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[[File:Save Pokémon Sword.png|thumb|250px|right|Saving in [[Pokémon Sword and Shield|Pokémon Sword]]]]

A '''save file''' or '''save''' (Japanese: '''レポート''' ''report'') is an important feature in the [[Pokémon games]], which allows the player to resume their game from where they left off the last time it was played.

==Pokémon Report==

In the Japanese [[core series]] games, saving from the [[menu]] is presented as writing down the player's recent actions in a Pokémon Report (Japanese: ポケモンレポート), although it is referred to as saving when saving due to changing [[Pokémon Storage System|Boxes]] in the Generation I and II games. As a result, the save function is represented by a book icon in the core series Pokémon games.

==In the core series games==

Prior to [[Generation VI]], a new game can be started even if there is already a save file stored on the game's cartridge. However, the new game cannot be saved without overwriting the existing file, which results in all prior progress to be lost. From [[Generation IV]] up to [[Generation VI]], as a precaution against unwanted loss of data, any existing save file must be manually deleted by pressing the '''↑ + SELECT + B''' button combination on the title screen before a new game's save data can be written. The game will show a warning message notifying the player of this, and an error message will appear if the player attempts to save anyways. The combination was changed to '''↑ + X + B''' in [[Generation VI]], and the option to start a new game is not available in the [[main menu]] starting in Generation VI.

In the event that the saving process is interrupted, the save file risks corruption, effectively causing its data to be lost, thus forcing the player to start a new game. The game will show an error message reporting the corrupted save data the next time they access the main menu. Starting in [[Generation III]], save file backups are stored, meaning that if the saving process is interrupted and the save file becomes corrupted, then the previous file will be loaded from the backup. Interrupting the saving process in the Generation I and II games may result in permanent loss or corruption of data.

===Mandated saving===

This is a list of activities which require saving in order to use them in the [[core series]] games. In some games, it is possible to disable to requirement to save in the [[options]] menu, such as [[Player Search System]] {{pkmn|battle}}s. Activities that trigger saving automatically will not prompt the player to overwrite the old save file.

===Pokémon Ranger series===

When no save machine is available, players may use a "quick save" feature, which temporarily saves their progress if they are unable to reach a save machine. Quick save data is deleted when loaded, whereas progress saved via save machines is stored permanently.

In [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team|Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team]] and [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness|Explorers of Time, Darkness]] and [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky|Sky]], the player can only save in their bed, at [[Kangaskhan Rock]]s, and at the [[Treasure Town#Crossroads|well at the crossroads]]{{sup/md|S}}, and will be asked if they want to save each time they come back from an adventure after waking up.

Prior to [[Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon]], it is not possible to save inside dungeons, but it is possible to quicksave. Quicksaving creates a temporary save file and  immediately returns the player to the [[main menu]]. Resuming the adventure deletes the temporary save file. If the player turns off the game in a dungeon without creating a quicksave, when reloading the save they will be ejected from the dungeon as if they had given up on the adventure, and will lose all items in their [[Bag]] and all [[Poké]] that they had on-hand.

===Pokémon Trading Card Game series===

When the player chooses "Diary", both games ask for confirmation before saving:

==Gallery==

===Core series===

===Spin-off games===

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Save Pinball.png|[[Pokémon Pinball]]

Save and Quit Puzzle Challenge.png|[[Pokémon Puzzle Challenge]]

Save Blue Rescue Team.png|[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team]]

Save Explorers of Sky.png|[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky]]

Save Conquest.png|[[Pokémon Conquest]]

</gallery>