The Speedrunning Mechanics of Animal Crossing

Special thanks to the Animal Crossing speedrunning community!

BrianMp16's 100% world record:

Assets and other information were pulled from the Animal Crossing GameCube community megasheet:

This video was recorded with an HD community texture pack for the game ran through Dolphin emulator:

🎵 Music credits:
• K.K. Slider Intro (Faithful Cover) - Animal Crossing:
• 5 P.M. (Faithful Cover) - Animal Crossing:
• Animal Crossing Title Theme - Nintendo Sound Selection Vol. 2:
• Nookington’s - Animal Crossing:
• Go K.K. Rider! (Qumu Remix):
• Prologue Phase 7 - Animal Crossing New Horizons:
• 10 P.M. - Animal Crossing New Horizons:

0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:36 Defining a Speedrun
0:02:05 Map Generation
0:05:04 Item Duplication
0:08:30 Stalk Market Strats
0:09:37 Nook Code Abuse
0:12:01 Speedrunning Generalities
0:13:07 Closing Remarks

[CelloGamerMatt]

Speedrunning Animal Crossing is the equivalent of speedrunning real life if you had the power of time

[Toonrick]

Resetting? Your whole town?! You're going to get some very strongly worded letters from a certain mole with this.

[meowmeowmortbird]

I know it must take a while to add all the closed captions, but I hope you know that we really appreciate it!! :)

[WilbosWorld]

I've always wondered why the tape deck duplication glitch worked. This is the first time I've heard it explained! Great video!

[MikaruLearo]

Animal Crossing: Bogo Sort Edition... where the sorting is actually map generation.

[ChaosUnown]

I can’t imagine how brutal finding a town is for speedrunning is, but personally I find randomly resetting to see what kind of town layout I get to be pretty exciting and enjoyable in a casual sense.

[Mogswamp]

I actually feel like Animal Crossing and Minecraft are both surprisingly good speedrunning games *because* of all the RNG.

On the surface level, lots of RNG seems bad for speedrunning. But I feel like it kind of makes runners have to become expert decision makers, knowing what to do in a million different scenarios. Knowing how to recognize rare generation and then capitalize on it. It's honestly a better test of someone's real skill at the game compared to games with extremely specific routes that never vary at all.

[pishagerudo]

SPEEDRUNNING? ANIMAL CROSSING? HUNTER R VIDEO? THIS IS APPEALING TO EVERY ASPECT OF MY AUTISM

[Lunascaped]

I've always wondered why placing something ontop of a radio would respawn it. Thats a really interesting strategy to hold items for other uses!

[eXtremeLink]

BrianMp16 is the GOAT. dude's been around forever and is still consistently maintaining and pushing forward the Animal Crossing GC speedrunning scene. his challenge videos are a serious treat to watch and I highly recommend people check them out.

[MisterPancake]

Someone needs to make a IRL student/mortgage loan speedrun tips guide.

[nj]

What religion do I need to join to make a 60+ minute summoning salt world record history of animal crossing video happen

[RareSun]

It's probably easier to reverse engineer this entire game than to speedrun it

[stonesword]

you've kept coincidentally releasing videos when i'm drunk (like 4 times at least and i don't even drink that often) that now with ur last video i pavolvian instinct drank whenever your video showed up on my feed. it's st patrick's day weekend so i was already drunk when this dropped (i go to a party school so st. patrick's is a whole weekend + friday) and it happened AGAIN with this video. cheers man

[gregoryhouldsworth]

I would love, love, LOVE to see a video from you detailing the game's town-generating system in depth. I want to know what all the possible acres are like, and I want to create random towns of my own!

[MadamLava]

[Summoning Salt music starts]
"I will not be covering individual runners nor the speedrun progression itself"
[Summoning Salt music stops]

[annagarlicjaws]

I love watching your videos because they’re interesting and informative, but I also love watching them for the footage of the GameCube Animal Crossing in HD. It’s so CRISPY

[Kajssbm]

You should have WAYYY more subscribers imo. 38k is not enough for the effort you put into these.

[MrMegaManFan]

Wait … @JapanEat is a patron?! That’s freaking awesome!!

[spoopdeewoop]

I love the cozy vibe of ur content, the grayscale grass pattern in the back, the soft transitions and music choice! :D