.sram Woes

Hakuromatsu · Post by **Hakuromatsu** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:32 pm

I've logged hours on a game (Earthbound) and just accidentally pressed F1, loading a save state from over a week ago, having no idea that it would automatically overwrite the .srm file. Well, I'm flabbergasted that a single button placed next to the often-used Escape could destroy my game progress, but I understand that I probably have no recourse, so I'll just ask: is there some option to keep this from happening in the future? I really, really like SNES9X, but I'm a bit frustrated here.

daarky · Post by **daarky** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:24 pm

Yes, such an option would be nice. The same thing happened to me some time ago.

Camo_Yoshi · Post by **Camo_Yoshi** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:34 am

Yes, you can disable the hotkey, go to Input > Customize Hotkeys and click on the white box next to "load0", and press Esc. The white box should then say "Disabled".

Hopefully that will fix your issue.

OV2 · Post by **OV2** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:56 am

If something like this happens look into the snapshot folder for a .oops file - this is a backup snapshot that is automatically created if you load or reset a game after playing more than five minutes without saving to a state.

If you've since played on this could have gotten overwritten, but you might be lucky.