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| Games | LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy |
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Use Old Save is an extra from LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. It is not available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable versions due to LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game not being released on those platforms; on the other hand, the prequel characters are unlocked in different methods depending on both versions.
Effect[]
What this extra does is add characters from the prequel trilogy that you unlocked in your LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game save file to the character grid in Free Play. However, it doesn't unlock R2-D2, C-3PO, Yoda, Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, Gonk Droid, The Emperor or Rebel Trooper as they are already in the game and needs to be unlocked. It does not even unlock Princess Leia as she is available from the start. You also cannot see or control any old save characters roaming around in Mos Eisley Cantina (except in the PSP version where you can use them in the hub) and you can only use 1 or 2 characters at a time when selecting them manually in Free Play when 2 Players are activated. The AI would never put them in your team even when they're the only options for their own special abilities, the only exception to this is The Battle of Endor level with a Clone, although this does not happen in the PS2 and PSP versions. Likewise, if you select a character with a special ability, a character with the same special ability will still be chosen. These include that if you choose R4-P17, R2-D2 will still be selected, if you select TC-14, C-3PO will still be chosen, if you select Darth Maul or Count Dooku, The Emperor or Darth Vader will still be selected, the same thing happens with a bounty hunter if you select Jango Fett, if you select any Jedi character, a Jedi character may or may not be chosen, if you select a grapple character, another grapple character will still be chosen and if you select the child variations of Anakin or Boba Fett, a Jawa, an Ugnaught, Wicket or an Ewok will still be chosen.
The extra also adds minikit vehicles from the prequel trilogy that you built in your LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game save file to the grid of minikit vehicles in Minikit Bonuses. Unlike characters, the AI includes them in your team, probably because the game is programmed to choose all the minikit vehicles at once.
Power Brick Locations[]
- LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy: This extra can be purchased at the beginning of the game.
Price[]
- In LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, it costs 250,000 studs.
Trivia[]
- The fact that Yoda is the extra icon may be a reference to Yoda being the save icon for LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game.
- Because LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game was not released on Xbox 360 or PSP, this extra was removed in these versions. In the Xbox 360 version getting prequel characters requires spending $1 on an DLC from the Microsoft Store. This extra can still be bought, even through the Xbox 360 Marketplace was shut down on July 29, 2024. That is because this game is backwards compatible with Xbox One and Xbox Series X and S. In the PSP version (later ported to PlayStation 4 and 5), Player has to complete challenges. Even through there are only 18 levels, there are 38 characters to unlock from the challenges.
- Similar to Extra Toggle, if the player deactivates the extra while playing as a prequel character, they will be able to continue using it until they change characters.
- This is the only extra in LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy on console/PC to not appear in LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga as the prequel characters are already in the base game.
- With the exception of Wookiee, none of the blaster characters with the extra are capable of using melee attacks, although some of them were given melee attacks in The Complete Saga. This also applies to blaster characters being able to dodge blaster shots.
- None of the Clones are given the Imperial Access ability which was the case in LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga.
- If there is no save file found for the first LEGO Star Wars game, the game will display a message saying "Locked: Save not found".
- None of the ten characters that the extra does not unlock debuted in the prequel trilogy.
- Purchasing this extra does not count towards 100% completion since it's not part of the base game.
- Gonk Droid is the only character that the extra does not unlock who is not playable in the GBA version.
- This extra gives more female playable characters instead of just one which is Princess Leia, although the player can only use her in the hub.
- Had this extra allowed players to use prequel characters in the hub, then they would've been able to depict two female characters in the hub.
- The extra places the prequel characters after the two custom characters, but they're all over the place when they should've been listed in order as to how they appeared on the grid in the first game.