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Tomodachi Collection Importing

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When booting up the Japanese version for the first time, you will be greeted with a message asking if you own Tomodachi Collection. Since that game wasn't released internationally, this option was removed when localized. Watch on YouTube

Continuing to accept prompts will result in the eShop being launched to redirect to a page to download a Japanese-exclusive dedicated tool called "トモダチコレクション 新生活 Mii引越しソフト" (Tomodachi Collection: New Life Mii Moving Software).

If you already have the software installed on the system, then a message will appear when booting the game, indicating that the Miis were not copied.

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Japanese

Translation

『トモダチコレクション 新生活
Mii引越しソフト』のセーブデータが
見つかりませんでした

セーブデータが正しく作られているか
確認してください
Tomodachi Collection: New Life Mii Moving Software save data could not be found

Please check if the save data is created correctly

Then, the first two images from above will appear. Afterwards, the below message will display in place of the last three images, automatically sending you to the app when "OK" is pressed.

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Japanese

Translation

『トモダチコレクション 新生活
Mii引越しソフト』で
ニンテンドーDSソフト
『トモダチコレクション』の
住人を引越します
Tomodachi Collection: New Life 
Mii Moving Software will move the residents from
Tomodachi Collection 
for the Nintendo DS

Tomodachi Collection: New Life Mii Moving Software#

Nintendo eShop thumbnail for the app. The moving software on the Home Menu. The software works by inserting a physical copy of Tomodachi Collection, where it will copy a maximum of 100 Miis to the SD card. As soon as Tomodachi Life is launched, the game will detect them automatically.

If you boot the app without a copy of Tomodachi Collection inserted, this message will appear:

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Japanese

Translation

ニンテンドーDSソフト
『トモダチコレクション』のカードを
ニンテンドー3DS本体に
差し込んでください
Please insert
Tomodachi Collection
for the Nintendo DS
into the Nintendo 3DS

If a game is inserted, the following messages will appear.

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Japanese

Translation

『トモダチコレクション』の
住人を引越しするために
セーブデータを
SDカードにコピーします

(元のデータは消えません)
Copying save data
to SD card to prepare for
moving residents from
Tomodachi Collection

(Original Data will not be deleted)
コピー中です...

『トモダチコレクション』のカードや
SDカードを抜かないでください
また、電源を切らないでください
Copying...

Please don't remove the Tomodachi Collection game card
or the SD card
Also, please don't turn off the 3DS
ニンテンドーDSソフト
『トモタチコレクション』の住人を
ニンテンドー3DSソフト
『トモタチコレワション 新生活』 に
引越しする準備をします
(引越しする住人は後で選べます)
(人間関係や満足度レベル、服などは引き継げません)
コピーが完了しました !
住人の引越しは
『トモタチコレワション 新生活』 の
中で行います
『トモタチコレワション 新生活』 を
始めますか?
Preparing to move residents
from Tomodachi Collection
for the Nintendo DS to
Tomodachi Life for the
Nintendo 3DS.
(You can choose which residents to move later.)
(Relationships, satisfaction levels, clothing, etc. will not be carried over.)
Copying complete!
You can move your residents
from within Tomodachi Life.
Start Tomodachi Life now?

If all the steps are done correctly, upon booting Tomodachi Life again, you will be greeted with a menu to choose what Miis to move (like in Town Hall).

(Source: Nintendo & 机上九龍。)

Unused Content#

The placeholder banners present in the main Tomodachi Life game are also present in this moving software, still used when accessed on an out-of-region console. While the main game crops the ends of the graphic, this program uses the entire banner.