So I picked up a used copy of AC:NL for my 7 year old and let her use it with my "new 3DSXL" and she's been having a blast. Sadly I did not read the part where you need to nuke the existing town and or residents before she starts the game. So obviously there is another mayor in there and that's an issue. I started doing the research to now understand that there's nothing I can do with that save (would be delighted to hear that's not the case, but eh).

My current plan is to buy a second copy of the cart and have her start a new town, and then use the save editor to make the new town similar to the old and give her the items she has in the old save. I'd wipe the original cart, but we are working with 7 year old logic here, and it's cheaper in a bunch of senses to buy another cart. Is this a feasible thing? I know I need to put CFW on the 3ds which doesn't concern me much. I alsoknow she also scanned an amiibo and got a character as a result of that in the town and she'd like that to carry over if possible (don't know the term for what this type of character is).

Any help anyone can provide is appreciated. I've looked at the pages for the AC:NL save editor and I can't quite determine from that if I can do what I want. Thanks for taking the time to read.