Emulator Issues #8979
Updated by JMC4789 over 8 years ago
**Game Name?**
Virtual Console NES and some SNES titles
**What's the problem? Describe what went wrong.**
When playing many Virtual Console games, including let's say, The Legend of Zelda (NES), you can save the game and it'll be fine, right? Unfortunately, it's not. The game flushes savedata when you either A: turn off the console, or B: return to the system menu. The problem comes in on Dolphin. If you close the emulator window while in-game on one of the afflicted titles, they will not flush the save data. Why is this?
Through hardware testing, I've determined through expert analysis that powering down Dolphin is akin to unplugging the Wii for these titles. When I unplug my Wii, I get the same exact behavior as Dolphin when I close/power off the game.
**What steps will reproduce the problem?**
Play Legend of Zelda
Create save game file
This one should work, so close the game, and then reload it.
Now, go collect a heart or something and then die, and save again. Close the game window and reload the game. If you really don't know where any of the stuff is in Zelda 1 go look up a guide or something, you new console heathen.
You will still have three heart containers/no new items.
**Which versions of Dolphin did you test on? Does using an older version of Dolphin solve your issue? If yes, which versions of Dolphin used to work?**
All Afflicted
**What are your PC specifications?** (CPU, GPU, Operating System, more)
NA
**Is there any other relevant information? (e.g. logs, screenshots,
configuration files)**
LPfaint99 says it can be fixed by implementing something like this:
"Technical details for anyone wanting to implement, I started about 18months ago, but busy with other things
game will register function by issuing 'IOCTL_STM_EVENTHOOK = 0x1000' to /dev/stm
this function should be run on either powerdown or reset "
Counting as 10% done since there was initial research done into it.
**Game Name?**
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**Game ID?** (right click the game in the game list, properties, info tab)
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**MD5 Hash?** (right click the game in the game list, properties, info tab, MD5 Hash: Compute)
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**What's the problem? Describe what went wrong.**
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**What steps will reproduce the problem?**
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**Which versions of Dolphin did you test on? Does using an older version of Dolphin solve your issue? If yes, which versions of Dolphin used to work?**
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**What are your PC specifications?** (CPU, GPU, Operating System, more)
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**Is there any other relevant information? (e.g. logs, screenshots,
configuration files)**
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