I used the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Euopean ISO for Gamecube if EU or US is relevant.
I decided to play the game on Dolphin instead of actual hardware so I could record gameplay. I chose to use gci files since they save faster and I feel are more reliable than a virtual memory card...maybe.
I was some 4 something hours into my game and sure enough those saves are still there. I completed my first dungeon of my 2nd year, got out safely and decided to save. Lo and behold it shows the memory card as empty, why wouldn't it read the GCI files it was reading for two days straight was beyond me, but I made a new save anyways, that saved alright but I didn't get a yellow message in the top left corer letting me know it also created a save on my HDD.
I tried a few more times to no avail, so I had to use a Save State even tho I don't like using those. So after saving the state I quit Dolphin, reloaded my game and sure enough my old saves popped up, as expected as the new saves didn't write anything to my HDD. Then I loaded to state and tried making a 3rd save file in it, this wrote to the HDD alright but when I quit and re launch dolphin and the game I only see my old gci save files there.
1. Why did my Dolphin display an empty memory card mid-game and why wouldn't it write the saves to the HDD?
2. How can I now make the Save Files from the save state my main saves?
In my D:\My Documents\Dolphin Emulator\GC\EUR\Card A folder I have the following:
01-GCCP-FFCC.gci
�m-GCCP-FFCC.gci
I tried renaming the moving both of these two a safe location, then made a copy of �m-GCCP-FFCC.gci which is the more recent file and renamed it to 01-GCCP-FFCC.gci but that tells me my memory card is empty. the other gci file contains my old saves from an hour ago.
I decided to play the game on Dolphin instead of actual hardware so I could record gameplay. I chose to use gci files since they save faster and I feel are more reliable than a virtual memory card...maybe.
I was some 4 something hours into my game and sure enough those saves are still there. I completed my first dungeon of my 2nd year, got out safely and decided to save. Lo and behold it shows the memory card as empty, why wouldn't it read the GCI files it was reading for two days straight was beyond me, but I made a new save anyways, that saved alright but I didn't get a yellow message in the top left corer letting me know it also created a save on my HDD.
I tried a few more times to no avail, so I had to use a Save State even tho I don't like using those. So after saving the state I quit Dolphin, reloaded my game and sure enough my old saves popped up, as expected as the new saves didn't write anything to my HDD. Then I loaded to state and tried making a 3rd save file in it, this wrote to the HDD alright but when I quit and re launch dolphin and the game I only see my old gci save files there.
1. Why did my Dolphin display an empty memory card mid-game and why wouldn't it write the saves to the HDD?
2. How can I now make the Save Files from the save state my main saves?
In my D:\My Documents\Dolphin Emulator\GC\EUR\Card A folder I have the following:
01-GCCP-FFCC.gci
�m-GCCP-FFCC.gci
I tried renaming the moving both of these two a safe location, then made a copy of �m-GCCP-FFCC.gci which is the more recent file and renamed it to 01-GCCP-FFCC.gci but that tells me my memory card is empty. the other gci file contains my old saves from an hour ago.