Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Just beat Mario 1 for like the billionth time. And man, I remember struggling so hard when playing it on the Game Boy Color. Being able to breeze through it nowadays is so surreal to me now.

Got all my saves backed up. All 200+ of them.

Had to do it manually because the first time it saves for each game is when you exit the game. So as you play each game it will back up this saves when you close it out. But if you have 100 games on there and you want them all backed up right away you have to go do it manually.

Just a little tip for anyone else in that situation though, you don't have to wait for it to completely back up before hitting the B button to back out and go to the next game on the list. I queued up about 50-100 backups by the time I made it to the end of the list, because I was way faster at starting the back up then the time it took to actually do the back up for each game.

It's fastest to go into settings into data management and do it that way because you get one long list of all your games.

Yeah I just backed-up my saves. Finally, I can rest easy now that I've saved my Xenoblade 2, BotW, and Odyssey saves.

@EvilLucario

High five ✋

Just found a way to use the cloud saves to cheat the leader boards on Zens Pinball FX3. It's the same method Nintendo used to describe how to cheat on Splatoon 2. I sure hope Zen does something about this and quick!

I don't know if this is a place for this question, but is there a way to move files from the Switch system to the Micro SD? Thanks.

@fortius54
Negative.

Well, there is a workaround.

step 1 delete the data you want to move

step 2a if you want to download to SD, insert SD card now

step 2b if you want to download to system memory, remove SD card now

step 3 download data

And let's move all the other complaining and defending of the NSO in the specified NSO sticky. It's getting boring for people who don't care and want to actually discuss gaming.

You don't play Splatoon?

Having to do the cloud back up manually is ridiculous. I've got 160 games and have many larger games archived. So I have to open each game 1 by 1, then to back up my archived games I need to redownload them, at the same time archiving other games to make room for them. Am I understanding this correctly?

Why can't you just run a first time scan of all your save files and be done with it? It's never easy with Nintendo, there's always something.

"there's always something" should be their motto

@MisterPi Haha, that made me chuckle.

PS4 - For the players
Xbox One X - The world's most powerful console
Nintendo Switch - There's always something

@OorWullie @MisterPi I wasn't aware Nintendo had a motto to begin with, but I now want to hear that at the end of every Nintendo advert.

Hah, if you google ''nintendo there is always something'', and look for images, you get the Switch

@OorWullie
I'm pretty sure you can simply create cloud saves in the options menu. The process is a lot quicker and you don't have to redownload games.

@OorWullie
You dont have to open any game, or redownload any archived game.

You do it from the options. Either hit plus on the game icon and select cloud save backup (will work for archived games also) or just go to Settings > Data Management > Cloud Saves

And you'll see a list of every save data on your system, even deleted games. I ran through 200+ games in less than half an hour. Just press A on the game, select Back Up, and the second you do that back out with B and move on to the next. They'll queue up in line as you go

@JaxonH @Alber-san Well that's certainly better than I thought but now I've got another issue. All my back ups are showing as pending. The 'Back up save data' is greyed out and every game is sitting at 0% progress.

Had to turn automatic back up off and back on. Obvious but I shouldn't have needed to do that. Wasn't like that earlier.

While better than what I originally thought, having to do this manually is still ridiculous.

@subpopz Yep seems like a glitch then. I just turned off automatic back up and then back on and now it's letting me do it manually. Primitive stuff!

Spoke to soon, back to showing as pending again. Joke!

I'll try the old power off and on trick.

I really don't know what's going on now. After restarting the console all my games are back to showing as pending again but then one after the other they started backing up without me doing anything. I thought ahha it does do it automatically. But then after 5 games it's stopped again. Every game showing as pending, but stuck at 0% progress.

The fact that they started to back up automatically at least for a few games, means it doesn't need to be done manually.

@subpopz @JaxonH Right I've figured this out now, I think and you're going to be kicking yourself, Jaxxon especially. When you restart the console and go into the cloud save settings it automatically sets every game to 'back up pending'. So it is an automatic system and doesn't need to be done manually.

The problem I have is they're all stuck at 0% progress. I'll come back to it later. But yeah, it seems it does not need to be done manually, it just requires a restart.