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Trying to defrost game states, which seemed to work fine the last time I tried it. Now it just hangs and I get a black window with [bad checksum] error. I know some of these .frz files worked before, and a few I just froze in the last hour, but none of them will load anything. Going to the defrost state screen (with options 1-C) I just get a spinning beach ball. I managed to get FF3 to open, but it was just one of the background textures repeated across the screen and blinking on and off. Without freeze/defrost state how am I supposed to save games?

You can save games just like you normally would within the game.

For games with a save system (SRAM), just save your game like you would on a regular console.
For games with a password system, take a screenshot of the emulator window (File > Save Screenshot) or type/write the password down.

Hopefully someone with more knowledge than me can come and help you out.

What's defrosting? Is this some new feature?

Videogamer555 wrote:What's defrosting? Is this some new feature?

Defrosting is basically the term for resuming a save (AKA freeze) state.

Has to be a Mac culture thing. For most it's Save/Load, but for Mac it's Freeze/Defrost. Think Different, and such.

Ryan wrote:Has to be a Mac culture thing. For most it's Save/Load, but for Mac it's Freeze/Defrost. Think Different, and such.

It's an Snes9x thing. The program creates a "Freezes" folder, and allows you to resume your games from there. I'd imagine it's more like just leaving your snes powered on mid-world so you can come back and pick up again later. It doesn't save the game as you would with an in-game save menu, it just puts everything on pause.

More importantly, it no longer works. Anyone have any idea why? I get this error flashing on the screen if I try to directly load a .frz file, followed by a black screen:
and the attached image if I try to go through the 'Defrost State From...' menu

first off, there's a good chance the forum admin knows what he's talking about. on every platform except Mac, it's Save/Load State.

anyway, you can't load a savestate from the ROM load dialog. load the correct ROM first, then load the savestate via Defrost.

Just so ya know... this is moved to tech support.

and yes, freeze states are basically save states. Load them as odditude described.

'Freeze' and 'defrost' in fact derive from the old snes9x readme.txt. Not a mac only thing, but it spreads only in mac culture.
In snes9x source codes, it's mainly called as 'snapshot'.
Anyway we call it 'savestate' here.

I'm not sure why Freeze/Defrost screen doesn't work for you. To manually read the savestate, open it from 'Option - Defrost from...' menu.

Ryan wrote:Has to be a Mac culture thing. For most it's Save/Load, but for Mac it's Freeze/Defrost. Think Different, and such.

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zones wrote:'Freeze' and 'defrost' in fact derive from the old snes9x readme.txt. Not a mac only thing, but it spreads only in mac culture.

Interesting fact to know.

hey all, i can save state in my Kaizo super mario, but not in my cookie crisis? any ideas, i could thur the first lil bit, now says blah, blah, sumthin, sumthin, read only??also anyone kno where i can find the cookie crisis full? or is it still in demo mode. any help is better than none at all, thanks for your time.. good gaming