I can't believe I'm admitting this but Resetti actually did make me cry as a child. I was playing wild world on my DS and I couldn't repeat Resetti's words back to him correctly because it has to be exactly right including punctuation. I had to get my brother to do it for me.
Haha yea, the games are very strict on having you repeat back the phrases exactly… It makes sense he was toned down and made optional later on, but I still kind of miss his angry rants… Maybe he’ll play a bigger role in the next game. 🤔
I was literally the exact same, I dreaded seeing the red light on my ds if I wasn't near my charger playing animal crossing cos he made me cry multiple times (something tells me the developers didn't get that a 6 year old probably doesn't understand punctuation yet lol)
I actually think it's really cute how they made Resetti opt-in in New Leaf. He'll show up on your first reset, then never again "because we got defunded". But if you go out of your way to build the Reset Surveillance Center, he'll be surprisingly happy about it! You can even, under very specific circumstances, sneak your way down the manhole and check out the place for yourself. He'll briefly scold you for doing so, before being interrupted by _someone else_ resetting and having to SCRAM! to deal with it.
I made sure he had his job back, and was very forgiving if you say "My batteries died" aka my go-to whenever I reset, lol He has a new job now, which is the island rescue service. He "resets" your position if you get stuck somewhere.
He will show up whether you reset or not, and if you had, he will basically say something like "Nah, you resetted your game but like, I'm just so happy to have my job back that I don't even care. This one's a freebie, no lecture for you!" And if you didn't reset he will point out that he couldn't anyways since you didn't reset.
I like how in the e+ version, they added a feature where when you try to mash through Resetti's dialogue it actually counts how many times you press the button and he says "you pressed the button X times!" I saw on a Japanese site that someone was trying to have a competition with their siblings to see the highest number they could get, and got over 400. Poor Resetti.
In City Folk, Resetti does the same "delete save data" prank, but instead of the screen going black briefly, it actually loads the title screen with a completely different village in the background, making you think you've truly lost your save data
We need him in our lives again. My sister closes so many games without saving and then wonders why she lost progress. She was never taught a lesson by Mr. Resetti :(
I played the DS version of AC as a kid and I remember having forgot to save so many times that Resetti gave me a meter of how “not sorry” to “very sorry” I was. I became so stressed trying to guess how sorry he wanted me to be 😭
I had the same problem, and NEVER got past it. I was never able to play the game again as a kid lol, not even my sister who was 7 years older than me could get past it.
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When I discovered him as a kid, I actually spent the next half hour resetting again and again to read all his dialogues.
Two things I hate more than anything are being yelled at and getting in trouble for things that aren't my fault, and when you consider that most of the time when I was playing city folk the reason it resetted was because my little brother turned off the Wii you can understand my hatred for such things. My dad thought he was hilarious though and sometimes reset on purpose to see him
"Are ya winning, son?" "Well, actually Animal Crossing isn't a competitive game, but I made quite a lot of progress with the museu... hey, dad what are you doing, NOOOO don't press that button!! 😭😭😭😭" "Ha, Resetti go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! 🤠
Honestly, I'd love for someone to do a professional voice dub of all of Mr. Resetti's dialogue. I want them to REALLY do justice at just how utterly *_enraged_* he is, to the point of voice-cracking. He's just one of them characters you can't help but adore due to how unique he is
Whoa, guess Resetti doesn't like it when his species is mistaken. Maybe he should yell at Isabelle too. She gives you a statue of him, a mole, to celebrate Groundhog Day... But he is not a groundhog.
I liked how in new leaf you had the option to either not have him and just have Isobel sigh and go "last time you didn't save remember next time :)" or you could put in a public works project and have resetti rant at you. But I liked how it was your choice
It was really hard repeating Resetti's phrase back in the day when I couldn't read. Maybe that's why I didn't know how to save. Or knew what was going on. It's a hard game when you can't read ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I once had my DS fall out of my hands as I was walking down the stairs. The DS itself was fine but the cartridge was ejected when it hit the ground, so my game froze and I had to reset. Mr. Resetti was NOT happy 😆 I really wish ACNH would let us turn auto-save off, especially when terraforming so that if we end up hating what we built or regret what we destroyed, we can just reset. I'd happily listen to Mr. Resetti rant after that 😂
Oh man, that would help so much. I get that Animal Crossing is intended to be played in a sort of "hardcore mode" where saving is concerned and it's an integral part of the experience but...
@@ddnava96He would appear once before building the Reset Center. Just the once, the first time you reset. Before you load your town, he pops in (iirc the floor even opens up so he can emerge from the dirt underneath?), introduces himself, asks what made you reset, then explains his situation to you. Isabelle will add the Reset Surveillance Center to your list of Public Works Projects.
we need a Mr. Resetti redemption arch where the first time he shows up he begins angry then stops himself mid sentence and apologises and says hes been going to anger management or something. I just love his character design he's too cute to leave out!
@Pinyaps If you don't actually have the 100 Nook Miles to use the service, he does reveal himself to be Resetti, and he does still rescue you, albeit, he takes you to a Random location, instead of you being able to choose.
Wow it's exactly what I thought it was! I feel like you should've covered how other games did it as well. Feels kinda short only doing one. Besides the dialogue reading of course!
@@Zinkolo It's true this video did end up a tad short; I was really hoping the game's reset counter would overflow or crash so I could do some more in-depth explanations, but unfortunately they capped it. The other games also work pretty identically to the GameCube version so there wasn't a lot else to cover. The GameCube version also has the best Resetti dialogue / scenarios so I focused on that version, along with the player input secret -- though I regret not mentioning that you could actually visit Resetti's surveillance center in the Japanese e+ version. While this video was somewhat short, next week's video will be longer and feature several very interesting technical explanations, so I hope you look forward to it! Thank you for the comments!
The long loading time when booting up already confirmed that for me, since AC doesn't need the disc inside to run. It literally keeps the whole game in RAM
As a child, my older sister had a friend over who recalled when Resetti "reset her save file". She cracked her controller and kicked her CRT, hurting her toe badly. The screen returned, and Resetti said "Did you break your controller? Maybe kick your TV?" And that's how I got my copy of Animal Crossing~! :3
People wonder why so many people still prefer the og animal crossing even though it has less features, but stuff like this is exactly why. Mr Resetti along with Phillips and many of the other townsfolk are just so grumpy and rude I LOVE it. It makes talking to people so much more interesting and enjoyable. Many of the new games just have a bunch of boring goody two shoes as neighbors.
I'm really drawn to this technical side of Animal Crossing. Particularly the GameCube version, as I grew up with it and yet continue to learn more new things about it through this niche but tight community. I hope to see more from you!
I was scared of Resetti as a kid... But also grateful, because his presence made sure that I never lost anything because I *ALWAYS* saved to avoid his wrath.
When i was a kid, my dsi eventually developed a glitch that meant that occasionally it would turn off whenever you tilted the screen using the hinge. Id say anout 50/50 odds. I played wild world. Resetti was so mad at me for NO GOOD REASON. I still flinch whenever i have to adjust the screen on my PERFECTLY FINE 3DS. Im still feeling those effects to this day. Fuck mr resetti, he terrorized my child self.
The first time I ever encountered Resetti was in New Leaf. It was 1 am and I had just returned from Tortimer island. I was tired so I turned my 3ds off and went to sleep. Lo and behold, Resetti greats me the next morn instead of Isabelle. The worst part is I lost 4 golden stag beetles and 3 whale sharks.
I remember when I was about 5, my older brother's character's face was replaced with a gyroid face. He showed it to me and told me that Mr. Resetti did it. It really freaked me out and made me even more terrified/in awe of this crazy mole 😆 Because of that I could've sworn that one of the reset events was him taking your face, but I just googled it and apparently it just happens if you reset while visiting another town The more you know
I do wish that mr-resetti if the game crashes he says that in this case he's going easy on you since it was a case of where it was against anything you could've done and simply says that this is kinda why you need to save in the first place to ensure that you don't lose much progress
I encountered Resetti a LOT in my Wild World days... My cart was corroded and would frequently crash due to poor contacts between the cart and system... Playing WW was always a gamble because it wasn't a matter of if, it was a matter of WHEN it would crash
The first time I met Mr. Resetti was after a power glitch that shut my gamecube off. I was annoyed that he accused me of trying to game the system by resetting the game and to accept the consequences of my actions. After that, I purposefully would reset just to annoy him back. He became one of my most favorite characters after that.
resetti always scared me because he would not immediately appear but you KNEW he was coming, there was so much dread and there was a brief moment of silence before he popped up. this was enough to make my brain relax and then get startled by him. the first time he appeared it freaked me out.
I was originally afraid of him because I thought he would try something terrible if I angered him enough. These days, I'm rather fond of his character. Rants and all! Also, I like the other side of him where he's a more relaxed individual. Don, of course, is the cherry on top!
fun fact! in only the EU version of City Folk resetting too many times (some like 100 times I think) will actually piss off Resetti to the point where he *actually wipes your save*
I first encountered Resetti in New Leaf and felt bad for him when he first appeared and how he apparently lost his job. I looked him up more about him and thought his whole thing was pretty charming. I rarely incurred his wrath afterwards, though I might've done it on accident... He's be upset with the amount of resetting I've done in New Horizons. Fun fact: He's an assist trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and he's got some funny interactions. He'll counterattack if he keeps getting attacked and has special dialogue if he goes off-screen.
My dad actually taped a plastic stick over our reset button to prevent us from resetting because we would terrorize each other by threatening to summon Mr. Resetti by hitting the button.
Hey man, just watched loads of your videos, they're all really cute! Very digestible. I love my hour long decompiling videos, but it's nice also to be able to throw something on when I don't have time to watch something else. I'm commenting to thank you for the captions on your videos! I have auditory processing issues, and that makes these sorts of videos hard to understand if I'm not 100% focused on them and only them at all times. Captions make my life so much easier in just comprehending what's being told me, so thank you for taking the time out of your day to write and/or include them!
Thank you for the kind words! I also prefer captions on a lot of content I watch, so I always try to include them when possible. All of these videos are scripted, so it’s not too much work to just copy over the script and adjust the timings to match what I’m saying. But it does probably take an extra hour or so per 10min video - glad it helps! 😄
@@Hunter-R.It's crazy how many people who do scripted content don't even bother to throw the script into the transcript to let the system at least try. I do really appreciate that you put the work in, even if it doesn't feel like much.
I like how you had to acknowledge at the end how much work that took. I was thinking the same thing. "He has to save, load, reset, and load again, in order to increase the count by one. That's tedious."
I'm surprised this wasn't covered, but in the GameCube version Resetti once turned my face into Coco's face. My sister and I kept trolling eachother for giggles and would turn the game off on eachother. We were obsessed with Coco, so we weren't mad we were just like WOAH how did we do that!?! I don't know if it was from resetting or if we glitched something. We left the game running for three days because we assumed if we saved and turned the game on it would go back to normal. We were right.
This occurs when you reset while visiting another player’s town through a second memory card. It’s pretty amusing, but wasn’t covered here since Resetti isn’t the one who does this to you. This actually occurs due to the game itself intentionally making you appear that way, but yea it will go back to normal after saving and quitting again.
God I miss Resetti so so much... I remember losing my shit in NL because apparently I had reseted so many times (my old 3ds battery was failing so it would shut off randomly on me a few times) to the point where his brother started to show up instead of him and straight out told me Resetti had gotten so pissed off that his pressure got way too high and was told to just take it easy hence his brother replaced him LOL. Be it Don is waaay more chill about it, but something about practically endangering Mr. Resetti's healthy over resets really got to me.
The shame of it is, they absolutely could have kept Resetti in a similar role in New Horizons, even with auto-save. Because Zarquon knows SOMEone should have been there to slap your wrist for messing with the system clock.
His job was to stop people from resetting, not from time traveling. And since nowadays time traveling is an officially recognized way to play by the game itself, there's no way they'd punish it.
@@KopperNeoman The difference is though that they always softly (or loudly in Resetti's case) discouraged resetting, even when the mole lost his job. But time travel was never once discouraged beyond what the game would normally do if you took too long to revisit.
The first day I incurred Resetti's wrath was actually the day I first played AC on Gamecube. I got it on Christmas morning, but sometime in the afternoon there was a freak thundersnow storm, and the lighting was so close, I panicked and shut the game off without saving so I could unplug the Gamecube. As a kid, I was taught that you should turn off and unplug computers during a thunderstorm, and that this applies to game consoles too. Of course nowadays I'm very lax about it, but I do avoid charging devices during severe weather.
I started playing Animal Crossing recently, mostly GameCube and New Horizons, and while on GameCube for the first time I had a lot of fun making Resetti appear on purpose! I just started wondering how it works a few hours ago and suddenly I find this video without even looking anything up about it! What a crazy coincidence. 5:00 I had no idea, that’s hilarious! I need to try that in one of my videos!
@@Hunter-R. Not yet! I really love Super Mario, mostly the older games. But since New Horizons is so good I might give Super Mario Wonder a try in the future!
Resetti was discouraging me from playing not only I have to do what I did before my game crashed again but I have to go through resetti's monologue , assuming my game won't crash again
such a cool video! i remember literally crying my eyes out when Resetti did the fake "delete your save data" trick. old crt tvs had that shut off effect and i thought i had lost everything. was hard to consistently save in a household where video games were considered "brain rotting" and "evil" lol
I also was terrified of that guy. Was extremely young and could not speak english (not native) and was always confused what he was on about, but he still was kind of unsettling
"and could not speak english (not native) and was always confused what he was on about" He DOES tend to use a lot of metaphorical language, doesn't he?
@@Most-sane-deltarune-fan probably, don't know anymore, also doesn't quite matter, I was six and *literally* didn't know a single word in english, I just saw an angry guy screaming at me and that was enough lmao
Resetti does appear in new horizons kinda, If you call the rescue service with your nookphone its actually resetti whos running the service. He even mentions autosaving.
True, but that’s such a minimal appearance that I don’t even really consider it one. He isn’t even named in that call! They did eventually add him in an update and you can use his amiibo to invite him and Don to the Roost for coffee… but still lame he didn’t really appear officially outside of that.
@@Hunter-R. One time I had them show up randomly in The Roost and I relished the moment, because New Horizons is the only version I've ever really played. ...I never saw him again.
@@Hunter-R. "and you can use his amiibo to invite him and Don to the Roost for coffee… " and do vacation homes for them and bring 'em into Photopia at Harv's island to take cool pictures of them!
i remember i booted up my city folk game once that i played with my sister and i completely lost my village, we had like a save file corruption and we couldnt start a new one.. sad day for the both of us
the first animal crossing game i really got into was new leaf. i did not know how to save, and he just got scarier and scarier to me. eventually i just made my dad open the game and deal with him for me because i could get so anxious and cry lol
yeah, i don't think you're thinking of new leaf, because resetti gets fired in new leaf and you have to pay to bring him back, and then when you do then he asks you _why_ you didn't save and if you tell him the power ran out then he lets you off lightly
I remember being super confused by Mr.Resetti as a kid, cause I didn't play animal crossing much and didn't know how to save. Also I tried to mash through his dialogue every time, which just made him angrier.
I used to hate resetti, I had wild world on an r4 card and it would crash a lot, so I constantly had to hear him yell at me for something I didn't even do
5:13 As a kid, I didn't know how to read or write too well and encountered Resetti when he made you rewrite a phrase. I could not for the life of me repeat exactly what he told me to, for whatever reason, and I cried about it. My older brother ended up doing it for me, lol. I didn't know that Resetti changes what he says depending on how many times you've reset. I guess I reset a lot as a kid
I loved gcb animal crossing, resetti was someone I came across because of power outages and such, and I loved him amongst the other cast members of the first game. I've played every game since. I played New Leaf the most and the wii one the least, but I absolutely loved each game including NH on switch I will forever and always hold a soft spot for the first one, with all of that uncapped and seemingly experimental attitudes and personalities
My hypothesis (prior to watching video): - When you load your save file (village), the game saves a small flag that marks the file as unsaved (in application programming, commonly called a "dirty flag", except this one gets stored with the actual save file instead of just being held in active memory) - This flag is cleared when you save and quit. - When loading your save file, if the flag was _already_ set, this implies the prior session ended WITHOUT a "save and quit", so Mr.Resetti appears to berate the player. Clever but technically simple stuff. I remember back when Mario Kart DS launched, it was theorized that when you play online, before the match starts the game pre-saves the outcome as a loss (in case you disconnect/power off), only to replace it with the _actual_ outcome upon completion of the match. There were many flaws in the design of MKDS's online but this was not one of them.
I rented the Gamecube game, so I read up on "cheats" and tips and after playing for a couple days I time traveled and used an Action Replay. (Since I wouldn't get the full experience unless I bought the game anyway. I never did.) I reset the game on purpose just to see who this character is, and then I checked the "no Resetti" box on the Action Replay. That seemed to have had an opposite effect because he'd appear every time even if I saved. I thought it was hilarious at first but then I found him really annoying because of how precise I had to be when saying the phrase he wanted me to say. (After telling him that he sucks, of course.) I couldn't even tell what was wrong half the time.
I love this mechanic, I just laugh out loud at these cool 4th wall jokes, like resetti introducing himself as a Nintendo employee or turning your screen off
I love how in city folk he is more subtle about his anger but is still insanely pissed off and how you need to walk down from your house door before he jumps out making you think you are safe
@@Hunter-R.New Horizons will always be "that game I played during covid" so it'll always have that nostalgia factor. But yeah, I wish I enjoyed it more lol
The autosave feature is really useful but it would be cool to see him come up maybe if you time travel? It would probably only work if you go backwards in time further than your last save but it would still be cool to see him outside the coffee shop
@@adamk-paxlogan7330Sucks Basically, people want to know the conditions under which Resetti operates, but nobody ever really stops to consider his mental health or general wellbeing.
I was 14 or so the first time we played Animal Crossing Wild World and even older when we purchased the first Animal Crossing for my youngest sister's GameCube, I never was afraid or annoyed at Resetti. I frequently had his theme song stuck in my head because it's short and easy to remember. The moment I heard he was going to be gone from the newer AC games, I was sad.
Dude, 14 is old af, at my school you would have been bullied if you admitted to playing these "baby games" at that age. (I should know.) Like, if you're a freaking teenager you obviously know Resetti is just a character made of code and polygons and that it's something the developers put in to prevent players from cheating. Clearly the kids who were frightened by Resetti were about a decade younger than that and didn't know how to read and spell properly yet, causing them to get stuck in an endless loop of Resetti berating them because they couldn't type in what he wanted. When kids are that young they can't emotionally tell the difference between a game character and a real person yet, so to a child that age it's like actually being yelled at by an adult who won't let them go.
Because of how resetti works I lost my childhood save in ACWW a few years ago. The game crashed when it was loading the character (Bad connection, got the cartridge was removed message I believe) and after that my save was gone. So yeah make sure the cart is making a good connection with ACWW before you load the game or you could have a nasty surprise if it crashes when loading. Resetti was a good idea though, but maybe they went a bit far with how angry he got for a game ment to be played by young kids.
I had a real problem with resetti on the DS version of the game. You had a slider, but neither me or my sister could get past it, so my game was essentially bricked. I have to say, resetti has to be the WORST idea any game developer has ever thought of.
Resetti scared the heck out of me on Wild World as a kid - he threatened to delete my save file so I panicked and deleted the villager that hadn't saved to try and protect my file.
@@Most-sane-deltarune-fan the human villager, my other ones hadn't angered Resetti so I thought if I deleted the one he was angry with then he wouldn't delete my entire town
my guess before watching the video: there is variable in the save data, lets say for example bool didnt_save. when you load the game, it sets the variable to true. then, when you do save & exit, it changes the variable back to false. So, when you quit the game without saving, the didnt_save variable stays at true. And when loading, the game checks the variable, and if its true, it knows the player reseted or didnt save the game, and shows the resetti message
I saw Resetti all the time as a kid in Wild World because my DS would run out before I could get back to the house and save, and I didn't know you could save by pressing select.
The algorithm decided i for me t's time for animal crossing content again after years, and now I really regret having sold "Wild World" and "Let's Go to the City"
It's funny because I only realized what Mr. Resetti's purpose was, like, two days ago where I installed ACNL to do some testing with some cheats. Funny that the video got recommended two days later
I remember Resetti from the OG game. I was so outraged that a game I owned had the nerve to lecture me about how to play it. I stopped playing after that
I do like Resetti in New Leaf, first time I got him (because I played it away from home and the battery died), I do like that he did ask why I reseted with dialogue options to choose from
I can't believe I'm admitting this but Resetti actually did make me cry as a child. I was playing wild world on my DS and I couldn't repeat Resetti's words back to him correctly because it has to be exactly right including punctuation. I had to get my brother to do it for me.
Haha yea, the games are very strict on having you repeat back the phrases exactly… It makes sense he was toned down and made optional later on, but I still kind of miss his angry rants… Maybe he’ll play a bigger role in the next game. 🤔
Oh my god you're exactly the reason why he was optional in NL and removed in NH lmao!
No shame obviously
I was literally the exact same, I dreaded seeing the red light on my ds if I wasn't near my charger playing animal crossing cos he made me cry multiple times (something tells me the developers didn't get that a 6 year old probably doesn't understand punctuation yet lol)
I hope your brother was helpful
lmfao
I actually think it's really cute how they made Resetti opt-in in New Leaf. He'll show up on your first reset, then never again "because we got defunded". But if you go out of your way to build the Reset Surveillance Center, he'll be surprisingly happy about it! You can even, under very specific circumstances, sneak your way down the manhole and check out the place for yourself. He'll briefly scold you for doing so, before being interrupted by _someone else_ resetting and having to SCRAM! to deal with it.
He's even happy enough to forgive you resetting.
I made sure he had his job back, and was very forgiving if you say "My batteries died" aka my go-to whenever I reset, lol
He has a new job now, which is the island rescue service. He "resets" your position if you get stuck somewhere.
You also got the chance to meet his brother 'Don' which was cute.
I really like this. I don't own any of the older games, but kinda wish I had the option in Horizons.
He will show up whether you reset or not, and if you had, he will basically say something like "Nah, you resetted your game but like, I'm just so happy to have my job back that I don't even care. This one's a freebie, no lecture for you!"
And if you didn't reset he will point out that he couldn't anyways since you didn't reset.
I like how in the e+ version, they added a feature where when you try to mash through Resetti's dialogue it actually counts how many times you press the button and he says "you pressed the button X times!" I saw on a Japanese site that someone was trying to have a competition with their siblings to see the highest number they could get, and got over 400. Poor Resetti.
They have that in Wild World too! Also you can visit his house in the e+ version which is a feature that wasn't seen again until City Folk
That's hilarious, they should have kept that.
This should be a world record category
It's in new leaf too
“CLICK CLACK CLICK CLACK! ALL THAT NOISE! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO!? STOP THAT! YOU’VE MASHED BUTTONS X TIMES!”
In City Folk, Resetti does the same "delete save data" prank, but instead of the screen going black briefly, it actually loads the title screen with a completely different village in the background, making you think you've truly lost your save data
Have to wonder is someone's hacked the game to visit that fake-out town.
@@SSBBPOKEFAN. Probably generated randomly, like when you boot the game for the first time
I thought that was a myth??
Source?
Nice
We need him in our lives again. My sister closes so many games without saving and then wonders why she lost progress. She was never taught a lesson by Mr. Resetti :(
Its honestly beautiful how much variety they put into this feature almost like it’s rewarding you after awhile😂 i always loved to see resetti
I played the DS version of AC as a kid and I remember having forgot to save so many times that Resetti gave me a meter of how “not sorry” to “very sorry” I was. I became so stressed trying to guess how sorry he wanted me to be 😭
I had the same problem, and NEVER got past it. I was never able to play the game again as a kid lol, not even my sister who was 7 years older than me could get past it.
When I discovered him as a kid, I actually spent the next half hour resetting again and again to read all his dialogues.
An easter egg hunter huh?
@@Mr.Stripes Aye. My completionism follows me to this day. I just HAVE to see everything.
Sounds like something I would do.
@@JoBot__ Or something I'd do!
MR resetti : " TAKE A BATH. "
the player: " oh ok. " * turns off GameCube without saving to take bath *
Be careful what you wish for, Resetti
I'd bring the gamecube to bath to keep playing
Resseti:
TF2 soldier shovel taunt
@@RareSun Ok, that actually made me laugh. :)
That's what i was thinking
Two things I hate more than anything are being yelled at and getting in trouble for things that aren't my fault, and when you consider that most of the time when I was playing city folk the reason it resetted was because my little brother turned off the Wii you can understand my hatred for such things. My dad thought he was hilarious though and sometimes reset on purpose to see him
LOL your dad is a lad. I love your Danganronpa pfp btw. Chihiro is the GOAT
@@charliekelly735 based
Epic dad
"Are ya winning, son?"
"Well, actually Animal Crossing isn't a competitive game, but I made quite a lot of progress with the museu... hey, dad what are you doing, NOOOO don't press that button!! 😭😭😭😭"
"Ha, Resetti go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! 🤠
Dad based, and you're a crybaby
Honestly, I'd love for someone to do a professional voice dub of all of Mr. Resetti's dialogue. I want them to REALLY do justice at just how utterly *_enraged_* he is, to the point of voice-cracking. He's just one of them characters you can't help but adore due to how unique he is
I imagined that Clancy Brown, who voices Mr. Krabs, would be a great voice actor for Resetti
my immediate thought was sungwon cho, and then my second thought was alex hirsch
@@ilexdiapason Or me. ;)
@@ilexdiapasoni can also see Clancy Brown voicing him
@@ilexdiapasonALEX HIRSCH MENTIONED???
Whoa, guess Resetti doesn't like it when his species is mistaken. Maybe he should yell at Isabelle too. She gives you a statue of him, a mole, to celebrate Groundhog Day... But he is not a groundhog.
...oh yeah! But then again in Population Growing, he doesn't seem to mind that he's summoned out of the ground on, well, Groundhog Day.
I liked how in new leaf you had the option to either not have him and just have Isobel sigh and go "last time you didn't save remember next time :)" or you could put in a public works project and have resetti rant at you. But I liked how it was your choice
It was really hard repeating Resetti's phrase back in the day when I couldn't read. Maybe that's why I didn't know how to save. Or knew what was going on. It's a hard game when you can't read ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Then I think you shouldn't have played text-based games, Animal Crossing is mostly text
@@Davian2073 I just made my sister (who could read) type out Resetti's phrase. Then I was right back to digging holes
@@Davian2073me when i judge children
@@Davian2073 thats the best way to learn
Have you learned how to read yet?
I once had my DS fall out of my hands as I was walking down the stairs.
The DS itself was fine but the cartridge was ejected when it hit the ground, so my game froze and I had to reset. Mr. Resetti was NOT happy 😆
I really wish ACNH would let us turn auto-save off, especially when terraforming so that if we end up hating what we built or regret what we destroyed, we can just reset. I'd happily listen to Mr. Resetti rant after that 😂
"you little curmudgeon I had to reset the dirt by hand"
NOOOO, THE CARTRIDGE 😭
(That was me the first time one of my cartridges fell off my console, the cartridge still worked but the game got all glitchy)
Oh man, that would help so much.
I get that Animal Crossing is intended to be played in a sort of "hardcore mode" where saving is concerned and it's an integral part of the experience but...
In New Leaf (3DS) Resetti wouldn't appear at first and you had to reopen his reset center so he can show up when you reset the game
@@ddnava96He would appear once before building the Reset Center. Just the once, the first time you reset. Before you load your town, he pops in (iirc the floor even opens up so he can emerge from the dirt underneath?), introduces himself, asks what made you reset, then explains his situation to you. Isabelle will add the Reset Surveillance Center to your list of Public Works Projects.
we need a Mr. Resetti redemption arch where the first time he shows up he begins angry then stops himself mid sentence and apologises and says hes been going to anger management or something. I just love his character design he's too cute to leave out!
I think he actually does bring that up when you select the rescue app in New Horizons (I could be mistaken though)
@Pinyaps If you don't actually have the 100 Nook Miles to use the service, he does reveal himself to be Resetti, and he does still rescue you, albeit, he takes you to a Random location, instead of you being able to choose.
@@HappyYomar A random location? How random? I've always thought it strange that he can't drop you off in front of the museum or Able Sisters.
@@Most-sane-deltarune-fan a random location from the options you normally get
@@HappyYomar Oh.
Finally an answer on how nintendo detects saveless resets
Wow it's exactly what I thought it was! I feel like you should've covered how other games did it as well. Feels kinda short only doing one. Besides the dialogue reading of course!
@@Zinkolo It's true this video did end up a tad short; I was really hoping the game's reset counter would overflow or crash so I could do some more in-depth explanations, but unfortunately they capped it. The other games also work pretty identically to the GameCube version so there wasn't a lot else to cover. The GameCube version also has the best Resetti dialogue / scenarios so I focused on that version, along with the player input secret -- though I regret not mentioning that you could actually visit Resetti's surveillance center in the Japanese e+ version.
While this video was somewhat short, next week's video will be longer and feature several very interesting technical explanations, so I hope you look forward to it! Thank you for the comments!
I look forward to it! I really enjoy your content and style man@@Hunter-R.
The long loading time when booting up already confirmed that for me, since AC doesn't need the disc inside to run. It literally keeps the whole game in RAM
I once saw somebody get the "I was bad!" prompt, and he wrote "I was good" instead.
Got a good chuckle out of me.
As a child, my older sister had a friend over who recalled when Resetti "reset her save file".
She cracked her controller and kicked her CRT, hurting her toe badly. The screen returned, and Resetti said "Did you break your controller? Maybe kick your TV?"
And that's how I got my copy of Animal Crossing~! :3
based resetti
People wonder why so many people still prefer the og animal crossing even though it has less features, but stuff like this is exactly why. Mr Resetti along with Phillips and many of the other townsfolk are just so grumpy and rude I LOVE it. It makes talking to people so much more interesting and enjoyable. Many of the new games just have a bunch of boring goody two shoes as neighbors.
idk why but when i saw "Phillips" instead of "Phyllis" i just thought of Phillips CDi lmao
@@atlanticskies oops, autocorrect lol
@@prizm9515 I WONDERED who you meant.
I'm really drawn to this technical side of Animal Crossing. Particularly the GameCube version, as I grew up with it and yet continue to learn more new things about it through this niche but tight community.
I hope to see more from you!
I was scared of Resetti as a kid...
But also grateful, because his presence made sure that I never lost anything because I *ALWAYS* saved to avoid his wrath.
5:42
RESET #8
THE FINAL RESET
-24 Hours Remain-
When i was a kid, my dsi eventually developed a glitch that meant that occasionally it would turn off whenever you tilted the screen using the hinge. Id say anout 50/50 odds. I played wild world. Resetti was so mad at me for NO GOOD REASON. I still flinch whenever i have to adjust the screen on my PERFECTLY FINE 3DS. Im still feeling those effects to this day. Fuck mr resetti, he terrorized my child self.
The first time I ever encountered Resetti was in New Leaf. It was 1 am and I had just returned from Tortimer island. I was tired so I turned my 3ds off and went to sleep. Lo and behold, Resetti greats me the next morn instead of Isabelle. The worst part is I lost 4 golden stag beetles and 3 whale sharks.
Oof... talk about a rude awakening!
I remember when I was about 5, my older brother's character's face was replaced with a gyroid face. He showed it to me and told me that Mr. Resetti did it. It really freaked me out and made me even more terrified/in awe of this crazy mole 😆
Because of that I could've sworn that one of the reset events was him taking your face, but I just googled it and apparently it just happens if you reset while visiting another town
The more you know
I do wish that mr-resetti if the game crashes he says that in this case he's going easy on you since it was a case of where it was against anything you could've done and simply says that this is kinda why you need to save in the first place to ensure that you don't lose much progress
The fakeout one is just evil lmao, I love ACGCN
I used to think he actually hit the villager with his pickaxe during his livid animation. Fun stuff!
I encountered Resetti a LOT in my Wild World days... My cart was corroded and would frequently crash due to poor contacts between the cart and system... Playing WW was always a gamble because it wasn't a matter of if, it was a matter of WHEN it would crash
The first time I met Mr. Resetti was after a power glitch that shut my gamecube off. I was annoyed that he accused me of trying to game the system by resetting the game and to accept the consequences of my actions. After that, I purposefully would reset just to annoy him back. He became one of my most favorite characters after that.
I hated this guy! My ds was defective and the cartridge would sometimes come out, so I had to listen to him way too many times
resetti always scared me because he would not immediately appear but you KNEW he was coming, there was so much dread and there was a brief moment of silence before he popped up. this was enough to make my brain relax and then get startled by him. the first time he appeared it freaked me out.
I was originally afraid of him because I thought he would try something terrible if I angered him enough. These days, I'm rather fond of his character. Rants and all! Also, I like the other side of him where he's a more relaxed individual. Don, of course, is the cherry on top!
fun fact!
in only the EU version of City Folk
resetting too many times (some like 100 times I think)
will actually piss off Resetti to the point where he *actually wipes your save*
@@rydergolde3169 Good gravy! I don't know what to say...
I also love how the first time you meet him each game, he thanks you for buying the game on behalf of Nintendo.
Eh, he's ALLOWED to be meta. He and his brother have passes to be meta!
I've always wondered why they didn't go the extra mile and detect when the player resets multiple times in a row. Now that's sure to upset him.
I first encountered Resetti in New Leaf and felt bad for him when he first appeared and how he apparently lost his job. I looked him up more about him and thought his whole thing was pretty charming. I rarely incurred his wrath afterwards, though I might've done it on accident...
He's be upset with the amount of resetting I've done in New Horizons.
Fun fact: He's an assist trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and he's got some funny interactions. He'll counterattack if he keeps getting attacked and has special dialogue if he goes off-screen.
My dad actually taped a plastic stick over our reset button to prevent us from resetting because we would terrorize each other by threatening to summon Mr. Resetti by hitting the button.
Your dad must've REALLY hated hearing Resetti's signature song and voice.
Hey man, just watched loads of your videos, they're all really cute! Very digestible. I love my hour long decompiling videos, but it's nice also to be able to throw something on when I don't have time to watch something else.
I'm commenting to thank you for the captions on your videos! I have auditory processing issues, and that makes these sorts of videos hard to understand if I'm not 100% focused on them and only them at all times. Captions make my life so much easier in just comprehending what's being told me, so thank you for taking the time out of your day to write and/or include them!
Thank you for the kind words! I also prefer captions on a lot of content I watch, so I always try to include them when possible.
All of these videos are scripted, so it’s not too much work to just copy over the script and adjust the timings to match what I’m saying. But it does probably take an extra hour or so per 10min video - glad it helps! 😄
@@Hunter-R.It's crazy how many people who do scripted content don't even bother to throw the script into the transcript to let the system at least try. I do really appreciate that you put the work in, even if it doesn't feel like much.
Same here, re: auditory processing issues. I always appreciate creators who subtitle their videos, so thank you from me as well!
I like how you had to acknowledge at the end how much work that took. I was thinking the same thing. "He has to save, load, reset, and load again, in order to increase the count by one. That's tedious."
I'm surprised this wasn't covered, but in the GameCube version Resetti once turned my face into Coco's face. My sister and I kept trolling eachother for giggles and would turn the game off on eachother. We were obsessed with Coco, so we weren't mad we were just like WOAH how did we do that!?! I don't know if it was from resetting or if we glitched something. We left the game running for three days because we assumed if we saved and turned the game on it would go back to normal. We were right.
This occurs when you reset while visiting another player’s town through a second memory card. It’s pretty amusing, but wasn’t covered here since Resetti isn’t the one who does this to you. This actually occurs due to the game itself intentionally making you appear that way, but yea it will go back to normal after saving and quitting again.
God I miss Resetti so so much... I remember losing my shit in NL because apparently I had reseted so many times (my old 3ds battery was failing so it would shut off randomly on me a few times) to the point where his brother started to show up instead of him and straight out told me Resetti had gotten so pissed off that his pressure got way too high and was told to just take it easy hence his brother replaced him LOL. Be it Don is waaay more chill about it, but something about practically endangering Mr. Resetti's healthy over resets really got to me.
The shame of it is, they absolutely could have kept Resetti in a similar role in New Horizons, even with auto-save. Because Zarquon knows SOMEone should have been there to slap your wrist for messing with the system clock.
spoilsport lol
His job was to stop people from resetting, not from time traveling. And since nowadays time traveling is an officially recognized way to play by the game itself, there's no way they'd punish it.
@@GameAW1So was resetting. That's why the punishments were comedic rather than punitive.
@@KopperNeoman The difference is though that they always softly (or loudly in Resetti's case) discouraged resetting, even when the mole lost his job. But time travel was never once discouraged beyond what the game would normally do if you took too long to revisit.
@@KopperNeomantell that to all the children who resetti made cry
the resetti edit at the start is so fire
The first day I incurred Resetti's wrath was actually the day I first played AC on Gamecube. I got it on Christmas morning, but sometime in the afternoon there was a freak thundersnow storm, and the lighting was so close, I panicked and shut the game off without saving so I could unplug the Gamecube.
As a kid, I was taught that you should turn off and unplug computers during a thunderstorm, and that this applies to game consoles too. Of course nowadays I'm very lax about it, but I do avoid charging devices during severe weather.
I started playing Animal Crossing recently, mostly GameCube and New Horizons, and while on GameCube for the first time I had a lot of fun making Resetti appear on purpose! I just started wondering how it works a few hours ago and suddenly I find this video without even looking anything up about it! What a crazy coincidence.
5:00 I had no idea, that’s hilarious! I need to try that in one of my videos!
That's awesome! I see you have a lot of content on Mario -- have you had a chance to try out Super Mario Wonder yet?
@@Hunter-R. Not yet! I really love Super Mario, mostly the older games. But since New Horizons is so good I might give Super Mario Wonder a try in the future!
Resetti was discouraging me from playing not only I have to do what I did before my game crashed again but I have to go through resetti's monologue , assuming my game won't crash again
such a cool video! i remember literally crying my eyes out when Resetti did the fake "delete your save data" trick. old crt tvs had that shut off effect and i thought i had lost everything. was hard to consistently save in a household where video games were considered "brain rotting" and "evil" lol
"was hard to consistently save in a household where video games were considered "brain rotting" and "evil" lol" Sorry to hear that.
I always loved mr resetti and found him hilarious. Sometimes I would reset just to see him yell
Resetti will always be one of my favourite game characters *just because* he becomes so angry he breaks the fourth wall
I also was terrified of that guy. Was extremely young and could not speak english (not native) and was always confused what he was on about, but he still was kind of unsettling
"and could not speak english (not native) and was always confused what he was on about" He DOES tend to use a lot of metaphorical language, doesn't he?
@@Most-sane-deltarune-fan probably, don't know anymore, also doesn't quite matter, I was six and *literally* didn't know a single word in english, I just saw an angry guy screaming at me and that was enough lmao
Resetti does appear in new horizons kinda, If you call the rescue service with your nookphone its actually resetti whos running the service. He even mentions autosaving.
True, but that’s such a minimal appearance that I don’t even really consider it one. He isn’t even named in that call!
They did eventually add him in an update and you can use his amiibo to invite him and Don to the Roost for coffee… but still lame he didn’t really appear officially outside of that.
@@Hunter-R. One time I had them show up randomly in The Roost and I relished the moment, because New Horizons is the only version I've ever really played.
...I never saw him again.
@@citrusella-nomorecraptions *gets right up in your face* What time was it?! What DAY was it?!!?
@@Hunter-R. "and you can use his amiibo to invite him and Don to the Roost for coffee… " and do vacation homes for them and bring 'em into Photopia at Harv's island to take cool pictures of them!
i remember i booted up my city folk game once that i played with my sister and i completely lost my village, we had like a save file corruption and we couldnt start a new one.. sad day for the both of us
resetti gave my brother such trauma he smashed his ds cartridge with a hammer while crying
is your brother still traumatized to this day
the first animal crossing game i really got into was new leaf. i did not know how to save, and he just got scarier and scarier to me. eventually i just made my dad open the game and deal with him for me because i could get so anxious and cry lol
I don't remember mr restti being that bad in new leaf O.O I remember there being 2 different options
yeah, i don't think you're thinking of new leaf, because resetti gets fired in new leaf and you have to pay to bring him back, and then when you do then he asks you _why_ you didn't save and if you tell him the power ran out then he lets you off lightly
Lol, I like that calling Resetti a groundhog is one of the things that’s makes him mad.
AND all the other things that set him off.
I remember being super confused by Mr.Resetti as a kid, cause I didn't play animal crossing much and didn't know how to save. Also I tried to mash through his dialogue every time, which just made him angrier.
I used to hate resetti, I had wild world on an r4 card and it would crash a lot, so I constantly had to hear him yell at me for something I didn't even do
Man I loved Resetti, and I miss him! I'd reset on purpose just to see his crazy expressions and hear his rants. 😊
"Get a bath"
Okay, mole. Not like you dig underground and get more dirt on your overalls than Mario gets sewer water on his own.
You know, you made me realise he's a massive hypocrite.
5:13 As a kid, I didn't know how to read or write too well and encountered Resetti when he made you rewrite a phrase. I could not for the life of me repeat exactly what he told me to, for whatever reason, and I cried about it. My older brother ended up doing it for me, lol. I didn't know that Resetti changes what he says depending on how many times you've reset. I guess I reset a lot as a kid
I loved gcb animal crossing, resetti was someone I came across because of power outages and such, and I loved him amongst the other cast members of the first game. I've played every game since. I played New Leaf the most and the wii one the least, but I absolutely loved each game including NH on switch
I will forever and always hold a soft spot for the first one, with all of that uncapped and seemingly experimental attitudes and personalities
My hypothesis (prior to watching video):
- When you load your save file (village), the game saves a small flag that marks the file as unsaved (in application programming, commonly called a "dirty flag", except this one gets stored with the actual save file instead of just being held in active memory)
- This flag is cleared when you save and quit.
- When loading your save file, if the flag was _already_ set, this implies the prior session ended WITHOUT a "save and quit", so Mr.Resetti appears to berate the player.
Clever but technically simple stuff. I remember back when Mario Kart DS launched, it was theorized that when you play online, before the match starts the game pre-saves the outcome as a loss (in case you disconnect/power off), only to replace it with the _actual_ outcome upon completion of the match. There were many flaws in the design of MKDS's online but this was not one of them.
2:00 I actually knew about this way back when. This explains why the game saves when you create a new character, and why it's so short when you do so.
my favorite was resetting while hes yelling or when he makes you say the phrase lol
I rented the Gamecube game, so I read up on "cheats" and tips and after playing for a couple days I time traveled and used an Action Replay. (Since I wouldn't get the full experience unless I bought the game anyway. I never did.) I reset the game on purpose just to see who this character is, and then I checked the "no Resetti" box on the Action Replay. That seemed to have had an opposite effect because he'd appear every time even if I saved.
I thought it was hilarious at first but then I found him really annoying because of how precise I had to be when saying the phrase he wanted me to say. (After telling him that he sucks, of course.) I couldn't even tell what was wrong half the time.
I wonder if the code locked the Resetti bit instead of turning it off? 😂
1:26 "The worst she can say is no."
I checked the timestamp, watched those 1-2 seconds, but still don't understand.
I remember one time turning my DS off by accident and my heart dropping as I knew exactly what was awaiting me when I returned.
Imagine each time you mistype a command in your shell, Mr. Resetti shows up to tell you that you should stop making your shell mad. o.o
Oof... that'd be pretty annoying.
Ironically, my youtube app crashed right at the end of this video. Oh boy, I'll be getting a mouthful from him sooner or later...
Or an email/text/call to complain about what the hell just happened.
I love this mechanic, I just laugh out loud at these cool 4th wall jokes, like resetti introducing himself as a Nintendo employee or turning your screen off
Thank you! I've always wondered how that guy works. That's a cool way of doing it, I wonder if there are any other games that pull similar tricks.
I love how in city folk he is more subtle about his anger but is still insanely pissed off and how you need to walk down from your house door before he jumps out making you think you are safe
That's one sneaky, sneaky, mole!
Not too related to the video, but I love your channel aesthetic and editing! So enjoyable to watch!!
Thank you! Likewise on your New Horizons video! It seems we share some of the same criticisms, but still overall enjoyed that game!
@@Hunter-R.New Horizons will always be "that game I played during covid" so it'll always have that nostalgia factor. But yeah, I wish I enjoyed it more lol
The autosave feature is really useful but it would be cool to see him come up maybe if you time travel? It would probably only work if you go backwards in time further than your last save but it would still be cool to see him outside the coffee shop
Everyone asks "how does resetti work?" Nobody asks "how is resetti?"
what?
@@adamk-paxlogan7330Sucks Basically, people want to know the conditions under which Resetti operates, but nobody ever really stops to consider his mental health or general wellbeing.
I was 14 or so the first time we played Animal Crossing Wild World and even older when we purchased the first Animal Crossing for my youngest sister's GameCube, I never was afraid or annoyed at Resetti. I frequently had his theme song stuck in my head because it's short and easy to remember.
The moment I heard he was going to be gone from the newer AC games, I was sad.
Dude, 14 is old af, at my school you would have been bullied if you admitted to playing these "baby games" at that age. (I should know.)
Like, if you're a freaking teenager you obviously know Resetti is just a character made of code and polygons and that it's something the developers put in to prevent players from cheating. Clearly the kids who were frightened by Resetti were about a decade younger than that and didn't know how to read and spell properly yet, causing them to get stuck in an endless loop of Resetti berating them because they couldn't type in what he wanted. When kids are that young they can't emotionally tell the difference between a game character and a real person yet, so to a child that age it's like actually being yelled at by an adult who won't let them go.
Mr. Reseti lives through Groundhog Day every time you don't save. He is outside of time and space.
He practically lives in the void with Dr WD Gaster, the former Royal Scientist from Undertale and possibly Deltarune!
Because of how resetti works I lost my childhood save in ACWW a few years ago. The game crashed when it was loading the character (Bad connection, got the cartridge was removed message I believe) and after that my save was gone.
So yeah make sure the cart is making a good connection with ACWW before you load the game or you could have a nasty surprise if it crashes when loading.
Resetti was a good idea though, but maybe they went a bit far with how angry he got for a game ment to be played by young kids.
thanks for teaching me how memory works, the lightbulb explanation is good
Even as an adult, this guy scares the hell out of me
Clicked on this video and heard an absolute BANGER instantly
It's funny how such a song can sound so cheerful and ominous at the same time.
A channel dedicated to the original Animal Crossing is the stuff of dreams. Love the videos, keep it up!
Man so much charm. Im replaying GC AC and it just has something the newer entries don't.
Such as custom villagers in Animal Forest e+!
I remember playing a pirated version of the game where Resetti would always show up no matter what.
I hate the fact he exist telling you how to play your game but i envy craftsmenship with which he was made.
I had a real problem with resetti on the DS version of the game. You had a slider, but neither me or my sister could get past it, so my game was essentially bricked. I have to say, resetti has to be the WORST idea any game developer has ever thought of.
Resetti scared the heck out of me on Wild World as a kid - he threatened to delete my save file so I panicked and deleted the villager that hadn't saved to try and protect my file.
"so I panicked and deleted the villager that hadn't saved" Who was it? And do you mean the animal villagers, or the human characters?
@@Most-sane-deltarune-fan the human villager, my other ones hadn't angered Resetti so I thought if I deleted the one he was angry with then he wouldn't delete my entire town
@@VampireofEmotion Smart!
Your footage is so sharp and crisp!
Trivia: If you mash while Resetti is talking, he'll stop just to call you out on it and tell you to stop
Think that only happens in e+, City Folk and New Leaf.
@@nathangitz2674 Apparently, skipping Kapp'n's song in New Horizons has a similar effect.
my guess before watching the video: there is variable in the save data, lets say for example bool didnt_save. when you load the game, it sets the variable to true. then, when you do save & exit, it changes the variable back to false.
So, when you quit the game without saving, the didnt_save variable stays at true. And when loading, the game checks the variable, and if its true, it knows the player reseted or didnt save the game, and shows the resetti message
i thought he actually does reset your game after enough resets, i thought the man was a legend
I saw Resetti all the time as a kid in Wild World because my DS would run out before I could get back to the house and save, and I didn't know you could save by pressing select.
Love the Qumu Mr.Resetti theme lmao
It's very cool.
i love that "Bite Me!" is an unncaceptable phrase to resetti, maybe he dealt with Uzi too much lol
The algorithm decided i for me t's time for animal crossing content again after years, and now I really regret having sold "Wild World" and "Let's Go to the City"
In Wild World as a kid I used to reset on purpose because I thought Resetti was hilarious
It's funny because I only realized what Mr. Resetti's purpose was, like, two days ago where I installed ACNL to do some testing with some cheats. Funny that the video got recommended two days later
I remember Resetti from the OG game. I was so outraged that a game I owned had the nerve to lecture me about how to play it. I stopped playing after that
I do like Resetti in New Leaf, first time I got him (because I played it away from home and the battery died), I do like that he did ask why I reseted with dialogue options to choose from