[Data Loss] [RetroArch] Roms for separate cores with same names cause overwriting #1341
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What distro are you running?
SteamOS
Which SteamOS Branch are you using?
Beta
What happened?
Experienced with Mario Tennis (64 & GBC) and Mario Golf (64 & GBC).
Mario Tennis has 2 versions, one for N64 and for GBC but both are called Mario Tennis and both store their save files and savestates in the same location. When starting up Mario Tennis (GBC) after Mario Tennis (64) the data from 64 will be overwritten with a new save from GBC. Loading the two games back to back will cause both saves to get wiped.
This is why you don’t put save data and savestates from different cores in one big pile. Over on the RetroArch depot I was told this is not default behavior for RetroArch.
I have resolved this myself by renaming the roms and re-adding them with SRM, but many people are likely to get caught out by this and potentially lose a lot of data.
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