what am I actually supposed to do here? I have a backupdata file. It says its there, insists theres no SPRJ005 folder to load it even when putting it in the savemanager folder. Where does it need this stuff to be exaclty?
I think ShadPS4 have recently putting the savedata location in appdata instead of where it used to be by default. If you goto 'tools' in the app and choose where your savedata location is, see if that works?
I can't save. It gives me an error "cannot find file specified c:\blah\Shadps4\user\savedata". The saves are apparently now in an appdata folder and there is no way to set the new folder location in the save manager exe. Was this location just changed? I'm seeing people successfully saved as of 10 days ago...
However I'm having trouble getting the hotkeys to work. I can press f5 whenever in game to save, yes? And this will overwrite the currently selected save? I was expecting a new save every quick save but either way should work fine. It's just that I don't get any confirmation when pressing f5 in game that it saves. And I tried pressing f8 in the main menu and it didn't load or if it did it did not confirm that it loaded. When I swap out to the window and save/load it works and makes a noise which is why I'm a little concerned about not hearing it I guess. Does it matter which order I open the programs? And the load only works in the main menu screen, right? But the save should do it anywhere? So sorry for all the questions!!!
*edit* Having played with your save program for today I can absolutely say it helps a ton and saves a bunch of time. Both the saving and loading function. Thank you!! Just gotta figure out how the hotkey thing works. Great program
Thanks mate. The hotkeys don’t have message boxes pop, there’s a reason I made it like that, they’d end up stacking while in game and it became annoying. But f5 will overwrite the selected backup with the current save. And f8 will load the selected backup. If you don’t have a backup selected and try to use a hotkey, you’ll get an error asking you to select a save. Yeah the save will do it anywhere even if you're in-game. But remember, the game needs to have at least autosaved for the savedata folder to be updated, otherwise you'd be overwriting it with the last place the game autosaved.
Yep. It seems to autosave after a lot of item pick ups so it's never much loss. I'm just paranoid about possible save corruption.
Not relevant but just to let you know; I tried to name a save with a question mark and the app said it saved successfully but did not in fact make a file with an illegal filename. Just in case you want to program for that rare scenario to have an accurate response. Might surprise someone who didn't expect it to make an error in the first place, heh. Thanks for the super handy program.
I've just released a new version with those little bug fixes, but i've also added a new hotkey for you so that if you press f6 then instead of it overwriting the current selected save, it will automatically create a new save to stop any worry of save corruption
Ha, awesome. That is lovely added functionality! I still do alt-tab now and then to make a new one so it streamlines everything even further. Thanks again
Hi, I created a save by entering a name, however when I try to load it, it gives me the message about successfully loading the save but nothing happens in the game. Is something wrong on my end?
It isnt in the dvdroot folder, its in the folder with shadps4 and the user folder as you suggested but I understood now what I was doing wrong based on your other reply, it needs to be loaded from main menu. I was trying to do it while in-game, I thought it worked like save states in emulator lol, my bad. Thanks for the quick responses tho! Really hoping shadps4 team can implement save states some day.
A silly request, can you increase the name limit by one more character? Currently it's 16 characters and I would like to name myself something w 17 characters.
Thanks for this! Might you be working on a hotkey feature? A hotkey at least for loading the currently selected save would be very useful. Maybe an MVP implementation of this could be to hard code to it an F key (F11 or something)? Although depending on how this app works I guess there might be complexity regarding whether the window has focus or not. I know that with SoulsSpeedruns the window doesn't require focus.
Hi mate, thanks for the comment. I was thinking of creating a hotkey for it but I wasn't sure if anyone would want it. I'll definitely create one if you want it. There's a particular way to code it I believe to allow the hotkey to always be focused in the background, I created a hotkey feature for my mic so it should be very similar.
Ah, sorry, I just realised I can right click to update an existing save, and I think I edited my comment to not mention that bit at the same time you replied.
But yes, a hotkey feature would be really great I think, to allow a single keyboard button press while on the menu screen to save/load. At least that's how I use SoulsSpeedruns.
Hi thanks for your work. Had an error when install program tries to install Webview2. Downloaded directly from Microsoft and installed ok and now working. Link is : https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/?form=MA13LH&ch=1#download Hope this information is helpful. Cheers
I'm on shadPS4 v0.6.0, followed your video instructions but, just can't put this app to work. It shows not saves, no backups despite the game having it in the savedata folder. Am I missing anything? Thanks.
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However I'm having trouble getting the hotkeys to work. I can press f5 whenever in game to save, yes? And this will overwrite the currently selected save? I was expecting a new save every quick save but either way should work fine. It's just that I don't get any confirmation when pressing f5 in game that it saves. And I tried pressing f8 in the main menu and it didn't load or if it did it did not confirm that it loaded. When I swap out to the window and save/load it works and makes a noise which is why I'm a little concerned about not hearing it I guess. Does it matter which order I open the programs? And the load only works in the main menu screen, right? But the save should do it anywhere? So sorry for all the questions!!!
*edit* Having played with your save program for today I can absolutely say it helps a ton and saves a bunch of time. Both the saving and loading function. Thank you!! Just gotta figure out how the hotkey thing works. Great program
Not relevant but just to let you know; I tried to name a save with a question mark and the app said it saved successfully but did not in fact make a file with an illegal filename. Just in case you want to program for that rare scenario to have an accurate response. Might surprise someone who didn't expect it to make an error in the first place, heh. Thanks for the super handy program.
I created a save by entering a name, however when I try to load it, it gives me the message about successfully loading the save but nothing happens in the game. Is something wrong on my end?
Really hoping shadps4 team can implement save states some day.
But yes, a hotkey feature would be really great I think, to allow a single keyboard button press while on the menu screen to save/load. At least that's how I use SoulsSpeedruns.