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This can take two forms:
# Choosing to return to the title screen from one of the game menus. This is [[Seen It a Million Times|so common, it doesn't really need examples]] (save for any game that [[Playing
# Pressing a button combination that returns to either the title screen or just before.
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* The [[Game Boy]] may have been the [[Trope Maker]] for the second form. Since the startup process took up extra energy, this was likely a way to save battery life. The combination is Start, Select, A and B all at once. The Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance had this as well.
** The GBA port of ''[[
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* Nintendo DS games instead have the combination of Start, Select, L and R, almost certainly because Start and Select got moved to the other side of the system.
** This combination is very useful when [[Save Scumming]] - going through the main DS menus takes longer, after all.
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* A few SNES games by [[Square Enix|Squaresoft]] had that combination.
** ''[[Secret of Mana]]''
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* PlayStation games by [[Square Enix]] had Start, Select, L1, L2, R1 and R2.
** ''[[
** A notable exception is ''[[
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts (
** ''[[The Last Remnant]]'' on the PC has this by hitting Ctrl + Alt + Shift + R.
* Some (but not all) [[Konami]] games on Playstation 1 have the Start / Select / L1 / L2 / R1 / R2 input too. This include, among others, ''[[
* The Dreamcast and Saturn both had requirements set by Sega where pressing Start+A+B+C (Saturn) or Start+A+B+X+Y (Dreamcast) would cause the game to return to the title screen, or, if already at the title screen, the system boot menu.
* The button combination that quits out of a mode in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' and sequels is L+R+A+Start.
** Unless you were using the Wii Remote and/or the Nunchuk in Brawl. The remote alone was A+B+1/2+"+", and plus the Nunchuk was Z+B+1+"+".
* The PSP has a Home button that lets you go straight to the PSP main menu.
* The first two''[[Tenchu]]'' games had ''start + select''.
* ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: From the New World'' '''claims''' to have one in the manual. However, the combination listed doesn't actually work.
* The [[
* On the iPad, the only button is a soft reset button.
* Perhaps recognizing the need for [[Save Scumming]] in [[Way of the Samurai]], both the second and third game possesses soft reset methods. The second game requires all four shoulder buttons pressed along Select and Start. The third game reduces it to Select and Start only.
* ''[[Monster Rancher|Monster Rancher 2]]'' has a
* People grinding raid reputations in [[World of Warcraft]] usually use a soft reset found under the raid leader's "Reset instances" button that has a fundamentally similair effect. This would reset all the trash before a boss, letting you kill them multiple times, doesn't work when the boss dies however, because that turns off the respawn timer until the hard resets, when the bosses come back too.
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