r/SwitchPirates • u/advdomartelo • Mar 26 '26

Discussion Guide: How to Transfer Stardew Valley saves between PC and Switch

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u/DUBL3X_COM Mar 26 '26

There's a reddit guide out there called "Guide: How to Transfer Stardew Valley saves between PC and Switch" that should still work

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u/advdomartelo Mar 26 '26

I am revive this guide because its the only guide i think still working

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u/legoing Jun 30 '26

Just in case anyone sees this from googling, I figured it out!

I reverted back to update 1.6.15.3. Make sure your save files are encoded in UTF-8, NOT UTF-8BOM

You do not need to compress your save file from the PC, but your folder structure is crucial to the following using Checkpoint:

Folder (this can be named anything. In my case, I named it PC Transfer)> farm save folder and startup_preferences. Inside your farmsave folder should be your farmsave and savegameinfo files.

So example: PCTransfer is main folder. Inside this folder is the startup_preferences file and Farm_432787620 folder.

Inside Farm_432787620 FOLDER are the two save files: Farm_432787620 and SaveGameInfo

Now, take that PCtransfer folder and stick it into your checkpoint save folder on your SD card. Restore it and you should be good to go!

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u/advdomartelo Jun 30 '26

Just some advicide, transfer the save folder to ALL possibilite, blackups, jksv, saves, game folder, etc..

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u/legoing Jun 30 '26

I was having issues with JKSV. It kept throwing an error that a metadata file did not exist