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[elagabaal]

Hello all! This is probably a question with an obvious answer, but for the life of me I can't figure it out.I'm playing Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones on VBA 1.7.2. At a point in the game where I could not save in-game, I created a save state with the File > Save Game option. I continued playing, and when I could save again in-game, I did so.Now, whenever I open the ROM, it loads my save state instead of the normal game where I have the option to continue from the most recent in-game save. The File > Load Game > Autoload Most Recent option is turned OFF.How can I go back to my in-game save? Will deleting the save state work or will it delete my whole game?Thanks for any help, sorry if this makes little sense as I have not yet had my coffee.

[GBATEST]

It might be that you loaded your save state and it erase your in game save.For example,A - First save in game.B - Than you save using save state.C - Than you use save in game.If you loaded B, than C is erase since the save state happen before you saved C. The save state can only see what happen at that time.Is that what might have happen?You can test your save file in another folder and see if that is case.Create a new folder and extract VBA emulator into the folder. Copy your ROM and battery file (name of game.sav) to the new folder. Do not copy the save state file.Than open the ROM.If it loads your save before the save state than your third save was erase by loading the save state.You can play from the save state. After you do a in game save, you can rename the save state file to a different name so that you do not accidentally erase your in-game save.

[elagabaal]

Thanks GBATEST, it looks like that is what happened- the save state loaded once automatically before I realized to turn Autoload off and I guess that erased my game save.Thanks for your help in clarifying this. I am kind of disappointed but I guess I only lost a few hours. I'll be more careful in the future.