I made a savestate for psxfin emulator from which you can route the pc version a while ago. It will load the beginning of midgar and have the stepcount behave similar to the steam version from that point onwards. Creating new saves and loading them is no problem. I've been asked about this quite a few times recently so maybe just put the file in the resources section or something.

https://download1502.mediafire.com/voi3rumae4ng/vgmalhuidnje3bc/PCstepcount.psv