Paying Off Your Debt Breaks Animal Crossing...

In this video, I explain one of Animal Crossing's (GCN) craziest glitches that can crash your game or warp you to different places -- the most interesting of which being an unused beta testing map.

Special thanks to Bosby for discovering this glitch:

Further thanks to Cuyler for his ACSE program, which provided some useful map graphics and time saving:

This recording was done with an HD community texture pack for the game ran through Dolphin, solely to make the video more visually appealing than a 480p output. This pack is very high quality and requires artists to hand-draw the textures to upscale even to 8K. You can find information on this pack here:

Music credits:

0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:59 Initial Discovery
0:03:58 Discovering Cutscene Storage
0:05:27 Warping to Beta Map
0:07:26 Exploring the Beta Map
0:08:59 Conclusion

[Hunter-R.]

Slight correction from Cuyler:

The technical reason why you warp to the beta map is because your scene ID is reloaded during the cutscenes when you exit the post office, rather than the map. When this scene ID is reloaded during a cutscene, it gets set to 0 so you get to sent to the beta map where scene 0 is set to play.

[Kevdama]

Imagine running into this gitch by accident as a kid, wanting to tell your friends but none of them believe you and think you're making up stories like "mew under the truck near SS Anne"

[nodrance]

I feel like 80% of glitches in well made games can be explained by "we did two things at the same time that the game didn't expect and it put us in an invalid state"

[degebs]

Universe cannot comprehend you paying off your debt. You're supposed to keep it forever for all eternity.

[phyllojoe]

I love how the character looks like they are having an existential crisis just laying on the ground after paying a debt, staring into the void

[e-mananimates]

Imagine explaining this to Resetti since you had no choice regarding the reset.

[toastersimp]

I don’t have much but I can give you the highest honor I know how to give: I watched this while eating a meal

[bramnemeth]

Tom Nook destroys reality due to him not being capable of comprehending you being debt-free

[akindofchaos]

Imagine paying off your home debt right before going to watch the olympics just to get teleported to the bermuda triangle

[christopherg]

9:00 "Anything that _can_ happen, _will_ happen - if your program is just run long enough by enough people."

[charlescox]

4:20 "... And it will destroy your ears." Shakira Royal Kingdom ad plays. Gotta love the YouTube ad placement.

[GunSpyEnthusiast]

basically :
reality ends if you pay off your debt via " wrong place, wrong time. "

[Leon]

Dude imagine paying off your mortage and some stupid soccer event you didn't even know about commenced at the same time and caused the universe to cease.

[Lively_]

This was in my recommendations but the way the video felt, the title, and great explanation, REALLY gave me some strong stryder7x vibes.

Thanks to that similarity, I enjoyes your video, and you're the stryder7x of the Animal Crossing world.

[RamboDrogado]

ah, the american dream, where if you pay all your debts the government isolates you in the sentinel iland or straight up disables your brain (crash)

[K_]

I'd really like to see what the other beta maps have!
Also, why does the gyroid have a glitchy texture in the beta map?

[kingnightmarevin]

Ah yes, the sequel to "Having a friendly conversation in Paper Mario"

[purplegill]

I've never played nor was interested in AC stuff before but I LOVED your technical breakdowns. Definitely gonna watch more.

[coyote]

I experienced a lot of scary glitches on DS games when I was a kid and this one would’ve made me cry

[arsonistnpc]

if i ever make a game im gonna put ridiculous, niche glitches like this one in my game on purpose. pulled out your sword while talking to an NPC with a name that starts with Z? fall through the map. make an object that only collides with the player character's feet, and if you clip inside of it you see a secret code that just crashes the game when input. find a way to move your character when in a cutscene and trigger a different cutscene, be greeted with a third cutscene with cats dancing. secret stuff like this is so fun to me