Lost Animal Crossing Media That May Never Be Found (Animal Crossing Mysteries)

There are many mysteries surrounding the Lost Media of Animal Crossing games. Reaching from Animal Crossing media lost to time, to possibly fake rumors from years ago, to partially found lost media.

[@RocketElijah]

note to self: don’t use weird glitch censor noise lol

[@birdie8006]

yo! i just came back to check on this and see if others agreed and they have, including you!! i would take tips from youtubers like iNabber who tiptoe very cleverly around sensitive subjects. a lot of the time, things don't have to be laid out obviously - look at your demographics and decide whether or not they can infer certain things. implication and abbreviations are the way to go. I.e., SA for sexual assault, CP for...I don't even wanna say that one lol, OBL or Hide and Seek Champion (lol) for Osama Bin Laden. get creative with it but remain respectful in delicate situations because there's also a line crossed by tiktokers who use codewords that make no sense to anyone. your channel is really awesome and turning out to be a treasure of AC knowledge. :)

[@mayanightstar]

oh, I though the effect worked ok

[@cyboaty]

ong fr girlie pop that had me shitting myself LMAO

[@Clouditivity]

Please 😭 it scared me so bad

[@lailah4982]

@@mayanightstar i think k it works it’s just really annoying

[@jtrox04]

3:51 He was hiding with children (grand children) and there is other kid stuff on there so it was most likely not his but the kids but would still be cool to see it

[@oliverafton1444]

Other kid stuff... oof

[@lilatune]

yeep, bad wording@@oliverafton1444

[@fuego421]

Osama Bin Laden playing Animal Crossing on a DS is something that I find difficult to imagine

[@heartthepuppetqueen3027]

Yes that would be difficult to imagine and I cannot believe it myself

[@TheVioletBunny]

I find it even weirder he had a steam account…. Did he say that ? Seems off and bs to me

[@gargoylegutz]

yes, especially because you died when he was only 16 !!!

[@anonanon1004]

Didn't he pirate it?

[@Tinymapleart]

Good thing he used an emulator then

[@SuperMarioFan123311]

Holy cow, I wasn't sure anyone would bring up the lost 2007 calendar I've sought after for years. Funny that you mentioned my Reddit post as well. Hoping one day a full archive of the pictures can be preserved one day.

[@Chubby_Bub]

Funny as it is to think about, I don't think it's as likely as it seems that Osama Bin Laden had an Animal Crossing town. That hard drive also had a bunch of other pirated media for him and the other people living in his complex. Most likely someone there downloaded a set of DS ROMs which included Wild World, and maybe opened it, but never made a save- and even if they did, it's unlikely it was Bin Laden himself. Also yeah, "Animal Crossing 2" _was_ just the announcement of a tentative name for _Doubutsu no Mori e+_ in a Famitsu article about Nintendo games being worked on, which got misunderstood and lost in translation. There was probably never any intention to release it in the west, and the alleged screenshots come from the N64 version.

[@DOSGamer2001]

The screenshots actually seem to come from Doubutsu no Mori+, because the N64 version's largest house only has one floor, and one of the screenshots has a house with two floors.

[@Chubby_Bub]

@@DOSGamer2001 Nice catch. I didn’t notice that.

[@VonVikoGoat]

yeah as someone who pirates DS games there is a bunch of ROM packs on the internet. You download it and you get a zip file with a bunch of popular games and is perfect for those who want to do emulation of a system they never used. I guess someone wanted to play DS games because they saw some cool game so they liked it and proceeded to download a ROM pack

[@-themightymittens-]

The glitchy voice censor scared me ngl ;-;

[@sunflowertv9601]

SAME

[@HypnoStellar]

ME TOO I TURNED MY LIGHT ON CUZ OF HOW CREEPED OUT I GOT

[@HypnoStellar]

WHATEVER GAME HE WAS SHOWING DURING THAT DIDNT HELP EITHER

[@Seannn.]

How tf was that scary

[@-themightymittens-]

@@Seannn. Idk, sound bugging out like that scares me. I don't really know how to explain it, it just does.

[@ledojaeger7474]

First off: amazing vid Second off: I owe the animal crossing movie for my entire life path. I watched it online as a kid and wanted to read the signs in Japanese, so I looked up language websites. Many years later I’d go to uni for Japanese because of that first spark. If the movie didn’t exist it’s possible my entire life would have followed a different timeline. It’s wild…a wild world

[@birdie8006]

i love this. do you have plans on translating or teaching with your degree? :,)

[@AlexHukill]

I also studied Japanese in college because of Animal Crossing!! ❤

[@ledojaeger7474]

@@birdie8006 At first, I thought "What if I became a translator?" as I'm very introverted and the idea of on-the-spot interpretation seems like a LOT. I was able to pass the JLPT N2, but since I got a job unrelated to Japanese, my knowledge of it has been up and down. It's only been now in the start of 2023 that I'm REALLY re-kindling my love of the language and taking ownership of this for myself. Knowledge like this never really goes away; it just sleeps. Thanks for asking

[@ledojaeger7474]

@@AlexHukill We literally owe Animal Crossing for our life paths and I wouldn't make any changes to that if I could redo!

[@lilatune]

hope ur doing well!@@ledojaeger7474

[@amiiboguy5357]

I don't think it's that much of a stretch of imagination that the Animal Crossing twitter would have access to a debug build that let's them take 4K pictures or disable building restrictions

[@Irkaylub]

yeah, its far more of a stretch to presume that they gave the social media managers a special build for a console that doesn't exist. The treehouse team get dev builds for localization and for social media so obviously they'd have tool to get stuff from the game that is not in the consumer build.

[@SuperFlashDriver]

Apparently the name "Osama Bin Laden" had to be censored in the video because of demonetization. It's like hearing the name "Timothy Mcveigh" censored in the video as well. To be honest, many terrorists of our time, much like us, have played video games at some point in their lives as a way to cool down or just play for fun and never come back to it. Heck, Timothy Mcveigh, the person I mentioned, use to play video games on the Atari 2600 and his DOS computer before getting into military and politics in his later life, including hunting rifles, eventually bombing a federal building in 1995. Nazi Americans have also made video games in the 1990s to recruit new members into their society. Although after 9/11/2001 occurred, all of their camps were basically demolished, but the Nazi American websites still exist to this very day, they're just not shown in the search engines very often. As for animal crossing, well, it was a game to give everyone their own fantisized world of how they would have loved to live in, despite not being able to escape earth and go into the computer world of their own for eternity. So I'm never surprised to see people disturbed by content played by terrorists that took decades to even capture or kill. Anyway, besides that point, this was an interesting dive into the animal crossing content that I've heard of for many years, as well as the other ones I had no idea about until this video mentioned it.

[@puffleperson]

>have also made video games in the 1990s to recruit new members into their society What? I never heard that. You don't mean that "KZ" game, right? That was made by a bunch of Germans.

[@lyraharpstrings8025]

The gameboy ones looks like an early concept of tomodachi life. Especially since you have to take a picture to create avatars definitely sounds like early mii concepts.

[@aly-6373]

Early mii concepts were around since the nes.

[@Seannn.]

Still waiting for tomadochi life 2 😢

[@sporkzzz]

THE SECOND ONE IS SUCH A TURN FROM THE FIRST ONE LMAOOOOOOOO

[@MayorMori]

Great video. Super interesting 🥳

[@therubestergaming]

Yo I love your vids dude great work

[@balls_gaming]

why is this burried lol! first time I've ever seen a verified youtuber comment without a million replies

[@alexiere]

Your content, dedication and love for the series is amazing. Thank you for it!

[@axolotljames]

Dude deserves more credit. The content is so high quality!

[@ShiltzThePleb]

Ikr

[@keip4568]

I prefer the Japanese version of Animal Crossing... I wished a translation existed of the original Japanese dialog in English. Heck, I even had City Folk the Japanese version and played it. Fully.

[@insertu5ernamehere]

@@keip4568 ok? You want a weeb medal for telling us your life story?

[@Aurelia_BSP]

I ruined 69 likes

[@gay_satan666]

@@insertu5ernamehere At what point did being bilingual become a bad thing and something to make fun of?

[@EeveeFromAlmia]

Don’t censor words with that glitch effect, it sounds horrible and feels like you’re taking the piss.

[@adamk-paxlogan7330Sucks]

yeah,the glitch affect scared me,I thought something was wrong with my computer cause of that sound effect

[@miiirky1904]

Yeah, it sounds awful

[@tofu_2378]

i thought my pc was about to freeze or smth i was scared for a second

[@liviwaslost]

It really takes you out of the video

[@DonutToast]

I thought he was going to pull a creepy pasta joke

[@spacekiddet2508]

I do not understand why dev builds are considered lost media. Being able to manipulate your platform how ever you want doesnt even often constitute a 'version'. Being surprised there would be a non prod version of any game is very strange to me. Regardless, great video!! New subby!

[@iAnnie]

Not being able to plant trees wherever you want is a crying shameeeeee! 😭 SUCH an educational and fascinating video! Thanks for sharing all of these amazing lost media with us. Majority of them I never even heard about it before so it was nice to go into something new! Keep up the great work! 💕 Only advice is instead of the glitchy effect with the censorship, try maybe doing Animalease instead to fit the theme of the video. :3 Or like the user "birdie," said make it mute so it doesn't bother the audience. I loved this video so much! ^w^

[@chillfactory9000]

@Yurii!XD this is an animal crossing video what did you genuinely expect

[@powdersoft]

Hey there, I just wanted to say thank you for doing an amazing research on all of these things! Your videos are amazing and incredibly nice to watch and I'm really excited to watch your channel grow. Keep up the amazing work Elijah! 🥰

[@birdie8006]

This is great!! But please don't do that glitchy voice thing to censor yourself because of demonitization. An alternative word or just muting yourself would be better. It's really jarring and made me jump every time. It's really sad that KZbin creators have to do this, though. It just seems SO silly. You can probably get away with just saying "Osama" by the way.

[@-themightymittens-]

Yeah the glitchy voice unlocked a fear I didn't even know I had I had to skip that section

[@townie765]

omg i thought i was just a wimp 😭😭 it was legitimately terrifying

[@WorldsBeyondImagine]

Yeah, I genuinely thought there was going to be a jumpscare or that this was going to be a section about a creepypasta game. Eep.

[@satinfoil]

Ikr? Its super annoying. I would honestly just prefer a cencor beep.

[@Aurelia_BSP]

Sometimes censored beeps don’t work, and it still will demonize you

[@starlapelle]

lovely video! pet peeve, unsolicited feedback incoming: the glitchy audio censoring of names like "osama bin laden" and "killing" were kind of offputting imo, I honestly think it would sound better if it were a quiet censor instead of the glitchy sound effects, just my two cents though!

[@v1nag3r]

Man, I *LOVE* your content! Your channel is extremely underrated, hope you get more views etc.

[@kirbythingys]

This is the exact type of content I love im so glad I found ur channel

[@goose827]

I love these videos dude! Keep creating content!

[@Serufi]

It's so refreshing to actually see a video with information that I didn't already know! Love the videos. New sub 😁

[@dale117]

I do think Animal Crossing was originally meant for the N64DD, given that its overall file size is so small that you can eject the disc from your GameCube and continue playing without it until you shut off the console, but it's larger than the 64mb limit of N64 cartridges. Which makes sense when you consider earlier releases of "Animal Forest" were on the N64, and on cartridges.

[@luckyilyducky]

I love your videos! I always enjoy the content you make!

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo of America for a short time did attempt an English localisation of Animal Crossing e+ or it was gong to be an even further enhanced version of the game for international audiences; but it no doubt would have been too late for that to ever really work out. I could see Animal Crossing 2 having been reworked as Wild World.

[@HelloKittyHeater]

I've been binging your channel for bit now and I really enjoy your content, keep up the good work

[@ratflavoredtaffy]

that audio you used at roughly 3:50 was absolutely horrible and scared the shit out of me

[@DropsOfMars]

Strange and surreal to know that the very same game that I played that got me through depression was on the hard drive of 05ama.

[@thealmightycrisprat]

obama lmao

[@lilatune]

obama, truly frightening@@thealmightycrisprat

[@hyper_nxva]

time to bingewatch this for the next week

[@OpalFedora92]

Lol Buzz standing on the golden spot makes it look like he's getting an upgrade

[@Lin_The_Cat_]

So the thing about - you know who - having ACWW save files on his PC. I watched another video about the CIA page containing the contents of said hard drive, and they had mentioned he lived at that compound with his extended family so it was probably his kids or nieces/nephews playing animal crossing on there if I had to guess. Which is weird to think about. Like here are these kids living with the ex leader of such an egregious group, sharing, in common, with us a propensity for this much beloved series.

[@patchiiima]

This was a rlly good video! I'm not sure if anyone's heard of this one or if it's already confirmed fake or smthn but my dad swears he played animal crossing on Playstation, but hasn't really told me anything else about it.

[@tjpizza3268]

9:35 Literally, I made a town on the N64 Japanese Animal Crossing, thinking I download a English translation one, and because I didn't understand what it was saying because it wasn't English, I ended up chosing the first options for everything and got that Villager

[@elmichidelosojostristes9817]

Tbh the early footage of animal crossing new horizons looks cuter to me, wish I could play it like that 🥲

[@emma_nutella58]

I don’t know why but Osama bin laden having an animal crossing town and playing animal crossing on DS just feels like the internet made it up

[@LostHorizons0]

Yeah I don’t believe it. I honestly don’t believe him playing any games. Is there actual real proof or just “trust me bro” internet proof ?

[@carrotsss2016]

Your videos are SO interesting! I love acnh videos but not of ppl playing like just news and info and your channel is that!

[@pokemonanimebattle3615]

Back in that day, I remember reading somewhere that Nookintons can be upgrade to Goldentons, i tried to find where i read it a while back but couldn't find it anymore. I wonder if anyone else remembers reading about this somewhere.

[@koiitree]

im going to japan this summer, ill be on the lookout for the animal crossing calendar I WANT ITTT lost media is like... chefs kiss... i spend hours sometimes just archiving stuff LOL so man.. id love to find it

[@Cloverthecat]

You deserve more views!

[@BelovedBunn]

Keep up the great work with your videos! i love them.

[@K1ng_B3e]

man needs more subs like what are people doin not subing

[@gracerios138]

9:05 very cursed imagery

[@geileskind64]

Hey really good video i just wanted to ask what the game at 13:56 is cause it looks really intriguing thanks!

[@TheBlazeinPanther]

It’s called Giftpia. It never released outside of Japan. But I’m pretty sure there is a English fan translation.

[@Zeevolts]

Hey man. I get it. But I’m fairly certain you CAN say Osama’a full name on KZbin. Also, criticism , but you should work on your narration delivery. I feel like your voice is very inconsistent and maybe try to make it sound less like you’re reading a teleprompter. Otherwise, have a good night, awesome work man!

[@duck8049]

I think his voice is fine? :0

[@l3layze]

Animal crossing new Horizons broke my heart. The build they showed at E3 was likely unfinished and just an alpha or beta build to show at the event. But the game that released to the public seemed to have LESS content that the E3 build with the promise to add more Content via live updates. Basic gameplay mechanics and events were added in as an update but they should have been there from the start with new, never before seen, features being added via updates instead. I'd love to see what is actually in the E3 build, and find out what exactly happened. Honestly the E3 build looked like a lot more fun than the day 1 game that we got.

[@satinfoil]

I sort of dislike when you censor yourself with that glitchy effect, as its really annoying. Next time, please just use one of those beeps. Other then that, cool video

[@laslosermcuseless1574]

It's pretty likely cabbage was cancelled in favour of mother 64 which was also cancelled

[@nathanaellamouette]

2:46 I literally misread that as "racer shit"

[@BunNia0105]

Would the qr codes Nintendo released for Animal Crossing New Leaf, due to the limited custom design space some designs were deleted and lost forever whenever they made new ones. I found a bunch, but some are still just remakes from other players.

[@not_a_real_handle]

5:31 you forgot to censor the name of the dude while you censored it in voice recording lol

[@HelieNerb]

19:48 haha no not the cringe French animal crossing ad with that French guy that hosts tv shows

[@Shosholegbt]

Yep

[@Lionwoman]

I think one of the DS was found as the owner still had it.

[@tunegirl203]

Imagine Raymond and Audie being in the first animal crossing game🦊🐱

[@kiwirocket64]

One thing that I wonder is why where is like all the N64 stuff and below even the game keep stuff super hard to get you know I find it really weird how we barely have any builds of old N64 games and GameCube games you know just seems weird to me

[@Bones1220]

The Osama thing is crazy. I'm gonna watch the contest ds' video next

[@Bagel_Ice]

personally I'm happy that Osama Bin Laden's animal crossing hasn't been recovered. I can't imagen how many people's favorite characters would be ruined by that single save file

[@Jinxanator66]

The tree thing is a hack you can do in the game

[@cerabiia7814]

what is the game at 11:22 ? it looks so cute!

[@goomba-64]

Late reply. Im pretty sure its Giftpia or something like that. It released only for the JP region but there is a fan translation.

[@Discontinued_account]

I personally do not think a Animal Crossing 2 did ever exist but if it did or someone heard about it, it was probably a port of it for Western audiences and was quickly scrapped as it made no sense as it would be a literal port of the original PAL and American game with an e+ reader. plus wouldn't be a good move as likely even by this point Wild World was in very early development or they were planning a sequel using the new DS hardware as at the time of the e+ release the DS was only released a year after the games update, plus IGN back then wasn't the best source of unreleased or cancelled games most of the time even though most of the games turned out to be true, alot of "cancelled" or in development games from the forums and articles were just rumours with no solid information. Either way keep up the great content dude!

[@EndGameEnt]

What an excellent video, thank you!

[@nerdwriterfighter212]

I feel like a lot of the Stage Debut reminds me of Tomodachi Life.

[@MatchaFoxx]

Loved this video! And yes, please do a video about beta content in the series!!!

[@RedBanditOfficial]

I love your animal crossing videos they are so good Tom nook is always a mystery though to me some people think he is evil or nice anyway just wanted to say love your videos!!! 😁

[@Sylver-DXCVII]

That second section legitimately scared me-

[@kolpkii]

the third one genuinely surprised me

[@natsuhater]

3:48 the level of disrespect people have to even trying to acsess his animal crossing island.. I mean sure its just trying to get onto his island but like can people not?? Why do yall have to find out everything even of its just a single island

[@shyguy85]

Disrespect? Dawg he started a terrorist attack he deserves no respect nor privacy even in death

[@TraitorPotater]

9/11 man probably just had the whole DS library emulated onto his computer; he may not have even played the game. 😂

[@pokeponypastagirl]

I miss the robo cat so much 😭

[@CrisisMoon7]

3:35 Bin Alden’s Animal Crossing

[@bingomachine]

Bro the first time you did the voice thing it freaked me tf out 😂😂

[@cinsy1861]

That bin laden thing is so crazy😭😭😭 i wanna know what villagers he had so bad i want them in my town too

[@meduh242]

Imagine getting killed on Halo 2 by Bin Laden

[@antivirusfrisk]

these comments seem so fake... most of em anyway

[@Icegrip12]

That's Alot of KZbin nowadays, it's odd and clear that real people are not commenting on KZbin, I can reply to a comment with seemingly active replies and a relevant comment and be completely ignored. Bizarre

[@invaderalienface6507]

so, I have more evidence that cabbage could have influenced animal crossing. In the gamecube animal crossing game (population:growing!) you can connect the gameboy advance (GBA) to the gamecube and go to an island with Kapp'n. But, there's a little mini game on the GBA where you feed the islander. They even have fruits their allergic too!

[@drakassociate9833]

man if you think that pre release builds count as lost media wait till you learn that most games will have 100s of builds that are playable in some form or fashion before the release version is dropped

[@Topdoggie7]

Animal Crossing appealing to terrorists is a new thing for me to hear. But. Okay. But here's the real question: Osama Bin Laden's top favorite villagers?

[@matthewrobinson1699]

What matters is R/Pikmin is invading youtube!

[@Topdoggie7]

@@matthewrobinson1699 That's old news from 2020. What is his favorite villagers!

[@Lucy-uf6oi]

anyone still have animal crossing clock and animal crossing calculator for the dsi?

[@SusiTerry]

19:58 Could be taken on an emulator

[@GooseOnTheLoose657]

Don’t EVER use that glitch effect to censor yourself. Nearly made me unsub.

[@boe_jo9778]

19:05 about that, i'm almost certain that there is another build of the game out there, not to mention the fact that in some promotional material you could see pointy cliffs and that there were different DIYs available for the player in the beggining (signpost, oil barrel bathtub, clothesline etc) also, you'd probably unlock the vaulting pole and shovel before Blathers even came to your island as seen in early footage.

[@Jenskieez]

im curious, where can i find a picture of the "pointy cliffs"?

[@boe_jo9778]

You can find them on the Animal Crossing Direct (2020) at the very beggining part, where they're showing around the islands! But they have other appearences too (i just can't remember where).

[@andrescube64]

I still have the plaza app on my Wii U

[@mzpurplemist]

19:35 Had to pause vid and recreated that cute gyroid pattern for my avatar.

[@fuzzleog7661]

Isn't wild world animal crossing 2? Except for that Japanese one

[@laynay9576]

The glitching scared me so bad lmao

[@keip4568]

I prefer the Japanese version of Animal Crossing... I wished a translation existed of the original Japanese dialog in English. Heck, I even had City Folk the Japanese version and played it. Fully.

[@kathiaarteaga6885]

3:57 Made me so scared I was shaking so much

[@MercuryDragon.]

Don't do that.

[@kuma477]

I wonder if the female villagers wore headscarves in Osama's WW acc?

[@TreasureHunterLocke]

I don't need to tell you to not use the glitchy voice since a lot of people already did. Good video otherwise. Always love listening to discussion of the original Animal Crossing.

[@AbbyNormal12]

Anyone remember when there was an animal crossing website, and there was a maze game?

[@lauragetrekt]

What’s with the animal crossing trailer with the hot air balloon

[@cynanthropy]

The way you censored the name made me click off the video 😭

[@3brianssolS]

I don’t believe in Japan I believe in movies about Isabelle

[@chiaraventura9718]

I never knew! this is so cool

[@Cellissigma]

Omg I have that calendar

[@zigazav1]

[EDIT: as I expected, I commented too soon before watching enough of this video. I'll keep this comment up though for those who want to read this comment still, for some reason I cannot think of] Uh, about those screencaps of an Animal Crossing 2, that was a hoax. Those screencaps are actually from the Japanese version of the first Animal Crossing, and I think the e+ version we never got. Here's some info about the "first Animal Crossing": There was actually 3 different versions of it. The N64 original version, the enhanced Gamecube version (the one we outside Japan got), and the even more enhanced version of the Gamecube one we got which is the e+ version. The version we never got outside Japan. Furthermore, there are some basic differences between the Japanese version and the English version: What we know as the Wishing Well in the English version, the Japanese version instead had a shrine where the wishing well is at for us in the USA version, Tom Nook and/or one of his shop upgrades (I forget which) has some aesthetic differences. Where there is more American flag-style aesthetics with the English version, has more Japanese aesthetics in the Japanese version. The N64 version forced you to use some sort of wheel to select Japanese characters for text inputs, while the English language Gamecube version gave us a full keyboard to work with. There's more differences than these, but these are what immediately comes to mind for me. Funny that some Japanese-exclusive "holidays" even made it into the English version though, like the Cherry Blossom Festival

[@stars_shining_bright]

I got chills when it glitched

[@Kitty255Again]

So you're telling me that Osama Bin Laden was a gamer? Huh.