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Save State Lost
Chunce DeLeone:
I was messing around with DDraw and D3d, switching back and forth. Then I noticed the savestate and thus my highscores for Robotron disappeared. Does anyone know why this would have happend and anyway to get them back?
leapinlew:
Does Robotron use a savestate? For some reason, I thought those Williams games did something different for the high score.
Chunce DeLeone:
Pretty sure it does, everytime I start it says state successfully loaded. Also for some reason it seemed that the savestate wasn't working for ddraw.
2600:
I believe Leapinlew is on the right path, but you both are kinda talking about 2 different things.
Does Robotron support save state? Yes
Does Robotron use save state to store High Scores? I don't think so. IIRC, Robotron uses NVRAM to store High Scores and you don't need to use Save State. Someone could do a quick test to see if I'm correct.
BTW, Chunce MAME says state successfully loaded because you set it up to automagically save and load save states not because it supports them.
Chunce DeLeone:
How do you think I lost the high scores?, one thing I did do was hit F1&F2 to get to the bookeeping info, I wanted to see how long I played and quarters used, this was in the middle of playing around with D3D and DDraw. I should have mentioned that. Also going forward can I just shut off autosave in the Robo .ini and the highscores will be saved correctly? Is there any way to get them back? where would that file be?