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## 9 Snapshots

Every VICE emulator has a built-in snapshot feature, that saves the complete emulator state into one file for later use. You can therefore save the emulator state - including the state of the game you are playing for example - in a single file.

Important note: In the past the idea was that snapshots with the same major version can be exchanged with later versions of the emulator. However, this proved to be too difficult to maintain, and insanely hard to test for correctness, which is why now the emulator will reject the snapshot when it finds a module that is too old. Because of this you should not use snapshots for permanent/long term storage.