Nintendo Rolls Out Tomodachi Life 1.0.2, Fixing 9 Bugs and Save Corruption

6 articles · Updated · Nintendo Life · May 15

Version 1.0.2 for Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is now live on Switch, targeting progression blockers, save failures and rare crashes rather than adding new content.
Nintendo’s patch notes list fixes for island-building and Palette House stalls, plus two save bugs that could falsely report corrupted data after a successful confession or after multiple Miis moved in together.
The update also restores local-play item transfers, fixes a bug that could make a Mii’s crush disappear after a failed reconciliation, and corrects a case where Sadness would not clear properly.
One non-gameplay fix swaps the treasure image for the sugar glider after the game mistakenly showed a southern flying squirrel, while Nintendo says other unspecified issues were also addressed.

After a seven-year wait, why did Tomodachi Life launch with game-breaking bugs, and what does this urgent patch signal for Nintendo?

With save data corruption now fixed, will Nintendo compensate players who already lost everything, or is their unique progress gone forever?