Hi all,
Just wanted to give a friendly warning as I've just fallen foul of something.
If you have the eShop (digital) version of Animal Crossing New Leaf for 3DS, if you do a system transfer, you must copy the entire game (do a full transfer) or you will lose your town and save-data.
If you have the cart version, it's different, but for the digital version, your savegame is inherently tied to the game saved on your SD card.
Most 3DS games, when copied, split their game data (the actual game) and the savedata into two files, so when you do the transfer, you can just select to copy all the savedata and redownload the games from the eShop afterward (the savedata "restores" automatically).
This is NOT the case for the digital version of Animal Crossing. If you don't have a big enough SD card in the target 3DS to do the transfer, then you cannot transfer your savedata at all.
Just as a warning as we found this out too late, having wiped all of Blobcat's savedata - a town save that has been live since day-1 when the game was launched. All her savedata for other games has transferred OK apart from Animal Crossing (the only one she particularly cares about).
Naturally I'm ****ing furious, as I spent all afternoon following the instructions to the letter only for this to happen.
Hopefully this will prevent this happening to someone else on here.
Just wanted to give a friendly warning as I've just fallen foul of something.
If you have the eShop (digital) version of Animal Crossing New Leaf for 3DS, if you do a system transfer, you must copy the entire game (do a full transfer) or you will lose your town and save-data.
If you have the cart version, it's different, but for the digital version, your savegame is inherently tied to the game saved on your SD card.
Most 3DS games, when copied, split their game data (the actual game) and the savedata into two files, so when you do the transfer, you can just select to copy all the savedata and redownload the games from the eShop afterward (the savedata "restores" automatically).
This is NOT the case for the digital version of Animal Crossing. If you don't have a big enough SD card in the target 3DS to do the transfer, then you cannot transfer your savedata at all.
Just as a warning as we found this out too late, having wiped all of Blobcat's savedata - a town save that has been live since day-1 when the game was launched. All her savedata for other games has transferred OK apart from Animal Crossing (the only one she particularly cares about).
Naturally I'm ****ing furious, as I spent all afternoon following the instructions to the letter only for this to happen.
Hopefully this will prevent this happening to someone else on here.
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