Topic: Super Mario 3D World - Please help

Hi all,

My 6 year old son has played SM3DW for months, and was pretty far along. Enter, my 4 year old daughter who starts a new game 4 times in a row and deletes all my sons' saves. He is devastated and I am looking at ways to help him.

Is there a way to download saves, start the game at a later level etc? Anything at all so that he does not have to start over on World 1 again? I have nothing saved, no online account etc. So I don't think recover my old data is possible.

Any help would be much appreciated, my son is so sad and I would love to help him out.

There is No way to recover Save data once the previous Save data got overwritten by new one or got deleted.

@TotalRookie Oh no...I'm really sorry for your son. I think the only way to do something like that is to download the previous backed-up save data without backing up the most recent one. Although, backing up save data requires a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, and automatic backup is enabled by default. It sounds like you don't have NSO, so in that case, yeah you'll unfortunately have to start from scratch.

There is one other thing that can help. According to this page on Mario Wiki, there are orange pipes in World 1-2 and World 4-2 that take you to the next world - World 2 and World 5 respectively. I hope this helps!

Unless he backed up his save to the Cloud assuming he has a Switch Membership then sadly there's nothing that can be done.

Thanks for responding guys. Very sorry to hear this isn't possible - my little guy doesn't want to play the game anymore now. Which I understand.

Anyway, I appreciate you guys for taking the time to respond!

Thank you!

@TotalRookie Give it time. It's a great game and holds many hours of family fun. The frustration felt now will pass and perhaps the two of them can play it together in a year's time, or you can play it as a family, which it is great for.

He will get over it in time. I remember when I was a kid and my brother erased my Final Fantasy save. I was upset at first but there was nothing else to do but start over. Next time, I suggest keeping your daughter away from it at least till he has a chance to beat it. Either that or have him let her play it with him it can have two players after all.