Any way to get VBA save file behavior?

[nathan]

Hi,

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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?

 

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: