ALERT! I'M SORRY BUT ALERT!

[h1pst4r]

AC and duplication go hand in hand every game. I don't think it's particularly great people are selling these items in the market, but the huge quantity of these dupes probably has to do with how popular the game is right now. I think when the hype dies down the community will probably go back to giving out these kinds of items for free (like near the tail end of ACNL with the crowns. It's always crowns, lol).

 

[mayortiffany]

well fam tbt is useless now cri

This is kind of out of the scope of this thread, but I'd argue that for many users, TBT has always been useless. Its only value is for collectibles, which many people certainly enjoy! I'm just unsure of their popularity. I did notice that back in New Leaf, many more sellers/traders would take TBT in exchange for goods, but I've come across very few people who are willing to do that nowadays. Most people, myself included, prefer to either trade for items, IGB, or NMT.

If there is a silver lining to this dupe, at least it only affects items of a certain size, not all items. We also know what the most popular are (katanas and lucky cats), so it's easier for people to protect themselves in that they can know to avoid looking for these through the trade market for the time being.

 

[Ananas Dragon]

This is kind of out of the scope of this thread, but I'd argue that for many users, TBT has always been useless. Its only value is for collectibles, which many people certainly enjoy! I'm just unsure of their popularity. I did notice that back in New Leaf, many more sellers/traders would take TBT in exchange for goods, but I've come across very few people who are willing to do that nowadays. Most people, myself included, prefer to either trade for items, IGB, or NMT.

If there is a silver lining to this dupe, at least it only affects items of a certain size, not all items. We also know what the most popular are (katanas and lucky cats), so it's easier for people to protect themselves in that they can know to avoid looking for these through the trade market for the time being.

(i meant the website but that works too)

 

[N a t]

I think you will be able to keep it - you should be more worried about the item itself being glitched and hope the next patch (which presumably will fix this dupe glitch) will ensure it isn't glitched. I've not seen any reports about glitches from the duped items themselves but that's probably because the majority of people I know have been aware and and not bought anything potentially duped

The item functions perfectly normally to my knowledge and also looks okay, so I'm hoping that it isn't in any way. Thanks for your input! I hope this all blows over soon. People be stressed!!

 

[Katie1313]

I will say the one thing I hate most in these replies, are the real fans and "fake fans." The beauty of Animal Crossing is that you can play it however you want. You wanna play it every day for next few years and never time travel? Perfectly fine! You don't have much time on your hands especially with life and you want to get as much done during the free time you have and time travel and move onto the rest of your backlog? Perfectly fine. It's a game, you can play it however you want. Just because people don't want to spend years and year playing it like some of us do, doesn't mean they're not real fans. And I'm saying this as someone who has thousands of hours on New Leaf, and played it almost if not every day for a year or two. I feel like it's incredibly unfair and insulting to some of the newer fans who just don't have a lot of time on their hands. If said people want to use glitches to their advantage, just let them be. It's all going to blow over and get patched out soon enough anyhow.

 

[Raz]

While I don't give two craps about the economy (crash and burn, please), this is a problem because it is potential game breaking. At first you may think this is "good" because the dupers could have their saves screwed up and that would be karma, but think about the thousands of people who will try this and will give duped items away on forums or to their friends without saying they're cloned items.

 

[Kurb]

I'll be honest here. I did the first dupe glitch. But i never sold my items to others acting they were genuine. Abdallah is literally saying "oh you might damage your save BUT if you listen to me you won't". Especially towards an audience of kids who have peanut sized brains lemon

 

[Raz]

one of my friends was playing in the southern hemisphere at night so i decided to go to their town to do some rare beetle farming and let me tell you, the 2 hours i was there, not 1 spawned, not even a goliath. i was so disappointed, perhaps they’ll increase spawn rate at some point?

Big money beetles won't be available here in the south until November.

 

[FireNinja1]

I will say the one thing I hate most in these replies, are the real fans and "fake fans." The beauty of Animal Crossing is that you can play it however you want. You wanna play it every day for next few years and never time travel? Perfectly fine! You don't have much time on your hands especially with life and you want to get as much done during the free time you have and time travel and move onto the rest of your backlog? Perfectly fine. It's a game, you can play it however you want. Just because people don't want to spend years and year playing it like some of us do, doesn't mean they're not real fans. And I'm saying this as someone who has thousands of hours on New Leaf, and played it almost if not every day for a year or two. I feel like it's incredibly unfair and insulting to some of the newer fans who just don't have a lot of time on their hands. If said people want to use glitches to their advantage, just let them be. It's all going to blow over and get patched out soon enough anyhow.

I think that the big problem with this is that there's people who try to play the game while trying to avoid coming into contact with these duplicated items. To some extent, that is impossible, given how interconnected things are (e.g. people trade on multiple sites), but that doesn't mean that people should have to accept that duping is a big thing in online trading in order to participate in it, especially when it has the potential to corrupt your entire save file, as some people have noted.

 

[aetherene]

I'm going to be honest as well. I did the second dupe glitch; not to sell the katanas I duped online but because I was hurting for some bells after a dumb TTing accident on my part. Thankfully, I didn't do it extensively because it would have required getting a full inventory 9 times, which I didn't have the patience for. I can say that I sold all of the duped katanas and my save is still fine, but my main room has some funky after-effects thanks to it.

I definitely will say that everyone should handle with care with the duped items and if someone wants to do it themselves.

 

[Dormire]

I'll be honest here. I did the first dupe glitch. But i never sold my items to others acting they were genuine. Abdallah is literally saying "oh you might damage your save BUT if you listen to me you won't". Especially towards an audience of kids who have peanut sized brains lemon

TBH, I'm usually impartial to AC channels but when he said that really twisted my stomach. Swiping the risk of ruining the save under the rug? Really? Can't you just say it outright that it CAN hurt your save? Also, glitches are unpredictable. Not everyone is an expert to being cautious when it comes to literally messing with glitches and how to reverse it. People assume as if glitches are a controllable thing. No it isn't. It's corrupted and could spread if you toy with it even further. MissingNo (BadEgg ver.) from Pokemon should be the most shining example about the risk and dangers of meddling with glitches.

It's really not (just) about the economy. It's about how it can destroy/softbrick your game.

Then again, hindsight is 20/20.

 

[celesludenberg]

I'm going to be honest as well. I did the second dupe glitch; not to sell the katanas I duped online but because I was hurting for some bells after a dumb TTing accident on my part. Thankfully, I didn't do it extensively because it would have required getting a full inventory 9 times, which I didn't have the patience for. I can say that I sold all of the duped katanas and my save is still fine, but my main room has some funky after-effects thanks to it.

I definitely will say that everyone should handle with care with the duped items and if someone wants to do it themselves.

This is where I am at too. Glad to see someone else is in the same situation. I mean, it’s not a good situation but I meant I am glad I am not alone haha! I sold all of mine (to nooks) as well and only ever did it once but still worry about it. It was an interesting thing to try but I didn’t feel it was worth it to do in the end and stopped. I placed a bunch of furniture in the room I tried it in and it seems okay so far.

 

[Aubrey895]

Man, it's AbdallahSmash at it again.
He also did a whole elaborate tutorial on the first cloning glitch.
I actually used to really like him before but he's starting to rub me the wrong way big time since he started playing NH.

I feel the same way.

 

[Raz]

I was negotiating a purchase of stacks of fish bait earlier today here on TBT, but honestly, I don't feel comfortable buying these anymore.

 

[Red Cat]

I'm thankful I got lucky and got the one lucky cat I wanted and the color (white) via my own Guillver. RIP to the people who paid a ton for the dupes ones.

On the brightside, the more people that know this, the better off they will be in general. Because if you're still willing to risk buying it, you will at least have the knowledge that it could very well be duped and not have to pay atrocious amounts of tickets or bells for it.

I got super lucky with the RNG too and got a black lucky cat for my first Gulliver item, but that makes me think about how ridiculously difficult the devs made it to obtain those and other popular items. Gulliver shows up once in a blue moon and then you get a completely random item from him after you go through the effort to find all and even if you do get a lucky cat, it's not even orderable as they were in the previous games. It's no wonder people look for ways to cheat when it's so freaking hard to get stuff legitimately. The devs basically dig their own graves on this. People will usually try to obtain things normally when those things can be obtained normally because it's a lot more fun and rewarding to do it that way than to trade, TT, or "cheat", but we're not insane and will resort to obtaining or buying illegitimate items if it's excessively grindy to obtain them legitimately. The ACNH economy is broken already and will remain that way as long as popular items are so scarce and/or expensive to obtain legitimately. If every item in the game were orderable, people would stop shelling out IGB and NMT for everything and actually make 1-for-1 trades. That would honestly be the most effective way to shut down duping and hacking items. Otherwise, we'll just have people keep looking for new ways to make unorderable items "orderable" as has always been done throughout the history of AC.

 

[aetherene]

This is where I am at too. Glad to see someone else is in the same situation. I mean, it’s not a good situation but I meant I am glad I am not alone haha! I sold all of mine (to nooks) as well and only ever did it once but still worry about it. It was an interesting thing to try but I didn’t feel it was worth it to do in the end and stopped. I placed a bunch of furniture in the room I tried it in and it seems okay so far.

I definitely think there are some phantom spots where if I put an item down on them, they can't be picked up unless you're in the room editor. Otherwise, my room feels okay too.

But yeah, with the katanas selling for 2.5k in Nooks, definitely not worth it. I didn't have the TVs, which I think sell for more, but I don't think that I will try it again even if I get one of those.

 

[celesludenberg]

I definitely think there are some phantom spots where if I put an item down on them, they can't be picked up unless you're in the room editor. Otherwise, my room feels okay too.

But yeah, with the katanas selling for 2.5k in Nooks, definitely not worth it. I didn't have the TVs, which I think sell for more, but I don't think that I will try it again even if I get one of those.

Oh lol yeah I just checked and I have a phantom spot now. Well that kinda sucks. Hopefully Nintendo fixes it but I guess I’m not super bothered since a) I can still use room editor and b) this was my own doing anyway.

 

[naranjita]

Indeed. A research is a must if you do exploits and glitches (esp. if it's as risky as this or the multiplayer bug right now). I don't do exploits but I do value protection for my customers and for myself so I research any risks and glitches to warn them if we trade. I'm mainly a trader in AC since New Leaf but I've been doing research as well on increasing safety for trading since I don't want to lose potential trading partners.

I'm not gonna laugh at them but they deserve to be criticized for being tempted with this, yes, it's inevitable but it's called a "glitch" for a reason. It's a double-edged sword. While, yes, you may benefit from it but consequences are there as well.

If you're willing to do exploits/glitches, you must be prepared for it's future consequences. Whether if it's a nerf, deletion of items or save data corruption.

are there really any documented cases of someone bricking their switch or corrupting their save from duping? because I've been looking at the ACNH discord server (the one that AbdallahSmash mentions in his video), and I can't find anything to that effect. people in the server have asked several times whether the duping glitch can affect your save or brick your console, and the response every time is a resounding no. and there's an entire channel in the server dedicated to glitches, so you'd think if people were ruining their saves or their consoles from doing this glitch they'd be talking about it.

don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to encourage people to dupe. I've never duped an item, and the fact that this glitch can seemingly mess up your rooms is enough to make me stay away from it entirely. but I don't think fearmongering or spreading hoaxes is the right way to combat these glitches. if you have any information about people's games actually being ruined from this, then I apologize for making assumptions. it's just that I haven't found evidence of this happening from my own research.

 

[KeatAlex]

I managed to pull the glitch off, for personal reasons bc I've asked for help here to find Dollies and no one seemed to have any, now I have an ARMY!
But I agree I wouldn't sell anything. Plus who, besides me, is obsessed with Dollies anyway haha.

 

[Dormire]

are there really any documented cases of someone bricking their switch or corrupting their save from duping? because I've been looking at the ACNH discord server (the one that AbdallahSmash mentions in his video), and I can't find anything to that effect. people in the server have asked several times whether the duping glitch can affect your save or brick your console, and the response every time is a resounding no. and there's an entire channel in the server dedicated to glitches, so you'd think if people were ruining their saves or their consoles from doing this glitch they'd be talking about it.

don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to encourage people to dupe. I've never duped an item, and the fact that this glitch can seemingly mess up your rooms is enough to make me stay away from it entirely. but I don't think fearmongering or spreading hoaxes is the right way to combat these glitches. if you have any information about people's games actually being ruined from this, then I apologize for making assumptions. it's just that I haven't found evidence of this happening from my own research.

Have you read the posts above? The save is causing phantom items that makes the room that they used funky/weird right now. I'm saying it could corrupt because if you can get your save file wiped out just for going on multiplayer, this CAN too cause this error. If you want any idea of what I'm talking about, it's here.

I'm speaking through experience. I've played with all kinds of glitches in a LOT of games. It's the only reason why I'm *very* vocal at telling people to reconsider. It's easy to say I'm fearmongering but I'm still going to be firm about this. ACNH has no way to backup saves. If you're willing to proceed, I can't exactly stop anyone but to make it clear it's going to be on YOU if the save is damaged.

To be more clear: The dupe glitch causes several items to spawn but there are half-existing half-nonexisting dupes (called ghost items), the game will NOT recognize the items so it can be looked over by the storage/room editor. You can notice it if you're unable to put items on tables in that specific cell. Going in and out will not spawn it until you know what it wants (to make the game acknowledge it). Until you do, you will have bugged cells that you can't do anything with. It's a small "consequence" but knowing how half-processed flags work, it could possibly spread.

Abdallah shows you can put it back in but if you keep doing it over and over again, the game will start to get confused with it and bugged cells will get more obvious.

Unlike the crowns, this is has negative effects that isn't economy-related.