MiSTer FPGA SNES Core Just Got Save States! 

Glad to see you show other people how to manually install cores because I didn't know.

Save states have been on the FX Pak Pro for a while. They are a big buggy for sure. I dont blame them for wanting to test this for a bit before putting on Update All.

Huge update and much welcomed! Fantastic! I loved the camera save state demo! Lol sorry the DMV sucked today dude!

The state of the SNES core is strong!

I recently was losing my mind writing down password saves for the SFC Prince of Persia port, so this is like Christmas Day. Hopefully Mega Drive is next.

Tenured kaizo player here. I really hope we see rewind support in the future, but this is a nice step forward. It's hard to line up a useful save state on the advanced kaizo hacks, but I usually bind rewind to select in RetroArch and it works great for for practicing tough segments. I just got my first MiSTer recently and was blown away. That little dev board spits out the most beautiful analog signal on a PVM or quality CRT computer monitor 🤯 I'll be ok if we never see rewind on the SNES core, but one can hope.

I love the fact that we now have savestates for SNES, I play more SNES games on my RPi 5 just because MiSTer never supported it. It's the one thing I've always liked about emulation.

Please add to update all. Would be great to have the Mister just like those FPGA flashcarts with Genesis, SMS, TurboGrafx-16, sega CD, neo geo, etc...

4:50 to do this by injecting software was likely the only way it could be done on de10nano, savestates are expensive logicwise. for psx it took 25% of LUs, more than the cpu+gpu combined afaik. robert (having implemented savestates in all the other cores too) also said "i wouldn't try it on any core that is above 65-70% logic usage already" and snes is big, 75%+

Yay! I thought it was a bit weird that i could use save states on PSX but not SNES.

Now you're talking! I was playing Rockman & Forte a couple of hours ago. Very tough near the end.

Well this was a long time coming! 🔥

Awesome! Now i can finally get through Thracia 776.

I hope PC Engine Duo core gets this feature soon!

Doesn’t this mean analogue pocket is next? The dev recently cited FPGA Mister missing snes save states as the reason he will likely never port it over to the analogue pocket.

Holy crap this is great. SNES really needed save states are alot of games are crazy hard. Thanks for the heads up I did not know this happened

finally... after 4 years!

As a SMW kaizo player this is indeed awesome news!

I know a few years ago there was talk about an IGS PGM core being in the works for the Mister. Did anything ever come of that? I don't remember hearing anything about whether or not it was possible. It may have just been put on the backburner, but I don't remember hearing anything for a while.

YAY! I've been hoping this would come!

old tech, we did this in 1994 with a Super Wildcard DX. same idea, intercept IRQ, run SNES code to dump ram, registers, and vram. I did this in 2000 with a Gameboy.. works very well for most games.

Is it more accurate than the Saturn core though? We need a side by side comparison video!

This is incredibly good news! Sadly, savestates not working on Yoshi's Island at the moment.

Save states and fast forwarding are two quality of life improvements software emu has. How many MiSTer cores have those now? 🤔

This is great, I already have an SD2SNES but since you show Star Fox, I assume MiSTer save states work with special chip games, unlike SD2SNES save states? If so, I'll definitely be making use of this to practice SA-1 hacks of shmups like Gradius III (and then try to 1CC them without save states)

I played Smash TV, save state works while you are in the game. Exit and play another game then came back to Smash TV, tried to restore and it does nothing. Is that supposed to happen? I thought it would be good for saving high scores

I take it the mister unstable doesn’t mess with any of the regular cores? Or do you toggle back and forth? Despite being in for years, I haven’t gone down this path yet!

thought it had it? What cores don't have it? Maybe add join to ip or lobby's for second player multi. SOme emulators have multi. Maybe a link cable mode for the handhelds. Same way.

will it come to the analogue pocket too? :>

Is there a way to remap Save states to a button combination on the gamepad?

The Australian equivalent of the DMV is exactly the same - what? You surely can't expect Gov employees to work quickly 😅

Great functionality! Wanted to ask if there any core / functionality tha current requires more than 128mb of ram?

basic question: when I install stuff manually and then later run the update script when the "official" release is out, will that overwrite my changes or maybe even lead to issues?

FINALLY!

Where is Mortal Kombat review? 🙂 It was released for Analog Pocket yesterday.

man i love your channel thank you ;)

HELL YEAH BROTHER 🎉🎉🎉

Anyone else having issues with the QMTech board and this? All states go crazy when attmepting a save. I'm guessing it could be a RAM issue/due to the onboard RAM.

It would be nice to get a TAS core for NES and SNES. I think there is one for the NES already but its buggy.

I wanna make a pun on this, but I feel it'd be too bad even for me. So I'll just give a simple HOORAY instead.

I must confess that while save states are indeed a glorious thing frankly given how our conditioning from newer to older games is very different now, save states do I feel ruin the intended feel. The argument is always that we don't have to use them but my argument is that while that's true, the fact you knowingly can destroys how the original experience then becomes. It becomes just part of the game in that you can simply use it if you want like you can a smart bomb because it's part of the system. Yes you still don't have to use it but it's there to use in exactly the same way as everything else so it does ruin the intended experience Another way to put it would be to say if you were in a situation that was dire say in regards to your life but then you remember you can activate the option to pause time. You're going to use that. Similarly in a game where the potential for tension from the game design itself is robbed of this original aspect because you know you only have to quick save your way out of danger The best option for this issue is not simply to say not to use it of course but design the save state system with the option to be tailored so that you can define if you want to use it before booting into a game. An option at least to do this being available to those that want specifically to remove this as part of the original system which never had this to begin with. And again it's not because save states are a bad thing at all but they've never been incorporated well Another example would be that while in the arcades back then instead of the usual limit you perhaps had that day, you instead had infinite money with which to spend. The point of these games would be destroyed as you simply pumped your infinite coins into each game with no risk of dying and most certainly always finishing the game artificially. An entirely different an unfulfilling experience because the thrill of getting further would not hinge on any sense of tension for losing lives Anyway I just feel it's something that doesn't get talked about enough because the truth is while preserving games through emulation is incredible, strangely emulators don't actually allow for truly authentic conditions because the implementation of save state system hasn't even taken them into account The one really good thing I found with fpga is that they don't tend to have save states so it's almost an entirely authentic experience. Again though it's not that they're a bad thing but there's a lack of respect given in the impact of their inclusion and it would take so little to fix this The good thing though at least in this case and at this point in time is you don't have to set up the folder for this to work at least. And lastly, I absolutely see the benefit to save states and their inclusion as important but a little more thought into how they can exist so that both sides benefit is surely where we should be by now. Sensible tailoring options applied and saved in config for anyone that wants them

Now let's start asking for save states for genesis. We are never satisfied 🤣🤣🤣

🎉yes!

Great for romhacks

Whoa! what a treat! The Tick here I go! (game is long, boring and buggy as hell and can softlock)

I am begging and pleasing that we get widescreen support on the SNES core. I want to play widescreen Mario World on Mister FPGA so badly

I don't know if this is an attitude among the core developers or if it's just plain ol' hard to implement but among the FPGA community there is this weird anti-save state mentality I wish would go away. Driven completely by weird elitism surrounded by purity weirdness that makes no sense. If you at all cared about purity you would only be playing on OG hardware and not what amounts to fancier better emulation. Every core should have this. Especially with Nintendo looking to abuse the absolutely broken US courts to get emulation banned entirely. FPGA is safe from that nonsense (for now) and might be the future. Every core should have as many bonus features as possible. Strive to be better than OG hardware. Rant over ;p

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