||||||||||||||||| ||| ||| ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||||||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||||||||||| ||| ||||||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||||||||||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| |||||||||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||||||||||||||||| |||||||||| ||| ||| ||||||||||| ||| ||| F.A.Q. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (c) Astrojulie 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Table of Contents: 1) News and Updates 2) Introduction 3) What Are Glitches? 4) How Can I Find A Glitch? 5) All the Glitches 5a) No New Villagers Glitch 5b) Villager Sessile Glitch 5c) Gracie On Sign Glitch 5d) Out of Season Fish Glitch 5e) Diary Freeze Glitch 5f) Post Office Duplication Glitch 5g) Sleepwalking Villager Glitch 5h) Villager Fusion Glitch 5i) Resetti's Temper Glitch 5j) Villager Suicide Glitch 5k) Gyroid Earthquake Glitch 5l) Fishing Tourney Glitch 5m) Costume Deprivation Glitch 5o) Rags... Or Not Glitch 5p) Mysterious Glitch Item 5q) Shiny Spot Glitch 5r) Disappearing Ball Glitch 5s) Invisible Table Glitch 5t) Redd's Split Personality Glitch 5u) Fishing Freeze Glitch 5v) Pattern Switch Glitch 5w) Shiny Spot Duplication Glitch 5x) DUMMY Glitch 5y) Jack Glitch 5z) Instrument Glitch 5aa) Shovel Barrier Glitch 5bb) Villager Fusion Part Two 5cc) Disappearing Nook Glitch 6) Weird Things That AREN'T Glitches 6a) Islands On The Mainland 6b) Pitfalls 6c) Disappearing Fish 6d) Huge Island Fish 6e) Three Level Towns 6f) Graphic Overlap 7) Boring Legal Stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1] NEWS AND UPDATES Version 1.0 11-15-03 Started FAQ! Version 1.5 11-30-03 I added some new glitches, fixed some spelling mistakes and confirmed a few glitches. Version 1.8 12-6-03 Uh... I didn't really know what to put for the version number. But I only added a couple new glitches, so I gave it three-tenths more of a version thingy. Next update will be 2.0. I think. Gosh, I'm confused. And it's snowing buckets here! Anyway, I added a couple new glitches to the FAQ and some verifications. Thanks to all you people who help me out with this! I appreciate it. Version 2.0 12-16-03 I added a couple glitches (and non-glitches), fixed others and updated some stuff. Yeah. By the way, today (Dec. 16) is the 230th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. So go home and have a cup of coffee! Besides me. I don't drink coffee. Muahaha. Version 2.5 1-1-04 Wow, 2004 already! Hope you had a good New Year! I added some glitches to the FAQ, fixed some stuff... the usual. I also updated the Graphic Overlap section in the Things That Aren't Really Glitches section. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2] INTRODUCTION Hello, fellow ACers! This FAQ is dedicated to telling you all about the many glitches in Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing is not exactly the most bug-free game on Earth, and this guide lists many of the blips you may encounter while playing AC! Some glitches are cool, some are barely noticeable and some are just plain annoying, but nonetheless it's important to know about them, and it's also a lot of fun to read about them, too! So please enjoy my FAQ, and I hope you enjoy it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3] WHAT ARE GLITCHES? Glitches are blips or bugs in the game that aren't supposed to be there. For instance, if you were walking around town and suddenly walked through a tree, that would be a glitch because it was an unusual thing that was not intended to happen in the game. Animal Crossing has a surprisingly large amount of glitches, but they're usually not easily found. Also, any odd occurrences found by using an Action Replay does not count, for they were not intended to be used for the game and any side effects of using them are not associated with the game itself, but rather the Action Replay. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4] HOW CAN I FIND A GLITCH? There isn't really a sure-fire way to FIND a glitch. Most glitches are found by complete accident. So, the only way to really find a glitch is to just play Animal Crossing as you normally would. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5] ALL THE GLITCHES This section lists and describes many of the glitches in Animal Crossing! This is of course not a complete list, since not every glitch has been found, but if I run into a new glitch, I will add it here. Here is the format I will use for listing the glitches: Title: The title of the glitch Discovered By: the name of the person or people who found this glitch Tested: Whether or not the glitch was tested and proven by me or someone else Details: Details on how to find the glitch yourself and what it does Now, onto the glitches!!! ------ 5a] NO NEW VILLAGERS GLITCH Title: No New Villagers Discovered By: Astrojulie (me!) Tested: Yes Details: This glitch prevents new villagers from moving into a new town. You will need three memory cards to perform this glitch. The first memory card should have your town (let's call it Town A) on it and the other two should be free of ANY AC data. First, create a new town on the second memory card. Let's call this new town Town B. The name and whatever does not matter. THE SAME DAY that you create Town B, travel to it from Town A on travel data. To travel on travel data, put Town A in slot A and the third blank memory card in slot B. Go to the train station and go on a trip to the blank card. Porter will create travel data. On the title screen, take out the card with Town A on it and put in Town B while LEAVING THE CARD WITH TRAVEL DATA IN SLOT B. This is very important. Never take out the blank card, because it now has your travel data on it! Now that you are in Town B, you can do whatever you like there. When you are done in Town B, return to the train station. If you talk to Porter, he will save your travel data again on the blank card. You will hear the saving music and the screen will go back to the title screen. If you want to go back to Town A, take out town B and put in the Town A card while leaving the travel data in slot B. When you are back in your town, you can take the travel data out of slot B! The day after you create Town B, play on Town B as the character there. A villager from Town A should have moved to Town B, but no new villagers will move into town B after him/her! This is a good way to keep your town small and not crowded if you want to. ------ 5b] VILLAGER SESSILE GLITCH Title: Sessile Villagers Discovered By: Multiple people Tested: Yes Details: This glitch can't be triggered, it happens by accident. What happens in that a villager in your town will be rendered sessile (scientific term for "unable to move", don't ask). They will only be able to move in a very short area. What often happens is that a villager will only be able to spin around in one square, but it will look as if it's walking in place. I encountered this glitch twice with Gonzo, where he would only be able to walk between two trees about 5 spaces apart, but no where else, even if I tried to push him. As Luigi DM stated on the Gamefaqs message boards: "I also see the villager spin around almost everyday. Rio lives one acre north of the well and I always run to the well to ask how everything is. Rio lives in D-5 and the well is in E-5. Every time I pass through D5 there is no one around. When I make the screen scroll by going to E-5 Rio appears out of nowhere spinning in circles in D-5. Even though I'm in E-5 I can see her from there. Only pushing her out of the way makes her stop." ------ 5c] GRACIE ON SIGN GLITCH Title: Gracie Stands On A Sign Discovered By: bkc65 Tested: Yes At bkc65's website, he describes this glitch: "An interesting thing happened one day while I was working on the above projects. It just so happened that I had erected a sign right next to where a house would go if a new villager moved in. One day Gracie came to town, and as luck would have it she picked that location to park her car. Since the sign was right where she stands, she ended up standing on top of the sign. I could walk all around her, but I couldn't talk to her. She'd look down at me when I was in front of here, but not as I would move to the side/back. The only way to "fix" it was to pick up the sign. She dropped to the ground and then everything was normal." To see pictures of this glitch, go to his website: http://www.carverclan.us/ac.html The pictures are the last two on the page. ------ 5d] OUT OF SEASON FISH Title: Out Of Season Fish Discovered By: Multiple people Tested: Yes Details: Stringfish in May? Loaches in December? It's happened. Multiple people on the message boards have reported catching fish in the completely wrong seasons, and almost never catching them again in that season. An odd glitch indeed. I have not experienced it myself, and the reports are rare, so I don't really know what to put for "Tested", but if any of you have experienced this glitch, please email me (email in Contact Info)! ------ 5e] DIARY FREEZE GLITCH Title: Diary Freeze Discovered By: CoolMario6446 Tested: Yes Details: As CoolMario6446 reported to me: "Go into another human's house, and go to their diary. If it is locked, keep pressing A to make the "This Diary is locked" screen come up. If you press A rapidly, the game will eventually crash, making you have to reset. From what I've seen so far, it won't ruin your town, or anything, it will just count as a reset and force you to talk to Mr. Resetti." As Zachnorn reported: "I have tested the "Diary Freeze Glitch" in Animal Crossing, and it works. My first character locked her diary and saved the game. My second one went into her house, and tried to open her diary, he pressed A really fast, and the game froze. I took out my 2 memory cards before I did this, so I have no information if this corrupts anything." ----- 5f] POST OFFICE DUPLICATION GLITCH Title: Post Office Duplication Discovered By: Unknown Tested: Yes Details: As Venusy stated on the message boards: "The Post Office Duplication (along with The Islander's Favourite Fruit trick) trick is quite well known, and an easy way to make money. Step 1. Drop all items in your house, all your bells in the PO and any letters you want to keep in the PO. Step 2. Have AC town data in Slot A and NO AC town data in memory card slot B. Step 3. Create travel data. Turn off GameCube. Swap cards around. Step 4. Go back in to town ignoring the items/bell message. Get used to your new face. Step 5. Take all the money out of your PO bank account. Drop it near your house. Get on the train. Turn off GC. Swap cards around. AC data combines with AC travel data giving you your face. All items dropped on ground in Travel data remain and all bells in the PO remain. Legal disclaimer: I did not discover this glitch/trick." The Post Office Dup. Trick is also similar to the Island Duplication Trick. As deathbringer2000 said (and discovered): "There are a few ways to do it, one requires one GBA and a GBA-GC link cable, the other requires 2 GBAs and a GBA-GC cable. 1) Go to the island, carrying whatever you want to duplicate. 2) Send the island to the GBA (here is where you can do one of two things, I will mark with letters a and b) 3a) Reset the game, and go back to the island, any items left on the island will be there, and (unless the items were on the island before you started it) they will also be wherever you got them. 3b) Go back to the mainland and return to the island, only use the OTHER GBA. 4) Pick up whatever you want to duplicate (anything not picked up is GONE, unless it was on the island when you went there.) 5) Go to the island using the first GBA, the items will be there." ----- 5g] SLEEPWALKING VILLAGER GLITCH Title: Sleepwalking Villager Discovered By: Unknown (possibly Mario masta) Tested: Yes Details: As Mario masta pointed out to me: "When you're inside of a hungry-sleepy male's house (and he is too), keep talking to him until he shows you a letter from another player, and if he asks you what you think of it, say that you like it (it's the top choice), and he'll say something like 'A good letter like this makes me want to take a nice...long...nap....' If you were outside talking to him, he'd fall asleep, but because you're inside, he instead puts his head down like he's sleeping, but his eyes are wide open and he's walking around! If you talk to him again, he'll act like you woke him up! o_O This happened to me last night and I don't know if it happens every time or not." I have tested this myself, and it turns out that it can happen outside as well as inside. I got Dozer to do this three times in a row! It's quite odd. He showed me the same letter thrice, and then started "sleepwalking" after I said I liked it. When I talked to him while he was sleepwalking, he got all surprised and thanked me for waking him up. Odd! ----- 5h] VILLAGER FUSION GLITCH Title: Villager Fusion Discovered By: weasel032 Tested: No Details: As weasel032 pointed out to me: "At an angle of an acre there were 3 trees to match the angle, kinda like making a square around the acre. I was screwing around I pushed Iggy, one of my villagers, up to the 3 trees and I kept him there by running into him, and when he turned to yell at me he like pushed me inside of him and I was inside of him with me talking to him." (His post was edited quite a bit for... grammatical mistakes, but none of the actual information was changed.) ----- 5i] RESETTI'S TEMPER GLITCH Title: Resetti's Hot Temper Discovered By: Midgey34 Tested: No Details: This is an odd one indeed. As Midgey34 on the message boards pointed out to me: "OK, this happened to me while I was on my brother's game the other day after he reset and got Resetti. I kept typing things in to piss of Resetti and laugh at the fool. I called him a tool as a joke and the entire game reset and went back to the title screen and I had to log in again. Resetti was super pissed and then pretended to reset my game. Not sure if it's a glitch, but it was quite odd." I've never heard of Resetti resetting your game when you type things into his answer box (around reset 6, I think), but I might try it sometime! ----- 5j] VILLAGER SUICIDE GLITCH Title: Attempted Animal Suicide Discovered By: Multiple People Tested: Unknown Details: Okay, I might have over exaggerated the title, but this is a very funny glitch! It has been reported several times by different people that villagers or even Tortimer have been spotted standing atop the train tracks! If a train had come by when they were standing there, it certainly would have been a suicide attempt! ----- 5k] GYROID EARTHQUAKE GLITCH Title: Gyroid-Induced Earthquake Discovered By: weasel032 Tested: Yes Details: As weasel032 told me: "When you come out of your house, turn towards your gyroid and run at the part where he touches the house. Run in that little corner and it will make the screen shake slightly back and forth, kinda like a mini earth quake." I have tested this. It does work, but the result is very subtle. A similar glitch was pointed out to me by MeCarana: "I was before a Villager, Tom the Cat, and pushed him against his house, and the screen shook, like the Gyroid Earthquake glitch." ----- 5l] FISHING TOURNEY GLITCH Title: Fishing Tourney Glitch Discovered By: thekingofthisgame Tested: I Have No Idea What's Going On Here Details: As thekingofthisgame told me: "Catch a small bass, bass, or large bass that is bigger than the previous record holder of the day. Give it to Chip, and he will tell you that you are in the lead. Stand right in front of him until 6:00p.m, or when he leaves, and you will have automatically won!" Vamino emailed me saying that he had tried this out, and it hadn't worked: "I was reading your Glitch FAQ for Animal Crossing and came to the Fishing tourney glitch (5L) and noticed that it wasn't tested. Well, today during my fishing tourney I tested it (although it wasn't deliberate, I just got the game and was waiting around to see what happened). I stood in front of him from about 5:30pm to 6pm and at 5:58 I still had the biggest catch at 24 Inches. I didn't leave the screen until it said the tourney was over and Chip was gone. When I went to read the notice board it said that another villager had won with a 25 incher. So, that glitch doesn't work (in the PAL Australian version, anyway). Although I would call that an extremely cheap move." BUT, anonymous197 came in with this note: "Also, I have tested the 'Fishing Tourney' glitch and that HAS worked. I had two fishing tourneys last month and only lost the 2nd one because I wanted 'a bigger fish'." So it's been reported, disproved and proven. I'm lost here... O_o ----- 5m] COSTUME DEPRIVATION GLITCH Title: Costume Deprivation Discovered By: lady beth Tested: No. Details: As lady beth posted on the message boards: "On Halloween at around 11 pm, Tabby (the really ugly cat) was out of costume. There were 3 villagers in that acre and every one else around her was wearing their pumpkin heads. I talked to her and she just said normal stuff, nothing about Halloween, didn't ask for candy. I walked out of the acre and back in and she was in costume. I kept checking on this and got it to happen 3 times, but it only happened with Tabby." ----- 5o] RAGS... OR NOT! GLITCH Title: Rags... Or Not! Discovered By: Multiple people Tested: Yes Details: On Halloween, I was walking around, keeping a keen eye out for any villagers. I see someone come running to me, and it turns out to be Baabara. She talks to me, and upon discovery of my candy-free pockets, gets a bit annoyed. Yellow sparkles surrounded me as if she was changing my clothes to rags, and she said, "HAH, you look FABULOUS!!", but my clothes were still the same! Nothing had happened to my clothes, but the next person I talked to successfully changed them to rags. I don't know what to put for "tested", because although I discovered and witnessed it, no one else has, so I can't say it's really been tested yet. ----- 5p] MYSTERIOUS GLITCH ITEM Title: Mysterious Glitch Item Discovered By: Multiple Tested: Yes Details: I don't know MUCH about it, but some players around the Message Boards have been getting these weird items that can't really be described as an actual thing... they appear as a dead-looking fish when you drop them on the ground, can't be picked back up and just have weird symbols for a name in your inventory. As Deathwingx12 put it: "I've been plagued with those damned things. You are not alone. And yes I have an Action Replay and use, but it has happened to me before I used it. Guliver tends to almost always give me those damn fish along with villiagers burying them for a treasure hunt. To me those glitch (along with every other glitch item [the dummy item and pitfall aren't included]) are like toxic waster or explosives. Meaning that they need to be gotten rid of carefully. One thing is that once dropped from your inventory (they will look like an insect, fish, or any other type of inventory item) they will not be able to be picked up again. Nothing effects the items as well. Hit it with a shovel and it will make a sound of a shovel hitting cement/stone. It looks like a fish that kinda has a hook in its mouth and is cought (but it doesn't have a hook or line in its mouth, it just looks like it does) and it also looks like it flopped around. It does not move though. It isn't made out of bones or anything. It just sits there and nothing can be done about it unless you create a new town. Now there is one thing, if you all the sudden see one and it just appeared there, like say if a villiager has given out a treasure hunt and that is the item, then there is one thing you can do. IF that IS the case, then you can use your shovel and dig it up. It will look like it is just sitting there above ground, but you can dig it up. And it will appear in your inventory as some weird named item. These items can also be put into your mail, regardless if it "looks" like a fish or insect. A few ways to get rid of them: Have Nook take them. He should act like it was trash. Drop everything you have valuable and want to keep. You should just be carrying that item and nothing else that you don't want to get rid of (money, letters, items, etc.). Now go visit a town (that is if you have anther memory card or a friends town) and as soon as you get there or if you are impatient you can reset or turn off your Gamecube on the train. You will start your game with first, Mr. Resetti yelling at you, no eyes or mouth, and nothing in your inventory. Don't worry that doesn't effect your design (I'm pretty sure), fish or insect collection screens. Simply save and quit and you will get your face back. So again, you can get this without having or using an Action Replay, but the chances are low. Usually the chances are greater of your islander villager on your GBA to get the item and drop it making you think it was just a normal item, pitfall, or anything else. If you have the item, DO NOT drop it outside. I recommend that you get rid of it. It will give you the option to drop it when you are inside your house, but pressing the drop option will do nothing at all. If you get one from your islander, don't worry too much, just get rid of (trade) that island until you get another one you want. Even if you get the same island again (by trading till you get that island back again) that item won't be on it. There are other more "fun" items that can appear if you use an Action Replay, but that is mainly through using certain codes. One item I encountered was an item with dropped, resets your game. So that is a risk you take on using devices like the Action Replay." Sounds odd indeed! FatCatDanny has confirmed this glitch. ----- 5q] SHINY SPOT GLITCH Title: Shiny Spot Glitch Discovered By: Kyle3 Tested: Yes Details: As Kyle3 of the message boards stated: "I can't believe no one has found this glitch out: One day, the shiny spot just happened to be right on top of a buried item. So I dig it up, and my character holds an invisible object and the game resets." Hexrapper has confirmed this: "You know the "SHINY SPOT GLITCH"? Well, I've done it. Not just as that guy said, though. I found the gold spot on a diggable item thingy, and when I dug it up I got a Gyroid and nothing else happened. You can probably re-create this glitch by burying lots of stuff around your town (I happened to be burrying things for a treasure hunt for my brother, and there were lots of those things around my town, though I never burried a Gyroid so chances are it wasn't one of my spots). Hope this helps some." ----- 5r] DISAPPEARING BALL GLITCH Title: The Disappearing Ball Discovered By: JACKBUTTMOMMYS Tested: Not really Details: As JACKBUTTMOMMYS from the message boards put it: "Place a ball in front of any animals house at the front door, right between the fences. Wait for the animal to come home, when he walks in, the ball will make a noise and jiggle a bit, but once the animal has entered his house, the ball has disappeared, never to been seen again. Well, for that day anyway." But, as anonymous197 told me: "I have tested the "Disappearing Ball" glitch 3 times and it never happened. The part where it shook is right, but when the neighbor is inside, it just pops out." ----- 5s] INVISIBLE TABLE GLITCH Title: Invisible Table Item Discovered By: Videogamemaster5 Tested: Yes Details: As Videogamemaster5 told: "I have something for an "unexplained glitch" as well. In my basement, I have a ranch table. One day, I decided to sell everything in my basement. I couldn't pick up the table. I tried from every direction. No item was on it, either. I can move it, though. Weird part is, it isn't fully functional. I can only put 3 items on top of the table, but the fourth is ALWAYS empty, and I can't put an item on it. It is as if there was an invisible item there..." ----- 5t] REDD'S SPLIT PERSONALITY GLITCH Title: Redd's Split Personality Discovered By: CLC Tested: Yes Details: As CLC of the message boards stated: "Here's one I call Redd's Split Personality -- first of all, I'm playing an accelerated game because I doubt I'll be able to play during the real holiday madness, so yesterday was sale day in my town. (this might be a SPOILER). So on sale day only, you can buy out Redd and he'll reappear with a new selection of merchandise. Sometimes (often, actually), when you go back to his tent, Redd is not standing in front of it as usual. If, instead of going directly into the tent, you wander around your town, you are likely to find Redd standing in a vacant lot in front of a signpost. If you talk to him, he will give you his usual long welcoming speech, then turn as if he's going into his tent. He'll walk up to the signpost and...disappear! As if he's entered the Twilight Zone. You can't follow him, but you can go back to the tent and go in as usual." This glitch was confirmed by SwordsmanX. ----- 5u] FISHING FREEZE GLITCH Title: Fishing Freeze Discovered By: Unknown (Possibly Yoshiholic) Tested: Unknown Details: As Yoshiholic/Got Yoshi pointed out to me: "I have a glitch, I know someone has to have this happen to them. I was walking around on a rainy day and I saw a huge shadow and I cast and right when I pushed the A button to start reeling him in..... [The game] froze all I heard was the music that froze it was like "BUUUUUUUUUUUUUURM" the music, and the BUUURM noise didn't stop until I reset." ----- 5v] PATTERN SWITCH GLITCH Title: Pattern Switch Discovered By: Multiple people (FatCatDanny, and others) Tested: Yes Details: This was pointed out to me by multiple people, but I have chosen FatCatDanny's explanation, mostly because I can't find some of the others. But thanks to you other people (you know who you are), too! Anyway: "Whenever I travel to my little sister's town or she travels to mine, we get the visiting person's saved clothing designs and ours get deleted (The saved ones, not the ones you carry with you). My little sister and I are the first people on the character name lists in our respected towns and that MAY have something to do with it." ----- 5w] SHINY SPOT DUPLICATION GLITCH Title: Shiny Spot Duplication Discovered By: Multiple people Tested: Yes Details: As Suppa pointed out to me: "Hi there, I've found a glitch in my town, it's another shiny spot glitch, easy to find but kinda useless...ok, here's how to find it: walk around your town until you find a shiny spot, dig it to get your money, now go to your house and SAVE & CONTINUE, then reset, log in again and you will find ANOTHER shiny spot ON THE SAME PLACE AS BEFORE! wow! I've tried many times and it always works...at least in my game lol!" Here's a similar glitch reported to me by Brett Carver (bkc65): "Someone posted a new glitch about digging up a glowy-spot in the dock acre, going to/from the island, and having the glowy-spot still there. I've tested the glitch and verified it DOES happen." ----- 5x] DUMMY GLITCH Title: Such a DUMMY! Discovered By: Multiple People Tested: Yes As Zachnorn reported in an email: "Sometimes, the animals in an igloo will offer an item called "DUMMY" (Without the quotation marks) that does nothing when put in your house. It has red Japanese writing on it, and it is a triangle. The corners of the triangle go through walls, and as far as I know, my game has not gone corrupt. Others have claimed their games have corrupted; others have had it for months with no problems. Nook will not pay anything for DUMMY, and the object was a testing item for Nintendo that the designers forgot to take out of the game." ----- 5y] JACK GLITCH Title: Skydiving Jack Discovered By: darkthedg Tested: No Details: as darkthedg of the Gamefaqs message boards reported: "It was Halloween a while back, and I was looking for Jack many times. Most of the time I saw nothing unusual, but a couple of times I saw what appeared to be a glitch. Jack wasn't waiting and walking around like he normally does when you go into an Acre... he fell from the sky. Or so it seemed. He dropped down from the screen when I entered, and came running. It looked almost as if he was going to run at me like a villager. I don't remember what happened next but I think everything went back to normal, at least after I left the Acre and returned." ----- 5z] INSTRUMENT GLITCH Title: Instrument Glitch (for lack of a better name) Discovered By: JACKBUTTMOMMYS Tested: Yes Details: As JBM reported in an email: "If you drop any musical item in your house and play it, you will recieve a soothing melody that lasts about five seconds. However, if you play this musical instrument but then put it back into your inventory, it still plays the remaining length! In other words you can hear the music, but the item is gone (Inside your inventory)!" ----- 5aa] SHOVEL BARRIER GLITCH Title: Invisible Shovel Barrier Discovered By: Gamemasterfunky Tested: No Details: As gamemasterfunky said in an email: "If you make Pete do a special delivery (by making him mail 5 letters), go outside and while he is flying away hit where he started off with a shovel. You can't!" He also reported a similar glitch: "Find a ball (basketball, soccer ball, etc.) and hit it with your shovel. After you hit it, immediately press A to hit the ground. It will be like the ball is still there!" ----- 5bb] VILLAGER FUSION PART 2 Title: Villager Fusion Returns Discovered By: MA Fruednt Tested: No As M.A. reported in an email: "When you start playing, check your map for new villagers. If you have one, DON'T go meet him/her. Go to the acre next to him/her and take out you shovel. Run into the acre and stand next to the door. Before the villager comes out, dig a hole to the south of you so you cannot be pushed away. When the villager comes out you will be pushed inside the villager." ----- 5cc] DISAPPEARING NOOK GLITCH Title: Disappearing Nook Discovered By: Ramar Tested: No As Raman reported in an Email: "I was shopping in Nookington's and Tom, as usual, was following me. But then he got stuck on the Umbrella and disappeared. I ran round the shop but he had gone. After a few seconds he just reappeared. I don't have a digital camera and he reappeared to quickly for me to set up my web cam." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6] WEIRD THINGS THAT AREN'T GLITCHES Now that we've covered the glitches, it's time to move on to things that AREN'T glitches, but are sometimes mistaken for glitches! ----- 6a) ISLANDS ON THE MAINLAND Every town is different, of course. But some more than others! Occasionally, a town will have a small island in the middle of the stream, which is connected to the mainland by two bridges. These are actually pretty cool, in my opinion. You may have one in your own town! These small islands act as normal land. Flowers and signboards can be put on them, and if they're large enough, I believe trees can grow there as well. ----- 6b) PITFALLS Ah, pitfalls. The ultimate newbie nightmare. Pitfalls are either dug up from the ground after a villager has buried it, but a villager can occasionally give it to you while they're talking to you. Pitfalls are white circles with a big red "!" in the middle of it. A pitfall is a sort of practical joke. What you do is you bury it in the ground. A small crack will appear where you planted it, just like a fossil. If you or a villager walks over it, you/they will FALL into a PIT (hence the name). If you fall in yourself, just keep pressing A and wiggling the control stick. You will eventually pop out. The pit will disappear after you get out of it. If a villager falls into a pit, just talk to them to get them back out. ----- 6c) DISAPPEARING FISH Sometimes, a fish in the river will swim under a bridge and will never come out! It's not really known if this is a glitch or not. It happens very regularly, to all fish, but there is no way to prevent it, or to get the fish back out or anything. ----- 6d) HUGE ISLAND FISH We're not sure if this is a glitch either. Sometimes, while sailing to the Island with Kapp'n, a GIANT shadow, larger than any actual fish in the game, will be seen swimming in the water. It's been spotted while people have been on the actual island, too, but no one has been able to catch it. The bobber would just go over the fish and not affect it! ----- 6e) THREE LEVEL TOWNS As JACKBUTTMOMMYS pointed out to me in an email: "If you're a veteran to playing Animal Crossing, you should know by now that there are two levels to your towns layout. The train station is always on the first level, and the beach is always on the bottom. Well if you're lucky, your town may have three levels! This means that to get from the train station to the beach, you must go down two earth made ramps instead of one! This has happened to me in only one alternate town, and luckily, I kept it." They ARE extremely rare, too. I've had about five multiple towns in the past, but have only gotten a three-level town once. It's a pain in the neck to get around, but fun anyway. ----- 6f) GRAPHIC OVERLAP As Sonic Lover pointed out in an email: "Hi! My name is Chris, and I have a weird thing that is not a glitch. It's called "Your Character Cut In half!" Here's how you do it: 1. Get any kind of school desk. 2: Put it in your house and face it sideways. 3: Try to sit on it. You will go right through the board, but your character will still be living! Pretty funny, eh?" This is more just graphic overlap, where the game designers forgot to separate certain things so that their pixels overlap. For instance, if you walk up to Gracie's car and hit it with a shovel, the shovel will go through the car without damaging it. There are many other instances of overlap in the game, so it's not really a glitch- it happens in nearly all games, and the outcome is often quite hilarious. Some humorous overlaps are: - Roll a snowball up to maximum size. Push it up a hill until it ALMOST reaches the top, then let go. The snowball will push you down the hill, but once you reach the edge of the acre, it won't push you into the other acre, but it will keep going, and for a few seconds, you will be INSIDE the snowball! (reported by Bobby) - Take any houseplant that has long leaves that stick out, and push it up next to the east or west wall of your house. The leaves should actually go THROUGH the wall and into the blackness outside of it! If this doesn't happen, rotate the plant a few times. Some plants that do this are Draecanas, Lady Palms, and Fan Palms. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8] LEGAL STUFF This FAQ was created by Astrojulie in November of 2003. You may NOT post this FAQ ANYWHERE on ANY site without MY permission! I am also not responsible if this FAQ turns you into a rabid glitch-hunting zombie. Nope, not my fault. This FAQ is for individual use ONLY and cannot be sold for personal profit or anything. Got me? Websites with permission to post this FAQ: www.gamefaqs.com -> FIN <-