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Some retailers, such as GameStop have special permissions when letting owners trade in their old 3DS when buying a new one.
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If you no longer have access to your old 3DS, you have to call Nintendo customer service and see if they can help you recover your games as the licenses are still tied to the old system. You cannot back up the data and just sell the old one and expect the data to work on your New 3DS.
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I had about 12 gigs of eShop games on the SD card, that would have taken 8+ hours I think if I had tried to do the entire system transfer over wifi.Īfterwards the old 3DS XL was reinitialized and basically ready for a new owner, popped the stock 4gb SD card into it and traded it into gamestop during one of their 50% bonus trade in weeks.What you need to know before transferring: - You must have both Nintendo 3DS units to complete the license transfer. Took only about 10 minutes of actual time in the system tool, mostly to transfer some of the old DSi virtual games I had bought/gotten free. At some point there is an option on whether you swapped SD cards, its terribly confusing wording wise but if you look at some guides or youtube videos before hand it is easier. Started both systems up, and ran the system transfer tool under system settings. Then powered it down, took out the backplate, removed the default 4gb microSD card, and took the microSD + adapter out of my old 3DS XL and put just the microSD card into my new 3DS XL. Once I had the new 3DS XL in hand I started it up but did NOT set up a nintendo network ID on it, just setup wifi so it was on the net.

Put the new card (in SD adapter) into old 3DS and kept playing until I bought new 3DS XL. Took out the old SD card, copied all the contents to a PC, put new microSD card (in SD adapter) into PC, copied over the backup I just made. I did the xfer when I bought majora mask 3DS XL, it wasn't too bad if you aren't under time constraints (ie trying to do it at a gamestop store).įirst I bought a 32gb microSD card with adapter, since my old 3Ds used SD card and new 3DS XL only uses microSD. I have transferred my ambassador status to many 3DS systems, over the years, including a couple different N3DSXL's. This is super easy and not rocket science. It will hang for almost 5 minutes after everything is done to finalize. Take the adapter out of old 3DS, eject that micro sd and insert it into N3DS. Unscrew back and take out included micro sd. Move contents on system memory to microsd on the old system, accept a delete.Īfter the Pikmin have moved all of your shit, it will ask to begin using the old (micro asd in adapter, from earlier steps, with the new system) sd card. Take old 3DS and set up a system transfer.
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Grab N3DS, set it up and update the firmware, Using a micro sd card adapter, insert the newly copied micro sd into old 3ds and test it.
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Insert micro sd card into computer, copy PC contents onto that card. If you're using an SD card, insert into a PC and copy contents.
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I lost all my save data, my friend code, my StreetPass data (Miis, Puzzle Pieces, Hats from Find Mii, etc) and I had to download 50+ games again overnight. So yeah, if it fails, it's a big fuck you to you - called Nintendo and the person on the phone literally said "we're new to this so I'm not sure why that happened".
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I ended up with a new friend code as well, the only thing that I was able to bring over was my Nintendo Network ID. I had to redownload all my games and I lost all the save data, despite all that stuff being on the Micro SD Card - it wouldn't read. Both 3DS' restarted and the N3DS XL didn't have any of the games or save data from the old - and the 3DS XL was like a brand new unit, nothing on it. My system transfer failed at the Nintendo eShop stage.

I followed the instructions from the video Nintendo posted on YouTube very carefully. I'm mostly digital, I tried to transfer my content from my 3DS XL > N3DS XL using the 'easiest' method where you copy over your files from the SD card to the PC and then copy that file over to the MicroSD card. As someone who never really had an issue with it before the N3DS XL, I definitely have an issue with it now.
