Help with GBA saves

[a nirvana fan]

I know this can be solved easily and I must be a pain in the backside for asking but my problem is I cant get downloaded GBA game save files to run on my VisualBoyAdvance emulator, Ive named the ROM and the save file to EXACT same name but when I run my ROM and "load..." my downloaded save file it wont show up as I browse for it, any ideas why? Thanks.

[crono_logical]

Make sure the save file's in the right folder first, you might have told VBA to save games/snapshots in a different folder to where the ROM is. Also check whether it's a saved game ie battery save, or a snapshot save, since you'd load these differently - the first you load through the games normal load game interface, the second using the emulators load/save state functions

[a nirvana fan]

Thanks a lot man, its working fine now.