Oh no, I was planning to play through the Final Fantasy VI retrans + bugfixes in another week or so, I loaded up a few months back and it had no difficulty running at least through the intro sequence, so I was praying that there wouldn't be any serious trouble later on with it. Do you know if there's anything specific with that ROM patch? I don't think I tried to save, I probably should have before assuming it would work. I really wanted to play that on the real hardware.