Getting one Billion Bells in Animal Crossing 

Imagine being the richest thing ever and your bank gives u a doll house

19:36 "Sacrificing the entire town for the sake of making money." Wow, this game is realistic!

Even though this game has existed for almost 20 years, I feel like there’s a lot still undiscovered or not widely known about this game, if you Google a question about the game 20% of the time new horizons shows up.

I admire the fact that you had the tenacity to plan and execute this. When I was much younger I thought that I might try to legitimately become a bellionare, but after about 850 ingame days I threw in the towel because I did not have the intimate knowledge of the stalk market. This was so cool to watch.

bro your feats list is INSANE. you arent just a villager. you are THE villager. hats off to you.

Another reason the Bellionaire was elusive in the original: you weren't stuck with just one town. You could have as many towns as you had memory cards. And even the 1 million to 10 million jump is enough to fully pay off SIX additional manors. If you're not power-levelling with turnips or the island, expanding real estate is far more attractive.

Congrats dude! The AC community has come a long way and I'm happy to see you complete this insane accomplishment! ACNH hype!!

i admire people like you who explore, catalog and archive EVERYTHING about a game, then share it with others. you’re like historians!

The whole not being able to sell turnips because you don't have space to accept payment is really suffering from success.

I legitimately don't know how Nintendo thought people would get this item wow. Congrats on achieving this rank.

Nintendo: yeah let’s do this fun little game mechanic that mimics the stock market how fun! This guy: My name is Jordan Belfort.

I got AC:NH to play with my niece. I’ve never played any AC. I was curious what a bellionaires island looked like, so searched YT. This video was at the top. I can’t believe I watched 40 minutes of that, I couldn’t stop lol. I was blown away by the effort you put into this task, what an achievement congrats! And thanks for putting this together, it was highly entertaining

The phrase "60 Gigabyte text file" is so cursed

Do you remember the Tai soccer team cave rescue? One of the men involved was not only a pro extreme driver, but an experienced anaesthesiologist. This man was legit the ONLY person in this world who was a perfect fit for the only rescue they could do, so much he even got knighted for it. I’m not saying that this is as impressive as saving lives, but you’re both have the same ‘the exact right person for this exact task’ vibes that I am incredibly fascinated by.

You've proven to be the premiere authority on AC, and after all these years you have transcended the medium. Hats off to you!

I love Brianmp16

Imagine Tom nooks perspective, he baught $1bil bells worth of turnips off you. His wife is pisseddddd

You remind me of people like ZFG, Simple Flips, and Oats and Goats. Your knowledge of the game is so vast and so good that you can just think of glitches and strategies right off the top of your head. That's what makes all of them so interesting, because they don't just follow a route, they think on their feet and pull out some obscure but interesting knowledge while doing it.

Mp16 is currently under heavy investigation by the animal crossing SEC and is facing life in prison for insider trading with Tom Nook.

I guess it makes sense that vast majority of the fanbase for animal crossing isn't really concerned about min-maxing, considering how casual the game is.

I don't know if you will ever see this, but I would like to personally thank you for showing screenshots of Animal Crossing Community. Years ago, I learned a lot about Wild World and City Folk that I remember but have never found documented anywhere else, and I remember only being able to upgrade my Nook stores thanks to them. The name was lost to time, and I assumed they had long closed when Fandom replaced them in the search results.

I attempted 100%. My rules were: No time travel allowed, no codes, and no glitches. Resetting was allowed (mainly for lucky Katrina bonus and Groundhog day). I basically did everything, but the post office model was too monumental a task for me. I was satisfied with having obtained virtually all items and all gyroids, and completely covering my town in flowers in a pattern to permanently prevent weeds from growing. The gyroids and Gracie took the longest. And it got to the point where I went many months of real time waiting on the Sproid to spawn (probably about 4 months). I actually found out that Wisp can reward gyroids, but I already had the Sproid logged in my catalog and had sold it when I was a kid.

Comment section is cringe as fuck. Having a thorough understanding of the game’s mechanics so you can accurately predict when you’ll get the most money is legitimate and no amount of seething will change that. Using this accusation of illegitimacy to question whether the 100% is legit is also bullshit.

The K.K. slider remixes used in the video are: 00:00 and 36:05 - Go K.K. Slider! Remix: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XyncrytAv6s.html 33:23 - K.K. Ballad Remix: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rPi4rN-yS5I.html

I'm so proud to see how many things you accomplished in this community. But most importantly I'm proud to know you Brian. I admire you a lot. Congratulations 👏👏👏

absolute mad man. i can’t believe someone would subject themselves to this but i’m glad you did lol

This is completely insane. That program and reference sheet, good God man. Incredible stuff - and 17k views in two years? Absolute travesty.

I’m already at around 5,000,000 bells after two months of new horizons and those numbers are only going to go up exponentially thanks to turnips. I’m astounded that money making in the GCN version is slow enough that nobody reached 99,000,000 in 18 years

I earned 1billion bells through that item duplication glitch from memory card travel you talked about, took me about 500 hrs I think in 2013, had to have a barren town to drop stuff. I moreso had the mindset of defining what constitutes 100% completion of a game, because there are a lot of tiny details easy to miss, and then achieving those criteria by any means necessary except for using action replay or hacking, so in-game exploits or glitches were fair game to me. I remember filling up all design slots with artwork, 96 I think, topping out scores of all NES games, and making a perfect town (according to the wishing well) with nothing but golden shovel trees for the aesthetic. And the 100% catalog was awful even with entering codes all day at Nook's, took me a whole summer lol. But your completing it the legitimate way is amazing!

Wow, I guess all you need to do to get unfathomably rich is to sacrifice your entire town and have future sight.

How you gonna make a 30 min video on this and not show actually recieving the model??

an actual hero

Can't wait for someone to do Post Model% TAS. Would be interesting to see if they need to run around and do money bag/turnip placement management or if there are super human shenanigans available.

Joan is like "wow this guy really like turnips!"

Really interesting video! I can see that you put alot of time into this! 1 billion bells in AC:NH next!

Excellent job my dude. It's about time you had a big break in this game.

This is actually unreal

If you gave your legitimate Post Model to Tom Nook for a code and someone used that code, would that be a legitimate Post Model?

Have you been in contact with any non-English Animal Crossing communities? Your video only shows English text for Animal Crossing communities. As speedrunning communities have shown, English communities don't overlap with Japanese communities. No doubt that you have the first documented instance, but without reaching out to the non-English communities, and especially a lot of time with the Japanese communities, I'd be hesitant to say you're the first ever. Congratulations on your achievement though. It's a lot of effort non-the-less.

Is this gamecube turnip prediction tool shared anywhere? I’m trying to do the same for my town without any cheats and I’ve been going through a pretty big rough patch with my stock market 😅

imagine nintendo caring as much about its fanbase as this guy does about their game.

That ending, you sounded sort of excited, but mainly glad that you're finally done with buying and selling turnips lol

I gotta ask... is there a link to the program you used to predict this? I'd love to try it!

During the beginning as he explains the context around the video and lists his accomplishments, I was offput by what seemed like arrogance. After learning of his whole experience, i felt truly humbled by the dedication of this mans fight in an animal world

It's insane how many mechanics this game has that I've never even heard of. Such as goods power. Also I lol'd when you refused to say HighGuy.

Wow. SO much effort, so much groundbreaking new knowledge, just because you had a simple idea for hitting a new goal, congrats dude. (also some parts of the commentary made me laugh)

Great job, sir! There was so much patience and intelligence involved in that nightmare! May I ask what song you played during your celebration dance at the end?

I watched the celebration live! Good job.

This is a wonderful adventure you took us on ! Excellent work and I'd love to see other deep dives into specific strategies and code shenanigans. For now, rest easy champion.

Why'd Resetti appear at the train station at 2:29? I've never seen this happen before

Shouldve done it IRL. One billion actual bells. And you have to ring them all.

This man is insane

cant believe this has so few views

YOU ARE A LEGEND, five year old me would want to be you

Your 170,000 page index being legitamate to use without cheating reminds me of Zelda's Wind Waker battleship minigame. Its heavily rng, but can be manipulated to give the exact answer, but only by doing some in game tinkering and feeding it through a program. If memory serves, the speedrun community made it legit because you would have to manually input the inputs, and you can't pause the in game timer while doing so.

Stonks

Wow. This video has basically taught me that I know nothing about that stalk market feature of these games. All these years, I have just kind of assumed that the white turnips were just a big scam to make you waste your money most of the time. But this trick with exploiting "spikes" in turnip prices would explain that one time where Tom Nook was willing to buy my turnips for 600 bells each. lol

This video was awesome!! Didn’t realize how interesting the turnip market was. This video deserves much more attention

21:34 2008 be like

Man, this is amazing! Here I was thinking that no one really cared to delve into this game's mechanics in-depth, and then find your videos

I have a question, is it possible to get the final Nook upgrade on the original NGC without going to or inviting someone else’s town? Alternatively is there any GameShark code or anything that could do it on an emulator

People really tend to underestimate just how *big of a number* one billion is. It's literally impossible for humans to visualize without some levels of abstraction. On paper it's only ten digits, seems much smaller than it actually is, but in practice...

Daaaaamn this guy’s a gamer alright.

Every gyroid too? Jesus man, u killed it💎

Tip: have all 3 meals next to you so you don’t starve

Nice video! Very informative as always. About the "Hear Code" option: doesn't an item need to be orderable from the catalog to generate a legitimate code?

Anyone got a link to the turnip calculator he used? Currently working on becoming a bellionaire myself and that tool would help a ton.

i think its really funny that even in animal crossing people are arguing over whether rng manipulation is legit or not its so funny, to be clear im on the side of rng manipulation being perfectly legit because you arent doing anything in game you couldnt do without it

You should have included the scene where you actually get the Post model!

2:30 Resetti at train station?

Bruh this gives me so much inspiration of what I can do with this game

that's wild lol. the amount of time this took is astonishing. i couldn't spend a hundred and fifty hours just doing animal crossing inventory management

"My main goal is to blow up and act like I don't know nobody" Really applys here xd

insane how much work went into obtaining that legitimately, really interesting video

Eat the rich

How did you guarantee a spike knowing that 4 or 5 RNG calls were made between the furniture and turnip prices?

27:22 you meant to say "how many times the RNG function was called", you can't "call RNG seeds"

This is a really cool video. I want to give this a try with the program you made, it seems fun in an absolute-efficiency sort of way. I actually think I might try it without any TTing, even though I know it'll take a long time. This is a really cool video and you're a really cool person.

Whatever happened to bowsersenemy?

you didnt even show what happens after you got all the bells

You didn't include yourself receiving the item at the end?

Learned so much from this video. I’ve loved this game for decades, but I had no idea how item feng shui worked until now!

It's odd to me such a grand achievement would be left unaccomplished for well over a decade which only requires 180 hours. But I guess it was only so short due to your cataloging of turnip prices. Congrats!

Recently someone got a spike of 1008 bells per turnip in the GameCube version and posted it to RU-vid I was literally just watching their videos before this but I've already forgotten the name of the channel, I'll come back later and edit it with the channel name

Thank goodness it isn't a real stock market

The captions talking about "orangey seeds"

You are so amazing dude, so much work just to get an item, absolute legend

Amazing video!! So much work and passion went into reverse-engineeering the Stalk Market, I love it. Also, I really love that remix of KK Ballad!! It's so good!

The most impressive part of this was the time spent buying/selling before you discovered you could predict it. I can't imagine sitting there for six hours running turnips back and forth.

Absolutely impressive, the people saying predicting turnip price patterns or time traveling 1 day at a time is cheating are dumb

I'm pretty sure we got this back in the day as kids. However, we used an Action Replay at first (didn't know about the nook codes) and then I got curious about how to unlock them all legitimately. The post office one, I'm fairly certain I did by just going forward and then back a year on New Year's to get free money from my parents over and over again... This took several days, several hours each day, and I honestly don't remember what I did to occupy myself since this was before you just turned on youtube while grinding. I guess I had more patience as a kid. At least, I remember doing this for SOMETHING (it wasn't the house upgrades, I had all of those) and remember needing a ridiculous amount of money. I was like... 12 in 2003, so it was a while ago. Anyway, this method is so much better if I ever wanted to build a model town in my basement again. (Also, yes, you are the first person to record this! I only have a shoddy 20 year old memory as proof and a way more insane method haha.)

I love that you're also wearing the turnip top

did you ever explain why they put this in the game? How did they expect anyone to get this

bro reverse engineered buying turnips because he was sick of not getting enough money

Meh. Hard pass on this one. Don't get me wrong, this is impressive in a way, but I'm sure some lonely guy with nothing better to do has done this before, and just as legitimately. Well, as "legitimately" as Time Travel might be, anyway. That, and I'm not a fan of this guy singing his own praises a minute in. That smacks of egotism.

Please enlighten me on the island duplication glitch you talked about at 10:18

this man is singlehandedly achieving everybody else's dreams

It’s so interesting how the developers actually put in the effort to make the risk and reward of investing in the turnip stock market very similar to investing in the actual stock market

this video appeared in my reocommed back around when it came out and i spent like an hour last night seartching for it and im very happy to have to watch it again

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