gba final fantasy 1+2 save help?

[geeserawesome]

i have visual boy advance emulator and i just got final fantasy 1+2:dawn of souls for it, i thought id start with the first one and work my way up... never played any b4>.> but when i tried to save the state, it just said save failed. and i put it on the right save type ect., but nothing worked if some1 cud help id rly appreciate it...

[Agozer]

What GBA emulator are you using and which version?

[geeserawesome]

visual boy advance version 1.8.0 beta 3
interesting... thot it wuz 1 o the 1.7's lol
shud i downgrade?

[Agozer]

I'd urge you to use VBA-M, since it's leaps and bounds better than any "older" official or unofficial VBA build. I'd also advise against using savestates and use the game's own save feature instead. Plus, savestates couldn't care less which savetype VBA is emulating.

Last, make sure that the directory where VBA sores saves isn't read-only.

[geeserawesome]

heh... i thot the in-game thing wuz the save state >.< the in game save duzzen work
ill try VBA-M, thx

[hobojoe21]

i have the same problem with no$gba 2.6a
neither the in game save or the save state thing does anything
i cant save any of my games.