Gaming ACNH: Local play can't find legit Switch's island

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My console was banned. Like an idiot, I deleted ACNH. Local play worked fine before. Now, I can't download it off the eshop anymore so I used someone else's backup. I'm guessing this is the reason I can't find my legit Switch's island? They're both on 1.2.1. I'm guessing I should go buy a cart if I wanna play and local trade on my banned Switch?
If I did get a cart, how would I update it?

If that's not the issue, then what is?
 
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My console was banned. Like an idiot, I deleted ACNH. Local play worked fine before. Now, I can't download it off the eshop anymore so I used someone else's backup. I'm guessing this is the reason I can't find my legit Switch's island? They're both on 1.2.1. I'm guessing I should go buy a cart if I wanna play and local trade on my banned Switch?
If I did get a cart, how would I update it?

If that's not the issue, then what is?

Are you saying that on your hacked switch you're using someone else's save because you were banned and deleted your data? And now you want to trade locally between the hacked switch and the legit switch? Or do you mean that you deleted acnh because you were banned and when running the game your island is gone? if your island was gone and you used someone else's save or backup your original island is pretty much gone unfortunately.

You should be able to just go to DAL and open the gates on the hacked switch, then try to find nearby islands via local play on the legit switch they'll both go into local mode and they should find each other and you'll travel to the hacked switch's island.
 

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SX OS 2.9.5 10.2 with the latest Ah update (updated via the Match firmware version with an OFW Switch.

The local was realy plug and play. We tried with dodocode and without. ( I am in Airplane and my friend on wifi) ( both console must be in the same room) . Faster than any ping i had with Switch Lan-Play software.
 
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Which CFW is the hacked Switch using? Rebooting each Switch could also solve the problem.

I've never seen a Switch running vanilla Atmosphere plus signature patches that couldn't connect to local play between islands.
 
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SX OS 2.9.5 10.2 with the latest Ah update (updated via the Match firmware version with an OFW Switch.

The local was realy plug and play. We tried with dodocode and without. ( I am in Airplane and my friend on wifi) ( both console must be in the same room) . Faster than any ping i had with Switch Lan-Play software.

Local is designed only for well, local. It cuts connection to the internet (even wifi) and lets you connect locally so that's why the connection is so strong, Switch-Lan-Play or the mitm kip is designed so you can travel to other random islands even if your switch is banned or to your friend's island but only if he's using the mitm as well.
 

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Are you saying that on your hacked switch you're using someone else's save because you were banned and deleted your data? And now you want to trade locally between the hacked switch and the legit switch? Or do you mean that you deleted acnh because you were banned and when running the game your island is gone? if your island was gone and you used someone else's save or backup your original island is pretty much gone unfortunately.

You should be able to just go to DAL and open the gates on the hacked switch, then try to find nearby islands via local play on the legit switch they'll both go into local mode and they should find each other and you'll travel to the hacked switch's island.

Someone else's "game" as in torrented. I managed to rent(to see if it'd work before buying one) a cartridge, deleted the torrented version, and local play worked fine on stock firmware. I used "match version" to do the update. However, I still get a Communication Error when trying to do local play on CFW.
 
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Someone else's "game" as in torrented. I managed to rent(to see if it'd work before buying one) a cartridge, deleted the torrented version, and local play worked fine on stock firmware. I used "match version" to do the update. However, I still get a Communication Error when trying to do local play on CFW.

Yeah of course, so your CFW switch won't communicate with your hacked switch locally? That's really odd cause you don't even need wifi or an internet connection to connect locally, try disconnecting completely from your wifi or turn on airplane mode, when you go to turn on local play it'll say to turn off airplane mode, do it and try again. If you're trying to use switch-play-lan don't use that.
 

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Yeah of course, so your CFW switch won't communicate with your hacked switch locally? That's really odd cause you don't even need wifi or an internet connection to connect locally, try disconnecting completely from your wifi or turn on airplane mode, when you go to turn on local play it'll say to turn off airplane mode, do it and try again. If you're trying to use switch-play-lan don't use that.

As of right now, my CFW/hacked Switch can't communicate with my stock/legit Switch when the CFW Switch is on CFW. The CFW Switch can communicate locally only when it's booted with stock firmware.
 

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As of right now, my CFW/hacked Switch can't communicate with my stock/legit Switch when the CFW Switch is on CFW. The CFW Switch can communicate locally only when it's booted with stock firmware.

Did you confirm that your hacked switch is intact going into local mode ? It should have an “L” icon next to the WiFi symbol. Are you running any mods on the hacked switch? Like the inventory increase etc cause if so both switches would need the mods to connect to each other.
 

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Did you confirm that your hacked switch is intact going into local mode ? It should have an “L” icon next to the WiFi symbol. Are you running any mods on the hacked switch? Like the inventory increase etc cause if so both switches would need the mods to connect to each other.

Yep, turns out it was the ldn_mitm module in Tesla. Was good once I disabled it and rebooted. Thanks!
 

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Just to confirm that a banned Switch will work perfectly with a legit Switch in local mode for Animal Crossing. I travel between the two dropping and collecting items with no problems.
 

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Just to confirm that a banned Switch will work perfectly with a legit Switch in local mode for Animal Crossing. I travel between the two dropping and collecting items with no problems.
To do that, you need to have 2 copies of the game, right? I’ve been trying to do it with just one copy but I figured it won’t work.
 

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