a little bit of nostalgia…

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since the 3ds and wii u eshops are both closing in just over a year (march 2023), a reminder that both of these consoles can be hacked pretty easily as long as they work and have an sd card and internet access

https://3ds.hacks.guide/ https://wiiu.hacks.guide/

PSA: Corrupted Save Data & ACNH

500+ hours. 2 islands gone. No explanation.

The first time it happened, my husband and I tried literally everything. We called Nintendo three times. Reset the Nintendo Switch and initialized it. We even bought a digital copy in the hopes that there was just something wrong with the game card. After days of turmoil, and coming to terms that I lost 320+ hours of my life, I decided to start over and begin anew.

Maybe it’s because I time travel, I thought. Maybe I didn’t close out the game completely before I turned the day over.

I restarted. Built up a town I felt proud of, time traveling one day at a time until I reached the real date. This game has been my solace during this quarantine, pouring all of my heart into a franchise I cherish.

And then, lo and behold, it did happen. It happened AGAIN. I opened the game, just as normal. I didn’t time travel or anything, and I received that ridiculous error message that gives you no choice but to start over. I’ve seen some say this error screen isn’t real, so I’ve attached proof. Yes, it is indeed, real.

I do not hack or mod. Save for time traveling, (which plenty of other people do) I play completely vanilla. Nobody has any answers and I’m not the only person this happened to. I’m writing this to spread the message that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is broken, and I refuse to play a broken game until they either fix it or add cloud saving, which should have been included from the beginning. I would hate to see this happen to even more people. I want people to understand that every time you open this game you have a chance of losing your entire island, neighbors, designs, and so much more.

Sure, some people can say I’m being dramatic. It’s just a video game. But I’m sure I’m not the only one who sees this game as an escape. Going to other people’s islands has done wonders for my loneliness, and building Lilac Bay up from the ground up has given me a reason to look forward.

Thanks for reading this.

- Wanda of Lilac Bay

Not sure if you’ve tried this but some people have said this works. It works for some, and not others. I heard it happens mostly when you get a villagers in boxes from a friend, whether you cheat it in or not. I haven’t had to do this, so I can’t say if it truly does or not work.

I’m sorry this happened TWO times to you. If it happened to me and I couldn’t get it back, I would probably quit for a while and go back to New Leaf for a bit. I hope if you’re playing again and rebuilding it never happens again. If you need any help starting again, definitely join some FB groups! The major one I’m apart of is called Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Everyone is extremely nice and willing to always help!

Good luck honey! Wish you the absolute best !

(I also blocked out the name and my friends faces for privacy reasons!)

This is why being able to hack and mod is important. Why access to *our* data has to be open to *us*. Nintendo obviously won’t care - most companies won’t, we’re at best “the product”. So it has to be us, or no one will.

I wish them the best regarding their new and old saves, and I also wish the Switch hacking community the happiest progress.

the trinity

I think there was something sort of profoundly beautiful about the Wii.

I don’t know why, but especially with the built-in channels there was something about the presentation and the music that really feels so much different from any other console. I think it’s because it’s the first console that tried to be something a little more than just a gaming device, and the ephemeral feeling that came with trying to blaze a trail while still maintaining an air of “we know exactly what we’re doing and are fully confident in these ideas”.

Looking back on it is like a fully realized glimpse into a reality congruent but slightly skewed to our own. The place on our respective timelines was right after the intersection where the two lines fully separated from each other, but only barely.

this reply made me feel something.

A post about the emotional resonances of the Nintendo wii is something that can actually be so personal

Nintendo’s sales haven’t been what they hoped for or expected, so all the executives got together and made the decision to cut their salaries in half to ensure their employees still get paid. They say it’s the fault of the executives that the products aren’t selling well, not their employees, so it isn’t fair for the employees to have to take the hits for that.

Why are there people who don’t like or respect Nintendo again?

Here are some sources for this 

This is unexpected. 

I DONT HAVE THE MONEY FOR A SWITCH IM TRYING I SWEAR IM TRYING

I feel like it’s worth saying that this is from a few years ago, when Satoru Iwata was president of the company, before his passing, and taking a pay cut was largely his idea. (Most of the directors at the top took a 20 or 30 percent pay cut, while Iwata cut his own salary by half.) They are doing much better now but, unfortunately, although he was involved with the prototyping and development of the Switch – the Wii U is essentially an early version of it – Iwata did not live to see its launch, which has been a massive success and is currently the fastest selling console of this generation. They had a great idea and just needed more time to execute on it.

But he was still a part of the system at launch, when a hidden tribute to him was placed inside the OS that could only be unlocked on the anniversary of his death. Nintendo is an amazing company; there’s a reason they’ve been around for over a hundred years.

Bethesda dropped the fattest stink bomb the gaming industry has seen in a decade

Blizzard put two shots in the back of Diablo’s head

Sony not doing E3, necking Japanese devs

Microsoft hasn’t been relevant in gaming since the XBone’s subpar release

Meanwhile Nintendo is fucking drowning in Switch success because they actually know how to, y'know, make video games.

Who knew Nintendos strategy of ‘Just, like, make game’ would be the winner?

“There is a copy of the NES game Golf in the firmware of every Switch system”

Me: Oh haha, what a weird thing, probably some remnant from the debugging process -

“Since that was a game that Satoru Iwata programmed himself, this could have been intended as a way of saying that Iwata is spiritually a part of every Switch and is watching over and protecting every system.”

Me:

Oh my God, so hackers have found out the way to enable you to play the game. You know how?

On July 11th*, the date of Iwata’s passing, doing Iwata’s “directly to you” motion with the Joy-Cons on the home screen will play a sound clip of Iwata and launch the game.

(* Before you try this yourself, note that simply changing the date on your system will not work, as this runs off the Switch’s internal internet-synced clock, meaning that changing the date manually will only work if the system has never been connected to the internet)

I… I can’t…

It goes even further than that.

Firstly, opening the game like this person is in the video is only possible with a brand new unit on system version 1.0.0 that has never been connected to the Internet. Because of this, opening it is pretty hard to replicate, unless if you have a completely brand new Switch. So, even if the system’s internal date is on July 11, it still won’t open if the system version is up to date.

The thing is, it’s not supposed to be opened.

The hidden Golf game has been described as an omamori, which, in Japanese culture, is a charm usually bought at shrines that offers spiritual protection and good luck if you keep it close to you. Sometimes they’re made of cloth, and look like a tiny bag, which can contain a written prayer. People often tie them to something like a purse or a backpack, so that it’s always with them. Here are a bunch of different ones:

Omamori are not supposed to be opened, as doing so is said to remove its blessing.

Seeing as the hidden Golf game on the Switch is so difficult to run under normal circumstances, it’s probably not supposed to be opened in the first place. It’s likely meant to represent an omamori in Iwata’s honor. Its very fitting, because of how portable the Switch is, since people are likely to take it with them like they would with an omamori strapped to a purse or backpack.

Hey, everyone. Since we’re now in July and this post is still making the rounds, I’m sure there are people who are going to want to try to activate the Golf game on their Switch on the 11th. So I wanted to provide an update to this:

All of the files of Golf in the Switch system were removed in an update back in late December.

As @lunarhalo24 helpfully pointed out, this inclusion of Golf in the Switch system was meant to be an omamori, a blessing from Iwata. And there’s another important cultural thing about omamori to note here:

An omamori’s blessing is only good until the end of the year, after which it expires and the omamori is traditionally disposed of in a sacred fire. So the files being deleted at the end of last year seems as though it was symbolic of the blessing’s time expiring.

So yes, there is now almost no way to actually access it. Because it was never meant to be accessed.

“i have your family in here”

Nintendo going into enemy territory is an underrated part of E3

HAPPY LABO RELEASE DAY !!

Break out the tiny toy pianos

College band class pranks director with Mii Channel theme

nintendo fans; this direct is going to be disappointing, im not expecting anything 

nintendo;

nintendo every direct ending it with a video shaking everyone watching to their core with no explanation