Saving states in OpenMSX

I'm just looking for a way to save states from the keyboard with the filename/gamename included in them, like it does from the menu, whether it be some code I can put in the settings.xml or otherwise.

You don't ever need to put stuff in settings.xml, let openMSX do that for you

You can add the name to the savestate command... And you could use a proc like guess_title to combine things. This is basically what is done in some of the scripts like the menu. I'm very short on time now, but please check what happens there, you can probably extract the right command to bind to a hotkey. Let me know and I"ll get back to you later.

OK, this is close: savestate [guess_title]
But, unfortunately, it will overwrite any existing savestate of the same name. So it doesn't do auto-counting. We have a special proc for that, but it isn't used in the savestate script. The only solution now is to add it to that script (or create a new script which is heavily duplicating that script). Adding would have to be done in a smart way to stay backwards compatible. I'll think about that.

Try: bind CTRL+1 {savestate [guess_title]_1}
and likewise bind CTRL+2 {savestate [guess_title]_2}, etc.

Realize that CTRL is also picked up by the emulated MSX. It's typically not a good idea to use hotkeys which are also MSX keys. (But then again, there aren't that many unused left...)

I just tried your suggestion, and it works beatifully btw... thank you very much.

The default location is: <your-home-directory>/.openMSX/savestates
You could maybe backup the whole ".openMSX" directory, that way you also include all openMSX settings.