I have a small rant for once. Spoilering it so it doesn't take half a page.
[spoiler:32b60851ca]There are some of us who like to save after every jump we make, ring we collect, badnik we pop, and everything else in an attempt to clear the level PERFECTLY, as if we had OCD or something. We simply cannot live without a manual save.
Then there's those of us who just either blast through the level with no regard for personal safety, or walk around cautiously and run once everything's dead or we know where we're going, letting an autosave remove the quickly-getting-old method of opening the menu, saving the game, and then continuing.
I fall into the latter category. I like to be cautious so that I don't end up getting killed with a cheap death by that crusher I never saw coming because I was running too fast.
Doom-style saving, as the dev team and moderators keep saying, is essentially the same thing as having savestates in an emulator. When you first played the game on the original console, you didn't have these, and you liked it anyway Now if an emulator doesn't have a savestate function, people whine and moan and complain and rant for three days in every topic that even contains the word save.
What is wrong with you people? Stop wearing out your keyboard with broken record complaints about a tried, true, and (almost) perfectly working save system and either get on with your lives or play the damn game like a normal person. Saving is not there to make sure you end the level with a Perfect Bonus, it's to let you stop playing the game after an accomplishment.
Also, look at this from a developer's perspective. As a developer, you want an inexperienced player to not only appreciate, but actually NEED those twenty lives you gave them over the past three levels.
Besides, those of you who went through Ultimate (which had no rings, starts with one life, one extra per level, and NO SAVING don't really have room to be having a fit about a lack of at-will saving when there's plenty of rings and lives around.
The devs aren't the only ones tired of hearing the whining. Some of us normals who usually lurk are tired of it, too.[/spoiler:32b60851ca]
This has been a public service announcement courtesy of a little blue fox with a death wish. Enjoy. ^^
[EDIT] Forgot something ^^