FFV Rom Trouble: saving?

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Hey all, I play the FFV Rom at work (I own two copies of the game, so no crabbing about illegal ROMs). I recently tried to get on the game after a hiatus and the file acts as if I have nothing saved; it just goes into the intro as if i'm starting the game anew. Am I just doing something wrong? Has this happened to anyone else before and is there anything I can look into to fix it? I had gotten pretty far, so I'm a bit frustrated.

Thanks.

Edit: Also, since I'm a total newb on this whole thing, is it saving my game in the file? so if I opened it in another program, it may work?