That sounds EXACTLY how I used to cheat at Nethack to create a saved game when I was a kid with a .bat file that would drop out of a game of nethack, then copy the game file to a .bak file. then I could go back into the into the game and not worry about dying - and I had the keystrokes down to where I could do them blind and effectively save my game in 5 seconds any time I wanted and be back playing. I was 10 years old.