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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is 6.2 GB, won't allow to transfer save between consoles (and no cloud saves)
- Thread starter Atheerios
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Animal Crossing has always been restrictive with saves.
Seems silly but they don't want you duping or cheating items.
Seems silly but they don't want you duping or cheating items.
I assume they will be adding a full system transfer option to the OS to address this. It is nonsensical how the current system requires you to transfer individual users but not everything at once.
All save data is stored on the Switch's internal storage, you can't have it go on the sd card
It seems that transfers will work if you're on your own Switch and perform a full system data transfer, but a single account can't copy the save data
this is a huge reminder that Nintendo really doesn't want people sharing Switches
It is bizarre to me that based on what I'm reading a full system transfer from one Switch to another is not a stock feature the way it was on 3DS
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What other way is there to have a shared island that automatically sync between profiles?
The file/save that contains the island, which is probably the most valuable aspect of the game, is shared between every profile. Every profile then has a separate file/save for its configuration and character.
My question is, why do you need to do a shared island?
What is the game design benefit of this?
Where? All information just points to the current account transfer option, which is not a system transfer. You are only moving a single account at a time. Not the entire system's data. The problem with AC is that the save is not account specific, it's system specific. All accounts share the same save data. So transferring one account, even if it's the main owner's account, to another Switch doesn't move the save data as the other accounts still remain on the original Switch.
The worst kind of game to lock down a save file. Soooo much time will be spent in this that you're really going to fuck over anyone that has a system that breaks or if they want to upgrade to the Switch Pro next year?
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Ah that's what you mean. Sorry I'm not a developer and never played AC before so I don't know.
But when this was initially announced it seemed most longtime AC fans defended it as "that's how it's always been".
Ah, right, I am getting this confused with how it works on 3DS, at least partly.
it seems technical to me.
Assuming that it works the way I expect it to (the limitation only applies when one secondary user gets their own Switch and transfers specifically their own data, meaning that a full system transfer would transfer data), how exactly would a save transfer work? Would it copy the island, leaving the original intact and giving the new Switch a duplicate?
I think that this is an example of Nintendo's bizarre lack of communication about the game starting to bite them, people are assuming how undisclosed systems will work based on the tiny scraps of details that get out.
You get to live together and share the experience. You and your SO can complain about how you keep geting crappy villagers instead of Gabriel and Pietro or work together to make public works projects and whatnot. While forcing you to the same island is crappy, not letting you share the island would suck a lot
What exactly is Animal Crossing? If you guys don't want to answer me (understandable), can you link me to a good article/video explaining? Are there any old ones on 2ds?
Nintendo disabling cloud saves on literally the games that need peace-of-mind backups the most, is one of the worst things they're doing.
Startiing to get a little worried we no so little about this game. It's like a mixture of hype and anxiety. Hypiety. Why do we know so little about this Animal Crossing entry? We know that we will be building up from scratch, but I really want a confirmation that the old-school style of play is there as well. Everything looks awesome from what we've seen, but I really hope you can just relax in your town like the old games as well.
boiled down to bare minimum, it's a town, neighbor, and home simulator that runs in real-time
Everyone shares the same village so you can work together
Yep, glad I can backup my saves for stuff like this with homebrew. But if my Switch breaks then I'm still screwed tbh.
You'd need to get another hackable switch to restore the saves and finding one of those at this point is pretty tough.
it's super cute! you phone a friend who also lives on the island on another account and can play locally within one screen, with either player acting as the "leader" for the camera and entering buildings and stuff. I would've flipped for it as a kid with my sisters.
above vid is linked at the relevant timestamp
Hey guys please pay for our online service so you can have cloud saves (that go away if you let it lapse for too long) because we don't allow any alternate type of save backup whatsoever. Also a number of our biggest games do not allow for this feature either, particularly games that you would actually want the feature for.
Thanks nintendo.
Thanks nintendo.
a whole system transfer is a whole system transfer. if it doesn't end up working I'll eat my proverbially hat
I already bought a lite in preparation of Animal Crossing. I already know my oldest son and daughter (maybe the wife too) will want to play this. At this point the only option is for me to buy the game on both systems and play online between the 2 islands? This is strange...what is the reason is what I must know.
So it's basically a problem of the 1 island per console and transferring over would break shit. I'm guessing they'll release a way to transfer everything from one console to another to solve this.
Oh right. This is still a thing with Nintendo. I even started entertaining the idea of buying a Switch, but thanks for the reminder as to why I thought I didn't want to emotionally (and monetarily) invest in a Switch yet.
Plenty of other games to play, happy to buy a Switch years from now. Even if it means missing out on that sweet AC edition.
Plenty of other games to play, happy to buy a Switch years from now. Even if it means missing out on that sweet AC edition.
I wish I had all dog neighborsno
its just gonna be me and an island of dog neighbors
