Intentionally Crashing Animal Crossing

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Published 2024-01-19
Mr. Resetti isn’t too fond of resets… but what if the game gives us no choice? Today we intentionally find a bunch of crashes and softlocks that force you to reset in the original Animal Crossing.

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Thank you to Cuyler, Prakxo, and the Animal Crossing decompilation project for bringing some of these facts to light: github.com/Prakxo/ac-decomp

This video was recorded with an HD community texture pack for the game ran through Dolphin emulator. You can find info about this highly detailed, custom-drawn pack here:
forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-animal-crossing-hd-t…

Assets and other information were pulled from the Animal Crossing GameCube community megasheet:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13sRAcj9YbP9_i-u0Kg…

🎵 Music credits:
• Mr. Resetti’s Theme - Animal Crossing:
   • Animal Crossing Soundtrack - Mr. Resetti  
• Re-Tail (Qumu Remix) - Animal Crossing New Leaf:
   • Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Re-Tail [...  
• New Year’s Day - Animal Crossing New Horizons:
   • New Year's Day - Animal Crossing: New...  
• 2 P.M. - Animal Crossing City Folk:
   • Animal Crossing City folk - 2PM music  
• 5 P.M. - Animal Crossing:
   • Video  
• K.K. Disco (Qumu Remix):
   • Animal Crossing - K.K. Disco [Remix]  
• Title Theme - Animal Crossing:
   • Animal Crossing Gamecube Full Theme S...  

0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:39 Diary Softlock
0:02:26 Out-of-Bounds Shenanigans
0:05:08 Wrong Warp Crashes
0:06:35 Nook Code Crash
0:07:22 Unused Item Crashing
0:10:45 Conclusion

All Comments (21)
  • Hate it when I walk into my local store and the manager hits me with the ol "mU U 9 3," instantly terminating reality
  • @TacticianAmelia
    "...Now, this IS regrettable!" chants the eldritch phrases that fucking obliterate reality as you know it classic tom nook
  • @blueblur98
    Saying an invalid code to Tom Nook pisses him off so much that he recites a forbidden reality deletion spell to punish you for your hubris
  • @neputendo
    Resetti mentioned that yelling at you is bad for his health. At this rate you're gonna give him a tombstone.
  • @LendriMujina
    With these in mind, it feels very fitting that Resetti's new job in NH is as someone you can call to rescue you when you get stuck.
  • @samdabugg
    7:04 I like how tom nook being able to execute code by speaking it aloud implies that he's omnipotent, and has the power to control the game and you and all the other villagers are just puppets in his own little world
  • @falloutbruh
    Resetti's song is my ringtone and I had this video in my queue, when it came on I ran to my phone thinking this video was an actual phone call. You successfully accidentally bamboozled me
  • @CyborusYT
    6:36 He speaks the unspeakably name of the forgotten gods and is immediately punished with a halting of reality
  • @kingbrettpro
    They could've used that blank Legend of Zelda NES furniture item as a way to add in The Lost Levels, as it was gonna be in the Japanese version but it didn't make the cut. Since the FDS BIOS is present on the disc, The Lost Levels can run in the game, so they missed that opportunity to fix that.
  • @TheIrishDino
    The diary one is so funny. Imagine if a real life diary had such a secure system, where trying to open the diary would stop time and space forever
  • @Hunter-R.
    There are some facts here that have been mentioned on this channel before, but I wanted to compile all the "forced-resets" into one video. Hopefully there's still some new information for you all in this video! Rest assured there are still plenty of new discoveries and obscure information to cover in the future, and I am putting substantial effort into covering those topics with longer, in-depth videos with increased production quality. A few major topics I've teased in the past are finally coming to fruition in the editing stage! Hope you look forward to it! 🤫
  • @renakunisaki
    This is why, whenever you program a game to wait for something, you should have it eventually give up and just force it. Player taking way too long to walk somewhere? Just warp them and get on with it!
  • @ArtzyZero
    I'm glad Mr.Resetti found a new job. In Wild World I'd have to purposely reset until he gave me an apology task that I could do. The DS microphone never worked for me and copying his text exactly wasn't always easy. I liked the times where he was just so fed up he'd let me off with no punishment. XD
  • @Namadu7
    Those yellow cubes are... somehow kind of eerie.
  • @ponivi
    They should’ve made resetti register when you crash the game
  • @NutyRiver
    I remember as a kid my game froze and I started crying because I didn’t want to confront Resetti
  • @ginomctony6773
    The story about the extra NES item was definitely interesting, saw someone say that they believed it was cause they were hoping to allow you to put your own rom into that slot but couldn’t do it