Need help with save file for Legend of Dragoon

Hello I had a couple questions and was wondering if you could help me but I am using and LOVING your program but was trying to play Legend of Dragoon on retroarch pcsx-rearmed and for some reason when I tried to actually save in game to like a “memory card” it would say save but when I would go back to my saves it would not be there and I was thinking about how I would do a disk switch and long story short somehow lost my save state even though I could find the file in the save state folder on retroarch. But I cannot get it to work at all now and looks like I lost all my progress and I was looking at downloading a save file from gamefaqs but could not figure out how to load them through the emulator. Is there anyway you could help me out on this matter? For what it matters I am on windows 7 desktop pc.