Does New Leaf end?

[UglyMonsterFace]

I just found out that the original AC only lasts until 2030 and then after that, it won't be playable in real time anymore! Does New Leaf have the same kind of ending?? I really hope not!

 

[Leaffer]

New Leaf ends in 2050.

 

[Twiggy_Star]

I just found out that the original AC only lasts until 2030 and then after that, it won't be playable in real time anymore! Does New Leaf have the same kind of ending?? I really hope not!

Where did you read or hear that in 2030 the original will not be playable in real time anymore? Can you send links where you read or heard about it?

And do you mean that in 2030 days in game will not pass by anymore and the game will just be staying on one day or the game will not work anymore?

 

[moonbyu]

oh goodness, i hope that's not true!

 

[Rabirin]

I guess it technically "ends" in 2050. But by then animal crossing for the switch will hopefully be out and then some, so I doubt it'll get to that point any time soon. The game will still be fully functional, it just means that the in-game clock won't be accurate when it comes to the year that the game is in. It'll just reset itself back to 2012 I believe.

 

[moonbyu]

but what happens when it does hit that time? will your town delete or something?

 

[Sweetley]

but what happens when it does hit that time? will your town delete or something?

If I remember correctly, the date will jump from 2050 to 1999 or 2000? I don't which one it was,
but your town will not getting deleted of course, the clock just doesn't work correctly anymore.
I guess Nintendo thought nobody would play the fame for that long and so they just set the clock
to count till 2050.

 

[chet_manley]

If I remember correctly, the date will jump from 2050 to 1999 or 2000? I don't which one it was,
but your town will not getting deleted of course, the clock just doesn't work correctly anymore.
I guess Nintendo thought nobody would play the fame for that long and so they just set the clock
to count till 2050.

I can't imagine it takes up that much data to store the calendars (since they cycle every seven years), so it would really be about keeping the year rolling. I wonder why they set a hard limit rather than creating an open-ended "previous year+1" and linking that to the appropriate weekday that January 1st would appear on.

I am also not a programmer, so looking forward to someone explaining to me why I am an idiot and that would not work.

 

[UglyMonsterFace]

Or they could have programmed it to end on a date where I'd be too dead to play New Leaf lol. Like they should have ended it 100 years from release. I don't think that would have taken much memory space?

 

[Stella-Io]

Oh I thought it was 2099 for one instance, if you TT ahead, or 2050 I'd you 'natrually' play at 2049.

But no it won't break the game. Instead it goes back to 2000 or 2012, so I've read.

 

[Nunnafinga]

Yeah,I used to do some cycling and there was a cycling technique that required going past the year 2050.The game just goes back to 2012(the year it originally came out)and your town stays the same since going backwards in time only counts as one day.The game will still be fully playable.

 

[Shellzilla_515]

I feel that reaching after 2050 will just pop back to 2012 as if it was nothing (imagine if that were to happen in the real world. Time traveling would technically exist!). The question is, would our 3ds still work at that time? I still have an NES but it doesn?t read the games properly anymore, so it makes sense as to why they?d go up to that year. Personally, if you were to legitimately reach that year, I?d want to have a grand ending to the game. It would feel weird when the game no longer goes along with the real date.

 

[UglyMonsterFace]

I feel that reaching after 2050 will just pop back to 2012 as if it was nothing (imagine if that were to happen in the real world. Time traveling would technically exist!). The question is, would our 3ds still work at that time? I still have an NES but it doesn’t read the games properly anymore, so it makes sense as to why they’d go up to that year. Personally, if you were to legitimately reach that year, I’d want to have a grand ending to the game. It would feel weird when the game no longer goes along with the real date.

Yeah I guess I didn't think about whether the 3DS itself would make it to that date lol. That's even sadder to think that one day I wouldn't be able to load up my game anymore D: But as for the grand ending, wouldn't it be funny if the mayor's parents came to visit and was like "Well kiddo, after 38 years you couldn't be bothered to write or visit us?? After all the letters and presents we sent you? You ungrateful swine! No wonder you belong in a town full of animals!"

 

[MapleSilver]

I don't know what the upper limit of years are in New Leaf. I could have sworn it was 2099 in City Folk so if it's 2050 in New Leaf I don't know why they shortened it.

I wonder if anyone would still have their original 2013 town by 2050. Seems like it could be possible if someone was dedicated enough to preserving theirs. Would probably require a lot of data transfers as the systems/cartridges inevitably break down.

 

[intestines]

I'm pretty sure it lasts till 2050. I'm not sure if a ds and the cartridge of the game can be kept in a condition to last 31 years if the game and console are being played quite frequently. I think for it to last til then you would have to store it very carefully making sure the condition is right. The longest I've had a ds survive is 5 years haha..

 

[maralacesphye]

Yeah I guess I didn't think about whether the 3DS itself would make it to that date lol. That's even sadder to think that one day I wouldn't be able to load up my game anymore D: But as for the grand ending, wouldn't it be funny if the mayor's parents came to visit and was like "Well kiddo, after 38 years you couldn't be bothered to write or visit us?? After all the letters and presents we sent you? You ungrateful swine! No wonder you belong in a town full of animals!"

Oh, wow. Wow. Oh my goodness. That hypothetical dialogue goes hard.

 

[dragonpisces69]

Personally, I don't think the future really exists, so I dunno if I'll still be playing New Leaf 30 years from now, even if my consoles do last long because I handle them with the utmost care. (Except for my old 3DS that I accidentally bricked while trying to homebrew it last year, that is. Thank the King of all Cosmos that my current New 2DS XL is still fine as ever, though, and I won't homebrew that one until hell freezes over, so...)
But yeah, I already knew the whole thing about the GCN version ending in 2030, and people kinda made me scared with it, which is one reason why I quit playing that recently. I know, a terrible sin and a huge shame, but I was also not really feeling up to playing it anymore since for some reason, the in-game date suddenly diverged big time with the actual date (it was August the 1st irl but June 10th on the GCN and in the game ), so yeah.

 

[JSS]

Now that I fell for another ancient revived thread, I wonder if the New Leaf clock resetting back to 2012 is what the Mayans meant all along.

 

[Belle T]

What I've learned from this thread is that Animal Crossing is not Y2K compatible.

 

[silk.feather]

I think it would really count as ended if you have every item/clothing, every bug and every fish. Also every museum item and every badge that you can get from doing things in town. Also every house upgrade, every store in Main Street, the most upgraded Timmy and Tommy store.