@@Bigjar420 long ago, there was a teleportation glitch in Mario 64 discovered by a speedrunner that had never been seen anywhere in the game before. There was a bounty for the glitch, with a money prize for whoever successfully recreated it. But then, as it turns out, the glitch was caused by... *a cosmic ray from outer space!?* Sometimes the radiation of outer space can cause some glitches to occur in machinery by flipping a bit of the ones and zeros in the code, and that cosmic ray was exactly how Mario somehow teleported in that speedrun. Crazy shit
@@muf1nl0rd How did they prove that was the cause? There are so many ways for computer hardware to accidentally flip a bit, and cosmic ray seems like an extremely unlikely way lol. I'd love to know more about how they figured this out.
@@banana9494 afaik cosmic rays were just a theory, all that we know about what happened is that it was a random glitch seemingly caused by nothing and couldn't be reproduced. So presumably what happened is that a bit randomly got flipped, which could be caused by many things, but cosmic rays actually can cause that and it's apparently not super uncommon. According to google, cosmic radiation, fluctuations in power, and fluctuations in temperature are the most common causes of bit flips. You'd think it'd be super rare but cosmic radiation hits us all the time, apparently 5% of our annual radiation exposure is from cosmic rays (also according to google, im not a scientist lol). So yeah cosmic rays are as good a theory as anything else.
This feels like the kind of thing that if you did legit back in the day and sent in proof the company or game's designer would send you a letter and a gift card
that corruption segment was the most stressed i've ever been while watching a youtube video. goddamn, dude. this is a phenomenal run and an equally phenomenal video. thank you for your dedication!
My mom was super dedicated to the GameCube version and did get the post model legitimately after literally years of playing the turnip market... but she never finished the catalog! I can't even imagine trying to do that. That's pretty impressive!
@Juneda2nd I actually do have it. We're intending to get together and revisit the old town while we're in for the holidays. I can't find my own town though! x_x
The corruption segment was the most fascinating thing I've ever seen. It was so cool seeing Kyler get to work and explaining WHY it actually happened. This gives me hope that others who have corrupted towns may get the help they need
I was so frustrated about never getting oranges and now I finally understand why! I actually did manage to get an orange using the island, but slightly differently. If you bury 100 bells and have the islander dig it up like with furniture, they'll replace it with a mushroom, candy, coconut, or fruit! I was really surprised this worked because oranges are my islander's hated fruit, but miraculously she planted an orange tree for me this way and I finally got oranges.
I actually recently learned about this method too which led to a new item for my No Nook's challenge and it would have made my life a lot easier during this challenge! AC:GC is great, there's just so much to this game that even I learn new stuff after 20 years and thousands of hours played
This is honestly one of the most impressive gaming accomplishments I've ever seen. I just have an incredible amount of respect for the dedication that went into this challenge. I remember seeing the bit-flip corruption incident/100% stream live after a raid and not knowing anything that was really going on, but this video explained everything very well. Congrats on this amazing achievement!
awesome video man, great work on it. Loved catching those streams and I remember coming in right after the corruption. So glad it got saved. Thanks for sharing the history of the game, all of its secrets, your own brilliant strategies, and your love and passion for the game with us!
Thanks man, I'm glad you were a part of it all! The cosmic ray followed by the Kosmic raid was perfect. It was a much needed comic relief for an anxious situation.
@@aaww1010 you could say that about every world record or every first achievement ever. Typically it can be reasonably deduced that you wouldn't be able to make those achievements without building on the knowledge and experience of those who came before you. So you would be in the community and known if you actually did do it.
Originally I thought “I doubt this guy was the first person to actually get a Post Model legitimately. It’s a normal part of the game, it can’t be that hard.” Then I looked up that it would take 17 years of play to get it without exploiting the turnip market for all it’s worth.
it's fair enough for advertising reasons to say he's the first but i gotta imagine there's some other psycho out there that just did it privately. "first recorded" is still a massive achievement either way
@@fridaynightpizza7158 oh yeah. When it comes to leaderboards like this there’s really no actual way of knowing if you actually are the first/top runner.
Any first doesn't really count unless you share it with the world. In math/science this has happened countless times where someone waited on publishing their discovery and someone published while they sat on it. They might get a shout out on Wikipedia, but whoever published first has the thing named after them.
I did the same thing with Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I never told anyone about it besides my brother. It was an incredible journey for me! I dropped the game a few years ago due to having nothing to do in it anymore. I never time traveled (besides to collect the New Year's items, of course), because I wanted to play the game how it was meant to be played, because that's how I enjoyed it! I used to be a heavy time traveler back in my GameCube days lol! Much respect to you and thanks for sharing!! It took me 4 years to accomplish this, even with help from trading/selling/buying with people on The Bell Tree Forums occasionally. Well, actually, I didn't completely 100% it yet lol, but that is by choice. I may do it eventually! I am only missing 3 gold badges (the StreetPass one, the town host one, and the town traveler one). And I also never collected 999,999,999 bells, I only have (only, heh!) around 130,000,000 at the moment. This video may inspire me to do the last little bit to 100%! Again, thank you for sharing!! EDIT: I uploaded proof of my (almost) 100% town! You can check it out here: th-cam.com/video/TIYuHW4yVFc/w-d-xo.html
at first i was surprised to hear nobody 100%-ed this game but now i definitely understand LMAO amazing work bro. i cannot believe some of these items could even still be obtained legitimately
@@anotheraccountididntneedto7222 i’m assuming this is the first person RECORDED to have 100%ed this game. if other people have, it wouldn’t matter since there is no proof. thats like picking a world record out of the guinness book and saying “well how would we know for *sure* that they were the first person to eat 100 hotdogs in under a minute?”
@@aaww1010 A hypothetical without proof is still just a hypothetical. If anyone comes forward and can verify they did it, that's the only way his claim can be disputed. Until that happens, this is known to be the first.
I remember painstakingly doing this in city folk and hitting on the fact that there's wifi distributed items that were distributed in only certain regions or at a time where the game was not released yet in my country
yknow i thought id be bored before clicking on this cause i felt bad and tired but this was genuinely such a pleasant video to watch that i feel better now and forgot i was super tired for a while. impressive feat, by the way!! the dedication to such a project is incredibly respectable and just awesome. i also ended up learning a lot about a game i previously knew basically nothing about in the process!
Watching you 100% this and all the different ways required there are to get every item in the game, just fills me with newfound appreciation for just HOW much content and creativity went into making the original Animal Crossing.
There are two equally amazing parts to this videos. Discovering how much content is packed into this game that you've committed to collecting without help, or the computer science behind fixing your save file.
Truly amazing work, Brian. I loved occasionally tuning into these streams, it reminded me of my childhood watching my siblings play for hours. And this prodigious video is the cherry on top of an unbelievable achievement. Congratz!
I've seen a lot of people doubt the legitimacy of this since it came out, so let me say a few things to contradict these claims: 1. He never modified the game at all, nor did he use cheating devices. 2. Changing the date is a dev-intended option in the game, and therefore not cheating. Additionally, since the game only supports dates up to the end of 2030, playing the game date-accurate will eventually be impossible, meaning that time travelling will be the only way to play without game modifications. 3. While the stalk market RNG tool seems illegitimate, it doesn't modify the game. Saying that's cheating is like saying a classmate doesn't deserve an A+ grade on their literature test because they not only read the book, but contacted the author to see what they were thinking when writing the book. ANYONE could've reverse-engineered what Cuyler did, that's not illegitimate either, that's a skill issue for anyone complaining. 4. Part of "legitimately" is full video proof. If you say "oh yeah I did this one time" and don't provide full video proof, that's not legitimate, even if it really happened. I've eve seen some really heartwarming examples of people completing this challenge earlier in their lives, and they might as well be true, but since there's not full video proof, it's only legitimate to the people that were present for the whole thing, not legitimate period. Look at speedrunning for example. It's 2024, legitimacy doesn't use playground rules, and hasn't since the early 2000s. 5. Unused/dummy items can and sometimes will randomly appear, even if you've never used cheats or hacks. Anyone who says otherwise has literally no idea what they're talking about. 6. The save copying/fixing happened on a Wii that wasn't a part of the challenge, it's completely seperate.
Your AC videos makes me getting back to cross my どうぶつの森+ and e+ village. For me, NGC's AC is the most comfortable place to walk around, catch bugs and fishes then earn a lot money, and of course, play bunch of Famicon games. I reunited the AC's integrity by your deep mining this beautiful videogame. Congrats on this amazing legitimate 100% achievement!
Watching the entirety of this video after having watched a lot of my girlfriend playing new horizons has really put into perspective how truly special the gamecube entry in the series was. The pure attention to detail and effort put in by the developers of this game is truly incredible. The amount of specific variation between certain weeks, months, seasons and years without any interest in explaining to or making easy to understand these things to the player is the absolute gold standard of video games. Animal Crossing GC is easily within my top 5 games of all time.
My first animal crossing experience is when New Leaf came out and despite New Horizons allowing you to be way more creative and being MUCH more expansive, this game still has so much charm and differences to set it apart from later titles. One thing I didn't know I needed were those town models! They're so cool!
This is an incredible feat. If a time traveller showed this video to elementary school me, my head may have popped from my mind being literally blown. Great work, man!
Seeing your town get corrupted like that takes me back to my first town ever; we poured tons of time into it and one day it just, poofed- gone. I can't help but wonder if it was something similar that caused it!!
This is truly an incredible video. I'm actually at a loss for words. I've been a long-time hardcore Animal Crossing fan and even I managed to learn new intricacies from this video. Not only is the dedication to this speedrun simply mindboggling, but you managed to give a small history lesson on the complex and somewhat mysterious NES games in Animal Crossing. From managing to recover your entire save file from the brink of death, to getting extraordinarily lucky with the beta paper airplanes, this truly is the *golden* speedrun completion. Nothing could _ever_ top this. Thank you so much for seeing this through to the end and then gifting it to all of us in this amazing video. Cheers, mate. This was incredible.
Wow... every time I think I'm a fan (short for fanatic - I feel like I need to point that out here) I find I'm merely a passing enthusiast. That was the truest dedication I've seen to a single title in my life. Congratulations on seeing it all the way through and still going even beyond your own definition of legitimate 100%.
@@kelfo4997 Relax, I just meant I needed to spell out fanatic to emphasize how fanatical he is about AC. Dude, who doesn't know about context in written form aside from people that are very offline and have barely touched the internet?
This is truly beautiful. The dedication to this, spending YEARS just to work towards a goal you genuinely cared about. Good job, man. I hope you took a well deserved rest after all this.
It's a shame this guy only has just over 1,000 views on this video marking the special occasion. This guy deserves a lot more recognition for his achievement, on the same level as jvgsjeff and Audie the grandma. Edit: Nevermind, this comment didn't age well lmao
I have never heard of you before, but I just wanted to say congrats on getting 100%! Sad that you can't get some of the unused items, but still very impressive!
I never realized how greatly this game, being Japanese, emphasizes the value of interdependence and the importance of communal contribution and participation, which is something I have never ever seen to the same degree in anything made in the US. It's truly a beautiful quality that I wish we had a more integrated understanding of here..
I got as far as paying off my house and never touched the game again lol, I'm glad for the dedicated players out there that can accomplish insane personal challenges like this and show more of what these games have to offer.
As someone who discovered AC around 2004, and has been pretty well immersed in the franchise ever since (City Folk, Wild World, Pocket Camp, New Horizons) I am amazed by your dedication and effort involved in achieving 100% completion. I haven't touched OG AC in at least fifteen years, a few days ago I came across my long printout of EVERY Nook code and it brought back waves of nostalgia (and frustration at having to enter those codes with the controller and on-screen keypad). I don't have violent tendencies, but if my save corrupted after so much progress had been made, I probably would have gone outside and thrown a few unbreakable things, kicked a few trees, and screamed angrily at the sky for a minute or two. Cuyler, if you're reading this a year-or-more later, you are one of those Everyday Heroes Who Don't Wear Capes. I wouldn't have the foggiest idea of where to start with a corrupted game save. The fact that you were able to dive deep and find a single flipped-bit between Master and Backup saves - and that this single flipped bit was the entire cause of the original error - is quite impressive to me. Thank you for digging into the code and fixing Brian's save file, so he could continue his goal! One thing I found disappointing in New Horizons: the game will not let you display every single Gyroid in one room, you hit a firm item-number limit. All I wanted was to have a basement Gyroid orchestra! 🤷♂
haha big ups to you for completing this man. Gamecube AC makes me nostalgic like no other game. it's so pure and special and all the sounds flood me with the most pleasant memories. thanks for the video
Nobody will talk about how amazing the editing is but there's so many of what I assume are "Uhm" and "Uh" and meandering just edited out to make everything run smoothly, that's HUGE for me as a viewer
If I had a quarter for every time a bit flip sent a community into a frenzy I’d have 2 quarters, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice
What a phenomenal achievement. I have fond memories of playing this game as a kid but I never had the patience or consistency/dedication required to keep coming back daily and achieve anything impressive (I was like 7 years old lol). I’m especially impressed by the additional stuff, like having the paper planes contained, having every item like the orange and displayed copies of the fossils/fish. You didn’t just 100% the game you basically have a perfect save file. Immense props to you dude.
I played Animal Crossing as a young kid for hours and hours. I even return to it every few years or so as a wonderful nostalgic immersion. Ever since the moment I heard it in Twirp's house I knew Go K.K. Rider was my favorite song of the entire library, so to hear you use it as the celebration music for an achievement that will stand out among its peers in the annuls of ACGC history was a fantastic cherry on top of an exhilarating journey.
I lost my first ever town from corruption too. I was so distraught that I bought an Action Replay to try and recover, but it wasn't the same, my bugs, fish, and fossils weren't in my catalog, despite being in the museum. And the worst thing of all, my beloved villagers were all gone!
I remember completing wild world; I'd leave my gates open and have my friends come visit. One day somebody came along and seeded my game, forcing me to restart the entire town and character from scratch. I bought an r4 and started an "anti-seeding clan". I'd fix your seeded town if you can open gate, and I'd track down who did it and brick their game
This video is blowing my mind. I grew up playing this game and had no idea about a ton of stuff in this video. The lighthouse being something you can go into, the dummy item, the whale, the paper airplanes, all of that blew my mind! The biggest thing for me though: I remember finding those freaky codes that would give you NES games but could corrupt your stuff. What's really crazy is that I distinctly remember setting up all the NES games in my house almost exactly like you did in this video! I used codes for all those Nintendo items and laid them out with the games on them just like you did. Seeing how you had it in your video and how you could touch the star and it would make your character light up brought an insane amount of nostalgia. Fantastic video, thanks so much
Added to my favorites. Your dedication is amazing. It's so nice to see a person in their element. With Animal Crossing in particular, it's unreal to see how much care the developers put into this game -- sooo many models and designs and seasonal events and so much translation from the English team too! I'm reminded of how this is absolutely one of my favorite games of all time. It DESERVES to be played like this from start to finish. It DESERVES this love. Thank you :)
as someone who loves reverse engineering as a concept and is doing their best to get into it, seeing the efforts of one of my favorite games have come a long way in recent years is very inspiring. loved the vid, the immense drama with the corruption was unreal. congrats on the run.
This is helping through an anxiety attack, what a beautiful testament to your achievement and what amazing nostalgia for us OG Animal Crossing gamers :)
I remember catching bits of the stream! Especially when you were playing the villager games to get all of the igloo items. It seemed so tedious! Appreciate your dedication to this game and your craft!
About 7 min in and I’ve already learned so many things about this game that I never knew! I love the models and the igloo, also the lighthouse quest is so cute. So many kudos to you for doing this ^_^
I heard of the cosmic bit flip incident-- something about a shirt being changed, and I was surprised to see your name! I thought you had left with Bowsersenemy. I'm finally checking out your channel (started yesterday with the 100% Legitimate 1bil Bells video) and I'm really enjoying your content! Animal Crossing on the Gamecube is one of my absolute favorite games.
This is absolutely stellar. Was a blast to watch. This is the most thorough Animal Crossing experience I've ever seen! And Cuyler saving the game from corruption was mind-blowing. I'd love to know more about how corruption works in this game. Weird how that pattern was affected! I'm...kind of scared of my yellow pinstripe now. xD A few comments and questions that came to mind throughout the video: - With SMB and TLoZ being basically the only items you haven't obtained, is there a possibility for Wisp to give you those items now? What does Wisp even do now that there are no new catalogueable items to give you? - OK, I can't necessarily say you 100%'d "Punch-Out!!" because it has a literal campaign to go through unlike most of the NES games (compare with Super Mario Bros. -- you couldn't just beat the first world and call it 100%'d!). - I never noticed that the icon in the calendar is a keyhole! I always thought it was just a player icon, like shoulders and hand. Mind has been blown. - Now that you're basically the premier expert on AC rarities, I'd love to see you do some videos on things most players would never see outside of their casual experience. For example, the villagers tell you not to remove the memory card while saving. But what happens...if you do? 👀Do you get special dialogue? Does the GameCube catch on fire? In summary...thanks for sharing your experience! I'm so glad you were able to document all this for the record. Excited to see what else you accomplish. I expect there's still plenty for you to do in the world of Animal Crossing...even after 100%'ing it.
%100ing a game that was never meant to be "comeplete." Mad respect. This game is pure nostalgia for me, I always dreamed of obtaining all the items, bugs, fish, etc, but as a kid, just playing day to day was more than enough. Thanks for allowing us to live vicariously through you and achieve a childhood dream.
Congratulations on managing to complete this!! (Technically again since you basically did it for your older town!) Also impressive that you also streamed the entire thing!!
if you told me as a child that nobody would know what Tips and Tricks magazine was it'd blow my mind. That magazine was my childhood. It was the best one. It had the Animal Crossing Almanac for so many editions with tips and tricks (of course) as well as patterns for Able sisters.
I love this so much. I still have the 30k bells code memorized from the booklet I got at Blockbuster way back when. I used it a *lot*. Congrats on your big accomplishment!!
I find the weird glitches/corruptions that can happen in the original animal crossing very interesting- like the whole shirt thing that happened to you, and the paper airplane plague . I’m glad you got the problem fixed though! It would’ve been an absolute tragedy to loose all of that progress on 100%
Making a containment zone for paper airplanes is so genius, now i kinda wish they were possible to appear legitimately so that could be like a cool part of the town
Nice! I still have my OG memory card from when it first came out. I too 100% everything over the many years. Not the way you did ofc. I did however send my memory card to a person in Ohio back in 2002 or 2003 (he was on the GameFAQS board). He was able to put the Nintendo items and 5 NES games on our Card. This was before the AR codes and the universal codes were found, so this was the only way to get them at the time. If you were there, you probably remember the guy from Columbus doing this. Grats on being another 100%er! I've been remaking my GC village on Wild World now. The kids at my school were so jealous of me having those secret NES games and the entire Mario Theme.
the paper planes crashing the game is so funny and also how you ended up just having a funny containment zone for them while also getting an item youre not supposed to
I played this game as a kid. It always felt endless and immersive, what with me being clueless child wandering aimlessly and barely "progressing". Because I just played the game without a goal beyond paying for the house, trying to complete the museum and having nice furniture. But even now as an adult it's really impressive how much stuff this game has to do and discover. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I really hope you've written documentation guides with ASCII art header on everything you've found, screen grabs, etc as quick reference for home gamers
I started new leaf in the winter. Starting off my house with those snowman and ice sets makes them slightly higher in sentimental cozy value, imo. Cool to see the OG snowman set in action.
I love this so much. Animal Crossing on Gamecube is a very nostalgic game for me, and seeing you play it to its limits makes me happy. Also, where can I find that catalog tracker you used in the bottom left?
I love how he made his passport title on new horizons "Very First Bellionaire" because it's objectively true. And I thought my "Anonymous Boy" was creative.
Bro you're a long lost friend. Watching this was a fat mood. So nostalgic. I remember my mom buying me this game after I begged her and I played it with my cousins
Bruh how does this not have 1M views? This is INSANE No but for real, this is such a big accomplishment Wtf. This man completed animal crossing in ways I didn't know were possible. Hope this comment helps to boost the algorithm even if a little Congratulations!!! 🎉
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Waiting for a cosmic ray to flip a bit to spawn a paper airplane is true commitment to the legitimate 100%
I think I've seen you somewhere before 🤔
Can u explain pls?
@@Bigjar420 long ago, there was a teleportation glitch in Mario 64 discovered by a speedrunner that had never been seen anywhere in the game before.
There was a bounty for the glitch, with a money prize for whoever successfully recreated it.
But then, as it turns out, the glitch was caused by... *a cosmic ray from outer space!?* Sometimes the radiation of outer space can cause some glitches to occur in machinery by flipping a bit of the ones and zeros in the code, and that cosmic ray was exactly how Mario somehow teleported in that speedrun. Crazy shit
@@muf1nl0rd How did they prove that was the cause? There are so many ways for computer hardware to accidentally flip a bit, and cosmic ray seems like an extremely unlikely way lol. I'd love to know more about how they figured this out.
@@banana9494 afaik cosmic rays were just a theory, all that we know about what happened is that it was a random glitch seemingly caused by nothing and couldn't be reproduced. So presumably what happened is that a bit randomly got flipped, which could be caused by many things, but cosmic rays actually can cause that and it's apparently not super uncommon. According to google, cosmic radiation, fluctuations in power, and fluctuations in temperature are the most common causes of bit flips. You'd think it'd be super rare but cosmic radiation hits us all the time, apparently 5% of our annual radiation exposure is from cosmic rays (also according to google, im not a scientist lol). So yeah cosmic rays are as good a theory as anything else.
This feels like the kind of thing that if you did legit back in the day and sent in proof the company or game's designer would send you a letter and a gift card
if you did this back in the day they’d have made your town in real life and let you live there for a week they were crazy in 90s to early 2000s
I can’t imagine the sheer terror of potentially losing years worth of play time.
Especially when he was so close to finishing the run
On Christmas Eve no less
How has Nintendo not sent you a custom award for completing this. This has got to be the most impressive Nintendo feat I've seen.
Nintendo doesn't do the touchy feely connected with fans stuff anymore. They turned into a corporate husk a long time ago.
NazzyDragon is right. Nintendo would sue him for playing their game on stream before they gave him an award
@@renatatostada3318 surprising there (probably?) isnt any nintendo claims on this video
@@when-do-we-get-a-block-button It was a joke, why would the take down a video playing a game? It's not a fan game or anything
@@CANWEGETMUCHHIGHERRRR would not be suprising, they even ban just some emulation footage
that corruption segment was the most stressed i've ever been while watching a youtube video. goddamn, dude. this is a phenomenal run and an equally phenomenal video. thank you for your dedication!
It kinda reminds me of the video where someone saved a corrupted Blastoise from Pokémon Fire Red Leaf Green.
@@Stibly oh man! do you remember what that video is called? i'd love to watch it!
@@happydandonday It's called Can we save a corrupted Pokémon by Nick Robinson
@@Stibly thank you so much!
So stressful but I also wonder why he didn't go just go back to a previous save? unless he didnt have any backups for some reson.
My mom was super dedicated to the GameCube version and did get the post model legitimately after literally years of playing the turnip market... but she never finished the catalog! I can't even imagine trying to do that. That's pretty impressive!
Managed to get it myself back in the day, daily play is the way! Your mom sounds awesome btw
@@UreksatheJade She is! But I'm biased, lol.
@Juneda2nd I actually do have it. We're intending to get together and revisit the old town while we're in for the holidays.
I can't find my own town though! x_x
@@ShinChuck back that thing up dude.
Is your mom single?
The corruption segment was the most fascinating thing I've ever seen. It was so cool seeing Kyler get to work and explaining WHY it actually happened. This gives me hope that others who have corrupted towns may get the help they need
i know this is a year later but it does literally say cuyler on the screen
You should upload this save file to the internet. This save file deserves to be archived online.
It's so personal I'm sure but it's gotta go down in history I'd kill to run around the town
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I was so frustrated about never getting oranges and now I finally understand why! I actually did manage to get an orange using the island, but slightly differently. If you bury 100 bells and have the islander dig it up like with furniture, they'll replace it with a mushroom, candy, coconut, or fruit!
I was really surprised this worked because oranges are my islander's hated fruit, but miraculously she planted an orange tree for me this way and I finally got oranges.
I actually recently learned about this method too which led to a new item for my No Nook's challenge and it would have made my life a lot easier during this challenge! AC:GC is great, there's just so much to this game that even I learn new stuff after 20 years and thousands of hours played
This needs to be on national headlines lol. Man so much information in this game is needed to actually get all the items legit. This is truly amazing
Please think about how ridiculous this Sounds.
@Soggy Android that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about him saying
"This needs to be on national headlines" but you do you
@@newearth1899 so tight over that lmaooo
@@soggyandroid bro can't read lol
@@newearth1899 There were headlines about GTAV Pacifist percent run, so why not for this?
This is honestly one of the most impressive gaming accomplishments I've ever seen. I just have an incredible amount of respect for the dedication that went into this challenge. I remember seeing the bit-flip corruption incident/100% stream live after a raid and not knowing anything that was really going on, but this video explained everything very well. Congrats on this amazing achievement!
Amazing video!
Had me dying at
"What shirt are you wearing?"
"A shirt of Animal Crossing characters"
"No I mean in Animal Crossing"
"OH"
awesome video man, great work on it. Loved catching those streams and I remember coming in right after the corruption. So glad it got saved. Thanks for sharing the history of the game, all of its secrets, your own brilliant strategies, and your love and passion for the game with us!
Thanks man, I'm glad you were a part of it all! The cosmic ray followed by the Kosmic raid was perfect. It was a much needed comic relief for an anxious situation.
@@aaww1010 it's not extremely possible, it's extremely unlikely. You have to reverse engineer the game to make this much money.
@@Kosmicd12 I still think this is A amazing compliment from this you tuber
@@aaww1010 you could say that about every world record or every first achievement ever. Typically it can be reasonably deduced that you wouldn't be able to make those achievements without building on the knowledge and experience of those who came before you. So you would be in the community and known if you actually did do it.
@@Kosmicd12 I removed my comments about there being a possibility
Thanks for letting me know
I still remember that fateful night of town corruption... Cuyler really is a hero.
Originally I thought “I doubt this guy was the first person to actually get a Post Model legitimately. It’s a normal part of the game, it can’t be that hard.”
Then I looked up that it would take 17 years of play to get it without exploiting the turnip market for all it’s worth.
it's fair enough for advertising reasons to say he's the first but i gotta imagine there's some other psycho out there that just did it privately. "first recorded" is still a massive achievement either way
@@fridaynightpizza7158 oh yeah. When it comes to leaderboards like this there’s really no actual way of knowing if you actually are the first/top runner.
Any first doesn't really count unless you share it with the world. In math/science this has happened countless times where someone waited on publishing their discovery and someone published while they sat on it. They might get a shout out on Wikipedia, but whoever published first has the thing named after them.
I did the same thing with Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I never told anyone about it besides my brother. It was an incredible journey for me! I dropped the game a few years ago due to having nothing to do in it anymore. I never time traveled (besides to collect the New Year's items, of course), because I wanted to play the game how it was meant to be played, because that's how I enjoyed it! I used to be a heavy time traveler back in my GameCube days lol! Much respect to you and thanks for sharing!! It took me 4 years to accomplish this, even with help from trading/selling/buying with people on The Bell Tree Forums occasionally. Well, actually, I didn't completely 100% it yet lol, but that is by choice. I may do it eventually! I am only missing 3 gold badges (the StreetPass one, the town host one, and the town traveler one). And I also never collected 999,999,999 bells, I only have (only, heh!) around 130,000,000 at the moment. This video may inspire me to do the last little bit to 100%! Again, thank you for sharing!! EDIT: I uploaded proof of my (almost) 100% town! You can check it out here: th-cam.com/video/TIYuHW4yVFc/w-d-xo.html
at first i was surprised to hear nobody 100%-ed this game but now i definitely understand LMAO
amazing work bro. i cannot believe some of these items could even still be obtained legitimately
Is it for real though? I mean what if someone out there actually has before this, how would we know for sure?
@@anotheraccountididntneedto7222 i’m assuming this is the first person RECORDED to have 100%ed this game. if other people have, it wouldn’t matter since there is no proof. thats like picking a world record out of the guinness book and saying “well how would we know for *sure* that they were the first person to eat 100 hotdogs in under a minute?”
@@slaughterosie that’s what I been saying we can’t know if he is the first but indeed the fist ever recorded
@@aaww1010 A hypothetical without proof is still just a hypothetical. If anyone comes forward and can verify they did it, that's the only way his claim can be disputed. Until that happens, this is known to be the first.
@@CiaphasKirby Someone already correct me Taught me something new in a different comment but thank you
I remember painstakingly doing this in city folk and hitting on the fact that there's wifi distributed items that were distributed in only certain regions or at a time where the game was not released yet in my country
yknow i thought id be bored before clicking on this cause i felt bad and tired but this was genuinely such a pleasant video to watch that i feel better now and forgot i was super tired for a while. impressive feat, by the way!! the dedication to such a project is incredibly respectable and just awesome. i also ended up learning a lot about a game i previously knew basically nothing about in the process!
Watching you 100% this and all the different ways required there are to get every item in the game, just fills me with newfound appreciation for just HOW much content and creativity went into making the original Animal Crossing.
There are two equally amazing parts to this videos. Discovering how much content is packed into this game that you've committed to collecting without help, or the computer science behind fixing your save file.
Truly amazing work, Brian. I loved occasionally tuning into these streams, it reminded me of my childhood watching my siblings play for hours. And this prodigious video is the cherry on top of an unbelievable achievement. Congratz!
I've seen a lot of people doubt the legitimacy of this since it came out, so let me say a few things to contradict these claims:
1. He never modified the game at all, nor did he use cheating devices.
2. Changing the date is a dev-intended option in the game, and therefore not cheating. Additionally, since the game only supports dates up to the end of 2030, playing the game date-accurate will eventually be impossible, meaning that time travelling will be the only way to play without game modifications.
3. While the stalk market RNG tool seems illegitimate, it doesn't modify the game. Saying that's cheating is like saying a classmate doesn't deserve an A+ grade on their literature test because they not only read the book, but contacted the author to see what they were thinking when writing the book. ANYONE could've reverse-engineered what Cuyler did, that's not illegitimate either, that's a skill issue for anyone complaining.
4. Part of "legitimately" is full video proof. If you say "oh yeah I did this one time" and don't provide full video proof, that's not legitimate, even if it really happened. I've eve seen some really heartwarming examples of people completing this challenge earlier in their lives, and they might as well be true, but since there's not full video proof, it's only legitimate to the people that were present for the whole thing, not legitimate period. Look at speedrunning for example. It's 2024, legitimacy doesn't use playground rules, and hasn't since the early 2000s.
5. Unused/dummy items can and sometimes will randomly appear, even if you've never used cheats or hacks. Anyone who says otherwise has literally no idea what they're talking about.
6. The save copying/fixing happened on a Wii that wasn't a part of the challenge, it's completely seperate.
Your unflagging dedication is nothing short of jaw-dropping.
Your AC videos makes me getting back to cross my どうぶつの森+ and e+ village. For me, NGC's AC is the most comfortable place to walk around, catch bugs and fishes then earn a lot money, and of course, play bunch of Famicon games. I reunited the AC's integrity by your deep mining this beautiful videogame. Congrats on this amazing legitimate 100% achievement!
Honestly, it blows my mind how much content there is in this game considering its age.
They don’t make games like they used to
Watching the entirety of this video after having watched a lot of my girlfriend playing new horizons has really put into perspective how truly special the gamecube entry in the series was. The pure attention to detail and effort put in by the developers of this game is truly incredible. The amount of specific variation between certain weeks, months, seasons and years without any interest in explaining to or making easy to understand these things to the player is the absolute gold standard of video games. Animal Crossing GC is easily within my top 5 games of all time.
My first animal crossing experience is when New Leaf came out and despite New Horizons allowing you to be way more creative and being MUCH more expansive, this game still has so much charm and differences to set it apart from later titles. One thing I didn't know I needed were those town models! They're so cool!
you ned to check out animal crossing wild world!:) that game has so much charm. more than new leaf and new horizons combined!
It’s not relaxing to be overstimulated. That’s why I like the old Animal Crossing games. New Leaf was peak.
This is an incredible feat. If a time traveller showed this video to elementary school me, my head may have popped from my mind being literally blown.
Great work, man!
42:36 that is truly _the_ coolest basement design I've seen for the og ac. Congrats, man.
Seeing your town get corrupted like that takes me back to my first town ever; we poured tons of time into it and one day it just, poofed- gone. I can't help but wonder if it was something similar that caused it!!
This is truly an incredible video. I'm actually at a loss for words. I've been a long-time hardcore Animal Crossing fan and even I managed to learn new intricacies from this video. Not only is the dedication to this speedrun simply mindboggling, but you managed to give a small history lesson on the complex and somewhat mysterious NES games in Animal Crossing. From managing to recover your entire save file from the brink of death, to getting extraordinarily lucky with the beta paper airplanes, this truly is the *golden* speedrun completion. Nothing could _ever_ top this. Thank you so much for seeing this through to the end and then gifting it to all of us in this amazing video. Cheers, mate. This was incredible.
Wow... every time I think I'm a fan (short for fanatic - I feel like I need to point that out here) I find I'm merely a passing enthusiast. That was the truest dedication I've seen to a single title in my life. Congratulations on seeing it all the way through and still going even beyond your own definition of legitimate 100%.
Dude who doesn’t know what fan means? Aside from people that are very offline and have barely touched the internet.
@@kelfo4997 Relax, I just meant I needed to spell out fanatic to emphasize how fanatical he is about AC. Dude, who doesn't know about context in written form aside from people that are very offline and have barely touched the internet?
@@CrazyBrick30 I mean like honestly how wou-, nvm I’ll just shut up
Guy thinks someone gonna think they a literal fan
I just love how you kept your paper airplanes and encased them in caution/danger signs haha
you can tell that he has a real passion for this game
This is truly beautiful. The dedication to this, spending YEARS just to work towards a goal you genuinely cared about. Good job, man. I hope you took a well deserved rest after all this.
It's a shame this guy only has just over 1,000 views on this video marking the special occasion.
This guy deserves a lot more recognition for his achievement, on the same level as jvgsjeff and Audie the grandma.
Edit: Nevermind, this comment didn't age well lmao
He’s at 42k now the algorithm picked it up!
50k !
it's going around now, I just got it recommended to me
now I want to pick Animal Crossing back up lol
Just got recommended for me too
88k
I have never heard of you before, but I just wanted to say congrats on getting 100%! Sad that you can't get some of the unused items, but still very impressive!
I never realized how greatly this game, being Japanese, emphasizes the value of interdependence and the importance of communal contribution and participation, which is something I have never ever seen to the same degree in anything made in the US. It's truly a beautiful quality that I wish we had a more integrated understanding of here..
when you said you'd done everything except get an orange, i was like "hmm he hasn't seen a whale yet" what are the odds dude!! i love this video
This sounds like just an amazing crazy journey. I’m also glad that you were able to save your town from corruption
The real hero in all of this is Cuyler
But fr dude this is history. Congrats and gooooood shit
I got as far as paying off my house and never touched the game again lol, I'm glad for the dedicated players out there that can accomplish insane personal challenges like this and show more of what these games have to offer.
As someone who discovered AC around 2004, and has been pretty well immersed in the franchise ever since (City Folk, Wild World, Pocket Camp, New Horizons) I am amazed by your dedication and effort involved in achieving 100% completion. I haven't touched OG AC in at least fifteen years, a few days ago I came across my long printout of EVERY Nook code and it brought back waves of nostalgia (and frustration at having to enter those codes with the controller and on-screen keypad).
I don't have violent tendencies, but if my save corrupted after so much progress had been made, I probably would have gone outside and thrown a few unbreakable things, kicked a few trees, and screamed angrily at the sky for a minute or two.
Cuyler, if you're reading this a year-or-more later, you are one of those Everyday Heroes Who Don't Wear Capes. I wouldn't have the foggiest idea of where to start with a corrupted game save. The fact that you were able to dive deep and find a single flipped-bit between Master and Backup saves - and that this single flipped bit was the entire cause of the original error - is quite impressive to me. Thank you for digging into the code and fixing Brian's save file, so he could continue his goal!
One thing I found disappointing in New Horizons: the game will not let you display every single Gyroid in one room, you hit a firm item-number limit. All I wanted was to have a basement Gyroid orchestra! 🤷♂
haha big ups to you for completing this man. Gamecube AC makes me nostalgic like no other game. it's so pure and special and all the sounds flood me with the most pleasant memories. thanks for the video
Nobody will talk about how amazing the editing is but there's so many of what I assume are "Uhm" and "Uh" and meandering just edited out to make everything run smoothly, that's HUGE for me as a viewer
the way you narrate and explain things really helps me calm down and relax when i’m in a stressed out mood and this was very helpful to watch too:)
If I had a quarter for every time a bit flip sent a community into a frenzy I’d have 2 quarters, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice
What was the other time?
Nevermind, i watched pannen back in the day
What a phenomenal achievement. I have fond memories of playing this game as a kid but I never had the patience or consistency/dedication required to keep coming back daily and achieve anything impressive (I was like 7 years old lol).
I’m especially impressed by the additional stuff, like having the paper planes contained, having every item like the orange and displayed copies of the fossils/fish. You didn’t just 100% the game you basically have a perfect save file. Immense props to you dude.
You rock!!! I've been waiting for this forever!!! Thanks for coming back to it!! You're awesome!!
I played Animal Crossing as a young kid for hours and hours. I even return to it every few years or so as a wonderful nostalgic immersion. Ever since the moment I heard it in Twirp's house I knew Go K.K. Rider was my favorite song of the entire library, so to hear you use it as the celebration music for an achievement that will stand out among its peers in the annuls of ACGC history was a fantastic cherry on top of an exhilarating journey.
I lost my first ever town from corruption too. I was so distraught that I bought an Action Replay to try and recover, but it wasn't the same, my bugs, fish, and fossils weren't in my catalog, despite being in the museum. And the worst thing of all, my beloved villagers were all gone!
I remember completing wild world; I'd leave my gates open and have my friends come visit. One day somebody came along and seeded my game, forcing me to restart the entire town and character from scratch. I bought an r4 and started an "anti-seeding clan". I'd fix your seeded town if you can open gate, and I'd track down who did it and brick their game
This video is blowing my mind. I grew up playing this game and had no idea about a ton of stuff in this video. The lighthouse being something you can go into, the dummy item, the whale, the paper airplanes, all of that blew my mind! The biggest thing for me though: I remember finding those freaky codes that would give you NES games but could corrupt your stuff. What's really crazy is that I distinctly remember setting up all the NES games in my house almost exactly like you did in this video! I used codes for all those Nintendo items and laid them out with the games on them just like you did. Seeing how you had it in your video and how you could touch the star and it would make your character light up brought an insane amount of nostalgia. Fantastic video, thanks so much
Added to my favorites. Your dedication is amazing. It's so nice to see a person in their element.
With Animal Crossing in particular, it's unreal to see how much care the developers put into this game -- sooo many models and designs and seasonal events and so much translation from the English team too! I'm reminded of how this is absolutely one of my favorite games of all time. It DESERVES to be played like this from start to finish. It DESERVES this love. Thank you :)
as someone who loves reverse engineering as a concept and is doing their best to get into it, seeing the efforts of one of my favorite games have come a long way in recent years is very inspiring. loved the vid, the immense drama with the corruption was unreal. congrats on the run.
This is helping through an anxiety attack, what a beautiful testament to your achievement and what amazing nostalgia for us OG Animal Crossing gamers :)
I remember catching bits of the stream! Especially when you were playing the villager games to get all of the igloo items. It seemed so tedious! Appreciate your dedication to this game and your craft!
This is very impressive, and it's cool you even did stuff you didn't need to do to get 100% which makes this even more impressive.
About 7 min in and I’ve already learned so many things about this game that I never knew! I love the models and the igloo, also the lighthouse quest is so cute. So many kudos to you for doing this ^_^
wow! i’ve always heard you could go in the lighthouse when i was younger but always thought it was a myth. that’s awesome!
I heard of the cosmic bit flip incident-- something about a shirt being changed, and I was surprised to see your name! I thought you had left with Bowsersenemy. I'm finally checking out your channel (started yesterday with the 100% Legitimate 1bil Bells video) and I'm really enjoying your content!
Animal Crossing on the Gamecube is one of my absolute favorite games.
This legit blows my mind, and like, the fact that you streamed it in its entirety is so wild, such dedication!!!!
This is absolutely stellar. Was a blast to watch. This is the most thorough Animal Crossing experience I've ever seen! And Cuyler saving the game from corruption was mind-blowing. I'd love to know more about how corruption works in this game. Weird how that pattern was affected! I'm...kind of scared of my yellow pinstripe now. xD
A few comments and questions that came to mind throughout the video:
- With SMB and TLoZ being basically the only items you haven't obtained, is there a possibility for Wisp to give you those items now? What does Wisp even do now that there are no new catalogueable items to give you?
- OK, I can't necessarily say you 100%'d "Punch-Out!!" because it has a literal campaign to go through unlike most of the NES games (compare with Super Mario Bros. -- you couldn't just beat the first world and call it 100%'d!).
- I never noticed that the icon in the calendar is a keyhole! I always thought it was just a player icon, like shoulders and hand. Mind has been blown.
- Now that you're basically the premier expert on AC rarities, I'd love to see you do some videos on things most players would never see outside of their casual experience. For example, the villagers tell you not to remove the memory card while saving. But what happens...if you do? 👀Do you get special dialogue? Does the GameCube catch on fire?
In summary...thanks for sharing your experience! I'm so glad you were able to document all this for the record. Excited to see what else you accomplish. I expect there's still plenty for you to do in the world of Animal Crossing...even after 100%'ing it.
%100ing a game that was never meant to be "comeplete." Mad respect. This game is pure nostalgia for me, I always dreamed of obtaining all the items, bugs, fish, etc, but as a kid, just playing day to day was more than enough. Thanks for allowing us to live vicariously through you and achieve a childhood dream.
Congratulations on managing to complete this!! (Technically again since you basically did it for your older town!)
Also impressive that you also streamed the entire thing!!
It's insane that this one save not only got corrupted by a bit flip changing the shirt value, but then had a bit flip *again* to spawn paper airplanes
did you get the DUMMY item (a floating white triangle with a japanese character on it) from the igloo minigame?
Yes, this is the only way to legitimately get a DUMMY thanks to a programming oversight
if you told me as a child that nobody would know what Tips and Tricks magazine was it'd blow my mind. That magazine was my childhood. It was the best one. It had the Animal Crossing Almanac for so many editions with tips and tricks (of course) as well as patterns for Able sisters.
I love this so much. I still have the 30k bells code memorized from the booklet I got at Blockbuster way back when. I used it a *lot*. Congrats on your big accomplishment!!
I find the weird glitches/corruptions that can happen in the original animal crossing very interesting- like the whole shirt thing that happened to you, and the paper airplane plague . I’m glad you got the problem fixed though! It would’ve been an absolute tragedy to loose all of that progress on 100%
That dude who fixed your save came in so clutch he’s so cool and smart
Making a containment zone for paper airplanes is so genius, now i kinda wish they were possible to appear legitimately so that could be like a cool part of the town
Nice! I still have my OG memory card from when it first came out. I too 100% everything over the many years. Not the way you did ofc.
I did however send my memory card to a person in Ohio back in 2002 or 2003 (he was on the GameFAQS board). He was able to put the Nintendo items and 5 NES games on our Card. This was before the AR codes and the universal codes were found, so this was the only way to get them at the time. If you were there, you probably remember the guy from Columbus doing this.
Grats on being another 100%er! I've been remaking my GC village on Wild World now.
The kids at my school were so jealous of me having those secret NES games and the entire Mario Theme.
the paper planes crashing the game is so funny and also how you ended up just having a funny containment zone for them while also getting an item youre not supposed to
you are a huge inspiration of mine and i feel your work is more than underappreciated. thank you for everything youve done
I played this game as a kid. It always felt endless and immersive, what with me being clueless child wandering aimlessly and barely "progressing". Because I just played the game without a goal beyond paying for the house, trying to complete the museum and having nice furniture. But even now as an adult it's really impressive how much stuff this game has to do and discover. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
OMG BRIAN YOU DID IT?!??!? I'm so freaking proud of you!!! I didn't realize that you made it this far-- so glad i checked YT today!
I really hope you've written documentation guides with ASCII art header on everything you've found, screen grabs, etc as quick reference for home gamers
This is so amazing, impressive and informative I learned so many things about the game when watching this!
jesussssss that whole bit flip thing was insane. makes me wanna get into learning how games are made bcs that’s so interesting whattt
This deserves so much more attention! Your dedication is remarkable! Nice work, gamer (:
I started new leaf in the winter. Starting off my house with those snowman and ice sets makes them slightly higher in sentimental cozy value, imo. Cool to see the OG snowman set in action.
The proportionally miserable snowman lamenting its own existence is so funny
This video is already just a great way to tour through the game.
I had no idea about the igloos.
This channel is absurdly underrated! You do such cool stuff!
"somehow another bit had flipped" Its probably from when Cuyler forced the check sum to match. Id assume at least.
been waiting for this :)
can't wait to see some of the moments again. congrats!!
damn you really thought of everything. every time i thought about something (e.g. whale shadow) you mentioned it haha
@@MegaQwertification I basically rewatched all 300+ hours of VODs to make sure I didn't forget anything noteworthy!
the paper airplanes going from existential threat to decoration was a great twist. I was assuming you'd have to break open the save file again.
I love this so much. Animal Crossing on Gamecube is a very nostalgic game for me, and seeing you play it to its limits makes me happy. Also, where can I find that catalog tracker you used in the bottom left?
Awesome video! My bf and I just got animal crossing for the GameCube. It’s my first time playing it but not his. He’s loved every second of it.
Incredible man!
Congratulations on this huuuuge achievement :D
That smile at the end, true happiness :3
I love how he made his passport title on new horizons "Very First Bellionaire" because it's objectively true. And I thought my "Anonymous Boy" was creative.
This is amazing Brian. Animal Crossing GC is one of my favorite games of all time and I always wished I could do this. Good job
Absolute insanity dude I'm so glad the algorithm tossed your video my way:)
I LOVE how you didn't stop the timer when fixing the file corruption 💀
Bro you're a long lost friend. Watching this was a fat mood. So nostalgic. I remember my mom buying me this game after I begged her and I played it with my cousins
oh the algorithm knows what i want. very nice video man. couldnt imagine a more relaxing game to 100% than animal crossing :D
when you overcame the corruption i cried with joy. i know this was a year ago but congratulations! this is awesome.
Bruh how does this not have 1M views? This is INSANE
No but for real, this is such a big accomplishment Wtf. This man completed animal crossing in ways I didn't know were possible. Hope this comment helps to boost the algorithm even if a little
Congratulations!!! 🎉