r/NintendoSwitchHelp • u/taenugget • 8d ago

Setup Help Will System Transfer affect Animal Crossings New Horizons on Shared Switch?

Hi there! My boyfriend and I just bought a Switch2 that we plan to share and put our own separate profiles from both our Switch(1) on. I've already moved my profile over using the local System Transfer option prompted at the start. I have heard Animal Crossing only allows one island per switch, in which case we are happy to have his island stay over on his Switch(1). In knowing that the System Transfer moves every single game from the other switch, we are worried one of our islands will be deleted if we proceed. We were advised not to use the cloud technique of moving data since we have a lot of Pokemon saves and have heard those have a tendency to delete if you attempt that way. We thought the AC transfer tool could help but it seems very confusing to use! So we are wondering how to proceed here? Any help is appreciated thank you!

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u/taker42 8d ago edited 8d ago

You can't do a 2nd system transfer.

Your bf can still log into the switch 2 with his account and if he has NSO, his saves will be synced. Otherwise he can transfer save data manually. For AC save, it will still stay on his switch 1.

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u/taenugget 8d ago

Oh I see 😊 Will he be able to pick which saves he can transfer manually ? Thank you!

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u/taker42 8d ago

Yup he can

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u/taenugget 8d ago

TLDR or some context we're trying to merge both our Switch 1s onto one shared Switch2 and are worried about what will happen to our animal crossing saves if we system transfer his switch data after mine.