Although most people stopped playing the original Animal Crossing on the GameCube a long time ago, there's still a dedicated community out there speedrunning the game. One of these individuals, known as 'BrianMp16' on YouTube and Twitch, recently achieved a rather significant milestone in the game.
He claims to have become the "first legitimate Animal Crossing bellionaire" in the original release. The challenge was to earn one billion bells so he could then receive the post office model – the most expensive item, valued at 999,999,999.
The main reason no one else has gone for this is because you can simply type in a Nook Code in 30 seconds and receive the Post Model that way.
According to his post over on Reddit, this task apparently took him more than two months and 180 hours to achieve. Instead of using glitches or codes, he played the Stalk Market and shifted a lot of turnips on a regular basis. In an FAQ prior to completion, BrianMp16 said it had always been his "dream" to legitimately obtain every item in the game. And in case you're wondering what happens when you save up this much, you receive a message of congratulations from the post office (see above).
Now that he's 100% the original title, Brian is ready to move onto Animal Crossing: New Horizons when it arrives later this month. He's also used his new in-game status to help raise funds (in real life) for animals affected by the Nashville tornados in North America. You can read more about this over on Reddit.
[source eurogamer.net]
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Fair play to him. But has he legitimately 100% completed New Leaf?
Wow that is very impressive, I'm glad he share that online or else we'd never would have seen that letter. Cool!
I think in Europe a legit 100% on Gamecube Animal Crossing was almost impossible to get. Without the e-Reader + special e-Cards (not released in Europe) and a Game Boy Advance + GBA Link Cable you weren't able to get two items. I think they were NES Super Mario Bros. and NES The Legend of Zelda. You couldn't unlock them any other way, there wasn't even a Nook Code for them. And the Animal Crossing games back then had no online. You were only able to visit other towns by taking your Memory Card with your Animal Crossing save data to someone else who had the game and putting it into Memory Card Slot 2, and because of the Gamecube being region-locked, completing the PAL version is unfortunately something I never achieved.
@LavaTwilight New Leaf is impossible to 100% due to items being distributed exclusively online by Nintendo. Is the same for City Folk, I'm not sure about Wild World though.
He got the money from buying Turnip and used Stalk market to sell with higher price ?
I use Lazy camper money exploit + Time travel (Keep the date same) on ACNL to get easy money. 😏
No turnip being harmed during the process of money exploitation.
@Anti-Matter using hacking and exploits is bad. I just play the normal way
@Anti-Matter Here are the rules for this speedrun:
https://pastebin.com/6UYDNJCs
"The rules are: NO glitches, NO Nook Codes, One Town only, time traveling permitted by advancing time no more than 1 day at a time."
"Q: Wouldn't you consider Time Traveling illegitimate?"
"A: Time traveling backwards (except for proper daylight savings time changes) is considered illegitimate in my opinion. However, time traveling forward up to one day forward at a time forces me to play the game exactly as the developers intended but at my own pace. There is no in-game advantage given to the player time traveling in the manner I established; and furthermore, the total time spent will be the same time traveling in this manner versus playing in real time."
@SKTTR
Wait, he did a speedrun ?
I remember using Tortimer Island in New Leaf to farm expensive bugs for a few months to get over 100,000,000 bells for that one badge.
Took some terraforming, planning and countless runs between the island and Re-Tail. I like to think it was worth it.
The true way to do a speedrun
People who cheat.glitching is cheating shouldn't count.when I speedrun games I play without codes.glitching.i play 100% through
Good thing I know bells are the currency...
“The challenge was to earn one billion bells so he could then buy the post office model – the most expensive item, valued at 999,999,999”.
He received the post office model as a reward for saving that amount of money, attached to the same letter shown above - he didn’t need to spend the 999,999,999 bells he’d saved on buying it, as indicated above.
"speedrunning the game"
B/c the first thing that pops into my mind when I think of Animal Crossing is speedrunning the game.
@BarefootBowser don't worry man.
The game doesn't interest me either but i haven't actually tried it.
I like strategy building games like CIV 6 though. Just not keen on the life simulation strategy games.
@Chibi_Manny a regular DS version of Wild World can’t get the last Tom Nook expansion without multiplayer, so now it’s hard to complete it without a second copy of the game and a second system to play it with.
Conveniently, the WiiU version of the game removes that requirement.
Also, some items will be harder to find in your file depending on the stock group your Tom Nook store belongs to. I’m not sure if there’s anything that is now permanently locked away tough.
@Chibi_Manny not if you mod
@Darkyoshi98 "Glitching shouldn't count" Yes it should, the goal of a speedrun is to reach the goal as fast as possible. The goal is universally set to be the "end credits", and thus, it doesn't matter the way you get to the goal, what matters is that you're playing the vanilla game without straight-up modifications and hacks (unless you're specifically doing a speedrun with that mod/hack involved).
And that's also why there are different categories. "Glitchless" speedruns are the ones without any glitches, only advanced usage of the mechanics in the game. "Any%" are the ones with glitches. Regardless, all of them count as speedruns, since the objective of "reaching the end credits as fast as you can" is the same for all categories.
Naw. I'm sure others have done this and it just hasn't been featured online. I just don't buy that NO ONE else has done this before.
Doesn't make it less impressive to do though. I just doubt he's the first. Especially if it can be done in 180 hours. There are people with 1,800 hours+ in the game.
i highly, highly doubt that.
@Luminous117 @Razer I grew up on a farm and had to do most of those chores/work in real life as a kid so I stay far away as possible from these games.
Wow.
Although, I'm sure the oldtimers will be posting THEIR bellionaire letters all over the web in the coming week.
@Anti-Matter Literally the first sentence of the article: "Although most people stopped playing the original Animal Crossing on the GameCube a long time ago, there's still a dedicated community out there speedrunning the game."
No way is he the first, just the first to make a big deal over it.
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