In New Leaf when you do big time skips, your villager would get messy hair like in New Horizons except the messy hair was permanent and you had to visit Shampoodle for Harriet to fix it.
Long time traveller here : will say why i do it : 1)big health problems over here can't play every day so it helps a lot to be able to time travel (main reason of time travel) 2) can go back to missed birthdays in the game since you do it in real life first obviously 3) i prefer certain seasons so i like to be in summer when it's winter outside (in wild world i don't think it mattered if you time travelled or not you would be plagued by weeds if you didn't pick your game up for a while also lol ) Great video btw
Wild World was awful with weeds. They really fixed it in New Leaf and New Horizons too. WW is the reason I was very very hesitant about time travel in New Leaf. Haven't done it in New Horizons though outside of once fixing my clock when my Switch screwed up a little
yeah, sometimes being this open and this "kind" to players creates a game that feels really shallow, because they are too afraid to push envelopes. every choice made for ACNH screams "safe"@@AnAverageGoblin
A lot of times I use time travel to go to holidays I missed in real time. I also use it to set time to earlier in the day so the shops are open when I'm playing late at night
I would time travel if I had nothing to do for that day or, if I missed my favourite villagers birthday. I don't trust myself to mess with my switch clock and play new horizons vanilla. But I won't get mad at others who choose to do so. They aren't hurting me. And I don't think its really cheating either since they aren't adding anything to their game like the max amount of bells, nookmile tickets etc. If they did, I'd consider it cheating.
Since I'm a night owl, I've always had the time set back 1 hour to make sure I can do all the shopping stuff I need to. Even with the night owl ordinance.
Yeah I used to be firmly against it as a kid/teenager/young adult. But then I got a real job and additional responsibilities and I realized that finding time for video games as an adult is already hard. Locking features behind real world times is a fun concept but there ain’t no way I can make it on before the shops close these days. Better to just set the clock back and have fun.
A few corrections: 1. Asking your villagers to stay was introduced in Wild World (And in that game you can uniquely ask villagers to stay while they're already in the process of moving out), not New Leaf. Only in GameCube would they move out without warning 2. Getting the New Year's shirts doesn't require an internet connection. However you can't get them on Chinese New Year's, only on January 1st 3. Time travelling can actually _help restore_ grass, every day that you play grass gets restored a little, so if you save and quit, and cycle the clock one day, repeat, you can restore grass 4. Time travelling isn't actually as devastating as you'd think, because villagers can actually only move out one at a time thankfully
On your first point villagers on GameCube give you hints that they want to leave, and eventually if you catch them on time, they will ask your opinion on it. You can then reinforce or disagree with their choice.
@@OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOq Oh, I thought those were just weird flavor dialog that were just thrown in with the rest of the dialog with no other ramifications, interesting
The Nintendo Switch Date/Time can only go up to a certain year, so it would mess with your Animal Crossing game if you were to attempt to play it close to that date....
A weird NH one I have encountered a couple of times now - If you go visit an island that has shooting stars one night (unsure if it also happens when you're viewing them on your own island), load the next day but *don't* pick up your star shards and then shut down to do a time travel at least a week back, you'll completely miss out on those shards. They'll just be gone, and never appear again even if you go back to the proper date they were supposed to be there.
For Animal Crossing on the GameCube putting the limit at 2030, I bet it was to avoid the 2038 problem. There's an issue with that year similar to the issue some systems were going to have with year 2000, so they probably picked the last multiple of 10 before that year and figured that would be more than long enough for the game's lifespan.
Based on what's presented here, it sounds like Wild World sidestepped the issue by replicating the Y2K problem and just storing the year as a 2-digit number, and then City Folk reverted back to accounting for the 2038 problem, I wonder if there's some difference in how the DS and the Wii dealt with time to require that or if it was just different decisions made. for New Leaf's limit of 2050 and New Horizons limit of 2060....I got nothing 😅.
I got out my Gamecube out last year and returned to my original 2004 town (when the game came out in Europe) and had to realize that my Gamecube's internal clock ran out of battery, just like you mentioned with the original N64 cartridge. So now unless I'm actively playing, my town freezes in time. When I turn the game back on, it's still the same time as when I closed it. So I'm forced to constantly time travel by manually setting the time to keep up... replacing a Gamecube clock battery is beyond my capabilities. The Gamecube version also doesn't acknowledge this issue, the game just doesn't progress while the console is switched off.
Its a pretty easy fix if you know how to solder. I fixed mine. It just takes disassembling the case desoldering the battery holder (its on the same board as the controller ports) and popping in a new battery holder and coin cell c2032, resolder and youre good for another 20 years. Theres instructionals on how to do it with pics and texts all over the internet. Its actually a really good beginning solder project too - its pretty easy compared to some retro console fixes.
@@childofcascadia I got really anxious the longer I read this but I will look if maybe someone can do this for me around here because it sounds easy enough but I‘d be terrified of ruining my GameCube 🫣 thank you for explaining this, though!
@raffaelm6558 If you have retro shops in your area, like ones that sell old computers/games/consoles or media id ask around there. They might know a fixit place or person that can do it for you. Its a real common fix - most old carts/consoles used one of those batteries that looks like a coin (called a coin cell) held in a little clip soldered to the board to keep external time or save data when the power was off. Thing is, coin cells have a 10-20 year lifespan. So thats why so much retro tech like 8/16 bit cartridges *and* N64 controller paks (legit sony and legit gamecube memory cards both used flash memory, not batteries to save data) cant hold saves gamecubes, saturns, ps1, ps2s and other similar era tech cant keep time anymore and so on. Good luck with it!
In acnl, I discovered that if you talked & declined your villager who was thinking of moving out, none of your villagers will think of moving out no matter how far you time travel. As long as you time travel starting on the same day you said no to your villager thinking of moving out. Do note that one of your villagers will most likely be thinking of moving out if you time travel more than a week, so look out for your villagers after doing this (if anyone still plays acnl) Sometimes the trigger response of the villagers who are thinking of moving out gets blocked by another villagers trigger with something unrelated. (I think villagers have a 15 minute cool down of doing that trigger response. & what I mean about trigger response is when they do a surprise reaction & start walking up to you because they have something they want to say to you) I usually save, quit & reload the game so I get the trigger response faster Also if you get the max amount of villagers in your town, your most recent villager will never think of moving out, they will only move out after another villager does I learned both of these the hard way when I was trying to redesign my town & get some villagers to move out because I didn’t like where there homes were placed. I still play acnl, dunno why
This is exactly what I would do if I wanted to jump years ahead. Let a villager say no, save and quit, change time and load it up. Nobody could leave. Was a slight pain to wait for a villager to ask but I'm glad this workaround still exists!
In ACNH, flowers will take over your island, which I think is a bigger pain than weeds. You can't kill flowers completely by running through them like in past games. You have to carry them in your pockets and throw them out.
I believe the reason you didn't get the shirt in City Folk is because zodiac items are usually given out on the first of the regular calendar year, not on the Chinese New Year. If you go to 1/1/2000 you should get the zodiac shirt for that coming Chinese New Year. In New Leaf, you could get models of the animal for that coming Chinese New Year on the First of January, so I assume that's how City Folk would work as well, but I'm not 100% on that. Just an assumption.
I was playing city folk today and Jay actually ran up to me talking about wanting to move out, and I was able to convince him to stay. Not sure how common of an occurrence this was in city folk when villagers would move out but I just thought I would mention it!
I broke my game by time traveling once. I don’t know how, but it was in City Folk. Me and my sister changed the time so often that it started changing itself. We’d set it to the day we were on and when we went to play the next day, weeks will have passed. Still confused about it to this day.
Typically you have to change the system time, I believe there is also an option to do so if you click “not ready yet” + “other settings” + “change clock” in the starting screen!!
The flowers just go bonkers in New Horizons if you let them go... Not sure if this happens when you time travel, but I left my game for a while, my dad played on it for a bit, and the island was filled with flowers. They're worse than weeds because you have to shovel them up and they each take up one inventory spot.
I won't complain about other people's ways of playing, but I personally don't time travel. I like routines, and I like looking forward to things. I also like not experiencing seasons before the time is right.
exactly! In my first ever animal crossing playthrough I would wait until I had experienced all seasons. But since I have ADHD, and am not very patient, I can't wait months, or even a few hours for something. If I wake up at like 7 am, I don't want to wait a few hours for shops. but if people want to wait I don't mind. I really don't get how people are mad on how another person plays a (mostly) single player game
I only time travel backwards a day or two if I miss my turnip prices and such, back in the day I'd time travel like crazy in the gamecube version to sell the fish i collected at night before going to bed :P
you... can't travel backwards to sell turnips. they will rot. I'm assuming you mean to go back to sunday to buy turnips, but just incase anyone thinks, if you go back in time, all your turnips will rot
Funnily enough I did the opposite of what you did I got my island all pretty with time travel and then started playing day by day I think this is the best for me
I've heard that the "seasonal holiday unlocks" are actually on a _per-year basis,_ but I haven't tested to see if that's true. For example, all the holidays are in the game now, and (today being March 1, 2023, for context) you can time travel back to 12-25-2022 and celebrate Toy Day just fine... but if you time travel _forward_ to 12-25-2023, supposedly there won't _be_ a Toy Day, because that _specific_ December 25th hasn't occured in realtime yet??? And only holidays that were coded in from V1.0.0 (like New Year's obviously, but also fishing tourneys, etc) are "permanently unlocked for Time Lords"... I have no evidence this is true, and I'm not in a place to test it, but if that's what Nintendo actually chose to do... that's really weird.
In New Horizons, I travel forward a day at a time, but when I go back (say because I've missed a day of free Nook Miles), I go back to the day BEFORE the current. Gets you a headstart on the NM streak, and then when you load the current day, it thinks you haven't played it yet.
i keep forgetting about the time travel in wild world and turnips. i bought 100 turnips last sunday and went back in time just a few hours yesterday because i started playing pretty late..... and then the turnips were immediately ruined.
accidentally time travelled to the next year in wild world. island was covered in weeds. closed the game without saving, no villagers remembered me being gone but the weeds stayed 😭
I've been using time traveling to finish my Fossils in NH, and rn trying to finish my art collection from Jolly Redd. [My Redd loop has led to me to getting nearly 20 wasps 😂]
It's Animal Crossing Wild World's anniversary for the US version, November 23, 2023 marks 18 years and City Folk turned 15 years old 2 weeks ago, I just realized that lol
The Sims 2 on DS calls you out for time traveling by the Desk Clerk essentially saying: Way to go, dumby! You caused an alien invasion by time traveling! Then, the alien emperor invades and you need to deal with them with your water gun or as the Raticator (or Rat Man as my friends called them as I don't remember the name). I found this out by either a friend showing me or adjusting the clock for daylight savings time. I was hoping to hear something like that for one of the Animal Crossing games.
I remember the only time I ever time traveled was back when I played New Leaf. I was getting impatient because I wanted a new bridge to be built so I time traveled forward in time by like a few days and then put it back to the correct date, but when I put it back one of my favorite villagers, being Cherry, was in boxes and I was really upset and never did it again
Time traveling as a concept is really fun to think about. You could definitely make something spooky about some Animal Crossing Villagers seeing everything happen as fast (or as slow) as it is, watching the days change.... Oh wait someone did. (Densle! Go check out Densle!) It's still just awesome thinking about stuff like this even without the context of Animal Crossing. Since my first Animal Crossing game (New Leaf) I've been devoted to never time traveling. When I played New Leaf, I could disappear for months, not touch the game, and then come back to find that everything remained the exact same. No villagers randomly left, there were messes but it wasn't outrageous (Beautiful Town Ordinance let's go!) and everyone was relatively happy to see me back. If the Switch in my house weren't the family's console, if it were just mine....I'd maybe debate time traveling in a New Horizons island. If I got a Switch Lite...Perhaps one of those limited ones....Maybe there.
Ppl who argue against time travelling have to realize that most ppl have jobs and other responsibilities which gives them only a certain timeframe in which to play these games. Someone who works night-shift will only ever get to experience the game in the early morning, giving them access to a limited amount of bugs, fish, etc. Sure, you could say "just play on the weekend", but most ppl have responsibilities then, too. No one wants to organize a schedule around playing a game, especially for one where you're supposed to be relaxing.
I'm a shameless time traveler 😜 - if I'm really busy or want a break from Animal Crossing I'd lose the log in streak, my island would be covered in weeds and my villagers would think I died 😅 - the solution is time travel 😊
I don't take massive leaps ever, but I do occasionally play two or three days in one (in new leaf) or back-track when I haven't played in a while, and yes, I do actually keep track of the "next day", so in a sense, I do play "every day 😂
I love time travel in ACNH since if I get bored or want to speed stiff up it works great. I don't do it as oftwn because I'm at a point where my island is 4 stars and is just abmatter of getting bells and villagers I like, and I don't play as often as I used too (I missed like half a year of the game due to accidentally breaking the game card reader) I like it thought because there isn't too much that can go wrong except for a flood of weeds, and it's there for when I want to use it.
I only time travel within the day it actually is. As a parent with a full time job, I basically only have time to play at like 5am. And sure, I could just offset my time, but I don’t want to play at the same hour every day of my life. So I pick a different time every day to play at 5am. That said, I think full time travel is totally valid. The point of games is to enjoy your time. If speed runners can use exploits to have fun and that’s considered a valid thing to do with their time, so is AC TT. If changing the rules of Monopoly makes it more fun for your friend group and that’s valid, so is AC TT. Etc.
You said that stopping villagers from moving out was a new feature in New Leaf but I know that you can stop villagers from moving out in Wild World as well.
I usually don't time travel, but my best friend and I plan to have a shared town and has let me borrow his 3ds, I've wanted to play new leaf for so long but wasn't able to get it and now the Eshop is closed and if I were to get a 3ds myself I'd have to hack it! Since I don't get to play all the time and only maybe some weeks I will ever get to play I've been time traveling just one day ahead sometimes, I also wanted to hear a lot of the time specific music that I usually am busy working and would be unable to hear normally.
I'm surprised at how laid back New Horizons is compared to other titles. Maybe they decided to just plan for time travellers instead of work against them, which makes sense considering they tried to make this game appeal to as many people as possible
I only really time travel if I wake up past 12 pm and I need to see the turnip prices, so I go back to 11 am and load the game for the first time that day, check the turnips, or buy them, and then go back to the present
Wait! Reverse TIME TRAVEL!!! So like I never went anywhere, I aged, its 2069 and dream mode has to update the possibly illegaly mod animal crossing with new content to reflect the new time just cus my fav game never expected a player to dare live this long. The game is stuck where it lies, never expecting the futre to pass by, yet here it comes, and its no future no more, its all present and presents
At 8:30, Elijah mentions having to be online for the Chinese New Years shirt, but the online component was deprecrated in 2014. Before you say "Wiimmfii is an option", it isn't. Wiimmfii isn't compatible with City Folk, it's compatable with Wild World, but not City Folk.
Okay guys, I came here because I have a question about New Leaf. So, I've had the game since release, I was very young and it's been over 10 years since release so I just need someone to tell me if my brain made this memory up or not. I remember very vividly that I was on vacation and in the car. I was playing ACNL and I time travelled for funziez to the year 2050 and for some horrifying reason, my town looked super dead, there were gravestones, it was crazy looking. Not even my town anymore. So I hoped it didn't save, closed it immediately and was relieved to see nothing had change when I got back to present day. Anyway, I tried to look this up, and nothing says smth about this happening so I just need some confirmation lol
I'll never understand people hating on others for what they do with their game if it doesn't effect anyone..why care about something that doesn't effect you or anyone else?? It's like when people get mad about you "cheating" in minecraft or using mods..when it literally doesn't effect anyone but the person playing who clearly doesn't mind. Or people being mad at youtubers upping odds or speeding up time to make getting the video on the game out faster, if they aren't actively hurting anyone else then why do y'all care?! I've seen people rage about upped shiny odds on ROMHACKS for pokemon, the youtubers do it to make their "shiny only run" come out faster and it's a damn romhack they literally cannot use the shinies anywhere else. Some people just hate to hate, they need new hobbies
I've been more lax on time travel. Rather than worry about what others do, I just set restrictions on myself. I live and work RL outside of "normal" hours, so that often my free time to play comes in a few chunks of hours late at night and into the next morning. So I've never felt guilty about time traveling back to days I missed and couldn't play. For example, if I put down the game Saturday night, but didn't have a chance to play again until Wednesday morning, I had no problem with starting that play session time traveling to Sunday morning, get some things done, travel to Monday, etc etc, until I caught up with real tube and could put the game down again. I just picked up ACNH again after about a year of neglect, and decided to start over. The first couple days were frustrating, only having two villagers and limited access to the island. With hustling day 1, day 2 I got house upgrade and vaulting pole, but had to wait until day 3 to get a ladder. I should have my 4th villager move in today. Since I've been able to play every day, I've been restricting myself from time traveling, instead choosing to enjoy the it organic experience of starting fresh and anticipating what comes next.
I swear people who think TT is cheating needs to get a life and realize not everyone wants to take a real year to do what can be done in a couple weeks. I would have to force myself to play for a short time daily at an exact time.
I kinda like to make my life even harder than it is. I have 500+ hours in new horizion, not toooo much stuff missing in my catalog and NEVER timetraveld xD Idk i just don't like time travelling it makes everything too easy. (I don't care what other people do with their games tho)
In New Leaf when you do big time skips, your villager would get messy hair like in New Horizons except the messy hair was permanent and you had to visit Shampoodle for Harriet to fix it.
AAAAGH!!! Don't remind me of that... it scarred me...
Wait… you’re here?
OMG is ceomg
I always have messy hair cause I don't play the game for weeks at a time
Same with City Folk
Long time traveller here : will say why i do it : 1)big health problems over here can't play every day so it helps a lot to be able to time travel (main reason of time travel)
2) can go back to missed birthdays in the game since you do it in real life first obviously
3) i prefer certain seasons so i like to be in summer when it's winter outside
(in wild world i don't think it mattered if you time travelled or not you would be plagued by weeds if you didn't pick your game up for a while also lol )
Great video btw
Wild World was awful with weeds. They really fixed it in New Leaf and New Horizons too.
WW is the reason I was very very hesitant about time travel in New Leaf. Haven't done it in New Horizons though outside of once fixing my clock when my Switch screwed up a little
regardless of peoples opinions on time travelling, i think its really sweet that ACNH has this vibe of all of these play styles are welcomed.
Too bad it came at the cost of the game being good.
@@AnAverageGoblin time travel isn’t the reason the game is lackluster
@@tanasiascott I was making a joke.
yeah, sometimes being this open and this "kind" to players creates a game that feels really shallow, because they are too afraid to push envelopes. every choice made for ACNH screams "safe"@@AnAverageGoblin
i can't fight the homestuck..
A lot of times I use time travel to go to holidays I missed in real time. I also use it to set time to earlier in the day so the shops are open when I'm playing late at night
I would time travel if I had nothing to do for that day or, if I missed my favourite villagers birthday. I don't trust myself to mess with my switch clock and play new horizons vanilla. But I won't get mad at others who choose to do so. They aren't hurting me. And I don't think its really cheating either since they aren't adding anything to their game like the max amount of bells, nookmile tickets etc. If they did, I'd consider it cheating.
Since I'm a night owl, I've always had the time set back 1 hour to make sure I can do all the shopping stuff I need to. Even with the night owl ordinance.
I always end up busy on the real holiday days.. I've still never celebrated my birthday in animal crossing after 10 years
Same. I always have my switch clock set 2 hours back so I can play with some daylight lol
Yeah I used to be firmly against it as a kid/teenager/young adult. But then I got a real job and additional responsibilities and I realized that finding time for video games as an adult is already hard. Locking features behind real world times is a fun concept but there ain’t no way I can make it on before the shops close these days.
Better to just set the clock back and have fun.
I renember having big "clean up parties" with my friends in Wild World. We would visit each others town and pluck out all the weeds together haha
That's sick, how do you make friends?
@@EE-jl8hv… Idk lol
A few corrections:
1. Asking your villagers to stay was introduced in Wild World (And in that game you can uniquely ask villagers to stay while they're already in the process of moving out), not New Leaf. Only in GameCube would they move out without warning
2. Getting the New Year's shirts doesn't require an internet connection. However you can't get them on Chinese New Year's, only on January 1st
3. Time travelling can actually _help restore_ grass, every day that you play grass gets restored a little, so if you save and quit, and cycle the clock one day, repeat, you can restore grass
4. Time travelling isn't actually as devastating as you'd think, because villagers can actually only move out one at a time thankfully
On your first point villagers on GameCube give you hints that they want to leave, and eventually if you catch them on time, they will ask your opinion on it.
You can then reinforce or disagree with their choice.
@@OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOq Oh, I thought those were just weird flavor dialog that were just thrown in with the rest of the dialog with no other ramifications, interesting
To scary to think about that at some point you'll be no longer to play animal crossing with the correct year
that scares me to be honest and it’s extremely soon as well
by the time those years happen it will probably already be easy to mod the games to go past that point
@@DrNo64 Not if the game is 32 bit. The 2038 time problem is quickly approaching.
In 2099 we can play Wild World but not New Horizons wtf
The Nintendo Switch Date/Time can only go up to a certain year, so it would mess with your Animal Crossing game if you were to attempt to play it close to that date....
It will be modded away by then lol
A weird NH one I have encountered a couple of times now - If you go visit an island that has shooting stars one night (unsure if it also happens when you're viewing them on your own island), load the next day but *don't* pick up your star shards and then shut down to do a time travel at least a week back, you'll completely miss out on those shards. They'll just be gone, and never appear again even if you go back to the proper date they were supposed to be there.
They despawn even if you don't time travel and just forgot to pick them up in the next day. Had to learn that the hard way :(
For Animal Crossing on the GameCube putting the limit at 2030, I bet it was to avoid the 2038 problem. There's an issue with that year similar to the issue some systems were going to have with year 2000, so they probably picked the last multiple of 10 before that year and figured that would be more than long enough for the game's lifespan.
Based on what's presented here, it sounds like Wild World sidestepped the issue by replicating the Y2K problem and just storing the year as a 2-digit number, and then City Folk reverted back to accounting for the 2038 problem, I wonder if there's some difference in how the DS and the Wii dealt with time to require that or if it was just different decisions made. for New Leaf's limit of 2050 and New Horizons limit of 2060....I got nothing 😅.
I got out my Gamecube out last year and returned to my original 2004 town (when the game came out in Europe) and had to realize that my Gamecube's internal clock ran out of battery, just like you mentioned with the original N64 cartridge. So now unless I'm actively playing, my town freezes in time. When I turn the game back on, it's still the same time as when I closed it. So I'm forced to constantly time travel by manually setting the time to keep up... replacing a Gamecube clock battery is beyond my capabilities. The Gamecube version also doesn't acknowledge this issue, the game just doesn't progress while the console is switched off.
Its a pretty easy fix if you know how to solder. I fixed mine. It just takes disassembling the case desoldering the battery holder (its on the same board as the controller ports) and popping in a new battery holder and coin cell c2032, resolder and youre good for another 20 years.
Theres instructionals on how to do it with pics and texts all over the internet. Its actually a really good beginning solder project too - its pretty easy compared to some retro console fixes.
@@childofcascadia I got really anxious the longer I read this but I will look if maybe someone can do this for me around here because it sounds easy enough but I‘d be terrified of ruining my GameCube 🫣 thank you for explaining this, though!
@raffaelm6558
If you have retro shops in your area, like ones that sell old computers/games/consoles or media id ask around there. They might know a fixit place or person that can do it for you.
Its a real common fix - most old carts/consoles used one of those batteries that looks like a coin (called a coin cell) held in a little clip soldered to the board to keep external time or save data when the power was off. Thing is, coin cells have a 10-20 year lifespan.
So thats why so much retro tech like 8/16 bit cartridges *and* N64 controller paks (legit sony and legit gamecube memory cards both used flash memory, not batteries to save data) cant hold saves gamecubes, saturns, ps1, ps2s and other similar era tech cant keep time anymore and so on.
Good luck with it!
In acnl, I discovered that if you talked & declined your villager who was thinking of moving out, none of your villagers will think of moving out no matter how far you time travel. As long as you time travel starting on the same day you said no to your villager thinking of moving out. Do note that one of your villagers will most likely be thinking of moving out if you time travel more than a week, so look out for your villagers after doing this (if anyone still plays acnl)
Sometimes the trigger response of the villagers who are thinking of moving out gets blocked by another villagers trigger with something unrelated. (I think villagers have a 15 minute cool down of doing that trigger response. & what I mean about trigger response is when they do a surprise reaction & start walking up to you because they have something they want to say to you) I usually save, quit & reload the game so I get the trigger response faster
Also if you get the max amount of villagers in your town, your most recent villager will never think of moving out, they will only move out after another villager does
I learned both of these the hard way when I was trying to redesign my town & get some villagers to move out because I didn’t like where there homes were placed. I still play acnl, dunno why
You mean new leaf right? And not new horizons?
Yea
This is exactly what I would do if I wanted to jump years ahead. Let a villager say no, save and quit, change time and load it up. Nobody could leave. Was a slight pain to wait for a villager to ask but I'm glad this workaround still exists!
In ACNH, flowers will take over your island, which I think is a bigger pain than weeds. You can't kill flowers completely by running through them like in past games. You have to carry them in your pockets and throw them out.
True! Overgrowing was one of the reasons I deleted my first island. I just couldn`t take the time to fix everything.
I believe the reason you didn't get the shirt in City Folk is because zodiac items are usually given out on the first of the regular calendar year, not on the Chinese New Year. If you go to 1/1/2000 you should get the zodiac shirt for that coming Chinese New Year. In New Leaf, you could get models of the animal for that coming Chinese New Year on the First of January, so I assume that's how City Folk would work as well, but I'm not 100% on that. Just an assumption.
Interesting
It’s weird how wild world let you go to 2099 and no others came close
Very odd. I still cannot believe ACGC caps at 2030. But I wonder if that's because of the Gamecube hardware.
@@br3akstuff i mean, if you think about it, 30 years is a while. Nintendo probably didn't think anyone would still play it
I was playing city folk today and Jay actually ran up to me talking about wanting to move out, and I was able to convince him to stay. Not sure how common of an occurrence this was in city folk when villagers would move out but I just thought I would mention it!
I broke my game by time traveling once. I don’t know how, but it was in City Folk. Me and my sister changed the time so often that it started changing itself. We’d set it to the day we were on and when we went to play the next day, weeks will have passed. Still confused about it to this day.
how do you change time in city folk? idk how
I havent played in a Long time! Let me get back to you :)
Typically you have to change the system time, I believe there is also an option to do so if you click “not ready yet” + “other settings” + “change clock” in the starting screen!!
@@_Calla-lily_ YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SMMMM
The flowers just go bonkers in New Horizons if you let them go... Not sure if this happens when you time travel, but I left my game for a while, my dad played on it for a bit, and the island was filled with flowers. They're worse than weeds because you have to shovel them up and they each take up one inventory spot.
My new leaf file is like that because I have the beautiful town ordinance and there are many times I just haven't played for months
I won't complain about other people's ways of playing, but I personally don't time travel. I like routines, and I like looking forward to things. I also like not experiencing seasons before the time is right.
exactly! In my first ever animal crossing playthrough I would wait until I had experienced all seasons. But since I have ADHD, and am not very patient, I can't wait months, or even a few hours for something. If I wake up at like 7 am, I don't want to wait a few hours for shops. but if people want to wait I don't mind. I really don't get how people are mad on how another person plays a (mostly) single player game
You called the village in Wild World an island and I will never recover.
I only time travel backwards a day or two if I miss my turnip prices and such, back in the day I'd time travel like crazy in the gamecube version to sell the fish i collected at night before going to bed :P
you... can't travel backwards to sell turnips. they will rot. I'm assuming you mean to go back to sunday to buy turnips, but just incase anyone thinks, if you go back in time, all your turnips will rot
Funnily enough I did the opposite of what you did I got my island all pretty with time travel and then started playing day by day I think this is the best for me
when i’m still playing in 2061 and it won’t let me 😢
I've heard that the "seasonal holiday unlocks" are actually on a _per-year basis,_ but I haven't tested to see if that's true. For example, all the holidays are in the game now, and (today being March 1, 2023, for context) you can time travel back to 12-25-2022 and celebrate Toy Day just fine... but if you time travel _forward_ to 12-25-2023, supposedly there won't _be_ a Toy Day, because that _specific_ December 25th hasn't occured in realtime yet??? And only holidays that were coded in from V1.0.0 (like New Year's obviously, but also fishing tourneys, etc) are "permanently unlocked for Time Lords"... I have no evidence this is true, and I'm not in a place to test it, but if that's what Nintendo actually chose to do... that's really weird.
The creator said he knew people would want to be able to change the clock and he wanted them to play it how they wanted.
In New Horizons, I travel forward a day at a time, but when I go back (say because I've missed a day of free Nook Miles), I go back to the day BEFORE the current. Gets you a headstart on the NM streak, and then when you load the current day, it thinks you haven't played it yet.
I forgot you got greeted by various villager on the game cube. I miss that
Your AC videos are the best; you never know what you’re going to get! So many creative ideas!! Thank you!
The only time I’ve time traveled was because I missed my favorite villager Cranstons birthday and was so upset about it I cried.
i keep forgetting about the time travel in wild world and turnips. i bought 100 turnips last sunday and went back in time just a few hours yesterday because i started playing pretty late..... and then the turnips were immediately ruined.
accidentally time travelled to the next year in wild world. island was covered in weeds. closed the game without saving, no villagers remembered me being gone but the weeds stayed 😭
Fun Fact: Animal Crossing series was planned to start on the gba but the clock had problems so they ported it to the n64 and gc
I've been using time traveling to finish my Fossils in NH, and rn trying to finish my art collection from Jolly Redd.
[My Redd loop has led to me to getting nearly 20 wasps 😂]
It's Animal Crossing Wild World's anniversary for the US version, November 23, 2023 marks 18 years and City Folk turned 15 years old 2 weeks ago, I just realized that lol
Another excellent video, Elijah!
The Sims 2 on DS calls you out for time traveling by the Desk Clerk essentially saying: Way to go, dumby! You caused an alien invasion by time traveling!
Then, the alien emperor invades and you need to deal with them with your water gun or as the Raticator (or Rat Man as my friends called them as I don't remember the name).
I found this out by either a friend showing me or adjusting the clock for daylight savings time.
I was hoping to hear something like that for one of the Animal Crossing games.
I remember the only time I ever time traveled was back when I played New Leaf. I was getting impatient because I wanted a new bridge to be built so I time traveled forward in time by like a few days and then put it back to the correct date, but when I put it back one of my favorite villagers, being Cherry, was in boxes and I was really upset and never did it again
Time traveling as a concept is really fun to think about. You could definitely make something spooky about some Animal Crossing Villagers seeing everything happen as fast (or as slow) as it is, watching the days change....
Oh wait someone did. (Densle! Go check out Densle!)
It's still just awesome thinking about stuff like this even without the context of Animal Crossing.
Since my first Animal Crossing game (New Leaf) I've been devoted to never time traveling. When I played New Leaf, I could disappear for months, not touch the game, and then come back to find that everything remained the exact same. No villagers randomly left, there were messes but it wasn't outrageous (Beautiful Town Ordinance let's go!) and everyone was relatively happy to see me back.
If the Switch in my house weren't the family's console, if it were just mine....I'd maybe debate time traveling in a New Horizons island. If I got a Switch Lite...Perhaps one of those limited ones....Maybe there.
I only time traveled in new leaf.. And regretted it my first time. R.I.P Portia.
Brewster says, "Sorry, we don't serve time travelers here."
A time traveler walks into the Roost.
I miss at the beginning when the interest was crazy for time traveling in New Horizons.
Ppl who argue against time travelling have to realize that most ppl have jobs and other responsibilities which gives them only a certain timeframe in which to play these games. Someone who works night-shift will only ever get to experience the game in the early morning, giving them access to a limited amount of bugs, fish, etc. Sure, you could say "just play on the weekend", but most ppl have responsibilities then, too. No one wants to organize a schedule around playing a game, especially for one where you're supposed to be relaxing.
I'm a shameless time traveler 😜 - if I'm really busy or want a break from Animal Crossing I'd lose the log in streak, my island would be covered in weeds and my villagers would think I died 😅 - the solution is time travel 😊
The time travel in wild world was the only way I paid all the mortgages but the house was so nice 😂😂
I don't take massive leaps ever, but I do occasionally play two or three days in one (in new leaf) or back-track when I haven't played in a while, and yes, I do actually keep track of the "next day", so in a sense, I do play "every day 😂
"End of Time" just reminds me of Chrono Trigger.
Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!
I love time travel in ACNH since if I get bored or want to speed stiff up it works great. I don't do it as oftwn because I'm at a point where my island is 4 stars and is just abmatter of getting bells and villagers I like, and I don't play as often as I used too (I missed like half a year of the game due to accidentally breaking the game card reader) I like it thought because there isn't too much that can go wrong except for a flood of weeds, and it's there for when I want to use it.
I always listen to this RUclips channel and this one only when I play animal crossing
I want to have a blue telephone booth. That should tell you all you need to know.
I only time travel within the day it actually is. As a parent with a full time job, I basically only have time to play at like 5am. And sure, I could just offset my time, but I don’t want to play at the same hour every day of my life. So I pick a different time every day to play at 5am.
That said, I think full time travel is totally valid. The point of games is to enjoy your time. If speed runners can use exploits to have fun and that’s considered a valid thing to do with their time, so is AC TT. If changing the rules of Monopoly makes it more fun for your friend group and that’s valid, so is AC TT. Etc.
You said that stopping villagers from moving out was a new feature in New Leaf but I know that you can stop villagers from moving out in Wild World as well.
I usually don't time travel, but my best friend and I plan to have a shared town and has let me borrow his 3ds, I've wanted to play new leaf for so long but wasn't able to get it and now the Eshop is closed and if I were to get a 3ds myself I'd have to hack it! Since I don't get to play all the time and only maybe some weeks I will ever get to play I've been time traveling just one day ahead sometimes, I also wanted to hear a lot of the time specific music that I usually am busy working and would be unable to hear normally.
After getting my island to 5 stars, paying off all my loans, and getting my dreamies (at the time), I started to TT as much as I wanted to.
People who throw a fit over folks who time travel need a real reason to live
when i was a kid i never time traveled but i just don't have that time these days to be that committed :(
I have time traveled since the first game on the GameCube
I'm surprised at how laid back New Horizons is compared to other titles. Maybe they decided to just plan for time travellers instead of work against them, which makes sense considering they tried to make this game appeal to as many people as possible
omg-so incredible ~Rocket. =)
I time travel, but I have a schedule. I only time travel 3 times a day. Mainly because my clock is off, and I don’t wanna just sync the clock
I only really time travel if I wake up past 12 pm and I need to see the turnip prices, so I go back to 11 am and load the game for the first time that day, check the turnips, or buy them, and then go back to the present
Wait! Reverse TIME TRAVEL!!! So like I never went anywhere, I aged, its 2069 and dream mode has to update the possibly illegaly mod animal crossing with new content to reflect the new time just cus my fav game never expected a player to dare live this long.
The game is stuck where it lies, never expecting the futre to pass by, yet here it comes, and its no future no more, its all present and presents
Love your videos!
The battery on our GameCube has run dry, so every time I launch animal crossing KK asks me to set the clock! I wonder if NL does it too
My gamecube clock stopped working so i have to manually set the time everytime i start the game lmao
Unpopular opinion. You can’t cheat in a single player game. It’s your game, do whatever you want with it.
the big question is why the Nintendo Switch itself has a limit for 2060?
My progress doesn’t go back when i travel back right??
I love the implication that we'll all still be playing new horizons in 40 or so years. I hope thats true.
i really only time travel for small thing like moving building around
I was actually able to. I'm travel to 2011 if you set the clock on the 3ds😊 to 2011.
In New Leaf it's possible to hack your town pass card and have you registered as far back as 1900 iirc, mine is registered as 1985
Forgot to mention the meat flowers in Wild World!!!
Can you time travel in animal crossing pocket camp ??
i used to time travel to a random date on my new leaf data 🙂
At 8:30, Elijah mentions having to be online for the Chinese New Years shirt, but the online component was deprecrated in 2014. Before you say "Wiimmfii is an option", it isn't. Wiimmfii isn't compatible with City Folk, it's compatable with Wild World, but not City Folk.
wiimmfi has supported city folk for many years…
@@FromTheStars98 really? I guess the person who told me that was lying.
@LoginJ They mightve meant a certain method. You need a homebrewed wii for it. You cant use the custom DNS for it to go online like with Mario Kart
Okay guys, I came here because I have a question about New Leaf. So, I've had the game since release, I was very young and it's been over 10 years since release so I just need someone to tell me if my brain made this memory up or not. I remember very vividly that I was on vacation and in the car. I was playing ACNL and I time travelled for funziez to the year 2050 and for some horrifying reason, my town looked super dead, there were gravestones, it was crazy looking. Not even my town anymore. So I hoped it didn't save, closed it immediately and was relieved to see nothing had change when I got back to present day. Anyway, I tried to look this up, and nothing says smth about this happening so I just need some confirmation lol
Definitely not real. Maybe you dreamed it
I think that time traveling is fine. I do it sometimes.
in new horizons if you buy Turnips on sundays and you time travel your turnips will rot
I kind of accidentally time travel without messing with the clock cause I'm so forgetful
Now if you also play Dreamlight Valley you’re likely screwed
my NL activity log says last played : 2051?!?!
I feel like people over exaggerate how hard it is to pay off your debts in Wild World.
So how do they react to going backward?
They simply don't. They don't know
I time traveled and played with the year I time traveled to
Hiii!ni love your vids!!!
made in heaven!
I'm trying to not change the console clock from real time
Ah yes.. New lead
I’m wondering is someone actually playing Pocket Camp on a regular basis? 😂
I do....
I am, since NH has dried up.
Yep, daily. It's a good game if you enjoy the decorating aspect of AC.
I'll never understand people hating on others for what they do with their game if it doesn't effect anyone..why care about something that doesn't effect you or anyone else?? It's like when people get mad about you "cheating" in minecraft or using mods..when it literally doesn't effect anyone but the person playing who clearly doesn't mind. Or people being mad at youtubers upping odds or speeding up time to make getting the video on the game out faster, if they aren't actively hurting anyone else then why do y'all care?! I've seen people rage about upped shiny odds on ROMHACKS for pokemon, the youtubers do it to make their "shiny only run" come out faster and it's a damn romhack they literally cannot use the shinies anywhere else. Some people just hate to hate, they need new hobbies
I've been more lax on time travel. Rather than worry about what others do, I just set restrictions on myself.
I live and work RL outside of "normal" hours, so that often my free time to play comes in a few chunks of hours late at night and into the next morning. So I've never felt guilty about time traveling back to days I missed and couldn't play.
For example, if I put down the game Saturday night, but didn't have a chance to play again until Wednesday morning, I had no problem with starting that play session time traveling to Sunday morning, get some things done, travel to Monday, etc etc, until I caught up with real tube and could put the game down again.
I just picked up ACNH again after about a year of neglect, and decided to start over. The first couple days were frustrating, only having two villagers and limited access to the island. With hustling day 1, day 2 I got house upgrade and vaulting pole, but had to wait until day 3 to get a ladder. I should have my 4th villager move in today. Since I've been able to play every day, I've been restricting myself from time traveling, instead choosing to enjoy the it organic experience of starting fresh and anticipating what comes next.
I swear people who think TT is cheating needs to get a life and realize not everyone wants to take a real year to do what can be done in a couple weeks. I would have to force myself to play for a short time daily at an exact time.
I kinda like to make my life even harder than it is. I have 500+ hours in new horizion, not toooo much stuff missing in my catalog and NEVER timetraveld xD Idk i just don't like time travelling it makes everything too easy. (I don't care what other people do with their games tho)
“New Lead”
Well excuse me for being impatient💀
i find it stupid on how the max interest you get in new horizons is 9,999 bells like WTF
new lead 💥🔫😎
It’s not “cheating” if it’s part of the game
I said I doct kxare if you time travel up your way to play😊