Topic: Micro SD overcrowding

Sorry I'm back. Before this was just a hypothetical topic a long time ago.

Now the rubber meets the road and I'm out of space on a 512 gig memory card.

Nintendo doesn't recommend swapping memory cards yet Nintendo has no way to bank these devices.

It seems like Nintendo is assuming everyone has good internet.

If that's the case why can't we use our cell phones to download the file and transfer them into the switch?

It's going to take an 8-hour visit to a far way friend just to transfer the data.

As for getting a better internet service, we tried that for the past 20 years and got nowhere. I've gotten dangerously close to arrested for saying "what do I have to do to bring Spectrum to our house? Hijack a cable truck with a gun and point it at you while you physically lay the cable foot by foot? ". (Yes that's how frustrating is the game in my situation. The fact that the 2010 Federal Broadband regulations restricted home use of cellular internet is rarely discussed but is at the core of why I can't game online very well.) That's because they say oh we want new customers real bad we'll be willing to give them the discount but we will not be willing to wire them if it's an area we don't want to wire. I even told them you have Spectrum mobile and where within the Spectrum Zone and they said you have to be a spectrum customer and I said we'd like to be but you're not letting us be a spectrum customer. This is like an over and over catch 22.

It seems like everyone assumes that everyone who wants to play video games is it an area that has good internet.

I tried calling GameStop seeing if they have a way I could use their PCS or their internet to transfer but they say no they're not available for the public for data transfer.

At least Visible Wireless has me covered for enough data to play Nintendo online.

The problem is that the simplest of these indie games are over 50% of the time larger than 1 gig, which is a 40 minute to 1 hour download at 5 megabits per second in.

I don't know what else I could do. Is the answer what the aliens said in Independence Day when asked "what are we supposed to do?"? (In other words "Die" to quote the movie or less extremely, to more accurately fit this case "Don't play Nintendo.")

Do you need every game on your SD card at all times?
When I run out of space, I just quick archive games I haven't used in a while.

I assume your internet on your phone is also bad? Or else you could share your mobile internet with your Switch to download games that way.

Mac if you have a USB or USB-C reader that can read the microSD can be use to transfer most of the data on the cart to Mac and back to larger USB. The problem comes you have to format the new aka 1tb to the Switch and then copy back the data from the Mac from previous SD but only the data don't overwrite any folder the Switch created that is for the Switch to know the 1tb isn't the 500gb drive if you do that you will start all over again and the Switch will ask format that SD card. So DON'T overwrite the folder created from the 1tb drive Switch format only folders you created. That should insure the data/files on the Switch matchup to the new 1tb to use it.

@TommyTendo Not everyone finishes all the game they use. And the more games installed eShop or Physical(DLCs) space can be premium unless your using something like 1tb or 2tb wherever that comes out. Don't use mobile internet unless that is of last resort and mobile internet is no guarantee it's stable when using that heavy data usage.

Not to flash my own ID but I have a website about testing games on low bandwidth connections because that's all I could literally physically possibly get.

That website is 56ok.org

The old issue was whether or not I could play online. Constant drops constant missyncs, limited to like one or two opponents at a time, yes Super Smash Brothers Wii would only work on my old Sprint 3g connection if it was a one-on-one room with a private person and there was no way to have an open one-on-one room.

5 Meg in 5 meg out is plenty of speed to play games , but is not nearly enough speed to constantly erase and reload games.

By the way I stopped reviewing games after reviewing inverses for the switch because that's when games start to get ridiculous in size for cheap and small games. To most people that's a great value to be that's waste of electricity and time I could be gaming.

I moved saved data from 256g to 400g and then to 1tb but using Windows computer. Can be done but one must not overwrite the newly formatted card with old format otherwise the Switch will ask to format it. Once I did that I just moved the data over and didn't overwrite the new formatted 1tb and reloaded the games and it worked just fine.

Hotspot data is limited to 5 Mb/s.

Yes I could do it, but doing it many times would take hours, not minutes. But If there was a way to use direct cellphone loading, which is not speed limited to 5 Mb/s, and then transfer it through Android OTG, that would make it a lot faster.