Saved Games

File Format
Name	Saved Games
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Saved Games

Formats to store game status for later resumption, or to preserve a record of moves/activities/outcomes in a game (in progress or completed).

Video games

• Borderlands save file
• Civilization BIC saved game format
• Emulators
  • Genecyst Backup RAM
  • Genecyst Save State
  • Genital Save State
  • KGen98 Save State
  • MBC2 battery save
  • MBC3 RTC save
• Eye of the Beholder saved game
• Faster than Light saved game
• Infocom saved games
• Master of Orion saved game
• Minecraft world file
• Nethack
• PS1 saved game
• Punch-Out
  • Punch-Out Passwords (external link)
• Quetzal (a possible save format for Z-machine and Glulx)
• Rexx-Adventure saved game
• SimCity 2000 saved city
• SimTower saved game
• subo (Sudoku format)
• Zelda Solarus DX saved game
• Zig Zag Ancient Greeks
• ZZT (save game format is same as the world format)

Board and card games

Not all of these are electronic.

• Bridge
  • Bridge notation
  • Portable Bridge Notation
  • Richard's Bridge Notation
• Checkers / Draughts
  • Portable Draughts Notation
• Chess
  • FEN
  • Funny notation
  • PGN
• Go
  • Smart Game Format (SGF)
  • UGF
• Other games / multiple games
  • Smart Game Format (SGF)

Score files

• atc_score
• atomix.scores
• Gnome Mahjongg history
• xbill.scores

See also: Game data files and Interactive Fiction for files containing the game levels, graphics, and other such data.

Links

• Keen Dreams cheat program (modifies saved games to add lives, shots)