How to Save in Super Mario World

How to Save?

Super Mario World doesn’t have a traditional save feature like other Super Nintendo games. To save, you must beat either a castle, fortress, or ghost house. Doing so will prompt you with the options of “Continue and Save” or “Continue without Save”.

If you can’t beat the levels leading up to the next save point, you always have to option of replaying a ghost house you’ve already beaten. You are able to replay one of the previously beaten castles or fortresses (ghost houses can always be replayed without pressing anything extra), by pressing L + R to select the level. Only ghost houses though will give you the option to save the game again. This makes it easier to save current level progress instead of trying over and over to beat the levels ahead of you.

Super NES Classic Edition

To save in Super Mario World for the SNES Classic Edition, apart from the in-game save feature, you have to option to use save states or a “Suspend Point”.

Press the reset button on your console, it won’t reset the game but it will bring you to the main menu. Next, pick one of the open slots to save in or overwrite one of your pre-existing save slots. Each game can have up to 4 save slots.

Nintendo Switch

To save in Super Mario World for the Nintendo Switch, apart from the in-game save feature, you have to option to use save states or a “Suspend Point”.

Press ZL and ZR to open the save menu. Next, pick a slot to save your game in.