The power and influence the animal crossing community has is insane

[Hsn97]

I modded my 3DS and New Leaf town purely because I’d completed everything several times and owned the game 8 years and wanted to do something new with it. Mainly I wanted the freedom to decorate my town and pick my villagers. I liked it it added a new lease of life into the game. I don’t think I’d bother modding NH tho. It seems too risky and I can do most things without mods (excluding them beautiful star trees but nvm.)

 

[kiwikenobi]

I have nothing against mods, myself. I never use them in pretty much any game, but I feel like people should be free to do whatever they want to in their own games as long as it doesn't make other people unhappy.

As for console bricking, is that really a thing? Nintendo can just send a signal to your Switch and render it unusable if they feel like it? Or am I misunderstanding something? Seems like they couldn't possibly be allowed to just break the thing you bought from them like that. I'm sure people can brick their systems on their own by messing with them in unintended ways, but surely Nintendo can't just wreck your Switch remotely like that. ...Right?

 

[Pig-Pen]

Like seriously, I am now highly contemplating buying a 1.0 switch to play with mods.

The community just comes together and starts all these movements over our mutual love for the game. We will be quiet for months and then a huge new trend will begin, and everyone is getting their islands out again.

I think it’s awesome.

Yeah, pretty cool!

 

[Belle T]

I have nothing against mods, myself. I never use them in pretty much any game, but I feel like people should be free to do whatever they want to in their own games as long as it doesn't make other people unhappy.

As for console bricking, is that really a thing? Nintendo can just send a signal to your Switch and render it unusable if they feel like it? Or am I misunderstanding something? Seems like they couldn't possibly be allowed to just break the thing you bought from them like that. I'm sure people can brick their systems on their own by messing with them in unintended ways, but surely Nintendo can't just wreck your Switch remotely like that. ...Right?

Nintendo can't brick your system themselves. That would be both a legal minefield and a logistical nightmare. They can, however, blacklist it from all online services. I think people are using "bricking" as a somewhat erroneous synonym for "banning."

Regardless, modding your system and games does carry a risk of the user inadvertently bricking the system if done improperly, because achieving it on actual hardware requires reverse engineering sensitive code and rewriting vital system files. So yes, console bricking is a real thing that can happen, but Nintendo won't send a space laser down to destroy your Switch's hard drive if they catch you tampering with it or anything like that.

 

[kiwikenobi]

@Belle T That's about what I thought. Thanks for confirming!

 

[KittenNoir]

Is there certain programs you have to download to be able to play these mods?

 

[Crowsie]

Animal Crossing has had a pretty healthy mod scene since Wild World. Last time I played NL I modded it pretty heavily just to keep myself entertained. I dunno where this whole 'people are starting to mod the game in cool, new ways cuz Nintendo has abandoned' thing came from. I mean, I saw cosmetic mods for New Horizons on my Twitter feed as far back as Christmas 2020.

 

[-Blue-]

I have nothing against those who mod the games as long as it is done without malicious intent. I think it's a really cool way to bring their passion and create amazing pieces to enhance the game. I mean it's not any secret that New Horizon was dropped at such a weird time and as a result the game suffered from content drought. That year and a half before the official and last update was just strange. I've accepted that for what it is, but they gave us very meager portions with each update and then just dumped whatever was left in sort of a 'leave us alone now' matter.

It feels akin to how Bethesda would just let the modders fix their problems and not fix the issue themselves. So the modders adding to the game is amazing. Like I am sure with the know how, someone could mod the gold tools not to break and for their to be a gauge to tell us when the lesser tools would break. Something Nintendo could've done easily but chose not to.


Nintendo can't brick your console. And you can possibly brick your own if you try to mod your system, but I've heard for the 3ds it's very hard to do and it's also reversible. If you don't have the knowledge, don't jump in. Anyway Nintendo can't brick your systems, but they can ban your profiles from online. Normally it's from people reporting. Say like someone visits your dream address and sees something strange? They may report and Nintendo may or may not intervene depending on how many claims they have gotten.

 

[*~ Croissant ~*]

I don't mind anyone modding and I myself loved to mod my New Leaf town. It was really fun to design fantastical towns on the Save Editor and popping the game in to see how it looked in person was always an exciting surprise. I dont know how save editing works for New Horizons, but some of the modded towns I've seen are super beautiful. I dont have any plans to mod my town, but if I could get my hands on a 1.0 switch for not too much money, I would 100% go for it! Just the chance to have trees closer together or rocks next to each other sounds like a dream design-wise.
One thing I feel strongly about though is that once I start modding, it kills part of the game for me. I can never again play the game without mods, which makes me feel kinda sad. I still wanna enjoy the game for a few more years, so I personally am going to try to avoid modding for now