My friend accidentally deleted their game save, am I able to restore it?

[FortKnite]

Hi everyone, I have a friend who accidentally deleted their Animal Crossing save without a backup. A 2 year old save.

I purchased a jig and I'm trying to see if I can scan the internal drive of the switch to do a recovery. I told them to shut the switch off immediately and wait till I could try it myself so as to not overwrite the sectors I'm desiring to recover.

I only have a macbook to work with is there additional steps required to getting into RCM mode?

It's an unpatched and unmodded launch console.

I do have experience with mods from other nintendo devices previously, but this is my first switch attempt.

I've read a few guides and watched a few videos, but nothing with my specific questions answered.

 

[Draxzelex]

Hi everyone, I have a friend who accidentally deleted their Animal Crossing save without a backup. A 2 year old save.

I purchased a jig and I'm trying to see if I can scan the internal drive of the switch to do a recovery. I told them to shut the switch off immediately and wait till I could try it myself so as to not overwrite the sectors I'm desiring to recover.

I only have a macbook to work with is there additional steps required to getting into RCM mode?

It's an unpatched and unmodded launch console.

I do have experience with mods from other nintendo devices previously, but this is my first switch attempt.

I've read a few guides and watched a few videos, but nothing with my specific questions answered.

I answered your question in this thread. Please use that thread next time instead.

 

[Hayato213]

It is gone if he made no backup of the save

 

[FortKnite]

It is gone if he made no backup of the save

there's no way to scan the internal memory at all? I'm assuming it is strictly encrypted?

 

[Hayato213]

there's no way to scan the internal memory at all? I'm assuming it is strictly encrypted?

If he deleted it is gone from the NAND, he can try recover data if he has a NAND backup that was made with the game save data on that NAND.

 

[impeeza]

there's no way to scan the internal memory at all? I'm assuming it is strictly encrypted?

The saves perse aren't just files when you delete a internal file change and you can not restores without a backup.

 

[FortKnite]

The saves perse aren't just files when you delete a internal file change and you can not restores without a backup.

Good to know, I'm gonna have to tell him he's SOL. Appreciate the help guys.