Nintendo Outlines How to Transfer Your 3DS Data with 16 Steps, Screwdriver and PC Sold Separately - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 11 February 2015 / 4,243 Views
Nintendo has released a video showcasing how 3DS owners can transfer their data from to the New 3DS that will be released this Friday. The number of steps required? 16. You read that right. It takes 16 steps to transfer your data over.
In order to transfer your data you will need to use your current 3DS/2DS, the New 3DS, your current SD card with saves data, the MicroSD card of the same size or larger, a size 0 Phillips screwdriver, a PC, an adapter to connect the SD and MicroSD cards to said computer, and a wireless broadband internet access.
Eurogamer has outlines the steps required:
- Go through the setup on your New 3DS, download the latest software, but do not create a new Nintendo Network ID on this system as it will overwrite your old one.
- On the home menu, go to System Settings, then Other Settings, then System Transfer.
- On both systems select "Transfer From a System in the Nintendo 3DS Family." Select "send" from the old system and "receive" to the new one.
- Follow the prompts to confirm the transfer.
- Select "delete" to erase the content on the New 3DS's microSD card.
- Select "no" on the New 3DS to confirm that no other microSD cards have been used with the system.
- Select "yes" on the old 3DS to confirm that you're using an SD card (these come with the system, so you likely are).
- Select "PC-based transfer."
- Select "move" on the source system.
- Once this is complete the old 3DS will format and the New 3DS will restart.
- Power off both systems and remove their SD/microSD cards. This will require using a size zero Phillips screwdriver to remove the back panel on the New 3DS.
- Connect the SD card to your computer and copy the folder called Nintendo 3DS to your desktop.
- Connect the New 3DS's microSD card to your computer and copy the folder from step 12 into it.
- Insert the microSD card into your New 3DS, reattach the back panel and power the system on.
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This isn't nearly as difficult as it's being portrayed to be. A lot of the steps are very simple, obvious things. Could this have been made easier? Yes, of course. Is it difficult, though? No, it isn't.
This. Also, those are 14 steps :-P .
They get the 16 from the video Nintendo themselves uploaded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y88G3tp_f88
facepalm What a bonehead move not to include the PC in the box...
Um...
Why cant they just make it so you swap the sd cards over, come the f on nintendo.
Why can't they just let us download our games and saves from the Cloud like every other modern company?
My 3DS is from the UK and I plan to get my new 3DS from the US so I can link it to the same account that's on my Wii U which is from the US, so all this doesn't bother me.
It took me 3 hours to transfer data from 3dsXL to new3DSXL last night
if you want to use a PC to do it.. you could just use the wireless transfer option
There´s nothing really difficult or complicated about it. It´s exactly the same steps we would follow with the old 3ds, just with the difference of using a micro sd card and screwing the micro sd cover. It´s just that those steps are so detailed that it makes it feel complicated. The system itself teaches you all the steps during the process
So I will get a free sd card adapter with the n3ds? Sweet! (I know we won't but if you are going to include "screw driver and PC sold separately, may as well include that too!) Also, thankfully there are other ways to transfer your games as well (if u watch the video) so for those of us that don't have an sd card, we can do it the old fashioned way!
free* instead of press T_T
