Here's the thing nobody tells you up front about the Switch: the editing part is easy and official, but whether you can do this at all comes down to one question — is your Switch modded? If it is, you're golden. If it's a stock retail console, I have to be honest with you, and I will. Let me split it cleanly.
- The official Gibbed editor does support Switch — just set the platform to Switch and save.
- But you need a modded (CFW) Switch plus a save manager (Checkpoint or JKSV) to move the save on and off.
- On a stock retail Switch, there's no way in. No paid shortcut exists like PS4's Save Wizard.
Two halves: one easy, one gated
Modding a Switch save is really two separate jobs. Editing the save — that's Gibbed, and it's the same as PC. Getting the save off the console and back on — that's the part that needs a homebrew-capable Switch. The editing is the easy half. The transfer is the wall most people hit.
Editing: yes, the official tool handles Switch
Worth clearing up, because people assume you need some sketchy fork: you don't. The official Gibbed editor (1.0.46) has Switch right there in its platform list. The workflow is simply:
Load a save and set it up
Open a save in Gibbed — often you start from a PC save — and edit your gear and stats as usual.
Switch the platform to Switch
Go to the General tab, change platform to Switch, and save. That converts the save into the format the Switch expects. That's the whole editing side.
So the editor isn't the problem and you don't need a community build for the basics. The problem is purely getting that file onto the console.
The barrier: you need a modded Switch
To pull a save off the Switch and put your edited one back, you need a Switch running custom firmware (CFW) and a save manager — Checkpoint or JKSV. A stock, unmodified Switch keeps its saves locked away with no way to reach them. There's no Save-Wizard-style paid tool for Switch — it's homebrew or nothing.
The transfer flow (with Checkpoint)
Assuming you've got CFW and Checkpoint, this is the dance:
Enter applet mode on the Switch
Hold the R bumper while launching any game — that boots you into applet mode instead of the game. (Miss the R-hold and it just opens the game normally.)
Back up your save in Checkpoint
Open Checkpoint, find Borderlands 2, and create a backup. This both protects your existing save and creates the slot you'll drop the edited save into.
Copy your edited save in
Connect the Switch's SD card to your PC (USB or Wi-Fi). Navigate to SD → switch → Checkpoint → saves → your Borderlands 2 backup → WillowGame/SaveData, and drop your Switch-format save in.
Restore the backup on the Switch
Back in Checkpoint, restore that backup to load your edited save onto the game.
JKSV works the same way if you prefer it over Checkpoint — both are standard Switch save managers.
No modded Switch? The honest answer
Then you can't do this, and I won't pretend otherwise. Unlike PS4 — where Save Wizard gives stock consoles a (paid) way in — the Switch has no retail-friendly route. Reaching the save files requires custom firmware, full stop. If your Switch is stock and you don't want to mod it, editing BL2 on it isn't on the table.
A word on bans
This is separate from save editing: running custom firmware and going online is a well-known way to get a Switch banned from Nintendo's services. People who mod keep that console off the internet. The save-editing itself is the least of the ban concerns here — the homebrew is. More on the general picture in is it safe.
Quick answers
Does Gibbed officially support Switch?
Can I do this on a normal, unmodded Switch?
Checkpoint or JKSV — which?
The Flux Clan Switch walkthrough (the Checkpoint flow and the Switch platform option), the official 1.0.46 release, and JKSV. Checked June 2026.