Hacking Do you need to be online to re-download archived games?

[PotatisKnug]

I wanna install a game, but it's huge. I have 8 gb left on my System Memory and after Doom is done copying (NSP file) it'll be about 2 gb left on the Sd card. I figured, can i go ahead and archive one of my games (23gb) and install doom onto the card, delete the nsp afterwards and then re-download that 23gb game without having to go online (i can't. cause i've got 7.0.1..)

 

[Robert McCoy]

Yes you have to be online and connected to ninty servers to redownload archived games.

 

[PotatisKnug]

Yup, you need to be online. I tried it with rocket league and it said "You need to update your system firmware in order to download this data." Welp, didn't wanna play that game anyway..

 

[Djakku]

When you archive a game it deletes the content but the icon stay on Horizon.
When you chose to delet a game, the content as well as the icon is removed.
Afaik that's the difference between deleting and archiving on the switch.

So long story short, as the previous reply states, you need to download the game.

 

[pcwizard7]

you are aware you can dump it to nsp file so u can keep it as local backup

 

[PotatisKnug]

you are aware you can dump it to nsp file so u can keep it as local backup

Wat.

 

[pcwizard7]

Wat.

you can backup that 8GB to a nsp file so u don't need to redownload it again

 

[PotatisKnug]

you can backup that 8GB to a nsp file so u don't need to redownload it again

Oh, well that is handy i guess.