Metal Gear Solid Integral save problem

[Noob'Slayer]

hi.

i just started playing my MGS Integral (3cd version) with epsxe 1.6 to get the Big Boss ranking to make some Mei Ling photos.

the game runs really nice, no problems at all (video, sound). the only problem i have is, that i can't make any savestates. tried on epsxe 1.5.2 also - nothing helps. epsxe wount create any savestates. all other games can be quicksaved, only MGS Integral wount.

do you know what the problem is and how it can be solved? is it possible that epsxe somehow doesn't recognize MGS Integral and so it can't make any quicksaves? and does someone have any MGS Integral savestates?

thank for helping

[I-Chan]

Savestates are known to be buggy, this kind of things might happen. May i ask, why don't you use codec saves?

[Noob'Slayer]

i do use codec saves. but the reason i play MGSI with epsxe is to be able to use savestates, so i don't have to restart/reset the game every time i die. you have to beat the game under 3 hours without radar, use maximal 1 ration, kill maximal 25 enemies, be detected maximal 4 times and don't use continues (don't die) to get the Big Boss ranking. and its no fun without savestates then.

edit: also built in game saves (codec saves) are limited to get the Big Boss ranking

[I-Chan]

then what's the fun on getting the big boss status if anyone can get it with a little cheating :P ? if you just want a savestate to take mei ling photos (pervert ) try gamefaqs.

[Noob'Slayer]

i already know about gamefaqs (there is only 1 save for MGSI) . but i use savestates not for cheating (i never cheat btw), it just saves my time to restart epsxe and load every time again and again, over and over

back to my problem. anyone, any ideas how to make the savestates work??

[Prafull]

See if you can make a savestate by pressing escape and coming out of the emu.

There are few games which refuse to make savestates ,this must be one of them. It should work on adripsx and psxeven coz they make different type of savestates but I am not sure that gameplay is perfect on them or not.

[Noob'Slayer]

Originally Posted by Arjun

See if you can make a savestate by pressing escape and coming out of the emu.

tried this one too, didn't help.

Originally Posted by Arjun

There are few games which refuse to make savestates ,this must be one of them. It should work on adripsx and psxeven coz they make different type of savestates but I am not sure that gameplay is perfect on them or not.

yeah it seems so.

've tried with psxeven: the game starts, savestates work but the game itself doesn't work that nicely. but i'll try some tweaking. so it looks like that i'll be sticking to psxeven for some time. thanks for the suggestion.

've tried with adripsx: the game freezes after the starting logo, when the intro should start.


it looks like MGSI is some hard-to-handle bastard. maybe the emu & plugin coders didn't concentrate on Integral, just on MGS. but these 2 seems to work quite differently..