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Switch 2gb Game File Limit
So the Switch has this annoying 2GB cap on how much space any single game can take up. Even if there's plenty more space available, or you have a massive SD card attached, no single game can use more than 2GB of space unless the game developers apply for a special exemption. One game developer, that a few of you more esoterically knowledgeable might know of, who hasn't applied for this exception—when they really, REALLY, should know better—is Mojang. I don't know about you guys, but I really don't like deleting a Minecraft world I've put hours and hours into because it got too big to be playable any more, especially for such a stupid reason. I could yell and plead and beg Mojang to please, pretty please, fix their switch license to make the game playable for more than a week or two before needing to reset it, but if they haven't changed things by now, I don't think they're at all interested in doing so in the future. Besides, I'd like to solve this issue myself once and for all for all of my games and not just one of them.
However, after much googling on the internet, I can not find out if it is possible to remove the 2GB game file limit by Jailbreaking the Switch, so I thought I'd come here and ask. Can I do this, and if so, how?!? I.E. will any method work, or do I need to do something specific?!?
this seems to be a cap on minecraft bedrock world sizes in general
PS5 2GB bug report: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-121776?jql=text%20~%20%222gb%20file%20limit%22
General bug report: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-55010
@7OOTnegaTerces I suggest you add a comment to one of those bug reports or open a new one if you think it is different and have information to add. In any case, this github is the wrong place for this issue.
According to the comment section on this feedback post: https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360048465192-Switch-data-increase the problem isn’t with Minecraft’s code, but rather the game distribution rights package that they brought from Nintendo. A standard Nintendo game dev license comes with a 2gb game file limit, it is Nintendo, not Minecraft, that is blocking the possibility of having a large game file (well, Minecraft is also to blame for not purchasing an exception to this limit, for whatever reason…). That being the case, I was hoping that there would be some way to jailbreak my switch and remove that Nintendo enforced size limit. So I do think that this is the right place to ask if that is at least possible! 😜
@theofficialgman The fact that the PS5 has the same limit probably just means that limiting the amount of space a game dev has to work with is a common practice across platforms, likely because space really is limited on all hardware!
So I do think that this is the right place to ask if that is at least possible!
You probably won't get any response here regarding that. Try asking in atmosphere/cfw support discord (ReSwitched)