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How is "saving" supposed to be done?
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:33 pm
by Tenry
How should I do saving? Do I have to use the filesystem, where I also could create several save files, or is there another way supposed to use?
Re: How is "saving" supposed to be done?
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:20 pm
by zeromus
you have to use the filesystem. i dont think theres any best practices. someone else will have to tell you what theyve actually done, but personally I would just write a unique filename to the root of the fat
Re: How is "saving" supposed to be done?
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:27 pm
by vuurrobin
using the filesystem is the only good way for creating savefiles. a sortof best practice is to store your savefile in /DATA/yourgame/ so that the root doesn't get cluttered up, but sadly few people follow that.
Re: How is "saving" supposed to be done?
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:02 pm
by WinterMute
With an argv supporting card menu the working directory will be set to the directory containing the nds file and argv[0] will be set to the full path & filename of your nds file. Best practice would be to write your savefiles to this directory rather than using absolute paths.
Of course people will argue that this won't work with cards that don't support argv which I say is a reason to complain to the card manufacturer until they implement argv support. Most modern flashcards do support argv though.