Snes8x Save Problem

[JoeBriefcase]

Ok, I guess I'll start at the beginning-- About a year ago I got a new laptop: Lenovo Thinkpad X230 with Windows 8 (NO touchscreen: this will be important later).

Having successfully used a SNES emulator in the past, and owning a new laptop that is not game-intensive, I was excited to throw a new SNES emulator on my new machine. Snes9x repeatedly crashed on me, and I obviously was led to find the new Snes8x designed for Windows 8.

Snes8x runs fine on my machine, but I am having a couple different problems as far as saving my game goes. The game I have been playing, Chrono Trigger, as we all know has an in-game save system. For some reason every time that I save my game within Chrono Trigger and then come back to it later after having shut down the program my saved game is no longer there and the game has me start from the beginning.

I was alright with this strange development because I knew that there was a way to use the "save state" function of the Snes8x program. However, I can't seem to get the menu with the buttons for loading and saving Roms to appear while using the game. It appears on the bottom of the screen when I first load the program, but if it goes away once it goes away for good. Hence my situation: I can't use in-game saves or the Snes8x program function to save my progress.

I think one of the problems with this is that my laptop does not have a touchscreen. I have watched tutorials on Youtube about Snes8x and many of the users have Surface RTs, and swipe their fingers at the bottom of the screen in order to make the menu I am searching for appear. Having no touchscreen this is impossible for me.

Does anyone know how I can make this work? I'm not ready to settle for the fact that I can't use Snes9x because of my OS and can't ever close Snes8x because I can't seem to be able to save games properly.

Thanks everyone.

[ulaoulao]

You know I keep here about this? I dont know what gives on this issue. There are a few posts ( no fix ) that people have troubles with internal saves. Its the same thing as you describe, only good during game play. Once the emulator is shut down the save is gone. I'm starting to think its a win 8 thing. If I here anything to a fix ill let you know.

I wonder if its the refs vs ntfs.

[JoeBriefcase]

Thanks for the reply. I definitely don't know enough about refs or ntfs to have any kind of opinion about that. I guess I'll just keep Chrono Trigger on in the background and hope I get through it fast!

[ulaoulao]

oh, the menu normally is accessed vi 'ESC', or try alt f and see if that does it.