Strange Glitches From Every Animal Crossing Game 

For the 'Gyroid' face 'glitch' it is entirely intentional! There are variants for each face type for both genders, and separate variants for each face type with a bee sting. It was likely done to add a 'creepy' punishment for trying to be sneaky about gaming the system. The code actually executes when you board the train. It deletes everything in your inventory and changes to the 'gyroid' face in your own town's player data. If you properly travel back using the train station, this data is overwritten and thus won't be seen.

I actually screamed at my TV when I was younger because of the 'gyroid face' glitch, that combined with the red text when Tom Nook got upset for you not wearing your uniform made my experience of Animal Crossing as a horror game.

I wish the "I've Moved Out" glitch was still around and permanent, it would be the perfect vibe for my Gothic horror mountain town

The "giant player" online glitch doesn't look to me like they're giant at all - just looks like the character got stuck super close to the camera

I found a weird one in New Leaf. I've not seen many people talking about it, but if you happen to plant a flower at the same time as a villager in an area with only one space available, BOTH flowers will spawn in the same space, even if they're completely different colors. I'm not sure if it works with different species, but it's likely. The overworld sprite looks like one flower, but walking through the flower makes it flash to the other flower that's there. Picking it will only produce one of the two flowers. I recorded and uploaded a crappy video of the time it happened to me to my channel if you want to see what it looks like.

11:30 The video of the villager running away from the train had me dying 😂 Since the train obviously wasn’t programmed to stop, it looks like Porter is mercilessly trying to kill them

The Gyroid face wasn't a glitch, but it sure as heck scared me as a kid! My brother and I used the town visiting feature all the time, and he discovered the gyroid face. He then decided to prank me and tell me something special would happen if I reset while visiting another player's town, although he was nice enough to tell me to leave all my stuff in my town so I wouldn't lose it. I'm pretty sure I almost started crying because I thought my villager's face was stuck like that forever.

The one with the house saying they already moved is kinda scary because they just left their house there and are just like I moved you can’t do anything

6:18 I actually had a similar glitch happen to me in wild world. If you play during the summer and you get bit by a mosquito then your character is forced to scratch their head while the text box pops up, but unfortunately one day mine glitched and the text box never popped up and my character was stuck in an endless loop of scratching their head. I had to restart my game, losing my progress. I remember being so annoyed I actually did film it on my phone. Another glitch I have come across in wild world is that some of the earlier cartridges of the game have a glitch where lazy villagers cannot give you their photo, no matter how high your friendship, because for some reason they think they already gave it to you. I am pretty sure I have this glitch on mine since I have never gotten a single photo from any of the lazy personality types yet I have photos from every other personality type :’)

i had an odd experience in new horizons that i can only assume was a glitch that i've found no mention of anywhere online where i entered a villagers house only to find they were not home and the music was turned off. im assuming i must have entered the house the exact same time the game decided the villager was leaving? only ever happened to me once another fun glitch i had with wild world (which im pretty sure was an emulation issue but i still want to mention it bc i found it pretty interesting) was that the town bell would ring like every 5 minutes rather than every hour

Pretty neat video! I'd err against classifying the Gamecube AC's gyroid face as a glitch though, because it was deliberately programmed in by Nintendo and is included in their patent for online play at the time, U.S. Patent No. 10,363,481. The fact that Resetti doesn't appear shouldn't swing that the other way- Resetti simply doesn't appear if you reset during online play.

I found a glitch in New Horizons where if you talk to a villager as they lay down, they will sit up to talk to you and then repeatedly lay down and sit up in between text boxes

Nice shoutout for Jeff's channel! I'm a friend of his and he's an amazing dude 👍 Not only has he been doing Animal Crossing content for more than 10 years but he's overall a really cool and funny guy to hangout with 😊

I've gotten the 'music cuts out' glitch in New Horizons as well. In addition to that, when I talked to a villager, their voice started off as one of a different personality for some reason before turning back to normal.

In New Leaf, the throwing beans item could be used to clip out of bounds also. You could get another player to push you as you spammed the animation, and it was really quick. I have a lot of funny screenshots, but the most interesting thing we found was when clipping past the trashcan that blocks the Fortune Teller Shop on main street. When clipping past the trashcan at night, the door would say that the store was closed. During the day however, the UI would disappear like an animation was about to play, but then stop itself. And yes, I had to save and quit to get back out from behind the trash can.

I actually had a glitch happen to me recently when I was playing ACNH with my friend. I was on their island and at one point we both tried to get into the museum, and I guess the game got confused?? They got in and their game froze, showing them a never-ending loading screen, while I was stuck outside and unable to enter the museum at all. Nothing was happening so unfortunately we had to turn our switches on an off and cut the connection to go back to normal, but yeah. Really weird stuff.

1:44 I didn't know about this glitch at all,I would've loved doing this when I was a kid,usually I take villagers and trap them on the bridge,but pushing them in the river sounds like alot of fun,I wish I knew about this glitch when I was a kid

I remember the whole star bit saga in New Horizons when the game first came out. People managed to hack in trees that would grow the stars, and sell them to other people.

the i moved out glitch is actually a feature, because they take your villager, so obviously you can no longer visit them as they are now with the person who took them. that's why the house resets to an empty plot the next day

My all-time favourite New Horizons glitch only occurred very early on, and only ever happened with one villager as far as I’m aware. If you had Claude on your island and he was crafting, he had two DIY workbenches that would clip into each other, and his crafting animation wouldn’t show. He’d still give you a DIY recipe, though. It’s not a very notable glitch, but I think it’s way too funny

Not sure if this counts, but a while ago Wolfgang moved to my island, claiming to have come from my sister's island. I sent my sister a message, teasing her about Wolfgang preferring my island...Only to be told Wolfgang wad still on her island as well as a picture of proof. We like to joke he's living a double life :P

In city folk’s (or in my case, let’s go to the city) Nookington’s glitch, the player isn’t huge, rather they are up a height in an out of bounds space. If you do the windmill/lighthouse glitch and save whilst up there, this triggers the scorpion bite animation at the base of the tower and then you wake up outside your house. Also you could clip into darkness in the museum bottom left hand corner in the same vein as the lighthouse glitch online pushing! Great video, lots of glitching memories :)

Great video but the gyroid face is not a glitch and it was intended to scare you into saving your game since it's the face of a gyroid, which would be what you had to save at. It's not a glitch, and it's kind of silly how long it's been called one even though the gyroid face perfectly matches your character and the texture doesn't have deformities/oddities that other texture glitches would have when they're being mapped to objects they're not suppose to.

One harmless glitch in new horizons was that if you time travel and one of your villagers was about to move, there was a small chance that the house did not change. Just the outside and it stays like this forever. It happened to me once and I still have this villager on my island. Even after moving the house on a different place, the house did not change

The "Crime Alert: Wii Abuse" is probably one of the funniest news segment titles involving video games

I remember an early glitch from Pocket Camp where the entire floor turned black and a really early one where sometimes the menu screens would just completely mess up the text and a more recent one where Ankha kept appearing in loading screens when she hadn't been properly added to the game yet. Weirdest part is, they tried to patch that out, but it still kept happening afterwards it was weird

In Wild World, I’m pretty sure there was a way to go out of bounds and get on top of the walls on the left and right side. I am unsure how it was done though, but I remember I did it with my friend. All I remember is that we used the slingshots once we were on top of the wall because every time you used the slingshot, it would make the camera go to your location. I think somehow our characters froze, but we could continue to type.

I didn't think the Moved Out thing was a glitch? It kept you from giving away a villager twice or double crossing someone.

There's a patched glitch in Happy Home Paradise where if you dressed the restaurant staff with a custom design and then saved and returned, they would just look naked. Failboat found it in a stream and spent the next two hours losing his mind.

1:06I literally thrashed my back onto the ground multiple times in excitement when I saw your town was named hyrule too.

i remember the gyroid face one when you dont save. that one freaked me tf out when i was a kid, i didnt know what or why that happened. lotta ppl dont know how much harsher the first animal crossing was lol, but i feel like that "harshness" is whats missing frm the current ac games, it made the game a little bit more interesting imo

love the documentation on this video! all of this is very interesting also i don't know if anyone else has said this,but i'm not so sure the online City Folk glitch has a character become giant. it seems like the character is teleported onto a higher part of the indoors map, putting them closer to the camera. probably why they couldn't collide with other players

Oh man they were so many glitches I did in New Leaf. I loved hanging out on the bridge, in the river… I even learned how to fall completely under the map! I’m sure I have tons of screenshots on my 3ds still from doing this. I’m sad so many of those glitches were eventually patched

couple of other Wild World ones I experienced If you had a song playing in one room, then went to another room and removed that song, it will still be playing in the other room. you can't change it or turn it off... even taking the music player away doesn't stop it the other was more of a softlock, but one time at around 2am I had a villager ask to come to my house. When I was setting up the time for him to show up, he said 2:30 was too early and 2:31 was too late. There was no exit option. I literally softlocked myself and had no choice but to reset and I lost a lot of progress...

In the New Horizons segment of the video the first two glitches discussed are still in the game (glitching into objects and getting on the fourth tier). The only difference is that you can no longer place items on the fourth tier. This was not discussed in the video, but you can glitch trees to sit on the edges of cliffs but I don't know if they can still sit on a singular piece of land anymore like was shown in the video.

A little sad the New Leaf duplication glitch wasn't mentioned- then again, it is technically patched for newer 3DS models so I can see why but still.

Wasn't there a glitch in New Horizons that involved the unfinished puzzle item that allowed you to walk in rivers? I remember doing it one time.

I’ll have to test to see if it still works but in ACNH I once got a glitch where I was trying to catch a bug and I accidentally hit a villager on the head while catching, and the bug turned into a flea

Loving all of your videos! I’ve watched 10 so far today!

City Folk was my first Animal Crossing game I was able to get, this video has so much nostalgia for me

Just subscribed! Excited to see you make it big, your videos are great! 😄

I never knew about the duplicate glitch in Wild World. It would have been helpful as a kid. I trying to get in the water by using the kink tut or whatever it's called mask cause I thought I saw somewhere that it works when you fall just right. It's a shame there's no unlock glitch since upgrading the shops requires a visitor buying from your shop. I missed out the only chance I got cause I didn't think about time travel & the shop was closed. There's ways to get the Wii's internet back up using fan services. Even has a way to do it with Homebrew & without it.(You'll need Homebrew if trying it on the WiiU though)

The "giant player" glitch is not actually making the charater larger. They are acually much, much closer to the camera, on top of some invisible collision geometry.

So the moved out glitch, I don't think it's a glitch. They may have already talked to them and it autosaved before you disconnected. I've given villagers away and after the person left without any issues, it said that they already left until the next day.

I remember using the out of bounds glitch in new leaf, it was really fun, I still remember the duplication glitch was one of my favourite

"i've moved out" is intentional, the house stays on your island for one day while they move, and once they're fully moved in the plot opens back up

You make amazing videos keep up the work

I remember when I was playing New Horizons at night, and all the music cut out. It was very off-putting; and my Overthinking-Brain kept saying: “It’s Brutus. Brutus cut your music off he’s coming for your data-” And I’m like “It’s not Brutus. It most probably a Glitch. 💀”

I love your videos! Keep on doing what your'e doing!

With new horizons, what about the villager house plot if you view it on the pavement and then don’t place it. Like it’ll let you put trees and flowers on the pavement? I know it’s patches now but it could have been included

One time in new leaf, my game glitched and one of my villagers was sitting on Lloyd but i was building an arch. I posted it on miiverse too

7:53 I’ve been watching Jeff (plus checking his blog occasionally) for years! Deserves some recognition 😊 thanks

I really loved this video. Thank you!

one time i had the dodo in the airport ask if i wanted online or local play, i said local, he just stared at me for like 1 minute and the music turned off, it wasn’t frozen, he was still swaying / breathing, it was kind of scary (acnh)

So I had a Switch Lite for the longest time and my husband recently got a full size Switch for me as a birthday present. Of course, I had to start a new island on there. I swear, I had 5 tarantulas naturally spawn the first night…🤣 Does anyone know if they changed the spawn rate again within the last several months or am I just tarantula-blessed? I remember being so mad when they originally nerfed the spawn rate to cut down on tarantula/scorpion island farming soon after release.

I remember first finding the glitch town on complete random in 2016 and having nightmares about it

The gyroid face legit had me crying and screaming as a kid. My mom had to pretend to call Nintendo and everything. Thankfully it went back to normal after restarting the game. Also dang I wish I knew how to make my island look good xD it looks just...normal, kinda meh. I have all the villagers in a little neighborhood, and all the shops in one corner, but it's so meh compared to what ppl come up with xD

man i miss the out of bounds glitches in new leaf. welcome amiibo was fun but being able to hang out on the cliffs separating main street from the HHA showcase was even better. still got pictures of that somewhere...

The "i've moved out" glitch kinda creepy. Idk why but the fact that you just got an empty villager house just kinda scared me. But honestly it would be a good like addition to the game

I remember when Pocket Camp launched, there was a relatively frequent glitch where the animations for villagers would get messed up, and they'd kind of tilt and jiggle around instead of animating properly. It's very hard to explain but it always used to creep me out a little, made them look like haunted dolls.

An unidentified object has crashed in our town! An unidentified object has crashed in our town! An unidentified object has crashed in our town! An unidentified object has crashed in our town! An unidentified obj-

Great video!

gyroid face? A glitch? Sure...

I used to duplicate rare items like villager pictures and other things in acww. So that my cousin and I had them both. You need to visit them (local multiplayer) and both lay down all items or bells you want to duplicate. Then you need to head back home and while saving you have to turn off your system after the circle did the 6th round. That way you still have your inventory because it didn't save but your friend has everything as well because their game saved normally. But resetti will visit you...

YEAAAAHHHHH ROCKET ELIJAH VIDEO!!!!!!!!

I love your videos!

this was 1 hour ago? (it says 1 hour ago for me btw.) this is very cool! I love these types of videos! I usually listen to videos like these whilst I color my drawings :)

In Wild World, if you hit a villager with a net, you might cause them to become angered or sad. This obviously isn't a glitch, but every time you talked to specifically a depressed villager, their voice would get deeper and deeper. ...True nightmare fuel, that was.

I wish the villager river glitch still existed in New Horizons… also I really like that you credit people!

There is one glitch found in City Folks which I call the Bee Chasing Music Continuous and it's one of the hardest ones to pull off. So in order to do this one you need of course bees chasing you and need another bug near by then you have to catch both at the same time which done right with a lot of luck the bee chasing music will continue until you go inside a building/house or quit the but other thing about this is whatever bug you catch with the bees will be the other bug not the bees. Unfortunately I can't do the glitch again because it's all about luck to do it and wish there was a way to record it too during that time.

The clickbait made me laugh haha, but this video is very well done. You've got a new subscriber. 😆👍

I specially remember in City Folk you could also clip out of bounds in the museum if you did the same glitch with friends that was showcased in nooks shop. You also could clip behind Sable in the Able Sisters shop and you would be stuck there until the end of the online session. I think I have footage of both of those on my main YT channel if I dig far enough haha.

Legend says mayor tordimor is still on that windmill to this day

In the game cube version of animal crossing the island is always there, get on the water and go straight down from the dock, and if it's raining or snowing your more likely to see the big fish shadow glitch.

I had a glitch similar to the house one you mentioned happen in my New Horizons file. I had Frita move in from the campsite and replace Jacob. But after 2 days the house exterior was still Jacob's house, and the sign outside said it was Jacob's house, but the Frita and her stuff were inside. It never happened again but it was odd for sure!

Players: Find a way to hide the HUD to take better pictures Nintendo: Good idea, lets get rid of the glitch and add it as a feature (New Horizon segment)

the waterfall-secret-town looks sooooo cool! im trying it out now!

there was a dupe glitch in wild world you could do over multiplayer and my friend and i would do it CONSTANTLY every time we hung out we were like "okay, do you need bells? do you want this item? awesome, let's dupe"

8:13 I think it might be that the player is on the invisible roof

11:25 I don't know if it's documented anywhere, but if you went onto that red train bridge, and net glitched out of bounds upwards into the sea. You could run across that out of bounds sea upwards until you reach an invisible wall in front of a void. If you net glitch into the void you're technically underneath the town, and it was really cool to mess around with. Your footsteps would still appear on the sand above you and other players could see it, and if you blew bubbles or used the watering can players could see and hear that coming out of the ground too. And if someone dug a hole for you and you walk under the space it's in, you'd end up in the hole and have to shake yourself out of it like with a pitfall. And if you ran upwards and upwards all the way to the top of the map again, you'd be under under the map, and it'd just go on forever. A void under the town with never ending layers being under. And there was a really easy way to get out, if you saved and continued the game, once the game was done saving every player out of bounds would have the scorpion bite animation play, and then they'd be teleported to their house or to the town hall if they're visiting the town. I had so much fun messing with this glitch online with my friends as a kid, I miss those days. Unfortunately Welcome Amiibo patched the out of bounds net glitch and many others and most people stopped playing after that.

Oh wow, did not expect to see myself in this video haha 4:44

My mom found one of her ACNH villagers in a pond she terraformed once. She walked away from the pond until it was off-screen and when she walked back, Peggy was in the water. Completely random. And I myself saw an Orchid mantis crawl off of its flower (which is not supposed to be possible) in ACNH. It crawled towards me and I was able to catch it. This was after the last update.

1:00 imagine u were a kid and ur power went out when visiting ur friends town and when the power went back, you booted up the game to see ur inventory gone and also that face

0:28 Tom nook, That wasn’t weed… Those were GY-ROIDS

ok random but i absolutely love your island! it’s so cool!

HOW COULD YOU GET RID OF BOB?!!?? I LOVE HIM😭

In Wild World I performed a more complicated Item duplication glitch, which involved going to a friend's town. Dropping your items there and then leaving, but you turned off your DS at a specific timing during the load animation iirc.

I got that glitch of the villager house saying "I've moved out" with Filbert, but a bit different, the person talked to him and then they left but it kept his house there, not sure if that was because Zucker at the Campsite asked him to move out.

Once on New Leaf (I think Welcome Amiibo) I left local play with my twin on my 3DS for too long my avatar's body would go all weird and everyone else was invisible like my place became a ghost town- it was some creepy stuff (especially since this happened around/after Halloween)

since new leaf was the first ac game’s community is was actively in, i remember the railroad glitch so much. i tried it all the time and somehow never once succeeded. nostalgia.

5:18 I think it was just the cartridge jostling around too much, but one time while playing acnl, I was just standing by my river and suddenly I couldn't move and all the music cut, but all the river sounds where still there as my character stood frozen, starting at the screen. It was super creepy at the time, freaked me out a bunch. Again, it's not a glitch, I don't think, but it's crazy that a similar thing happened to other people on a different animal crossing game.

I remember back in the Wild World my game had a problem where my character would immediately run to the right constantly when i was suppose to gain control, and i couldnt override it with the touch screen, dpad, or even open menus. It kept happening to me for about a month real time until it stopped. I would assume it was a hardware malfunction with my ds but I played it constantly even through it all and i was playing dpad games and touchpad games with no issue

the moved out thing isn't a glitch in new horizons. Its intended. Remember autosaves, so unfortunately it must have autosaved after they talked to bob.

Why did I laugh so hard at 10:12 lmao just BRRRRRR 😂

I remember all the new leaf out of bounds glitches! I would look them up on RU-vid and then do them in game. Very nostalgic lol, sad that they patched them out with the amiibo update :(

I had the flea glitch in wild world once i thought i was just crazy

I think the music stopping glitch is the creepiest

I ONLY had pocket camp, ONLY.

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I think you happen to miss one in New Horizon. There was a glitch before that had your villagers with no clothing. I assume it's patched now.