Do you think I'd be able to load it in an older version of SNES9x, save the game there, then load it in to a newer version, or is there no backward compatibility there? How about cross-compatibility, such as using ZSNES somewhere in the daisy-chaining. (I thought I remembered ZNSES being somehow compatible with SNES9x savestates, once upon a time..) I have tried various methods of using ZSNES to load the save, but to no avail.
I'll be done with the game soon anyhow, but it would be nice to have a method down for future endeavors.
I am using (64bit) linux and don't know what exactly to expect from such a dated incarnation of the emulator. I had been mostly ZSNES-bound for years, but the move to 64bit sorta forced me to use SNES9x.
Thanks for the insight, I will give it a shot with an older version of SNES9x.