Emulator Problem: AHH I CANT SAVE .....

SALUTATIONS OH WISE ONES ....I am having problems saving ANY and EVERYTHING! on my zelda ocarina of time:dry: i have got to the first sword and shield saved and closed the program to open it and POOF nuthin ....now i read about similar problems where the computer had to be rebooted from a bad download and then re installed but it works every time i open it just no saved data im using project64 ...and i downloaded the rom from ***** ........ why cant i save my progress

anyone at all come accross this problem .....any thing will help i have to restart EVERYTIME.... seriously ....everytime..... please help!

if you are using certain emulators you must click file and then save state, others have a mem card utility(for past systems that use discs such as the ps)

Are you running the emulator in a non-writable media such as a CD/DVD or if you have access to the save folder?