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by Pure Pandemonium
Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:42 am
Forum: ZSNES Documentation Forum
Topic: Relative Paths
Replies: 21
Views: 26990

If you're getting unable to save message with a path of "\save", then I doubt you have a directory called "save" in the root of your current drive with write permission. If you wanted a relative path for save in the current directory you want one of these four: save save\ .\save...
by Pure Pandemonium
Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:58 am
Forum: ZSNES Documentation Forum
Topic: Relative Paths
Replies: 21
Views: 26990

Thank you for the research and in-depth reply. I vaguely remember not having hassles with this with on an earlier version of ZSNES, but I wasn't confident enough to report it as a bug, and didn't think to test an earlier release. Looks like it's been broken (in windows, at least). \SAVE\ works fine ...
by Pure Pandemonium
Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:27 am
Forum: ZSNES Documentation Forum
Topic: Relative Paths
Replies: 21
Views: 26990

They work fine, if you know what to do.

It's just not well documented how to do something common like saving to a directory next to zsnes.exe instead of dumping files with the roms.

One dot is current directory. No dots does nothing, and gives a vague error message when you try to save.
by Pure Pandemonium
Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:35 am
Forum: ZSNES Documentation Forum
Topic: Relative Paths
Replies: 21
Views: 26990

Relative Paths

Suggestion: An example of how to use relative paths to put save files and such into a local saves directory. e.g. .\saves Maybe I just missed something obvious, but I was having trouble making ZSNES put my save files into a directory other than where my roms are stores. I got a mysterious could not ...