The Oddities of Animal Crossing

[@Hunter-R.]

Slight corrections -- the two reactions I talk about at 5:07 aren't actually unused. The purple mist effect actually gets applied during Halloween when villagers trick you, but the reaction state doesn't include the villager's panic animation like it does during that event. And the scared reaction is used when Resetti yells at you for resetting, but it's hard to see if your back is turned! And yes... I do have a typo at 5:32... sorry! Thank you to a lot of people for pointing these out!

[@Hunbun999]

It’s ok bro we all make mistakes

[@gusdotd894]

It's alright.

[@CraftyDuck100]

I'm amazed that it's your only typo I've noticed throughout all your vids. You do great work

[@jordy9606]

The animalese section of this video made me remember a question i have. I own the isabelle and tom nook build a bear plushes, both with their sound chips. Since animalese is spoken with actual characters from a language, would there be a way to slow down the sound clips of the characters talking and decipher it into actual words? I havent seen anyone do this yet. And i dont know how easy that would be since im not sure if the speaking is in the english or japanese version of animalese, or even if it's just random gibberish words or not.

[@AKWLMath]

We all make typos here and there; in fact, I just made a typo typing about your typo on my comment.

[@indie.101]

good to know the only emotion the original GameCube villager can express is anxiety

[@guy_th18]

just like me fr

[@serenegenerally]

@@guy_th18so true

[@renakunisaki]

Anxiety, fear, and purple.

[@eglol]

Of course. Definitely reminds me of the upcoming Pixar movie too

[@Eaten_squid_cake]

@@eglolhi! im anxiety! where can i put my stuff?

[@mx.blackhole7615]

For Animalese, the multiplayer chat menu in New Leaf will actually speak Animalese when you tap the letter you want to use, or at least the individual letters where it can. I remember noticing this and then being able to hear it in the villager's voices too.

[@Falling_Down]

Acnh when you type too

[@watermelonseedink]

the little >zero< was always my favorite lol

[@SnoFitzroy]

I noticed this in NH when typing in numbers for Turnip trading. I distinctly remember pressing a 7 and very clearly hearing what sounded like the nook kids' voices saying "seven" and then immediately noticing that in the dialogue following the prompt, haven't been able to unhear it since!

[@_cherriicola]

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[@CosmicTom]

Exactly ​@@watermelonseedink

[@Ariamaki]

PET isn't just short for polyethylene, but specifically 'polyethylene terephthalate' or 'polyethylene tetrachloride', the two most common plastics used for water bottles (among many other things).

[@gregariosity]

Ethylene tetrachloride (aka perc or “dry cleaning fluid”) isn’t polymerized into a plastic, and chlorinated polyethylene (aka PE-C or CPE) usually isn’t more than 50% chlorinated and is mostly used for cable jacketing or as an additive for PVC. PET is just the terephthalate.

[@Piikkl]

if anyones wondering what Bebebese is at 7:08 it's basically the speech the villagers use and you can hear it in all the games when you catch a bug or fish, it's also used for some special characters like when Phyllis mutters in New Leaf or when Zipper mutters in New Horizons, you're welcome :)

[@ana.wordswordswords]

TY I WAS SO CURIOUS

[@theman13532]

i know it's just to denote thought/quiet speech, but i find it funnier to imagine animalese and bebebese as seperate languages entirely with bebebese being a second learnt language, which means people that can't speak bebebese are incapable of speaking below speaking volume. it gives a funnier reason as to why bebebese would be less understood because it's a different dialect entirely compared to the logical reasoning of "it's because they're speaking quietly" this also means you're pretty much flexing the fact that you know bebebese and speak it in your head every time you catch a fish/bug, and explains why you're able to read it in dialogue bubbles

[@froxy_ef-em]

@@theman13532 i love this headcanon so much lmao

[@Russetfur1128]

​@@theman13532Or bebebese could be our character's native language. And that's why we're the only human(s) in the game: Because humans and animals are from different parts of the world. That would also make sense as to why not many characters use bebebese and others can't understand what they're saying.

[@safebox36]

Shaki is an onomatopoeia for the sound of a rodent or small creature scuttling in grass. So it's basically akin to how a squirrel might sound rummaging in a garden.

[@cometmilkshake]

If I were to give them an English name it'd be Russell - sounds like "rustle" and means "red hair"

[@bm_burger]

Just saw this in my recommended. went "please god let this entire channel be just about weird animal crossing shit", clicked the page, JACKPOT. In a perfect world, every video game ever made would have a channel like this dedicated to it. There's so much beauty to be found everywhere you look, and its a miracle that some people deem it worthy of their time to showcase it.

[@Hunter-R.]

Thank you, and hope you enjoy the channel! I have a lot more videos planned out for the rest of this year, so I hope you look forward to learning more! :D

[@olivercharles2930]

i love me some niche youtube channels

[@Russetfur1128]

This is the second video of theirs recommended to me, and I hadn't checked out their channel yet. Thanks to your comment, I will be subscribing, and will likely spend the next couple hours watching their videos.

[@Joemcncheese]

Stopped mid performance to watch this on stage. I didn't show the audience what I was looking at, I just stood there staring at my phone. Thanks Hunter!

[@jordy9606]

thats so awesome

[@guy_th18]

I choose to believe this is real

[@Hunter-R.]

@@WatermelonJiki

[@squeakboy3666]

​@@WatermelonJiki 🤨?

[@jameskarlov]

@@WatermelonJiki i do not like any of that

[@renaxakai3]

No one believed me when I heard the animals kinda actually speaking in English when I was a kid. Thank you for validating me as a kid.

[@Bloemen66]

me too. my siblings didn't believe me, when i said that you can kinda hear the animals talk, they insited that they speak a gibberish language, like simlish.

[@dasutanehineri]

i first noticed it in new leaf when you would input a letter and the little voice would read out the letter in what i felt like was pretty plain english, but it is sweet to see the curiosity confirmed

[@aeleequis]

In Spanish is very noticeable. Maybe it's because we have the same phonetics as them

[@Russetfur1128]

I could always understand some words and letters

[@bluerious5475]

@@aeleequisSpanish characters are definitely a lot more consistent than English ones, particularly vowels. You rarely pronounce vowels in different ways

[@shemalibk9682]

I knew Blanca as a kid. Not because I had friends, but because I had two memory cards :)

[@skittycecil9786]

The rightmost pattern on the top row at 11:59 is a reference to the main character’s dress in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the film that led to the creation of the famed Studio Ghibli!

[@otaku_krimson96]

EDIT: lol, I missed the part of the video where he literally flashed these designs along with the Gundam characters. I must have looked away for that two seconds. Middle row, first column looks like it could be Char's uniform from Mobile Suit Gundam, but there are minor differences. Additionally, middle row, column three looks like it could be a mobile suit (from Gundam). RX-78-02 has that color scheme (blue chest, red belly, yellow vents on chest and collar), but the vents aren't centered like the pattern. I thought, middle row, column four might be another suit, perhaps Zaku, but I can't find a reasonable match.

[@Hunter-R.]

Good eye!

[@S0larisPrime]

I believe the pattern immediately to the left of the naussica shirt might be Ultraman! But I'd have to see it wrapped around a character model to be sure.

[@War7123]

I was literally coming down to comment this exact thing. It's so surprising to see such a reference hidden in one of my favorite games of all time.

[@Just.Kidding]

I commented this, but I'll put it here, too: to the left of Rei's EVA suit is Shar's jacket from the original Mobile Suit Gundam series, and to the right of it is the OG "Grandaddy Gundam" and Zaku, both also obv from Gundam, and that purple one looks like EVA-01, and bottom row, seventh column I _think_ is Shinji's EVA suit, but I'm a bit flimsy on that.

[@LendriMujina]

I know it's just defaults, but the idea of Shaki's behavior as a rude, short-tempered sailor basically being the total opposite of Leif's as a timid, all-loving hippie with their both still being gardeners is funny to me.

[@Russetfur1128]

New headcanon 😂

[@sparklingdemon]

I don’t think that the “scared” player reaction is unused; I remember it triggering when Resetti yells at the player when you meet him sometimes.

[@Hunter-R.]

Hmm... I'll double-check later tonight! You're correct! The purple mist reaction (or at least the effect of it) is also used during Halloween, but the player animation for that is seemingly handled elsewhere outside of the reaction system which tripped me up.

[@lovelivefestival]

Oh wow hi sparklingdemon!

[@ShortMiao]

Oh yeah, right! It's used when Resetti starts screaming at you with the big text!

[@Bidziilla]

​@@Hunter-R.Look at my comment, it explains the purple mist reaction and what it actually is! :)

[@vickaroonii]

no way sparks jumpscare what the

[@Totavier]

4:47 There is actually a third way to make your player get a shock reaction and the best of all, it's that you can do it all the time you want. If you get the Mouth of Truth from Gulliver, that furniture make the player shock everytime it touch it with the A button, the item will change the face and the character get a shock. 😂

[@hexprincess9582]

Interesting! The debugging mural has all the shirt patterns your character could be wearing when getting off the train for the first time.

[@Rhousteau]

The 12th shirt pattern in the first row seems to be a reference to the luxury brand Gucci. The green and red stripes are their signature pattern and the crossing pattern on the outside is their “diamonte” pattern.

[@Hunter-R.]

Looks plausible enough to me. Good eye!

[@Jolis_Parsec]

I see a shirt pattern that says “Test NPC”. I guess that was the devs wanting something more interesting than a bland solid color for when they were testing the dialogue and other stuff for the villagers.

[@AmySay]

this is the type of animal crossing video i love, the technical type. stop telling me fun surface level trivia or how to hack my switch for the 100% perfect beautiful island or how i should put clear paths down bc god forbid i have to pick a weed on my island, START telling me about how these games are coded with the equivalent of duct tape and string!!

[@novelezra]

Honestly, an entire video just going through a bunch of weird patents that Nintendo hold would be a great video. You don't realise how many mechanics publishers try to patent until you're told about it haha

[@poppythetabbycat1530]

At one point I think the community thought that Shaki was some sort of travelling doctor or nurse - believing dokutu to be a typo or shortening of dokuturu (I probably spelt that wrong), meaning doctor. They found data strings containing the words 'sick' and 'patient', but perhaps they've found more information since I last looked.

[@AKWLMath]

5:32 Seeing bacgkroung music pop up on screen made me laugh. Edit: The moment after I hit "comment" I noticed I put bacgkroung instead of bacgkround, I made a typo on Hunter's typo lol. I'm going to leave it.

[@t-bird6853]

Typo-ception!

[@Hunter-R.]

Glad to know it’s not just me

[@HawtDawg]

the bacgkround is spreading... Literally went into the comments after seeing that to see if anyone had said anything teehee

[@ItsNumber84]

Lmao how hard is it to spell bacgkruong

[@HOURHAK]

bagckorund​@@ItsNumber84

[@CommanderWiggins]

Back in the day I had an animal crossing town on one memory card, and my brother had a town on the other. So we would always be visiting each other's towns and I saw Blanca many times. My brother also pranked me with the easter egg where the player's face turns into a gyroid if you turn off the game while you're in someone else's town.

[@hegyak]

The Art Bug is a Similar thing that happens in older Gran Turismo games. Due to Cars in the Array being swapped around, some Rival AI cars, break the Game's Rules when you enter some events. These AI Cars will have More Horsepower then the Event allows. But, Power does not mean Control. And, the AI may struggle to handle the track. Sometimes.

[@ArchangelTirael]

ROME CIRCUT wants to battle! ROME CIRCUT sent out GT40!

[@jonathoneng4552]

12:32 I remember the first time I met a Japanese person, and they called a plastic water bottle a PET bottle. it was confusing but it eventually made sense to me. Been living in Japan ever since then, and every now and then when I hear PET bottle used in an English dialogue it still confuses me at first, but goes away after.

[@nintendo-relatedchannel5810]

I honestly thought it was the dev using a nickname for Pocari Sweat or whatever that water is named in Japan.

[@TheRealFallingFist]

I think most European countries call them PET-bottles too. At least in Sweden (and I'm certain the rest of Scandinavia) it's the common name for any plastic bottles containing drinks.

[@craycraywolf6726]

​@@TheRealFallingFist Being an American feels like being gaslit about your reality at times lol 😂 Like things I never even thought twice about turn out to be completely different in other countries

[@hi-i-am-atan]

@@craycraywolf6726 i mean, it's not even all that different, since we call 'em plastic bottles and "pet bottle" means ... plastic bottle, just more specific i imagine it comes about because there's probably not a lot of languages that have their own word for polyethylene, so that specificity actually lets the term be more universal than having to know the word for plastic in every language

[@weberman173]

@@TheRealFallingFist in germany, while they are, officaly called PET bottles, most people do not specifically call them that, but simply "plastic bottle"

[@WorldsBeyondImagine]

Someone's probably already pointed this out, but the "X" is probably a reference to X Japan-- a band from the 80s

[@FluxFimbulvetr]

I'm supremely late to the party, but glad to see someone thought of this first :')

[@camwoodstock]

Maybe the purple mist reaction was for halloween, when one of your villagers tricks you? That's my first thought, anyways, since a vaguely similar animation gets used in New Leaf under that context...

[@Hunter-R.]

It is indeed. The animation for the player getting tricked isn't handled by this reaction, but the purple mist effect is so I missed it when looking through. Good catch!

[@rikustorm13]

Aw, poor Blathers being told by Nintendo (I assume) to not accept those paintings :(

[@FreakishSmilePA]

12:26 I work in a liquor store and "PET" is used to refer to some bottles. Typically when you see PET anywhere in store (even in our internal systems) it's about pint sized, but looking on the official website it looks like all vodkas/whiskeys/rums use PET no matter the size.

[@FreakishSmilePA]

This (to me) is especially interesting because it's weird that when I'm at work, and see PET it's smaller sized. When I look at a 1.75L PET bottle, the tag, the item info in the register, the receipt alias, none of it should mention that they're PET.

[@MisterPancake778]

I think the bottom left pattern 11:57 is supposed to be a X Japan band tee

[@j_c_93]

I was actually thinking the same thing, the only thing that makes me unsure about it is that the text underneath looks too long to say "Japan"

[@SetsuneW]

My guess was the X manga/anime series logo by Clamp, but looking at pictures I think your guess is closer.

[@NutyRiver]

I love your presentation in this videos, with the mystery silhouettes in boxes that reveal themselves after you’re done explaining each thing. It’s very fun!

[@Acheo_]

What a coincidence I do a deep dive reading into Animal Crossing's many localization changes, become obsessed with the two lost paintings being theoretically obtainable in +, and then I find this video documenting unused text related to the paintings that I haven't seen in anything I've read when researching unused content. Now that I've went and watched every other video of yours too, I've gotta say this is really, really good stuff.

[@Hunter-R.]

Glad to hear! I often try to find some more obscure information and more recently revealed trivia about the game that nobody has ever covered. A lot of this comes from the work of Cuyler and the decompilation team, so I'm always grateful to them.

[@aidenhedley7441]

Thank you for your videos, Hunter. It's a not-so-guilty pleasure of mine to watch these when I'm feeling bad. I don't want to toil in a sob story but just know that these niche videos mean a lot more than you might think.

[@Ellempeh]

OOOOH I recognize one of the shirt textures in 12:00 The very last texture in the first row. It’s a white bird/turtle shape with a red gem in the middle on blue background. This is the design from Nausicäa‘s dress in the Studio Ghibli film „Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind“ I love that Easter egg ❤

[@SheepUndefined]

Also, while I didn't have many friends that played the original animal crossing, I did have a second memory card that I'd sometimes travel between, lol. I imagine there's a few people who knew about Blanca that way.

[@RM-um9xx]

I did this and accidentally gave myself gyroid face by resetting 😭 got so scared and deleted the whole town.

[@SheepUndefined]

@@RM-um9xx Lmao I can see that

[@j_c_93]

I didn't have friends who played it, but I did have two memory cards, so I traveled between towns all the time. A huge advantage of having two memory cards with villages plugged in is that your villagers will never move away for good - they'll only ever move to the other town. Plus, if your second town has a different native fruit, you can raise money easily just by traveling back and forth and selling fruit.

[@hotleg777]

I had a friend who also played animal crossing and we swapped memory cards to see eachothers towns a couple of times. I did get Blanca once and they're such a cool concept. So fun! Thanks for the vid!

[@Wyatt_James]

Here, you may be interested in this. You know how the game attempts to load NES games from the memory card, but the feature was never used officially? Well, if memory serves, that feature just simply does not work if the memory card has a Super Smash Bros. Melee save present on it! I brought this up with Cuyler years ago on discord, but sadly, I think that the text channel I used was deleted from the AC modding discord. This may offer an explanation as to why the feature was never used officially, however, and at any rate I would be interested to hear why it's broken in that fashion, if people are up for poring over the code.

[@fgfhjfhjfbhfghf5771]

Imagine coding something that doesn't work if someone has literally the best selling game on the system lmao

[@foohawesom]

oh, i've never seen blanca. what an absolutely adorable concept!!!! she's so silly.

[@Russetfur1128]

I always wanted to in Wild World, but I didn't have friends. Also, I'm not 100% sure if she's even in that game, or if I misread something as a kid that made me think she was.

[@beeshrooms]

The analysis of the dialog was SO COOL. I've been developing a game project for a while now, so seeing how other games are programmed is awesome to see. It was especially cool to see that New Horizons is still set up in a very similar way. It's really clever how the cues are just built into the dialog script. I'd love to see an analysis on how the game determines what furniture gets displayed at a shops, if that's something that's known. Like, does your characters luck affect it? Does it have a check for making sure to not display the same thing twice in a row?

[@formerlymax]

plastic bottles like that are called PETbottles in japan, you'll see it on recycling stuff, like "Recycle PETbottles here!" so it makes sense/.

[@vee4771]

Your videos have really gotten me more interesting in game programming. I've tried dabbling a bit with Godot, and seeing you peel back the layers of a franchise that the average gamer would consider simple makes me want to continue learning about programming. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels! Great stuff!

[@Hunter-R.]

Super cool to hear! Godot is a great engine that’s growing more and more with each update. Good luck on your development journey! 🥳

[@NautilusMakesMusic]

5:13 Just wanna point out rq that the purple mist reaction is actually called the haunt reaction and it is obtained in ACNH during Halloween.

[@Bidziilla]

Loved the video Hunter! Keep it up! Also, the purple mist reaction you showed was for when an NPC swaps an item in your inventory. The other version for changing the outfit is an animation ID, seen in the list below. By executing player animations in game, you could access some never before seen features. There's an animation ID which can take data to allow any animation to be played. Villagers, special npcs, and even their reactions can be used. Data must be passed through in the animation pointer, though. Here's a list of animation IDs for the Nintendo 64 version. In order to fix the soft lock, you must execute the idle animation. Most animations when executed must also contain data otherwise they will warp you to coordinates 0,0. This also happens in every single animal crossing game. 0x07 - Idle 0x09 - Walk 0x0A - Run 0x0B - Trip 0x0C - Getting back up 0x0D - Skurrrt! 0x0E - Falling (Rarely gets used, but used to prevent the player from walking until they land) 0x0F - Change Acre 0x10 - Enter Room (Softlock) 0x11 - Exit Tent? 0x12 - Unknown (Softlock) 0x13 - Enter Room (Softlock) 0x14 - Unknown (Grabbing furniture?) 0x15 - Same as above 0x16 - Same as above, facing right 0x17 - Same as above 0x18 - Put tool away (softlock) 0x19 - Same as above 0x1A - Lay on bed (Warps player) 0x1B - Laying on bed, upright (Unused?) 0x1C - Roll on bed (Upright) 0x1D - Get off bed 0x1E - CRASH 0x1f - CRASH 0x20 - CRASH 0x21 - Inventory too full 0x22 - Sit on chair (WARPS) 0x23 - Sit on chair 0x24 - Get out of chair 0x25 - Freeze in place (Waiting for nook/npc to greet you?) 0x26 - Softlock 0x27 - Softlock 0x28 - Dash (Skurrrt!) 0x29 - Net Sneaking (Softlock) 0x2A - Net Waiting (Softlock) 0x2B - Swing net (Softlock) 0x2C - Catch bug 0x2D - Softlock 0x2E - Softlock 0x2F - Put bug away (Softlock) 0x30 - Can't cast rod 0x31 - Cast rod (Loop, softlock) 0x32 - Unknown (Fishing related) 0x33 - Warp to edge of map (Softlock) 0x34 - Pull rod back (No catch, softlock) 0x35 - Warp to edge of map (Softlock) 0x36 - Pull fish out of water (Softlock) 0x37 - Catch fish 0x38 - Swap Fish in pockets 0x39 - Dig hole 0x3A - Fill hole 0x3B - Hit shovel on something 0x3C - Can't dig, on cliff edge 0x3D - Dig up item 0x3E - Pocket Item 0x3F - Bury Item 0x40 - Pocket tool? (Softlock) 0x41 - Pocket tool (Softlock) 0x42 - Take item from villager (Softlock) 0x43 - Give item to villager (Softlock) 0x44 - Pocket tool twice? (Softlock) 0x45 - Pocket tool twice, hand over item (Softlock) 0x46 - Pocket tool (softlock) 0x47 - Pocket tool, exit building, unpocket tool 0x48 - Pocket tool, anim goes very slow 0x49 - Pocket tool (softlock) 0x4A - Run really fast up north??? (Unused?, softlock) 0x4B - Get on, and sit in train (Warps camera, softlock) 0x4C - Sitting on train (softlock) 0x4D - Unknown (softlock) 0x4E - Remove tool (softlock) 0x4F - Player walking to edge of map (Softlock, may be used for titlescreen.) 0x50 - Disappear (Softlock) 0x51 - Softlock 0x52 - Preparing to wash gracies car 0x53 - Player out of breath 0x54 - Unknown, weird hand movements, warps high up (Softlock) 0x55 - Bell shrine animation? 0x56 - Softlock 0x57 - Shake Tree 0x58 - Unknown hand motion (softlock) 0x59 - Pull item off table? 0x5A - Fall into pitfall 0x5B - In pitfall 0x5C - In pitfall 0x5D - Get out of pitfall 0x5E - Getting attacked by wasps 0x5F - Getting stung by bees demo 0x60 - Pull weed 0x61 - Unknown (softlock) 0x62 - Knocking on door (Softlock) 0x63 - Halloween Change Clothes (Softlock) 0x64 - Rolling snowball (softlock) 0x65 - Spinning umbrella 0x66 - Push snowball to next acre 0x67 - Loan paid off 0x68 - Message box These IDs mostly remain the same for other versions too. The list was never completed, however, as I had to keep resetting my N64 after testing each one because a lot of them would softlock. You can see them by opening the playerreg editor in the games debug mode, it's towards one of the final pages. Also another interesting tidbit, in the original version, the game has an animation for when the player is falling which is meant to lock the movement of the player. Using my walk through walls code has a fix for this. GameShark v3.2 [Walk through walls] 810695D4 0000 810695D6 0000 810695BC 0000 810695BE 0000 803B530F 000A (The falling anim fix is this line).

[@Hunter-R.]

Super interesting. Thank you for sharing! I’m curious how the falling animation looks, so I might play around with these in the future. 👀

[@Bidziilla]

@@Hunter-R. It's a copy of the idle animation. It just disables movement. I assume it's meant to prevent the player to step over other items if they somehow clipped through a cliff. Also the reason using a paper airplane soft locks the game is that it used a DUMMY animation, I actually swapped the animation it called with the axe swing animation and it actually looked cool. You could pick the plane up an throw it as many times as you wanted!!

[@Hunter-R.]

@@Bidziilla I believe the player does get locked in idle when falling, at least in Animal Crossing. There’s a glitch with the island’s GBA connectivity that can bring you to the game’s height limit (I’ll cover this in a future video) and you can’t move at all and just slowly float back down to the ocean… Also, your original comment was flagged as spam here probably because KZbin saw a bunch of hex values/numbers and thought it was dangerous. I always appreciate your insights on these videos, so I’ve added you as an approved channel user and moderator of the comments so this won’t happen again.

[@holeinoneluigi4783]

That is so cool!! I’d love to see the player do a reaction from a villager if possible! It’s something I’ve been curious about for a long time!

[@SimpliStrawberri]

Animalese slowed down will haunt me forever

[@TaelsDaFoox]

the 10th unused shirt (black with the red collar) looks like it's supposed to be Klonoa

[@douglas2604]

7:33 I learned most of Isabelle morning announcements and Blather's intro text and it weird people out because they definitely recognize it lol but they also can't tell why, animalese is just funny like that

[@ABlob]

According to Google Patents, the patent for Animalese has expired on August 23rd 2020. So anyone can use it now without the threat of a lawsuit because of patent infringement ala "that one Crazy Taxi arrow pointing lawsuit", I think.

[@SheepUndefined]

The mouth of truth also gives the shocked reaction when used!

[@itsjooby]

given the context clues here, my theory is that “Shaki” could’ve been a scrapped holiday character for Groundhog Day !

[@aeriie0]

I ran into Blanca a lot. I didn’t have friends, I just had a lot of memory cards

[@asackboyplush6508]

Same lol

[@asackboyplush6508]

Except I'm playing the game now due to this channel

[@piratebear3126]

11:34 I never knew the Pokemon Mini was a potential errand item in Animal Crossing GCN, although I do now remember the Gameboy being an errand item. Makes me wonder if they were ever meant to be playable like the NES, especially because Pokemon Channel had a collection of Pokemon Mini games on Gamecube.

[@_fudgepop01]

I like the last shirt @ 11:59 that says "test NPC" where "test" is in cursive lol it looks like the one before that could be a reference to puyo puyo with the different colored orbs on a grid, notably with no groups of 4 or more

[@captaineli2461]

11:57 The second to last pattern in the first row is a reference to Ultraman. A Japanese superhero who is a big part of pop culture in the region (as far as I know).

[@TheHylainKnight]

11:59 The 15th shirt looks to me like it'd be a reference to Link's tunic. I know a few of the future games have actual clothing items for it but dunno if ones exist this far back.

[@pramina1878]

From the list of beta textures at 11:57 , the 2nd shirt from the right on the top row bears a resemblance to Ultraman, a long running Japanese Tokusatsu show. The shirt is missing the blue orb in the middle, but the pattern and colors seem close enough to count as a reference.

[@cedrickmiller1625]

Perhaps the purple mist could have been for the Halloween event?

[@ZeroF26]

Always love seeing these quirks I had a rather mundane video idea pop in my head but could be still worth discussing is how the Lost & Found/Recycle Bin work and what items it decides to toss in. Could maybe fit in another one of these Oddities grab bag videos

[@ShyGuyXXL]

It's such a shame Blanca never returned. You can already draw inappropriate things onto your clothes and visit other people's towns, so why is drawing on her face so bad? Even then, they could just let her hang out in your own town for the rest of the day. It's still gonna be fun to see what kinda face you drew last time you saw her.

[@paula-ana4799]

I was lucky enough to see Blanca quite a bit as a kid :D She was *incredibly* interesting to me. I had the lucky combination of both having a cousin who had his own town living with me, and also having multiple memory cards of my own.

[@rocket_is_so_flipping_cool]

your videos are so chilled out and relaxing, i frequently put your videos on before bed or in the miniplayer while im writing, keep it up hunter!

[@nj8833]

I stood up, screamed, and flexed when TTYD got a random cameo in a Hunter R. video

[@Hunter-R.]

I love Paper Mario, with TTYD being my favorite of course. 🥳

[@ArcRay20]

randomly recommended this channel and these scratch an itch in my brain for weird game trivia like Illusory Wall with his Dark Souls videos.

[@nj8833]

For so many people, Anamalese IS animal crossing!! Hard to imagine that concept getting scrapped, considering how much it adds to the personality and aesthetic of the game

[@treefroggy]

The text system began with Metal Slader Glory and is the work of Satoru Iwata. It was also famously used in Earthbound.

[@Singleparentof20000]

Hey isn’t other player reaction technically from cleaning Gracie’s car (tired/panting?) and when villagers change your shirt on Halloween (wtf u doin/scared)

[@HannahandCailinLoesch]

Can never get enough of Animal Crossing oddities, especially for Gamecube. Thanks for sharing even more, Hunter! These videos are so much fun to watch and the re-listen to while working or gaming 🎮

[@javen9693]

This video makes me feel Purple Mist 🔮

[@ikagura]

I'm glad to see so many details about this game.

[@AlasPoorYorick.]

The top right unused texture at 12:00 is from the film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)!

[@skittles.the.kitsune]

14:36 so proud of her transition ❤❤

[@KaidenAC]

Great video! Isn't the purple mist reaction used on Halloween night when the villagers swap your shirt with the Patched Shirt?

[@Hunter-R.]

I checked and you're right, it is used for exactly that... I've added a correction to the pinned comment that explains these reactions a bit more! Seems a bit silly to have gone through the trouble of triggering them if they weren't unused all along, but oh well... :c

[@KaidenAC]

@@Hunter-R. All good lol, just something I noticed

[@stgigamovement]

​@Hunter-R. Something else you forgot to mention is that iQue Player Doubutsu no Mori animalese bugs out due to the double-byte letters turning into control characters in the eyes of DnM's Animalese.

[@puffleperson]

Was there any more info discovered on those unused "medicine related" lines that were apparently also found near Shaki's Data? I dunno. I just really liked the idea of her being a doctor. Still. Those cut flower functions sound interesting.

[@SheepUndefined]

She could've made medicine from flowers maybe?

[@minirop]

I love Blanka, my favourite Street Fighter character.

[@JBolt1089]

3:16 oh hey windows 11 logo

[@infernox1099]

12:28 I know you vaguely described where the name comes from, but as a bit of extra clarification, in Japanese, plastic bottles are often called "pet bottles" because of what you mentioned, but it is a common phrasing in Japanese in case anyone might think it was a weird contraction

[@Nici1188]

I never thought i´d be so interested in animal crossing content. when i first saw one of your videos it completely catched me. I dont even play animal crossing yet your content is just amazing!

[@Chubby_Bub]

The weird thing is that the villager "lost item" of glasses, which had a sprite of glasses in a case, was changed to that unused beta sprite of glasses in Doubutsu no Mori e+. This is an extremely niche thing that I found.

[@tonymitsu]

Seeing Japan Eat on the list of residents feels somehow so wholesome

[@unxverse-]

I literally just found your channel yesterday and ive already binged most of your videos 😅 Ive learned so many cool things about ac thru your channel ive never heard anywhere else!

[@naturalistmind]

My god you unlocked a hidden memory for me when you mentioned Blanca, I would always exploit multiple memory cards for high value fruits, etc.

[@LazKoal]

I just discovered this channel and I really enjoy it! I’d love to see a video on your personal memories with Animal Crossing GC, such as your first town, first villagers, etc.

[@fr0ggierave]

i really like these oddities and obscurities videos! a lot of videos like this with "rare facts" seem to say the same things a lot of the time, so it's nice that these ones are actually telling us something new.

[@CBGog]

This channel is so fascinating. Personally would love to see how villagers ai work through each game in the series. What do they remember or do they even actually?

[@appreantlyems]

5:37 how did i notice this tiny mistake 'bacgkround music' lol

[@addaterraintexture]

Seeing Blanca as a kid would've terrified me.

[@CookiesPlay09]

I love the way of: Start feature - Stop feature doing something else, or delete function but not code and asset since you might have to change more things - ship it

[@djinnspalace2119]

i cant get enough of this content

[@radioactiveraptor1011]

in japan, calling plastic bottles “pet bottles” is very common. i’m japanese and my mom would often tell me to recycle or reuse my pet bottles (recycling is also very important!) there is even a manga called “leave it to pet!” that i used to read as a kid about a recycled pet bottle and his antics.

[@morfosi]

The long silent pause for the patron without a name made me laugh unreasonably hard

[@naomi9606]

The reason a lot of people knew about Blaca wasn’t because everyone was visiting actual friend’s towns, but because most people had two memory cards and would create a second town to access new fruits and just have another place to explore. Most people already had a memory card before receiving the one with AC.

[@platenoise256]

the sound it makes when you color in an oddity is so menacing.

[@ltsACroissant]

WAKE UP THERE'S ANOTHER HUNTER R. ANIMAL CROSSING VIDEO

[@oetam5204]

Blanca can also be encountered in Wild World! The telephone in the attic of the player's house will ask if they want a "mysterious cat" to travel by phone, and after visiting another town (doesn't require WiiConnect, the original DS Lite was all about local internet lol) Blanca may appear in the player's town.

[@scribbly.p]

dude, your videos are so entertaining! i don’t even like animal crossing that much but i’m invested lmao

[@robintst]

I think the Blanca face I drew for my friend to see was only two dots for eyes and a tiny straight line for the mouth, that's far more unsettling than trying to actually make a scary face.

[@EggboyYT]

I swear this is one of the coziest channels I've ever seen... :)

[@peachymunmagenta]

5:38 bacgkround

[@monospaperbag]

i really love the way you edit your videos! it‘s so unique. and the details you show are so interesting! ty for these vids

[@the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

Here's a fun Animal Crossing fact that I rarely, if ever, hear people discuss: In the original Animal Crossing for the Nintendo Gamecube, if you leave the game on for 100 hours straight in real time, your Gamecube won't like it. :(

[@hirakatashii]

The teal and white design on the top right with the red spot in the middle is the design of Nausicaa’s dress in Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind! It’s a Studio Ghibli movie so I’m not surprised they used that as a test design!

[@xman10110]

Can’t wait to watch another masterpiece