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  • čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
  • In our first, short foray into New Leaf, we cover an egregious exploit left in the Dream Suite.
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    Special thanks to RGeeK, Aeon, and Cuyler for supporting information in this video.
    Archived dream towns will be available when the compiled data host is complete.
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    This video was recorded with an HD community texture pack by Volya:
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    0:00:00 Introduction
    0:01:05 Saving Your Dreams?
    0:04:09 Hacked Towns
    0:06:08 Patched?
    0:07:03 Restoring Dreams
    0:07:58 Conclusions
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Komentáře • 381

  • @Hunter-R.
    @Hunter-R.  Před měsícem +375

    The dream town archive mentioned in this video is currently just a list of downloaded data right now from around November 2023-April 2024. There is a website in works to host the data for public use, but I am not involved in that process and it is not yet available. Sorry for mentioning it a bit prematurely, but I’ll touch more on it when that project is finished. 👍

    • @rvids20
      @rvids20 Před měsícem +20

      I definitely spent far too long looking for it haha. If the description could just be updated when it's available that would be amazing, thank you! Love your work!

    • @muhammedgulkan4235
      @muhammedgulkan4235 Před měsícem +13

      i was so excited cause i might’ve seen my old island again… i hope this project actually gets completed and my town is in it

    • @SlyCooperReloadCoded
      @SlyCooperReloadCoded Před měsícem +4

      I'm surprised this feature's servers haven't been reverse-engineered and emulated yet, that's been happening to a lot of games lately, and that's just one feature of a game which should in theory be simpler.

    • @terryechoes3192
      @terryechoes3192 Před měsícem +3

      Yeah, it probably would have been best not to mention something which doesn't exist for us.

    • @preloadingwastaking
      @preloadingwastaking Před měsícem +2

      Pretendo has also archived most of this data, and will eventually be putting the data online

  • @sixteenthstone
    @sixteenthstone Před měsícem +784

    I actually lost my 2,000 hour town just before the Welcome Amiibo update because of this exact scenario 😭😭One of the hacked dream towns I visited had a Shampoodle in the middle of town, which plopped me on their Main Street upon exiting. So I decided to check out their Happy Home Academy because young me thought that it would show their StreetPass houses, and unfortunately, that's one of the ways to save your game on Main Street. I saw it showed my own StreetPass homes instead of theirs, so I left the game and re-opened it, and lo and behold, "Your save data is corrupted and will be deleted." Young me was EXTREMELY devastated and cried for hours. When it updated a few months later to Welcome Amiibo, it wasn't corrupted anymore, but it had been overridden with the hacked town, so I just deleted it and accepted defeat.
    Amazing to see a video on this topic. For a long time I thought I was the only one who fell victim to this, lol

    • @lovelivefestival
      @lovelivefestival Před měsícem +126

      Oh man I’m so sorry that you lost all those hours :(

    • @Hunter-R.
      @Hunter-R.  Před měsícem +191

      My condolences…🙏

    • @tamertamertamer4874
      @tamertamertamer4874 Před měsícem +17

      RIP Town o7

    • @Libby-Phantom
      @Libby-Phantom Před měsícem +16

      I would have cried as well, my condolences.

    • @Sparkle8205
      @Sparkle8205 Před měsícem +15

      i cried when my favorite villager,
      fang moved out so this would’ve been devastating for me.. o7

  • @Stamps1879
    @Stamps1879 Před měsícem +825

    Cant believe you can just be put in a coma in ACNL like that

  • @ross3695_basedhax
    @ross3695_basedhax Před měsícem +345

    So THATS why people on Miiverse told me to LEAVE IMMEDIATELY whenever I went to a hacked town
    I thought I would just get banned or something. Now I know why 💀

  • @Following1000
    @Following1000 Před měsícem +285

    Geez, going to sleep in a dream completely erases your past life, achievements, friends, everything. The kinda creepypasta that would make Aika Village blush. (I hope that village got saved)

    • @renakunisaki
      @renakunisaki Před měsícem +24

      Does sound like a decent creepy concept.

    • @thepokemonqueen
      @thepokemonqueen Před měsícem +53

      if I remember right, the creator of aika village made a version for new horizons

    • @roilo8560
      @roilo8560 Před měsícem +4

      inception

    • @MUZUKUN-YT
      @MUZUKUN-YT Před 13 dny

      A permanent death for your character. Where they can never escape the main street dream.

  • @KishimiPengi
    @KishimiPengi Před měsícem +1040

    Having a dream about animal crossing crashes paper mario.

    • @KishimiPengi
      @KishimiPengi Před měsícem +12

      ​@@RichConnerGMNF to his corpse

    • @TheYouTubeGame
      @TheYouTubeGame Před měsícem +40

      @@RichConnerGMN Context? Details?
      I'd heard vague things but never heard one way or the other what was true, what's not, etc.

    • @OGLordSheep78
      @OGLordSheep78 Před měsícem +36

      😭😭😭😭I miss Stryder7x SOOOO MUCH

    • @GamingBren
      @GamingBren Před měsícem +12

      Having a dream in Paper Mario crashes the world

    • @DarkonFullPower
      @DarkonFullPower Před měsícem +37

      ​@@RichConnerGMNExcept said "credibility" was demolished shortly after. Same story with Vinny. As soon as the lawyers came out for both, the claimers all quickly fled.

  • @kevinpierce9780
    @kevinpierce9780 Před měsícem +240

    Source: This glitch came to me in a dream.

  • @Bidziilla
    @Bidziilla Před měsícem +69

    I did a lot of research into New Leaf's inner workings.
    The reason why dreams prevent you from saving is because dreams are represented by a game type id of 0x03. 0x02 is on club tortimer, 0x01 is online in a friend's town, and 0 is offline.
    After the update, in my plugin, to allow us to save an entire dream (because the ram dump method was not reliable and would always miss data such as furniture etc), we would set the gametype to offline and then it would allow us to save like normal.
    But Hunter R, New Leaf had another pretty severe exploit that I kept quiet about for years.
    In New Leaf, sold out signs were for indoor use only. No outdoor models existed, so attempting to drop the item would crash your game and anyone around you.
    However if you set the drop animation to something completely invalid, the game would still drop the item, it would register as a drop, but it would be invisible until after the host saves.
    If the host saves, that will render that entire area of their town as broken and there was no way to fix it. If a sold out sign was dropped in every acre, the game would crash just before the title screen loaded up.
    This is very similar to wild world but was made more alarming the fact that nobody heard an item dropping.
    And even more alarming, another exploit which allows someone to brick people's games at the titlescreen also exists in Animal Crossing New Horizons, as well as Animal Crossing City Folk. City Folks method is the same exact method as New Leafs bricking method.
    Kinda glad that was one thing I kept private during New Leafs heyday.

    • @ross3695_basedhax
      @ross3695_basedhax Před měsícem +8

      WAIT
      So literally every online AC game has a brick WTF
      That's insane, AC City Folk and NH even had a console brick in the network library

    • @ross3695_basedhax
      @ross3695_basedhax Před měsícem +2

      What do the other modes besides 'dream' do btw? When I changed them they didn't do anything
      What actually changes the behaviour of trees not dropping hives, Reece not welcoming into the Retail etc

    • @Bidziilla
      @Bidziilla Před měsícem

      @@ross3695_basedhax Yes, New Leaf had an exploit in the bulletin board packet send functions which allows for RCE. It wasn't really made use of, because the bug was discovered sometime in mid 2023.
      As for what each mode does, I haven't played new leaf much since 2019 so I really wouldn't be able to tell you all the differences.

    • @Bidziilla
      @Bidziilla Před měsícem

      @@ross3695_basedhax Also, the RCE found in New Leaf is a brand new exploit. It wasn't the enlbufferpwn that we've seen before

    • @durdleduc8520
      @durdleduc8520 Před měsícem +2

      i assume the sold out sign issue can be achieved by traveling to someone else's town with the glitched item in your inventory, & then dropping it to brick their game?

  • @nickk3077
    @nickk3077 Před měsícem +56

    A really bizarre experience I had while playing New Leaf was when a hacker on an island forced everyone to go back to their own town, but our towns were all still part of this online island mode, meaning that it functioned similarly to what it was like on the islands. I believe it took everyone to their own specific towns, however, we were able to see each other still just like a parallel dimension. I thought it was the craziest thing ever. I don’t believe the hacker was able to see our individual towns.

    • @nickk3077
      @nickk3077 Před měsícem +11

      Hunter, if you can explain this somehow, that would be pretty cool.

    • @dyter424
      @dyter424 Před měsícem +18

      I remember this from some Italian livestreams back in 2018 or 2019. I did actually meet the same hackers several times, but they never warped us. Instead, I couldn't stop laughing at them spawning trees of trees out of nowhere and eating literally any item, including rocks.

    • @nickk3077
      @nickk3077 Před měsícem +1

      It’s like a magic trick! Haha!

    • @rinn5238
      @rinn5238 Před měsícem +1

      This happened to me and it erased my entire inventory probably because it saved and Kapp'n never gave me my stuff back. I lost a bunch of stuff I've had for forever

    • @Elfilin
      @Elfilin Před 26 dny +2

      Oh yeah! I experienced this a few times too! It was pretty weird. I also experienced hackers on the island being able to use my custom designs or look exactly like me??

  • @kaseyquickshot532
    @kaseyquickshot532 Před měsícem +164

    It's so cool there's people creating networks like Pretendo to keep older games and systems connected and fully functional, I understand why Nintendo has to move on from older products but it's always a shame when perfectly good hardware gets shoved in a drawer because the software became obsolete

    • @KARLOSPCgame
      @KARLOSPCgame Před měsícem +9

      Servers now can be used inside a Docker..... buuuut managers gonna manage because time and "not worth"

    • @GiraffeFlavoredCondoms
      @GiraffeFlavoredCondoms Před měsícem

      It's not as "hard" as they make it to be, Nintendo is famously incredibly shit when it comes to their old products. It doesn't cost much to keep online enabled for older consoles, it's all baked into their current online structures. They do it intentionally because they want you buying new things. They would brick your 3DS in a heartbeat if it meant you went out and bought a switch. Nintendo is basically the worst in the business for this kind of thing. It's with malice.

    • @ross3695_basedhax
      @ross3695_basedhax Před měsícem +9

      @@KARLOSPCgame some Switch games literally use same physical server as the old Nintendo Network
      what are they even 'shutting down' xD

    • @lockl00p27
      @lockl00p27 Před měsícem

      @@ross3695_basedhaxThe software that was taking resources from those physical servers

    • @nono-nt8je
      @nono-nt8je Před měsícem +2

      Clearing up space for more stuff

  • @lucebox
    @lucebox Před měsícem +62

    3:49 OMG i literally recovered my original ACNL town of like 6 years after i lost the cart by doing this with a mod. had a friend give me my dream address and was able to get it to save, and was surprised at how just complete it was. pocket, main street, mail, villager memories... it truly shocked me just how much data was uploaded with the dream town. it was sort of a hail mary and this is the first time i've ever seen someone else talk about how this is possible

    • @SureyD
      @SureyD Před měsícem +16

      After reading the horror stories of people's wiped towns, that is such a good story to read!

  • @ross3695_basedhax
    @ross3695_basedhax Před měsícem +48

    I remember when I thought putting flowers on the beach was only possible with hacking so I used to leave SO fast
    One time I left and it said 'an unknown error has occured save your progress and turn off soon as possible' something similar which usually happened from a browser exploit to move villager houses
    I was able to put flowers on my own beach and for a long time I thought I gained the ability from a hacked town I didn't realise it was a real part of the game haha

  • @sulladeochsson5060
    @sulladeochsson5060 Před měsícem +61

    So about a year ago my roommate was just playing New Horizons. (I know not much of this game, so my knowledge here's gonna be vague). He had been using his upstairs in a very utilitarian manner, before deciding this day to start on the path of properly decorating the room. So, he sets down a 1x2 table to start, then heads down stairs to do some crafting.
    When he returns, there was a television placed on the table, but perpendicularly to its direction, leaving 1/2 of it hanging off of the table. This television had no collision to speak of, but he was still able to interact with it as if it were a normal item. He ended up putting it in his bag, and it functioned like a normal item thereafter.
    He was initially befuddled with what may have caused this. Was his island haunted? Turns out not: after some thinking he rembered that, nearer to release, there was a certain duplication glitch which relied on strange behavior with how furniture reacted with tables. He had used this at the time to quickly duplicate televisions to quickly get more bells. However, in doing so he ended up leaving a phantom television in the room, invisible and collisionless due to a lack of a table to stand on. Even after the duplication bug was patch, it still stayed for all that time afterwards.
    What proceeded next was a hunt for any more ghost televisions, in which he placed town every table he had, left the room, then moved the tables to another part of the room. In doing so, we found two more phantom televisions.
    Once again, I don't know much at all about Animal Crossing, and so I think you may be able to get more out of this story than I possibly could. Regardless, it's still one of my favourite shared-memories with him.

  • @hollymolly590
    @hollymolly590 Před měsícem +160

    Gosh i will miss being able to use online features. New Leaf has always been my favourite game of all time.

    • @lockl00p27
      @lockl00p27 Před měsícem +8

      Pretendo shall save your soul

  • @mukomaryan4919
    @mukomaryan4919 Před měsícem +212

    Oh... my... goodness. You just reminded me of the emotional damage I endured when this whole hacked-dream-town-corrupting-your-save-file bonanza happened to me.
    It was summer of 2015. I was enjoying playing online in New Leaf, visiting the island and talking with people from around the world. One day, this person, who I'd met multiple times somehow by sheer chance, told me about this town called Pokeland, and NOT to go there. She didn't go into detail about it, just told me not to go there. And me, being 14 and full of teenage curiosity, decided I'd go there after the session. "What's the worst that can happen?" I told myself. Oh, you sweet summer child.
    So later on, I head to the Dream Suite, punch in "Pokeland" and I get back, well, multiple entries, but I picked the one at the top. I think it showed the ones that are visited the most but don't quote me. And so it took me to Pokeland, which at the time I didn't realize, was a hacked town. As you'd expect, placement of buildings was invalid, and the whole place felt weird. I entered a building, not sure which one, but it must've been retail given that, as the video explained, when I left, the game did that weird void out to Main Street warp. At that point I was getting uneasy. I wanted to leave. I turned around to try exit Main Street but just went past the edge of the map and could see the void beneath. Probably because you're not supposed to be there in the first place so the devs didn't bother adding the loading zone.
    So, after several minutes of wondering around the street, I decide to enter the Dream Suite. "Maybe I can warp back home from there." I talk to the lady, she sits me down in bed, the game saves (F), and when the screen went white to transition... I immediately got kicked into the home menu and the system said something like "An unexpected error occurred forcing the game to close."
    "Well that was a weird experience." I said to myself. I open the game back up to see if everything's okay, and first thing I saw was that the title screen was showing a villager and town that was not mine. "Uh oh." Next the game tells me, in a red speech bubble I'd never seen before, that my save file has been corrupted. I was like "But you can restore it, right?" Nope! Had to start a new file. At that moment my heart sank. I goofed up, hard. I should've listened to that person. I only had the game for about 6 months, but I was so attached to my town and put in so many hours already, and now it was gone, never to be seen again. I went on to Miiverse to voice my situation, and someone replied to me saying that the town I visited was hacked, and what happened to me is the reason why Main Street/saving was disabled in dreams. Welp, I sure learned that the hard way. I've lost many more save files in other games, but few come close to the feeling of loss I felt when I lost my first New Leaf save. Heck malicious hackers, man.
    Although it was not the best memory to revisit, thank you, Hunter, for explaining what exactly happens when something like this happens. If only I had this knowledge 9 years ago.

    • @ross3695_basedhax
      @ross3695_basedhax Před měsícem +19

      For a while I was wondering why going to hacked towns was 'dangerous' and risky when I put them on Miiverse.I thought I would just get banned or something
      Now I know why 💀

    • @kakyoindonut3213
      @kakyoindonut3213 Před měsícem +2

      aint reading that allat, im so sorry for you lost tho

    • @mukomaryan4919
      @mukomaryan4919 Před měsícem

      @@ross3695_basedhax The funny part is that instead of going into the Dream Suite, I could've just turned off the wireless communication and that would've probably saved me. But alas, the idea did not come to mind at the time.

    • @chosenuwu
      @chosenuwu Před měsícem +4

      im so sorry ; _ : your world

    • @spiralghosts
      @spiralghosts Před měsícem +29

      Another addition to "if you want someone to not do something, either don't tell them about it at all or tell them why exactly".

  • @ross3695_basedhax
    @ross3695_basedhax Před měsícem +25

    Wild World had a glitch called seeding where a hacker could literally brick your cartridge by putting lots of buildings to crash the game on the title screen(so you can't even delete it)
    Animal Crossing Wii(and other games) had exploits too that destroyed your entire Wii with RCE they could overrite boot1 to stop it from even getting to the main PowerPC processor

  • @iEcilpse
    @iEcilpse Před měsícem +60

    this makes me nostalgic for my own file… i’ve had my town for almost 8 or 9 years, and i feel lucky that i never ran into this when i was younger.
    the dream restoration project also sounds super interesting! people within the community coming together to archive towns is such a kind thing to do!

  • @SylveonTrapito
    @SylveonTrapito Před měsícem +50

    I remember, there was an internet list of creepy and weird towns to visit. There was one that had a lot of dolls with axes. Entering one of these felt like entering the dark web.

    • @Hezekiel112
      @Hezekiel112 Před měsícem +18

      Yeah. it's the Aika town. I remember RiverRun too ! its for me the OG creepy hacked town back when ACNL was released. There wasn't a save editor in this era, so there wasn't really common 👍

  • @renakunisaki
    @renakunisaki Před měsícem +42

    Sane design:
    - download dream data as a separate save file
    - entirely disable save function during dreams
    - don't touch the original file at all until next session
    - at startup, delete dream file without looking at it (in case looking somehow crashes)
    - periodically scan uploaded files for anomalies and delete them
    Nintendo design
    - replace your actual save data
    - just pray nobody manages to save during dreams
    - blindly trust all uploaded files, because they're encrypted, even though the encryption is worthless when hackers can just modify the live data, which the game will then encrypt for them
    - don't bother to patch for years because it requires hacking to exploit, even though it doesn't require hacking to be a victim
    Classic.

    • @LonelySpaceDetective
      @LonelySpaceDetective Před 23 dny

      It doesn't replace your save data based on what I got from this video, it "just" overwrites your original town in game memory. Your save data is only touched if you end up saving while in the dream town, which under normal conditions wouldn't be possible.
      It's still uh, optimistic thinking on Nintendo's part I agree, but they weren't _that_ stupid.

    • @citrusella-nomorecraptions
      @citrusella-nomorecraptions Před 9 dny

      @@LonelySpaceDetective I wonder if an "easy" way to prevent save overwrites on autosave would have been to compare certain current (normally unchangeable) town info in memory with the town info in the save, and if they don't match, either preventing the save from taking place or overwriting the current memory with the data in the save before allowing the save to take place. Then your save could only ever be overwritten with another save of your own town.

    • @LonelySpaceDetective
      @LonelySpaceDetective Před 9 dny

      @@citrusella-nomorecraptions I think a potential issue with that would be false positives; just about any small change to your town from the amount of weeds to placing a new flower would be enough to make your town technically different than it was when you loaded your town up.
      You did give me an idea however: You know how they use a special flag in the save file to determine whether Resetti should appear? Maybe they could've made it so dreaming sets a "player is dreaming" flag, and if you try to do anything that'd trigger an autosave while that flag is set the game in some way refuses to overwrite the game data, with the flag being cleared only if you exit the dream or reload your save after turning off the 3DS.

  • @GamingBren
    @GamingBren Před měsícem +104

    0:11 Ah, the Nintendo 3DScube was such a great console

  • @AissurDrol
    @AissurDrol Před měsícem +9

    From a programming aspect this is really easy to prevent. In the save function simply return an error message before saving if in a dream town. This feature was probably added on rather poorly.

  • @Nintendo_Freak8x
    @Nintendo_Freak8x Před měsícem +15

    It's interesting that the Dream towns were simply save states of the respective cities. I always thought that was some other kind of file.

  • @lilben9441
    @lilben9441 Před měsícem +27

    I used to love visiting these hacked towns. The oversight is crazy though.

  • @ross3695_basedhax
    @ross3695_basedhax Před měsícem +70

    Animal Crossing New Leaf: corrupt your town
    Animal Crossing Wild World: Brick your entire cartridge
    Animal Crossing City Folk and New Horizons: Brick your entire console with RCE corrupting boot process
    EDIT: The RCE exploit was first discovered in Mario Kart Wii but was also found in LOTS of other games even on Nintendo Switch and 3DS, We can thank Wiimmfi team and PabloMK7 for sending it to nintendo to get fixed xD
    I'm not sure if New Leaf had it but I know some other 3DS games did

    • @ross3695_basedhax
      @ross3695_basedhax Před měsícem +7

      Sorry for leaving like 5 comments lol
      I love your content I would love to see videos on the other 2 exploits

    • @jummy0
      @jummy0 Před měsícem +8

      animal crossing wii can do WHAT now???? i've heard of seeds in WW but never about the wii thing

    • @citrusella-nomorecraptions
      @citrusella-nomorecraptions Před měsícem +4

      @@jummy0 IIRC it *may* be the same sort of thing I've heard about in Mario Kart Wii (a number of Wii games apparently used similar code libraries for some things and it's a vulnerability in the whole library)--a malicious actor could run cheats/code that could crash or brick their own Wii in an offline scenario, but running it online might cause anyone else also playing to be subject to the same brick.

    • @kalejuice5701
      @kalejuice5701 Před měsícem +6

      What's RCE?

    • @prismavoid3764
      @prismavoid3764 Před měsícem +15

      @@kalejuice5701 "Remote code execution", basically "my console sends code to YOUR console that then gets run." Very very dangerous exploit.

  • @elijahsinclair7219
    @elijahsinclair7219 Před měsícem +41

    I would LOVE to see more new leaf stuff! So much stuff to cover!

  • @TheIrishDino
    @TheIrishDino Před měsícem +6

    As a big fan of New Leaf, and someone who never had internet access before 2016, thank GOD I never accidentally came across one of these towns.
    And what a great start to these New Leaf videos! So hyped to see more

  • @HuntMeDown237
    @HuntMeDown237 Před měsícem +9

    Hunter, PLEASE never stop posting Animal Crossing content. It's my 3rd favourite game series, and there's no one else on CZcams that's so knowledgeable about AC than you. You've told me so much about a game that I thought I knew so much about!!

  • @Lunascaped
    @Lunascaped Před měsícem +17

    This is actually really interesting, I'm surprised Nintendo didn't save your town in a different way to prevent something like this.
    Great video as always Hunter!

  • @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo
    @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo Před měsícem +7

    I'd love to see some love for City Folk - so many people forget about it, and laugh at the mic (it let me talk to my friend 2500 miles away! Long-distance calls were expensive!)

  • @StarryKnightPinkle
    @StarryKnightPinkle Před měsícem +9

    I’m just glad that you can still unlock the dream suite public works project even after the discontinuation of the 3ds online by attempting to connect to someone else’s town at the train station. :)

  • @Caboodle.
    @Caboodle. Před měsícem +39

    yooo new leaf!!!
    probably just nostalgia induced bias but i absolutely loved new leaf, would be nice to see more content on it
    i actually remember finding a hacked dream town just by chance once when i was a kid, and it was hacked in such a way that you could go out of bounds, and they placed a bench out in the void... that you couldn't get back up from. needless to say, i was a bit upset lol

    • @ross3695_basedhax
      @ross3695_basedhax Před měsícem +1

      Don't listen to 'nostalgia' argument its a load a crap lol
      People who tell you that are not real gamers

    • @pishagerudo
      @pishagerudo Před měsícem +8

      naww its not nostalgia bias at all, acnl is genuinely goated, the first animal crossing game i played was new horizons and i liked it but when i finally picked up new leaf holy DARN is it so much better...

    • @lockl00p27
      @lockl00p27 Před měsícem

      @@ross3695_basedhaxBreaking News: Many people have been deemed “non gamers” because they’re saying that your preferences are likely influenced by nostalgia.

  • @momoapples
    @momoapples Před měsícem +4

    I've been playing ACNL since 2013 but never heard of this exploit before. I really learn new things about these games everyday!

  • @majesticespeon3126
    @majesticespeon3126 Před měsícem +4

    It’s funny. I’m still on the island with someone else to this day. I left my 3DS on charge and never touched it. Me and this person have been chatting ever since lol

  • @angelusvictor6715
    @angelusvictor6715 Před měsícem +9

    7:25 "there's a good chance your Dream Town is still there!"
    ...Can someone KINDLY pass a link to that vault? Because well, I uploaded a dream town ages ago and afterwards, my copy of New Leaf got stolen and I had to basically start from scratch with a new copy.
    So if what the video said is true, that means that...my town is preserved somewhere? And I can get it back? :O That would be magical.

    • @MellowhearttheCat
      @MellowhearttheCat Před měsícem +4

      Seconding this. My brother’s save data was corrupted a while ago. Would be real cool to get it back for him.

    • @Hunter-R.
      @Hunter-R.  Před měsícem +8

      It will be published eventually, but the data is still being compiled and sorted through. I’m not really involved in that process, so I can’t give a definitive timeframe, but it shouldn’t be too much longer.

  • @bluetoad6848
    @bluetoad6848 Před měsícem +14

    A fantastic video like always.
    If you ever talk about new leaf again, I hope you can explain the rare sunrises and sunsets that would occasionally happen, since there's very little info on it.

  • @xpastelxbloodx
    @xpastelxbloodx Před měsícem +6

    This video made me realise Aika Village is now lost forever

  • @explodingbearz
    @explodingbearz Před měsícem +7

    These videos are always awesome. I'm so glad someone is making CZcams videos about my favorite series and they're so well produced too

    • @Hunter-R.
      @Hunter-R.  Před měsícem +1

      Thank you so much! Means a lot, truly. I hope you continue to look forward to future uploads and some cool announcements in the future. 😉

  • @Mario583a
    @Mario583a Před měsícem +3

    If you save in the dream, you save in real life!

  • @Hydraina
    @Hydraina Před měsícem +4

    I grew up with new leaf! You have nooooo idea how absolutely elated I am to see you diving into New Leaf as well as the original gamecube version (⁠☆⁠▽⁠☆⁠)!!!

  • @pinaseraphina
    @pinaseraphina Před měsícem +15

    5:46
    WE MUST GO DEEPER

  • @DerpedCrusader
    @DerpedCrusader Před měsícem +4

    I love the way you break down and explain things. You could start covering entirely different series and I'd watch it. Absolutely love the content!

  • @songhong5624
    @songhong5624 Před měsícem +12

    Fact is that I don't play any animal crossing beside NH. But I still watch all these

    • @MsCuriousinferno
      @MsCuriousinferno Před měsícem +9

      Honestly, if you have a 3ds, I'd recommend giving New Leaf a look! While it doesn't have as much raw customizability, it does have a handful of unique features and minigames (and somewhat more interesting villager interactions imho)

    • @Digital_is_silly
      @Digital_is_silly Před měsícem +4

      @@MsCuriousinfernoin my opinion we should get a new leaf remake with its features, anchs customisation and graphics

  • @crenoxi4155
    @crenoxi4155 Před měsícem +2

    YES FINNALY NEW LEAF. New leaf has been my childhood, ive been enjoying your videos a ton and have just been waiting for you to break open this rabbit hole. New leaf is so broken, and has so many fun stories and glitches to tell, i hope this series gets updated further. Love your Content, keep it going

  • @Ricar2002YT
    @Ricar2002YT Před měsícem +3

    So happy to see New Leaf :)

  • @sethvilla9650
    @sethvilla9650 Před měsícem +7

    Nice to see you doing some videos on later AC entries!

  • @supereststinger
    @supereststinger Před měsícem +1

    This was my first introduction into Animal Crossing. I have so much nostalgia for this game. Thank you for covering it.

  • @biggreenhat
    @biggreenhat Před měsícem +5

    you know its gonna be a good day when hunter posts

  • @VanillaScoopYGO
    @VanillaScoopYGO Před měsícem +8

    THE KING IS BACK

  • @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo
    @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo Před měsícem +3

    Bit bummed the list of dream towns isn't available yet, but holy hell. I thought i'd coped with the new leaf servers shutting down. I cried several times throughout the _nine minute video._
    Incredible video, 10/10. I also appreciate that you didn't post this until after the servers went down /gen

  • @y_z
    @y_z Před 23 dny +2

    I remember glitching into main street on dream towns a few times before... using the bug net glitch that let you go through walls.

  • @Pixelman546
    @Pixelman546 Před měsícem +3

    I always wondered why they changed the dream address system in welcome amiibo. Great vid!

  • @Spyronicpkc
    @Spyronicpkc Před měsícem +2

    I had to double take that intro because my name is Hunter too. Felt like i was booting up my old town

  • @fireflystudios123
    @fireflystudios123 Před 28 dny +1

    I definetly understand how devastating this glitch could be, but it brings up an interesting concept of replacing your town with that of another player’s and being able to freely make changes to it while still having a starting point. It sounds like something they should try out in future games

  • @kikonine2
    @kikonine2 Před měsícem +3

    Love seeing you branching out to other AC games! Really enjoy your content man, keep it up

  • @dribble909
    @dribble909 Před měsícem +9

    a few days ago I downloaded the welcome amiibo update and my village got reverted back into a village from a previous save file I didn't even know was still on the cartridge. why is New Leaf like this

  • @voca-chan7953
    @voca-chan7953 Před měsícem +3

    Holy crap, a New Leaf video! I absolutely love this game!

  • @DiotheDino
    @DiotheDino Před měsícem +1

    This is nuts, actually super lucky I never had this happen to me in 800+ hours of ACNL.

  • @4pixels_
    @4pixels_ Před měsícem +1

    this is an awesome video man, i never knew about this! keep it up 👍

  • @Yoshi6969
    @Yoshi6969 Před měsícem +1

    New Leaf!!! So excited!

  • @GloomyFish
    @GloomyFish Před měsícem +3

    i remember hearing about this when i was looking up if hacked dream towns could corrupt your data. scared the hell out of me, but i wonder if people could use it to their advantage and just... copy a town they like onto their own game. assuming the game isn't corrupted or whatever.

    • @dyter424
      @dyter424 Před měsícem +1

      Some did, because they wanted a "glitched" town. The end result was an army of Jingles from RiverRun. Or whatever was available at the time.

    • @juliogaltoni
      @juliogaltoni Před 8 dny +1

      @@dyter424 i still have river run lol

  • @sugasnaps
    @sugasnaps Před 29 dny +1

    I swear every video of yours blows my mind lol. New Leaf was my first AC game and I remember visiting hacked dream towns that had structures like public works projects in the ocean and river. Visiting those felt so forbidden, but now I'm glad I never ran into one that could overwrite my save file! I would've been so much more afraid if I had known that back then hahaha. Your videos are awesome, and you explain everything in a way that is easy to understand, even to someone who has no experience with programming, like me. I've subscribed and I'll be looking out for new videos, I can't wait to learn more whacky stuff about this game series I love so much

  • @Jay-fl5yr
    @Jay-fl5yr Před 8 dny

    I haven’t been getting notifications lately, so I had no idea this video was out! I have a little binging to do. Thank you for all of these videos, Hunter. I’m looking forward to your content branching out to the rest of the series!

  • @jrod.314
    @jrod.314 Před měsícem +1

    wow, i’ve always been fascinated by this glitch/exploit, and have never found more than just some forum posts about it.
    Ive always been really facinated with errors and corruption in animal crossing and other games, so i’m happy to see such a video that goes in depth about it :)

  • @fishsticxz
    @fishsticxz Před měsícem +1

    oh wow, i'm glad i was never super into dream visiting! would've hated for this to happen to my town... i love acnl, happy to see some videos about it! the music is sooo nostalgic

  • @angleofsweetrevenge
    @angleofsweetrevenge Před měsícem

    I'm so glad to see you've stepped into New Leaf! It was my favourite growing up, and still is (although the gamecube version is now growing on me too despite never playing it thanks to your videos!) and I'd love to see you cover more

  • @hexprincess9582
    @hexprincess9582 Před měsícem

    Yay! I can’t wait to see what you find in the other games!

  • @brobeckskazooremixes8703
    @brobeckskazooremixes8703 Před měsícem +1

    I'm so happy that Hunter uploaded again

  • @maxcorrice9499
    @maxcorrice9499 Před měsícem +1

    Story time!
    so i first started playing new leaf around release, and i loved it, i grew up with wild world and i was in middle school when new leaf came out. then at one point while i was playing it at launch this dbag kid kept turning off my 3ds, and it corrupted my save data. i was heartbroken, even contacted nintendo to see if my town could be restored in any way using the dream suite data and they just said no, maybe in the future but that’s not in the works. i started again, idk if that data is still around because i haven’t been able to get attached in the same way since. now i see this video, learn i was lied to by nintendo cause they could have used this to get it back, and what’s worse, it’s now gone for good cause they wiped it with welcome amiibo. if any of the old data is ever recovered and someone comes across a “de witt” with bree in it, let me know, or at least say hi to her for me

  • @fathomtuns7127
    @fathomtuns7127 Před 24 dny +3

    Really loving the branch out into New Leaf. There's so many odd mechanics and oversights that it can compete with Gamecube. Just the other day, I found a glitch with Cyrus and the lava lamp. His customization options for this one item are mislabeled, and every color is inaccurate once customized. I couldn't find any information on it except a dead forum post, which is odd, since it was never patched.

  • @nyanarchy
    @nyanarchy Před měsícem +1

    I haven't played New Leaf, just the OG and City Folk, but great video as always! Excited for what's next.

  • @crumbskull
    @crumbskull Před měsícem +20

    What is the website with the dream towns on it? It isn't in the description.

    • @bluetruckwindshield
      @bluetruckwindshield Před měsícem +6

      I also would like to know what it is

    • @Hunter-R.
      @Hunter-R.  Před měsícem +19

      It isn’t published yet! I’ll update the description when it is

    • @shayladay1829
      @shayladay1829 Před měsícem +1

      @@Hunter-R. do you know when it will be about? sorr if i seem impatient im just excited LOL

  • @rgeek9784
    @rgeek9784 Před měsícem

    I'm so glad you did this video
    Thank you so much!

  • @garrettprice6507
    @garrettprice6507 Před měsícem +1

    I swear this is one of the best channels ever!!! Loving the New Leaf focus🎉🎉🎉

  • @chromaluxe
    @chromaluxe Před měsícem +3

    I love your videos hunter! you're a huge inspiration to me!

  • @lemonadesnake
    @lemonadesnake Před 15 dny +2

    Imagine being Luna and just seeing you not ever wake up

  • @p-196
    @p-196 Před 11 dny +1

    New Leaf was my first Animal Crossing

  • @WC3fanatic997
    @WC3fanatic997 Před měsícem +1

    This video should be a rather large reminder that it doesn't matter what companies do to try and stop people from getting around stops and checksums, or how "obsolete" technology is cut off from our modern world; people will find a way around it and make it work.
    Invasive DRM, attacks on Right-To-Repair, Server-Shutdowns . . . all of it can be circumvented with enough perseverance.

  • @MilkFishing
    @MilkFishing Před měsícem +1

    Truly a great vid

  • @WillJohnson321
    @WillJohnson321 Před 4 dny

    This was super interesting! You made an amazing video!

  • @ReplikaYunus
    @ReplikaYunus Před měsícem +1

    You should make more new leaf content! This video was so much fun to watch.

  • @MushyAkko
    @MushyAkko Před měsícem

    This is such a good video! Can’t wait to see more vids about ACNL

  • @deadpearls
    @deadpearls Před měsícem

    i love the way what you‘re saying is visualized!

  • @Chubby_Bub
    @Chubby_Bub Před měsícem +4

    You can't fool me, I can tell your character is moving with keyboard keys (IJKL?) from those suspiciously 90° and 45° paths with no 3DS joystick wiggling

  • @mkt._
    @mkt._ Před měsícem +1

    Just wanted to say, this is the first time I've seen New Leaf with the HD textures and wow. It looks like how I imagined the original looking back then, when that resolution was the best you'd get on handheld. Would be awesome to go back to the game as it is here to relive the nostalgia without the graininess

  • @QuiltedDusknoir
    @QuiltedDusknoir Před měsícem +1

    The worst thing I encountered in a dream town was someone putting the plaza out of bounds. I couldn't move, go on the bed nor leave so I had to quit out the game and reload. Resetti gave me a lecture but he'll never understand hacking.

  • @pawelk1337
    @pawelk1337 Před měsícem +1

    lovd your vids keep it up!

  • @CommieApe
    @CommieApe Před měsícem +1

    Action replays were in use long before new leaf. Had one back in the day for wild world and pokemon platinum

    • @Hunter-R.
      @Hunter-R.  Před měsícem +2

      Of course, but New Leaf didn’t see widespread AR support until a bit after it’s launch. It takes awhile for people to crack the game and come up with the codes.

  • @scottl.1568
    @scottl.1568 Před 13 dny +2

    Isabella has a fluffy white doggy beard 😊

  • @LierPlayz
    @LierPlayz Před měsícem +1

    Well done. Hunter R.

  • @zacharieperez4103
    @zacharieperez4103 Před měsícem

    almost leapt out of my seat seeing you finally get to some other game content, damn i love your channel man! what a crazy topic too, love when bugs are just straight up Bad. ty for ur efforts entertaining us masses

  • @annagarlicjaws
    @annagarlicjaws Před měsícem +2

    I'd love to see you cover Magician's Quest content someday!

  • @Traptanium
    @Traptanium Před měsícem +1

    FINALLY A NEW LEAF VIDEO

  • @mumbo4567
    @mumbo4567 Před měsícem +1

    Babe wake up new Hunter R. video

  • @ewwstraightppllol
    @ewwstraightppllol Před měsícem +2

    Oh good, another video for me to watch 5 times in one day. That's just one of the perks of being one of my comfort youtubers lol. Commenting for engagement :)

  • @woofwood_
    @woofwood_ Před měsícem +1

    HES BACK AFTER A MONTH!! YIPPEEEEE

  • @FriendlyArin
    @FriendlyArin Před měsícem +1

    Yooo New Leaf content??? Love it!

  • @sniim
    @sniim Před měsícem

    Excited for more videos about ALL the AC games, even if ACGC is my favorite

  • @ArtzyZero
    @ArtzyZero Před měsícem

    Huh, crazy to think my NL dream town might be on an archive somewhere. I wonder how many visited during its time online.
    Happy to hear you're branching out to the other AC games, learning about the original is fun but I grew up with Wild World so I'll always be curious to see exploits and oversights from anything past WW! :D

  • @jeasydj123
    @jeasydj123 Před měsícem

    I can't tell you how absolutely flabbergasted I was at the end of the other vid when you did a teaser for new leaf vids. Gives me hope for City Folk vids because City Folk is my fav ^_^

  • @nickk3077
    @nickk3077 Před měsícem +2

    I like how you changed things up with this video! Really cool, but I hope you mostly stay with the GameCube game still.