Worse, the game’s loading times had tripled. “This update broke my game,” he grumbled, watching the “Checking for downloadable content...” screen freeze for the fourth time.
She deleted the game’s extra data (not the save). From System Settings > Data Management > Manage Software, she deleted the “Update Data” for MK11 only. Then, she deleted the “Downloadable Content” for Aftermath .
Alex blinked. “How did you know?”
His sister, Sam, noticed his frustration. “Let me guess. Update 1.0.17?”
Sam didn’t hack the game. Instead, she used a practical three-step fix that became Alex’s permanent “Update 1.0.17 Survival Guide.” Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath -NSP Update 1.0.17...
Alex had just bought a physical cartridge of Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath . He loved playing as Fujin and Sheeva, but after installing the latest official patch (version 1.0.17), his game started crashing every time he tried to enter the “Krypt” or fight against a specific new skin for Jacqui Briggs.
“Because the update assumed you had clean, pristine data,” Sam explained. “But your old save had references to a pre- Aftermath version of the Krypt. 1.0.17’s new memory allocator choked on that. By forcing the game to rebuild its caches with 1.0.16 first, you gave it a ‘translation layer.’ Then 1.0.17 just improved, not replaced.” Worse, the game’s loading times had tripled
She used the Switch’s built-in data management to back up Alex’s save data to the cloud (and a local SD card copy via homebrew save manager). “Never apply a buggy patch without a save backup,” she said.