turqjeep35 wrote:

I believe I read something about needing to format a seperate floppy to be able to save, but I doubt that is needed when using an emulator.

If you have never used D-Fend or DOSBox before, what basis do you have for this assumption..?

I'll take a wild guess and suggest that you probably do need to have a separate directory mounted as drive A in order for the game to save. I for one am unfamiliar with D-Fend, so I do not know exactly how to do that.

Also, make sure that you are not playing the game from the CD, if it is a CD game.

Jorpho wrote:

turqjeep35 wrote:

I believe I read something about needing to format a seperate floppy to be able to save, but I doubt that is needed when using an emulator.

If you have never used D-Fend or DOSBox before, what basis do you have for this assumption..?

I'll take a wild guess and suggest that you probably do need to have a separate directory mounted as drive A in order for the game to save. I for one am unfamiliar with D-Fend, so I do not know exactly how to do that.

My "assumption" comes from the fact that all [recent generation] emulation programs support savestates in some way. With that being the case it didn't seem very far-fetched at the time. I digress, the image had already been mounted and I have gone through all of the available floppy formats provided by D-Fend.

turqjeep35 wrote:

My "assumption" comes from the fact that all [recent generation] emulation programs support savestates in some way.

How did you conclude that savestates requires formatting a floppy? You posted that you read it somewhere.

DOSBox doesn't have savestates by default. If that's what you're looking for here's a thread where someone added it.
Save States - Proof of concept

turqjeep35 wrote:

My "assumption" comes from the fact that all [recent generation] emulation programs support savestates in some way.

As Mr. Skard points out, savestates are only available in a special verison of DOSBox. But if I understand you correctly, you are presently trying to use the game's own save game feature, which is an entirely different matter and will require DOSBox to be configured correctly for what the game expects to be able to do.

It's possible that the game actually expects to have a blank floppy image available, but I have no idea how to set that up in D-Fend Reloaded. Perhaps someone who knows better than I in that matter shall post.

In the meantime, you can try without D-Fend by following the 60 Seconds Guide.

create a directory called "save" in the directory where you installed the game, and then try to save a game.

SKARDAVNELNATE wrote:

turqjeep35 wrote:

My "assumption" comes from the fact that all [recent generation] emulation programs support savestates in some way.

How did you conclude that savestates requires formatting a floppy? You posted that you read it somewhere.

I never said anything about savestates requiring a floppy. What my sentence meant was that I doubted I would need to format anything if I was using savestates. There is a large difference between standard saving through games and savestates.

Jorpho wrote:

In the meantime, you can try without D-Fend by following the 60 Seconds Guide.

Thanks, I will try it when I get back to the computer it's installed on.

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