Autoloading

Link's Awakening has an auto-save feature that automatically saves your game after every significant event, such as opening a chest, picking up a small key, opening a locked door, etc. You can see the auto-save icon in the bottom right corner of your screen to know exactly when an autosave occurs.

From the pause menu, we can load this auto-save to save movement time.

• In dungeons, an autoload will take you to the dungeon entrance. It will also set any orange/blue switches to the default color, orange - meaning orange tiles down.
  • Autoloading is 5 seconds faster than playing Manbo's Mambo to warp back to the entrance of a dungeon. Mambo's Mambo will not reset a dungeon's orange/blue switches.
• In caves, an autoload will take you to the entrance from which you entered the cave.
• Autoloading has no significant or useful effect in the overworld.