SRAM saving files but not loading in game

[Cryage]

Hey guys

New to the emulator scene (showing my daughter's the classics if my day ), and we were playing super mario world and donkey Kong country last night

When I went to load the games this morning all progress was lost.

There's files saved in the Saves folder, but when I load up the games both say 0% progress and all it starts us fresh (no levels cleared )

I know I can save states, and will do that if it's the only way, but I prefer to play the games the way I used to (beating levels, using save points in RPGs, etc )!

Any suggestions?

Cheers

[odditude]

First, if you haven't explicitly defined a save path, please do so. This helps prevent the program from looking in the wrong location if it's started in a nonstandard way (such as by a file association with the working directory set to the file location).

I'd also recommend making sure "Auto-Save S-RAM" is enabled, and test it by making an in-game save and making sure the timestamp on the .srm file updates accordingly in the time you chose.

Both options can be set in Emulation -> Settings.