Question About Moving from Digital to Cartridge

[tajikey]

For the last 3 months, I've been playing the game on two systems (me on one, kids on the other) with one digital copy. This was fine up until wanting to play together.

I went ahead and got a physical copy of the game, popped it in my system, and figured it'd fix our problem. However, though the system recognizes the cartridge, it still checks online to see if I can play the software, and still doesn't let me connect locally to join with my kids. I've messed with the settings so my system can't connect to the Internet...same problem.

Any suggestions?

 

[JellyBeans]

I'm not entirely sure on the details but when I moved my account onto a different switch, I had to ensure my switch was my primary switch for my account. don't know if you've done that already but that might make a difference?

 

[tajikey]

I didn't think it would matter, seeing as I've now got two copies of the game, one being physical. But if I make my AC:NH Switch primary, will it add any additional games to my system, or ruin Minecraft stuff on theirs?

 

[JellyBeans]

I didn't think it would matter, seeing as I've now got two copies of the game, one being physical. But if I make my AC:NH Switch primary, will it add any additional games to my system, or ruin Minecraft stuff on theirs?

I have no idea if it would make an actual difference but it might be worth a try? as for the data, it depends which account you bought their games on I believe. for example I bought ACNH on my account on our family's shared switch, then moved my account onto a different switch and made that my primary switch. I can now play ACNH whenever I want on my switch, but if my sister tries to play on my acc on the other switch, she can only play if I'm not. my sister also played minecraft on my acc on the shared switch and now she can only play that (on my acc) if I'm not playing, but as far as I'm aware she could play on her acc. don't know if that made sense aha

 

[Dio]

Not to sure what’s happening but maybe if you uninstall the game data on that particular switch? I don’t think it wipes your island data but correct me if I’m wrong

 

[tajikey]

Not to sure what’s happening but maybe if you uninstall the game data on that particular switch? I don’t think it wipes your island data but correct me if I’m wrong

This scares me more than anything!

 

[Dio]

This scares me more than anything!

Sorry about that , Someone may have ran into the same problem and could give some advice on this.

 

[Manah]

This scares me more than anything!

If you only delete the game (press + on the menu icon and chooce "delete software") it won't touch your save data. That's a separate option in the system settings that comes with a very clear warning if you attempt to delete saves files.

 

[tajikey]

If you only delete the game (press + on the menu icon and chooce "delete software") it won't touch your save data. That's a separate option in the system settings that comes with a very clear warning if you attempt to delete saves files.

And you believe this will fix the issue I described in my OP?

 

[Manah]

And you believe this will fix the issue I described in my OP?

I don't know, I only have one Switch, but it's worth a try?

 

[bebebese]

I would refer to nintendo's own literature on this, they have some weird policies with primary and secondary (or maybe in this case, parent and child) accounts.
You've already encountered the main one, that the primary and secondary accounts can't both play the same game at once if they're both online.
Depending on what you want to do, you might need to make an entirely new switch account/profile. I don't know your exact setup right now, and I'm not too well versed, so I can't really advise much further. Don't go deleting or transferring until you know what you're doing/what will happen.

Edit :new horizons is a weird case, given the whole "one island per switch" and no news on transferring a save to a new switch yet... I think you'll need to be prepared for one of you to have to start your island over

 

[tajikey]

If you only delete the game (press + on the menu icon and chooce "delete software") it won't touch your save data. That's a separate option in the system settings that comes with a very clear warning if you attempt to delete saves files.

This was the answer to my problem. Thank you ever so much!