Getting one Billion Bells in Animal Crossing

This is the story of how I became the world's first legitimate Animal Crossing (GCN) Bellionaire. Why has no one ever done this before? How do I know I am the first? What does it take to become a Bellionaire? Find out that and more in this video! The Turnip Price Predictor program along with all my other Animal Crossing documents can be found in my Discord below.
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Go K.K. Rider! Remix (00:00 and 36:05): • Animal Crossing - Go K...
K.K. Ballad Remix (33:23): • K.K. Ballad Studio Remix
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[@WarioWill]

19:36 "Sacrificing the entire town for the sake of making money." Wow, this game is realistic!

[@whatdadogdoingaming]

*Flashbacks to new leaf*

[@gillipop1]

​@@whatdadogdoingamingflashforwards.

[@whatdadogdoingaming]

@@gillipop1 *FlashForwards* New horizon sucks

[@chillfactory9000]

average stardew valley player

[@Hawk7886]

​@@chillfactory9000average real estate developer irl

[@flother4834]

Imagine being the richest thing ever and your bank gives u a doll house

[@gorgannan5177]

What do you give the man who has everything?

[@pacomatic9833]

@@gorgannan5177 A doll house.

[@alejandropulidorodriguez9723]

​@@pacomatic9833what an oddly beautiful exchange

[@trashbandit3270]

Even though this game has existed for almost 20 years, I feel like there’s a lot still undiscovered or not widely known about this game, if you Google a question about the game 20% of the time new horizons shows up.

[@pimkinn]

I’m guessing it’s because new leaf and new horizons were made in times where the internet was more mainstream then the population growing and wild world, meaning there’s more information to those games that are more widely available than the older ones City folk is in the middle

[@jst_TV]

@@pimkinn Also because a lot of the old forums, unofficial wiki’s, and fan sites that housed that information have went offline or been bought out and had their content scrubbed. RIP to GameFAQs very soon o7

[@pimkinn]

@@jst_TV yea, i think the Internet was less archived back in the days, also RIP

[@Doc_Fun]

Game's 21 now btw.

[@Zaurthur]

God zoomers are the worst

[@ShadowOfCicero]

Another reason the Bellionaire was elusive in the original: you weren't stuck with just one town. You could have as many towns as you had memory cards. And even the 1 million to 10 million jump is enough to fully pay off SIX additional manors. If you're not power-levelling with turnips or the island, expanding real estate is far more attractive.

[@Fru1tpunch]

so the only way to become a bellionare in animal crossing is to either do insider trading or become a landlord so realistic

[@arrotive7110]

bro your feats list is INSANE. you arent just a villager. you are THE villager. hats off to you.

[@oxoxTwinklexoxo]

I admire the fact that you had the tenacity to plan and execute this. When I was much younger I thought that I might try to legitimately become a bellionare, but after about 850 ingame days I threw in the towel because I did not have the intimate knowledge of the stalk market. This was so cool to watch.

[@user-fi6cx6pv8g]

When I heard about this I pictured some guy playing animal crossing every day since release for over a decade just to become a billionaire. Now I'm learning that he did it in 180 hours, that would be an hour per day for 6 months. Not exactly impressing me.

[@blueberri5607]

​@@user-fi6cx6pv8gThe game has been out since April 14th 2001 and no one has genuinely without cheating gotten this achievement. He did hours of dedication to finally get the achievement and be the first person to do so. I'd say that's pretty damn impressive

[@timohara7717]

​@@user-fi6cx6pv8gyou know he took a lot of breaks right

[@A_Comfy_Blanket]

He quite litterally does the maths in the beginning of the video and you physically could not have achieved it even if you dedicated a whole decade of your life to consistantly playing this game. He has done this in the most ligitimate way this could have ever been done, and is the first - that's pretty damm impressive@@user-fi6cx6pv8g

[@Hawk7886]

​@@user-fi6cx6pv8g180 hours of grinding a single player game takes a ton of fortitude. Imagine playing with a spreadsheet for five hours each day for five weeks straight, and every few days it implodes, taking multiple days of progress with it. He made a 60GB text file data dump while reverse engineering the thing.

[@iluvnumberstations]

i admire people like you who explore, catalog and archive EVERYTHING about a game, then share it with others. you’re like historians!

[@Envrionmela]

The whole not being able to sell turnips because you don't have space to accept payment is really suffering from success.

[@SoundFantasy]

I legitimately don't know how Nintendo thought people would get this item wow. Congrats on achieving this rank.

[@hannahc3317]

There's these Tetris structures on the N64 that my family has been building since the console launch

[@luc1ddream5]

​@@hannahc3317What does this have to do with the comment

[@hannahc3317]

@@luc1ddream5 earlier Nintendo games having insane decade long achievements built into the game. The "new" Tetris requires millions of line clears to build the structures, getting the post office item would take a dedicated player 20 years, etc

[@alex.g7317]

@@hannahc3317time well spent

[@dusaprukiyathan1613]

Isn't the answer as simple as, they didn't?

[@EeveeFromAlmia]

Do you remember the Tai soccer team cave rescue? One of the men involved was not only a pro extreme driver, but an experienced anaesthesiologist. This man was legit the ONLY person in this world who was a perfect fit for the only rescue they could do, so much he even got knighted for it. I’m not saying that this is as impressive as saving lives, but you’re both have the same ‘the exact right person for this exact task’ vibes that I am incredibly fascinated by.

[@Coldeggman]

Congrats dude! The AC community has come a long way and I'm happy to see you complete this insane accomplishment! ACNH hype!!

[@BrianMp16]

Thanks cold! It's awesome to see the AC community grow. Also, for the record, your 100% no codes AC completion was an inspiration for this challenge, so thanks man! See you NH!

[@Theesemeese]

I got AC:NH to play with my niece. I’ve never played any AC. I was curious what a bellionaires island looked like, so searched YT. This video was at the top. I can’t believe I watched 40 minutes of that, I couldn’t stop lol. I was blown away by the effort you put into this task, what an achievement congrats! And thanks for putting this together, it was highly entertaining

[@tenthrealm6913]

You've proven to be the premiere authority on AC, and after all these years you have transcended the medium. Hats off to you!

[@LaskyLabs]

You remind me of people like ZFG, Simple Flips, and Oats and Goats. Your knowledge of the game is so vast and so good that you can just think of glitches and strategies right off the top of your head. That's what makes all of them so interesting, because they don't just follow a route, they think on their feet and pull out some obscure but interesting knowledge while doing it.

[@PurplePh0enix]

He also reminds me of SummoningSalt.

[@Adeyum64]

I would even compare it to Panenkoek and Stryder at this point

[@life-destiny1196]

wow I have heard of literally every person in this thread. the closest thing I can add to the list would be, idk, gymnast86 or maybe one of the kaizo SMW hackers

[@greed0599]

I guess it makes sense that vast majority of the fanbase for animal crossing isn't really concerned about min-maxing, considering how casual the game is.

[@matthewdixon3694]

Nintendo: yeah let’s do this fun little game mechanic that mimics the stock market how fun! This guy: My name is Jordan Belfort.

[@qtaroqujo1188]

I don't know if you will ever see this, but I would like to personally thank you for showing screenshots of Animal Crossing Community. Years ago, I learned a lot about Wild World and City Folk that I remember but have never found documented anywhere else, and I remember only being able to upgrade my Nook stores thanks to them. The name was lost to time, and I assumed they had long closed when Fandom replaced them in the search results.

[@ClutchOuya]

Imagine Tom nooks perspective, he baught $1bil bells worth of turnips off you. His wife is pisseddddd

[@jcrosenkreuz5213]

The phrase "60 Gigabyte text file" is so cursed

[@MA-sv2bs]

I attempted 100%. My rules were: No time travel allowed, no codes, and no glitches. Resetting was allowed (mainly for lucky Katrina bonus and Groundhog day). I basically did everything, but the post office model was too monumental a task for me. I was satisfied with having obtained virtually all items and all gyroids, and completely covering my town in flowers in a pattern to permanently prevent weeds from growing. The gyroids and Gracie took the longest. And it got to the point where I went many months of real time waiting on the Sproid to spawn (probably about 4 months). I actually found out that Wisp can reward gyroids, but I already had the Sproid logged in my catalog and had sold it when I was a kid.

[@Kosmicd12]

I love Brianmp16

[@Probably_Daniel]

Will you speedrun the animal crossing series?

[@juicyguyzer]

I love Kosmicd12

[@Cubic_l.l]

That means you get a coconut

[@sirpretzel822]

Mp16 is currently under heavy investigation by the animal crossing SEC and is facing life in prison for insider trading with Tom Nook.

[@BrianMp16]

The K.K. slider remixes used in the video are: 00:00 and 36:05 - Go K.K. Slider! Remix: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqrRlKWvqaapbNU 33:23 - K.K. Ballad Remix: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIHMZaWEYt6Ga6s

[@PommeVanille]

I'm so proud to see how many things you accomplished in this community. But most importantly I'm proud to know you Brian. I admire you a lot. Congratulations 👏👏👏

[@BrianMp16]

Thank you Pomme, that means a lot to me!

[@nightcoregremlin]

absolute mad man. i can’t believe someone would subject themselves to this but i’m glad you did lol

[@CowardEdd]

This is completely insane. That program and reference sheet, good God man. Incredible stuff - and 17k views in two years? Absolute travesty.

[@ulkov4255]

an actual hero

[@QuietGrave]

imagine nintendo caring as much about its fanbase as this guy does about their game.

[@yayababatoto]

I’m already at around 5,000,000 bells after two months of new horizons and those numbers are only going to go up exponentially thanks to turnips. I’m astounded that money making in the GCN version is slow enough that nobody reached 99,000,000 in 18 years

[@MrsIggyKirkland]

Old comment, but money making was severely limited in the original GC game. If I remember correctly, there was only four ocean fish, one of them being impossibly hard to catch. In the newer games, you can visit islands where you can catch sharks and fish and super-rare bugs by leveling the island, and get hundreds of thousands of bells in a few hours of effort. That definitely wasn't an option back with these older AC games. They're really come far in that regard.

[@Ender_Onryo]

Can't wait for someone to do Post Model% TAS. Would be interesting to see if they need to run around and do money bag/turnip placement management or if there are super human shenanigans available.

[@empiar5481]

Comment section is cringe as fuck. Having a thorough understanding of the game’s mechanics so you can accurately predict when you’ll get the most money is legitimate and no amount of seething will change that. Using this accusation of illegitimacy to question whether the 100% is legit is also bullshit.

[@vasthyperman]

Exactly what im saying, he literally explained how it was legit too. You could calculate this shit without even needing a program, he just had it to show what was happening. He even said for it to work he needed to have functions be right, which were things you could look at in game and predict spikes.

[@Pelladhros]

I earned 1billion bells through that item duplication glitch from memory card travel you talked about, took me about 500 hrs I think in 2013, had to have a barren town to drop stuff. I moreso had the mindset of defining what constitutes 100% completion of a game, because there are a lot of tiny details easy to miss, and then achieving those criteria by any means necessary except for using action replay or hacking, so in-game exploits or glitches were fair game to me. I remember filling up all design slots with artwork, 96 I think, topping out scores of all NES games, and making a perfect town (according to the wishing well) with nothing but golden shovel trees for the aesthetic. And the 100% catalog was awful even with entering codes all day at Nook's, took me a whole summer lol. But your completing it the legitimate way is amazing!

[@LilacMonarch]

Wow, I guess all you need to do to get unfathomably rich is to sacrifice your entire town and have future sight.

[@xxrepresent]

During the beginning as he explains the context around the video and lists his accomplishments, I was offput by what seemed like arrogance. After learning of his whole experience, i felt truly humbled by the dedication of this mans fight in an animal world

[@dood3530]

Man, this is amazing! Here I was thinking that no one really cared to delve into this game's mechanics in-depth, and then find your videos

[@MegaQwertification]

This is actually unreal

[@mathgeniuszach]

That ending, you sounded sort of excited, but mainly glad that you're finally done with buying and selling turnips lol

[@Rpodnee]

It's insane how many mechanics this game has that I've never even heard of. Such as goods power. Also I lol'd when you refused to say HighGuy.

[@renamamiya9196]

Excellent job my dude. It's about time you had a big break in this game.

[@PointlessNihilist]

Learned so much from this video. I’ve loved this game for decades, but I had no idea how item feng shui worked until now!

[@JoshWalka]

This video was awesome!! Didn’t realize how interesting the turnip market was. This video deserves much more attention

[@himbourbanist]

Joan is like "wow this guy really like turnips!"

[@josediaz1681]

This man is insane

[@skypeppers657]

found this video in my recommended, recognized the name, and then remembered learning item dupes from here back in the day

[@catisyellen9877]

Daaaaamn this guy’s a gamer alright.

[@bloodydoll5897]

this video appeared in my reocommed back around when it came out and i spent like an hour last night seartching for it and im very happy to have to watch it again

[@user-ev5gj8xe2b]

Wow. SO much effort, so much groundbreaking new knowledge, just because you had a simple idea for hitting a new goal, congrats dude. (also some parts of the commentary made me laugh)

[@JuliusHahaha]

Really interesting video! I can see that you put alot of time into this! 1 billion bells in AC:NH next!

[@BrianMp16]

Thank you, I did put a lot of time in this video. I actually do miss spending countless hours buying and selling Turnips already, so Daisy Mae may become a multi-millionaire too lol!

[@AmeHart]

This is a wonderful adventure you took us on ! Excellent work and I'd love to see other deep dives into specific strategies and code shenanigans. For now, rest easy champion.

[@DVal-bl7hm]

Wow. This video has basically taught me that I know nothing about that stalk market feature of these games. All these years, I have just kind of assumed that the white turnips were just a big scam to make you waste your money most of the time. But this trick with exploiting "spikes" in turnip prices would explain that one time where Tom Nook was willing to buy my turnips for 600 bells each. lol

[@mspikmin123]

insane how much work went into obtaining that legitimately, really interesting video

[@Myrope]

Amazing video!! So much work and passion went into reverse-engineeering the Stalk Market, I love it. Also, I really love that remix of KK Ballad!! It's so good!

[@gtis1234]

Bruh this gives me so much inspiration of what I can do with this game

[@Joshy-]

I watched the celebration live! Good job.

[@624static]

What a chill game to just set out to beat, congratulations dude!

[@PotooBurd]

I enjoy this so much! Amazing content, best wishes to you and your future projects! 🌻

[@AzumarillConGafasBv]

You are so amazing dude, so much work just to get an item, absolute legend

[@MidoriMushrooms]

I'm pretty sure we got this back in the day as kids. However, we used an Action Replay at first (didn't know about the nook codes) and then I got curious about how to unlock them all legitimately. The post office one, I'm fairly certain I did by just going forward and then back a year on New Year's to get free money from my parents over and over again... This took several days, several hours each day, and I honestly don't remember what I did to occupy myself since this was before you just turned on youtube while grinding. I guess I had more patience as a kid. At least, I remember doing this for SOMETHING (it wasn't the house upgrades, I had all of those) and remember needing a ridiculous amount of money. I was like... 12 in 2003, so it was a while ago. Anyway, this method is so much better if I ever wanted to build a model town in my basement again. (Also, yes, you are the first person to record this! I only have a shoddy 20 year old memory as proof and a way more insane method haha.)

[@laramoracca8454]

YOU ARE A LEGEND, five year old me would want to be you

[@chemist6851]

wow i give much credit to you for doing this!! did not know this was even possible!

[@sofiadacosta4836]

dude!!!! this is crazy!!!! congrats, you did an awesome job :)

[@blingo_blongo]

this man is singlehandedly achieving everybody else's dreams

[@socketlaunch]

This is a really cool video. I want to give this a try with the program you made, it seems fun in an absolute-efficiency sort of way. I actually think I might try it without any TTing, even though I know it'll take a long time. This is a really cool video and you're a really cool person.

[@_RickySpanish_]

The music at the end is an absolute BOP

[@pikafan100]

I don't know why I'm getting these old animals crossing vids about maxing out bells and legitimately 100 percenting the game, but I like it :)

[@loganlabbe9767]

How you gonna make a 30 min video on this and not show actually recieving the model??

[@PurplePh0enix]

I really want to do this as well. In fact, I started a new town just for this. I can’t record the journey because I don’t have the right equipment. Can’t wait to try this out tho!

[@the__L]

Nice video! Very informative as always. About the "Hear Code" option: doesn't an item need to be orderable from the catalog to generate a legitimate code?

[@27toten]

Bloody brilliant work mate.

[@slouch186]

that's wild lol. the amount of time this took is astonishing. i couldn't spend a hundred and fifty hours just doing animal crossing inventory management

[@Rexyx3]

Is this gamecube turnip prediction tool shared anywhere? I’m trying to do the same for my town without any cheats and I’ve been going through a pretty big rough patch with my stock market 😅

[@popbitzblast3649]

It’s so interesting how the developers actually put in the effort to make the risk and reward of investing in the turnip stock market very similar to investing in the actual stock market

[@loganlabbe9767]

The captions talking about "orangey seeds"

[@TribeDownSouth]

Every gyroid too? Jesus man, u killed it💎

[@imsupercoolandawesome]

Tip: have all 3 meals next to you so you don’t starve

[@AlyCatVR]

I love that you're also wearing the turnip top

[@prizm9515]

S tier content my dude. Ggs

[@WFanatic502]

I gotta ask... is there a link to the program you used to predict this? I'd love to try it!

[@Blucario90]

If you gave your legitimate Post Model to Tom Nook for a code and someone used that code, would that be a legitimate Post Model?

[@AlexanderBrior]

Why'd Resetti appear at the train station at 2:29? I've never seen this happen before

[@corystarkiller]

Have you been in contact with any non-English Animal Crossing communities? Your video only shows English text for Animal Crossing communities. As speedrunning communities have shown, English communities don't overlap with Japanese communities. No doubt that you have the first documented instance, but without reaching out to the non-English communities, and especially a lot of time with the Japanese communities, I'd be hesitant to say you're the first ever. Congratulations on your achievement though. It's a lot of effort non-the-less.

[@marioluigibros.8176]

2:30 Resetti at train station?

[@PastGamingfutureLPs]

I have a question, is it possible to get the final Nook upgrade on the original NGC without going to or inviting someone else’s town? Alternatively is there any GameShark code or anything that could do it on an emulator

[@catfluff85]

Recently someone got a spike of 1008 bells per turnip in the GameCube version and posted it to KZbin I was literally just watching their videos before this but I've already forgotten the name of the channel, I'll come back later and edit it with the channel name

[@LimeLoaf]

Rocket Elijah

[@catfluff85]

@@LimeLoaf Yes that's the one!

[@Recise]

Great job, sir! There was so much patience and intelligence involved in that nightmare! May I ask what song you played during your celebration dance at the end?

[@BrianMp16]

Thank you! Yes, a lot of time, effort, and game knowledge was required to pull this off. It's been a long process and I'm very happy to have successfully completed it! The celebration song is a K.K. Slider remix: Go K.K. Slider! Remix: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqrRlKWvqaapbNU

[@trevorhill3985]

The most impressive part of this was the time spent buying/selling before you discovered you could predict it. I can't imagine sitting there for six hours running turnips back and forth.

[@coachmcguirk6297]

Shouldve done it IRL. One billion actual bells. And you have to ring them all.

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

This is beyond impressive!

[@Lugitaro]

cant believe this has so few views

[@xgum]

underrated human

[@TheVikingRaid]

i remember the 3ds days of going on the forum and playing the stock market by going to peoples towns who had high buy prices. got to like 80 million bells before deciding i wouldnt ever need any more lol

[@straenmusikant7402]

this guy needs more subscribers

[@Eckster]

I'm interested in that document you showed at 3:00 as my Google searches can't seem to find an AR code for weed removal online, do you have something like that that's compatible with Ocarina on Wii?

[@issholland]

Ive done this and spedrun animal crossing GC. I didnt know there was a community out there

[@MadCatNobody]

you are a legend

[@Orangesoda65]

It's odd to me such a grand achievement would be left unaccomplished for well over a decade which only requires 180 hours. But I guess it was only so short due to your cataloging of turnip prices. Congrats!

[@bobhope626]

this vid has been algo'd

[@SSDARKPIT]

Please enlighten me on the island duplication glitch you talked about at 10:18

[@saeedalketbi7080]

Hey brain! Kind of an off topic comment but can you tell me where to find the animal crossing forums? It would be great for you to help me out here. (If you dont know what im talking about, Im talking about the forums found at 3:35.)

[@Homeminboss]

21:34 2008 be like