Camper reset trick?

[reyy]

Im on my 3ds so its abit weird
Ive heard of the camper reset trick but i dont know how to do it! Can someone tell me how?

 

[tigereyes86]

Nvm, misread your post!

 

[Itachi]

Make the time 5:58 am, then log in with your main mayor. Save and quit. When 2 minutes have passed, make a new character. Run to the campsite and see if anyone is there. If someone you want is there, talk to Isabelle and set up your tent. Lastly save and quit.
If no one/someone you don't want is in the campsite, reset and repeat the process (the new character making) Some days are more lucky than others, when it comes to campers appearing. so if you aren't getting any after awhile, TT a day and try again. I've spent hours and hours doing the campsite reset trick (got Marshal, Coco and Fang this way). Campers set their plot the day after you tell them to move in. Lastly I noticed 6am-7am is the only time campers show up (they can show up after, but it rarely happened to me) Goodluck getting your dreamies

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Essentially, when you're waiting on a villager to move in, each time you begin your game create a new character (go through them on the train, choosing their house location etc). Then go around town to see where the villager is planning their house. If you like the location-save and then you can set about deleting your new character or using your Mayor. If you don't like the location, quit without saving and repeat the process!

If you start the game when expecting a villager using your Mayor, then it saves automatically, so this is why an extra character is used before you log in for real. However, I stopped using this method myself when I heard a few people got corrupted games from doing it because the game isn't set up for continuously saving and quitting etc. But there are far more people who haven't had any problems, it's your choice! There are also some youtube videos on how to do it too!!

He's asking how to do the campsite reset trick, not how to choose where your villagers set their plots.

 

[Static Spark]

You don't need to be at a specific time, just make sure you have a free spot for someone to move in, and are on a new day from the last one you played. Just keep starting a new file until you get a camper you like, then you get to the point on that file where you get the TCP from Isabelle and save ^^

Also, Itachi, it's not the time of day, but the day you're on that dictacts how often campers will appear. I usually start new days around 2pm, if you notice you're not getting a lot of campers, try a different day.

 

[tigereyes86]

He's asking how to do the campsite reset trick, not how to choose where your villagers set their plots.

Um, yes, I know, my post was edited out 4 minutes before you quoted it...

I misread. I don't do either as corruption rates increase when you mess with your file like that

 

[Itachi]

Also, Itachi, it's not the time of day, but the day you're on that dictacts how often campers will appear. I usually start new days around 2pm, if you notice you're not getting a lot of campers, try a different day.

I've had many days where campers only showed up between 6am-7am. After 7 no campers came, regardless of it being a lucky day or not.

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Um, yes, I know, my post was edited out 4 minutes before you quoted it...

I misread. I don't do either as corruption rates increase when you mess with your file like that

I obviously didn't see that you edited it, since I quoted your response

 

[tigereyes86]

I get more campers in the evening in my game. I've only ever had one before noon. It depends on your town, each of them seem to be predisposed to different sets of "rules" if I may describe them that way.

e.g. my grass grows back faster if I don't walk on it, flowers have no effect, but in some towns flowers speed it up over not walking on it. Also, my snowmen don't get made unless the snowballs are the right size, taking the fun of learning how to make a perfect one out of it from me.

Seems weird to me, but it makes it more fun when one method doesn't work for all!

 

[Static Spark]

I've had many days where campers only showed up between 6am-7am. After 7 no campers came, regardless of it being a lucky day or not.

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I obviously didn't see that you edited it, since I quoted your response

That's pretty strange, since every time I've reset it's been fine for me at 2pm+. But I'll try at 6-7 sometime to see if more come o:

 

[reyy]

Today i found chrissy in my campsite
but no space
ffs chrissy y u do this to me
I want a way that WON'T corrupt my save file, haha xD

 

[Static Spark]

Today i found chrissy in my campsite
but no space
ffs chrissy y u do this to me
I want a way that WON'T corrupt my save file, haha xD

I'm pretty sure there is no more risk of corrupting your save with resetting than just normally turning your game off when you're done with it

 

[reyy]

oh phewsies

 

[Improv]

Resetting has no impact on whether your save file gets corrupted or not. According to the play count for New Leaf, I've opened the game over 2,000 times. I do not doubt that over 1,200 times of those were me resetting.

 

[Static Spark]

Yeah, it's no different from stopping for the day then playing tomorrow. If that's bad for the game then you may as well not play at all XD