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* The Ixmol Jewel from ''[[VideoGame/AstekaIITemploDelSol Tombs & Treasure]]'' gives you your current password any time it's examined.

[[folder: [==RPG]]s]]* ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy IX}}'' has the Moogle's Flute item, which summons a moogle on the world map to save your game. This fits, of course, with other moogles throughout the game serving as save points in dungeons.[[/folder]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy IX}}'' somewhat qualifies at one point. Moogles located at specific locations save the game for you, thus serving as save points. But you are given a special Moogle's Flute item to call for them, if you need your game saved in the Overworld. You get it with no effort just before you go to world map for the first time, never lose it and it costs you nothing to use (except Moogles' patience), but as a matter of fact it's still a kind of a Save Token.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has some of its [[SavePoint save points]] locked untill activated by a special consumable item which, thankfully, is always dropped by one of the enemies in the area. Said items are also interchangeable between different unactive save points.

* The early games in the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' franchise have an interesting combination of SavePoint and save token. You can only save the game at a typewriter, but you need a consumable Ink Ribbon to do so; these ribbons are often few and far between. ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' does away with the token part (you can save as much as you want once you find a typewriter) and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' lack save points completely (they just save automatically as you go through the games).
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' returns to the classic save system but instead of using typewriters and ink ribbons, protagonist Ethan Winters collects blank cassette tapes and inserts them into cassette decks to save. Thankfully, this is [[AvertedTrope averted]] if you're not playing on [[HarderThanHard Madhouse difficulty]].

* ''VideoGame/ObsCure'' allowed you to save anywhere, provided you had a CD.

* The ''VideoGame/WildArms'' series has Gimel Coins. They allow you to save anywhere and works as a continue if you get a GameOver, but were not sold in shops. Whatever you found in chests or from the exceptionally [[RandomlyDrops rare drops]] were all you got for the entire game.

* ''VideoGame/Kuon'' requires a Vessel for saving. It's not as bad as other example though, as enemies frequently drop them.

** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' returns to the classic save system but instead of using typewriters and ink ribbons, protagonist Ethan Winters collects blank cassette tapes and inserts them into cassette decks to save.

* ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy VII}}'' mostly uses a SavePoint system instead, but there is a consumable SaveToken in TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon that creates a SavePoint anywhere the player wants.

* ''VideoGame/OneWayHeroics'':
** You can purchase Save Crystals; using up one allows you to save your game.
** But if you've gone 5 [[InUniverseGameClock in-game]] days without saving, the game will permit you to use the Emergency Save feature.

* The early games in the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' franchise have an interesting combination of SavePoint and SaveToken. You can only save the game at a typewriter, but you need a consumable Ink Ribbon to do so; these ribbons are often few and far between. ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' does away with the token part (you can save right away) and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' lack save points completely (they just save automatically as you go through the games).

** If you've gone 5 [[InUniverseGameClock in-game]] days without saving, the game will permit you to use the Emergency Save feature.

* The early games in the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' franchise have an interesting combination of SavePoint and SaveToken. You can only save the game at a typewriter, but you need an Ink Ribbon to do so. These ribbons are often few and far between, and can only be used once before they're consumed. ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' does away with the token part (you can save right away) and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' lack save points completely (they just save automatically as you go through the games).

* In the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' games you saved by using your codec/radio/etc to call a "data analyst" and having them save your game for you.

* ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy IX}}'' somewhat qualifies at one point. Moogles located at specific locations save the game for you, thus serving as save points. But you are given a special Moogle's Flute item to call for them, if you need your game saved in the Overworld. You get it with no effort just before you go to WorldMap for the first time, never lose it and it costs you nothing to use (except Moogles' patience), but as a matter of fact it's still a kind of a Save Token.

* ''Franchise/WildArms series'' has Gimel Coins. They allow you to save anywhere and works as a continue if you get a GameOver, but were not sold in shops. Whatever you found in chests or from the exceptionally [[RandomlyDrops rare drops]] were all you got for the entire game.

* ''VideoGame/BrokenHelix'' uses Save [=CDs=] items for saving. They're few and far between, scattered in the levels, and only one save is allowed per Save CD before it's consumed.

* ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy IX}}'' somewhat qualifies at one point. Moogles located at specific locations save the game for you, thus serving as save points. But you are given a special Moogle's Flute item to call for them, if you need your game saved in the Overworld. You get it with no effort just before you go to WorldMap for the first time, never lose it and it costs you nothing to use (except Moogle's patience), but as a matter of fact it's still a kind of a Save Token.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' had some of it [[SavePoint save points]] locked untill activated by a special consumable item which always was, mercifully enough, a drop from one of the enemies in the area. Said items were also interchangeable between different unactive save points.

* Several games in the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' franchise have an interesting combination of SavePoint and SaveToken. You could only save the game at a typewriter, but you needed a consumable Ink Ribbon to do so. These ribbons were often few and far between. ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' does away with the token part (you don't need an ink ribbon to save, you just walk up to a typewriter and save) and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' don't have save points at all (it just auto-saves you as you go through the game).

* In some ''HarvestMoon'' games you can save from a journal in your inventory.

[[folder:Eastern RPGs]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs 3}}'' had Gimel Coins in addition to town-only {{Save Point}}s. Gimel Coins allow you to save anywhere, but were not sold in shops. Whatever you found in chests or from the exceptionally [[RandomlyDrops rare drops]] were all you got for the entire game.

[[folder:Strategy RPGs]]

* Several games in the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' franchise have an interesting combination of SavePoint and SaveToken. You could only save the game at a typewriter, but you needed a consumable Ink Ribbon to do so. These ribbons were often few and far between.