Gaming I'm confused on system transfer

[ShadowSoldier]

So I just want to transfer my 3D games from my 3DS to my XL. But am I able to do that and if so, how would I go about doing it? I don't want the Ambassador titles and whatnot on my XL.

 

[Sychophantom]

Doesn't work that way. It's literally all or nothing on the transfer from 3DS to 3DS.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

So I just tried the transfer, and all of my games are gone. They're not anywhere to be found. The transfer completed. I took the SD card out of the original 3DS, put it in the PC, copied over the entire folder to the new SD card, put the new SD card back in the XL, and now I have no games? I have to admit, I love that it deleted New Super Mario Bros. 2 off of my XL, so I now have to redownload that.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Nevermind, didn't know I had to redownload every single title, they kind of failed to mention that in their tutorial video.

 

[RupeeClock]

You should not have to redownload any of your titles, you simply need to take the SD card out of your old 3DS and put it in your new 3DS, the one you just transferred data to.
Or simply copy over the ENTIRE SD card contents from the old card to a new card properly..
If you didn't do this properly you wouldn't find ANY of your content on whatever 3DS you'd be using regardless of having performed a system transfer or not.

 

[Foxi4]

You should not have to redownload any of your titles, you simply need to take the SD card out of your old 3DS and put it in your new 3DS, the one you just transferred data to.
Or simply copy over the ENTIRE SD card contents from the old card to a new card properly..
If you didn't do this properly you wouldn't find ANY of your content on whatever 3DS you'd be using regardless of having performed a system transfer or not.

The games are signed, there's no way that the ones he has installed on one 3DS will work on the other by swapping SD's.

I belive Nintendo has a program going on where you can transfer your software from a DSi to a 3DS, but I'm not sure if they also do 3DS to 3DS...

 

[chris888222]

Did you transfer the SD contents before or after the system transfer?

 

[Deleted User]

So I just tried the transfer, and all of my games are gone. They're not anywhere to be found. The transfer completed. I took the SD card out of the original 3DS, put it in the PC, copied over the entire folder to the new SD card, put the new SD card back in the XL, and now I have no games? I have to admit, I love that it deleted New Super Mario Bros. 2 off of my XL, so I now have to redownload that.

did you format the new sd card? i had the same problem but i fixed it by formatting and then put it on the sd card

 

[ShadowSoldier]

You should not have to redownload any of your titles, you simply need to take the SD card out of your old 3DS and put it in your new 3DS, the one you just transferred data to.
Or simply copy over the ENTIRE SD card contents from the old card to a new card properly..
If you didn't do this properly you wouldn't find ANY of your content on whatever 3DS you'd be using regardless of having performed a system transfer or not.

I copied the data I followed all the instructions on the screen(s). Then when they restarted. I took out the SD card out of the old 3DS, into the XL. Nothing. So I copied the data, the Nintendo folder to the new SD card, and still nothing. I had to redownload it all.

 

[RupeeClock]

You should not have to redownload any of your titles, you simply need to take the SD card out of your old 3DS and put it in your new 3DS, the one you just transferred data to.
Or simply copy over the ENTIRE SD card contents from the old card to a new card properly..
If you didn't do this properly you wouldn't find ANY of your content on whatever 3DS you'd be using regardless of having performed a system transfer or not.

The games are signed, there's no way that the ones he has installed on one 3DS will work on the other by swapping SD's.

I belive Nintendo has a program going on where you can transfer your software from a DSi to a 3DS, but I'm not sure if they also do 3DS to 3DS...

It's a bit confusing but after transferring from one 3DS to another, you're supposed to take the SD card out of the old 3DS, and put it in the new one.
After the transfer, the SD card contents are not valid for the old 3DS, but are now valid for the new 3DS.

You should also be able to transfer the entire contents of one SD card over to a larger one (like the 3DS XL's 4gb card), and work correctly. This is what I did when upgrading to a 8gb card, and then a 32gb card.