I am nearly at the end of the line for my Hyundai 512 GB micro SD card.
Nintendo cautions against switching Micro SD Cards, and Nintendo makes no money off Micro SF cards. And even if I get a decent 1TB or 2TB card, they make it tough to transfer if you don't have a PC.
How do I get 500 GB of game data on a 1TB card?
And please do not suggest "just download it off the internet." Not everyone has the ability to ACCESS Cable or Fiber. My fastest Nintendo compatible speed is through Visible Wireless at 5 MB/s in, 5 MB/s out. If I didn't have that, my net speed would not legally be broadband as of 2013, let alone 2021, at 1.6 M in, 400 k out.
I came up with 2 suggestions. One is collectable Game Paks Shucks with hold micro USB cards and let you play. The other is a USB Hard Drive which lets you TRULY archive games. Of course you transfer in and out, and don't run games directly off the hard drive.
Other than erasing bad games, what do I do? At least it gives me an excuse use to go through all the games. Review then with my Twitch audience (as humbly small as it may be) : stash em or trash em.
Nintendo support North America has a decent phone line and a chat messenger option, if you want to go that route. I've used both more than once. It's not hard to get a person on the phone. https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/contact
@Ninfan it's not a matter of being cheap. We are considered in a State Of Ohio Internet Desert. Maximum possible land based speed is through DSL from Frontier and because we are more than 4 miles away from "our" central station, and some sort of either local politics or Frontier bookkeeping keeps us from having a DSL station 2.5 miles away, so our max speed per household is 1.6 Mb/s in 400 KB/s out. BTW that costs $40 a month (minus 5 for bundling with Dish Network)
I was so sick of it, I got Visible Wireless for $25 a month and got Nintendo compatible speeds of 5Mb/s in, 5 MB/s out. with low enough ping to play online.
But the federal government regulates cellular phones,and in 2010 any clause that could be seen to help people like me was stamped out of existence. It was forbidden to use cellular internet as a home internet. Thankfully a new administration and the T-Mobile Sprint merger eased up those regulations to allow Visible Wireless to exist. (Please Biden, in terms of internet policy, be more like Trump and less like Obama)
The more I look at it the more it looks like a local issue of the power company owning the line and originally wanting to promote their Power Line Internet and that failing, so to increase the revenue they intentionally only allowed the slowest internet possible the force you to keep your machines on overnight therefore increase the electric bill and they shame you for saying you use more than your average household yet at the same time force you to use more than your average household if you're a gamer. The federal government won't touch it because it involves a power company, and the state government won't touch it because it involves internet.
Hopefully this is not common. I severely doubt it's common or else my guide to living and gaming with low bandwidth 56ok.org would be more popular.
And internet despite what regulators say, Internet is a utility. It may not be a regulated utility but it is still utility in the textbook sense. You can't go to it and fetch gigabits for your bandwidth well. It has to come to you.
Other than lobby government I don't know what to do. Competition refuses to come here, and the Monopoly carrier denies that they're a Monopoly and almost sounds James Bond villainish when you point them out on it.
Even though there's a State subsidy for the cable company to come in, the cable company has still not coming. Cable company claims there are local regulations local regulators say it's totally deregulated. If I can't get the answers to agree with each other then what is it?
Specifically you need a WINDOWS computer to do that. A Macintosh wll not do.
He's one or two terabet cards, over half are hoping you use them blindly and then turn out to be rip-off cards that instead of containing one terabyte only has 128 GB or something.
Unfortunately the one from reputable sources from reputable sources are over $100.
I don't need beyond 512 gig of on the go memory. What I need is a USB Internet vault that I could transfer files into and store so I can go beyond my 512 gig and put the less played games in Cold storage until I need them. Even USB 2.0 is faster than what I get on the internet.
It's stupid for Nintendo to require a computer when half the reason why half the people pick consoles is to avoid the problems with computers. I sure as heck did.
How hard could it be to add a multirement hard drive as a USB vault. Notice I'm specifically choosing the word vault so it's not to imply running the game off the USB drive directly. Waiting a minute or two for these games is a lot better than waiting multiple hours. I guess I'm too small of a percentage of the people to be worried about. Nintendo assumes everyone has good high-speed internet. And apparently most people do because my website for the low bandwidth gamer, 56ok.org , is not a very popular website.
@tripletopper for 40 dollars a month, you could get phone line internet, here. I pay 20 euro a month and get 25 to 30 Mbps download, it's broadband . You live in the desert, is that Nevada desert ? Have you got a Wi-Fi extender and an outside antenna for your router ?
@tripletopper Obviously, if you get a micro sd card from amazon, stick with the big name brands like sandisk, samsung, etc., and have 50,000, - 100,000+ positive reviews. No need to reply
@Ninfan In the US, there are plenty of areas that never got high speed internet infrastructure. That's the downside of having such a large country. It's not the only reason, but it is a factor.
@Ninfan in America the cellular network is federally regulated, and in the Obama administration FCC, cellular was considered a "luxury internet" and many cell phone companies were trying to find ways to give rural people internet. But the Obama admin cracked down.
Cellular is the easiest and cheapest way to get internet to a house. The Trump administration loosened cellular internet regs to allow the T Mobile,/ Sprint merger and to allow more stationary rural usage. Visible Wireless (at least in its current form) was formed out of those deregulations.
I don't know what Biden's attitude is towards cellular internet. If party affiliation is a strong indicator, he's anti cellular as rural home internet.
When I said desert, I'm being proverbial, equating water with internet. There's plenty of Internet in the air, but none in the ground (via wire) but cellular internet is hard to harness mainly through government regulation.
The local sitch makes me think the power company is deliberately choking off internet to line their pockets.
Our "phone line internet" has a maximum of 1.6 Mb/s in 400 Kb/s out per household. They almost say "shut up and enjoy it. Where else are you going to go?" yet deny they're a Monopoly.
@tripletopper It is entirely possible to use a Mac to do the transfer in the same way as a Windows computer. I've done it with no issues using a Macbook Air.
I just took the plunge on a 1 TB card. I got mine on sale for $159. I didn’t think this was bad at all when two 500 gig would run about $140...It is nice to have all my games on one card and not have to worry about said over crowding and redownloading. A little pricey still but money well spent.
Here's the thing to offload 500g to 1tb card requires a laptop or desktop with sd slot to transfer the data on the card. The wifi is need to transfer the accounts from one Switch to Another but if it's the same Switch nothing is needed to transfer. It's only the data on the card needs to be formatted and you just copy the 500g data back to the 1tb using the computer but don't overwrite the new format and data the Switch created otherwise it will say that is the old 500g card rather then just move the game data over. So you should read the posted instructions on how to do it and review it before doing so. Your internet has nothing to do with move data from sd to sd cards-that's what your computer with a sd slot is for. Maybe in time we will see a 2tb sd card. As for switching sd cards that is user created issue because they bought sd that was too small and they do sd swapping which is asking for problems. Just get the biggest and move the data there and that's what you need. All this swapping will damage the sd cards and slot and then you ask why NIN won't fix it.
When I went from 128 GB to 512 GB, I just shuffled from one SD card to the main Switch internal memory, and then back to the other, 16 GB at a time, so I had to 8 transfers of 16 GB.
In order to do Mac, you have to open up terminal, which is, for GUI WYSIWYG user, is brain surgery on a Macintosh.
If Nintendo let you either use an external USB in docked mode as a "Vault", or lets you add temporary executable SD cards with a Switch Micro SD to Game Pak converter, then memory will no longer be an issue. You have your SD card as you onboard memory, your USB as a Vault, and writable Game Paks that use SD Cards that are MEANT to be temporary..
Isn't the reason why some people pick consoles is because they want to avoid PCs?
Isn't the reason why some people pick consoles is because they want to avoid PCs?
What one forgets is if you have multiple accounts and saves like 4 accounts/saves that isn't a easy transfer to another Switch. The PC would be a medium to transfer all the data/saves from Switch to PC back to Switch with no loss of data or account if one account doesn't have a email address registered. This is why NIN needs to make a dedicate PC software to allow this type of transfer after one transfers sd data from old sd to new sd card when they are expanding the storage-or getting New Switch and switching the old to new unit.
By the way, I have a 512 GB Micro SD card. The issue is not buying memory. I bought the biggest one, a Hyundai 512G for $70 a year or 2 ago. A bargain.
The main problem is internet speed. My fastest Switch-compatible network speed is 5 MB/s in and out from Visible Wireless, (which speaks about both the status of federal regulations of the cellular industry and how bad my internet sitch is if 5 M in and out from Cellular is the fastest possible Nintendo friendly speed )
Also no PC progr is going to help me. I got a Macintosh. And Nintendo specifically warns against Mac,Transfers.
Why doesn't Nintendo let you place your games on a USB Hard Drive Vault. It doesn't even have to play them, just be a vault to store in and draw out. I got a 1 T vault, ax1.5 T vault, and a 3T vault I could use.
Nintendo's only two routes to transfer are unavailable to me. World Trade Federation am I supposed to do?
No public library has a USB 3.0 computer. Every computer in libraries in my area only has USB 2.0 which needs 6 hours of staying still. And repeat that again.
So I did something creative I decided to do a Nintendo download "stash or trash" twitch stream which goes through all these games that I bought at 80% discount or higher and I had remedial interest in, but never got around to.
So far I did numbers A's and B's and I think I might have a savable accomplishment on Twitch. The first time I ever played blade strangers was when I played it on Twitch about a week ago and it was the first time I ever played it and I beat it on story mode one credit.
Can anyone help me more permanently save it on either twitch or YouTube.
As for cellular bandwidth that I've got plenty of 40 Meg in 20 Meg out for basic 4G. It's this Nintendo specific bandwidth that's killing me.
@tripletopper, the Switch transfer is only the accounts/data associated with them and requires wifi connections to do. But sd carts transfer requires a PC with sd reader to do the transfer to PC and then you transfer back to the new sd cart that is bigger and formatted by the Switch and then you copy/move your data/saves on the cart back but when doing this don't overwrite when you see that come up as those are the new formatted data that the Switch will recognize this as the new cart that has your saves. Until NIN gives up a PC system account/data transfer system one has to use the WIFI connection to do Accounts transfer from Switch to Switch. That is your only option right now-there is no way around this. And the more data you have stored internally on the Switch the longer it takes.
Sorry, but I have NEITHER a PC NOR a connection faster than 5 MB/s.
5 MB/s is plenty for the actual online communications, but is paultry for transferring/downloading via internet. Considering the cheapies are minimally multiple Gig. this makes it tough.
So really? World Trade Federation am I supposed to do?
The easiest thing Nintendo can do is either let us tap our phones for downloading, or even better, make USB transfers to a USB 3.0bHard Drive and the ability to retrieve them possible. They don't have to be PLAYABLE on the hard drive. Just storable and retrievable, like a bank vault.
Why can't this happen?
Despite what the government tells you, internet is a utility. You have to have it brought to you to use it. You cannot go down to the store and buy so many Gigabits of data at speed you want to use it at. The best "pipes" I can get is 5 Mb in 5 Mb out. And I can't go to the store and buy more pipes.
And OS Discrimination is real. Why is Visible the best Nintendo compatible plan in my address, yet an iOS and Android can run at full speed? Because they fought for every bit they could get out of the FCC every bit per second they give out
@tripletopper, I think you have other issues other then Switch that needs address before ranting this is a NIN problem. What your talking is beyond Nintendo's control factors.
It's just a combination of the fact that I have poor internet and have a Macintosh and I just sort of fall between the cracks.
I'm not blaming Nintendo for the problem. I'm just saying Nintendo could fill that crack if they allow USB vaulting of game files.
Trust me, I attacked the internet problem first and that is the toughest line of attack. The farthest I got was Visible Wireless. Which is a good on-the-road based ISP for the Nintendo Switch and 3DS. Just not for large downloads.
USB 3.0 is way faster than USB 2.0 and the whole memory card should be done in less than an hour on USB 3.0 vs a calculated 7 hours on USB 2.0.
It seems kind of weird that Nintendo would require the use of something other than a Nintendo product to do something. You think Nintendo would have an internal solution letting you transfer to a vault and then transfer back to a memory card because I do have a big memory card of 512 gig and that's still not enough.
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