Transferring Animal Crossing town?

[goatdan]

Is this possible? I accidentally traded memory cards with a friend for a while, and I bought Animal Crossing during this time and started a town. Now, when we go to trade back I can't seem to copy my town to my memory card.

It wouldn't matter if the cards were the same size, but they aren't. If it comes to it, I don't plan on playing Animal Crossing too much more (kinda cool, but not exactly my thing) I can probably just let my town go :(

[Mayhem]

Sadly not, you can't copy towns from one card to another (unless you were using an SD type to begin with and then move it to PC).

[goatdan]

Sadly not, you can't copy towns from one card to another (unless you were using an SD type to begin with and then move it to PC).

Nope. Darn. Anyone know why this is?

[Nature Boy]

Nope. Darn. Anyone know why this is?

I'd guess it's done this way so that you can't cheat.

[goatdan]

I'd guess it's done this way so that you can't cheat.

Now I'm curious...

How could you manage to cheat by transferring your town data to another memory card? I can understand cheating by switching your dates, but I don't see how it would work by copying the town?

[qbertandernie]

i think your buddy could get a good town going, then you copy the town to another card and play from the point he was at..

[Nature Boy]

How could you manage to cheat by transferring your town data to another memory card? I can understand cheating by switching your dates, but I don't see how it would work by copying the town?

I don't remember the game enough to give specifics, but creating a copy lets you get around random events (continually re-start until you get what you want).

I admit I'm talking out of my posterior a little :)

[Querjek]

There is a VERY risky thing that you can do to try to make a copy... whether this works or not is only a rumor. If you were to swtich memory cards really fast when the game started to save, in theory, if done at the correct time, you could get a copy. If you switch cards too early, though, the game will know and will go "Please insert the correct memory card".



Oh a side note, goatdan, I was just wondering what the status of our trade was. LMK, thanks!

[Jasoco]

I don't know if it would help at all, but I hear you can store all your items in envelopes at the Post Office, demolish the town and build a new one. Whether that helps or now is to be decided. Are letters kept in a different file on the card? If so, can you copy over just that file? Sure, you have to start over, but at least you have what you had before..

Never tried it though, but I plan on maybe trying it eventually. Since I have hated my town since the beginning, but found out it was different every time and sometimes looked better too late. So I was stuck. (My toen is plain and boring, the sights suck. Then I created a new town solely for visiting and selling and it was so much nicer, better fruit and items. I hated it! I was stuck in the crappy town and couldn't move!)

Nintendo should have just made it easy to move into a new town.

[SoulBlazer]

What about copying the save from a memory card to another memory card in the GameCube manager screen, or copying it your HD from a transfer device?

[Querjek]

What about copying the save from a memory card to another memory card in the GameCube manager screen, or copying it your HD from a transfer device?
1. No
2. Yes, but you would have to have the right adater to do so

[SoulBlazer]

Well, if they make them for XBox and PS2, they should make one for the GC. I copy saves from sites like GameFAQ's all the time to do it. Or perhaps Datel's Action Shark Replay might do it also.

[goatdan]

I tried in the Cube screen... It didn't work :( Truthfully, I didn't care for the game that much. If it ends up that my friend keeps my town on memory card I might as well sell it because I know I'll never care to play it again.

I'd like to keep it so every once in a while I can make a fifteen minute pit stop there as it had some things I did like... but if it isn't possible, oh well.

Thanks everyone. Might try the quick swap trick. Could that corrupt the memory on either card?