Thanks, but uh, I'm still confused about something...
I'm not sure what you mean by 'save states'. In Emerald I frequently save both on emulator and in-game (the latter is required for the Battle Tents, anyway), When I try to save it goes correctly, but when I try to load I need to do so through an emulator, otherwise it loads me at the point where I first reached Petalburg. In FireRed, when I tried to save, well I don't remember what exactly it said, but the save didn't work (I think that, afer the usual 'Saving.. don't turn off the power' it said 'save failed' or something like that), so I stopped even trying, but shouldn't it save automatically after beating the E4? On my very first version of FireRed, there was no problem with it, but I lost the original file and I don't remember where I downloaded it from. On the second, it didn't save either, but it still did save after the E4, but again, I lost the file. Also when i opened my FireRed now, I wasn't given an option to continue - however, when I tried to save right after starting a new journey (just to see if it worked), but it said that there is another save file, so I decided not to save. But if there is another save file, whiy did I not get an option to continue? Is it because when I opened to game, it said "the 1M sub-circuit board is not installed"? If yes, how do I install it and can I do so without having to start the whole journey over again? If no, what could be the problem and solution? Download another FR? But what if the other is wrong too? if FireRed was as easy as Emerald, it wouldn't be a problem -other than the fact I'd have to start a new journey and couldn't keep my old Pokémon, that is- as I remember beating Emerald in one day (although all my Pokémon were at pretty low levels, I have no idea how I did it - and after getting the badges i never managed to beat the E4 because of such low levels, so I cheated to get Lugia and Ho-oh, but the game crashed when I beat the E4 with them. Do not cheat to get Pokémon, at least not before E4, was the lesson it taught me.)