Transfer save games from CFW Switch to original Switch lite possible?

Bravestarr · Mar 31, 2026

Hi,

My kids used my cfw switch. Now they have both an an original switch lite with kids accounts. Can I somehow transfer the save states to these closed devices? They refuse to play on their switch lites if the Mario odyssey saved game is not present.

I tried to find something on the net and here but there is not a tutorial on how exactly this works - and if it still works.

Thanks!

Hayato213 · Mar 31, 2026

You risk a ban messing with cfw with unmodded system. On the modded switch you can try to login into the profile you want the save on and then inject the save and then transfer the profile or move the save to switch lite

Bravestarr · Mar 31, 2026

So no direct transfer possible somehow? Isnt there a wireless transfer? I am pretty sure that the CFW switch can't go online anymore and I did not used emunand back than.

Hayato213 · Mar 31, 2026

Bravestarr said:
So no direct transfer possible somehow? Isnt there a wireless transfer? I am pretty sure that the CFW switch can't go online anymore and I did not used emunand back than.

Not easy but basically you have to back up the save and then login to their profiles on the modded switch and inject save then use the save transfer method or move the entire profile it is risky though.

InsaneNutter · Mar 31, 2026

The Switch has to check in with Nintendo to do a wireless transfer, so needs to be unbanned.

If you can find an unbanned PRODINFO you can essentially do what is detailed in this thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-transfer-saves-from-banned-switch-1.672069/

Realistically though any PRODINFO you likely find online is going to be banned or banned pretty quickly.

It might be easier to find another exploitable OG Switch that is not banned, restore the saves to that totally offline using CFW, then just transfer them as normal to the new Switch Lite consoles.

The Real Jdbye · Apr 1, 2026

Bravestarr said:
Hi,

My kids used my cfw switch. Now they have both an an original switch lite with kids accounts. Can I somehow transfer the save states to these closed devices? They refuse to play on their switch lites if the Mario odyssey saved game is not present.

I tried to find something on the net and here but there is not a tutorial on how exactly this works - and if it still works.

Thanks!

If your sysNAND is clean, you can insert/install the legit game on the sysNAND and use JKSV to dump the save data from emu and install it to sys, then temporarily log in to their profiles on the sysNAND and use the save data transfer feature to transfer the saves to their consoles.

To run JKSV you have to boot sysNAND as "semi stock", make sure you don't have any sig patches, sysmodules, PRODINFO blanking or anything enabled that could possibly get you banned. I would probably recommend renaming/moving the atmosphere, bootloader and emummc folders temporarily and putting a fresh copy of atmosphere on and just booting fusee.bin directly just so you have a clean setup.

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