Happy new year,
I use Regen with debugger for hacking purposes. I'm bothered because some (most) save states downloaded from here to there don't work.
Some were made with Genecyst, ithers with Fusion, and when I load them, the display is, most of the time, what it should be (but it could be that only the VRAM is correctly handled) but the game is frozen (reset is working though).
The games concerned are Phantasy Star 2 and 3.
Is it a known bug ?
Is there a particular way to load gamestates ?
Must have they been made with a specific emulator ?
Is it related to the fact these games have a save feature ?
Savestates don't work
Moderator: AamirM
When I load a Gens savestate, it seems the code is stuck into a loop where it asks for bit 0 of 0xa11100 to be set. So I think the problem has to do with the fact that GSx format doesn't handle Z80 BUSREQ.
What I don't understand, though, is why it works on another emulator, and how Regen handle that with its own savestates (that do work on both Regen and Gens).
What I don't understand, though, is why it works on another emulator, and how Regen handle that with its own savestates (that do work on both Regen and Gens).
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Yes it is (I didn't search in the forum before posting and am sorry for that), but I wanted to check if it could be solved by modifying a little the gsx file (for example, modifying the palette does give a result, but the game is still frozen). I'm afraid you need to look into the Regen source code, and since it's closed source...
Why you are trying to debug in this way?
There is no better way?
Try my version of Gens Rerecording... It has very good M68k debuger and it shows VRAM and Sprites... For now, I don't need anything more, so It is really outdated...
By the way, there is many reasons why savestate does not work.
There is two periods: VBLANK, NOT VBLANK
Some emulators make savestate always before VBLANK, other emulator, save after VBLANK. But both assume that it's its own savestate, and resume emulation in certain point. So even this can lead to wrong emulation.
Latest gens rerecording savestates are very crappy. They contains duplicates of data, and palette is swapped. But! They works very good if you use them in same emulator that made them
. You may try previous versions of gens rerecording.
There is no better way?
Try my version of Gens Rerecording... It has very good M68k debuger and it shows VRAM and Sprites... For now, I don't need anything more, so It is really outdated...
By the way, there is many reasons why savestate does not work.
There is two periods: VBLANK, NOT VBLANK
Some emulators make savestate always before VBLANK, other emulator, save after VBLANK. But both assume that it's its own savestate, and resume emulation in certain point. So even this can lead to wrong emulation.
Latest gens rerecording savestates are very crappy. They contains duplicates of data, and palette is swapped. But! They works very good if you use them in same emulator that made them
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