Mysterious Animal Crossing Content Discovered In Every Game's Files 

00:11 **insert Leo Decaprio pointing at TV**

I feel like Cat13 was likely removed due to potentially looking like a racial stereotype. This wasn't long after the controversy surrounding Jynx after all.

The stickers on the back of K.K.'s guitar are a reference to The Roost and Dr. Shrunk's Club which are the two places K.K. played at in previous entries, if anyone wanted to know.

Isabelle always makes those bell sounds! When she walks around, tilts her head, etc! She has bells on her hair tie!

The cat numbering thing could have been hexadecimal, in that case the numbering would have gone 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10, 11, 12, 13 etc. meaning 13 could have been part of the same numbering scheme

Cartridge tipping always makes me think it was discovered by someone just smacking the n64 with their foot or something 😂

I remember Isabelle's name in Japanese is "Shizu", which is literally bell. Isabelle is a great localization and she IS a bell too 🧡

It actually is still possible to see Harv's original island with the 2.0 update, if you try to visit after only just unlocking the island but before the rest of the update features become available. I noticed this when I restarted my island late last year.

In regards to cat13, it's worth mentioning that it looks like it has blackface. It's probably the same reason that Tiara has been banished to First Game Hell.

With the dialogue where you're told you can't build by the beach, it's likely this is crash prevention. They knew people would eventually glitch their way down there so they put in the text so it doesn't softlock. There's a lot of examples of this in games, where there's a placeholder or other effect just so that nothing breaks.

Wild World/City Folk's 2 AM is called MamaPapa because Kazumi Totaka said he intended the composition to be a lullaby for mothers of infants who couldn't sleep at night. The rest are just basic instrumental names…

For the first one, there was also a bear that had an empty folder, and human npc that might be from the original concept for Animal crossing.

"CAJON" is pronounced "cah-hon" a cajon is a kind of square drum that you sit on and hit the front and sides to make the sound

Isabelle always makes that jingle noise when she turns or moves quickly, it's the bell on her topknot.

I feel like Harv's island might just be so big because it was easier to just make an island the "standard" size or so than to make a special island that's smaller. But no idea

I think that cat that was cut from the early version of animal crosing my have been cut for looking a bit like black face

i think i know why they didn’t put cat13 in the game…. the same reason they had to redesign jynx from pokemon

13:21 Would concur. These are primitive shapes that are available in most 3d software by default. Most things in game are just these shapes very heavily edited. They also don’t come with textures, they’re just gray blocks by default. Think of them as lumps of clay, and the models you see in game as sculptures.

I think the reason isabelle makes a bell sound if you push her is because its coded to make that sound whenever she moves

Fun fact Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer had like 20 cut villagers, and New Leaf has textures for the villager Chuck but he’s not in the game.

Isabelle jingles if you just move her around in Harv's island if you scan her in with an Amiibo card.

17:35 theses stickers are "backstage passes" for his old venues he used to play at ^^

I had the conversation with Isabelle about building near the water. I had that conversation about building anything anywhere with her all the time. It's how she became my least favorite character in the franchise. & she can give Blathers a run for his money on long conversations too.

You just know that the person who translated the hiragana katakana was just so tired and working for hours and didn't think twice just translated

4:45 cartridge tilting is responsible for the geddan meme. the original is the song playing over gameplay of n64's goldeneye 007 in which tilting the cartridge causes sprites to jiggle and spin quickly. sad that we can't do this in the switch version.

this is a really intresting video, ive been super into animal crossing since january 2018 and finding out new stuff is pretty rare for me recently, but a bunch of this is stuff that i had no idea about! this is so cool! :D

The shapes because they’re just geometry, we’re likely used to test the graphics engine early in development. So not really placeholders, but just to test different shapes period. But that’s weird for them to stay throughout development because testing graphics is really early development territory.

"I guess we'll never know why cat13 was cut" LOOK AT THEM. LOOK AT THE FACE. (Twas a different time.)

i'm sure a billion people are going to mention this (if they haven't already) but the extra music in the intro was possible for the (very similar to 64) gamecube version as well. And you didn't have to bonk around with cartridge tipping obviously - you just had to open the disc cover at the right time. I think probably most folks obsessed with GC animal crossing at the time probably knew about this and maybe weren't surprised you could pull it off on the n64 version.

I actually prefer the beta E3 graphics of new leaf especially the trees they look so good!!

Thanks for mentioning the ACNL Census Menu I found! It's a pretty awesome leftover 😊

Cajon is actually pronounced cah-hone. It's a type of wooden drum thing that people sit on and play rhythmic beats with. Usually with bells and things inside.

The reaction at 18:42 is a reaction that was in new leaf. It sad that they scrapped it out on New Horizon’s, That was my favorite reaction.

The Famicom Menu did not use the 64DD. It actually uses the Controller Pak to store games compressed with either Yaz0 or Yay0 if unable to fit in the 32 kilobytes of the Controller Pak.

9:25 *"No, this isn't Filbert on drugs," Elijah said.* Elijah, great video! Keep up the good work! P.S. I watched the entire video before writing this comment. Edit: *It was Filbert on drugs, Elijah is lying.* Edit 2: Wow, Filbert had really bad fashion sense back then... Glad to see it is better now.

I’m glad your channels gained traction so fast! It’s well deserved :) you quickly became one of my very favorite channels!

I never could understand why some of those reactions were cut out from New Horizons. I mean, the ones that were relating to certain characters like the Dodo and KK Slider animations make more sense why they were cut, but the other ones that you see villagers using makes no sense at all. Especially since you were able to use them in older games like the outrage reaction.

Those untextured geometric objects at 13:18 are likely just leftovers from modeling. New Leaf uses the normal mapping that a lot of early 3DS games use [seen best on the environments in Ocarina 3D and Star Fox 64 3D] so it's likely that all in-house development for 3DS games was done using the same new program. And it seems the modelers or file system managers for New Leaf just left in models of some of the basic shapes used to model, as 3D modeling is essentially just taking basic shapes like that and manipulating the crap out of them until they look like what you're trying to make.

1:47 Wow, with that design, it's pretty obvious why this CAT-13 was never used, as that design would never fly in the U.S. after all the controversy Pokémon got into with Jynx.

Isabelle making a bell sound when you push her _might_ be a reference to her name... Or it may be connected to how she has bells in her... hair? Is that the right word here? Well, she has bells in her hair anyway. If you listen closely, you can actually hear them tinkling when she moves at all, such as when she gets off her chair and walks over to the counter. I'd speculate that she just has some sort of code associated with her that creates a tinkling sound when she moves. Pushing her is technically moving her, so you get the tinkling sound.

So my guess as to why that dialogue is in the English is that it’s more to do with a communication problem Someone was asked to translate all text that’s in the code and then send it to someone else on the localization team This person simply translated everything and was told to do nothing else. The next person went “well this shouldn’t be used at all since this is about Japanese” and simply took out the script that calls that dialogue without actually getting rid of the text it’s referencing I’ve done stuff like that before in stuff I’ve written where there’s just remnants of stuff I previously removed. I do find it interesting there was a time in gaming where hiragana vs kanji was an option though. There was a time where hiragana was all you saw in games because technical limitations on old systems meant kanji couldn’t be done. Hiragana by itself is somewhat awkward to read though so they added spaces where normally there would be none. I always assumed when Kanji was possible that’s all they did because it makes sense to use it. That tells me there was desire by some players to have their game text only in Hiragana. I wonder why people might have preferred that.

In the new leaf section around 16:00 I think it was switched out for the CAT tickets in new leaf, it doesn't work the same as the census menu thing but its quite similar to nook miles.

For what it's worth, the Shizue/Isabelle thing with bumping into her causing a jingle sound is 1) because of the literal bells tied to her hair-tie 2) accessible through normal gameplay, during Holiday events where Shizue/Isabelle steps out of the Resident Services office. 3) also plays any time her head moves sharply.

Thank you for showing my video! 😁 Much love to you, my friend! 🤍

wow only four months, Elijah really popped off, good for you man

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

I was gonna joke about Amiibo Festival being my favorite game and not being included, and then I saw it had a section in the video. GG

I quite like this channel, its gotten me to learn things about animal crossing i never thought of! You deserve a sub

Ahhh, this was soo great. Nostalgia :) thanks for finding all of this it was awesome!!

“ if you somehow get into the resident services, you can push Isabel and she sounds like a bell “yeah because whenever she walks, she sounds like a bell so when you push her that would make sense

isabelle being pushed making the bell sound is the cutest thing ive ever seen

People still get this wrong to this day but you CAN see the back of KK's guitar in NH, just play a song and the camera will rotate around him lol

I think 18:02 might be referring to Happy Home Desginer, You could customize the roof with patterns

17:23 you can actually see the back of his guitar enough to see the stickers during a song he's playing

Super dope keep it up mate

Always cool to see early ideas for these games.

You and your wife are just so sweet, i hope your channel keeps growing.

i just found out that the dodos in new horizons are named after the poeple who first invented a working moter plane

awesome video, loved it!

Why would they remove the shrunk funk shuffle from new horizons

19:39 - For a moment, I forgot that Shesez featured Vinny from Vinesauce in his video and Vinny's island was called Hoor Isle. Got a laugh out of me.

You skipped Animal Forest E+ and Happy Home Designer, I was curious on those. Great video otherwise

I wonder if Katt (who debuted in New Leaf) was somewhat based on Cat 13 since they have the same color schemes.

god, i love reading tcrf articles for easy 100k views!

Sometimes in acnh when Isabelle and Tom nook are stretching you can hear the bells in isabelles “hair” fluff thingy jiggle

I still really wish there was an animal crossing with monsters to fight. It just needs some action!

I never knew the city folk soundtrack had titles, very cool

There goes my dreams of playing animal crossing as Charlie Chaplin.

liked, commented and subbed for algorithm. You should do some videos on 'cursed' animal crossing towns like Aika Village

Animal crossing will always hold a special place in my heart for being a game I bought genuinely off of a Hollywood video ages ago. I remember renting it out and falling in love with the game. Having had leukemia and going through radiation therapy as a 10 year old and going through almost a year of living in clean space environment this game was a god send having stumbled on it before the brunt of the treatment and isolation happened. It was special having a way to live another life while having my real life be on pause for a while.

The skybox for interiors was probably replaced with the parallax shader effect on the windows

Another cool thing I have in my animal crossing house is the six autographs wall accessory. One of them is dr shrunk’s signature if you use a customization box

Of course something animal crossing related would show up on my recommended when I got into the game again

17:24 The back of the guitar is clearly visible as the camera spins around during the songs.

I have a Japanese copy of Animal Crossing on the GameCube it also came with the original owners memory card that still had their town saved it. I checked out their house and they had every Famicom game, including Zelda and the others

"We don't know why they didn't put in Cat 13" *Looks like Black Face*

"We dont know why Cat 13 was removed" it's maybe because it looks like blackface-

I got the Isabelle dialogue in unmodded new leaf, some town setups had the cliff just south enough to trigger it

19:39 Shesez went to visit Vinny lol

I thiiink you could hear the rest of the title sequence song on the Gamecube release as well by removing the disc (or maybe just opening the disc cover, I forget) while it was playing.

Some have the link for the background music at N64 gameplays? Just loved that hot bass

kk's stickers are callbacks to his past gigs which is cool

The full version of the n64/gc/ique theme plays in the player select for sweet day in nintendo land on the wii u

1:47 This cat is perfect for Barold

Great information.

Fun fact: If you do Reactions near Orville, you might hear Wilbur reacting back too!

The reason Isabelle jingles like a bell is because she has a bell in her hair (ears?). You can also hear her gently ringing if you go into resident services during the hour that Tom Nook and Isabelle do their exercises!

Crisp looks exactly like a villager that I made a home for in AN NH happy home paradise!

The unused wisp looks so much better then that tick lipped blob we got…

4:59 It's somewhat amusing that the N64 and Gamecube versions of Animal Crossing have the same 'glitch' (albeit with slightly different methods) in order to listen to the entirety of the title music.

Fascinating info!

I actually have the forbidden 4 NES games in my main town on the GameCube version. I used a cheat disk that was called "Ultimate Codes. I don't know where I got it, but it was apparently made by the same people who made Action Replay according to the box. There were a few other codes on that disk, such as infinite bells, a complete museum, a 100% catalogue, and one where it let you disable Resetti. Is there anyone else out there that remember this thing?

the map select in debug looks alot like Zelda oot and mm debug level select screens probably because the game was built for the n64 so they just brought the whole n64 game onto a gamecube disc and realesed it in the usa

8:44 - The Japanese hiragana below the picture indeed says "DAMII" (Dummy). 17:36 - Those PASS things (I believe) are used for alcohol in Japan. I remember seeing them on social media.

the beta NL trees were so cute, wish they made the final cut :(

R.I.P. Shrunk Funk Shuffle ☹

Check your headphones/speakers. The bass during the background track through the N64 AC section is horrendously loud.

okay does anyone remember the cats without faces on the gamecube game? there were like two or three different ones, and one was pixelated and the other one had a blankish face. has no one seen these???? i can't find anything online about them either!

Was it the 2.0 update of NH which removed skidding? I’d never seen it until I saw an old vid from Dagnel on here. I can’t do it.

11:58 A cajón (Spanish: [kaˈxon]; "box", "crate" or "drawer"j - sounds like Capone but with an H instead of a P) is a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru