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Save Data & Memory Card Issues! - stargazer - 01-02-2023
Here I'll list a few issues I'm having (they're all offline except the one NetPlay issue I'll state):
• Getting the error message "Warning: Save file(s) of the current game failed to load." while it does in fact load and write the save. (Tested Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door)
• Starting a NetPlay session with the setting "Load and Write Host's Save Data" loads no save data. Creating and writing the save data created a new .gci with a slightly different name. (Tested Mario Power Tennis GCN)
• Games tell me there is no memory card when I do have "Settings>GameCube>Device Settings>GCI Folder" (Tested Mario Power Tennis GCN and F-Zero GX)
• When right clicking a game, clicking "Open GameCube Save Folder" it shows the error "No Save Data Found" when there is in fact save data that can be loaded. (Tested F-Zero GX)
5.0-18141 or 5.0-18143 is where the issues began. Everything has been fine with memory read/write for the last 50+ development builds. I did revert to the last build I had no issues on which was 5.0-18138 but this new issue persists no matter which build I use now.
There are no recent changed is path settings, memory card settings, I haven't moved any folders, the Dolphin folder is located in Documents where it's always been and within properties I have "Read only" set to OFF for the folder and all sub-folders.
Things I've tried:
• Restarting Dolphin.
• Restarting my PC.
• Switching to "Settings>GameCube>Device Settings>Memory Card" which I tested opening a game, then switching back to GCI Folder when it didn't fix it. Switching back to GCI didn't fix it either.
• Checked the GameCube save folder. The .gci files all have the name assigned to them automatically when they were created in-game.
Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door .gci name: "01-G8ME-mariost_save_file"
Mario Power Tennis .gci names: "01-GOME-T040906" and "01-GOME-T0409060"
F-Zero GX .gci names: "8P-GFZE-f_zero.dat", "8P-GFZE-fzc.dat", and "8P-GFZE-fze0200002000686F460EE50C77.dat"
I'd upload a log but toggling all log type on and showing the log just has a black box of no text. I may need help with that if anyone needs a log.
Thanks so much for reading.
RE: Save Data & Memory Card Issues! - KHg8m3r - 01-07-2023
If you backup your save files to a safe location, and then make new save files, do they have the same save/load issue?
RE: Save Data & Memory Card Issues! - AdmiralCurtiss - 01-08-2023
The "Warning: Save file(s) of the current game failed to load." message means that it found multiple save files with the same internal file name so it couldn't load all of them, so it effectively loaded a random one (the first one it found). Might be worth improving the handling of that if it's unclear...
The netplay thing on the other hand does sound very strange... Can you maybe go to your Dolphin userdir (Documents/Dolphin Emulator by default) and pack up the Config directory and your memory card files (they're in the GC folder, if you haven't put a BIOS or something like that in there you can just pack up that whole folder too) and upload them somewhere? I'm guessing something is breaking here and I'd like it investigate and fix it.