Coming back to this video, I apologize for the somewhat scuffed microphone quality. The audio was recorded using my phone at around 4AM with no real expectation of people being interested in it. I have since upgraded my microphone and all other videos on this channel should have improved recording. 👍
honestly, you could've gotten away with recording on your phone if you didnt use your headphones, especially if you have an iphone. DankPods has been getting away with it since he started his channel.
@@caseyleenb I could have done a lot of things to improve this audio recording and I had other options available, but at the time I had just finished the project and was ready to just record my audio and sleep. I didn't realize it was this scuffed until I played it back on my PC after... but I didn't really want to re-record the entire thing and, frankly, I didn't think a lot of people would view this video! I have since upped my game a lot, so coming back to this video and hearing it kinda makes me cringe, but oh well. I learned from my mistakes and try to improve with each new recording.
If I remember correctly the Pokémon community has been making strides in E-Reader code development for the Gen 3 games. They've been able to create completely new events within the limitations of the E-Reader's implementation in Gen 3. Maybe speaking with them might be helpful, although I don't really understand any of it so Gen 3 Pokémon's E-Reader crafting might not translate to Animal Crossing. The channel "im a blisy" is where I found the E-Reader stuff.
i usually don't leave comments but i've watched all of your videos and not only are they amazing but they also have subtitles, which is not a common thing in my experience. as a person with auditory processing issues i want to thank you for making the effort of adding them even though your channel is still relatively small (afaik adding subtitles is either very time consuming or very expensive), so thank you and keep up the good work 👍
Man I remember when someone online told me 20 years ago how he had disassembled Animal Crossing to find that the four games were specifically blacklisted, and I ended up using an Action Replay to get the games. This was pretty much the first time Nintendo made retro games available (and by the fact they were basically free you can tell Nintendo thought old games were worthless).
I had them, I don't really recall how I had them, but I would imagine it would have had to have been using an action replay since they were never officially released. Fun fact: It's actually a fully featured NES emulator written for the Gamecube and it's 100% possible to add different roms. In fact I wanna say there is even a romless NES item.
I wish Nintendo would their lesson, that releasing exclusive content through toys, online events (often region locked) is not good for their games legacy. If anything, it's only gotten worse over the years. So much content lost to time just so they can make a quick buck. Also getting litigious towards people who do stuff like make mods for their own games even over 10 years after. Good work for what you've done, and I hope Nintendo doesn't force you all to remove your progress from the internet.
Sir, this channel of yours with so far 13 videos at a max of 2 months old is already so high quality. Very well done. And this one that started it off is for one massive accomplishment, you legend. Thank you for sharing your amazing dedication.
What an incredible accomplishment. I remember trying to print dotcodes as a child using the tool you mentioned here, so I could try and play some of the SMB3 e-Reader levels, but I didn't have a good enough printer. Now, thanks to amazing devs like you, the unfulfilled promise of the e-Reader is finally delivered. Thank you so much. All I want now are some fan-made reproduction cards, and I would be so very happy.
This reminds me of how in the Japanese version it was also possible to get these games without mods. but you had to use a generator someone made to create a fake secret code, as Nintendo distributed Famicom items on their website with codes generated depending on the recipient's player/town name. Reverse engineering the e-Reader code and creating a physical dotcode you can use just takes this a step further, and it's better because it can be universalized. (Also the e-Reader is more fun.) This was a very interesting video, great work. Also shoutout to the 30 people who won a magazine sweepstakes in Japan and can truly claim they got SMB legitimately. I wonder if they know how special it is...
Randomly stumbled upon your channel a few days ago, watched a couple videos, and figured I'd check out the rest starting here. I just gotta say that I think this is such a cool thing you did. You went through all the trouble and effort of researching an old, rarely used piece of tech just to reverse engineer Nintendo's dot codes to unlock some ROMs in a 23 year old Gamecube game for no reason other than it would be neat to figure out. I won't pretend to understand more than a few of the technical details, but man I hope one day I find something to be as passionate about as you are with Animal Crossing. Thank you for doing this, it's really freaking cool.
GameCube: I mean, if you're playing Animal Crossing on real hardware instead of Dolphin, you already _have_ either this or a Wii (which will also work). Glossy matte printer: Odds are preeeeetty good you have a printer already, just for general use. Ordinary printers have been able to work with glossy photo paper for more than two decades now, and any modern printer is more than capable of the required DPI. So, all you'd need to do is pick up a small pack of glossy photo paper. GameBoy Advance: If you're playing older Nintendo games on real hardware, odds are good you have one anyway - although it _is_ a pain point if you don't. Link cable: Might not have it, but not too bad if you don't. E-reader: _This_ is the one you probably don't have, unless you're obsessively completing Pokemon 3rd gen on real hardware. This one is the thing you'll have to shell out for. Expect to spend around $70-80 US (at time of writing) for a North American one. And in fairness, it's not like this is the only content it's good for. And emulating Zelda is only part of the point. There's also the pleasure of unlocking a fun little bit of bonus content in your game that for years had been left imprisoned by cruel fate.
Another option is manufacturing a memory card file that delivers bonus letters to the player. Can have up to 10 letters with items attached, and they are removed from the file every time they are delivered. This would require the ability to modify a GC memory card which would be easy enough with a Wii. This was originally used to give free items on the memory card bundled with the game.
I just thought of how funny it would be if the e-Reader hadn’t’ve flopped and so Nintendo came out with the e-Writer so that you can mail things from your save file to a friend in an envelope as a very Nintendo-y half attempt to make up for the GameCube not having internet capabilities (aside from that super clunky and expensive modem that they only used for Phantasy Star) It’d be the Gameboy Printer of the GameCube. Barely any games would use it, and the ones that would’d only use it to make up for the absence of other features. It’d be “easier” than codes, but also really slow and expensive, which we all know is the Nintendo way.
I've had to resort to ereader home brew before to complete the collection of sma4 switches and levels, and it's nice to see ereader home brew finally come to animal crossing.
Amazing!! I have always hoped that there would come a day when these two would somehow finally be made available and here it is! Very good and interesting video as well. Totally the type of content I enjoy, well done!
I remember hearing about the legend of Zelda and super Mario bros from a really old game trailers series called pop fiction a loooong time ago, it's amazing to see the work you've done to make these long lost relics finally avaliable on vanilla devices!
Absolute legend. I didn't even know you did this. I'm glad I randomly got recommended the video cause I was still thinking they were completely unobtainable for so long!
Had to binge all the videos so far. I don’t know much at all about OG animal crossing. I only ever rented it a few times as a kid. All this stuff is insane 😂
What an absolute gigachad. I recently went down this rabbit hole while researching the Eon Ticket and @imablisy 's event recreations via the e-reader. And i have to say to everyone involved, you're all absolute mad lads lol. Thank you all so much for your time, research, and efforts on cracking the e-reader wide open and making these types of cards reproduceable. I recently discovered your channel and been having a blast going through your content having trips down memory lane whilst gaining a greater understanding of the inner workings of what is in my opinion, one of the most extensively coded games in history. Here's hoping that Cuyler's translation makes it to completion one day. Instantly subscribed and waiting for anything you put out my dude!
I always thought that SMB and Zelda were supposed to be contest prizes that never panned out considering SMB is basically *the* NES game and Zelda is a sort of sister series to Mario.
I must have had a friend with an action replay as a kid or something because I swear I had Mario Bros on my save and I never had an e-reader. Maybe I'm remembering playing something else that had the game instead.
It turns out my parents had an e-reader. I think it’s pretty cool how it worked, at least the setup we had. We had the reader, GameCube, and the Gameboy Player/disc for the GameCube. Then, we had card packs for NES games. It needed 10 card swipes of data, which was cumbersome, but when it worked, it was fun and really neat to play NES on GameCube.
Okay but I was expecting some type of glitch or something, not some E-reader chicanery. And when I heard it was e-reader tomfoolery I was hooked immediately lmao, such a weird piece of hardware
That's awesome! I never imaginated that the forbidden four will be obtained without glitches. And thank you for the explanation about how to print the code
I've seen more e-reader custom cards be made recently, like those gen 3 pokemon events. I wish there was a singular place where one could find all these new cool cards across all games.
Interesting video! All of your hard work is incredible! I can’t believe the forbidden four is actually obtainable now! Quick question, can this method be extended to obtain other items? I’m curious if it would be theoretically possible to print dot codes for every item in Animal Crossing. The effects this could have in Speedrunning certain categories could be huge. Again, incredible work! You’re amazing!!
Yep! You can actually get almost every item through custom e-Reader dot codes. This includes those that you can't normally get through Nook Codes since there aren't any restrictions with the e-Reader.
THANK YOU! This is so neat! Im definitely considering starting up my OG town House 🏡 🐾 (I was 11 with ADHD and thought Rover was asking where I wanted to live, so I said House like I wanted to live in a house 😭😭)
Animal crossing is how I played and beat SMB and Zelda 1 as a kid. I had action replay and obtained them that way along with ice climbers and all the other ones games
Is this what got you into documenting. I'm enjoying watching your content and learning about the game, even though I only played it for an hour or so as a rental. Watched most of your videos so far.
I think it would be cool if there was a website that would give you any mailable item with the dot codes using the same method you used to get the games
That won't be too optimal since you could just generate the code to use it in-game, those items were specifically blacklisted from the code generation trick. So why bother with all the printing/scanning stuff for non blacklisted items? I guess just for the shake of it could be interesting but idk I thought you maybe missed that point
This is so different but my discovery that ACNH can be converted to XML format with only a renamed extension makes this video so much more satisfying because it felt like a mystery or a riddle, whereas "this is just an XML?!" was a HUGE letdown
Hey man amazing video! Quick question, why cant you just dupe the dot code from the original cards? Unless I’m misunderstanding something it sounds like copies of the original card cannot be printed out and scanned successfully. Is that because of the material/size or rather the space in the physical print being too small for normal printers to replicate? Thanks!
There are no original cards for these two games since Nintendo never publicly released them in any form, so you have to figure out how to make them yourself like I did in this video. You can indeed get the dot code data of other officially released cards and print them off yourself for them to work perfectly fine, but again there are no official cards available to "dupe" for Super Mario Bros. or Legend of Zelda.
This is truly fascinating and I have to applaud and commend you for your hard work into this form of video game preservation and contribution! I honestly wish the same process could be done for the Eon Ticket for Pokèmon Ruby & Sapphire as I do have an e-Reader myself but trying to get that event card is severely expensive! And GameSharks for the GBA SP aren’t anything to sneeze at either! You are truly a master at your craft and I’m happy to be a new subscriber and I can’t wait to see all your future videos!
You should be able to find the file for the eon ticket online somewhere (as long as you don't have a EU copy of the game since they never implemented e-reader cards for it), since i remember hearing about people printing it. Just be ready to mess around with printer settings a lot, since most people seem to have issues with it printing incorrectly
I really hope this video blows up and gets the recognition it deserves some day, it is crazy how much work went into this and your explanation, though quite technical, was still pretty clear.
I remember seeing a video several years ago talking about these hidden NES games inside AC, and how to unlock them. There was a legit method, in game, to receive these games through the mail services, no peripherals (such as a GBA) needed! I don't remember the exact method, as I didn't (and still don't) own the game, so I hadn't bothered to memorize it, but I do remember it was luck based, so one can waste days attempting this again and again before finally getting the desired outcome. I doubt I can find that video again, if it even still exists, but if I do, I'll edit this comment with a link.
You might be thinking of the Japanese version of the game DnM+, where you can mail villagers a special code and get these items that way. But this is otherwise not possible in North American Animal Crossing.
came for gc ac content but i just so HAPPEN to be interested in printing ereader cards for pokemon and was unable to figure it out. since i have an extremely similar canon printer maybe i can finally get this to work
Hey @Hunter-R. do you think you would ever be able to create a download for the whole Nes game cards for these 2 missing ones? Just so I could add them to my e-reader card collection as physical cards rather than just having the printable dot codes? I think they'd be incredibly cool. I'd do it myself, but i'm not particularly savvy on how.
I don't really play AC so I'm not super familiar with it, but the music during the Acknowledgements section sounds like in-game music (KK Slider maybe?). Does anyone know what it is/from?
Thanks so much for doing this! Before I go ahead and purchase an E-Reader, though, can you confirm whether or not this works on an EU console/E-Reader?
Unfortunately the e-Reader was never released in Europe at all and thus, Animal Crossing’s PAL (EU) version doesn’t even have e-Reader functionality. If you want to do this on a PAL (EU) console, you’ll have to find the Australian version specifically which is compatible with North American (NTSC) e-Readers.
@@WhatIThoughtChannel Unfortunately they do not. Japanese e-Readers, along with Japanese copies of Animal Crossing, have an entirely different system so they are not cross-compatible.
@@Hunter-R. As I suspected. I’m aware of the e-reader region locking, as I live in Japan and own Doubutsu no Mori e+ & a Japanese e-reader myself, but I was curious if anything like this had also been achieved for JP versions. Thank you for your reply, I appreciate the response.
@@WhatIThoughtChannel I believe the models and data relating to Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda were removed in e+ anyways. So trying to access them would just give you a blank "dummy" item that you cannot drop. I think the only Japanese version that still has these games in-tact is Doubutsu no Mori+, the original GameCube enhancement of the N64 game. In that game, you can actually use generated secret codes to obtain these items.
Would something like this be possible for amiibo? New Leaf had two villagers that were only available as part of a spotpass distribution, but can no longer be accessed. Would it be possible to make amiibo for them to be able to access their rv in the campground?
Yes, this is already possible with custom NFC tags. Search up amiibo spoofing and you can find what you’re looking for! I’ve even made a few amiibo stickers myself for this purpose.
Dude! This is HUGE! Action replay is a far worse way to obtain the forbidden four. They cost like more than 100 bucks and it's not even guaranteed to have all of the codes. I borrowed my friend's AR and I got all of them except for Mario Bros. Super interesting video all around. Where can we get the e reader codes for Mario Bros? (Not the super one)
This is an issue with Dolphin emulator itself. You need to turn Dolphin’s graphic settings to “accurate” instead of “safe.” Match your settings with this picture: imgur.com/IGaSesb Make sure you change your settings while you’re currently playing your game, since it resets to default when you launch.
I swear to god I got Zelda and SMB from a gamestop promotional or something of the like - I distinctly remember my memory card that came with the game allowing me to have the two NES games (via mail perhaps?), as they were some of the first items I had in my house, and it inspired me to try and collect every NES game within Animal Crossing (which I eventually did!) I never owned an action replay and to this day wonder how exactly it is I got Zelda and Super Mario Bros if this is some sort of false memory, since I definitely created a new town and character the day I got the game and it was not a town with cheated items preloaded onto it. Am I crazy here?
You're correct in that the original Animal Crossing came packaged with a special memory card with present data on it. This present included "K.K. Love Song," a letter from Nintendo, and two NES games. However, these two NES games came from a grab bag which was specifically programmed to only pull from the "common" NES game list, of which Super Mario Bros. and Zelda were not included. So, you definitely got two NES games, but they were not Zelda or Super Mario Bros.
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Coming back to this video, I apologize for the somewhat scuffed microphone quality. The audio was recorded using my phone at around 4AM with no real expectation of people being interested in it. I have since upgraded my microphone and all other videos on this channel should have improved recording. 👍
honestly, you could've gotten away with recording on your phone if you didnt use your headphones, especially if you have an iphone. DankPods has been getting away with it since he started his channel.
@@caseyleenb I could have done a lot of things to improve this audio recording and I had other options available, but at the time I had just finished the project and was ready to just record my audio and sleep. I didn't realize it was this scuffed until I played it back on my PC after... but I didn't really want to re-record the entire thing and, frankly, I didn't think a lot of people would view this video!
I have since upped my game a lot, so coming back to this video and hearing it kinda makes me cringe, but oh well. I learned from my mistakes and try to improve with each new recording.
Honestly it’s charming imo. And I’ve heard way worse…. lol
It makes me feel like this video was made when animal crossing for GameCube first came out. 😊❤
do not worry about it bro i have been on internet since like 2007 i have heard a million times worse
Taking an existing code and editing it to revive something thought forever lost is just like a real life Jurassic Park. This is amazing.
If I remember correctly the Pokémon community has been making strides in E-Reader code development for the Gen 3 games. They've been able to create completely new events within the limitations of the E-Reader's implementation in Gen 3.
Maybe speaking with them might be helpful, although I don't really understand any of it so Gen 3 Pokémon's E-Reader crafting might not translate to Animal Crossing. The channel "im a blisy" is where I found the E-Reader stuff.
You hit it right on the dot, people who know code usually are pretty universal
I feel like your accomplishment should be a much bigger deal than it is. This is so cool!!
Thank you so much! Glad people think so!
HOW WAS THIS NOT REPORTED ON NEWS SITES?!
Like, the retro news site Timeextension was made for this kind of stuff
i usually don't leave comments but i've watched all of your videos and not only are they amazing but they also have subtitles, which is not a common thing in my experience. as a person with auditory processing issues i want to thank you for making the effort of adding them even though your channel is still relatively small (afaik adding subtitles is either very time consuming or very expensive), so thank you and keep up the good work 👍
I'd like to second this, thank you very much for the subtitles
Man I remember when someone online told me 20 years ago how he had disassembled Animal Crossing to find that the four games were specifically blacklisted, and I ended up using an Action Replay to get the games. This was pretty much the first time Nintendo made retro games available (and by the fact they were basically free you can tell Nintendo thought old games were worthless).
I had them, I don't really recall how I had them, but I would imagine it would have had to have been using an action replay since they were never officially released.
Fun fact: It's actually a fully featured NES emulator written for the Gamecube and it's 100% possible to add different roms. In fact I wanna say there is even a romless NES item.
i always found it really weird that these games were kept from release when they're...arguably better than every other game included
I'm sorry, do you have something to say about Donkey Kong Jr. Math?!
I literally just recently bought both an e-reader and Animal Crossing, I feel so lucky!
I wish Nintendo would their lesson, that releasing exclusive content through toys, online events (often region locked) is not good for their games legacy. If anything, it's only gotten worse over the years. So much content lost to time just so they can make a quick buck. Also getting litigious towards people who do stuff like make mods for their own games even over 10 years after. Good work for what you've done, and I hope Nintendo doesn't force you all to remove your progress from the internet.
I really appreciate you including the technical details in a way modders and programmers could follow along, thank you so much for making this video
Sir, this channel of yours with so far 13 videos at a max of 2 months old is already so high quality. Very well done. And this one that started it off is for one massive accomplishment, you legend. Thank you for sharing your amazing dedication.
What an incredible accomplishment. I remember trying to print dotcodes as a child using the tool you mentioned here, so I could try and play some of the SMB3 e-Reader levels, but I didn't have a good enough printer.
Now, thanks to amazing devs like you, the unfulfilled promise of the e-Reader is finally delivered. Thank you so much. All I want now are some fan-made reproduction cards, and I would be so very happy.
amazing animal crossing gaming moment of history
This reminds me of how in the Japanese version it was also possible to get these games without mods. but you had to use a generator someone made to create a fake secret code, as Nintendo distributed Famicom items on their website with codes generated depending on the recipient's player/town name. Reverse engineering the e-Reader code and creating a physical dotcode you can use just takes this a step further, and it's better because it can be universalized. (Also the e-Reader is more fun.) This was a very interesting video, great work.
Also shoutout to the 30 people who won a magazine sweepstakes in Japan and can truly claim they got SMB legitimately. I wonder if they know how special it is...
Randomly stumbled upon your channel a few days ago, watched a couple videos, and figured I'd check out the rest starting here. I just gotta say that I think this is such a cool thing you did. You went through all the trouble and effort of researching an old, rarely used piece of tech just to reverse engineer Nintendo's dot codes to unlock some ROMs in a 23 year old Gamecube game for no reason other than it would be neat to figure out. I won't pretend to understand more than a few of the technical details, but man I hope one day I find something to be as passionate about as you are with Animal Crossing. Thank you for doing this, it's really freaking cool.
GameCube + glossy matte printer + Gameboy + link cable + e-reader = most expensive and complex methed to emulate zelda
you also need like animal crossing ..
and a printer
@@YadaBanana"glossy matte printer" allready mentioned it but thanks
OR Dolphin + Modded Wii (to dump the game) + Animal Crossing = I don’t know probably cheaper
GameCube: I mean, if you're playing Animal Crossing on real hardware instead of Dolphin, you already _have_ either this or a Wii (which will also work).
Glossy matte printer: Odds are preeeeetty good you have a printer already, just for general use. Ordinary printers have been able to work with glossy photo paper for more than two decades now, and any modern printer is more than capable of the required DPI. So, all you'd need to do is pick up a small pack of glossy photo paper.
GameBoy Advance: If you're playing older Nintendo games on real hardware, odds are good you have one anyway - although it _is_ a pain point if you don't.
Link cable: Might not have it, but not too bad if you don't.
E-reader: _This_ is the one you probably don't have, unless you're obsessively completing Pokemon 3rd gen on real hardware. This one is the thing you'll have to shell out for. Expect to spend around $70-80 US (at time of writing) for a North American one. And in fairness, it's not like this is the only content it's good for.
And emulating Zelda is only part of the point. There's also the pleasure of unlocking a fun little bit of bonus content in your game that for years had been left imprisoned by cruel fate.
Another option is manufacturing a memory card file that delivers bonus letters to the player. Can have up to 10 letters with items attached, and they are removed from the file every time they are delivered. This would require the ability to modify a GC memory card which would be easy enough with a Wii. This was originally used to give free items on the memory card bundled with the game.
I just thought of how funny it would be if the e-Reader hadn’t’ve flopped and so Nintendo came out with the e-Writer so that you can mail things from your save file to a friend in an envelope as a very Nintendo-y half attempt to make up for the GameCube not having internet capabilities (aside from that super clunky and expensive modem that they only used for Phantasy Star)
It’d be the Gameboy Printer of the GameCube. Barely any games would use it, and the ones that would’d only use it to make up for the absence of other features.
It’d be “easier” than codes, but also really slow and expensive, which we all know is the Nintendo way.
This is incredible! I never had an e-reader, but I was lucky enough to have the link cable. Maybe one day I can try out your cards
I've had to resort to ereader home brew before to complete the collection of sma4 switches and levels, and it's nice to see ereader home brew finally come to animal crossing.
oh hi glaber
This video should have WAY more views considering you found something 22 years after this release
great job! Love all your videos!
Amazing!! I have always hoped that there would come a day when these two would somehow finally be made available and here it is!
Very good and interesting video as well. Totally the type of content I enjoy, well done!
Having worked on save editors, all the technical explanations about checksums, compressions, headers, block sizes... Feels so relatable! Nice video!
That's freaking incredible, congrats on this amazing accomplishment!
I played a lot of Ice Climber, Balloon Fight and Excitebike back then.
I remember hearing about the legend of Zelda and super Mario bros from a really old game trailers series called pop fiction a loooong time ago, it's amazing to see the work you've done to make these long lost relics finally avaliable on vanilla devices!
Dude, this is an amazing discovery, great video covering it too!
This is so cool! Seeing things reverse engineered for the first time is super cool and inspiring :)
Lovely video mate!
Dude I've watched a few of your videos now, hats off to you for all your hard work
Absolute legend. I didn't even know you did this. I'm glad I randomly got recommended the video cause I was still thinking they were completely unobtainable for so long!
(16:05) Always respect the first Goomba. :P
True that guy's is scary cause he probably has one of the largest kill counts in gaming history so he's a menace
Had to binge all the videos so far. I don’t know much at all about OG animal crossing. I only ever rented it a few times as a kid. All this stuff is insane 😂
Man, the e-Reader is just so amazing! I love how people are interested in reverse-engineering its features in other games
What an absolute gigachad. I recently went down this rabbit hole while researching the Eon Ticket and @imablisy 's event recreations via the e-reader. And i have to say to everyone involved, you're all absolute mad lads lol. Thank you all so much for your time, research, and efforts on cracking the e-reader wide open and making these types of cards reproduceable. I recently discovered your channel and been having a blast going through your content having trips down memory lane whilst gaining a greater understanding of the inner workings of what is in my opinion, one of the most extensively coded games in history. Here's hoping that Cuyler's translation makes it to completion one day. Instantly subscribed and waiting for anything you put out my dude!
Very kind words! Appreciate it, truly! Glad you enjoy the channel. 🙂
This is so cool! I remember hearing about those games being unobtainable a long time ago-- finally being able to get them without hacks is incredible.
I always thought that SMB and Zelda were supposed to be contest prizes that never panned out considering SMB is basically *the* NES game and Zelda is a sort of sister series to Mario.
I must have had a friend with an action replay as a kid or something because I swear I had Mario Bros on my save and I never had an e-reader. Maybe I'm remembering playing something else that had the game instead.
It turns out my parents had an e-reader. I think it’s pretty cool how it worked, at least the setup we had. We had the reader, GameCube, and the Gameboy Player/disc for the GameCube. Then, we had card packs for NES games. It needed 10 card swipes of data, which was cumbersome, but when it worked, it was fun and really neat to play NES on GameCube.
Okay but I was expecting some type of glitch or something, not some E-reader chicanery.
And when I heard it was e-reader tomfoolery I was hooked immediately lmao, such a weird piece of hardware
That's awesome! I never imaginated that the forbidden four will be obtained without glitches. And thank you for the explanation about how to print the code
these videos are so well done honestly my new comfort channel
I've seen more e-reader custom cards be made recently, like those gen 3 pokemon events. I wish there was a singular place where one could find all these new cool cards across all games.
This was a fascinating watch, incredible work
incredibly talented really interesting video thank you
Thank you for fully captioning the video!
Interesting video! All of your hard work is incredible! I can’t believe the forbidden four is actually obtainable now!
Quick question, can this method be extended to obtain other items? I’m curious if it would be theoretically possible to print dot codes for every item in Animal Crossing. The effects this could have in Speedrunning certain categories could be huge.
Again, incredible work!
You’re amazing!!
Yep! You can actually get almost every item through custom e-Reader dot codes. This includes those that you can't normally get through Nook Codes since there aren't any restrictions with the e-Reader.
This is super awesome! You and everyone else that contributed should be proud!
THANK YOU! This is so neat! Im definitely considering starting up my OG town House 🏡 🐾 (I was 11 with ADHD and thought Rover was asking where I wanted to live, so I said House like I wanted to live in a house 😭😭)
house town is a cute name tho
This is unbelievable
Animal crossing is how I played and beat SMB and Zelda 1 as a kid. I had action replay and obtained them that way along with ice climbers and all the other ones games
Is this what got you into documenting.
I'm enjoying watching your content and learning about the game, even though I only played it for an hour or so as a rental. Watched most of your videos so far.
This is so insane I love this so much.
I think it would be cool if there was a website that would give you any mailable item with the dot codes using the same method you used to get the games
That won't be too optimal since you could just generate the code to use it in-game, those items were specifically blacklisted from the code generation trick. So why bother with all the printing/scanning stuff for non blacklisted items? I guess just for the shake of it could be interesting but idk I thought you maybe missed that point
Thank you for this amazing work on this amazing game
I remember finding those codes to get all the nes games, including the unobtainable ones. Too bad I don't remember where I found them.
Oooh, this is extremely cool! Also what’s the song in the acknowledgment part?
THIS IS INCREDIBLE! THANK YOU!
This is amazing. Well done.
This is so different but my discovery that ACNH can be converted to XML format with only a renamed extension makes this video so much more satisfying because it felt like a mystery or a riddle, whereas "this is just an XML?!" was a HUGE letdown
Hey man amazing video! Quick question, why cant you just dupe the dot code from the original cards? Unless I’m misunderstanding something it sounds like copies of the original card cannot be printed out and scanned successfully. Is that because of the material/size or rather the space in the physical print being too small for normal printers to replicate? Thanks!
There are no original cards for these two games since Nintendo never publicly released them in any form, so you have to figure out how to make them yourself like I did in this video. You can indeed get the dot code data of other officially released cards and print them off yourself for them to work perfectly fine, but again there are no official cards available to "dupe" for Super Mario Bros. or Legend of Zelda.
I just used a GameShark back in the day. 😂 But I did have an e-reader and all that stuff, too.
This is so amazing 👏 serious congratulations on getting this done and all your hard work
Crys in PAL release 😢
But seriously great work 👏
Sent here by Mayor Mori and am not disappointed.
This is truly fascinating and I have to applaud and commend you for your hard work into this form of video game preservation and contribution! I honestly wish the same process could be done for the Eon Ticket for Pokèmon Ruby & Sapphire as I do have an e-Reader myself but trying to get that event card is severely expensive! And GameSharks for the GBA SP aren’t anything to sneeze at either! You are truly a master at your craft and I’m happy to be a new subscriber and I can’t wait to see all your future videos!
You should be able to find the file for the eon ticket online somewhere (as long as you don't have a EU copy of the game since they never implemented e-reader cards for it), since i remember hearing about people printing it. Just be ready to mess around with printer settings a lot, since most people seem to have issues with it printing incorrectly
@@th3bear01 Thank you so much for the tip! I really appreciate it! My Sapphire is indeed a US copy so that’s good!
Legendary video… excellent work friend
I really hope this video blows up and gets the recognition it deserves some day, it is crazy how much work went into this and your explanation, though quite technical, was still pretty clear.
I knew someone would have made this. Great job!
This is really cool, amazing work! (yourself and everyone else involved)
This is incredibly cool!
I remember seeing a video several years ago talking about these hidden NES games inside AC, and how to unlock them. There was a legit method, in game, to receive these games through the mail services, no peripherals (such as a GBA) needed! I don't remember the exact method, as I didn't (and still don't) own the game, so I hadn't bothered to memorize it, but I do remember it was luck based, so one can waste days attempting this again and again before finally getting the desired outcome.
I doubt I can find that video again, if it even still exists, but if I do, I'll edit this comment with a link.
You might be thinking of the Japanese version of the game DnM+, where you can mail villagers a special code and get these items that way. But this is otherwise not possible in North American Animal Crossing.
Very interesting! I'm going to have to find my old dusty e reader.
came for gc ac content but i just so HAPPEN to be interested in printing ereader cards for pokemon and was unable to figure it out. since i have an extremely similar canon printer maybe i can finally get this to work
This video reminds me of the quote attributed to Sir Isaac Newton “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
THIS IS INSANE!! Yahooo god bless you man! sure i will try it out!!!
Funny how these use the same file extension as Valve Pack Files (i.e. Half-Life, Portal, TF2 game data)
Can you obtain Nook Paper in ACWW?
Hey @Hunter-R. do you think you would ever be able to create a download for the whole Nes game cards for these 2 missing ones? Just so I could add them to my e-reader card collection as physical cards rather than just having the printable dot codes? I think they'd be incredibly cool. I'd do it myself, but i'm not particularly savvy on how.
You should try this with the nes that can read games off of the memory card
Amazing work my dude!
Bro died to the first goomba, this is why we were never given this game
Great video! 😄🌟
Would enabling advance play on The Legend of Zelda ever be possible?
The hero we needed
This isn't even about Animal Crossing anymore...
great video, btw :D
Thank you so much! And yea... this is more of a technical video explaining this accomplishment. I may have gotten a bit carried away haha
i ended up getting those via action replay eons ago, but i didn't realize there weren't any legit ways to get them
I fucking love this! It's SO impressive! And SO easy to understand!
I don't really play AC so I'm not super familiar with it, but the music during the Acknowledgements section sounds like in-game music (KK Slider maybe?). Does anyone know what it is/from?
It's Kapp'n's Song remixed from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate!
Thanks so much for doing this! Before I go ahead and purchase an E-Reader, though, can you confirm whether or not this works on an EU console/E-Reader?
Unfortunately the e-Reader was never released in Europe at all and thus, Animal Crossing’s PAL (EU) version doesn’t even have e-Reader functionality. If you want to do this on a PAL (EU) console, you’ll have to find the Australian version specifically which is compatible with North American (NTSC) e-Readers.
@@Hunter-R.Are you able to confirm whether these new SMB & TLoZ cards work on Japanese e-readers/copies of the game?
@@WhatIThoughtChannel Unfortunately they do not. Japanese e-Readers, along with Japanese copies of Animal Crossing, have an entirely different system so they are not cross-compatible.
@@Hunter-R. As I suspected. I’m aware of the e-reader region locking, as I live in Japan and own Doubutsu no Mori e+ & a Japanese e-reader myself, but I was curious if anything like this had also been achieved for JP versions. Thank you for your reply, I appreciate the response.
@@WhatIThoughtChannel I believe the models and data relating to Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda were removed in e+ anyways. So trying to access them would just give you a blank "dummy" item that you cannot drop.
I think the only Japanese version that still has these games in-tact is Doubutsu no Mori+, the original GameCube enhancement of the N64 game. In that game, you can actually use generated secret codes to obtain these items.
Would something like this be possible for amiibo? New Leaf had two villagers that were only available as part of a spotpass distribution, but can no longer be accessed. Would it be possible to make amiibo for them to be able to access their rv in the campground?
Yes, this is already possible with custom NFC tags. Search up amiibo spoofing and you can find what you’re looking for! I’ve even made a few amiibo stickers myself for this purpose.
Dude! This is HUGE! Action replay is a far worse way to obtain the forbidden four. They cost like more than 100 bucks and it's not even guaranteed to have all of the codes. I borrowed my friend's AR and I got all of them except for Mario Bros. Super interesting video all around. Where can we get the e reader codes for Mario Bros? (Not the super one)
Search for Animal Crossing e-Reader cards in .RAW format and you'll find it pretty easily. I can't link it directly here for copyright reasons.
@@Hunter-R. 👍🏻
THIS IS HUGE!!!!!!!
Do you have the e-reader codes for ice climber as well because that’s my favorite game 14:58 😮😮😮
It is a real shame Animal Crossing e+ don't got a legitimate method yet. Maybe someday.
hunter, i've been playing animal crossing on dolphin emulator and when i play the zelda nes the tiles are mixed up with other tiles
This is an issue with Dolphin emulator itself. You need to turn Dolphin’s graphic settings to “accurate” instead of “safe.” Match your settings with this picture: imgur.com/IGaSesb
Make sure you change your settings while you’re currently playing your game, since it resets to default when you launch.
I actually can’t believe that…
i think i still have an e-reader or two lying around,but my printer is not hooked up. sick though
What a legend!
I swear to god I got Zelda and SMB from a gamestop promotional or something of the like - I distinctly remember my memory card that came with the game allowing me to have the two NES games (via mail perhaps?), as they were some of the first items I had in my house, and it inspired me to try and collect every NES game within Animal Crossing (which I eventually did!)
I never owned an action replay and to this day wonder how exactly it is I got Zelda and Super Mario Bros if this is some sort of false memory, since I definitely created a new town and character the day I got the game and it was not a town with cheated items preloaded onto it. Am I crazy here?
You're correct in that the original Animal Crossing came packaged with a special memory card with present data on it. This present included "K.K. Love Song," a letter from Nintendo, and two NES games. However, these two NES games came from a grab bag which was specifically programmed to only pull from the "common" NES game list, of which Super Mario Bros. and Zelda were not included. So, you definitely got two NES games, but they were not Zelda or Super Mario Bros.
Dang, I wonder how I got those two games then. Childhood memory is always so fickle.
Thank you for the reply though! Your work is amazing as always.