Defrosting saved games

[cic88]

Snes9x - 1.53

Trying to defrost game states, which seemed to work fine the last time I tried it. Now it just hangs and I get a black window with [bad checksum] error. I know some of these .frz files worked before, and a few I just froze in the last hour, but none of them will load anything. Going to the defrost state screen (with options 1-C) I just get a spinning beach ball. I managed to get FF3 to open, but it was just one of the background textures repeated across the screen and blinking on and off. Without freeze/defrost state how am I supposed to save games?

[Camo_Yoshi]

You can save games just like you normally would within the game.

For games with a save system (SRAM), just save your game like you would on a regular console.
For games with a password system, take a screenshot of the emulator window (File > Save Screenshot) or type/write the password down.

Hopefully someone with more knowledge than me can come and help you out.

[Videogamer555]

What's defrosting? Is this some new feature?

[Camo_Yoshi]

What's defrosting? Is this some new feature?

Defrosting is basically the term for resuming a save (AKA freeze) state.

[Ryan]

Has to be a Mac culture thing. For most it's Save/Load, but for Mac it's Freeze/Defrost. Think Different, and such.

[cic88]

Has to be a Mac culture thing. For most it's Save/Load, but for Mac it's Freeze/Defrost. Think Different, and such.

It's an Snes9x thing. The program creates a "Freezes" folder, and allows you to resume your games from there. I'd imagine it's more like just leaving your snes powered on mid-world so you can come back and pick up again later. It doesn't save the game as you would with an in-game save menu, it just puts everything on pause.

More importantly, it no longer works. Anyone have any idea why? I get this error flashing on the screen if I try to directly load a .frz file, followed by a black screen:

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[bad checksum] LoROM, 4Mbits, ROM+RAM, NTSC, SRAM:131072Kbits, ID:____, CRC32:20D6F4EF

and the attached image if I try to go through the 'Defrost State From...' menu

[odditude]

first off, there's a good chance the forum admin knows what he's talking about. on every platform except Mac, it's Save/Load State.

anyway, you can't load a savestate from the ROM load dialog. load the correct ROM first, then load the savestate via Defrost.

[adventure_of_link]

Just so ya know... this is moved to tech support.

and yes, freeze states are basically save states. Load them as odditude described.

[zones]

'Freeze' and 'defrost' in fact derive from the old snes9x readme.txt. Not a mac only thing, but it spreads only in mac culture.
In snes9x source codes, it's mainly called as 'snapshot'.
Anyway we call it 'savestate' here.

I'm not sure why Freeze/Defrost screen doesn't work for you. To manually read the savestate, open it from 'Option - Defrost from...' menu.

[Camo_Yoshi]

Has to be a Mac culture thing. For most it's Save/Load, but for Mac it's Freeze/Defrost. Think Different, and such.

God, I know that feeling. Perhaps this will make you feel better: http://ihateapple.floorchan.org/anti-ap ... -pictures/

[Ryan]

'Freeze' and 'defrost' in fact derive from the old snes9x readme.txt. Not a mac only thing, but it spreads only in mac culture.

Interesting fact to know.

[supermariorocks]

hey all, i can save state in my Kaizo super mario, but not in my cookie crisis? any ideas, i could thur the first lil bit, now says blah, blah, sumthin, sumthin, read only??also anyone kno where i can find the cookie crisis full? or is it still in demo mode. any help is better than none at all, thanks for your time.. good gaming