This is the first emulator I've ever played and I didn't know all the bad things about save states until I started to try and fix my problem.
I started a new game in heart gold without reading the text that says you have to delete your old data first or you can't save, so about 4 hours in I go to save and cant but think oh well I'll just save state. Well now I've got the black screen glitch and it loads it back in when I load the save state and I can't save normally because there's already a save there. Deleting the old data then loading my save state loads the old data back in too so I'm stuck.
Is there a way to convert save state files into save files or to force my new game to save over the old one?
Thanks!
no, and no.