mame autosave question

[ppilot]

Okay, so I'm looking at finally upgrading my mame version to 1.109 (mainly for the save states).

Here's my question.  I don't want the games to autosave.  I would, however like them to autoload.  Sometimes I quit a game in disgust in the middle, and if I restart, I'd like to be at the attract screen.  Is it possible to manually save each game here, and have it restart at this point, rather than at the point I last exited the game?

Thanks much!