves/MemoryCardA.USA.raw

Sadly mapped network drives on a shield are readonly for most apps. So this did not solve my main problem. (There is a way to do this if you root your shield, then you can mount an R/W SMB share, but that was a bridge too far for me)

I am now looking at going at it from the other way, and sharing the shield folders on the network and having a periodic sync over from the shield to a backup location.

edit:
For anyone looking to go this way. This is the command I used on my nas to copy over the GC folder to a local location: <password> is redacted of course.
cd /tank01/ds01/backups/emusaves/dolphin/
smbclient \\\\192.168.1.21\\internal <password> -U nas -c 'cd dolphin-emu;recurse;prompt;mget GC'