Topic: Art Academy Saving to SD Card

Hi there. I am trying to help my daughter get some of her drawings off her DSi and onto the SD card, We are using a purchased copy of Art Academy (not downloaded).

I have looked at lots of info but still cannot see how to save a drawing to the DSi's album. The only options are to save to gallery and i can't copy from gallery to SD card.

Some forums seem to suggest that the save to album facility is only available in the downloaded vesion.

Can anybody tell me how to do this, We want to use some of her drawings to make thank you cards for Christmas!!
Thank you..

I'm pretty sure you can copy from DSi album to SD card. But... let someone else tell you that, I haven't messed with it in a while.

I have no experience with the retail game so I don't really know. If I had to take a wild guess I would say that pictures probabky can't be saved to the DSi album. That's not to say it really can't, I'm just guessing it can't. Maybe you would consider buying one of the 8 dollar download versions to gain the functionality?

Oh the retail version, sorry didn't see that. I have the Ware versions, so I was talking about those.

Yes, you can copy from DSi Album to SD Card - that is a function of the camera utility. My question is how to get an Art Academy image to the DSi's album.

You're all making me sound dumb now

Sorry, but you cannot export the pictures from Art Academy retail, even if you're on a DSi. Sorry D: But you could, like bboy said, buy a DSiWare version ($8 each). With one of those, you can export the pictures to the DSi Album, but you won't have the pictures made on the retail cartridge.

You can't save images to the DSi Album/SD card unless you have the download version I'm afraid.

That is the benefit of having the DSiWare copies over the purchased copy of Art Academy is you can export your work to an SD card. Which is a shame you can't with the purchased version. I'd get it as well if you could because I heard it has extra tutorials that I would like to try.

Is your daughter enjoying it? It's still my favourite passtime on my DSi.

Thank you, everybody, for your advice. Looks like a DSiWare version is needed then. Don't understand why there is a difference in functionality though.....

Thanks Victroia, she has played with nothing else since Christmas.

@taylortwocities: the game you've purchased at retail is for the DS, with no 'DSi-enhanced' features. Since the DS proper has no SD card slot and no camera, there was probably no code anywhere for either SD card functionality or transfer of images to the DSi Camera in the DS-based devkit.

Well the pack says DS and DSi (and XL) and the Art Academy software includes camera facilities so it is reasonable to expect a proper, not half-baked, version of the software.

Ahh well, there goes 800 points into Nintendo's pocket.....

ah, the description i read hadn't mentioned the DSi Camera functionality at all, my mistake. in that case, there's a good chance they chose to not allow exporting to DSi Album/SD from the retail version as an anti-piracy precaution. the more direct-access functionality they allow, the more potential holes and bugs there are to exploit.

I still can't understand why nintendo skipped the option to upload art to the DSi album on the reail version, being that, for me, one of the best things about the original game.

It is too bad, isn't it? I really wanted to get the disc version as well, but if you can't export the photos there's not much point. I believe you can only save 80 pictures on the disc version anyway.

@Taylortwocities ... if you go for one version of the DSiWare you might as well get both. That way you can be working on 2 pictures, have a save file on both.