He had no in-game memory card save. He'd never used one. Marco was right. And Leo had just reloaded nothing.
// EE.cpp (Emotion Engine CPU)
// Vector/Array serialization for RAM blocks void ProcessBuffer(void* ptr, size_t size) pcsx2 save states
was darker. Rule of Rose . An obscure, expensive horror game that never released in the US properly. The combat was broken—janky hitboxes, infinite dog AI, a protagonist who swung a pipe like she was shooing a fly. Normal players gave up. Leo used save states to create checkpoints mid-battle , frame-perfect dodges into attacks he could see coming three reloads ahead. He wasn't playing the game anymore. He was debugging it. He had no in-game memory card save
: He didn't touch PCSX2 for six months. Then, one bored summer afternoon, he opened it again—not to play, but to learn . He found the save state folder. .p2s files. Each one a compressed snapshot of the emulated PS2's entire RAM, CPU state, GPU registers, and even the virtual BIOS settings. A perfect frozen universe, 32 megabytes small. And Leo had just reloaded nothing
// 4. Write to file FILE* f = fopen(filepath.c_str(), "wb"); if (!f) return false;
// SaveState.cpp #include "SaveState.h" #include "Archive.h" #include "CPU.h" #include "GPU.h" // Include other hardware headers... #include <zlib.h> #include <cstdio>