Topic: Question about Re-Downloading DSiWare games

So I'm getting to the point where I'm low on blocks, which means I'm going to have to delete some games if I want to buy more. I know I can re-download them for free, but will I still have all of my progress/statistics/etc.?

I doubt it, and you need to get an SD Card.

No, you'll have to store your games on an sd card if you want your progress saved.

That stinks . I have a few SD cards lying around; can I move them from the DSi's system memory to the SD card directly?

@WAIW Yes.

But you can't play them right off the SD card, which stinks.

Okay, thanks for the help. I just realized the Web Browser takes up a whopping 94 blocks, so I'll get rid of that before using SD cards as storage.

Also here's something that I found. If you copy the games to your SD Card you can back-up your games to your computer in case you lose your SD Card. Just pop your SD Card into your PC, Go into Computer/SD_Card_Name/Private/DS/Title and copy the files with the extension .BIN. I haven't tried renaming them but if you write down the number of blocks each game is you can work out which game is which by looking at the file sizes before putting them into their own folder named as the game. Then if you lose an SD Card get another one and copy the .BIN files into Computer/SD_Card_Name/Private/DS/Title. If you make sure you regularly back them up you'll never have to replay an entire game or lose all your stats and high scores.

You don't use it? I use it all the time! Way more than I thought I would.

That's awesome!

Thanks for the tip

Nah, I use my iPod for internet usage. The last time I used the DS' Opera Browser was the first time I used it

When you loose your SD card, you'll loose your DSi as well. And you can never use these games on another DSi, so a backup is quite useless.

yeah, because the SD cards get glued to the DSi after you use them.

Actually, Prochnow raises an interesting question. If you lose or break your DSi, will Nintendo let you re-download all of the games on a new DSi free of charge? That sort of worries me :/

i heard somewhere you could send them your new and old dsi and they would do their magic with your data, or something like that...

@WAIW, abgar: If your DSi is in 'unplayable condition', Ninty will allow you to transfer all your DSiWare over to a new one if you contact customer service and explain the situation. as for just losing your DSi, I don't know... I doubt it, to be honest.

I contacted Nintendo customer support about this a while ago. If you loose your DSi or if it get's stolen, it's gone, and you'r DSiWare is gone as well. If your DSi gets broken, there's hope. But when it's gone, it's gone.
I hate Nintendo for that, the DSi is a mobile device.

If DSiWare was tied to a user account instead of a device (which can get lost or stolen or, if it gets broken, having to go through hoops to get back content which is already paid for) and it was possible to download games directly to an SD card and play them from there instead of having to delete content from the device in order to get space for new content, I'd buy games from the DSiWare shop more frequently without having to think twice.

As it is now I feel Nintendo are being very greedy and immoral. Why screw your customers over like this? What's the incentive of having a Nintendo DSi with this poor disregard for customers other than feeding Nintendo with more money, what's in it for me? Let's hope Nintendo will do the right thing soon. Fair play, eh!