One Sitting or Save File

[Dubyah8r]

All of the single player modes in the past have been affairs done all in one sitting, if you left you had to start over. We are all hoping SSE will be longer but do you think you will have a constant save file like most adventure games or will it be an all at once thing like adventure mode.

 

[Chaosblade77]

I think we can safely assume save file. Especially if it is nearly as large as he is making us think.

 

[Lord SeBz]

that looks saved to me.

 

[Drclaw411]

nintendo has constantly said SSE could be released without the normal SSB multiplayer and validate the price tag. most games that can validate a full price tag are a full game, therefore will require save files. last thing i can remember that didnt was batman beyond for n64 and ps1...which was a good game otherwise

 

[Zek]

Judging from the "Clear% 83" text in that screenshot, we can probably assume it's saved. I wonder if you'll have to start over again to do everything though, with decisions like saving Peach or Zelda, or if you can do everything in one game once you've beaten it.

 

[Unknownlight]

If the SE is short enough that we don't even need to save it then I'd kill sakurai for making it sound so much better.

Why is my 100th post one where I'm negitive towards Sakurai. I thought it'd be much better then that.

 

[2.72]

I think we can safely assume save file. Especially if it is nearly as large as he is making us think.

Actually, if the plot is entirely linear it could be very long and still represented as one single integer.

From what we've seen, it's not entirely linear, but is perhaps a collection of several distinct "stage beaten/not beaten" flags, or perhaps a few linear plots. Still, he could optimize the save files for really, really long games of this type to obscene extremes, like a few bytes per file.

Therefore, unless they're doing something crazy that I'm just not seeing, he should really have files. There's not much information to save and it would be very convenient. At the very least, each profile should have a subspace emissary file attached.

 

[Neo-X]

nintendo has constantly said SSE could be released without the normal SSB multiplayer and validate the price tag. most games that can validate a full price tag are a full game, therefore will require save files. last thing i can remember that didnt was batman beyond for n64 and ps1...which was a good game otherwise

Where did they say that? Never heard anything about them selling The Subspace Emissary as a standalone game. Source of this interesting bit of info please?

 

[heety9]

I remeber he said something like, "Oh, and all of this [Subspace Emmisary] is on the same disk, so rest easy."

I think we can all assume it will be long.

 

[Dragonbreath]

Where did they say that? Never heard anything about them selling The Subspace Emissary as a standalone game. Source of this interesting bit of info please?

Nonononono, my friend. They're saying that Subspace Emissary has enough content to be a standalone game, but is still on the same disk as the rest of Brawl. It's to differentiate it from something simple, like the Adventure Mode from Melee.

 

[Burninator]

Where did they say that? Never heard anything about them selling The Subspace Emissary as a standalone game. Source of this interesting bit of info please?

They never actually said they would, just that they could if they wanted to. Nobody that knows the series buys smash solely for its 1-player mode anyway.

 

[Relean]

From the way the SSE is looking, I'd bet anything that it will be long enough to have game saves.

 

[Roadie-Toe Joe]

that looks saved to me.

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[notftomearth7]

Dear...God


Who would play Brawl in one sitting, Better yet, who played and beat Melee in one sitting. Anyone who does this fails.

 

[GreenKirby]

Dear...God


Who wouldn't play Brawl in one sitting, Better yet, who haven't played and beat Melee in one sitting. Anyone who hasn't done this fails.

Fixaga

10 chars ****it

 

[HeltXL]

Well, considering the incredible amount of characters that will be in this game, and how Sakurai said something about the Subspace Emissary telling the stories of all of the characters' beginnings, I'd say it's long enough to require save files.

 

[Blubba_Pinecone]

This raises a new question to me...

assuming it is a save file game, which seems a high probability, what would you think happen when you hit the GameOver/Continue?

Will you stop and lose all data since the last save with no continue, or would the entire file be deleted? And how exactly would continue work?


Gah... sorry I'm not helping... I'm just making even more questions! lol

 

[RedKnight]

Save File Ftw!!!!

 

[brawl1994]

lets hope its a save file

 

[gamelover15]

My thought on this that you save after each area you complete, kind of like past kirby games (Like Crystal Shards 64 and Superstar)

This way, you can continue from where you ended, and you can redo old stages you have beaten. SSE will be really different from the traditional Adventure mode.

 

[Pyroloserkid]

that looks saved to me.

There we go.

It'd be stupid to not have a save file for SE.

 

[WarMachine]

This raises a new question to me...

assuming it is a save file game, which seems a high probability, what would you think happen when you hit the GameOver/Continue?

Will you stop and lose all data since the last save with no continue, or would the entire file be deleted? And how exactly would continue work?


Gah... sorry I'm not helping... I'm just making even more questions! lol

Game Over - Exit Subspace, taken back to Brawl starting screen. All you have to do to start again is go back to your file at which point you'll restart at your last save point.

Continue - Taken back to the beginning of the current level, game continues.



At least that's how it works in most games.

 

[majoras incarnation]

I would say that its saved......otherwise why does it allow you to seemingly "replay" levels?

 

[kunai_abuser]

My guess is saved, the percentage complete counter is the give away to me, and an overworld map kinda finalizes it, but I've got Smash n00b over my avatar, so who knows?

 

[Drclaw411]

mighty fail = no save file

 

[Magnacor]

My guess is saved, the percentage complete counter is the give away to me, and an overworld map kinda finalizes it, but I've got Smash n00b over my avatar, so who knows?

Agreed. It will probably have an auto save function like in Melee where it saves after you do anything. Oh and, welcome to the boards.

 

[Ger-Bah]

Actually... I'm more hoping that at "83%" completion or whatever, you can choose from more than 4 characters... Hahaha!

 

[Mama]

that looks saved to me.

Actually thats the list of people in your party so to speak. Sakurai already said you'd have multiple people with you at some points and that some matches would feature team battles where if one character falls the other you selected before the match steps in. That screen shot actually shows that Mario and Kirby reunite later...I think I'll save Peach when the time comes.

Also I think at the very least he'll give us checkpoints in the game. Multiple files had better come along with it as well. I wonder just how long the SSE will be...there are a lot of characters to include as you go through. Unlockable chapters seem like a must.

EDIT : The percentage is likely the amount completed in that chapter. It probably displays that at the world map when you're selecting destinations and what not.

 

[Nasir]

I hope there's save files in the regard that I don't have to share the pleasure of unlocking characters and stages with my brother... I mean we may unlock some of the characters and stages in SSE, so if there's save files it would perhaps mean that I can unlock those things myself as long as I play faster than him.