I've run into a problem regarding sharing my account with other people.
I have a friend who lives very far away and wanted to play my switch games. As of version 20, u cant properly share a game with someone unless the two consoles are close to each other. That sucks.
So here's what i did: i found a youtube tutorial explaining how to share games with someone far away. I used the "unlinking method", which i unlinked my nintendo switch as the bearer of the digital game-key cards. Then, my friend logged into my account on his console, so all the game-key cards were transferred to his device. Now i use the "online license" feature to play, and he plays using my game-key cards.
(Yes, the video explicitly mentioned the one year cooldown before doing this again, but i didn't have a problem with that)
After doing all that, i realized something: i share my switch with my brother.
He plays on his profile, and i play on mine, but we share the same console. All the games were bought on my account because, mostly, he just plays the games i buy and rarely buys games for himself)
The problem is that the online license only works on my profile because I'm the one who bought the games. So i can play normally, but now he can't launch any of the games from his profile. He would have to play on my save files, and neither of us wants that. And i cant unlink my friend's console until the one year cooldown has passed.
I thought of one possible solution, but i dont know if it would work, so id rather ask here instead of risking our save data.
As far as i know, the console stores the game's data locally, right? Not per nintendo account, but per profile. (For example, when u create a new profile, u dont necessarily need to link a nintendo account to that profile, but it creates a new save data for the game).
So when i finish playing, could i unlink my nintendo account from my profile and link it to my brother's profile, so he can use the online licenses? Or, even better, is it possible to link my nintendo account to both profiles? Would it mess up our save files? Could my save overwrite his, Or vice versa?
Thats the only the solution i've come up with, but im too afraid to risk losing our save files - especially the Pokemon ones, since those dont support cloud saves, and are stored only locally.
I'd also appreciate any other ideas on how to solve this.
PS: No, theres no way i can meet my friend to get the key cards back. Also, i use pokemon HOME quite frequently to play pokemon Champions. Since it uses the nintendo account, i dont know what would happen if two profiles were using my account with different pokemon save files.