Global

Session-wide controls for speed, safety, submission metadata, autosave, and transition behavior.

The Global tab contains session-wide options.

Option	Control	What it does	Classification
Timescale	Numeric input	Enable a configured gameplay timescale and edit its multiplier independently.	Cheat
Transition Speed	Toggle	Adjust the next room-transition speed multiplier. Values below 1x are slower and values above 1x are faster.	Cheat
Frame Stepper	Toggle	Enable frame stepping while Freeze Gameplay is on and configure hold-to-repeat stepping.	Cheat
FPS Bypass	Numeric input	Raise the draw cadence or enable Motion Smoothing’s smoothing pipeline while keeping Celeste physics at 60 TPS when TPS Bypass is off.	Normal clear
TPS Bypass	Numeric input	Change the simulation tick cadence.	Cheat
Safe Mode	Toggle	Safe Mode indicator plus optional local stat guards for deaths, jumps, and best-run fields.	None
Freeze Attempts	Toggle	Restore the current save slot’s total deaths and current area-mode deaths while Safe Mode is active.	Cheat
Submission Mode	Toggle	Enable recording metadata defaults and related warning surfaces without changing gameplay itself.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Pause Buffering	Toggle	Choose whether configured hotkeys can fire while Celeste is paused.	Cheat
Autosave	Toggle	Save the active Celeste file automatically at configured triggers, with optional settings saves.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Defer Engine GC	Toggle	Move Celeste’s forced blocking garbage collection off death and room reload and onto the next StartPos load. On by default.	Normal clear

FPS Bypass and TPS Bypass appear only when Motion Smoothing is loaded. FPS Bypass changes drawing while Celeste physics stays at 60 TPS when TPS Bypass is off. TPS Bypass changes the physics cadence.

Option menus

Rows with a triangle expose the controls listed below.

Option	Menu control	What it changes	Classification
FPS Bypass	Target FPS	Draw target while FPS Bypass is enabled. When TPS Bypass is off, Motion Smoothing keeps Celeste physics at 60 TPS while drawing extra frames.	Normal clear
FPS Bypass	Method	Interval keeps render cadence aligned to physics ticks. Dynamic allows arbitrary FPS but is riskier for code that hooks the main tick.	Normal clear
FPS Bypass	Smooth Camera	Fancy is highest quality, Fast is cheaper but can jitter backgrounds, Off leaves the camera pixel-locked.	Normal clear
FPS Bypass	Objects	Extrapolate predicts between physics frames. Interpolate uses prior frames and can add 1-2 frames of delay.	Normal clear for Extrapolate; Cheat for Interpolate
FPS Bypass	TAS mode	Keeps overworld updates locked for TAS compatibility while level gameplay remains controlled by TPS Bypass.	Cheat
FPS Bypass	Subpixel Madeline	Reference option for drawing Madeline and held items at subpixel render positions.	Normal clear
FPS Bypass	Smooth background	Reference option for high-resolution background compositing in Fancy camera smoothing.	Normal clear
FPS Bypass	Smooth foreground	Reference option for high-resolution foreground compositing in Fancy camera smoothing.	Normal clear
FPS Bypass	Hide edge gaps	Reference option: slightly zooms the level to hide gaps introduced by fractional camera offsets.	Normal clear
FPS Bypass	Nasty mode	Apply the experimental smoothing preset that Motion Smoothing recommends avoiding in real gameplay.	Cheat
Frame Stepper	Step once	Advance one frozen frame. Only works while Frame Stepper and Freeze Gameplay are on.	Cheat
Frame Stepper	Hold key repeats	When enabled, holding the step key advances frames repeatedly.	Cheat
Frame Stepper	Delay	Frames to wait before hold-repeat starts.	Cheat
Frame Stepper	Every	Frames between repeated steps after the delay.	Cheat
Safe Mode	Freeze deaths	Restore the current save slot’s total deaths and current area-mode deaths while Safe Mode is active.	None
Safe Mode	Freeze jumps	Restore the current save slot’s total jumps while Safe Mode is active.	None
Safe Mode	Freeze best run	Restore the current area-mode best-time and best-full-clear-time fields while Safe Mode is active.	None
Autosave	Interval	Seconds between automatic save attempts.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Autosave	Minimum delay	When Avoid gameplay is on, block automatic saves until this cooldown has passed after entering a level or completing a save.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Autosave	Level load	Autosave when a level starts or reloads. Room transitions do not trigger it.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Autosave	Spawn update	Autosave on spawn update.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Autosave	Respawn	Autosave on respawn.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Autosave	Pause	Autosave on pause.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Autosave	Avoid gameplay	Defer automatic saves while the minimum-delay cooldown is active.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Autosave	Save settings	Save Celeste settings with the active save file.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Autosave	Hide saving icon	Hide Celeste’s save and load icons while this setting is on.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Autosave	Save now	Save the current file immediately through Akron’s autosave path, even when Autosave is off or the minimum-delay cooldown is active.	Goldberry/Hardlist clear
Transition Speed	Speed	Adjust the next room-transition speed multiplier. Values below 1x are slower and values above 1x are faster.	Cheat

Safe Mode stat guards capture their baseline when each guard becomes active. Turning one guard off allows its counters to change; turning it back on captures the new values without rolling back that interval. Guard snapshots reset when the active save or area stats change. Restoration happens during level updates; this is not a guarantee against every same-frame save or exit path.