Have you hacked/edited your town, or would?

[Hat']

Yes I did! I wasn't playing the game much anyway so heh.
I just wanted to see how it would go, to test a little bit you know!
I loved it! I "created" two towns that I really like and enjoyed making them through the save editor. However I kept everything to myself. I also had fun with giving myself all the furnitures/objects I wanted just to try. I never sold or gave anything here because it's genuinely bad???
But what I liked most was the save.. saver? Like right now I have an app on my ds that let's me go back to 3 of my saved towns without having to have another cartridge. I only use it to go back to a certain save if I want to play so that, in my game, it wouldn't seem like I've been away for months.

Overall it was fun but short. Like yeah I loved doing it but... it was boring. Quickly. Like, there was no point at the end, sure my town was good looking but my villagers seemed like they weren't...themselves, sort of. (Which was kinda true, when you replace a villager through the save editor, your relationship with them stays the same as the previous villager.)
So after that I just restarted a new non-hacked game and had a lot of fun too!

 

[HotNotHut]

I wouldn't hack my town completely. I'd move rocks, and annoying villager home locations but that is about it. I would also put palm trees outside my house because that would look awesome.

 

[Mimi Cheems]

I've had my friend hack my town every time I would restart, to make it look nice for me. But, although I know how to hack, I'd rather not hack, y'know? I dunno why, it seems so fun and easy, but... at the same time it just feels wrong.​

 

[Reckoner]

Yep.
I regret it immensely, though.
It made me lose interest in the game for months and the thrill of making it work wore off quick.

 

[John Wick]

I used an action replay in Wild World to put up an extra bulletin board, and I'd sometimes keep Katrina's tent in my town, though I couldn't shoot Gulliver down if the tent was there because the game would crash.

I haven't and wouldn't use a cheat device again.

Edit. I also used the water all flowers code every morning in Wild World.

 

[Corndoggy]

i had hacked my wildworld game on numerous occasions when i was younger, im only sort of ashamed to say that i constantly used the weeds into bells hack in my game, i became very rich very quickly and i reckon i probably spent too little time playing my game because of that. i have since restarted on that cartridge and now the only hack i use is a glitch to remove weeds, as i am lazy and just want a pretty town haha.

 

[NutmegMegan]

I've never hacked an Animal Crossing town, and probably never will. When I first discovered that people were doing it, I was incredibly jealous, and desperately wanted to learn how to do it. But I never did and the excitement of it has worn off. Yes, there's annoying rocks that I would like to move to somewhere else, but if i did that I'd always feel like I'd cheated and, besides, I can work around them. And I'd never want to do anything extreme, because I'd be too afraid of messing something up. It doesn't matter anyway, because I prefer the look of natural, non-hacked towns to the grandly decorated hacked ones.

 

[Flyffel]

No, I made the best out of my town and it turned out amazing imo!

 

[ivanfox13]

I haven't but mainly because don't know how lol. But sure I would. At the end of the day it's a game and if hacking it wold make it a more enjoyable experience for us then why not. That's how i look at it anyway.

 

[Snowesque]

Nope, and I do not have a reason to or want to. I was able to work with what I had.
I would even admit it made things more fun with the challenge.

 

[KnoxUK]

I would not touch hacking especially if it was towards my town I had since launch. I'd happily do it to another save file just to see how weird and stupid I could make it. Like making every villager the same person and have houses in the ocean

 

[seliph]

nah i think hacked towns look trashy

 

[AlyssaAC]

Nope. I don't like cheating and I like to work with what I got. I have a saying that I kinda go by a lot. Whatever you get is whatever you get. I don't even like resetting for "perfect" town shapes anymore. I much prefer to go with what is given to me and like I said, work with it.

 

[Elveira]

I have not hacked, and I don't plan on hacking my towns since I personally think it's more fun that way.

 

[Seastar]

I haven't at all, but if I had an extra 3DS and a third copy of the game, since I don't want to break what I currently have, then I probably would. But I don't think that's happening anytime soon.

 

[Corrie]

Nope and I never would. I'm too afraid of breaking my town and having to start over.

 

[Halloqueen]

I've never hacked/edited anything in an Animal Crossing game and most likely never will. The idea has its appeal, rocks are the bane of my existence in these games and make one of my towns in particular quite unfortunate when trying to landscape. However, not being able to have an updated game sounds kind of boring and limiting, and it's too little too late for the purposes (like the one just mentioned) I'd be most interested in pursuing it for. It could be fun for some wholly different cartridge on a different 3DS, but I'm not sufficiently enticed to actually bother going through the effort.

I don't think there's anything wrong with anybody hacking their games as much as they want if doing so brings them enjoyment, so long as they're not malicious in their interactions with other players and don't give people hacked items that can't be removed from their inventory or other such things. As long as all the risks are self-contained, it's all good with me.

 

[hamster]

tried it, didn't work for me. i must have done it wrong but nothing bad occurred. nothing happened
i might try again soon when i'm bothered to. i recently got a new copy & i want to hack just for design & landscaping. it's a lot of work

ok i figured it out soon after this anyway yea i have a hacked town. playing normally gets boring after many resets and doing everything again and again. and its nice that u can do whatever you want really without some annoying rock in the way or getting an ugly villager (EG TIFFANY)

 

[kyle on saturn]

I would like to just to get rid of annoying rocks, but also to place down certain public works projects because trying to get them can be kinda annoying. For landscaping I?d prefer to do it on my own.

 

[John Wick]

I guess if they stopped putting rocks in inconvenient places, and didn't have villagers plot their house in front of yours, or destroy part of your town that you've worked on for months, or years, then folks wouldn't feel the need to hack.

It's great that nintendo have finally decided to listen to some of the things we want in New Horizons, though they've also added a couple of huge downsides.

Give and take. ^_^