First Person Ever to 100% Animal Crossing (Legitimately) 

Waiting for a cosmic ray to flip a bit to spawn a paper airplane is true commitment to the legitimate 100%

I can’t imagine the sheer terror of potentially losing years worth of play time.

How has Nintendo not sent you a custom award for completing this. This has got to be the most impressive Nintendo feat I've seen.

that corruption segment was the most stressed i've ever been while watching a youtube video. goddamn, dude. this is a phenomenal run and an equally phenomenal video. thank you for your dedication!

This feels like the kind of thing that if you did legit back in the day and sent in proof the company or game's designer would send you a letter and a gift card

The corruption segment was the most fascinating thing I've ever seen. It was so cool seeing Kyler get to work and explaining WHY it actually happened. This gives me hope that others who have corrupted towns may get the help they need

My mom was super dedicated to the GameCube version and did get the post model legitimately after literally years of playing the turnip market... but she never finished the catalog! I can't even imagine trying to do that. That's pretty impressive!

You should upload this save file to the internet. This save file deserves to be archived online.

This needs to be on national headlines lol. Man so much information in this game is needed to actually get all the items legit. This is truly amazing

Amazing video! Had me dying at "What shirt are you wearing?" "A shirt of Animal Crossing characters" "No I mean in Animal Crossing" "OH"

I was so frustrated about never getting oranges and now I finally understand why! I actually did manage to get an orange using the island, but slightly differently. If you bury 100 bells and have the islander dig it up like with furniture, they'll replace it with a mushroom, candy, coconut, or fruit! I was really surprised this worked because oranges are my islander's hated fruit, but miraculously she planted an orange tree for me this way and I finally got oranges.

This is honestly one of the most impressive gaming accomplishments I've ever seen. I just have an incredible amount of respect for the dedication that went into this challenge. I remember seeing the bit-flip corruption incident/100% stream live after a raid and not knowing anything that was really going on, but this video explained everything very well. Congrats on this amazing achievement!

Originally I thought “I doubt this guy was the first person to actually get a Post Model legitimately. It’s a normal part of the game, it can’t be that hard.” Then I looked up that it would take 17 years of play to get it without exploiting the turnip market for all it’s worth.

I still remember that fateful night of town corruption... Cuyler really is a hero.

awesome video man, great work on it. Loved catching those streams and I remember coming in right after the corruption. So glad it got saved. Thanks for sharing the history of the game, all of its secrets, your own brilliant strategies, and your love and passion for the game with us!

I did the same thing with Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I never told anyone about it besides my brother. It was an incredible journey for me! I dropped the game a few years ago due to having nothing to do in it anymore. I never time traveled (besides to collect the New Year's items, of course), because I wanted to play the game how it was meant to be played, because that's how I enjoyed it! I used to be a heavy time traveler back in my GameCube days lol! Much respect to you and thanks for sharing!! It took me 4 years to accomplish this, even with help from trading/selling/buying with people on The Bell Tree Forums occasionally. Well, actually, I didn't completely 100% it yet lol, but that is by choice. I may do it eventually! I am only missing 3 gold badges (the StreetPass one, the town host one, and the town traveler one). And I also never collected 999,999,999 bells, I only have (only, heh!) around 130,000,000 at the moment. This video may inspire me to do the last little bit to 100%! Again, thank you for sharing!! EDIT: I uploaded proof of my (almost) 100% town! You can check it out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TIYuHW4yVFc.html

at first i was surprised to hear nobody 100%-ed this game but now i definitely understand LMAO amazing work bro. i cannot believe some of these items could even still be obtained legitimately

Your unflagging dedication is nothing short of jaw-dropping.

yknow i thought id be bored before clicking on this cause i felt bad and tired but this was genuinely such a pleasant video to watch that i feel better now and forgot i was super tired for a while. impressive feat, by the way!! the dedication to such a project is incredibly respectable and just awesome. i also ended up learning a lot about a game i previously knew basically nothing about in the process!

It's a shame this guy only has just over 1,000 views on this video marking the special occasion. This guy deserves a lot more recognition for his achievement, on the same level as jvgsjeff and Audie the grandma. Edit: Nevermind, this comment didn't age well lmao

Truly amazing work, Brian. I loved occasionally tuning into these streams, it reminded me of my childhood watching my siblings play for hours. And this prodigious video is the cherry on top of an unbelievable achievement. Congratz!

Wow... every time I think I'm a fan (short for fanatic - I feel like I need to point that out here) I find I'm merely a passing enthusiast. That was the truest dedication I've seen to a single title in my life. Congratulations on seeing it all the way through and still going even beyond your own definition of legitimate 100%.

Your AC videos makes me getting back to cross my どうぶつの森+ and e+ village. For me, NGC's AC is the most comfortable place to walk around, catch bugs and fishes then earn a lot money, and of course, play bunch of Famicon games. I reunited the AC's integrity by your deep mining this beautiful videogame. Congrats on this amazing legitimate 100% achievement!

I've seen a lot of people doubt the legitimacy of this since it came out, so let me say a few things to contradict these claims: 1. He never modified the game at all, nor did he use cheating devices. 2. Changing the date is a dev-intended option in the game, and therefore not cheating. Additionally, since the game only supports dates up to the end of 2030, playing the game date-accurate will eventually be impossible, meaning that time travelling will be the only way to play without game modifications. 3. While the stalk market RNG tool seems illegitimate, it doesn't modify the game. Saying that's cheating is like saying a classmate doesn't deserve an A+ grade on their literature test because they not only read the book, but contacted the author to see what they were thinking when writing the book. ANYONE could've reverse-engineered what Cuyler did, that's not illegitimate either, that's a skill issue for anyone complaining. 4. Part of "legitimately" is full video proof. If you say "oh yeah I did this one time" and don't provide full video proof, that's not legitimate, even if it really happened. I've eve seen some really heartwarming examples of people completing this challenge earlier in their lives, and they might as well be true, but since there's not full video proof, it's only legitimate to the people that were present for the whole thing, not legitimate period. Look at speedrunning for example. It's 2024, legitimacy doesn't use playground rules, and hasn't since the early 2000s. 5. Unused/dummy items can and sometimes will randomly appear, even if you've never used cheats or hacks. Anyone who says otherwise has literally no idea what they're talking about. 6. The save copying/fixing happened on a Wii that wasn't a part of the challenge, it's completely seperate.

Watching you 100% this and all the different ways required there are to get every item in the game, just fills me with newfound appreciation for just HOW much content and creativity went into making the original Animal Crossing.

Watching the entirety of this video after having watched a lot of my girlfriend playing new horizons has really put into perspective how truly special the gamecube entry in the series was. The pure attention to detail and effort put in by the developers of this game is truly incredible. The amount of specific variation between certain weeks, months, seasons and years without any interest in explaining to or making easy to understand these things to the player is the absolute gold standard of video games. Animal Crossing GC is easily within my top 5 games of all time.

The real hero in all of this is Cuyler But fr dude this is history. Congrats and gooooood shit

My first animal crossing experience is when New Leaf came out and despite New Horizons allowing you to be way more creative and being MUCH more expansive, this game still has so much charm and differences to set it apart from later titles. One thing I didn't know I needed were those town models! They're so cool!

Honestly, it blows my mind how much content there is in this game considering its age.

haha big ups to you for completing this man. Gamecube AC makes me nostalgic like no other game. it's so pure and special and all the sounds flood me with the most pleasant memories. thanks for the video

You rock!!! I've been waiting for this forever!!! Thanks for coming back to it!! You're awesome!!

There are two equally amazing parts to this videos. Discovering how much content is packed into this game that you've committed to collecting without help, or the computer science behind fixing your save file.

I remember painstakingly doing this in city folk and hitting on the fact that there's wifi distributed items that were distributed in only certain regions or at a time where the game was not released yet in my country

the way you narrate and explain things really helps me calm down and relax when i’m in a stressed out mood and this was very helpful to watch too:)

I remember catching bits of the stream! Especially when you were playing the villager games to get all of the igloo items. It seemed so tedious! Appreciate your dedication to this game and your craft!

Congratulations on managing to complete this!! (Technically again since you basically did it for your older town!) Also impressive that you also streamed the entire thing!!

I have never heard of you before, but I just wanted to say congrats on getting 100%! Sad that you can't get some of the unused items, but still very impressive!

This is truly an incredible video. I'm actually at a loss for words. I've been a long-time hardcore Animal Crossing fan and even I managed to learn new intricacies from this video. Not only is the dedication to this speedrun simply mindboggling, but you managed to give a small history lesson on the complex and somewhat mysterious NES games in Animal Crossing. From managing to recover your entire save file from the brink of death, to getting extraordinarily lucky with the beta paper airplanes, this truly is the *golden* speedrun completion. Nothing could _ever_ top this. Thank you so much for seeing this through to the end and then gifting it to all of us in this amazing video. Cheers, mate. This was incredible.

This channel is absurdly underrated! You do such cool stuff!

you are a huge inspiration of mine and i feel your work is more than underappreciated. thank you for everything youve done

This deserves so much more attention! Your dedication is remarkable! Nice work, gamer (:

This is an incredible feat. If a time traveller showed this video to elementary school me, my head may have popped from my mind being literally blown. Great work, man!

Added to my favorites. Your dedication is amazing. It's so nice to see a person in their element. With Animal Crossing in particular, it's unreal to see how much care the developers put into this game -- sooo many models and designs and seasonal events and so much translation from the English team too! I'm reminded of how this is absolutely one of my favorite games of all time. It DESERVES to be played like this from start to finish. It DESERVES this love. Thank you :)

About 7 min in and I’ve already learned so many things about this game that I never knew! I love the models and the igloo, also the lighthouse quest is so cute. So many kudos to you for doing this ^_^

This is amazing Brian. Animal Crossing GC is one of my favorite games of all time and I always wished I could do this. Good job

42:36 that is truly _the_ coolest basement design I've seen for the og ac. Congrats, man.

This is so amazing, impressive and informative I learned so many things about the game when watching this!

been waiting for this :) can't wait to see some of the moments again. congrats!!

This sounds like just an amazing crazy journey. I’m also glad that you were able to save your town from corruption

I remember completing wild world; I'd leave my gates open and have my friends come visit. One day somebody came along and seeded my game, forcing me to restart the entire town and character from scratch. I bought an r4 and started an "anti-seeding clan". I'd fix your seeded town if you can open gate, and I'd track down who did it and brick their game

This is absolutely stellar. Was a blast to watch. This is the most thorough Animal Crossing experience I've ever seen! And Cuyler saving the game from corruption was mind-blowing. I'd love to know more about how corruption works in this game. Weird how that pattern was affected! I'm...kind of scared of my yellow pinstripe now. xD A few comments and questions that came to mind throughout the video: - With SMB and TLoZ being basically the only items you haven't obtained, is there a possibility for Wisp to give you those items now? What does Wisp even do now that there are no new catalogueable items to give you? - OK, I can't necessarily say you 100%'d "Punch-Out!!" because it has a literal campaign to go through unlike most of the NES games (compare with Super Mario Bros. -- you couldn't just beat the first world and call it 100%'d!). - I never noticed that the icon in the calendar is a keyhole! I always thought it was just a player icon, like shoulders and hand. Mind has been blown. - Now that you're basically the premier expert on AC rarities, I'd love to see you do some videos on things most players would never see outside of their casual experience. For example, the villagers tell you not to remove the memory card while saving. But what happens...if you do? 👀Do you get special dialogue? Does the GameCube catch on fire? In summary...thanks for sharing your experience! I'm so glad you were able to document all this for the record. Excited to see what else you accomplish. I expect there's still plenty for you to do in the world of Animal Crossing...even after 100%'ing it.

Incredible man! Congratulations on this huuuuge achievement :D That smile at the end, true happiness :3

This is truly beautiful. The dedication to this, spending YEARS just to work towards a goal you genuinely cared about. Good job, man. I hope you took a well deserved rest after all this.

This is truly amazing and incredible. Congrats dude! Your dedication is admirable as hell

Amazing! I salute your cause and I hope the New Horizons journey is going enjoyably, too! PS. I love how this video is not just a run-down of what was done, but also, a pretty extensive game mechanic (and holiday event) guide, which is a very nice combination!

What a phenomenal achievement. I have fond memories of playing this game as a kid but I never had the patience or consistency/dedication required to keep coming back daily and achieve anything impressive (I was like 7 years old lol). I’m especially impressed by the additional stuff, like having the paper planes contained, having every item like the orange and displayed copies of the fossils/fish. You didn’t just 100% the game you basically have a perfect save file. Immense props to you dude.

I heard of the cosmic bit flip incident-- something about a shirt being changed, and I was surprised to see your name! I thought you had left with Bowsersenemy. I'm finally checking out your channel (started yesterday with the 100% Legitimate 1bil Bells video) and I'm really enjoying your content! Animal Crossing on the Gamecube is one of my absolute favorite games.

This is crazy, I hope this video gets blown up sometime soon because you very much deserve it

Absolute insanity dude I'm so glad the algorithm tossed your video my way:)

This video is honestly so good, it deserves a lot more views

you can tell that he has a real passion for this game

this is so amazing! i love completionism and dedicating yourself so much to one game. makes me want to work harder on my own projects.

Dude this grind is insane. Love this video!

oh the algorithm knows what i want. very nice video man. couldnt imagine a more relaxing game to 100% than animal crossing :D

This is very impressive, and it's cool you even did stuff you didn't need to do to get 100% which makes this even more impressive.

I love this so much. I still have the 30k bells code memorized from the booklet I got at Blockbuster way back when. I used it a *lot*. Congrats on your big accomplishment!!

This legit blows my mind, and like, the fact that you streamed it in its entirety is so wild, such dedication!!!!

I played Animal Crossing as a young kid for hours and hours. I even return to it every few years or so as a wonderful nostalgic immersion. Ever since the moment I heard it in Twirp's house I knew Go K.K. Rider was my favorite song of the entire library, so to hear you use it as the celebration music for an achievement that will stand out among its peers in the annuls of ACGC history was a fantastic cherry on top of an exhilarating journey.

This is really cool. I greatly respect your dedication and you deserve more recognition for this.

I'm so glad you made such a satisfying video on such an enormous feat. Fantastic work!

i had no idea how much stuff there was in this game, between items, all the nes games, codes, gba island etc. ive never played this one but i’ve always wanted to. congrats on 100%ing!

when you said you'd done everything except get an orange, i was like "hmm he hasn't seen a whale yet" what are the odds dude!! i love this video

Congrats again! What a legend!

this is so impressive and thorough and i really hope u go down in gaming history

This video is criminally underrated. good job man !

OMG BRIAN YOU DID IT?!??!? I'm so freaking proud of you!!! I didn't realize that you made it this far-- so glad i checked YT today!

If only new horizons had the same charm as the original…. :(

Insanely underrated video in my opinion. This is insanely epic, mate.

Great job for setting a goal, sticking to it, and accomplishing it. Much respect

If I had a quarter for every time a bit flip sent a community into a frenzy I’d have 2 quarters, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

I love this so much. Animal Crossing on Gamecube is a very nostalgic game for me, and seeing you play it to its limits makes me happy. Also, where can I find that catalog tracker you used in the bottom left?

Subscribed!!!!! This is amazing!!!!!!!! I can’t even begin to explain how nostalgic animal crossing gamecube is for me. It brings me back to simpler times when I was a kid playing at my grandmas house. Haha she got me my first gamecube for Christmas but the rule was I couldn’t bring it home! Lmao 🤣 I had to leave it at my grandmas house. Just so I would come and visit more 😭😂❤️ ahhhh man. I’ll never forget the early mornings waking up to the smell of my grandparents coffee and cinnamon sugar toast filling the air. The soothing music of animal crossing playing in the background 🥺😭 The first week I got the game I told my friends at school about it and they thought it sounded so weird! We were used to playing the normal action packed games. So when I told them I was decorating my house and planting flowers; it was safe to say they were a little worried for me 😂😭 But they were intrigued cause I was so adamant and excited to show them that following weekend when they came over to spend the night. I mowed 3 of my grandparents neighbors lawns that week after school, helped one older lady pick weeds in her backyard, rake leaves and all that good stuff for extra money which I used to get us all snacks for the weekend! I was so prepared I bought extra comic books, colored pencils and paper as we used to make our own comic books together. Finally that weekend came and right after school we all walked to my grandparents house. Finally I got to show them Animal crossing for their first time after waiting all week. We didn’t have no phones to search it up lol so that wait was unbearable!😂 I turned on the GameCube the music started playing and my friends were immediately hooked. This was the only game we’re none of us cared about taking turns all night long! Each of us played for 30 minutes then passed off to the next person. While we weren’t playing we sat and made our own comic books while we watched! It was 4 of us including me so we all had our homes in the same town. I had the second memory card to so we can hop on the train and go fruit hunting 😅 we made a huge blanket pillow fort in my room with the tv inside it 😭 ahhh it was so much damn fun. Staying up all night then watching the sun come up in real life and on animal crossing was the coolest thing ever to us 😂😭 I still talk to those friends to this day ❤️ Like I said lol. Animal crossing is theee very essence of nostalgia for me. I wish I could share my feelings for this game to everyone but the best I can do is try to explain it in words the best I can! I think I look back to those moments of my childhood as some of my favorite memories. I think I cling onto them after all the pain and sorrow I endured from my best friend getting killed to my dad passing away out of nowhere from a massive heart attack at a very young age. To the countless family members I’ve lost from heart problems as it runs very deep in my families history; to my friends that we’re killed from gang violence or drug overdoses. I say this all the damn time, but I think this game seriously saved my life. If I didn’t have it, I wouldn’t have those memories to cling on to and Im more than certain I would of fell into insanity and completely let my depression take over leading me to doing something that could of very well ended my life. One hell of a scary thought… Animal crossing has helped me keep my happiness alive and stopped me from letting my depression take over. And I know that is a fact.

Congrats my guy. This is incredible!!!! V/ stoked for you. you did a worlds first!!

This is such an amazing video! This game has meant so much to me for my whole life, seeing people continue to love it and push the limits of completing it, I really wish this got recommended to me sooner.

I got as far as paying off my house and never touched the game again lol, I'm glad for the dedicated players out there that can accomplish insane personal challenges like this and show more of what these games have to offer.

This is such an awesome video man! Congratulations!

Thanks for sharing your journey, this was so informative! I've also run into the orange issue so this explains things. Time to start playing mini games.

This is helping through an anxiety attack, what a beautiful testament to your achievement and what amazing nostalgia for us OG Animal Crossing gamers :)

Holy crap what an amazing accomplishment. Still blows my mind just how much content is in this game that came out in 2002 and was the first in its series!

Coming next: all villager photos;) chapeau to such great commitment, love the game and your good commentary

This video is blowing my mind. I grew up playing this game and had no idea about a ton of stuff in this video. The lighthouse being something you can go into, the dummy item, the whale, the paper airplanes, all of that blew my mind! The biggest thing for me though: I remember finding those freaky codes that would give you NES games but could corrupt your stuff. What's really crazy is that I distinctly remember setting up all the NES games in my house almost exactly like you did in this video! I used codes for all those Nintendo items and laid them out with the games on them just like you did. Seeing how you had it in your video and how you could touch the star and it would make your character light up brought an insane amount of nostalgia. Fantastic video, thanks so much

as someone who loves reverse engineering as a concept and is doing their best to get into it, seeing the efforts of one of my favorite games have come a long way in recent years is very inspiring. loved the vid, the immense drama with the corruption was unreal. congrats on the run.

Cuyler is a legend.

Im currently working on 100% Animal Crossing New Leaf and its cool to see that there is a whole community on this. Great job! 👍

i love seeing these kind of videos from people like you who you can tell really love AC

This is absolutely incredible

i don't comment on videos anymore but i had to here because this literally so impressive and deserves the extra support ☺️☺️

Glad the algorithm is picking this up, you deserve it for all that work! 100% speedruns with time travel is wild enough, let alone all this!

This is genuinely my favorite video on this platform. i can’t explain how much i admire this dedication

It's really cool that you're still planning on playing Billions, if I had an AC town like that, I'd probably play it, too, to be honest By the way, are you ever planning on getting the e+ stuff? There's not a lot, it'd probably come a lot faster than the hundreds of hours you spent getting all the items in English AC (Though I mean, obviously, with an achievement this big, you definitely don't have to do it, but it's a neat thing to do if you're looking for more to do) Now that I think about it, Doubutsu no Mori has a few exclusive items, but the hardware would be harder to get unless you already have an N64, in which case both e+ and DnM are about $20-30 (Of course, you'd also have to import a Japanese GCN or use an exploit on your existing GCN to play e+) And like I said, don't have to do this, this is still an amazing feat. Great job!