I’ve never heard of the 8 resident trick. Do you mind explaining it? I wan’t to try xD
What exactly is this trick?
you need to make 8 players/residents on the island. to do that, you need to create a separate "account" for each, which is that top left circle thing on the switch
you login with your main resident then go to the beach and pick up the note bottle. then you bring up your nookphone, scroll to the "call a resident" app, and choose the second resident. give it a second and it will set up the two multi-player for you. when you bring the other human players into the game, it will generate a note bottle for that new player
you can pick up that note bottle with your main player, go to "call a resident" again and choose the third player, rinse and repeat until you get 8 note bottles in total
i'm not sure if you can do this with a switch lite, because the multiplayer uses the two joycons (one for each player). and i don't have the pro controller so i'm only able to do it one at a time
hope this helps
p.s. you don't need to put down the tents for the other players! just save and quit after tom nook finishes talking, he won't force you to put down a tent on the island