ICYMI: You can easily save scum with Nintendo Online Cloud Saves for Roguelikes

TYRANITARR · Mar 22, 2019

In case you were unaware, because I was, using Nintendo Cloud saves makes it very easy to help with Rougelikes on the Switch. Games that allow you to create interment saves, like, Enter the Gungeon in between floors, that delete themselves after you restore a save state, can still be restored with Cloud Saves.

1. Press the + button on a game icon
2. Go to Save Data Cloud Backup
3. Turn Auto-Save Data Backup to OFF.
4. Backup Save Data

To restore your Save Data, just go bak into this menu and restore your Save File from the Cloud. Easy!

This is super helpful for games like Into the Breach, which auto save after EVERY turn! If you're in a deep run, just exit to the Home Menu to create a save state, backup that save file, and if things go south, just restore it!

I imagine this would also work easily on PlayStation and Xbox, but I don't have those consoles.

z1yin9c · Mar 22, 2019

Did this on dead cell with ps+ and I have no shame....

Braaier · Mar 22, 2019

But that's cheating!

Kalor · Mar 22, 2019

You could do that but where's the fun in that.

Dest · Mar 22, 2019

I couldn't live with myself doing this..

Glio · Mar 22, 2019

Yes, I thought about it several times. It is unfortunately the reason why Pokémon does not have cloud saves.

boris_feinbrand · Mar 22, 2019

I'd rather not play these games then. But hey to each their own.

PancakeBurglar · Mar 22, 2019

I mean I guess but that goes against a huge part of these games intentional design.

arts&crafts · Mar 22, 2019

What is the point? Why play a roguelike if you dont like the idea of roguelike? There is nothing to gain from doing this.

Panther2103 · Mar 22, 2019

Yeah why would you want to cheat around a major gameplay mechanic just to make it easier.

Jawmuncher · Mar 22, 2019

I think the only platform you can't do this with is Xbox, since the cloud system there is rather odd to work with.

808s & Villainy · Mar 22, 2019

Oh yeah, it's just switching to manual backups. I'm surprised most people don't know about this. But it's probably the reason we can't have nice things

lt519 · Mar 22, 2019

Kalor said:
You could do that but where's the fun in that.

boris_feinbrand said:
I'd rather not play these games then. But hey to each their own.

PancakeBurglar said:
I mean I guess but that goes against a huge part of these games intentional design.

arts&crafts said:
What is the point? Why play a roguelike if you dont like the idea of roguelike? There is nothing to gain from doing this.

Panther2103 said:
Yeah why would you want to cheat around a major gameplay mechanic just to make it easier.

I could see doing it to get over a major difficulty/RNG spike so you could enjoy the rest of the game. It's not like every game out there is perfectly balanced and respects player time.

ghoulie · Mar 22, 2019

I did this once when I was playing through Xenoblade 2 and trying for some rare blades. All's fair when it comes to gacha.

Panther2103 · Mar 22, 2019

lt519 said:
I could see doing it to get over a major difficulty/RNG spike so you could enjoy the rest of the game. It's not like every game out there is perfectly balanced and respects player time.

OP is using it to get around dying in roguelikes though, the main point of a roguelike is the progressive building of skill / items over time. If you bypass death, you are essentially cutting one of the biggest mechanics out.

LewieP · Mar 22, 2019

You can also just watch the end credits for games on youtube.

lt519 · Mar 22, 2019

Panther2103 said:
OP is using it to get around dying in roguelikes though, the main point of a roguelike is the progressive building of skill / items over time. If you bypass death, you are essentially cutting one of the biggest mechanics out.

That's fair, I was addressing save scumming in general.

Lupic · Mar 22, 2019

Isn't that why some games don't support cloud saves or whatever? I remember then Switch Online came out and Nintendo announced that some games wouldn't support it lol

foxuzamaki · Mar 22, 2019

ghoulie said:
I did this once when I was playing through Xenoblade 2 and trying for some rare blades. All's fair when it comes to gacha.

Hmm, good idea...

TYRANITARR · Mar 22, 2019

Lupic said:
Isn't that why some games don't support cloud saves or whatever? I remember then Switch Online came out and Nintendo announced that some games wouldn't support it lol

Just the online component games like Pokemon and Splatoon2. That makes sense. Like everything else does have cloud saves.

Dierce · Mar 22, 2019

This is what I did with Dead Cells. To regerts!

Odeko · Mar 22, 2019

lt519 said:
I could see doing it to get over a major difficulty/RNG spike so you could enjoy the rest of the game. It's not like every game out there is perfectly balanced and respects player time.

I'm not sure you fully understand roguelikes

Militaratus · Mar 22, 2019

Panther2103 said:
OP is using it to get around dying in roguelikes though, the main point of a roguelike is the progressive building of skill / items over time. If you bypass death, you are essentially cutting one of the biggest mechanics out.

But what if I am going for the achivement/trophy Complete the Game in less than # Deaths?

Jahranimo · Mar 22, 2019

And this is why Splatoon 2 doesn't have cloud save support! Lol

boris_feinbrand · Mar 22, 2019

lt519 said:
I could see doing it to get over a major difficulty/RNG spike so you could enjoy the rest of the game. It's not like every game out there is perfectly balanced and respects player time.

I just quit games like that at such points. Not worth the hassle.

Vibed · Mar 22, 2019

This is very good for Xenoblade 2 to get around the gacha mechanics. Made my life a lot easier.

Dreamboum · Mar 22, 2019

Odeko said:
I'm not sure you fully understand roguelikes

OP did say Rougelike though

Panther2103 · Mar 22, 2019

Militaratus said:
But what if I am going for the achivement/trophy Complete the Game in less than # Deaths?

I mean if you aren't wanting to actually earn it then sure, yes this method would help.

Lupic · Mar 22, 2019

adam prime said:
Just the online component games like Pokemon and Splatoon2. That makes sense. Like everything else does have cloud saves.

Ahh gotcha, thanks for clearing that up. Makes sense

theAllseeingEYE · Mar 22, 2019

Do what makes you happy man.
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PKrockin · Mar 22, 2019

[shakes head sadly]

Deleted member 8674 · Mar 22, 2019

If this Bioware you might get banned.

Starlatine · Mar 22, 2019

that sounds like such a big hassle that i would rather just die and start over

but to each its own

fiendcode · Mar 22, 2019

adam prime said:
Just the online component games like Pokemon and Splatoon2. That makes sense. Like everything else does have cloud saves.

Not Dark Souls. :/

Hero of Legend · Mar 22, 2019

I hope Nintendo won't clamp down on this if too many people abuse the function.

Morrigan · Mar 22, 2019

Fixed the typo in the thread title for the sake of my own sanity~

TYRANITARR · Mar 22, 2019

Hero of Legend said:
I hope Nintendo won't clamp down on this if too many people abuse the function.

Lol for single player games? Really? They already don't allow it on games where it would affect other people's game online, like Pokemon and Splatoon, which is a good thing.

KDR_11k · Mar 22, 2019

adam prime said:
Lol for single player games? Really?

Japan is weird like that.

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