The dream town archive mentioned in this video is currently just a list of downloaded data right now from around November 2023-April 2024. There is a website in works to host the data for public use, but I am not involved in that process and it is not yet available. Sorry for mentioning it a bit prematurely, but I’ll touch more on it when that project is finished. 👍
I definitely spent far too long looking for it haha. If the description could just be updated when it's available that would be amazing, thank you! Love your work!
I'm surprised this feature's servers haven't been reverse-engineered and emulated yet, that's been happening to a lot of games lately, and that's just one feature of a game which should in theory be simpler.
So THATS why people on Miiverse told me to LEAVE IMMEDIATELY whenever I went to a hacked town I thought I would just get banned or something. Now I know why 💀
I actually lost my 2,000 hour town just before the Welcome Amiibo update because of this exact scenario 😭😭One of the hacked dream towns I visited had a Shampoodle in the middle of town, which plopped me on their Main Street upon exiting. So I decided to check out their Happy Home Academy because young me thought that it would show their StreetPass houses, and unfortunately, that's one of the ways to save your game on Main Street. I saw it showed my own StreetPass homes instead of theirs, so I left the game and re-opened it, and lo and behold, "Your save data is corrupted and will be deleted." Young me was EXTREMELY devastated and cried for hours. When it updated a few months later to Welcome Amiibo, it wasn't corrupted anymore, but it had been overridden with the hacked town, so I just deleted it and accepted defeat. Amazing to see a video on this topic. For a long time I thought I was the only one who fell victim to this, lol
Geez, going to sleep in a dream completely erases your past life, achievements, friends, everything. The kinda creepypasta that would make Aika Village blush. (I hope that village got saved)
I did a lot of research into New Leaf's inner workings. The reason why dreams prevent you from saving is because dreams are represented by a game type id of 0x03. 0x02 is on club tortimer, 0x01 is online in a friend's town, and 0 is offline. After the update, in my plugin, to allow us to save an entire dream (because the ram dump method was not reliable and would always miss data such as furniture etc), we would set the gametype to offline and then it would allow us to save like normal. But Hunter R, New Leaf had another pretty severe exploit that I kept quiet about for years. In New Leaf, sold out signs were for indoor use only. No outdoor models existed, so attempting to drop the item would crash your game and anyone around you. However if you set the drop animation to something completely invalid, the game would still drop the item, it would register as a drop, but it would be invisible until after the host saves. If the host saves, that will render that entire area of their town as broken and there was no way to fix it. If a sold out sign was dropped in every acre, the game would crash just before the title screen loaded up. This is very similar to wild world but was made more alarming the fact that nobody heard an item dropping. And even more alarming, another exploit which allows someone to brick people's games at the titlescreen also exists in Animal Crossing New Horizons, as well as Animal Crossing City Folk. City Folks method is the same exact method as New Leafs bricking method. Kinda glad that was one thing I kept private during New Leafs heyday.
What do the other modes besides 'dream' do btw? When I changed them they didn't do anything What actually changes the behaviour of trees not dropping hives, Reece not welcoming into the Retail etc
@@ross3695_basedhax Yes, New Leaf had an exploit in the bulletin board packet send functions which allows for RCE. It wasn't really made use of, because the bug was discovered sometime in mid 2023. As for what each mode does, I haven't played new leaf much since 2019 so I really wouldn't be able to tell you all the differences.
i assume the sold out sign issue can be achieved by traveling to someone else's town with the glitched item in your inventory, & then dropping it to brick their game?
It's so cool there's people creating networks like Pretendo to keep older games and systems connected and fully functional, I understand why Nintendo has to move on from older products but it's always a shame when perfectly good hardware gets shoved in a drawer because the software became obsolete
It's not as "hard" as they make it to be, Nintendo is famously incredibly shit when it comes to their old products. It doesn't cost much to keep online enabled for older consoles, it's all baked into their current online structures. They do it intentionally because they want you buying new things. They would brick your 3DS in a heartbeat if it meant you went out and bought a switch. Nintendo is basically the worst in the business for this kind of thing. It's with malice.
I remember when I thought putting flowers on the beach was only possible with hacking so I used to leave SO fast One time I left and it said 'an unknown error has occured save your progress and turn off soon as possible' something similar which usually happened from a browser exploit to move villager houses I was able to put flowers on my own beach and for a long time I thought I gained the ability from a hacked town I didn't realise it was a real part of the game haha
So about a year ago my roommate was just playing New Horizons. (I know not much of this game, so my knowledge here's gonna be vague). He had been using his upstairs in a very utilitarian manner, before deciding this day to start on the path of properly decorating the room. So, he sets down a 1x2 table to start, then heads down stairs to do some crafting. When he returns, there was a television placed on the table, but perpendicularly to its direction, leaving 1/2 of it hanging off of the table. This television had no collision to speak of, but he was still able to interact with it as if it were a normal item. He ended up putting it in his bag, and it functioned like a normal item thereafter. He was initially befuddled with what may have caused this. Was his island haunted? Turns out not: after some thinking he rembered that, nearer to release, there was a certain duplication glitch which relied on strange behavior with how furniture reacted with tables. He had used this at the time to quickly duplicate televisions to quickly get more bells. However, in doing so he ended up leaving a phantom television in the room, invisible and collisionless due to a lack of a table to stand on. Even after the duplication bug was patch, it still stayed for all that time afterwards. What proceeded next was a hunt for any more ghost televisions, in which he placed town every table he had, left the room, then moved the tables to another part of the room. In doing so, we found two more phantom televisions. Once again, I don't know much at all about Animal Crossing, and so I think you may be able to get more out of this story than I possibly could. Regardless, it's still one of my favourite shared-memories with him.
As a big fan of New Leaf, and someone who never had internet access before 2016, thank GOD I never accidentally came across one of these towns. And what a great start to these New Leaf videos! So hyped to see more
@@RichConnerGMNExcept said "credibility" was demolished shortly after. Same story with Vinny. As soon as the lawyers came out for both, the claimers all quickly fled.
A really bizarre experience I had while playing New Leaf was when a hacker on an island forced everyone to go back to their own town, but our towns were all still part of this online island mode, meaning that it functioned similarly to what it was like on the islands. I believe it took everyone to their own specific towns, however, we were able to see each other still just like a parallel dimension. I thought it was the craziest thing ever. I don’t believe the hacker was able to see our individual towns.
I remember this from some Italian livestreams back in 2018 or 2019. I did actually meet the same hackers several times, but they never warped us. Instead, I couldn't stop laughing at them spawning trees of trees out of nowhere and eating literally any item, including rocks.
This happened to me and it erased my entire inventory probably because it saved and Kapp'n never gave me my stuff back. I lost a bunch of stuff I've had for forever
Oh yeah! I experienced this a few times too! It was pretty weird. I also experienced hackers on the island being able to use my custom designs or look exactly like me??
this makes me nostalgic for my own file… i’ve had my town for almost 8 or 9 years, and i feel lucky that i never ran into this when i was younger. the dream restoration project also sounds super interesting! people within the community coming together to archive towns is such a kind thing to do!
Oh... my... goodness. You just reminded me of the emotional damage I endured when this whole hacked-dream-town-corrupting-your-save-file bonanza happened to me. It was summer of 2015. I was enjoying playing online in New Leaf, visiting the island and talking with people from around the world. One day, this person, who I'd met multiple times somehow by sheer chance, told me about this town called Pokeland, and NOT to go there. She didn't go into detail about it, just told me not to go there. And me, being 14 and full of teenage curiosity, decided I'd go there after the session. "What's the worst that can happen?" I told myself. Oh, you sweet summer child. So later on, I head to the Dream Suite, punch in "Pokeland" and I get back, well, multiple entries, but I picked the one at the top. I think it showed the ones that are visited the most but don't quote me. And so it took me to Pokeland, which at the time I didn't realize, was a hacked town. As you'd expect, placement of buildings was invalid, and the whole place felt weird. I entered a building, not sure which one, but it must've been retail given that, as the video explained, when I left, the game did that weird void out to Main Street warp. At that point I was getting uneasy. I wanted to leave. I turned around to try exit Main Street but just went past the edge of the map and could see the void beneath. Probably because you're not supposed to be there in the first place so the devs didn't bother adding the loading zone. So, after several minutes of wondering around the street, I decide to enter the Dream Suite. "Maybe I can warp back home from there." I talk to the lady, she sits me down in bed, the game saves (F), and when the screen went white to transition... I immediately got kicked into the home menu and the system said something like "An unexpected error occurred forcing the game to close." "Well that was a weird experience." I said to myself. I open the game back up to see if everything's okay, and first thing I saw was that the title screen was showing a villager and town that was not mine. "Uh oh." Next the game tells me, in a red speech bubble I'd never seen before, that my save file has been corrupted. I was like "But you can restore it, right?" Nope! Had to start a new file. At that moment my heart sank. I goofed up, hard. I should've listened to that person. I only had the game for about 6 months, but I was so attached to my town and put in so many hours already, and now it was gone, never to be seen again. I went on to Miiverse to voice my situation, and someone replied to me saying that the town I visited was hacked, and what happened to me is the reason why Main Street/saving was disabled in dreams. Welp, I sure learned that the hard way. I've lost many more save files in other games, but few come close to the feeling of loss I felt when I lost my first New Leaf save. Heck malicious hackers, man. Although it was not the best memory to revisit, thank you, Hunter, for explaining what exactly happens when something like this happens. If only I had this knowledge 9 years ago.
For a while I was wondering why going to hacked towns was 'dangerous' and risky when I put them on Miiverse.I thought I would just get banned or something Now I know why 💀
@@ross3695_basedhax The funny part is that instead of going into the Dream Suite, I could've just turned off the wireless communication and that would've probably saved me. But alas, the idea did not come to mind at the time.
Wild World had a glitch called seeding where a hacker could literally brick your cartridge by putting lots of buildings to crash the game on the title screen(so you can't even delete it) Animal Crossing Wii(and other games) had exploits too that destroyed your entire Wii with RCE they could overrite boot1 to stop it from even getting to the main PowerPC processor
Everyone on the Animal Crossing forums was so paranoid about seeders back in the day. "Hackers" were viewed with intense suspicion. I distinctly remember my sister resetting her game during an online multiplayer session because someone kept hiding and acting suspiciously. Apparently, they were trying to brick her town. Of course, lots of "hackers" were cool. If you're lucky, one of them might even give you some of the "HDLC" (hacked DLC) items that were floating around in City Folk. I remember getting a lightsaber and a guitar axe, both of which functioned as golden axes. IIRC these items would even show up in Nook's shop once they came into your possession. Good times.
Sane design: - download dream data as a separate save file - entirely disable save function during dreams - don't touch the original file at all until next session - at startup, delete dream file without looking at it (in case looking somehow crashes) - periodically scan uploaded files for anomalies and delete them Nintendo design - replace your actual save data - just pray nobody manages to save during dreams - blindly trust all uploaded files, because they're encrypted, even though the encryption is worthless when hackers can just modify the live data, which the game will then encrypt for them - don't bother to patch for years because it requires hacking to exploit, even though it doesn't require hacking to be a victim Classic.
It doesn't replace your save data based on what I got from this video, it "just" overwrites your original town in game memory. Your save data is only touched if you end up saving while in the dream town, which under normal conditions wouldn't be possible. It's still uh, optimistic thinking on Nintendo's part I agree, but they weren't _that_ stupid.
@@LonelySpaceDetective I wonder if an "easy" way to prevent save overwrites on autosave would have been to compare certain current (normally unchangeable) town info in memory with the town info in the save, and if they don't match, either preventing the save from taking place or overwriting the current memory with the data in the save before allowing the save to take place. Then your save could only ever be overwritten with another save of your own town.
@@citrusella-nomorecraptions I think a potential issue with that would be false positives; just about any small change to your town from the amount of weeds to placing a new flower would be enough to make your town technically different than it was when you loaded your town up. You did give me an idea however: You know how they use a special flag in the save file to determine whether Resetti should appear? Maybe they could've made it so dreaming sets a "player is dreaming" flag, and if you try to do anything that'd trigger an autosave while that flag is set the game in some way refuses to overwrite the game data, with the flag being cleared only if you exit the dream or reload your save after turning off the 3DS.
@@LonelySpaceDetective there literally is a var that controls whether a player is dreaming, in club tortimer, in a friends town, or playing offline. for whatever reason, dreaming only disables /manual saves/ and they never thought to make autosave methods check to see what game type you're in before trying to save lmao
Nintendo have such ass-backwards ideas about how things should be done. They're portrayed as masters of their craft, but taking one tiny peek behind the curtain shows that a lot of their programming is borderline amateurish and self-destructively ignorant at times. For fuck's sake, they're still tying game logic to the framerate when *every* other developer has moved on from that. All first-party Switch games will be forever limited to 60 or even 30fps, and will require future developers to have to actually go back and modify the games to run above that. Unbelievable.
Hunter, PLEASE never stop posting Animal Crossing content. It's my 3rd favourite game series, and there's no one else on RUclips that's so knowledgeable about AC than you. You've told me so much about a game that I thought I knew so much about!!
I remember, there was an internet list of creepy and weird towns to visit. There was one that had a lot of dolls with axes. Entering one of these felt like entering the dark web.
Yeah. it's the Aika town. I remember RiverRun too ! its for me the OG creepy hacked town back when ACNL was released. There wasn't a save editor in this era, so there wasn't really common 👍
I definetly understand how devastating this glitch could be, but it brings up an interesting concept of replacing your town with that of another player’s and being able to freely make changes to it while still having a starting point. It sounds like something they should try out in future games
i remember buying a new cartridge (so i could keep my original town) as a kid to pick out a hacked town like this and was so happy bc i had unlimited money and stuff like flowers in the water and it was so pretty !
From a programming aspect this is really easy to prevent. In the save function simply return an error message before saving if in a dream town. This feature was probably added on rather poorly.
no, it's really not that simple at all. if it was "really easy", they wouldn't have waited until a major feature update and had to overhaul the way addresses are stored. while they definitely should've fixed it sooner, programming games is never simple.
Animal Crossing New Leaf: corrupt your town Animal Crossing Wild World: Brick your entire cartridge Animal Crossing City Folk and New Horizons: Brick your entire console with RCE corrupting boot process EDIT: The RCE exploit was first discovered in Mario Kart Wii but was also found in LOTS of other games even on Nintendo Switch and 3DS, We can thank Wiimmfi team and PabloMK7 for sending it to nintendo to get fixed xD I'm not sure if New Leaf had it but I know some other 3DS games did
@@jummy0 IIRC it *may* be the same sort of thing I've heard about in Mario Kart Wii (a number of Wii games apparently used similar code libraries for some things and it's a vulnerability in the whole library)--a malicious actor could run cheats/code that could crash or brick their own Wii in an offline scenario, but running it online might cause anyone else also playing to be subject to the same brick.
I'd love to see some love for City Folk - so many people forget about it, and laugh at the mic (it let me talk to my friend 2500 miles away! Long-distance calls were expensive!)
This is actually really interesting, I'm surprised Nintendo didn't save your town in a different way to prevent something like this. Great video as always Hunter!
A fantastic video like always. If you ever talk about new leaf again, I hope you can explain the rare sunrises and sunsets that would occasionally happen, since there's very little info on it.
3:49 OMG i literally recovered my original ACNL town of like 6 years after i lost the cart by doing this with a mod. had a friend give me my dream address and was able to get it to save, and was surprised at how just complete it was. pocket, main street, mail, villager memories... it truly shocked me just how much data was uploaded with the dream town. it was sort of a hail mary and this is the first time i've ever seen someone else talk about how this is possible
yooo new leaf!!! probably just nostalgia induced bias but i absolutely loved new leaf, would be nice to see more content on it i actually remember finding a hacked dream town just by chance once when i was a kid, and it was hacked in such a way that you could go out of bounds, and they placed a bench out in the void... that you couldn't get back up from. needless to say, i was a bit upset lol
naww its not nostalgia bias at all, acnl is genuinely goated, the first animal crossing game i played was new horizons and i liked it but when i finally picked up new leaf holy DARN is it so much better...
@@ross3695_basedhaxBreaking News: Many people have been deemed “non gamers” because they’re saying that your preferences are likely influenced by nostalgia.
I’m just glad that you can still unlock the dream suite public works project even after the discontinuation of the 3ds online by attempting to connect to someone else’s town at the train station. :)
Bit bummed the list of dream towns isn't available yet, but holy hell. I thought i'd coped with the new leaf servers shutting down. I cried several times throughout the _nine minute video._ Incredible video, 10/10. I also appreciate that you didn't post this until after the servers went down /gen
YES FINNALY NEW LEAF. New leaf has been my childhood, ive been enjoying your videos a ton and have just been waiting for you to break open this rabbit hole. New leaf is so broken, and has so many fun stories and glitches to tell, i hope this series gets updated further. Love your Content, keep it going
Honestly, if you have a 3ds, I'd recommend giving New Leaf a look! While it doesn't have as much raw customizability, it does have a handful of unique features and minigames (and somewhat more interesting villager interactions imho)
The worst thing I encountered in a dream town was someone putting the plaza out of bounds. I couldn't move, go on the bed nor leave so I had to quit out the game and reload. Resetti gave me a lecture but he'll never understand hacking.
I grew up with new leaf! You have nooooo idea how absolutely elated I am to see you diving into New Leaf as well as the original gamecube version (☆▽☆)!!!
wow, i’ve always been fascinated by this glitch/exploit, and have never found more than just some forum posts about it. Ive always been really facinated with errors and corruption in animal crossing and other games, so i’m happy to see such a video that goes in depth about it :)
i remember hearing about this when i was looking up if hacked dream towns could corrupt your data. scared the hell out of me, but i wonder if people could use it to their advantage and just... copy a town they like onto their own game. assuming the game isn't corrupted or whatever.
Really loving the branch out into New Leaf. There's so many odd mechanics and oversights that it can compete with Gamecube. Just the other day, I found a glitch with Cyrus and the lava lamp. His customization options for this one item are mislabeled, and every color is inaccurate once customized. I couldn't find any information on it except a dead forum post, which is odd, since it was never patched.
I haven’t been getting notifications lately, so I had no idea this video was out! I have a little binging to do. Thank you for all of these videos, Hunter. I’m looking forward to your content branching out to the rest of the series!
It’s funny. I’m still on the island with someone else to this day. I left my 3DS on charge and never touched it. Me and this person have been chatting ever since lol
@@Most-sane-deltarune-fan No because we get on when we can chat the Internet has not crashed once and since the shut down only includes when is soon as we get off of the island we can stay in here for as long as we want
You can't fool me, I can tell your character is moving with keyboard keys (IJKL?) from those suspiciously 90° and 45° paths with no 3DS joystick wiggling
7:25 "there's a good chance your Dream Town is still there!" ...Can someone KINDLY pass a link to that vault? Because well, I uploaded a dream town ages ago and afterwards, my copy of New Leaf got stolen and I had to basically start from scratch with a new copy. So if what the video said is true, that means that...my town is preserved somewhere? And I can get it back? :O That would be magical.
It will be published eventually, but the data is still being compiled and sorted through. I’m not really involved in that process, so I can’t give a definitive timeframe, but it shouldn’t be too much longer.
oh wow, i'm glad i was never super into dream visiting! would've hated for this to happen to my town... i love acnl, happy to see some videos about it! the music is sooo nostalgic
a few days ago I downloaded the welcome amiibo update and my village got reverted back into a village from a previous save file I didn't even know was still on the cartridge. why is New Leaf like this
Just wanted to say, this is the first time I've seen New Leaf with the HD textures and wow. It looks like how I imagined the original looking back then, when that resolution was the best you'd get on handheld. Would be awesome to go back to the game as it is here to relive the nostalgia without the graininess
I swear every video of yours blows my mind lol. New Leaf was my first AC game and I remember visiting hacked dream towns that had structures like public works projects in the ocean and river. Visiting those felt so forbidden, but now I'm glad I never ran into one that could overwrite my save file! I would've been so much more afraid if I had known that back then hahaha. Your videos are awesome, and you explain everything in a way that is easy to understand, even to someone who has no experience with programming, like me. I've subscribed and I'll be looking out for new videos, I can't wait to learn more whacky stuff about this game series I love so much
Story time! so i first started playing new leaf around release, and i loved it, i grew up with wild world and i was in middle school when new leaf came out. then at one point while i was playing it at launch this dbag kid kept turning off my 3ds, and it corrupted my save data. i was heartbroken, even contacted nintendo to see if my town could be restored in any way using the dream suite data and they just said no, maybe in the future but that’s not in the works. i started again, idk if that data is still around because i haven’t been able to get attached in the same way since. now i see this video, learn i was lied to by nintendo cause they could have used this to get it back, and what’s worse, it’s now gone for good cause they wiped it with welcome amiibo. if any of the old data is ever recovered and someone comes across a “de witt” with bree in it, let me know, or at least say hi to her for me
Huh, crazy to think my NL dream town might be on an archive somewhere. I wonder how many visited during its time online. Happy to hear you're branching out to the other AC games, learning about the original is fun but I grew up with Wild World so I'll always be curious to see exploits and oversights from anything past WW! :D
Of course, but New Leaf didn’t see widespread AR support until a bit after it’s launch. It takes awhile for people to crack the game and come up with the codes.
This video should be a rather large reminder that it doesn't matter what companies do to try and stop people from getting around stops and checksums, or how "obsolete" technology is cut off from our modern world; people will find a way around it and make it work. Invasive DRM, attacks on Right-To-Repair, Server-Shutdowns . . . all of it can be circumvented with enough perseverance.
funnily enough, when i was trying to get the 500 dreams badge before the server shutdown, i only saw one dream that was actually malicious in how it set up the hacked town--if you put it in the top left of the map, you'd be unable to reach the bed, softlocking you and needing a reset. it's no "deleting your town altogether", but that was still a little rude!
I remember when I was like 11 I saw this tutorial on yt to hack your town, It involved getting to a dream island called biscuit or something like that, I did all the steps and got my island to be that exact same island. You could walk on the rivers and all that and was full of golden roses and stuff. Im glad that it didnt corrupt my game files because as an 11 year old i would have been really scared
This makes me wish I knew about this glitch earlier so I could have backed up the town of one of my best friends. Unfortunately it's too late now. Edit: I'm glad to hear they're working on dumping all the dream towns, as that was one of the few things that remained from my old friend from around a decade ago. Hopefully their town was never erased, I tended to visit them every once in a while, but I went a while without playing and might have left their town unvisited for a year or more.
I can't tell you how absolutely flabbergasted I was at the end of the other vid when you did a teaser for new leaf vids. Gives me hope for City Folk vids because City Folk is my fav ^_^
The dream town archive mentioned in this video is currently just a list of downloaded data right now from around November 2023-April 2024. There is a website in works to host the data for public use, but I am not involved in that process and it is not yet available. Sorry for mentioning it a bit prematurely, but I’ll touch more on it when that project is finished. 👍
I definitely spent far too long looking for it haha. If the description could just be updated when it's available that would be amazing, thank you! Love your work!
i was so excited cause i might’ve seen my old island again… i hope this project actually gets completed and my town is in it
I'm surprised this feature's servers haven't been reverse-engineered and emulated yet, that's been happening to a lot of games lately, and that's just one feature of a game which should in theory be simpler.
Yeah, it probably would have been best not to mention something which doesn't exist for us.
Pretendo has also archived most of this data, and will eventually be putting the data online
So THATS why people on Miiverse told me to LEAVE IMMEDIATELY whenever I went to a hacked town
I thought I would just get banned or something. Now I know why 💀
The voices in my head were *RIGHT AND NONE OF YOU BELIEVED ME!*
I actually lost my 2,000 hour town just before the Welcome Amiibo update because of this exact scenario 😭😭One of the hacked dream towns I visited had a Shampoodle in the middle of town, which plopped me on their Main Street upon exiting. So I decided to check out their Happy Home Academy because young me thought that it would show their StreetPass houses, and unfortunately, that's one of the ways to save your game on Main Street. I saw it showed my own StreetPass homes instead of theirs, so I left the game and re-opened it, and lo and behold, "Your save data is corrupted and will be deleted." Young me was EXTREMELY devastated and cried for hours. When it updated a few months later to Welcome Amiibo, it wasn't corrupted anymore, but it had been overridden with the hacked town, so I just deleted it and accepted defeat.
Amazing to see a video on this topic. For a long time I thought I was the only one who fell victim to this, lol
Oh man I’m so sorry that you lost all those hours :(
My condolences…🙏
RIP Town o7
I would have cried as well, my condolences.
i cried when my favorite villager,
fang moved out so this would’ve been devastating for me.. o7
Cant believe you can just be put in a coma in ACNL like that
you meant ACNL?
the real coma was the friends we made along the way
@@littlecake453 yes
I am stupid
hello, you!!
ethan.....
Geez, going to sleep in a dream completely erases your past life, achievements, friends, everything. The kinda creepypasta that would make Aika Village blush. (I hope that village got saved)
Does sound like a decent creepy concept.
if I remember right, the creator of aika village made a version for new horizons
inception
A permanent death for your character. Where they can never escape the main street dream.
@@thepokemonqueen Oh, really?
I did a lot of research into New Leaf's inner workings.
The reason why dreams prevent you from saving is because dreams are represented by a game type id of 0x03. 0x02 is on club tortimer, 0x01 is online in a friend's town, and 0 is offline.
After the update, in my plugin, to allow us to save an entire dream (because the ram dump method was not reliable and would always miss data such as furniture etc), we would set the gametype to offline and then it would allow us to save like normal.
But Hunter R, New Leaf had another pretty severe exploit that I kept quiet about for years.
In New Leaf, sold out signs were for indoor use only. No outdoor models existed, so attempting to drop the item would crash your game and anyone around you.
However if you set the drop animation to something completely invalid, the game would still drop the item, it would register as a drop, but it would be invisible until after the host saves.
If the host saves, that will render that entire area of their town as broken and there was no way to fix it. If a sold out sign was dropped in every acre, the game would crash just before the title screen loaded up.
This is very similar to wild world but was made more alarming the fact that nobody heard an item dropping.
And even more alarming, another exploit which allows someone to brick people's games at the titlescreen also exists in Animal Crossing New Horizons, as well as Animal Crossing City Folk. City Folks method is the same exact method as New Leafs bricking method.
Kinda glad that was one thing I kept private during New Leafs heyday.
WAIT
So literally every online AC game has a brick WTF
That's insane, AC City Folk and NH even had a console brick in the network library
What do the other modes besides 'dream' do btw? When I changed them they didn't do anything
What actually changes the behaviour of trees not dropping hives, Reece not welcoming into the Retail etc
@@ross3695_basedhax Yes, New Leaf had an exploit in the bulletin board packet send functions which allows for RCE. It wasn't really made use of, because the bug was discovered sometime in mid 2023.
As for what each mode does, I haven't played new leaf much since 2019 so I really wouldn't be able to tell you all the differences.
@@ross3695_basedhax Also, the RCE found in New Leaf is a brand new exploit. It wasn't the enlbufferpwn that we've seen before
i assume the sold out sign issue can be achieved by traveling to someone else's town with the glitched item in your inventory, & then dropping it to brick their game?
Gosh i will miss being able to use online features. New Leaf has always been my favourite game of all time.
Pretendo shall save your soul
It's so cool there's people creating networks like Pretendo to keep older games and systems connected and fully functional, I understand why Nintendo has to move on from older products but it's always a shame when perfectly good hardware gets shoved in a drawer because the software became obsolete
Servers now can be used inside a Docker..... buuuut managers gonna manage because time and "not worth"
It's not as "hard" as they make it to be, Nintendo is famously incredibly shit when it comes to their old products. It doesn't cost much to keep online enabled for older consoles, it's all baked into their current online structures. They do it intentionally because they want you buying new things. They would brick your 3DS in a heartbeat if it meant you went out and bought a switch. Nintendo is basically the worst in the business for this kind of thing. It's with malice.
@@KARLOSPCgame some Switch games literally use same physical server as the old Nintendo Network
what are they even 'shutting down' xD
@@ross3695_basedhaxThe software that was taking resources from those physical servers
Clearing up space for more stuff
I remember when I thought putting flowers on the beach was only possible with hacking so I used to leave SO fast
One time I left and it said 'an unknown error has occured save your progress and turn off soon as possible' something similar which usually happened from a browser exploit to move villager houses
I was able to put flowers on my own beach and for a long time I thought I gained the ability from a hacked town I didn't realise it was a real part of the game haha
You can do it in New Horizons. I have a handful of flowers on my beaches there.
So about a year ago my roommate was just playing New Horizons. (I know not much of this game, so my knowledge here's gonna be vague). He had been using his upstairs in a very utilitarian manner, before deciding this day to start on the path of properly decorating the room. So, he sets down a 1x2 table to start, then heads down stairs to do some crafting.
When he returns, there was a television placed on the table, but perpendicularly to its direction, leaving 1/2 of it hanging off of the table. This television had no collision to speak of, but he was still able to interact with it as if it were a normal item. He ended up putting it in his bag, and it functioned like a normal item thereafter.
He was initially befuddled with what may have caused this. Was his island haunted? Turns out not: after some thinking he rembered that, nearer to release, there was a certain duplication glitch which relied on strange behavior with how furniture reacted with tables. He had used this at the time to quickly duplicate televisions to quickly get more bells. However, in doing so he ended up leaving a phantom television in the room, invisible and collisionless due to a lack of a table to stand on. Even after the duplication bug was patch, it still stayed for all that time afterwards.
What proceeded next was a hunt for any more ghost televisions, in which he placed town every table he had, left the room, then moved the tables to another part of the room. In doing so, we found two more phantom televisions.
Once again, I don't know much at all about Animal Crossing, and so I think you may be able to get more out of this story than I possibly could. Regardless, it's still one of my favourite shared-memories with him.
As a big fan of New Leaf, and someone who never had internet access before 2016, thank GOD I never accidentally came across one of these towns.
And what a great start to these New Leaf videos! So hyped to see more
Me too as I didn't progress far enough to unlock the dream suite before 2016 because as a kid I didn't know what to do while playing the game.
Having a dream about animal crossing crashes paper mario.
@@RichConnerGMNF to his corpse
@@RichConnerGMN Context? Details?
I'd heard vague things but never heard one way or the other what was true, what's not, etc.
😭😭😭😭I miss Stryder7x SOOOO MUCH
Having a dream in Paper Mario crashes the world
@@RichConnerGMNExcept said "credibility" was demolished shortly after. Same story with Vinny. As soon as the lawyers came out for both, the claimers all quickly fled.
A really bizarre experience I had while playing New Leaf was when a hacker on an island forced everyone to go back to their own town, but our towns were all still part of this online island mode, meaning that it functioned similarly to what it was like on the islands. I believe it took everyone to their own specific towns, however, we were able to see each other still just like a parallel dimension. I thought it was the craziest thing ever. I don’t believe the hacker was able to see our individual towns.
Hunter, if you can explain this somehow, that would be pretty cool.
I remember this from some Italian livestreams back in 2018 or 2019. I did actually meet the same hackers several times, but they never warped us. Instead, I couldn't stop laughing at them spawning trees of trees out of nowhere and eating literally any item, including rocks.
It’s like a magic trick! Haha!
This happened to me and it erased my entire inventory probably because it saved and Kapp'n never gave me my stuff back. I lost a bunch of stuff I've had for forever
Oh yeah! I experienced this a few times too! It was pretty weird. I also experienced hackers on the island being able to use my custom designs or look exactly like me??
this makes me nostalgic for my own file… i’ve had my town for almost 8 or 9 years, and i feel lucky that i never ran into this when i was younger.
the dream restoration project also sounds super interesting! people within the community coming together to archive towns is such a kind thing to do!
aye! same here
Source: This glitch came to me in a dream.
Oh... my... goodness. You just reminded me of the emotional damage I endured when this whole hacked-dream-town-corrupting-your-save-file bonanza happened to me.
It was summer of 2015. I was enjoying playing online in New Leaf, visiting the island and talking with people from around the world. One day, this person, who I'd met multiple times somehow by sheer chance, told me about this town called Pokeland, and NOT to go there. She didn't go into detail about it, just told me not to go there. And me, being 14 and full of teenage curiosity, decided I'd go there after the session. "What's the worst that can happen?" I told myself. Oh, you sweet summer child.
So later on, I head to the Dream Suite, punch in "Pokeland" and I get back, well, multiple entries, but I picked the one at the top. I think it showed the ones that are visited the most but don't quote me. And so it took me to Pokeland, which at the time I didn't realize, was a hacked town. As you'd expect, placement of buildings was invalid, and the whole place felt weird. I entered a building, not sure which one, but it must've been retail given that, as the video explained, when I left, the game did that weird void out to Main Street warp. At that point I was getting uneasy. I wanted to leave. I turned around to try exit Main Street but just went past the edge of the map and could see the void beneath. Probably because you're not supposed to be there in the first place so the devs didn't bother adding the loading zone.
So, after several minutes of wondering around the street, I decide to enter the Dream Suite. "Maybe I can warp back home from there." I talk to the lady, she sits me down in bed, the game saves (F), and when the screen went white to transition... I immediately got kicked into the home menu and the system said something like "An unexpected error occurred forcing the game to close."
"Well that was a weird experience." I said to myself. I open the game back up to see if everything's okay, and first thing I saw was that the title screen was showing a villager and town that was not mine. "Uh oh." Next the game tells me, in a red speech bubble I'd never seen before, that my save file has been corrupted. I was like "But you can restore it, right?" Nope! Had to start a new file. At that moment my heart sank. I goofed up, hard. I should've listened to that person. I only had the game for about 6 months, but I was so attached to my town and put in so many hours already, and now it was gone, never to be seen again. I went on to Miiverse to voice my situation, and someone replied to me saying that the town I visited was hacked, and what happened to me is the reason why Main Street/saving was disabled in dreams. Welp, I sure learned that the hard way. I've lost many more save files in other games, but few come close to the feeling of loss I felt when I lost my first New Leaf save. Heck malicious hackers, man.
Although it was not the best memory to revisit, thank you, Hunter, for explaining what exactly happens when something like this happens. If only I had this knowledge 9 years ago.
For a while I was wondering why going to hacked towns was 'dangerous' and risky when I put them on Miiverse.I thought I would just get banned or something
Now I know why 💀
aint reading that allat, im so sorry for you lost tho
@@ross3695_basedhax The funny part is that instead of going into the Dream Suite, I could've just turned off the wireless communication and that would've probably saved me. But alas, the idea did not come to mind at the time.
im so sorry ; _ : your world
Another addition to "if you want someone to not do something, either don't tell them about it at all or tell them why exactly".
Wild World had a glitch called seeding where a hacker could literally brick your cartridge by putting lots of buildings to crash the game on the title screen(so you can't even delete it)
Animal Crossing Wii(and other games) had exploits too that destroyed your entire Wii with RCE they could overrite boot1 to stop it from even getting to the main PowerPC processor
Everyone on the Animal Crossing forums was so paranoid about seeders back in the day. "Hackers" were viewed with intense suspicion. I distinctly remember my sister resetting her game during an online multiplayer session because someone kept hiding and acting suspiciously. Apparently, they were trying to brick her town.
Of course, lots of "hackers" were cool. If you're lucky, one of them might even give you some of the "HDLC" (hacked DLC) items that were floating around in City Folk. I remember getting a lightsaber and a guitar axe, both of which functioned as golden axes. IIRC these items would even show up in Nook's shop once they came into your possession.
Good times.
@@hadger1 OMG I remember wanting a light sabre so bad, didn't they spread to other Wiis too
Sane design:
- download dream data as a separate save file
- entirely disable save function during dreams
- don't touch the original file at all until next session
- at startup, delete dream file without looking at it (in case looking somehow crashes)
- periodically scan uploaded files for anomalies and delete them
Nintendo design
- replace your actual save data
- just pray nobody manages to save during dreams
- blindly trust all uploaded files, because they're encrypted, even though the encryption is worthless when hackers can just modify the live data, which the game will then encrypt for them
- don't bother to patch for years because it requires hacking to exploit, even though it doesn't require hacking to be a victim
Classic.
It doesn't replace your save data based on what I got from this video, it "just" overwrites your original town in game memory. Your save data is only touched if you end up saving while in the dream town, which under normal conditions wouldn't be possible.
It's still uh, optimistic thinking on Nintendo's part I agree, but they weren't _that_ stupid.
@@LonelySpaceDetective I wonder if an "easy" way to prevent save overwrites on autosave would have been to compare certain current (normally unchangeable) town info in memory with the town info in the save, and if they don't match, either preventing the save from taking place or overwriting the current memory with the data in the save before allowing the save to take place. Then your save could only ever be overwritten with another save of your own town.
@@citrusella-nomorecraptions I think a potential issue with that would be false positives; just about any small change to your town from the amount of weeds to placing a new flower would be enough to make your town technically different than it was when you loaded your town up.
You did give me an idea however: You know how they use a special flag in the save file to determine whether Resetti should appear? Maybe they could've made it so dreaming sets a "player is dreaming" flag, and if you try to do anything that'd trigger an autosave while that flag is set the game in some way refuses to overwrite the game data, with the flag being cleared only if you exit the dream or reload your save after turning off the 3DS.
@@LonelySpaceDetective there literally is a var that controls whether a player is dreaming, in club tortimer, in a friends town, or playing offline. for whatever reason, dreaming only disables /manual saves/ and they never thought to make autosave methods check to see what game type you're in before trying to save lmao
Nintendo have such ass-backwards ideas about how things should be done. They're portrayed as masters of their craft, but taking one tiny peek behind the curtain shows that a lot of their programming is borderline amateurish and self-destructively ignorant at times.
For fuck's sake, they're still tying game logic to the framerate when *every* other developer has moved on from that. All first-party Switch games will be forever limited to 60 or even 30fps, and will require future developers to have to actually go back and modify the games to run above that. Unbelievable.
0:11 Ah, the Nintendo 3DScube was such a great console
I was thinking exactly that LMAO
Hunter, PLEASE never stop posting Animal Crossing content. It's my 3rd favourite game series, and there's no one else on RUclips that's so knowledgeable about AC than you. You've told me so much about a game that I thought I knew so much about!!
I used to love visiting these hacked towns. The oversight is crazy though.
I remember, there was an internet list of creepy and weird towns to visit. There was one that had a lot of dolls with axes. Entering one of these felt like entering the dark web.
Yeah. it's the Aika town. I remember RiverRun too ! its for me the OG creepy hacked town back when ACNL was released. There wasn't a save editor in this era, so there wasn't really common 👍
@@Hezekiel112 pokeland too
I definetly understand how devastating this glitch could be, but it brings up an interesting concept of replacing your town with that of another player’s and being able to freely make changes to it while still having a starting point. It sounds like something they should try out in future games
i remember buying a new cartridge (so i could keep my original town) as a kid to pick out a hacked town like this and was so happy bc i had unlimited money and stuff like flowers in the water and it was so pretty !
I would LOVE to see more new leaf stuff! So much stuff to cover!
From a programming aspect this is really easy to prevent. In the save function simply return an error message before saving if in a dream town. This feature was probably added on rather poorly.
no, it's really not that simple at all. if it was "really easy", they wouldn't have waited until a major feature update and had to overhaul the way addresses are stored. while they definitely should've fixed it sooner, programming games is never simple.
Animal Crossing New Leaf: corrupt your town
Animal Crossing Wild World: Brick your entire cartridge
Animal Crossing City Folk and New Horizons: Brick your entire console with RCE corrupting boot process
EDIT: The RCE exploit was first discovered in Mario Kart Wii but was also found in LOTS of other games even on Nintendo Switch and 3DS, We can thank Wiimmfi team and PabloMK7 for sending it to nintendo to get fixed xD
I'm not sure if New Leaf had it but I know some other 3DS games did
Sorry for leaving like 5 comments lol
I love your content I would love to see videos on the other 2 exploits
animal crossing wii can do WHAT now???? i've heard of seeds in WW but never about the wii thing
@@jummy0 IIRC it *may* be the same sort of thing I've heard about in Mario Kart Wii (a number of Wii games apparently used similar code libraries for some things and it's a vulnerability in the whole library)--a malicious actor could run cheats/code that could crash or brick their own Wii in an offline scenario, but running it online might cause anyone else also playing to be subject to the same brick.
What's RCE?
@@kalejuice5701 "Remote code execution", basically "my console sends code to YOUR console that then gets run." Very very dangerous exploit.
It's interesting that the Dream towns were simply save states of the respective cities. I always thought that was some other kind of file.
I'd love to see some love for City Folk - so many people forget about it, and laugh at the mic (it let me talk to my friend 2500 miles away! Long-distance calls were expensive!)
This is actually really interesting, I'm surprised Nintendo didn't save your town in a different way to prevent something like this.
Great video as always Hunter!
I've been playing ACNL since 2013 but never heard of this exploit before. I really learn new things about these games everyday!
A fantastic video like always.
If you ever talk about new leaf again, I hope you can explain the rare sunrises and sunsets that would occasionally happen, since there's very little info on it.
3:49 OMG i literally recovered my original ACNL town of like 6 years after i lost the cart by doing this with a mod. had a friend give me my dream address and was able to get it to save, and was surprised at how just complete it was. pocket, main street, mail, villager memories... it truly shocked me just how much data was uploaded with the dream town. it was sort of a hail mary and this is the first time i've ever seen someone else talk about how this is possible
After reading the horror stories of people's wiped towns, that is such a good story to read!
It's pretty cool that you were able to use the exploit to get your town back.
yooo new leaf!!!
probably just nostalgia induced bias but i absolutely loved new leaf, would be nice to see more content on it
i actually remember finding a hacked dream town just by chance once when i was a kid, and it was hacked in such a way that you could go out of bounds, and they placed a bench out in the void... that you couldn't get back up from. needless to say, i was a bit upset lol
Don't listen to 'nostalgia' argument its a load a crap lol
People who tell you that are not real gamers
naww its not nostalgia bias at all, acnl is genuinely goated, the first animal crossing game i played was new horizons and i liked it but when i finally picked up new leaf holy DARN is it so much better...
@@ross3695_basedhaxBreaking News: Many people have been deemed “non gamers” because they’re saying that your preferences are likely influenced by nostalgia.
I’m just glad that you can still unlock the dream suite public works project even after the discontinuation of the 3ds online by attempting to connect to someone else’s town at the train station. :)
You never had to do that to unlock the dream suite
@@savvasf7136 well how did you do it?
I had to double take that intro because my name is Hunter too. Felt like i was booting up my old town
Bit bummed the list of dream towns isn't available yet, but holy hell. I thought i'd coped with the new leaf servers shutting down. I cried several times throughout the _nine minute video._
Incredible video, 10/10. I also appreciate that you didn't post this until after the servers went down /gen
This video made me realise Aika Village is now lost forever
i doubt it is.
YES FINNALY NEW LEAF. New leaf has been my childhood, ive been enjoying your videos a ton and have just been waiting for you to break open this rabbit hole. New leaf is so broken, and has so many fun stories and glitches to tell, i hope this series gets updated further. Love your Content, keep it going
These videos are always awesome. I'm so glad someone is making RUclips videos about my favorite series and they're so well produced too
Thank you so much! Means a lot, truly. I hope you continue to look forward to future uploads and some cool announcements in the future. 😉
This was my first introduction into Animal Crossing. I have so much nostalgia for this game. Thank you for covering it.
I love the way you break down and explain things. You could start covering entirely different series and I'd watch it. Absolutely love the content!
Nice to see you doing some videos on later AC entries!
Fact is that I don't play any animal crossing beside NH. But I still watch all these
Honestly, if you have a 3ds, I'd recommend giving New Leaf a look! While it doesn't have as much raw customizability, it does have a handful of unique features and minigames (and somewhat more interesting villager interactions imho)
@@MsCuriousinfernoin my opinion we should get a new leaf remake with its features, anchs customisation and graphics
I'm with you.
The worst thing I encountered in a dream town was someone putting the plaza out of bounds. I couldn't move, go on the bed nor leave so I had to quit out the game and reload. Resetti gave me a lecture but he'll never understand hacking.
5:46
WE MUST GO DEEPER
I grew up with new leaf! You have nooooo idea how absolutely elated I am to see you diving into New Leaf as well as the original gamecube version (☆▽☆)!!!
kawaii
If you save in the dream, you save in real life!
THE KING IS BACK
I remember glitching into main street on dream towns a few times before... using the bug net glitch that let you go through walls.
wow, i’ve always been fascinated by this glitch/exploit, and have never found more than just some forum posts about it.
Ive always been really facinated with errors and corruption in animal crossing and other games, so i’m happy to see such a video that goes in depth about it :)
I always wondered why they changed the dream address system in welcome amiibo. Great vid!
i remember hearing about this when i was looking up if hacked dream towns could corrupt your data. scared the hell out of me, but i wonder if people could use it to their advantage and just... copy a town they like onto their own game. assuming the game isn't corrupted or whatever.
Some did, because they wanted a "glitched" town. The end result was an army of Jingles from RiverRun. Or whatever was available at the time.
@@dyter424 i still have river run lol
@@dyter424 So... there are clones of Toy Day's host somewhere?
This is giving so much 2014 vibes... I remember when people would visit those hacked towns that would replace their town with the dream's one
Really loving the branch out into New Leaf. There's so many odd mechanics and oversights that it can compete with Gamecube. Just the other day, I found a glitch with Cyrus and the lava lamp. His customization options for this one item are mislabeled, and every color is inaccurate once customized. I couldn't find any information on it except a dead forum post, which is odd, since it was never patched.
Love seeing you branching out to other AC games! Really enjoy your content man, keep it up
I haven’t been getting notifications lately, so I had no idea this video was out! I have a little binging to do. Thank you for all of these videos, Hunter. I’m looking forward to your content branching out to the rest of the series!
you know its gonna be a good day when hunter posts
It’s funny. I’m still on the island with someone else to this day. I left my 3DS on charge and never touched it. Me and this person have been chatting ever since lol
Have they wondered where you've been?
@@Most-sane-deltarune-fan No because we get on when we can chat the Internet has not crashed once and since the shut down only includes when is soon as we get off of the island we can stay in here for as long as we want
@@majesticespeon3126 That's clever! I wish I'd thought of a similar method for Pokémon X, 'cause then I'd just keep trading Pokémon online forever.
@@majesticespeon3126 Huh. That's wild.
Are you still connected this day? What do you guys chat about?
You can't fool me, I can tell your character is moving with keyboard keys (IJKL?) from those suspiciously 90° and 45° paths with no 3DS joystick wiggling
Hehe
7:25 "there's a good chance your Dream Town is still there!"
...Can someone KINDLY pass a link to that vault? Because well, I uploaded a dream town ages ago and afterwards, my copy of New Leaf got stolen and I had to basically start from scratch with a new copy.
So if what the video said is true, that means that...my town is preserved somewhere? And I can get it back? :O That would be magical.
Seconding this. My brother’s save data was corrupted a while ago. Would be real cool to get it back for him.
It will be published eventually, but the data is still being compiled and sorted through. I’m not really involved in that process, so I can’t give a definitive timeframe, but it shouldn’t be too much longer.
oh wow, i'm glad i was never super into dream visiting! would've hated for this to happen to my town... i love acnl, happy to see some videos about it! the music is sooo nostalgic
So happy to see New Leaf :)
best animal crossing :D
Imagine being Luna and just seeing you not ever wake up
Maybe your character is secretly in love with her. She IS, well, dreamy...
This is nuts, actually super lucky I never had this happen to me in 800+ hours of ACNL.
a few days ago I downloaded the welcome amiibo update and my village got reverted back into a village from a previous save file I didn't even know was still on the cartridge. why is New Leaf like this
Holy crap, a New Leaf video! I absolutely love this game!
Just wanted to say, this is the first time I've seen New Leaf with the HD textures and wow. It looks like how I imagined the original looking back then, when that resolution was the best you'd get on handheld. Would be awesome to go back to the game as it is here to relive the nostalgia without the graininess
I swear every video of yours blows my mind lol. New Leaf was my first AC game and I remember visiting hacked dream towns that had structures like public works projects in the ocean and river. Visiting those felt so forbidden, but now I'm glad I never ran into one that could overwrite my save file! I would've been so much more afraid if I had known that back then hahaha. Your videos are awesome, and you explain everything in a way that is easy to understand, even to someone who has no experience with programming, like me. I've subscribed and I'll be looking out for new videos, I can't wait to learn more whacky stuff about this game series I love so much
I haven't played New Leaf, just the OG and City Folk, but great video as always! Excited for what's next.
I'm so happy that Hunter uploaded again
temporarily closed forever made me explode
It's an oxymoron!
Story time!
so i first started playing new leaf around release, and i loved it, i grew up with wild world and i was in middle school when new leaf came out. then at one point while i was playing it at launch this dbag kid kept turning off my 3ds, and it corrupted my save data. i was heartbroken, even contacted nintendo to see if my town could be restored in any way using the dream suite data and they just said no, maybe in the future but that’s not in the works. i started again, idk if that data is still around because i haven’t been able to get attached in the same way since. now i see this video, learn i was lied to by nintendo cause they could have used this to get it back, and what’s worse, it’s now gone for good cause they wiped it with welcome amiibo. if any of the old data is ever recovered and someone comes across a “de witt” with bree in it, let me know, or at least say hi to her for me
Will do.
What is the website with the dream towns on it? It isn't in the description.
I also would like to know what it is
It isn’t published yet! I’ll update the description when it is
@@Hunter-R. do you know when it will be about? sorr if i seem impatient im just excited LOL
Aika Village was my favorite creepy dream town in ACNL
I swear this is one of the best channels ever!!! Loving the New Leaf focus🎉🎉🎉
Hi, I love your videos! What site is the dream town preservation on at 7:22 if you dont mind sharing?
i love the way what you‘re saying is visualized!
You should make more new leaf content! This video was so much fun to watch.
New Leaf was my first Animal Crossing
Huh, crazy to think my NL dream town might be on an archive somewhere. I wonder how many visited during its time online.
Happy to hear you're branching out to the other AC games, learning about the original is fun but I grew up with Wild World so I'll always be curious to see exploits and oversights from anything past WW! :D
this is an awesome video man, i never knew about this! keep it up 👍
can you link to the dream town database shown at 7:02? i want to see if my old new leaf town is on there 😭
Its not currently complete yet, sadly. Thus its not publicly available yet.
This was super interesting! You made an amazing video!
Action replays were in use long before new leaf. Had one back in the day for wild world and pokemon platinum
Of course, but New Leaf didn’t see widespread AR support until a bit after it’s launch. It takes awhile for people to crack the game and come up with the codes.
Yay! I can’t wait to see what you find in the other games!
New Leaf!!! So excited!
This video should be a rather large reminder that it doesn't matter what companies do to try and stop people from getting around stops and checksums, or how "obsolete" technology is cut off from our modern world; people will find a way around it and make it work.
Invasive DRM, attacks on Right-To-Repair, Server-Shutdowns . . . all of it can be circumvented with enough perseverance.
I love your videos hunter! you're a huge inspiration to me!
luckily the only dream town i ever visited was the legendary Aika Village
I'm so glad you did this video
Thank you so much!
I'd love to see you cover Magician's Quest content someday!
I think he only does Animal Crossing exclusively.
funnily enough, when i was trying to get the 500 dreams badge before the server shutdown, i only saw one dream that was actually malicious in how it set up the hacked town--if you put it in the top left of the map, you'd be unable to reach the bed, softlocking you and needing a reset.
it's no "deleting your town altogether", but that was still a little rude!
This is such a good video! Can’t wait to see more vids about ACNL
I am incredibly down for you to make content on ALL the games!
I remember when I was like 11 I saw this tutorial on yt to hack your town, It involved getting to a dream island called biscuit or something like that, I did all the steps and got my island to be that exact same island. You could walk on the rivers and all that and was full of golden roses and stuff. Im glad that it didnt corrupt my game files because as an 11 year old i would have been really scared
was the video french ?
@@juliogaltoni no, it was spanish. But I saw the french video two weeks ago just to see how I did it
@@Ganyuluv it was very common in france and spanish, there were blogs and videos that talked about towns that were "dangerous"
@@juliogaltoni Yeah
This makes me wish I knew about this glitch earlier so I could have backed up the town of one of my best friends. Unfortunately it's too late now.
Edit: I'm glad to hear they're working on dumping all the dream towns, as that was one of the few things that remained from my old friend from around a decade ago. Hopefully their town was never erased, I tended to visit them every once in a while, but I went a while without playing and might have left their town unvisited for a year or more.
Excited for more videos about ALL the AC games, even if ACGC is my favorite
I like how you changed things up with this video! Really cool, but I hope you mostly stay with the GameCube game still.
I can't tell you how absolutely flabbergasted I was at the end of the other vid when you did a teaser for new leaf vids. Gives me hope for City Folk vids because City Folk is my fav ^_^
Knowing that my Town is forever saved in a historical backup is kinda wild