> > 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.
>
> Yeah I noticed that at a friend's, but if you load the save state then it
> deletes itself, and there's no way to specify slots, so I guess you can't keep
> more than one. I'm sure that's fine for most people but it doesn't help me do
> what I described...
>

Well the point was I just wanted to state that it was there in a form which would satisfy most people who can't just sit there for a few hours and wipeout SMB3 or something as you can do it safely in chunks.