I still think about the year 2031, when Animal Crossing will no long follow the time of the current hour as 2030 is its maxed-out date on the GameCube. In a sense, I guess that will become lost content.
@@PaulFisher If your GameCube internal clock is ever set above the year 2030, then the year in Animal Crossing will be set to 2030 upon every boot up. You can get Animal Crossing to go to 2031 if you go to New Years Eve in 2030 and let the clock rollover, but once you reset it goes back to 2030.
SAME I love this niche of content, obscure video game trivia is my jam. Even in videos that go in-depth into computer science (something I don't know much about) I'm still fascinated because it's animal crossing related
Exactly, this channel scratches such a precise itch. I'm definitely a poser for loving animal crossing when I've hardly played a single hour myself, but don't let that distract you
11:06 Fun fact: That isn't the only Japan exclusive 7/11 collab in a 3DS game! Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia had a 7/11 collab in which you could get an exclusive sword, shield, and food items
New Horizons actually does have lost content! Pre-2.0 you had to upgrade your museum in order for it to have art. Before the art upgrade it was grey and after it was brown and had red banners. After 2.0, however, building the ACNH museum leads to you getting the art and the red banners right away, to account for the fact that the museum now has a different upgrade, The Roost. However, if you didn’t upgrade to have the art exhibit before 2.0 came out, you can still have the original bannerless museum on your island.
when u brought up the animal crossing calculator app near the end, i screamed because i still have it!!! i transferred it from my dsi onto my 3ds where it currently is today. 11 year old me thought it was novel, and now im glad to say that, over a decade later, im the proud owner of a piece of lost content
I have a really weird memory of when I hacked my Wii and played City Folk... with lightsabers? They were essentially just axes, but with a custom model. Now I'm wondering how people back then got custom models into the game, or how I got them into the game.
Hacked DLC, they called it! Very fun and spread via players visiting your town or vice versa. I remember the Dimentio Mask based on Super Paper Mario and the lightsabers
Okay so the way that DLC worked in Animal Crossing city Folk was that whenever you connected with someone if they had DLC it was loaded into your console permanently permanently. So they figured that out pretty quickly and that meant you could effectively create custom furniture or Tools in this case and everybody would get it even though they weren't officially made
@@orsonzeddThat makes sense, because I remember an interview where Nintendo was talking about how cool it was that fully custom items were being downloaded into the game. The only way that would even work was if the custom items were downloaded to all players!
11:37 reminds me of my vacation to Oslo and Stockholm last November. Both Norway and Sweden are home to 7-Eleven, which makes them the first and so far only countries I've been to which have 7-Eleven. The very first time I ever went to 7-Eleven was in Oslo... on November 7th, which can also be written out as 7/11. This was completely unintentional and I only realized when I saw posters at a different location later that day with text along the lines of "Happy 7-Eleven Day!" So the TLDR: the first time I ever went to 7-Eleven was on 7/11 and I didn't even realize when I did it.
7-Eleven is extremely popular in Japan, as are convenient stores in general. As an American, I largely view them as a standard gas station store, but they go crazy in Japan with the meals and products they provide. Cool to hear about them in other countries as well!
i've been an adult for so long i was starting to forget what it was like when i was a child but videos like this and actually the channel as a whole reminds me of the days of strolling about AC Fansites
2:07 This save data has been preserved on the internet and can be reintroduced to the memory card, and can be edited to give a player any item in the game provided you know how to create the checksum.
Great video as always, but you forgot one thing (or rather, two); Katie and Kaitlin! Another thing I found interesting after reading about the monkey distributions is that after receiving the data, you’d also get a message in a bottle from Katrina that’s specific to each Monkey. Also, they’d say they moved directly from Nintendo!
Ah, for some reason I thought Katie and Kaitlin were only in Wild World where they still have presence in local communication. They are indeed lost from City Folk, which I admittedly haven't played a lot of... Good catch!
Katie and Kaitlin are at least still present in Wild World, given that they will trigger from local multiplayer. But you are correct that they no longer function in City Folk! And while you know, I'm going to provide information for those who are unaware of what they are: Katie and Kaitlin are a pair of special characters, a mother and daughter cat whose presence is tied to multiplayer. After a multiplayer session, a random chance results in the two cats appearing in two separate towns from the players who were connected. Katie, the daughter, cries that she got separated from her mom, and Kaitlin similarly worries about her daughter. The two players need to open their gates again, the player with Kaitlin hosts while the player with Katie needs to physically guide her to the town gate. Once the connection is made, the two leave happily. The player who had Katie receives a present in the mail, but I believe the player with Kaitlin doesn't receive anything. This encounter is unchanged across both Wild World and City Folk, but Wild World can still trigger the encounter via local wireless play. Interestingly, while Katie alone is still in New Leaf, she is still multiplayer-reliant and thus much more difficult to encounter. She can randomly show up in your town after a multiplayer session, and asks to continue seeing the world by visiting other towns. You again have to guide her to the train station and leave for another town, and she'll then mail a present the next day.
When Hunter last uploaded, I stopped mid-performance to watch his video. This time, I'm not on stage, I'm laying in a bed at my grandma's house. There is a strange wind noise, there's a mysterious red light, nothing feels right, it's all weird. However, Hunters uploaded so its fine so yeah thanks hunter love you pookie
new leaf online is the most devastating part abt 3ds losing online. esp considering online in new horizons has literally nothing fun to do unlike new leaf :(
I'll be real with you, besides the Island, New Leaf wasn't that much different to New Horizons when it came to what the game allowed you to do with friends. At least with New Horizon you can modify your island in order to come up with some fun games for your friends.
Me and my childhood best friend LOVED the Wii version and would always giggle when Blanca came to our towns with all sorts scribbled on her face! Now the character is lost to time and I haven’t spoken to that friend in 10 years
I didn't realize that the Dream Suite was no longer usable in New Leaf until I watched this video. I didn't use it much, but I had fond memories of it nonetheless, and it's saddening how I'll never be able to enjoy the entirety of New Leaf again. (Through official means, that is.)
When you mentioned shiny Pokemon events, I had a flashback to how I played Pokemon alone for so long and never looked up anything or interacted with the community, and how I only learned shiny Pokemon are a real rare thing super late in playing. I'd encountered one or two and thought it was a glitch, knocked it out, kept going. Only years later I realized I missed a cool rare thing.
You're not alone. I first encountered a shiny Rattata in Pokemon Gold, saw the sparkles but didn't notice the color change, thought that maybe it would give a bunch of Exp., knocked it out and got disappointed, then didn't think about it any further. Whoops.
I'm pretty sure the only shiny I ever saw was when I was emulating the Japanese version of Gold before it was released in NA and I had no idea what it was until much later. Shoutout to my neighbor's cool older brother who hooked me up with a floppy containing the ROM and NO$GMB.
@@FerinitheBloodHusky Sure was! There were other emulators out there, but I think GBC support in NO$GMB was added in '98 or '99--either way, definitely in time for the November '99 release of Pokémon Gold & Silver in Japan.
9:34 it’s still crazy to me that the only AC game that really got multiplayer play right was New Leaf. Sure, you can make your own fun by visiting other players’ towns in WW, CF, or NH. But NL was the only one where the game gave you actual multiplayer mini games to play, as well as the ability to track how many bugs and fish players catch using the timer item, allowing you to host your own bug/fishing catching contest in your town. I find it particularly egregious that NH doesn’t have anything like this-there’s very little to do when visiting another player’s town! Online multiplayer mini games a la Tortimer Island tours had so much potential and I really hope they return in the next game (whenever that may be).
the Fireworks Table from New Leaf's Spotpass thing is literally my favorite furniture item, and i am still sad that it both didn't return in New Horizons, but also just can't be obtained without save editing or GODLY streetpass luck anymore. it was really cool looking.
Ah, New Leaf online multiplayer. Fond memories. One time I was playing with strangers on the island, chatting, making friends. Then all of a sudden this one girl types out "FIRE THUNDERSTORM" in all caps and a few seconds later I get booted out with the Resetti screen. I think about her constantly.
New Horizons had a quirk found out about it a while ago that, after December 30th 2060, the game will no longer be able to play. Luckily as it stands though, this can be simply be combatted by setting the Switch's internal clock to any earlier year (unlike other cases like the permanent closure of Super Mario Bros. 35)
Love these little deep dives! Something I realized recently is that in ACNH I think the brown museum (the first stage) can no longer be unlocked from a fresh save, as when it's first built it jumps straight to the bigger, white one. Pretty sad I think as I like the development of the museum in animal crossing :(
@@strawberryynoodlesauce But when was this? Because as of the 2.0 update the musuem is supposed to upgrade directly from the tent to the larger, two-story version, with no more in-between stage.
Remember folks. It may seem like cheating, but there's nothing wrong with using unofficial methods to reinstate online functionality to your older systems. There are many games where online exclusive items are able to be distributed again in all number of ways.
And after looking into stryder's disappearance, I'm very glad I clarified "when it comes to content" What I meant was, your videos are very informative and entertaining!
A lot of the New Leaf distributed items as well as items from regional holidays were only available in certain countries, so you had to trade with people from America, various European countries, Korea, and Japan to get everything. (There was also a shirt, the blue argyle tee, that was categorized as a distributed item but never even actually released.) City Folk had some regional items too, but not nearly as many. At least New Horizons lets everyone get stuff from around the world, and I think the specific New Year's items can still be acquired by changing your system time.
I love this channel so much. I'd really like to see you continuing to cover the other Animal Crossing games more (except for New Horizons since there's already a ton of content for it).
Great video, Ive never seen anyone mention the original copy letter in the gamecube game. Just wanted to add something on since I am a bit of a nerd when it comes to animal crossing haha, interestingly new horizons does have another piece of 'lost content' - when the museum updated with artwork in 1.2.0, the player was not automatically granted an updated museum, but instead had to complete a short 'quest' in which they would need to deliver an artwork item to blathers so that he would upgrade. Most people who played the game before this would take no notice of this, thinking this was just another upgrade, however if restarting/creating a new island, the player will skip this quest, meaning that the original museum upgrade is technically unobtainable while playing naturally. just thought this was an interesting piece of lost content, keep up the great videos man
I've been playing WW on the Delta emulator on my phone for a while now and I just got a Nookway. That's pretty disappointing to know that I won't be able to upgrade it any further, since I'm not sure of any ways to get another person to visit my town.
If you have the means, you can export your save and send it to a PC to edit in Nookington’s pretty easily. But it is annoying that you can’t unlock it purely through singleplayer…
I mean, there IS a hack of the game that allows you to get Nookington's through singelplayer. So if you're playing it on emulator, you might want to go seek it out.
Does the Wii U virtual console version use emulator patches or a direct ROM modification to allow the single player unlocking of Nookingtons? ...why that emulator never supported multiplayer is beyond me. Was it timing issues, linking an emulated DS to a physical one?
[sigh] I really really really liked Amiibo Festival. I had like four amiibos and a handful of cards, but I had a blast with it, even playing alone. And everyone despises it so much Q.Q
Love this video! But it's so sad watching and thinking about all things we either missed out on, or no longer can have for either showing up too late, or resetting your town completely
I literally picked up my old wild world two days ago and while doing a checklist i discovered the nintendo-themed furniture that is now unobtainable yesterday, never even knew they were a thing despite frequenting an acww site at the time (but also i was like.... 10) 😔I also picked up nl way later and i got only a few of the spotpass items (and some zodiac furniture gifted to me by a friend), as someone that likes to complete lists i wish they wouldnt let you rely on internet for a limited time to own all of the objects in a videogame!!! let me get the funny 100%!!!
It’s not animal crossing but the legend of Zelda phantom hourglass lost multiplayer and trading treasure and ship parts to time because online play is gone
Hey Hunter, do you know if there's a public Discord server or something for N64/Gamecube Animal Crossing modding, research, and decompilation? I seem to recall hearing somewhere that that was a thing, and I wanted to join and lurk around, but I couldn't find anything online.
There is actually some lost content in New Horizons; early versions (I think pre 1.3) had some mystery islands that had hybrid flowers on them, but now they're completely inaccessible
hey hunter!! you always mention that u can’t officially mention things, is there any reason u don’t name platforms like Wiimmfi, RiiConnect or Pretendo?
I am very aware of their existence, and I’ve talked about a few services before. I’ll touch more on such services in the future, but this video was simply an overview of content that remains inaccessible through “official” means. I’ll add a little asterisk in the description.
what the hell was up with Nintendo being extremely aware of the limited/lost nature of old proprietary stuff during the WiiU's virtual console stuff? i thought the only thing they did was add in all the e-reader only levels in that one SMB3 game, but they went out of their for something like removing the online requirement for Wild World too? and yet when it came to Mario Party, they just didnt port the first game because i guess they didnt want to mess with trying to fix the controls and didnt want to allow people to ruin their hand or controller. and then Switch comes along and none of that thoughtfulness is present, especially any of the Mario Party 1 stuff.
Now that you touched on DLC content for City Folk, hope you can cover the topic of HDLC in that game, and its peculiar way of "transmitting" between players.
first off-earliest i’ve ever been to a Hunter R. video! excited! second! this video was awesome! i love all of your videos anyway, but as a viewer you can *really* feel the fun in your voice and presentation - and the jokes hit really well for me! (the Wii U joke near the end cut me to pieces) and also i was excited to see a sponsor, too! i can’t remember if there’s been one of those before, but congrats!
Considering most holiday events and the like aren't actually included in New Horizons' data, and have to be downloaded from Nintendo's servers, that makes the holiday events temporary content - once the NH servers are shut down, which they inevitably will be, holidays will likely be gone for good. Yet another reason why I refuse to play NH.
I actually have an extremely specific memory about play Excitebike in animal crossing when I was very young. Crazy to think that all this time later I'd find out how I actually was able to do that! (We had the animal crossing memory card when my parents bought me the game, that's how)
Hey, speaking of the online items distributed with City Folk, have you ever considered talking about the modded items that could replace them? I recall hearing these items, once modded in, could be seen online by other players and even spread to them because it directly replaced items in that distribution table. I'm not sure if I have all my facts correct, but that's what I remember reading. I'm also not sure if you've covered it or would plan to cover it, but I'd also be interested in hearing you cover the phenomenon of seeding if you haven't. I know it effected Wild World's online multiplayer as entire cartridges could be permanently ruined, without outside help to fix it, if a hacker decided to over populate someone's town with specific buildings to the point of crashing the game at start up.
I love your videos now, so I subscribed. I also want to mention that there are two villagers from the original Animal Crossing for the GameCube in Japan that are now lost from the cards: Meow and Bow. They are based on a Japanese dog/cat translator toy.
club tortimer in new leaf is defunct. there are some island shop items that are only in the club tortimer shop and im p sure you cant even go to the island using the club tortimer option at kappn's boat
I’ll bring it back in the next video since a few people have mentioned they liked it. My past couple uploads excluded it due to a few comments that preferred having no intro and just getting right into the video.
You know i just realized i still have my copy of wild world since i was a kid but problem is i have nothing to play it on. so its my personal lost media to me.
I also enjoyed it, but I've heard mixed reactions on it... Enough comments have said that I should skip the little intro and just jump right into the video, so I've been trying that in my last couple uploads. But if people do enjoy it, then maybe I'll bring it back... 🤔
@@Hunter-R. Please consider bringing it back! Even if some people do skip intros, the jingle isn't more than 4 seconds long and is one of those things that I can relate to this channel! Like, there are some people that do AC related content. But at this point the jingle is one of those Hunter related things! At least for me ^^; Either way if you do decide to keep it or not I'll still enjoy your videos as always ^^
I actually had a 'hacker' friend on City Folk and she gave me all the regional, unused, and otherwise secret or hard-to-acquire items. She was pretty nice but we lost touch in the transition from 3DS to Wii U onward. I've still got my original Wii/Wii U and CF town along with all these items, I might even have spares of quite a few of them. The throwing beans, Arwing, Pikmin sprouts, 7/11 set, region exclusives, the Nintendo stuffs, the DLCs- it's all there. Sadly I was never able to collect all of New Leaf's exclusive items.
Apparently what could happen was a sick villager could be chosen to move out and you could miss the days to tell them to stay, thereby meaning you couldn't stop them. Odd that they decided to delete sickness as a feature rather than adding a check that sick villagers couldn't be selected to move out
in the videos wild world always looks good and the framerate looks pretty solid. Everytime i play my ds version it's nothing like that. Do people always use the wiiU version?
I completely forgot about that letter, but this brought back the memory. I had no idea it was tied to the memory card; I still have said card, but obviously the special data was used up long ago. The random games that got picked were Balloon Fight and DK Jr. Math.
In case you'd like the info before any potential video about it: The Animal Crossing Plaza was a unique app that effectively acted as an extension of Miiverse. In imitation of the Wii U's main menu "WaraWara Plaza", several dozen characters would walk around a town square and occasionally provide snippets of dialog. Tapping on a villager would allow you to either make a post about that villager to the Animal Crossing Miiverse community, or browse others' posts tagged with that villager. You could also simply view that community through that app's bulletin board, in addition to updates about Animal Crossing from official channels. Every single villager and special character present in New Leaf was present in the Plaza, though the game loaded random ones every time the app was started. There were also polls allowing the users to vote on monthly topics like "Who would make the best boss?" or "Who would you trust your secrets to?". Funnily enough, Isabelle literally won every single poll across the entire 13 months of the feature's existence. The app still functioned even after being delisted from the eShop, but lost all functionality once Miiverse ended.
I mean, with the usage of the Kaeru WFC DNS server, you don't even need a hacked system to get things like Nintendo WFC back on a 3DS or DS/DSi system. All it takes is changing the DNS of your wifi connection in the connection settings and signing on. That helps keep systems like Wild World going, even if it's a third party solution.
In New Leaf, unless you have a copy of the game without the Welcome Amiibo update on it, you will never see sick villagers. The possibility of villagers getting sick and needing medicine was removed from the game.. for some reason.
Hunter R, thank you so much for making videos. I'm autistic, and animal crossing is one of my special interests. Most other channels recite the same facts over and over again and say they're facts I "probably didn't know" but you actually tell me things I DIDNT know, and I'm super grateful for that (i think a lot of it comes from the fact that you mostly talk about the very first animal crossing which seems to be one of the games that isn't talked about as much as the others)
I'm surprised you havent talk about how they were other sponsor villager in Happy home designer (I only rebember a cat from Monster hunter but surely they were other)
The Monster Hunter crossover, as well as the Felyne villager, is still accessible in the game by scanning certain Monster Hunter amiibo. But, you’re right in that I probably should’ve mentioned it!
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TELL US THE TIME NEXT TIME
I still think about the year 2031, when Animal Crossing will no long follow the time of the current hour as 2030 is its maxed-out date on the GameCube. In a sense, I guess that will become lost content.
6.5 years remain... 🕗
Dawn of the 1,609th Day
Technically a mod that adds an offset to the date is not that unheard of.
Will the year in the GameCube roll over to an earlier date, or does it keep going but you can no longer manually *set* the date beyond 2030!
@@PaulFisher If your GameCube internal clock is ever set above the year 2030, then the year in Animal Crossing will be set to 2030 upon every boot up. You can get Animal Crossing to go to 2031 if you go to New Years Eve in 2030 and let the clock rollover, but once you reset it goes back to 2030.
This channel is like the equivalent of a kid going into a candy store for me… animal crossing, lost media, and glitches… I’m in heaven lol
I ❤ HUNTER R.!!!!!!!
SAME I love this niche of content, obscure video game trivia is my jam. Even in videos that go in-depth into computer science (something I don't know much about) I'm still fascinated because it's animal crossing related
i'm not as interested in animal crossing as i used to be, but same i really like lost media and glitches
Took the words out of my mouth!
Exactly, this channel scratches such a precise itch. I'm definitely a poser for loving animal crossing when I've hardly played a single hour myself, but don't let that distract you
11:06 Fun fact: That isn't the only Japan exclusive 7/11 collab in a 3DS game! Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia had a 7/11 collab in which you could get an exclusive sword, shield, and food items
idk much about fire emblem but imagine being in a war and dying to a dude with a fucking 7/11 sword
Similarly on the Switch, Splatoon 2 had some 7/11 clothing exclusive to Japan.
New Horizons actually does have lost content! Pre-2.0 you had to upgrade your museum in order for it to have art. Before the art upgrade it was grey and after it was brown and had red banners. After 2.0, however, building the ACNH museum leads to you getting the art and the red banners right away, to account for the fact that the museum now has a different upgrade, The Roost. However, if you didn’t upgrade to have the art exhibit before 2.0 came out, you can still have the original bannerless museum on your island.
that and the removed islands
@@Libby-Phantom ofc how could I forget
Also the dialouges when you scanned special character's amiibos at the terminal!
I’m a little surprised you took a sponsorship from a meal company. I would have expected you to be a Hunter-gatherer.
Get out.
Hunter (gathere)R.
@@Zowayix93 that is usually where hunting and gathering take place, yes
oh my GOD
when u brought up the animal crossing calculator app near the end, i screamed because i still have it!!! i transferred it from my dsi onto my 3ds where it currently is today. 11 year old me thought it was novel, and now im glad to say that, over a decade later, im the proud owner of a piece of lost content
Not so lost that it can't be found on places like hshop, mind you.
I have a really weird memory of when I hacked my Wii and played City Folk... with lightsabers? They were essentially just axes, but with a custom model. Now I'm wondering how people back then got custom models into the game, or how I got them into the game.
Hacked DLC, they called it! Very fun and spread via players visiting your town or vice versa. I remember the Dimentio Mask based on Super Paper Mario and the lightsabers
@@bobbob1876 Hacked DLC sounds familiar, but no one ever visited my town or vice versa, and I can't remember how I got it.
YES! I still have my save file with lightsaber axes, a guitar axe, the dimentio mask and pokeballs that were a reskin of the triple red shells
Okay so the way that DLC worked in Animal Crossing city Folk was that whenever you connected with someone if they had DLC it was loaded into your console permanently permanently. So they figured that out pretty quickly and that meant you could effectively create custom furniture or Tools in this case and everybody would get it even though they weren't officially made
@@orsonzeddThat makes sense, because I remember an interview where Nintendo was talking about how cool it was that fully custom items were being downloaded into the game. The only way that would even work was if the custom items were downloaded to all players!
11:37 reminds me of my vacation to Oslo and Stockholm last November. Both Norway and Sweden are home to 7-Eleven, which makes them the first and so far only countries I've been to which have 7-Eleven. The very first time I ever went to 7-Eleven was in Oslo... on November 7th, which can also be written out as 7/11. This was completely unintentional and I only realized when I saw posters at a different location later that day with text along the lines of "Happy 7-Eleven Day!"
So the TLDR: the first time I ever went to 7-Eleven was on 7/11 and I didn't even realize when I did it.
7-Eleven is extremely popular in Japan, as are convenient stores in general. As an American, I largely view them as a standard gas station store, but they go crazy in Japan with the meals and products they provide.
Cool to hear about them in other countries as well!
Your obvious next step is to visit the US in mid-July, so you’re here for 7/11!
@@PaulFisher Banger idea.
I like how you paused for the (no name) name at the patreon credits
Animal Crossing had a track in Mario Kart 8, if you wanna count that in "AC content on Wii U"
In that vein, Smash 4
That's not exactly lost though due to Deluxe existing on switch
It’s very difficult to remember any of your life problems when you’re watching Hunter R.
Using a rake to cover them up and then later coming back to take them away
i've been an adult for so long i was starting to forget what it was like when i was a child but videos like this and actually the channel as a whole reminds me of the days of strolling about AC Fansites
2:07 This save data has been preserved on the internet and can be reintroduced to the memory card, and can be edited to give a player any item in the game provided you know how to create the checksum.
Your videos are like crack but legal
wow 100k subs
i listen to ken carson tho
Hopefully the 2.0 update for NH will be put onto carts, otherwise we'll be stuck with only half a game when the update servers get shut down
that's why I'm thankful to the hack of the console allowing to preserve the digital updates.
At the very least the Switch lets you download the update from other consoles if you can get in the same room as someone who has the patch downloaded
Great video as always, but you forgot one thing (or rather, two); Katie and Kaitlin!
Another thing I found interesting after reading about the monkey distributions is that after receiving the data, you’d also get a message in a bottle from Katrina that’s specific to each Monkey. Also, they’d say they moved directly from Nintendo!
Ah, for some reason I thought Katie and Kaitlin were only in Wild World where they still have presence in local communication. They are indeed lost from City Folk, which I admittedly haven't played a lot of... Good catch!
Katie and Kaitlin are at least still present in Wild World, given that they will trigger from local multiplayer. But you are correct that they no longer function in City Folk!
And while you know, I'm going to provide information for those who are unaware of what they are:
Katie and Kaitlin are a pair of special characters, a mother and daughter cat whose presence is tied to multiplayer. After a multiplayer session, a random chance results in the two cats appearing in two separate towns from the players who were connected. Katie, the daughter, cries that she got separated from her mom, and Kaitlin similarly worries about her daughter. The two players need to open their gates again, the player with Kaitlin hosts while the player with Katie needs to physically guide her to the town gate. Once the connection is made, the two leave happily. The player who had Katie receives a present in the mail, but I believe the player with Kaitlin doesn't receive anything.
This encounter is unchanged across both Wild World and City Folk, but Wild World can still trigger the encounter via local wireless play. Interestingly, while Katie alone is still in New Leaf, she is still multiplayer-reliant and thus much more difficult to encounter. She can randomly show up in your town after a multiplayer session, and asks to continue seeing the world by visiting other towns. You again have to guide her to the train station and leave for another town, and she'll then mail a present the next day.
When Hunter last uploaded, I stopped mid-performance to watch his video. This time, I'm not on stage, I'm laying in a bed at my grandma's house. There is a strange wind noise, there's a mysterious red light, nothing feels right, it's all weird.
However, Hunters uploaded so its fine so yeah thanks hunter love you pookie
I’m glad at least that pretendo (should) be able to bring up ACNL
new leaf online is the most devastating part abt 3ds losing online. esp considering online in new horizons has literally nothing fun to do unlike new leaf :(
Was just coming here to say this- playing new leaf online with friends was such a a fond memory for me, I'm sad that I can't relive it
Maybe Pretendo has it now?
@@frost5958actually It'll take some time but ACNL is one of their priorities
I'll be real with you, besides the Island, New Leaf wasn't that much different to New Horizons when it came to what the game allowed you to do with friends. At least with New Horizon you can modify your island in order to come up with some fun games for your friends.
Me and my childhood best friend LOVED the Wii version and would always giggle when Blanca came to our towns with all sorts scribbled on her face! Now the character is lost to time and I haven’t spoken to that friend in 10 years
I didn't realize that the Dream Suite was no longer usable in New Leaf until I watched this video. I didn't use it much, but I had fond memories of it nonetheless, and it's saddening how I'll never be able to enjoy the entirety of New Leaf again. (Through official means, that is.)
When you mentioned shiny Pokemon events, I had a flashback to how I played Pokemon alone for so long and never looked up anything or interacted with the community, and how I only learned shiny Pokemon are a real rare thing super late in playing. I'd encountered one or two and thought it was a glitch, knocked it out, kept going. Only years later I realized I missed a cool rare thing.
You're not alone. I first encountered a shiny Rattata in Pokemon Gold, saw the sparkles but didn't notice the color change, thought that maybe it would give a bunch of Exp., knocked it out and got disappointed, then didn't think about it any further. Whoops.
I'm pretty sure the only shiny I ever saw was when I was emulating the Japanese version of Gold before it was released in NA and I had no idea what it was until much later. Shoutout to my neighbor's cool older brother who hooked me up with a floppy containing the ROM and NO$GMB.
@@HandoruKiipa gameboy color emulation was possible then?
@@FerinitheBloodHusky Sure was! There were other emulators out there, but I think GBC support in NO$GMB was added in '98 or '99--either way, definitely in time for the November '99 release of Pokémon Gold & Silver in Japan.
I miss New Horizon's Hyacinth Islands that you could get with Nook MilesnTickets
9:34 it’s still crazy to me that the only AC game that really got multiplayer play right was New Leaf. Sure, you can make your own fun by visiting other players’ towns in WW, CF, or NH. But NL was the only one where the game gave you actual multiplayer mini games to play, as well as the ability to track how many bugs and fish players catch using the timer item, allowing you to host your own bug/fishing catching contest in your town. I find it particularly egregious that NH doesn’t have anything like this-there’s very little to do when visiting another player’s town! Online multiplayer mini games a la Tortimer Island tours had so much potential and I really hope they return in the next game (whenever that may be).
the Fireworks Table from New Leaf's Spotpass thing is literally my favorite furniture item, and i am still sad that it both didn't return in New Horizons, but also just can't be obtained without save editing or GODLY streetpass luck anymore. it was really cool looking.
dude getting off work on a friday afternoon and being treated to new animal crossing content from you is the best feeling
Ah, New Leaf online multiplayer. Fond memories. One time I was playing with strangers on the island, chatting, making friends.
Then all of a sudden this one girl types out "FIRE THUNDERSTORM" in all caps and a few seconds later I get booted out with the Resetti screen.
I think about her constantly.
I can't play some new games due to this. I hate mobas because I can't get every skin.
New Horizons had a quirk found out about it a while ago that, after December 30th 2060, the game will no longer be able to play. Luckily as it stands though, this can be simply be combatted by setting the Switch's internal clock to any earlier year (unlike other cases like the permanent closure of Super Mario Bros. 35)
Love these little deep dives! Something I realized recently is that in ACNH I think the brown museum (the first stage) can no longer be unlocked from a fresh save, as when it's first built it jumps straight to the bigger, white one. Pretty sad I think as I like the development of the museum in animal crossing :(
What?? I got the brown one
@@strawberryynoodlesauce The one with no upstairs?
@@BeNotNormal yeah I don’t think it had upstairs
@@strawberryynoodlesauce But when was this? Because as of the 2.0 update the musuem is supposed to upgrade directly from the tent to the larger, two-story version, with no more in-between stage.
@@BeNotNormal This was last week. Maybe I’m remembering wrong… I have to check later lol
Remember folks. It may seem like cheating, but there's nothing wrong with using unofficial methods to reinstate online functionality to your older systems. There are many games where online exclusive items are able to be distributed again in all number of ways.
You're like the Stryder7x of animal crossing when it comes to content. Love every upload
And after looking into stryder's disappearance, I'm very glad I clarified "when it comes to content"
What I meant was, your videos are very informative and entertaining!
Your content is so high quality, I'm happy you got sponsored, your content makes me really want to play GameCube Animal Crossing
Can't watch right now cause I barely have service, but thank you for uploading king 🙏
It might be interesting to make a video about beta/pre-release content... some of the differences are pretty crazy, especially in WW
An excellent small channel. We will watch your career with great interest
A lot of the New Leaf distributed items as well as items from regional holidays were only available in certain countries, so you had to trade with people from America, various European countries, Korea, and Japan to get everything. (There was also a shirt, the blue argyle tee, that was categorized as a distributed item but never even actually released.)
City Folk had some regional items too, but not nearly as many. At least New Horizons lets everyone get stuff from around the world, and I think the specific New Year's items can still be acquired by changing your system time.
I love this channel so much.
I'd really like to see you continuing to cover the other Animal Crossing games more (except for New Horizons since there's already a ton of content for it).
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Great video, Ive never seen anyone mention the original copy letter in the gamecube game.
Just wanted to add something on since I am a bit of a nerd when it comes to animal crossing haha, interestingly new horizons does have another piece of 'lost content' - when the museum updated with artwork in 1.2.0, the player was not automatically granted an updated museum, but instead had to complete a short 'quest' in which they would need to deliver an artwork item to blathers so that he would upgrade. Most people who played the game before this would take no notice of this, thinking this was just another upgrade, however if restarting/creating a new island, the player will skip this quest, meaning that the original museum upgrade is technically unobtainable while playing naturally. just thought this was an interesting piece of lost content, keep up the great videos man
I've been playing WW on the Delta emulator on my phone for a while now and I just got a Nookway. That's pretty disappointing to know that I won't be able to upgrade it any further, since I'm not sure of any ways to get another person to visit my town.
If you have the means, you can export your save and send it to a PC to edit in Nookington’s pretty easily. But it is annoying that you can’t unlock it purely through singleplayer…
if you play on emulator, then you can probably memory edit something to unlock it.
I mean, there IS a hack of the game that allows you to get Nookington's through singelplayer. So if you're playing it on emulator, you might want to go seek it out.
Does the Wii U virtual console version use emulator patches or a direct ROM modification to allow the single player unlocking of Nookingtons?
...why that emulator never supported multiplayer is beyond me. Was it timing issues, linking an emulated DS to a physical one?
I actually unlocked the Train Station Upgrade in New Leaf only through local play
Amiibo Festival video when
[sigh] I really really really liked Amiibo Festival. I had like four amiibos and a handful of cards, but I had a blast with it, even playing alone. And everyone despises it so much Q.Q
thankfully the special memory card data has been archived so you can put it on any memory card.
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Love this video! But it's so sad watching and thinking about all things we either missed out on, or no longer can have for either showing up too late, or resetting your town completely
Woooo! Lost content in games has always intrested me so im glad you talked about it in animal crossing!
I literally picked up my old wild world two days ago and while doing a checklist i discovered the nintendo-themed furniture that is now unobtainable yesterday, never even knew they were a thing despite frequenting an acww site at the time (but also i was like.... 10) 😔I also picked up nl way later and i got only a few of the spotpass items (and some zodiac furniture gifted to me by a friend), as someone that likes to complete lists i wish they wouldnt let you rely on internet for a limited time to own all of the objects in a videogame!!! let me get the funny 100%!!!
The only way to play Animal Crossing online now is to play New Horizons and buy the $20 annual pass. So sad.
The only official* way
There's still ways to play online with homebrew
@@neevko267 im gonna have to homebrew my console at some point. paying to play your console online with friends is ridiculous
@@neevko267 Capitalist market innovation is great. Especially when the capitalists in question give it away for free. :)
It’s not animal crossing but the legend of Zelda phantom hourglass lost multiplayer and trading treasure and ship parts to time because online play is gone
thank god we finally got some wii connection reworking and pretendo.
Hey Hunter, do you know if there's a public Discord server or something for N64/Gamecube Animal Crossing modding, research, and decompilation? I seem to recall hearing somewhere that that was a thing, and I wanted to join and lurk around, but I couldn't find anything online.
Babe wake up, another batch of the Hunter R drug is out
There is actually some lost content in New Horizons; early versions (I think pre 1.3) had some mystery islands that had hybrid flowers on them, but now they're completely inaccessible
hey hunter!! you always mention that u can’t officially mention things, is there any reason u don’t name platforms like Wiimmfi, RiiConnect or Pretendo?
I am very aware of their existence, and I’ve talked about a few services before. I’ll touch more on such services in the future, but this video was simply an overview of content that remains inaccessible through “official” means.
I’ll add a little asterisk in the description.
FWIW, RiiConnect24 is now basically entirely WiiLink. (I hear the RC24 guy shot himself in the foot or something)
i will miss going to the dream suite and just going thru weird towns
what the hell was up with Nintendo being extremely aware of the limited/lost nature of old proprietary stuff during the WiiU's
virtual console stuff? i thought the only thing they did was add in all the e-reader only levels in that one SMB3 game,
but they went out of their for something like removing the online requirement for Wild World too?
and yet when it came to Mario Party, they just didnt port the first game because i guess they didnt want to mess
with trying to fix the controls and didnt want to allow people to ruin their hand or controller.
and then Switch comes along and none of that thoughtfulness is present, especially any of the Mario Party 1 stuff.
Now that you touched on DLC content for City Folk, hope you can cover the topic of HDLC in that game, and its peculiar way of "transmitting" between players.
first off-earliest i’ve ever been to a Hunter R. video! excited!
second! this video was awesome! i love all of your videos anyway, but as a viewer you can *really* feel the fun in your voice and presentation - and the jokes hit really well for me! (the Wii U joke near the end cut me to pieces) and also i was excited to see a sponsor, too! i can’t remember if there’s been one of those before, but congrats!
Considering most holiday events and the like aren't actually included in New Horizons' data, and have to be downloaded from Nintendo's servers, that makes the holiday events temporary content - once the NH servers are shut down, which they inevitably will be, holidays will likely be gone for good.
Yet another reason why I refuse to play NH.
I actually have an extremely specific memory about play Excitebike in animal crossing when I was very young.
Crazy to think that all this time later I'd find out how I actually was able to do that!
(We had the animal crossing memory card when my parents bought me the game, that's how)
Hey, speaking of the online items distributed with City Folk, have you ever considered talking about the modded items that could replace them? I recall hearing these items, once modded in, could be seen online by other players and even spread to them because it directly replaced items in that distribution table. I'm not sure if I have all my facts correct, but that's what I remember reading.
I'm also not sure if you've covered it or would plan to cover it, but I'd also be interested in hearing you cover the phenomenon of seeding if you haven't. I know it effected Wild World's online multiplayer as entire cartridges could be permanently ruined, without outside help to fix it, if a hacker decided to over populate someone's town with specific buildings to the point of crashing the game at start up.
I love your videos now, so I subscribed. I also want to mention that there are two villagers from the original Animal Crossing for the GameCube in Japan that are now lost from the cards: Meow and Bow. They are based on a Japanese dog/cat translator toy.
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club tortimer in new leaf is defunct. there are some island shop items that are only in the club tortimer shop and im p sure you cant even go to the island using the club tortimer option at kappn's boat
Lll... Lost media??*insert maltigee here*
Been watching you since 2023. You hooked me to the bit flip videos. Youve earned a sub🎉
Still loving the content, but why no more intro? Always felt like a lovely starter to the videos
I’ll bring it back in the next video since a few people have mentioned they liked it. My past couple uploads excluded it due to a few comments that preferred having no intro and just getting right into the video.
You know i just realized i still have my copy of wild world since i was a kid but problem is i have nothing to play it on. so its my personal lost media to me.
I'm pretty sure its also impossible to get the silver axe in new leaf now, due to it only appearing in the online tortimer island lobbies
Don't be a coward; you better cover Amiibo Festival someday. We are all wanting it >:3
Werent Kate and Katie both only available through visiting other towns in City Folk?
Wait what happened to the jingle at the beginning of the video? I really liked it :c
I also enjoyed it, but I've heard mixed reactions on it... Enough comments have said that I should skip the little intro and just jump right into the video, so I've been trying that in my last couple uploads. But if people do enjoy it, then maybe I'll bring it back... 🤔
@@Hunter-R. Please consider bringing it back! Even if some people do skip intros, the jingle isn't more than 4 seconds long and is one of those things that I can relate to this channel! Like, there are some people that do AC related content. But at this point the jingle is one of those Hunter related things! At least for me ^^;
Either way if you do decide to keep it or not I'll still enjoy your videos as always ^^
@@Hunter-R. or you can do like some other youtubers, put it between the intro and the video. (so at 0:40 here)
Filly must have not been cut out for the hero business... but found a job that let them keep the helmet! XD
I love your channel and animal crossing and i hope more people can find your channel
Ooo Lost Content! I love lost content! Was waiting for the video to drop and it's definitely worth the wait
I actually had a 'hacker' friend on City Folk and she gave me all the regional, unused, and otherwise secret or hard-to-acquire items. She was pretty nice but we lost touch in the transition from 3DS to Wii U onward.
I've still got my original Wii/Wii U and CF town along with all these items, I might even have spares of quite a few of them. The throwing beans, Arwing, Pikmin sprouts, 7/11 set, region exclusives, the Nintendo stuffs, the DLCs- it's all there.
Sadly I was never able to collect all of New Leaf's exclusive items.
Always looking forward to your next video 👀
i love the "amiibo festival isn't real and can't hurt me" moment lmao
Can you show off cool hacked towns using ACSE?
One thing I miss is the sick villages in New Leaf. For some reason the welcome amiibo update made villagers never get sick.
Apparently what could happen was a sick villager could be chosen to move out and you could miss the days to tell them to stay, thereby meaning you couldn't stop them. Odd that they decided to delete sickness as a feature rather than adding a check that sick villagers couldn't be selected to move out
is it possible to have a unclaimed gcn bonus letter and back it up with homebrew and have infinite copies?
Yep. That’s what I did for this video!
3:07 you talking about new horizons shocked me I actually did a spit take
in the videos wild world always looks good and the framerate looks pretty solid. Everytime i play my ds version it's nothing like that. Do people always use the wiiU version?
Or emulation. DS is very slow and bad graphics
I completely forgot about that letter, but this brought back the memory. I had no idea it was tied to the memory card; I still have said card, but obviously the special data was used up long ago. The random games that got picked were Balloon Fight and DK Jr. Math.
Can you talk about that Wii u Animal Crossing Plaza??? I had it on my Wii u but I don't remember a single thing about it...
In case you'd like the info before any potential video about it:
The Animal Crossing Plaza was a unique app that effectively acted as an extension of Miiverse. In imitation of the Wii U's main menu "WaraWara Plaza", several dozen characters would walk around a town square and occasionally provide snippets of dialog. Tapping on a villager would allow you to either make a post about that villager to the Animal Crossing Miiverse community, or browse others' posts tagged with that villager. You could also simply view that community through that app's bulletin board, in addition to updates about Animal Crossing from official channels. Every single villager and special character present in New Leaf was present in the Plaza, though the game loaded random ones every time the app was started.
There were also polls allowing the users to vote on monthly topics like "Who would make the best boss?" or "Who would you trust your secrets to?". Funnily enough, Isabelle literally won every single poll across the entire 13 months of the feature's existence. The app still functioned even after being delisted from the eShop, but lost all functionality once Miiverse ended.
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9:13 wiilink, baby
I mean, with the usage of the Kaeru WFC DNS server, you don't even need a hacked system to get things like Nintendo WFC back on a 3DS or DS/DSi system. All it takes is changing the DNS of your wifi connection in the connection settings and signing on. That helps keep systems like Wild World going, even if it's a third party solution.
Someone say "amiibo"?
Festival... I hear Scott the Woz screaming from Ohio
In New Leaf, unless you have a copy of the game without the Welcome Amiibo update on it, you will never see sick villagers. The possibility of villagers getting sick and needing medicine was removed from the game.. for some reason.
Hunter R, thank you so much for making videos. I'm autistic, and animal crossing is one of my special interests. Most other channels recite the same facts over and over again and say they're facts I "probably didn't know" but you actually tell me things I DIDNT know, and I'm super grateful for that (i think a lot of it comes from the fact that you mostly talk about the very first animal crossing which seems to be one of the games that isn't talked about as much as the others)
YAY i finally caught a new hunter r upload as it happens
I'm surprised you havent talk about how they were other sponsor villager in Happy home designer (I only rebember a cat from Monster hunter but surely they were other)
The Monster Hunter crossover, as well as the Felyne villager, is still accessible in the game by scanning certain Monster Hunter amiibo. But, you’re right in that I probably should’ve mentioned it!
@@Hunter-R. Damn I didnt know that , well thanks good to know
Something I miss so much in NH is the rare flower island :( I don’t know why they removed it, but it was by far my most favorite island
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