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Animal Crossing switch
« on: April 14, 2020, 04:22:54 pm »
Hello,
I got a coworker that downloaded this for his son. His daughter wants to play it too, but it only has one save file/world etc.
Is there a way around this, so both kids have their own game?

sworddude

Re: Animal Crossing switch
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2020, 05:33:31 pm »
buy a new switch console  ;D

one island has been an animal crossing staple since the very beginning

Ds wii 3ds gamecube.

And on the gamecube you could have multiple islands but that's only because gamecube used memory cards. so one island per memory card
« Last Edit: April 14, 2020, 06:29:02 pm by sworddude »
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Re: Animal Crossing switch
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2020, 06:44:53 pm »
Yeah the world save is hard coded to the console itself so that's why you can't change it.

Re: Animal Crossing switch
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2020, 06:46:33 pm »
Wow that sucks.
Thanks for the replies. I’ll pass this info on.

Re: Animal Crossing switch
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2020, 07:06:35 pm »
Yeah it's just the usual terrible Nintendo restrictions, which is really frustrating, as there's no really good justification for them to have this.

Re: Animal Crossing switch
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2020, 08:22:28 pm »
buy a new switch console  ;D

one island has been an animal crossing staple since the very beginning

Ds wii 3ds gamecube.

And on the gamecube you could have multiple islands but that's only because gamecube used memory cards. so one island per memory card
Pretty sure on DS and 3DS you just needed a second copy of the game. Not sure how it worked on Wii.

Re: Animal Crossing switch
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2020, 09:34:40 pm »
Ok. My coworker is just gonna buy another switch. Does he need two copies of the game too? Can you just redownload the game in new system with a clean slate?
Thanks

Re: Animal Crossing switch
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2020, 10:19:35 pm »
If his copy is digital, yes. If it's a physical cart, they could pass the cart back and forth and still each have their own island, but be unable to play together.

Re: Animal Crossing switch
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2020, 10:46:48 pm »
Got it. Thanks.

dhaabi

Re: Animal Crossing switch
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2020, 02:49:56 am »
buy a new switch console  ;D

one island has been an animal crossing staple since the very beginning

Ds wii 3ds gamecube.

And on the gamecube you could have multiple islands but that's only because gamecube used memory cards. so one island per memory card
Pretty sure on DS and 3DS you just needed a second copy of the game. Not sure how it worked on Wii.

To my understanding, City Folk functions the same as New Horizons in terms of multiple play files. If two people want their own separate town but only have one Wii, they'll need to purchase a second console. City Folk's save data is stored directly on the system; its data can't be saved to SD cards either.

sworddude

Re: Animal Crossing switch
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2020, 06:57:02 am »
buy a new switch console  ;D

one island has been an animal crossing staple since the very beginning

Ds wii 3ds gamecube.

And on the gamecube you could have multiple islands but that's only because gamecube used memory cards. so one island per memory card
Pretty sure on DS and 3DS you just needed a second copy of the game. Not sure how it worked on Wii.

To my understanding, City Folk functions the same as New Horizons in terms of multiple play files. If two people want their own separate town but only have one Wii, they'll need to purchase a second console. City Folk's save data is stored directly on the system; its data can't be saved to SD cards either.

as I said one island is an animal crossing staple all games work the same.

The only reason why the 3ds and ds releases needed a 2nd game is because the save file was stored on the game cardridge still just one island per game cardridge though all ds games stored their save data on the cart never the system memory. Wii is exactly the same as new horizons as in buy a new console.

still though when you think about it, buying 2 games to get a seperate island is still pretty bad. The only reason why people would excuse the handheld games for this is because a handheld is usually not shared between multiple people. Multiple save files can't be to hard since pretty much all ds games had it.

The most friendly animal crossing games in terms of multiple islands is the gamecube version since a new memory card per player is way cheaper and more convenient, than a new game cardridge or a console.
« Last Edit: April 15, 2020, 09:47:14 am by sworddude »
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Re: Animal Crossing switch
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2020, 02:02:04 pm »
Thanks for all the help on this.
Here’s how it went down:
His son is playing on the master profile on the original system. He logged in on the second system with sons profile, redownloaded the game for his daughter and made that the master console. They can now both play online together with one digital copy. As long as all future games are purchased with the master profile, only one copy needed. Seems kind of like how Xbox One works.
Thanks again!!