The Battle Save feature is an option present in certain games throughout the Fire Emblem series. It is a feature that allows the player to save the game in the middle of a chapter. It is different from the Bookmark feature in that Battle Saves are a permanent save file, while Bookmarks are merely a temporary save file that is erased upon loading.

Overview

Battle Saves, unlike Bookmarks, are hard saves that allow the player to reload from a point mid-battle as many times as desired. However, the ability to create a Battle Save is not present in every game.

The ability to create Battle Saves first appeared in Genealogy of the Holy War, where the player is allowed to save at the beginning of each turn. As chapters in this game are quite long, this is a helpful and sometimes necessary feature to make use of.

Following Genealogy, Battle Saves did not return until the international version release of Radiant Dawn. In Radiant Dawn, Battle Saves can now be made at any point during the Player Phase, except in Hard Mode, where they are disabled and replaced by the Bookmark feature. Battle Saves are unavailable in the Japanese version of the game.

In Shadow Dragon and New Mystery of the Emblem, Battle Saves are present in a much more limited form. Here, Battle Saves can only be made at at glowing circles present on the map called 'save points'. To utilize it, a unit must be positioned on the save point tile and use the Save command, which saves the game and ends the unit's turn. Save points disappear after a single use. Some chapters feature multiple save points.

In Awakening and Fates, Battle Saves return to functioning as they did in Radiant Dawn, but they can only be used in Casual Mode. In Classic Mode, Battle Saves are replaced by the Bookmark feature.

In the 30th anniversary release of Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, the game's emulator allows the player to save the game at any point, similar to Battle Saves in other titles.