Everything You Never Knew About Animal Crossing for GameCube feat. Chuggaaconroy

Animal Crossing is a game with so many secrets, oddities, and surprises that it really takes a careful eye to discover all that the developers put into the game. I've played the GameCube version far more than any other release, and wanted to share some of the most well-hidden aspects of the game!
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[LSuperSonicQ]

Credits


History

This project was originally started in 2015 as part of my Hoaxtacular series which covered rumors and hoaxes about games. The series ended up being canceled before I could make it to the Animal Crossing episode, so I purposed the script a couple years later. It ended up seeing many revisions and stayed that way for a while, until I had the idea to give it some life by asking Chuggaaconrory if he would be interested in doing some narrations. He was into the idea so a few months later we got the recording done in late 2018. Shortly after, my apartment flooded and left me without the equipment to continue working on the video for most of last year. Finally with New Horizons right around the corner, I made it a priority to finish the video before the game came out as a sort of celebration of how far the franchise has come. I'm really happy with the final result and the addition of Chuggaa really made the video shine. I hope you enjoy!

[lightninstriker]

The way Resetti's music starts up the instant you get handed the present from the code makes it seem like he just landed the most epic prank of all time and finally got you back for aggravating him on purpose so many times.

[chugga]

Thank you for having me! I learned so much when reading over the script for this video. It actually ended a rumor for me! I had a friend in elementary school who was a huge liar, very full of himself, and tried convincing everybody he was a self-made multi millionaire. In fourth grade. Until at least eighth grade when I fell out of contact. One day, he told me he saw a whale in Animal Crossing and, by that point, I'd learned to just nod along with his words but not take them seriously. I couldn't believe he was actually telling the truth when I read about it and went to go look it up! It makes me wonder if he was truthful about anything else I ignored.

[ncisfan]

Fun fact: waking Tom Nook from his sleep makes him charge 20% more bells for items you buy and he gives you 30% less bells when you sell him something. And when you leave he tells you to never wake him up again, lmao

Definitely not worth waking him up when you're on a budget

[Neptunequeen]

I think what makes this game so magical is the feeling that you never really have a complete understanding of what could happen. Just when you think you know how everything in the game works, a villager paints your roof against your will. They do aerobics and sports, there’s a well gnome, nothing feels rigid or scripted because there’s so much stuff that only shows up once and you’re left thinking what else is out there that you haven’t seen.

[ChaosUnown]

I had a friend in grade school who was notorious for spreading wild lies about video games. He once told me there's a very specific date you can set your GC Animal Crossing game to called "Doomsday" (he also associated it with some kind of bankruptcy event, crazy!) and if you set it to that date and load up your town everything would be on fire, and any money you drop on the ground would instantly burn up and disappear.

The kinds of things you fall for when you're a kid.

[mikebarr]

Man, it makes me so happy to see confirmation that the whale exists. For YEARS, I would try to tell people i saw it, and every time I would just get yelled at for trolling.

[justadoggo]

Pelly: You can't send this person a letter. Their mailbox is full.
Player: How do you kn-
Pelly: *stares Player down* It's full...

[nindessa]

I swear, the GameCube Animal Crossing was ahead of its time! Though the graphics show age, it's still a highly playable game!
So, there's one thing about the actual disc that many may not know about... Once the game has loaded to the title screen, you can actually *remove the disc* and it'll function perfectly fine.
This is due to the fact that it's an N64 game port, and it's actually small enough to run on the GameCube's RAM without having to reference the disc.
I discovered that accidentally, as I took poor care of my game discs as a young child... Games would often misread, so imagine my surprise when the machine obviously gave up reading the disc, but the game kept running!

I hope you enjoyed that little tid-bit.

[ViviSectia]

I remember seeing the whale though I didn't know it was supposed to be a whale or even recognize it as a fish. I just thought the water was darker on that side of the boat since I was always too busy reading kapp'n's songs and only saw it out of the corner of my eye.

[larifarioder]

Oh my god.
My brother (then 10) never let me (then 5) play animal crossing on gc. But one day when he wasnt at home, I decided to open animal crossing. I dont know why but I decided to spend some money on his house debt. When I stepped out of the house everything glitched. I panicked and I cried. I even cried so much that I threw up. I was so scared and even more scared of my brother what he would do. However my father just reset the gc and everything was normal. We told my brother but he didnt know either. Later when I got acww I was really scared I would glitch again so I never paid my debts xD

[mattcy]

Mystery in games nowadays is rare now that the internet dissects and shares every single detail the first week of release (or in some instances weeks before release)

[jupiterscallie]

The Resetti music thing is so funny. It honestly seems like something Resetti would do if he got too fed up with you! Like, "if you're having such a hard time remembering to save, then how about I drill it in?!"

[starpower]

7:13 WAIT! sooo this was one of the first animated wallpapers? Meaning Animal Crossing New Horizons wasn't the first game to add animated wallpapers, but inatead animated floors.

[sunmarsh]

A few more things you might not know about ACGC:

If you store your turnips on the island, or get them into the lost and found they will never spoil. You can visit the island without taking Kappn's boat by getting a snowball to push you into the ocean.

You can push villagers into the river by hitting them with your net while they're on a bridge and then pushing them off.

You can duplicate any item you can store in a drawer by performing a variation of the walking on tables glitch. This same glitch will also allow you to float items in the air in your house, as well as go outside the bounds of your room and place items there.

You can also duplicate the bells stored in your savings account by saving travel data on a second memory card, removing the second memory card, loading the game, withdrawing bells and placing them on the ground, and then saving and quitting. Then you put the second memory card back in and load the travel data. The bells will be on the ground and your bank account will show the original balance, effectively duplicating the bells.

You can also turn your face into a gyroid face by saving travel data on a second memory card and loading your file from your main card without returning home first.

If you reset enough times Resetti will pretend to erase your save data, making the screen go black.

If you talk to K.K. slider at just the right time Resetti will show up in the background during the credits.

There is a hidden spot on the item screen that allows you to change the background pattern.

Any letters saved at the post office (and the items attached to them) are not deleted when you start a new town on the same memory card.

You can connect your GBA to download some of the NES games to the system's memory and play them away from your GameCube. You can then come back and sync with the cube to save progress.

The GBA can also be used as a pattern maker. Patterns created this way can be saved at the Able Sister's shop.

Animal Crossing is the only GameCube game released outside of Japan that is able to connect to the e-reader.

The town featured on the loading screen is stored in the game's memory and can be accessed via cheating device.

ACGC shares a debug mode and various lines of code with the LoZ: Ocarina of Time and is thought to have been built on the same engine. This is most likely due to the fact that the game was originally meant to be an asynchronous multiplayer RPG released on the N64 DD.

That's all I got for now...

[kyotee]

I actually have Ice Climbers on my old AC save. Never knew it was rare.

[edgelord]

Man this video brought my nostalgia.
My grandma loves animal crossing and looking at this brought me back to the good old days.
My grandma poured hours into this game and unlocking everything.
of every game that I've seen animal crossing had a lot of rumors and if he stumped trying to get these hoaxs to work.
I remember some of these and especially the master sword one.I
The amount of care that was put into the series was amazing and I'll never forget it.

[zmbdog]

I was so addicted to this game. I had all four characters fully paid off/upgraded and a massive inventory. Unfortunately my nephews were playing my Cube when one of them yanked the memory card while it was auto-saving whatever they were playing and it corrupted the card. I made a couple half-hearted attempts at starting over but it just seemed too daunting a task to get back where I was.

A couple things I noticed though:

-Before planting a mega-money tree, chop down a tree within the same acre. I forget the number now but there is a limit on the number of trees that can grow in one acre.

-If it's raining at 1-5am, walk back and forth all along the beach and look for coelacanth shadows. They're most plentiful in this time/weather. I've caught about a dozen in a single morning, especially around 4am. Clear your inventory before going down and get an easy 100, 000-150, 000 bells selling all your fish when Nook's opens.

-Every day, two trees in town contain items. If you're patient go acre by acre and shake every non-fruit tree in town (note: you will get stung.). Once in a while a tree will have a rare item that's typically only available during a lottery or from merchants like Crazy Redd, Sahara, etc.

-If a neighbor is in a cheerful sing-songy mood, keep talking to them as long as it lasts. Once in a while they'll gift you something out of nowhere, occasionally a rare item.

-And don't let kids play your Cube with the same memory card you use for your AC save data.

[itsoliveoil]

There really is something magical about this game. I remember the first time I played this in elementary school! I was immediately hooked, and remember asking for a gamecube for my birthday in 2003, and hoping that if I died, I could play the game in heaven. This game was so unique from any other game I played at the time.
Speaking of rumors, my friend (age 9) would tell me (age 10) that she had a boyfriend in the game, and I believed her. She also told me that shovels would break if I used it on rocks. We also believed that if you didn't feed your character, they would die. There is always a mysterious aura around this game....it feels like whenever I obtain anything, it's special. I loved New Leaf, but this game still has a special place in my heart.

[StrawberryStationMusic]

Holy hell, the whale was real?! Back when I was addicted to Animal Crossing, I used to have dreams that I was fishing and the massive shadow would show up, bite and pull me into the water. Creeped me the hell out, but I thought it was just in my head.