save states

[spisi]

So, just learned how to use the save state function. Loved it, went through both my stand-up and cocktail mame cabs and updated all my shortcuts to bypass those annoying startup screens that a lot of our favorite games have. Alas, there's always something..... The wife and I are playing Gyruss and out of nowhere she goes ballistic and puts up the high score.....she was so excited! Well, the excitement soon turned to disappointment when we re-launched to see if it actually saved.....it did not  .  I was wondering why it didn't save, since the scoreboard had a bunch of our initials on it from previous battles  After some testing, I learned that starting the game with the "-savestate 1" prevents Gyruss from saving high scores...bummer!  My question is: Will this apply to all games??? Or do I have to check and see each one individually?

[Mr. Peabody]

Perhaps you have confused savestates (imposes a new state) and nvram (keeps score, if the game had nvram). Save the state before imposing another. You know, like a restore point.