Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20200107155350/@comment-26907577-20200121185953

Pre-emptive edit: I wrote this, then THA replied. It's not made completely irrelevant by that reply, so have it anyway.

There's a reason I think  is a quicksave and not the real deal.

Not an especially good one. But at least a sensible one.

Suppose there are 10 files to work with. 0-9. If you were planning to use all of them (Deltarune uses : File Chapter 1 0-2 [And also 3-5, alike , which indicate that the ending has been reached...]), how would you assign them?

File 0 would be the main one. File 1 would be the first thing you set to come back to later. File 2 would be the second, and so on.

But if you're moving files, and you can't just swap them (like Dimensional Boxes), you need a temporary file to move to and from. What file do you use temporarily, to delay allocating a slot you want to use permanently?

File 9. It's certainly how I've been using mine on the Hack.

I would further assume  was chosen for a similar reason; working backwards from file9.