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I suppose the purpose of this thread is to discuss what is going on in your "wild world," whether it be house adornments, friends, fish caught, or anything else of interest. Sort of like the gaming diary, but specific to Animal Crossing.


I'll start this off, so as of right now (4:45, 1/13), if you sign on to WFC you will get a letter from Satoru Iwata thanking you for having a DS and hoping that you have fun with it. In addition, you get a new year gift from him, a 8-bit Nintendo Coin! To get this again all you have to do is sign on to Nintendo WFC. You do not have to go to anyone's town, but just sign on.

Pretty neat if you ask me.

On the 12th me, Metsys Redux, Metsys X, and this dude from gamefaqs were fishing and trading clothes in my town. I turned my house into a clothing shop for visitors... My hair is pink with pigtails/mohawk type thang goin on and Metsys Redux just got a nice, white, spikey look that reminds us of the singer from Sum 41 (one of our fav bands). It rocks! Fishing is the typical activity in my town.

**NOTE** If you come to visit my town there are times when I'll leave my friends play and take off for a bit or go to sleep. If I don't respond more than likely I passed out.

yesterday i was fishing in the river and i came across a large fish in the river so i  went along and cought it, and guess what?

IT WAS A STRING FISH worth 15,000 bells!!! so i donated it to the museum come check it out when im on line

happy gaming see yaa

I signed on to WFC and, just as TraderJake said would happen (Thanks man!), I got a letter from Satoru Iwata and the 8-bit Nintendo coin.  I saved the letter at the post office and am now proudly displaying the coin in my house.  Awesome!

Also, I collect instruments and modern furniture, so if you'd like to help out, I'll be listing what I have in my collection profile.  Thanks in advance to anyone willing to take a look.

I don't do the WFC thing yet but my wife and I have both been playing Wild World. she more than I .

at the moment my character is wearing a skeleton t-shirt and  hockey mask.

I just payed off the 3rd mortgage on my house, so it'll be bigger tommorrow.  I also caught my first bug today (I've had AC: WW since the week of its release, but there aren't many bugs around in Winter...), and it was a pill bug.  I always called those things roly-poly's when I was a kid.  I'm sure I'll play it some more today.

Damn you people i am wanting this game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought  you hate handhelds?

I do but for some reason I have been wanting a DS for some time. I must keep fighting!!!!!!!!!!!!

In our village, nobody is visiting.  It could be we're too dumb to figure out how to get people to come to our village, or how to visit other's :)  I've got like 5 of y'alls friend codes in there, but ain't nothing is happening.

OD

There isn't much that happens if I don't actually visit someone's town myself or vice versa (inviting people and/or going to people's towns is done through your town gate, in case you didn't know).  Then I get letters from residents and, if I get lucky, someone may move from their town to mine.  The problem is it's difficult to get online with someone without ahead-of-time preparation or contact by phone.

Some kind of chat service to get together with people would have been nice (perhaps an option to leave your town and go to a "waiting area", of sorts, and find people to hang out with), but I can understand Nintendo's apprehension about that.  There are a lot of kids that play this, and who knows what could happen there...

You have to open the gate to your city in order for peeps to show up. Then, the person who you want to visit your city has to tell Copper that he wants to go out. It is a pretty coordinated process.

Ditto.  None of the stores around here have it in stock.  It's sold out everywhere it seems.

Got something you want to sell? Can't find that piece you need to finish your collection?

Try Nookbay. (http://www.nookbay.com)

Nookbay. For all your shady bell transactions.

Rookwood, Ridge, and Winton Gamestops apparently have 1-3 copies mike. You should call them and join the fun.

Nookbay is awesome!!! I have a fairly decent collection of accessories, hats, and "costume" clothing that I have for sale in the 2nd floor of my house. There are some things though that I want and can't seem to get. Now I can grab em up! BTW my prices in my store aren't really hiked, maybe make 100 bell profit so if you need somethin come to my town. I'm usually on late at night or early in the morning...

Tonight my car was broken into.  Busted the driver's side door, took my stereo and 2 blue DS' from the back seat.

Luckily they didn't snatch the first DS I bought (grey) which had my Animal Crossing cart + savegames.

I lost my mariokart + saves and Advance Wars DS+saves.  Oh well, I'm just glad I still have my Animal Crossing cart.

And, fuck thieves.

You had 3 DS systems?

And thank god theives are stupid. When my apartment was broken into 4 years ago I had a Dreamcast, GameCube and a PS2 sitting on my coffe able and tehy took only the Dreamcast deck.  ??? No games controllers or anything else.

that is terrible. thieves are idiots! they totally piss me off.

Yeah, thieves suck.  Except in Morrowind, because everyone is a thief in that game, without fail.

Anyway, back on track.  My house is much bigger now, and my most recent HRA letter congratulated me for a complete set, which I'm guessing would be one of the instrument sets.  There are still a few items I need to get all of those, though.  Speaking of, I need to update my have lists and play Animal Crossing.

I borrowed Capt Nintendos DS and have been playing Animal Crossing for the last few days. I paid 115k on his morage and cleaned up his house. Pretty fun so far.

Just like the GC version, this game is a little slow for the first couple days when you make your house payments and the store closes etc.  Just made my first payment and visited a few towns to get more fruits.  I have pears and apples, and i should have cherries and oranges soon (they're growing).  I'm looking forward to seeing everyones towns!

There seems to be a glitch today that gives everyone who connects to Nintendo WFC a myststerious item.  Shortly after connecting, you get a blank letter from a blank sender, which has a present.  In the present is a "Red Tulips", which appears in your inventory not as a flower, but as furniture.  If placed in your house, it is invisible, blocks that space, and can not be picked back up.  It can be planted outside (even on pavement) and sold to Nook for 80 bells.

Here is a video that shows what happens when you put the tulips in your house:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzhf6owhmnk

Many members of other boards speculate that this was intended as a gift like the Iwata letter, but it was corrupted in some way.  Others believe that somehow Nintendo WFC has been hacked.  I doubt the latter... and hope for the former...  Either way, be careful what you do with the flower, and if you put it in your house, DONT SAVE.  I'm hoping some official info appears soon, and when it does I'll post it here.


EDIT: This has nothing to do with the strange letter, but as a warning there is another HUGE glitch that you should be careful for.  It involves planting pitfalls in front of your town gate and the gate disappearing from your town (effectively disabling wi-fi)  more info and screenshots here: http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/board/message?board.id=animal_crossing_ww&message.id=250020


EDIT2:  Judging from what I've seen in the Nintendo forums, this game is horribly vulnerable to hacks over WiFi, originating from homebrew software that hacks the game's items to make them invisible or do other starnge things.  This is definitely not good for Nintendo WFC or AC. Hopefully future games will be more secure than this.

YEAH add AC to the list of games hackers can ruin!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Online gaming is becoming more and more over rated!!!!!!

Eh, I still have a blast not going online.

Ditto.  I've only gone online to visit other people's towns once, and another time to get the S. Iwata letter.

I guess I'll just visit my friends' towns DS-to-DS for now.

Caught a fish today I have not caught yet. I donated it and caught another one a few minutes later.

Tom Nook paid me 15,000 bells for it !!!!!!!!!

Boooyah  |D

@Cap'n: Cealacanth (or something like that)?  That's the rarest fish in the game.  If that's what you caught, awesome!  I need to get one.

Today I bought 10 white turnips and a packet of red turnips from Joan (I think that's her name...), got 8,500 bells from a rock (like every day), paid off 10,000 bells on my house (180,000 to go), donated a fossil to the museum, and bought a harp.  Busy day, for sure...

Could have been a stringfish, those are worth 15,000 bells.

Today when I get back home I am going to harvest some oranges, grow some more orange trees, and buy some furniture if there is anything of value to sale.

CFB was right about the fishes name.

I must rock if I caught 2 of them in such a short time span ? ;)


Tynstar has been playing / borrowing my DS and Animal Crossing this past week. He paid off this past mortgage and now we have a second floor  |D

The new house costs 598,000 bells. I paid 35,000 Bells on that. Donated a fossil and planted a cherry and coconut tree.

Today i came into mine new home and mine place (i called it Saturn ^^).
Did some work voor Tom nook and introduced myself to mine new neighbours.

According to www.animalxing.com, the Red Tulip glitch was in fact a screw-up on Nintendo's part, and they are working on a fix for it (which will probalby be an item that can be placed on the broken square to fix it).

When you hit the rock you get knocked back.
So...
Stand in front of the rock.
Turn around take one step back.
Turn left dig a hole.
Turn Right dig a hole.
Now when you get knocked back you will hit one of the holes and stay in place.
If you want to be extra careful dig a hole so your standing in grass and the row behind you is 3 holes in a row.

That should work if memory serves and things haven't changed in the DS one much.

I don't know what the hell is going on in my town as my wife has taken control of my DS.

though I suppose since she is expanding, furnishing and paying off our house that would make her my sugar mama.

But after the 1000 bells bag it is done. You hear a chime when the 1000 bell bag comes out.

As far as I know, its 2500 ?  :-/ It even acts like the coin brick in Super Mario Bros. When its done giving out bags, it makes a musical chime.

2500 is the most I have gotten  :pirate:

Okay, an explanation of how to get 8,500 bells from a rock.

Here's a diagram of how to dig the holes in position to the rock:

R=rock
O=holes
Y=your character

       O
R Y O
    O

Face the rock with the shovel and keep hitting A until you get 8,500 bells (it will drop 7 bags in all with the following bell values: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1000, 2000, 4000).

You'll need to dig the holes before you hit the rock (obviously).  Doing this with every rock in your town until you find the one with bells in it can be pretty monotonous, but the results are well worth it.  This is the only reason I've been able to pay 10,000 bells on my mortgage (almost) every day.

Hope this helps!

Thnaks I will have to try that.

Eh, I have an orange orchard growing with more than 50000 bells worth of fruit. Given the regrowth rate on oranges, and my constant expansion of the orchard, and I have myself a lovely business.

In other news, I finally got the second story to my house! Yay!

When is it a good time to plant fruit? Do you have to water the stuff you plant? I lost a cherry tree and a coconut tree.

If you plant too close to other things they won't gro big enough or will die off completely.

Damn

Yea don't build right next to houses or rocks or fenches, etc.
I don't remember if trees will kill trees probably.

But i know flowers/moveable objects won't bother trees growth.

I try to plant all trees in 2 or 3 hole spacing. Remember, if you plant a lot of trees a few will die, and it also appears as though certain places can't support trees period.

I have heard that it is best to plant in a spot where there was a weed growing.

Except weeds will grow anywhere and everywhere ;)
Given the time to sprout up of course.

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