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Tmnt pops up an error message that there are not enough free blocks in the virtual memory card when i tried the above gameini option and it didn't work.

Initial save for two towers (memory card)https://www.mediafire.com/?adgj8pu862xjmwu
After overwriting http://www.mediafire.com/download/6attzfwcxnpo2rz/After_overwriting_save.7z

the two towers issue should be easy to fix, I just need to get a build up for testing,

kostamarino: is the error you get for tmnt a game error or a dolphin panic alert?
The screenshot from Linktothepast is exactly what would happen if there are 127 gci files in the folder (max for memcard)

I imagine I'll need to pick up a konami tmnt game in order to find the issue unless I can get more info

It is an ingame error and there are about 128 gci files in the folder. Btw kostamarino = Linktothepast.

The sysmenu is crashing when I use GCI Folder now. Don't remember if it was doing it yesterday.

sys menu on start? opening memcard view? I need steps to repro
it could be unrelated?

kostamarino: can you try tmnt with an empty memcard folder?

please test PR544
https://dl.dolphin-emu.org/prs/pr-544-dolphin-latest-x64.7z

fifologs are still causing problems, sysmenu seems fixed.

Ok after some testing the two towers issue is gone but tmnt games still have their issue. When i tried with an empty folder after formating the card tmnt games worked fine, so it is probably related to the number of files in the folder.

JMC4789: did you ever remove the us gci files from the eur folder?
is running a fifolog expected to save/load with a memcard?

kostamarino: having 128 should've triggered a panic alert, and we should leave a few slots open for the game, any idea a good number of open spaces to leave as potential new saves that a game might add
ex: animal crossings uses 3 files iirc
timesplitters 2 can use an arbitrary number of course limited by the 127 files/card

I think 3 saves per game is the most common, double that (6) should be ok for most cases.

Resident Evil can use up to 20 or something. Games like that which expect you to save a lot may need more.

There is no reason for a fifolog to be interacting with memory cards at all. It's seeing the fifolog as euro region and rejecting my NTSC saves. Just have fifologs ignore memory cards.

you should still clean up the eur folder of US gci files, if/when you ever play a pal game this alert would appear also
fifologs weren't ignoring memorycards before, I'm not sure I agree that it should be a special case,.

the open spots will be a balance,
I don't want to hard code which games look for specific other games saves
so just the first 127/121/107 saves (alphabetical by filename) would be loaded
but you also need to leave some room if you are playing a new game with no existing save, or a game (like TS2) that can create an arbitrary number of new profiles (each taking one of the save spots

The number shown in the game's UI isn't always the number of file entries
SMS for example has three save spots but only 1 gci file

need to identify a good balance between both demands

lpfaint99 - Every time I delete the PAL folder and load a fifolog, it refills it with my NTSC saves.

Oh, that's definitely something to fix. Sorry about misunderstanding

Wrestlemania X8 won't load saves with the current implementation in master.

grabbed a save from gamefaqs, looks like it has a / as part of the filename

Sorry about all this belated testing. It's just, I'm testing the PR for "accurate memcard saves/loads" at the same time, which means I get to go through every single game again, and I figure why not with the GCI folder.

please test wrestlemania x8 with latest pr changes
https://dl.dolphin-emu.org/prs/pr-544-dolphin-latest-x64.7z

please test fifologs with pr 589
http://dl.dolphin-emu.org/prs/pr-589-dolphin-latest-x64.7z

Both issues fixed in the respective builds.

so the only remaining issue is leaving x amount of free entries on the fake memcard
Any objections to considering that a different issue and closing this one?

This issue should get closed after the PRs are merged.

We can make a new issue for the other issues.

Somehow I ended up with duplicate saves in F-Zero GX

I have a panic alert saying that an "longfilename"0.gci and "longfilename".gci have the same internal file name. I don't know how it happened.

JMC4789 it is the same as the issue i reported above, should be fixed by https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/544

oh ok. Need to learn to read.

Even though I tested Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 before, I managed to get an error when manually saving "Wrote to unallocated block" and I think it was 63, but I can't remember. And then Dolphin crashed.

Even though I tested Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 before, I managed to get an error when manually saving "Wrote to unallocated block" and I think it was 63, but I can't remember. And then Dolphin crashed.

Is this with master or PR 544?

Master, sorry. If you've already handled that, then you can ignore it. Metroid Prime does the same thing; it appears to be the saving over a save bug, which you've said you've fixed.

LPFaint99: If I use GCI-Folder, System Menu is crashing at startup.

need more info, can't repro on master r 5646ffdacdc0221720369df464f0e7addbacbd6f
(4.0-2215)

I don't know what else to say. It hangs, and when I try to click close the program from the windows error dialogue, it just doesn't close and I have to close it via task manager. Turning it on to memory cards fixes it.

do you have vs installed?
does it happen if you remove all gci files from the Card A folder?
if so can you zip a copy of all those files so that I can attempt to reproduce here?

Here's my memcard folder. Deleting it didn't help when I tried it, but it started copying the files from my actual memcard file again, which maybe was the problem. Super Smash Bros. Melee is where it crashes at, I guess. That's the last file created when starting with an empty GCI folder when attempting to start system menu when I have a memory card for it to export from.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/484730/Card%20A.7z

I have VS installed, and all of that.

I can reproduce with your saves, looking into it

fixed in pr 651. The cause was a copy/paste of the line to get the sysmenu loader,
which happened require a force reload of the nand loader (installing a new version of the sysmenu updates the tools menu entry)

New issue: What happened was I saved in Kirby Air Ride, and it said the size in header didn't match the actual size in and error. If you cannot reproduce, I'll upload the save file.

I can't reproduce with Kirby Air Ride NTSC.
The main reason for this happening would be if dolphin crashed after writing only part of the save.

I'm only saving from the main screen, do I need to go ingame?

I went in game and closed Dolphin midrace.

Still unable to reproduce.
Does it happen consistently for you?
Maybe a dtm would allow me to duplicate?

It seemed to be a random issue, I tried again and didn't have the problem.

maybe another developer can take a look at the Flush() function and its uses, but afaict this shouldn't happen unless there is a crash

F-Zero GX ghost data refuses to save to GCI folder, saying there's not enough space (there were 1039 blocks left.)

worked here, both ghost and replay data
http://i.imgur.com/sw0BGuK.png

It appears to be once the memcard gets down to half space (even on regular memory cards) that it will no longer write. Tons of games are doing this. It's not GCI folder's fault.

try with a smaller card, in gameini set MemoryCard251 = true and fill more than halfway

example
https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/c68be42c556e34b6221c079c95d9c639dbbeb989/Data/Sys/GameSettings/GDXEA4.ini

actually, you may have hit the 127 max file limit?

I have 127 files on my memcard. Oops?

that's the problem then, I'll try to prioritize fixing that

Oh, I thought that was a hardware limitation lol. I didn't know that was an actual issue with Dolphin.

I test a lot of games, so I tend to play a lot and make a lot of saves throughout hundreds of games. I guess this time it bit me.

oh, it is a hardware limitation. gci folder can work around this though

That'd be awesome if possible.