Postby bluezeak » Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:22 pm
A couple people have said they had issues with losing their memory cards, so I'm going to paste some more info here to help investigate the problem.
The update was supposed to copy the memory card and save state files from their default location (/data/data/com.emulator.fpse/files/ <memcard> and <savestate>) to the new path (/sdcard/.fpse).
If you already had your files in a different location before the update, you should just need to point fpse to them (menu, misc, memcard / savestate - for savestae after choosing the directory you push the 'back' button on your phone). That's what I did, it worked great.
If your saves and mem cards were in the default location, as I said, they should have been copied to the new location.
To verify the contents of your mem cards:
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method one
- in fpse make sure the system option 'fast boot' is turned off (this step can be skipped)
- create a file named test.iso (using an application like 'astro')
- when asked to load a game, point to test.iso
- this will force fpse to load to the bios screen
method two
- in fpse make sure the system option 'fast boot' is turned off (this step is required)
- load a game in fpse
- menu, eject, don't choose a game, just push the 'back' button on your device
- menu, quit, restart (this simulates starting the playstation with no disk)
- this should force fpse to load to the bios screen
- may
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Once in the bios screen, you can check the contents of your memory card. Verify if they have data - or if they're truly blank.
If they're not blank, but the save games are not able to be loaded - frankly I'm not sure what to do. I would suspect corruption. Let's talk about that when we see that that's the issue.
If they are blank - what happened to your memory card?? Let's double check the files fpse should be using now. The new location is /sdcard/.fpse. You can't browse to it to choose the memory card manually from inside fpse because it's a 'hidden' folder. I recommend using a tool like astro to copy the files that are there to a new location, then configure fpse to use those cards, and check again to see if they have content on them. When you browse to them with your file manager tool, make sure you have it see to 'view hidden files/folders'. After copying the files to a new location, configure fpse to use them. Choose menu, misc, memcard & savestate - push the 'back' button on your device after chooing the savestate directory -, then choose 'set as default'. If your first check showed no data on the memory cards, this one probably won't either.
Next check - the files may still be in the default location (/data/data/com.emulator.fpse/files/ <memcad> and <savestate>). You will need to copy them to a new location. You will need root access to your phone to do so. If you're able to do this, after copying the files, configure fpse to use them. That being done, load up a game and see if it has your saves and/or use the methods above to check the contents of the memory cards.
If that doesn't work... last resort would be to search your device for .mcd files (memory card files). use an application like astro to do so - or, plug your phone in to your computer and search the sdcard from there (on my phone when I plug it in to my computer I get two new drives, one for the 'internal' sdcard, and one for the 'external' - i.e. the real - sdcard). If you have root access you can search the whole phone, not just the sdcard
Unfortunately I can't help testing too much since my saves and mem cards were already in a different location so the update didn't affect me.