diff --git a/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/MainForm.cs b/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/MainForm.cs
index e6cd991137..ef29f795f5 100644
--- a/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/MainForm.cs
+++ b/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/MainForm.cs
@@ -1347,8 +1347,9 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk
 			{
 				byte[] sram;
 
-				// GBA core might not know how big the saveram ought to be, so just send it the whole file
-				if (Global.Emulator is GBA)
+				// GBA meteor core might not know how big the saveram ought to be, so just send it the whole file
+				// GBA vba-next core will try to eat anything, regardless of size
+				if (Global.Emulator is GBA || Global.Emulator is VBANext)
 				{
 					sram = File.ReadAllBytes(PathManager.SaveRamPath(Global.Game));
 				}
@@ -1362,6 +1363,7 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk
 						// MessageBox.Show("Error: tried to load saveram, but core would not accept it?");
 						return;
 					}
+					// why do we silently truncate\pad here instead of warning\erroring?
 					sram = new byte[oldram.Length];
 					using (var reader = new BinaryReader(
 							new FileStream(PathManager.SaveRamPath(Global.Game), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)))
diff --git a/vbanext/instance.cpp b/vbanext/instance.cpp
index 473c3f67ea..9f48a56e07 100644
--- a/vbanext/instance.cpp
+++ b/vbanext/instance.cpp
@@ -8881,7 +8881,7 @@ bool skipBios;
 // it's a few bytes in the linkscript to make a multiboot image work in normal boot as well,
 // and most of the ones i've seen have done that, so this is not terribly useful
 static const bool cpuIsMultiBoot = false;
-int cpuSaveType; // used only in init() to set up function pointers
+int cpuSaveType; // used only in init() to set up function pointers and for save file determination
 bool mirroringEnable;
 
 int cpuDmaCount;