A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.2.4)

On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism on Nintendo Switch (originally released on March 12th 2021 in Europe, North America, and Japan)!

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A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism – Ver. 1.2.4

• Release date: March 9th 2023 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism – Ver. 1.2.3

• Release date: February 1st 2023 (North America) / February 2nd 2023 (Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

Bug fixes

Trains

• Fixed graphics of real-life vehicles
• Vehicle display was incorrect when ‘Change Formation’ and ‘Replace’ were carried out in a specific way
• Vehicles could be placed on top of each others in certain circumstances

Stations

• Incorrect station display in certain circumstances
• Even if you overwrote ‘Signal Station’ with ‘Track Laying’, it would remain the same colour as the site
• Even if you cannot run a bullet train line, certain manipulations could be used to build a bullet train station

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Artdink

A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism – Ver. 1.2.2

• Release date: Decembe 25th 2022 (North America) / December 26th 2022 (Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

Bug fixes

Trains

• The Y button icon is display at the branching point on a business line
• The Sound Effect playing when an actual vehicle is deplyed and running is incorrect

Cars

• The Y button icon is displayed at transit points other than stops on operating routes
• When a stop with its stop position set to ‘vacant number line” is designated as a garage, vehicles exiting the garage come to an emergency stop

Subsidiaries

• When building subsidiaries, the direction of the building cannot be changed except where it can be built
• Cannot build ‘Car Park 1’ (both attached and stand-alone) under elevated tracks/roads at 2F level
• The impact of ‘Cargo Handling Area 1’ and ‘Cargo Handling Area 2’ on nearby subsidiaries is incorrect.
  • If ‘Cargo Handling Area 1’ and ‘Cargo Handling Area 2’ have already been bult, their impact will be changed to the correct one

Planning

• You can build an unauthorized trading port at the edge of the map

Other

• When paying dividend, if the retained earnings are greater than your funds and a dividend greater than your funds is paid, then the dividend is skipped

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Artdink

A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism – Ver. 1.2.1

• Release date: October 24th 2022 (North America) / October 25th 2022 (Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

Bug fixes

• Buildings from the Hirogaru Kankou Line expansion would be built automatically.
  • Once a building has been built, it will not be removed even after downloading the update.
• Blueprints created by the player would disappear.
• Other minor fixes.

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Artdink

A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism – Ver. 1.2.0

• Release date: October 13th 2022 (North America, Europe) / October 14th 2022 (Japan)
• Patch notes:

New scenarios added

• Adds two scenarions from the Steam version of the game
  • Let’s search for Nussie
  • Railroad revival

Camera

• Tracking camera
  • You can now select Shinkansen and private cars as targets
    • You can track private cars by selecting them on the railway
• Hierarchy Display
  • Adds a shortcut to change the hierarchy display.
    • The following can be used on the screen with the icon of the full map:
      • X + Up: moves up one level
      • X + Down: moves down one level
      • X + Left: shows current hierarchy/all hierarchies (toggle)
      • X + Right: shows current hierarchy/all hierarchies (toggle)

Train cars

• Operational planning
  • Added “Empty track” to “Stop position”

Planning

• New features
  • Blueprint management
    • On this screen, you can manage the blueprints in your possession in your current save data file. You can delete blueprints, rename vehicles, and add descriptions to vehicles. You can also transfer blueprints to the Hirogaru Kankou Line expansion.
    • Delete
      • Only applies to vehicles you built yourself.
    • Rename vehicle
    • Vehicle description (only available if you own the Hirogaru Kankou Line expansion)
    • Upload
  • NB: blueprints created before Ver. 1.1.3 will not appear as bonus blueprints in save data created with Ver. 1.2.0
• Changes
  • Vehicle development
    • Stickers at the front and back of a bus are now separate, and can be applied separately

Structures

• Buildings from the Steam version of the game have been added to the Nintendo Switch version.
  • Palm trees
  • Villas
  • Tower 3
  • Horse racing venue
  • Relay signals (tracks)
  • Train washing equipment (tracks)
  • Signs 20 (roads)
  • Driveway mirrors (roads)

Construction

• Adds “Stop automatic development” to “Regional settings”
  • You can now choose whether city development is automatic in all regions, or just specific regions. If you choose to stop it, the city will not develop automatically during construction.

System

• Adds “Anti-aliasing” to “Graphics”
• Adds “Tracking camera after menu” in “Other settings”

Help

• Adds the content of the Hirogaru Kankou Line expansion

Bug fixes

• Fixes various memory-related issues such as “Airports are sometimes not built”

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Artdink

A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism – Ver. 1.1.3

• Release date: February 25th 2022 (Japan, North America, Europe)
• Patch notes:

Bug Fixes

• Closing a train station or bus stop would make it impossible to progress
• Crossways set up before the release of Ver. 1.1.2 now function properly
• Could not load save data from the demo version or Ver. 1.0.0 of the game
• When replacing a train, the forwarding settings were not transferred

Changes

• Some of the menus can now be navigated using the R stick

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Artdink (Twitter)

A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism – Ver. 1.1.2

• Release date: January 26th 2022 (Japan, North America, Europe)
• Patch notes:

• adds fast forward release timer
• adds TIPS
• adds direction notice for departures
• adds car park to the list of extensions
• the Aquarium, the Science Museum, and Tower 1 are now considered tourist spots
• adds display of distance to the next station + time
• adds sticker blinking to vehicle development
• bug fixes

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Artdink (Twitter)

A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism – Ver. 1.1.0

• Release date: June 17th 2021 (Japan, North America, Europe)
• Patch notes:

No patch notes available yet.

• List of changes:

• More bug fixes, including some for in-game models that could not be included in previous updates;
• Adds aircraft warning lights to tall buildings such as skycrapers
• Several features to improve playability, such as the ability to switch business days in bulk, switch the copy range, and check the ground surface directly above while editing the underground
• Adds a brand new scenario

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Artdink (Twitter)

A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism – Ver. 1.0.4

• Release date: April 7th 2021 (North America) / April 8th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

• Fixed bugs related to train / car operations
  • If a train or car enters the garage outside business hours, the sightseeing route will be lost.
  • Trains make an emergency stop at the border with a neighbouring town or at a station near a point.
  • Cars not entering the designated tracks or cars leaving the garage will ignore the departure time.
• Fixed a bug that occurs when updating to Ver. 1.0.3
  • Stickers are lost when “Technology Transfer” is done from save data created using Ver. 1.0.3 or earlier.
  • The airport is removed when upgrading to Ver. 1.0.3 (the airport will not be replaced, so please rebuild it)
  • Models that do not exist on the map, such as railway tracks and buildings, will appear.
  • When a building is constructed, the construction site is at the wrong place.
  • The removal of double gradient tracks on elevated tracks will result in incorrect tracks.
  • Unable to build underground stations even after acquiring underground railway technology.
• Other bug fixes
• Adds a workaround for loss of progress during saving
  • In addition to improving stability, we have taken measures to prioritise the completion of a save if the software is unstable at the time of saving. If this is the case, a message will be displayed on the screen. Please restart the game.

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Artdink (Twitter)

A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism – Ver. 1.0.3

• Release date: March 23rd 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

• Fixed a bug preventing saving data from being loaded due to subsidiary extension facilities/resource photos
• Fixes an issue causing the game to freeze when taking pictures of documents
• Fixes an issue causing display to collapse when placing a railroad car, making it impossible to proceed.
• Fixes various other bugs.

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Artdink (Twitter)

A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism – Ver. 1.0.2

• Release date: March 16th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

• Fixes memory-related issues causing errors
• Fixes issue with the number of tourists on First Class trains
• Fixes issue with travel direction when a train stops for less than a minute

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Artdink (Twitter)

How to download updates for A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism, you have three options:

• let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

• try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

OR

• select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.