Animal Crossing Issues...

[corky441]

Here is a .pdf tutorial on how to set up your Wii so that you can take your AC town file to the PC and edit it. I tried to spell everything out and included a lot of pictures. Let me know if you have any questions. It doesn't take that long to complete the actual steps. Most of the time for me was spent reading about the next step and making sure I understood it.

Hacking Animal Crossing

If what you enjoy about Animal Crossing is finishing collections, achieving goals like a complete catalog, or other types of "winning" the game, then this can spoil the fun by making it too easy. If you are still paying mortgages, making donations, etc. I would suggest achieving those goals first. It motivates you to explore various possibilities, like designing money making orchards or going online to find other towns with high turnip prices. We needed more flowers than 7 a day from Nookingtons, so I traded my stone path patterns for pockets of flowers to people on Animal Crossing Community. In the process I saw some cool towns and met fun people to play with.

If you enjoy using Animal Crossing as a creative outlet, then this opens up a lot of possibilties, both in designing a really cool town and even coming up with new Animal Crossing games like "Orchard Wars". I think I would like to host one of these sometime, check it out-

Orchard Wars

The footrace also looks fun-

Epic Footrace

OMG - Ian you are truly amazing - the time you must have spent doing all this WOW.
I would love to try this but I don't think I have the courage to attempt it. I did print out the file though - so who knows

 

[dvcfamily41801]

Lisa:

Let me know when you will be playing. I will come over and see what I can help you with. My town was the same way. I have played everyday, since Dec 26, 2008. I marked off the acres, counted the trees and flowers...and nothing. Then one day in March while I was watering the flowers, I spotted a Jacob's Ladder and Pelly told me it was perfect. I had no idea because the night before she told me I was at a C-.

Let me know. I will show you what I did that might help.

Noooo, don't quit. Our turnip prices have never gotten higher than 2 hundred something bells and I still think having the perfect town was just luck on our part. Come on over for a cup of tea, ok, we can't really make a cup of tea, but pretend. and that article about AC and grown-ups - we're all in deep doo doo now, aren't we

Thanks ladies!!! This weekend if it is okay we will open up our gates and we will welcome any help we can! Our town looks like a total mess because we thought we must not have been counting the spaces on our town grid that I printed out, so we decided to lay down patterns so we knew for 100% sure that we had them. I think too, I have read on that AC Wiki something site... I don't know if it just is inaccurate, that you only have to have 8 of the 25 acres perfect to get the perfect town status? Because we thought we did before but now that we started laying the patterns down to double check ourselves, we are doing them all just incase you have to have 25/25 perfect.

Thanks again everyone. I truly am living up to my Animal Crossing Addict title that my husband has so generously tagged me with!

 

[Conolan]

OMG - Ian you are truly amazing - the time you must have spent doing all this WOW.
I would love to try this but I don't think I have the courage to attempt it. I did print out the file though - so who knows

I was on the fence about trying this for awhile until we played in someone's town who had full grass. She did it by completely restarting her town, and then later started editing. I didn't mind the dirt, since it had been that way almost from the beginning, but after seeing how nice the grass was, it just wasn't the same.

There isn't any danger to it so long as all you are doing is taking the save game on and off the Wii. Risky behavior is messing with playing copied discs, or games meant to be played in other parts of the world. System updates might cause problems, but they don't get downloaded automatically. You can simply not download them.

Once of the nice things about the town editor is you can plant fully grown trees anywhere. I could never grow straight rows because they would always run into dead spots, but now I can make a nice long tree-lined path.

 

[bunnyfoo]

Lois - I didn't get the special St. Patrick's day mail either

Once of the nice things about the town editor is you can plant fully grown trees anywhere. I could never grow straight rows because they would always run into dead spots, but now I can make a nice long tree-lined path.

Ohhhhhh! I wondered how everyone grew those really nice looking orchards. The best I could manage was an orchard that was 2x3.

Thanks for putting together the PDF for us Ian. It's really helpful to see the screenshots along with the instructions. I also thought the orchard wars video was funny.

 

[DUHgreg]

Another sign:
I was walking around the American History museum in Washington, D.C., this past Saturday. I looked down and saw stars...so I mentioned to my husband that I needed to find my shovel so I could dig up the stars.

Sure... the security guards would have completely understood.

On Saturday, Lois and I went to see two singer-songwriters perform at a place in Bethlehem, PA. Looked around, saw a star hanging from the ceiling (at a certain angle) and thought "dig spot."

 

[DUHgreg]

We didn't get St. Patrick's Day mail

Got it today!

 

[Geef]

is this weird...

Ideal toy company used to sell those little *oid things back in the '70s

http://www.tomheroes.com/Comic Ads/toy ads/zeroid.htm

 

[Conolan]

The creepy thing is the gyroids are based on Japanese Haniwa, clay funerary figures from 3rd to 7th centuries AD.

Haniwa

They are likely only decoration, but the original theory/legend was that they replaced the practice of burying the servants alive with their master. They can range in value from $1000 to $10,000 so if you sell one of these to Nook, you are getting ripped off so he can profit on the antiquities black market.

 

[Stacy's a freak]

The creepy thing is the gyroids are based on Japanese Haniwa, clay funerary figures from 3rd to 7th centuries AD.

Haniwa

They are likely only decoration, but the original theory/legend was that they replaced the practice of burying the servants alive with their master. They can range in value from $1000 to $10,000 so if you sell one of these to Nook, you are getting ripped off so he can profit on the antiquities black market.

That Nook is a schiester (sp?).

 

[parrotheadlois]

Our turnips are 155 if anyone's interested, I'll go open the gate. Anybody got anything better?

 

[dvcfamily41801]

Our turnips are 155 if anyone's interested, I'll go open the gate. Anybody got anything better?

Ohhh! I would love to come and sell my 300 turnips! I just tried and the gate was not open yet. I think Matt is downstairs and will keep trying!

 

[parrotheadlois]

We're open.

 

[dvcfamily41801]

Oh Lois. I am so sorry. Now I am really starting to think about this. We did not lose internet. Our game just freezes and we think it is because our internet goes down all the time. So I wonder if we have a problem with our game itself or the Wii because my DH was up here online having no problem and we were able to hop back on but did not see your gate open. We opened ours and then tried yours once more.

Anyway, we would still like to see Lovely's house and come visit and of course have you and Greg over to wishes!!

Thanks for trying with us! I LOVE your kitchen!

 

[parrotheadlois]

oh, that's ok. I tried your gate too. Maybe ask Ian, he's really good at this stuff! I'm glad you got to sell your turnips

and maybe I can visit you tomorrow.

I never noticed the "Hidden Mickeys" in my blue pansies - thanks Matt!!!

I'll have to get "Lovely's" code too. She (my alter-ego) also had to get on and sell her turnips. She can't open the gate cause she has no friends (poor Lovely )

See ya!!

 

[dvcfamily41801]

oh, that's ok. I tried your gate too. Maybe ask Ian, he's really good at this stuff! I'm glad you got to sell your turnips

and maybe I can visit you tomorrow.

I never noticed the "Hidden Mickeys" in my blue pansies - thanks Matt!!!

I'll have to get "Lovely's" code too. She (my alter-ego) also had to get on and sell her turnips. She can't open the gate cause she has no friends (poor Lovely )

See ya!!

I didnt get to sell my turnips because it froze up and I did not get to go back to my town to quit. Maybe tomorrow it will be better. Or even tonight! We just had fun seeing your town!! And yes...we will add Lovely's info...poor thing she needs a friend!!!

Have a good day!

 

[parrotheadlois]

I didnt get to sell my turnips because it froze up and I did not get to go back to my town to quit. Maybe tomorrow it will be better. Or even tonight! We just had fun seeing your town!! And yes...we will add Lovely's info...poor thing she needs a friend!!!

Have a good day!

oh nooooo, now I feel terrible Hopefully we can still find a good number for you.....

 

[parrotheadlois]

Hey Ian - since I already sold my turnips, if I go back to yesterday so Lisa can sell her turnips, would that work out so I don't have rotten turnips? I already have the money from my sale.

thanks

 

[dvcfamily41801]

oh nooooo, now I feel terrible Hopefully we can still find a good number for you.....

Hey Ian - since I already sold my turnips, if I go back to yesterday so Lisa can sell her turnips, would that work out so I don't have rotten turnips? I already have the money from my sale.

thanks

Oh dont you worry abouot it!! We are just fine. I just wish we could figure out why our system freezes like that. Especially if we are not losing our internet connection. It only does it when we have our gate open or we are visiting, so it has to be something with the Wii connection.

But please...dont you dare change your time or anything, I don't want to mess up anything in your beautiful town just to sell our turnips!!

 

[Conolan]

Turning back the clock a day or two doesn't cause a problem. The only consequence is spoiling turnips. I think it was built that way so you can't wait to the end of the week to find out when the best price was, and then turn back to sell your turnips. Since Lois already sold hers, it's not a problem, and going to another town that is in the past won't cause yours to spoil.

As for the wifi problem, how far is the router from your Wii? Do you have anything else that uses wifi that you might be able to use to check the signal strength? Here is a page at Nintendo that suggests things to try-
Nintendo Support

There is also a an ethernet adapter for the Wii that you can order for $25 if nothing else works. This lets you make a wired connected from the Wii to the router which is more reliable.

My guess is there is some trouble with interference or reception. One thing that might help is changing the wireless channel on the router. There should be something about that in the routers manual, and Nintendo support has instructions for specific models of routers.



Ian

 

[dvcfamily41801]

Turning back the clock a day or two doesn't cause a problem. The only consequence is spoiling turnips. I think it was built that way so you can't wait to the end of the week to find out when the best price was, and then turn back to sell your turnips. Since Lois already sold hers, it's not a problem, and going to another town that is in the past won't cause yours to spoil.

As for the wifi problem, how far is the router from your Wii? Do you have anything else that uses wifi that you might be able to use to check the signal strength? Here is a page at Nintendo that suggests things to try-
Nintendo Support

There is also a an ethernet adapter for the Wii that you can order for $25 if nothing else works. This lets you make a wired connected from the Wii to the router which is more reliable.

My guess is there is some trouble with interference or reception. One thing that might help is changing the wireless channel on the router. There should be something about that in the routers manual, and Nintendo support has instructions for specific models of routers.



Ian

Thanks Ian! I will have my husband check it all out maybe Sunday. Our router is upstairs in the office and the Wii is in our living room so maybe its just a little far. Occasionally I will use my laptop down in the living room but only for a few minutes here and there. I will look into the link you provided!!

And how is Nancy making out? I have been thinking of her.