I recently wiped my C: drive and reinstalled Windows 8 on there. All my user data was safely preserved on my D: drive.
Previously, my Windows username was Hero. My Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) saves went in this folder:
D:\Users\Hero\Documents\Dolphin Emulator\Wii\title\00010000\53583445\data
With Windows reinstalled on C:, I used a new username, GalacticCore. I simply cut & paste all of Hero's documents (D:\Users\Hero\Documents\) into the folder for GalacticCore (D:\Users\GalacticCore\Documents\)
When I ran Xenoblade Chronicles with my new Windows install, all my save games had disappeared. I was ready to cry, I'm 65 hours in and REALLY didn't want to have to start again!!
But then I right-clicked on the ISO in Dolphin and noticed that the save game location was still pointing to the previous path (Hero's Documents folder). The user Hero no longer existed, but Dolphin went ahead and created the appropriate folders anyway.
I was expecting Xenoblade Chronicles to look for its save game location here:
D:\Users\GalacticCore\Documents\Dolphin Emulator\Wii\title\00010000\53583445\data
As a temporary workaround, I copied the contents from GalacticCore's "Documents\Dolphin Emulator\" folder over the top of the Hero ones.
Voila! Now my old game saves were accessible again! Thank goodness for that!
1) Is this a bug in Dolphin?
2) Is it possible to configure the Wii save game folder location so that it saves into GalacticCore's Documents and not Hero's?
Previously, my Windows username was Hero. My Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) saves went in this folder:
D:\Users\Hero\Documents\Dolphin Emulator\Wii\title\00010000\53583445\data
With Windows reinstalled on C:, I used a new username, GalacticCore. I simply cut & paste all of Hero's documents (D:\Users\Hero\Documents\) into the folder for GalacticCore (D:\Users\GalacticCore\Documents\)
When I ran Xenoblade Chronicles with my new Windows install, all my save games had disappeared. I was ready to cry, I'm 65 hours in and REALLY didn't want to have to start again!!
But then I right-clicked on the ISO in Dolphin and noticed that the save game location was still pointing to the previous path (Hero's Documents folder). The user Hero no longer existed, but Dolphin went ahead and created the appropriate folders anyway.
I was expecting Xenoblade Chronicles to look for its save game location here:
D:\Users\GalacticCore\Documents\Dolphin Emulator\Wii\title\00010000\53583445\data
As a temporary workaround, I copied the contents from GalacticCore's "Documents\Dolphin Emulator\" folder over the top of the Hero ones.
Voila! Now my old game saves were accessible again! Thank goodness for that!
1) Is this a bug in Dolphin?
2) Is it possible to configure the Wii save game folder location so that it saves into GalacticCore's Documents and not Hero's?