I like seeing the BIOS/boot screen of GBC (for example), and I’m of the habit of frequently using save states; but on occasion, I’ve got to hit sleep/power button on the quicks. Then, I might find myself occupied long enough to be a concern that I may have not saved soon enough.
Of course I know that I could so briefly hit save state, but due to cultural/social dynamics, that can look much worse instead of immediately getting up and putting the system into my pocket and pushing power as I slip the system into my pocket because if even for a split second that it looks as though I’m not immediately putting it away such as being called while waiting for my turn at a clinic or whatever, a sense of disrespect may linger with some people, even if subliminally.
Granted, I could rebind to something more convenient per system or whatever, I like the idea of having the system autosave if it was in a game before it shutsdown when the sleep timer expires, and then resume with an autoload in such case; instead, if in the case that I manually shutdown from main menu, I’d like game to not autoload, so that I may enjoy the BIOS/boot for the given system selected.
So, it’s very much in the spirit of “Resume Game” of the “Startup Option” under General Settings, but I don’t think that works unless I have certainly set autosave/load on RetroArch; I’m not even sure if that works for the external emulators, but I’d be real glad if it did for RetroArch, at least.
I came back to look this over, and it’s a mess. Practically incomprehensible. My apologies.
I’m saying that I’d like a Device Startup option where when I exit manually from a game, the Retroarch autoload savestate feature is deactivated, yet is activated when the Sleep Function expires into shutdown. It’s like ‘Resume Game’ but with a twist; it still works for its main purpose–to autoload games that it slept from, and it still does not autoload games that it did not sleep from; but the twist is that autoload savestate is only on for games that it’s autoloading into.
Does that make sense? I feel much better explaining it that way.
It’s so that I may enjoy the BIOS for nostalgia reasons. I feel that it brings the feeling of booting up a game a little closer with the convenience of picking right back up in cases of urgency.
I’d still like autosave on, just in case.
That whole rant about social stuff: I was waiting at a clinic, and I’m from a culture were people are primed to be irritated by someone that doesn’t immediately address being called–especially for something like using a game system as an adult; it rubs people the wrong way. I can already instantly get up while putting the system into my pocket while smoothly putting it sleep on the way in. Honestly, the current solution is great.
To be clear: the current solution of autosave/autoload savestate–more relevantly to MuOS: ‘Resume Game’–is great! Fantastic, really! It’s just for both having a little bit of convenience in special cases and nostalgia in others–maybe not worth bothering for, but fun to consider, I think.