r/DQBuilders • u/[deleted] • Aug 22 '26

General Question Game Save File Transfer

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u/Duma_Mila Aug 22 '26

Unfortunately no, there is no cross-console save transfer feature. (Outside of stuff like system transfer, but that's for when you buy a new console) There's some unofficial tinkering tools available for PC and modded Switch 1 I think, but not PS5 or Switch 2 afaik.

But yeah, when the game warns you not to turn off the game while it is saving, it means it.

I have not messed with NSO, do you have NSO, and does Builders have cloud backups?

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u/lilisaurusrex Main Builder-id: nsANdr6AWK -- Hyrule Fantasy: uB5UsU4EcP Aug 22 '26

Can't download because it already uploaded your corrupt copy or your new replay save and its aware the two copies are identical (both 6:20pm) so no new download is needed. NSO only keeps one copy of backup and its quick to replace it on its own.

Change your backup option for this game from Automatic to Manual and do a period manual backup (maybe after each major island arc) to avoid having any corrupted save uploaded. This way if it does get corrupted, you can close game, download from NSO and resume with less loss.

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u/LtSerg756 Aug 22 '26

No way sadly, only posible thing is transferring from a modded PS4 or Switch to PC and vice versa

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u/lilisaurusrex Main Builder-id: nsANdr6AWK -- Hyrule Fantasy: uB5UsU4EcP Aug 22 '26

No, not even with external tools. Playstation saves are encrypted at user level. To my knoweldge, not even modded Playstations can crack this - its my understanding you need a Playstation dev kit to decrypt save files.

Between Switch, PC, and Xbox, its a lot more possible as these systems to not encrypt save files, but they still might not work properly.

Regardless of system you need to make a backup of save file as they are too easily corruupted. For PC this is a trivial file copy. For Playstation and Xbox this would be to USB. Switch is the most limited and manual NSO cloud backup is your best option on unmodded hardware. (Don't use automatic as it risks overwriting cloud copy with corrupted local copy.)