Where should saves go?

[mickrussom]

Originally Posted by Ferneu

NO!!!!!! No more installers!!!! No no no.

Agreed. Installers are truly the scum of the earth, along with the WinSXS/side by side assembly bull. Unzip (and include the DLLs you want in the folder if its MFC or NET) and go. Installers reek.

[A_Pickle]

It should be per-operating system, per-user. Think about it. By nature, saving games is a per user function! We have game saves precisely so that Gordon won't load into Alyx's game, and disrupting her progress through it. It's to protect each player's "right" to fully enjoy the gaming experience, even though they may be sharing a single gaming device. So I say again: Per-OS, per-user. Wherever that directory is, it should be there. At the moment, I can only speak for Windows...

...but for Windows XP and before, Project64 should go create a folder called "Project64 Save Games" or just "Project64" in the "C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\My Documents\My Games" folder. It should then store each save game file in an automatically generated, per-ROM sub-directory. So, for example, a savegame for Super Mario 64 would go under "C:\Documents and Settings\A_Pickle\My Documents\My Games\Project64\Super Mario 64".

For Windows Vista and Windows 7, it should go in the conveniently provided "Saved Games" folder. This is one of my biggest gripes about gaming on Windows, is that there has NEVER been a standardized place to put game saves or any other type of gaming work (such as mod work, maps, sprays, etc). With Vista and 7, there is finally an obvious place in which to place game saves, at the very least. So put them there, and have them follow the same rules as XP does. Using my previous example, Project64 would save that Super Mario 64 savegame in "C:\Users\A_Pickle\Saved Games\Project64\Super Mario 64".

However, as a user that understands the sheer impossibility of a "one-size fits all" approach, I humbly DEMAND that you allow the user to customize the location of this directory. It's bad enough that there is no organized standard, but when companies just have their games create directories in my DOCUMENTS folder (which I rather like to have DOCUMENTS contained within, not savegames) and THEN possess the audacity to deny me the ability to customize it's location at ANY time... it irks me. It irks me to no end. So, to recap:

Rules for all Operating Systems:

1. Per-user
2. Per-operating system

Rules for Windows XP:

1. Default: "C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\My Documents\My Games\Project64\<corresponding ROM>"
2. USER-CUSTOMIZABLE!!!

Rules for Windows Vista/7:

1. Default: "C:\Users\<user>\Saved Games\Project64\<corresponding ROM>"
2. USER-CUSTOMIZABLE!!!

[sh6dowflameX]

Project64 should keep the saves in just a folder in Project64.
For example:
C:/Desktop/Project64_1.7_BETA1.0/SAVES

The saves should be just like the N64 saves. You open Mario64, you get Mario64 save file.
Nintendo used that. Stop trying to be better than Nintendo.

[Emmett]

Hmm.... This is a good question. My vote goes towards in the PJ64 folder since I run PJ64 in Wine. But this has already been suggested by other posters, so I'm just upping the request count lol.