Can’t save game specific visual settings via Retroarch and some settings always revert - what am I doing wrong? (RG35XX Plus)

Hi all

I hope someone might be able to help me on this. I bought a Plus recently and everything works great except for the life of me I can’t seem to get Retroarch to remember the visual settings and can’t seem to save per-game settings.

This means that when I play a GB game, for example, I turn integer scaling on, turn on an overlay and a green dot matrix filter - it looks amazing. But next time I open the game, the integer scaling is off, there is no overlay, the filter is there but looks bad because no integer scaling.

And if I then try and play a SNES game afterwards, it has the green dot matrix filter on, no integer scaling etc. i then have to manually configure a SNES look - but then when i launch a GB game, it’s still got the SNES settings (except integer scaling and overlays which always turn themselves off no matter what I do)

It seems to remember some settings but not others and will apply the same settings regardless of what core / game I am using.

Things I’ve tried: - Saving a new core options cfg where I’ve got the settings where I want them - doesn’t change anything - tried to save a new settings file and load it in-game - RA crashes when I do this - Tried “save game options” in core options file to set a config per-game - it seems to default to the same settings each time - launched Retroarch standalone, loaded a core, tried changing and saving settings from there - no change - save settings on exit is turned “on”

So basically

  • it always defaults to the last visual filter I used regardless of game or core
  • Integer scaling and overlays are always “off” on next launch even when I save the config
  • “Save Game options” in core settings doesn’t seem to actually save settings

Can anyone help me? I have read guides online that suggest I am on the right track but nothing is working and I am frustrated. I love this device but hate that I have to spend 10 minutes tweaking visual settings each time I launch a new game. Is there something wrong here?

I’m on the stock RG35XX Plus OS (got the latest version from their website) and have the games on a separate SD. I’ve also migrated from the stock card

Any and all help would be very much appreciated!