Can You Have Multiple Saves In Undertale

In Undertale, SAVE is the in-universe name given to salvage files and the power to overwrite them. There is one Save slot in the game (one per user in the console versions), which can be overwritten past interacting with Salvage Points or past autosaving. In the dialogue, "Salvage" is noticeably written in caps, and it tin can be conjugated.

Load

A SAVE can be loaded via the game's menu. The game automatically loads the most contempo Salvage whenever the protagonist's HP reaches 0. Meta noesis plays a heavy role in this since the protagonist and other characters have memories of events that occurred before resetting their SAVE. For instance, Toriel remarks that speaking with the protagonist is like speaking with an old friend, while Papyrus feels that they look familiar.

If the actor tries to load the Salvage in an inaccessible room (if the "Dogcheck" was not turned off) or with corrupted data, the game shows the Annoying Dog in the middle of a blackness screen, rendering the game unplayable until it is fixed with a functional room or a new SAVE.

Reset

The Reset function is institute in the game's bill of fare. This function erases near information stored in a SAVE, such as the protagonist's LV and EXP; resetting, however, does not erase certain variables such as the proper noun. Similarly to loading a Salvage, some characters in the game act differently afterward a reset.

Truthful Reset

A True Reset is a function available after completing the True Pacifist Route. It erases all data from the undertale.ini file except for one line.

If the Genocide Road is completed, the First Human destroys the globe. They then offer the player to recreate the earth in exchange for their SOUL. Other than manipulation of the files using a file editor, this is the only fashion to reset the game. Yet, accepting this offer too activates a permanent flag in the game's files which affects all subsequent True Pacifist and Genocide endings.

Primary Story

The power to reshape the world...
Purely by your ain determination.
The ability to play God!
The power to "SAVE."

Flowey

In the universe of Undertale, SAVING the game manipulates the timelines.^[one] The use of this power is exclusive to the character with the highest determination.^[2] The outset character known to learn this ability is Flowey, because of the conclusion he was injected with. His power to SAVE is lost when the protagonist enters the Underground, as the protagonist'southward determination is greater than his. Flowey is besides noticeably the only character who retains total cognition of the protagonist's deportment before and after loading a Relieve, as opposed to other characters who only have vague memories.

At the end of the Neutral Route, Flowey regains his power to SAVE after absorbing the 6 homo SOULs. His utilise of the Relieve ability in this state is analogous to salvage-states, which he uses in the boxing to disorient the role player. Another noticeable difference is the number of save slots; while the protagonist tin can just apply one SAVE file, Photoshop Flowey uses four (Save files two, three, vi, and an unspecified one), although it can be inferred that he can employ at least 6 which peradventure comes from the six man souls which he absorbs beforehand.^[three]

Save Files

The Relieve files, in-universe, are created by the characters that can SAVE. There are iii SAVE files in the game files (located at %LOCALAPPDATA%\UNDERTALE on Windows, ~/.config/UNDERTALE on Linux and ~/Library/Application Support/com.tobyfox.undertale/ on macOS):

file0: When a Save point is used, the actual state of the earth is saved to this file. When the thespian quits and reloads the game, the game loads this file.
file8: This file is created when Flowey absorbs the half-dozen human being SOULs and persist in the game files fifty-fifty afterwards a Truthful Reset. It is supposed to be Flowey's file.
file9: This file is used by the game to save the actions of the protagonist automatically at subconscious autosaves. It is reloaded after the protagonist receives a Game Over. The game copies file0 and pastes it in file9 whenever the game is reloaded. It is unclear whether this is the protagonist's file, or whether the protagonist's file is file0 and this merely represents the "real" state of the globe.

No SAVEs

Information technology is optional to Save, and it is possible to reach all endings of the game without SAVING. Towards the end of the Neutral or Pacifist Routes, the game acknowledges that the protagonist has not SAVED at all.

Neutral Route

Earlier the battle with Photoshop Flowey, Flowey mocks the protagonist for having made no SAVE files. He makes use of his ability to SAVE and load as usual.^[4]

In the post-ending phone telephone call, Sans may make a joke, suggesting that the protagonist should SAVE.^[five] Flowey'due south monologue to the protagonist is unaffected.

Afterwards completing the game in the Neutral Route, the game restarts, and without whatsoever SAVE file, the player is prompted to begin a game in the menu.

True Pacifist Route

If the game has been completed at to the lowest degree once in the Neutral Road, and then Alphys's side quests are fabricated available, making it possible to play through the game on the True Pacifist Road. All of this can be washed without manually SAVING the game.

During the final boxing, the protagonist considers SAVING over Asriel'due south file to defeat him, only it is stated that since they never SAVED before, they lack the power to do so.^[half-dozen] The story continues as usual, but the game secretly SAVEs itself, preventing the timeline from being lost after the game is closed.

See Too

Save Bespeak

References

↑ our reports showed a massive anomaly in the timespace continuum. timelines jumping left and correct, stopping and starting... - Sans
↑ And when I tried to load my save file... It didn't piece of work. Your DETERMINATION! Somehow, it's even greater than mine! - Flowey to the Get-go Human, during his monologue at New Domicile
↑ Lines 18567 through 18574 in the strings.txt game file. Retrieved twenty September 2015 from https://pcy.ulyssis.be/undertale/
↑ Golly, if only you had a Salve FILE you lot could run abroad to... But you lot were simply too STUPID to brand one! - Flowey
↑ it's been a while. shouldn't y'all SAVE? - Sans
↑ SAVING over ASRIEL's file seems like the merely fashion to defeat him... Just, having never SAVED before, y'all lack the power to do it. - Narrator