I know the feeling, dude. I remember I went on a complete save state binge when I first started using emulators (the fact that there was a hotkey for saving and loading states on my smartphone didn't help). It was when I started playing "real" games again and doing poorly that I realized just how much save states were making me lose my talent, so I weaned off them (except for making a state if I need to get off, so i can continue later).Just wanted to throw in my thanks for this. Gonna be hitting up Mr. Gimmick again tonight and trying to finally beat the bastard. Savestates are gonna make cheating very tempting, but I shall resist.