Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20200107155350/@comment-32182236-20200121163837

Speaking of SAVE files..

After doing some research, I found that three files exist in the game files:file0, file8, and file9.

File 8 appears when Flowey turns into Photoshop Flowey. File 0 is the state of the world, and File 9 is what saves the things Frisk does. (File 8 is actually never deleted!)

Given that Flowey takes over the SAVE file when he turns into Photoshop Flowey, File 8 is his. We don't know whether Frisk's file is file0 or file9 (The wiki says it's 9, but doesn't provide evidence for it), but it must be one of them.

This also means that there are seven "missing" files. One could presume that they're for the six SOULs, thus giving us an explanation as to how FLowey had multiple saves:Each human SOUL has its own file. Controlling multiple means you get different files.

This does have interesting implications. It means that if Flowey had Chara's SOUL, he would have Chara's file. Yet, that would leave a file "missing", since Flowey's file is actually file8, and the six humans before us only fill 6 of the Missing Seven.

Under the Ferret Theory, we could concievably say that the Seventh File belongs to Sans, but there are still other issues with the idea.

As we know, File8 comes BEFORE File9 in sequence. We know why as well:Flowey used to have the ability before we took it from him.

Thus, all seven Missing Files must predate Flowey's. (This also tells us Flowey did indeed come into being after six humans fell before, if true. If this is true, it would also debunk a long-standing belief of mine:That the fallen could NOT save and load! ..And opens up a problem that the belief of mine solved:Why did the six humans wind up dead and not reload?)

If Flowey's file is indeed one and the same as Chara's, then why is it listed AFTER the files of the humans'?