Are two towns possible with a digital and physical copy on one 3ds?

[RainyInVancouver]

tigereyes86 - that was what I was worried about. I wanted to start playing at 11:00 pm CST on June 8th on a digital download and trying different things. I saw on youtube where you can go to your island and cut down all but two trees opposite each other and one in the middle and then catch like tons and tons or valuable bugs at midnight. Then I wanted to get all those bells and mail them to myself in my other town on the physical copy that I have to wait until 11:00 am on June 9th to get. I would be devastated though if I messed things up though.

I know the thread has already concluded that you couldn't transfer the bells from one copy to the other, but I thought I'd chip in to say that this chopping down the island trees "trick" does work. I did that in my Japanese game. Once I found out about this, I analyzed which of the palm trees were generating the big beetles on a regular basis as I had noticed that some of them never seemed to get any. I chopped down all the fruit trees and dug up all the bushes and flowers (trees and flowers can be easily obtained again from the mini-games and the bushes are on sale on the island) and kept about 10 of the palm trees well spaced along the beach. Walk from one end to the other between 7pm and 8am and you will be able to rake in the bugs and sharks and make big bells. Personally, I found the hours between 3am and 8am to be most productive in beetles and sharks. I managed to reach 100 million bells in the bank using this method - using all four of my players during the early morning hours. It was a lot of work, but I don't sleep very well and am often awake at those hours

 

[Thouser8751]

Thanks for confirming the "trick". So you don't have to chop down everything but two palm trees? You can leave a line of them if you dig up everything else?

 

[XTheLancerX]

Linandko do this. If you have ever seen any of their livestreams or some other vid that shows their home screen on the 3DS you see a digital and a physical copy. (Kohei has digital Lindsey has physical) I think you even see them switch between the towns because in the livestream lindsey decided she wanted to show her town after kohei was done. I *think* thats what they did but I am not sure. But yes you can have both kinds of copies and 2 towns.

 

[tigereyes86]

I emailed Nintendo with this very question and the answer was yes You can;t have 2 digital versions, but one of each is fine.

They said this about another game that had overwriting of extra data too. Technically you can have one of each, but there's still a risk that extra data will keep overwriting and possibly lose some of your stuff if you do it. You can see why they'd keep it quiet though, more $/?

 

[RainyInVancouver]

Thanks for confirming the "trick". So you don't have to chop down everything but two palm trees? You can leave a line of them if you dig up everything else?

My beach has 11 or 12 palm trees - I'd have to go back and count. On a walk from one end to the other, I may get beetles on maybe 3 or 4 of them. Some nights, only certain of them get beetles and it will switch to others on another night. Might be worth a try to chop down more of them to see if I can do any better. It is certainly easy enough to just plant more if it doesn't work. One person whose island I visited had only 5 or 6 palm trees. If you decide on less, make sure they are spaced far enough apart so that catching a bug on one tree won't scare away the bug on the other.

 

[Thouser8751]

Thanks for the specifics. I will go ahead and try it on my island. I will just stick with one town and cut down all but a few palm trees spaced apart. I am so excited about this game and can't wait. I am a full on adult and I am taking a vacation day from work on Monday just so I can play all day.

 

[spamurai]

I asked a similar question a few days ago here...

Some people gave some good explanations.

The only way it would be possible (if nintendo let us) would be whilst playing the digital version and leaving the gate open, to then leave the game on in the background (by visiting your home screen), then re-open the physical version and travel from there (or vice versa)...
But I don't think you can have have two games running (one in the background) at the same time, which sucks.

This is something Nintendo should look into and provide an option for.

Regarding the "2 saves" data from each format (digital and physical), I can not see any reason why one would overwrite the other. Each version would have a different save directory seems one's being read from memory and one from a cart...
I'd be very surprised if there is a confirmed case of this happening.

 

[DavidR]

I've heard you can't send mail to other towns in New Leaf! However in City Folk there was Wii connect 24 that allowed you to send mail to other towns as long as you had them on your friend list and registered their Wii! console! ?

 

[tigereyes86]

Regarding the "2 saves" data from each format (digital and physical), I can not see any reason why one would overwrite the other. Each version would have a different save directory seems one's being read from memory and one from a cart...
I'd be very surprised if there is a confirmed case of this happening.

You're correct in saying that each has it's own distinct save file, but the physical cart copy still saves extra data (DLC) to the SD card, and because the digital one does this also, other games that follow this format have reported that this extra data gets overridden, so DLC has the potential to go missing. So the save progress is on the cart, but the DLC is on the SD card.

*Note I say the potential to go missing as I don't know if the DLC you download on one gets ported to the other, or if it gets deleted because it doesn't exist in one game.*

 

[Thouser8751]

I've heard you can't send mail to other towns in New Leaf! However in City Folk there was Wii connect 24 that allowed you to send mail to other towns as long as you had them on your friend list and registered their Wii! console! ?

I knew I remembered that from City Folk. I did a little more "research" online last night and it appears they have definitely taken this out of New Leaf.

 

[spamurai]

You're correct in saying that each has it's own distinct save file, but the physical cart copy still saves extra data (DLC) to the SD card, and because the digital one does this also, other games that follow this format have reported that this extra data gets overridden, so DLC has the potential to go missing. So the save progress is on the cart, but the DLC is on the SD card.

*Note I say the potential to go missing as I don't know if the DLC you download on one gets ported to the other, or if it gets deleted because it doesn't exist in one game.*

I'm too scared to find out if thats the case or not haha.

I knew I remembered that from City Folk. I did a little more "research" online last night and it appears they have definitely taken this out of New Leaf.

We'll just have to rely on friends from this forum.

One way around it would be to travel to a friends town on the forum, from your Digital Town and drop off some items. Then travel to the friends town on the forum, from your Physical Town and pick up the items...

 

[Thouser8751]

We'll just have to rely on friends from this forum.

One way around it would be to travel to a friends town on the forum, from your Digital Town and drop off some items. Then travel to the friends town on the forum, from your Physical Town and pick up the items...[/QUOTE]

Very smart!

 

[spamurai]

I've had another thought on how Nintendo might solve this problem.

You might be able to sacrifice an item/bells for a DLC code which you give to a friend or your second town; In your second town you could use the code to retrieve the item/bells using a DLC option/function...

 

[runekey]

I can't imagine what kind of world-altering stuff you guys are doing that you would need a "test" town to experiment in!

 

[tigereyes86]

I'm too scared to find out if thats the case or not haha.

One way around it would be to travel to a friends town on the forum, from your Digital Town and drop off some items. Then travel to the friends town on the forum, from your Physical Town and pick up the items...

Haha true for me too, not sure I want to try. Although the DLC is available for a few days/week I think so I can try downloading it on physical and seeing what happens when I play digital and go bacl to physical... At least then I know I can just download it again if it goes missing. But good point, I can use my bfs town as a drop off!!

I can't imagine what kind of world-altering stuff you guys are doing that you would need a "test" town to experiment in!

Haha very true, I'm only getting the digital because I ordered the bundle, but I'm not entirely sold on digital just yet to rely solely on it so I got the physical too. I may end up not utilising the digital.
Maybe we'll see crazy reports of towns gone wild during the "test phase" haha. Everyone, lock your gates...

EDIT: I just clicked the reset link in your signature and now I feel guilty even thinking of resetting. I wasn't going to, but oh the horror. That's creepy!

 

[jackieray9]

you can do it in city folk i still play it and do it all the time

 

[Thouser8751]

you can do it in city folk i still play it and do it all the time

I don't think mailing to another town is going to be possible in new leaf. I have read that Nintendo removed that option. Who knows - maybe it will be there in our NA version.