3DS XL System Transfer Discussion!

[Hamusuta]

WAIT WAIT WAIT HOLD UP. If I don't transfer my data to the new ac bundle i'm getting, will it lose all the other data on other games? Or is the data stored on the card like normal ds games?

 

[Cottonball]

Question about System transfer! It takes your street passes and downloaded games to the DS your transferring too, right?

 

[JCnator]

As if the 3DS to 3DS System Transfer isn't obvious enough, it transfers everything you've done on your old 3DS. Heck, it even merges with what has been done to your target system.

Example: 3DS A has 10 NES games. 3DS B has ACNL. You do a System Transfer, and 3DS B will have both 10 NES games and ACNL. 3DS A will have nothing.

 

[Punchyleaf]

Street passes I don't think are transferred. My pink XL doesn't have any of the street passes, swapnote stationary, or spotpass tags from the old 3ds I had transferred from

 

[JCnator]

Street passes I don't think are transferred. My pink XL doesn't have any of the street passes, swapnote stationary, or spotpass tags from the old 3ds I had transferred from

How odd. My StreetPass data (and everything else) has transferred successfully from my original Aqua Blue 3DS to my Red 3DS XL without any trouble.

 

[Hamusuta]

Guys pl0x answer my question i'm scared ;_;

 

[Punchyleaf]

Well then we have a predicament lol
I had a plaza population of about 20 street pass tags, about 5 or so of the special distributed Mii's, and the rest were spotpass ones. Not a single one was transferred over. O.e stationery from swapnote does get deleted during the transfer though.

Hamusuta
Maybe if you explained a bit, it would be easier to explain, as I'm not sure I'm understanding you correctly right now

 

[tigereyes86]

Thank you so much, this is very helpful! - So if I were to put my animal crossing cartridge in the XL (once its had the system transfer,) It would have all the same data it did before?

If it's the cartridge, then your save data is stored on the game cartridge itself, so you can play it in any 3DS console (no system transfer needed for cartridge save data) and have all your save info right there! Game cartridge is easy, everything is on that cart!

WAIT WAIT WAIT HOLD UP. If I don't transfer my data to the new ac bundle i'm getting, will it lose all the other data on other games? Or is the data stored on the card like normal ds games?

If you have cartridge games, that is, the actual plastic game that you would buy in a shop then your save data is actually saved to that game card! So whether you system transfer or not, the game you've played is all in that cart. System transfer allows you to keep everything (including save data) from an existing 3DS and put it onto a shiny new 3DS. All you would do is move your current SD card to the new system, redownload your digital content and pick up where you left off. The only thing that doesn't transfer is credit card details, internet settings, parental settings and user information (from Nintendo website to quote my source!)

Oh Cottonball, I forgot to quote you, but it should take the Streetpass Mii Plaza info, yes, and it saves a record in the eshop on the new 3DS that you've downloaded certain games, so if you keep your existing SD card after transfer, all you have to do is redownload your games for free and set off as you were the last time you played!

Note: Streetpass Mii Plaza data and stationery should transfer, so it's weird how it's not working for some of you !

 

[Campy]

Reviving this thread because I have a question:

I'd like to transfer my data to my XL, but I would also like to make use of that nice 4GB SD card in the XL. Now, I know that the last step after the transfer is to take out the 2GB card from my 3DS and put it into my XL. Can I just copy paste the data from the 2GB to the 4GB card after the transfer? (So I've basically already put the 2GB SD in my XL, and then I copy paste the data?) Or do I do this before the transfer? (So I put everything on the 4GB card now, then do the system transfer to the XL without an SD card in it, and then put in the 4GB card after the transfer).

Or would both work? Sorry if the explanation is overly detailed, I just wanted to make sure there's no confusion about what I'm asking.

Thanks in advance!

 

[tigereyes86]

Reviving this thread because I have a question:

I'd like to transfer my data to my XL, but I would also like to make use of that nice 4GB SD card in the XL. Now, I know that the last step after the transfer is to take out the 2GB card from my 3DS and put it into my XL. Can I just copy paste the data from the 2GB to the 4GB card after the transfer? (So I've basically already put the 2GB SD in my XL, and then I copy paste the data?) Or do I do this before the transfer? (So I put everything on the 4GB card now, then do the system transfer to the XL without an SD card in it, and then put in the 4GB card after the transfer).

Or would both work? Sorry if the explanation is overly detailed, I just wanted to make sure there's no confusion about what I'm asking.

Thanks in advance!

No need to apologise, I get wordy when I need specifics too . And yes, after the transfer, format the 4Gb card and then transfer the data on the 2Gb across to the 4Gb on the computer. Because the 2Gb is now transferred to use on the new XL, the 4Gb will have this info on it as well now and will work on the new console just fine. Double check it all works fine (some people say that stationery in swapnote won't transfer after system transfer and some say it does. if it doesn't, I'm more than happy to send it all on to you) and you can format the 2Gb card and use it in your phone or camera etc. I'm about to transfer my 4Gb card onto a 16Gb card before I get the bundle so I'll let you know any tips I come across!!

 

[Campy]

No need to apologise, I get wordy when I need specifics too . And yes, after the transfer, format the 4Gb card and then transfer the data on the 2Gb across to the 4Gb on the computer. Because the 2Gb is now transferred to use on the new XL, the 4Gb will have this info on it as well now and will work on the new console just fine. Double check it all works fine (some people say that stationery in swapnote won't transfer after system transfer and some say it does. if it doesn't, I'm more than happy to send it all on to you) and you can format the 2Gb card and use it in your phone or camera etc. I'm about to transfer my 4Gb card onto a 16Gb card before I get the bundle so I'll let you know any tips I come across!!

Thanks so much for answering!

Yeah, I've heard different things about certain data not being transferred that should have been; I hope I can just get it all to work smoothly in one go. The loss of stationery, I can live with (though I would love to get them back!) but I would absolutely hate to lose my Mii Plaza data. All the puzzles, hats and streetpasses.. I must keep those.

But your explanation makes perfect sense! And I'd appreciate any extra tips you come across, thanks!

 

[tigereyes86]

Thanks so much for answering!

Yeah, I've heard different things about certain data not being transferred that should have been; I hope I can just get it all to work smoothly in one go. The loss of stationery, I can live with (though I would love to get them back!) but I would absolutely hate to lose my Mii Plaza data. All the puzzles, hats and streetpasses.. I must keep those.

But your explanation makes perfect sense! And I'd appreciate any extra tips you come across, thanks!

Aw no problem, think I'll tackle it next weekend. Nintendo website says all that should transfer with no problems in a system transfer, I think people that had the loss of stationery etc hadnt got the SD card part of it right. So I'll do SD card transfer next weekend and system transfer the weekend NL comes out and my bundle is here!

 

[fink]

ok, I've read and re-read this thread like 5 times and I'm still in the gray on a couple things.

I want to transfer everything from my 3ds (we will call this A) to my AC3ds XL (we will call this B) I also want to transfer everything from ds A's sd card to ds B's larger sd card. My questions are as follows:

1.) Does anyone know if the method in this link HERE works for the sd card upgrade?

2.) Is it impossible to download the digital ACNL to ds A? Do you presume it will ever be possible if it currently is not?

3.) If the answer to question 2 is yes than does a save/town store itself within the game cartridge. I.E. could I play the save on any ds I insert the physical game into? Is the sd card required to play the physical game's save on another ds?

4.) Whether or not the answer to 3 is yes or no, are the digital and physical save files if both played on ds B differentiated?

5.) If both saves/towns are played on ds B, how does friend code work for visiting friends?

I'm sorry if these points have been well covered, I am just asking because I've read this thread through time and time again and I am still confused.

 

[fink]

Maybe I'll just ask nintendo

 

[Stupefiant]

I didn't want to start a thread for this apologize me for asking this here but would that SD card work on the 3DS? http://www.amazon.ca/SanDisk-Extrem...9107324&sr=8-3&keywords=32gb+sandisk+class+10

I'm going for a digital Animal Crossing and have only 3200 blocks left, which won't be enough for Animal Crossing (8000 blocks) so i'm ordering a new SD card for my 3DS. I know for a fact that it is a great card but I've heard some cards won't work in the 3DS so I need to be sure before ordering it. Thanks.

 

[Punchyleaf]

AC is 6002 blocks, not 8000. I'm not particularly sure how well that one would be, though :c

 

[Cottonball]

If there are anybody wondering like I was I did a System Transfer to my new XL and I got everything on it. Mii's, swapnote things, street passes, the layout of all the games, and all the eshop data!

 

[Campy]

If there are anybody wondering like I was I did a System Transfer to my new XL and I got everything on it. Mii's, swapnote things, street passes, the layout of all the games, and all the eshop data!

That's reassuring to know. Thanks!

 

[PumpkinVine47]

Thanks for all the great information in this thread, everyone! I think I have it all down now to get my old 3DS to transfer everything to the bundle, but to make sure... check my work. I've done system transfers before, but I have never done an SD card upgrade.

1. New, higher speed and capacity SD card arrives by Friday. I follow these instructions to make it my Old!3DS card, since Old!3DS card will ultimately be used in Bundle!3DS. (Correct?)

2. Sunday, I acquire Bundle!3DS and after it's charged, do a System Transfer.

3. Redownload AC:NL (boo) from eShop to reacquire it on Bundle!3DS since eShop data should hopefully be merged.

Does that sound like a correct plan?

 

[tigereyes86]

Thanks for all the great information in this thread, everyone! I think I have it all down now to get my old 3DS to transfer everything to the bundle, but to make sure... check my work. I've done system transfers before, but I have never done an SD card upgrade.

1. New, higher speed and capacity SD card arrives by Friday. I follow these instructions to make it my Old!3DS card, since Old!3DS card will ultimately be used in Bundle!3DS. (Correct?)

2. Sunday, I acquire Bundle!3DS and after it's charged, do a System Transfer.

3. Redownload AC:NL (boo) from eShop to reacquire it on Bundle!3DS since eShop data should hopefully be merged.

Does that sound like a correct plan?

In short, YES, you got it in one!!!!! I actually upgraded my SD card on Sunday and followed the instructions in the link you gave, but at Step 7, there was no merging to be done because there was nothing saved to the extra, smaller file created when you put it in the 3DS to initialise so I just deleted it and EVERYTHING is still there, photos, saves, demos etc.

So now we're in the same boat, our SD cards are upgraded in anticipation for NL bundle. Let us know how the SD upgrade goes, it's dead easy and you'll do just fine!