Noob question about JWT and saving/loading midlet states

Hi,
I am currently playing with a midlet in JWT - it's actually a Java game. I want to "save" particular states of the midlet and then load them. For example, while playing the game, a multiple choice question appears. I want to save the exact progress up until that point in time, choose one of the answers, view the feedback and then load the saved state and try again with another answer.
I used a lot of game console to PC emulators, and almost all of them support saving and loading states. Does JWT have such a feature? If not, do you know of any Java ME emulator that has it?
Cheers,
Tiberiu

Yes, I am aware. But that does not answer my question.

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    This time around with iMovie '11 I don't to make such novice, ignorant errors.
    Thanks so much for any comments to this question.
    -L

    Yes I'm sure it will work great for you.
    The iFrame format is something Apple has come up with. The reason for its existence is unknown to me so I can only speculate. But it seems to me that Apple "invented" this format in order to have devices such as Ipod/Ipad/Iphone/Ixxx create clips that are editable on consumer hardware such as already mentioned devices but also standard Mac computers, without the need for format conversion.
    iMovie converts most input formats during import, which takes a lot of time, and this need for conversion often comes as a surprise to most people new to home video editing.
    iFrame has a resolution of 960x540 which is long way from the common standards of 1920x1080 and 1280x720. If your end target is YouTube however, this may not be too bad though. However if you intend to go with YouTube HD, you may find iFrame footage to look wrong since they are effectively upscaled to a higher resolution.
    Technically iFrame uses the H.264 algorithm, a smaller frame size (960x540) and a rather low compression scheme. This will result in large files, but the plus side is that the files are ready for editing without the need for any conversion and iMovie will natively edit the files.

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