VC also lacks some nice features emulators have such as
graphics smoothing, and save states so I can bookmark my favorite parts of the game or skip to cinematics.
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Actually from what I've read (never tried it) if you exit out of a VC game through the HOME button and into the menu it does a savestate of where you're at so you can pick it up later, but if you just bail (power off) it obviously due to that (being cut off) won't.

Might want to try that.