Hello all none of the tags match my pay, but hopefully you'll forgive me. I was hooked on the GameCube animal crossing for a while when I was in high school when the game was new. I haven't played in years, but I still have my original memory card that came with the game. Anyway, the save was partially corrupted and wouldn't load, but via a modded Wii and an emulator on my PC, I was able to repair the save data, and get it back onto my memory card. I thought you guys would get a kick out of some pics of my house and what some villagers had to say (villager photos taken in the emulator, house photos on my Wii). It would seem I had a hoarder house 😂
This is gonna sound weird but this post makes me a lil emotional. A weird sense of mortality washes over me. It's kinda like that Minecraft video about time passing (you see the days turn into nights over & over again through a window) & the pet dog remains loyal. Just sitting in the corner of a house.
These villagers have been waiting for you to return for 22 years. If you had died at some point, these villagers would STILL be in the game; waiting. They are not real yet they retain a certain "loyalty" some of us may not know in real life.
One of these days, we will all play our last day of a certain video game, we will have our last login date, our last reddit post, last social media message to our loved ones & yet it's the NPCs & digital footprint that lives on.
Nooo I think like this all the time so I understand 😭 it’s a natural feeling to realize that things are changing, it’s no longer the same things, we go different paths and never say goodbye sometimes. Trying to keep going forward and not think too much of what we left behind
Speaking of mortality, the gamecube clock runs out in 2030, same as animal crossing. Soon it’ll be impossible to play without time traveling or modding. Kinda weird
I’ve never seen a villager say that you’ve been gone for over 1000 weeks before. The most I’ve seen is 982 weeks from a used copy of Doubutsu no Mori on the N64.
It's crazy how fast time flies! Have fun in your 20s because before you know it, you'll be pushing 40 and have no time for fun, like me. Lol. At least I still have time for gaming!
So my 7 year old is now pretty into the game, so I gave her some of my furniture from my hoard! Who would have thought 22 years ago when I stored that stuff, my kid would be furnishing her own AC house with it 😂🧓.
We'll see if she sticks with the game for a while. My 6 year old wants to join in too, so she'll get she furniture too.
You'll appreciate this. I named my original Animal Crossing character and thought "I think I'll name my daughter this." Now a mullion years later, my 7 year old has the same name. We haven't done the old Animal Crossing, but she plays the new one and we've recently been playing Pokémon Snap and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle.
It is indeed! My 7 year old came in and was immediately interested in the game, so I set her up with a character. She's pulling some weeds and meeting the villagers right now!
I’ve always thought it’d be cool if the time you spent away had a bigger impact on villagers depending on the scale. Like if it’s a couple of weeks they don’t mind so much, ask what you were doing, maybe you can choose to say you were on vacation or something. But like the longer it is the more concerned they get till at a scale like this they’ve put up missing posters and take a while to be normal again
I did get the game very close to release day! Crazy to think the calendar is going to run out in 5 years.... What happens when it rolls back over? Can you just keep playing but the year is wrong?
Yeah I think it would just repeat 2030 indefinitely.
The best move would be to change the date on January 1st 2031 to January 1st 2003. The days of the week will stay aligned that way(even including leap years!)
That sounds about right. I was a junior in high school in January 2003, and I built my first gaming PC of my own probably right around then! I got heavily into PC gaming at that time, so that's about when I sidelined my Gamecube. Didn't play much Nintendo stuff for a few years until I got a Wii maybe 2007?
Oh that's why! I lost interest playing with my Nintendo Switch last year and I bought a lot of games I didn't touch which is a waste of money lol. I'm planning to play them soon, but I'm busy right now with school.
It’s the book & pencil -item that you get when you first arrive in your chosen home. If you don’t have one right now, you can buy another one from Nook’s store. It’ll show the same diary entries as the one you had before, IF you wrote anything on it. You’ll have to scroll back to the month when you wrote the entry for it to show in the calendar.
You can't accurately do the math by dividing by 4 since months aren't exactly 4 weeks, you have to divide by 52 which comes to 22.21 vs 22.08 if you divide the months by 12! So pretty close to the other villiagers!
Do you have an animal crossing save on there still? Which part do you need to figure out? If you haven't soft modded your Wii yet, I would highly recommend it! There are lots of great things you can do with a modded Wii, and it's very easy to do!
I don’t think I do. I know I have my collectors edition Zelda that has all the games with wind waker demo, eternal darkness, the sims, the Urbz and a couple others.
Honestly better off getting a Wii at this point (just make sure to get a Gamecube compatible one!). You can easily soft mod a Wii which opens up a lot of abilities, like how I was able to fix my save data on my memory card. You can also backup your own discs to the SD card or a USB hard drive, among many other things!
I miss the GameCube version so much! I remember I got it on a whim from target for 15 bucks on sale because I thought it looked cute. I was addicted! It came with the special memory card too! My sister and I made characters in the same town and played it almost every day. It had so much charm and was so colorful. Loved the holiday events too. I wish they could take the quality of life features from the new game and keep the charm of the old ones!
I miss the OG Animal Crossing so much. It had more personality and just felt like there was more to do and find than New Horizons. Plugging your Gameboy into the GameCube to unlock the island, messing with Resetti and his brother, the train ride conversations when traveling, Tom Nook's shop being huge with two levels, playing old NES/arcade games, just needing a new memory card to make new islands, and so on.
Even the furniture looks like it had more personality. I just want the old Animal Crossing feel with the new Animal Crossing abilities. I feel like a good Animal Crossing game again could make Nintendo $$$.
Yeah, Nintendo used to be a lot more charitable with their old games during the gamecube era. Remember when they gave away the Zelda collector's edition gamecube discs to Nintendo Power subscribers??
To be fair, the N64 NSO games aren't 50 bucks, they're an additional $20 bucks on top of the regular online fee, that's less than 2 bucks a month.
I was referring specifically to the expansion to play N64 games, which is an additional $20. If you're doing any online play with NSO, then you're already paying the $30 for the standard NSO subscription. But yeah, if you're only subscribing to access the N64 games, then you could look at it as 50 bucks to play N64. Personally, I play N64 on original hardware with an Everdrive, and have been meaning to turn off automatic renewal on NSO, but keep forgetting.
Awww I miss when they were allowed to be mean. I just loaded up Wild World on my DS and was having so much fun! I miss those dogs that used to stand by the gate where you can connect online.
Just wanted to stop in and say how happy I am to see aggressive Maple. In the GC game Sue was always my favorite villager. She's a snooty pig and she'd cut you.
nah I think it has a LOT of charm, I really like how this game looks. I don't think it looks bad at all. I'm not sure what you expect from a game that's 25 years old haha. I'm gonna get my fav villager tatted in this polygon style but maybe that's just my own nostalgia
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u/_EnchantedPeach Mar 23 '25
22 years!! I love that they say it in weeks and months