Template:Images The Save Crystal Glitch is a potentially disastrous bug in Final Fantasy VII involving the item Save Crystal that can only be used in the Northern Cave. The item will create a save point anywhere in the final dungeon. However, after a save point is used in several locations and the game is reloaded, sometimes the player cannot leave that room, ruining their saved file permanently. The Save Crystal Glitch often manifests in the room where the party splits up to find items and the swamp room where the enemy Mover appears.
Like many glitches in Final Fantasy VII, this bug may or may not occur for unknown reasons, and may occur in different locations. An example of the glitch working is if the item is used in the screen where the party is given the option to split up for the first time (the left and right paths). Using the Save Crystal here stops the player from exiting from the top (to travel towards the exit of the cave), and can even limit the player to a single path. Therefore, it is wise to ignore the crystal completely, and simply try and travel through the cave without saving, or saving to a different file, or saving at the place where the party meets up for the final descent.
There is also a glitch that may occur when obtaining the Save Crystal. When first entering the Northern Cave, the player can jump over and grab the Save Crystal before the rocks fall. This leads to the textbox saying that the player got the Save Crystal remaining on the screen, but if one leaves the Northern Cave, returns, and checks their inventory, they will find they did not get the Save Crystal.
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