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I think bringing back the offline multiplayer would be quite hard, but I can't see the problem with offline saving.

Neonight, what are you talking about? Of course there was an offline save feature. I don't know whether it was working when playing multiplayer, but it worked when there was just one player.
(I am only talking about something before version 1.28, which is the only "old" version I have ever seen (except Java Zelda). I myself could be called a newbie by some others here).