Any way to get VBA save file behavior?

[nathan]

Hi,

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In VBA, the default (I believe) behavior was for the .sav files to go in the same directory as the image. This makes a suspicious amount of sense to me, but I can't see this behavior as an option in gvbam svn 773 under Linux/KDE. I tried setting the save path to the current directory, but this didn't do it.

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I realize I could copy my .sav files to one directory, but I kind of like having everything related to a game in one place so if I want to copy the directory around I know I'm getting everything.

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Thanks.

[spacy51]

I personally don't like it, when my pure ROM collection gets bloated with save games and other stuff. clrmamepro deletes those files anyway.

[Squall Leonhart]

The default behavior is to do that yes.

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Spacy, can we change it to use Relative Paths by default, it makes sense since thats the default behavior of most other emulators.

[spacy51]

done, SVN774

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VBA-M will now default to the ".\battery" and ".\savestates" directories. They will be created if necessary.

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I think the ROM directories should stay empty as they are, but what about screenshots? exe dir, Desktop, My Pictures?

[Squall Leonhart]

i think it should by default generate any folders it uses in the folder the executable is in.

[spacy51]

done, ".\screenshots", SVN775

[Hard Core Rikki]

VBA-M will now default to the ".\battery" and ".\savestates" directories. They will be created if necessary.

Finally ;p

[nathan]

Just so I understand, will ./battery be relative to the directory I ran gvbam from, or from the rom directory?

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Thanks!

[slacker]

please keep this windows only for Linux it really should be separated otherwise you'll get permission problems galore.

[spacy51]

Oh, I'm so sorry, I completely overread nathan was talking about the Linux build -_-"

Actually, I improved the Windows build :angel: