How does Acnl know which country you are in?

[HibariTheCarnivore]

I've been wondering (more like wishing I was in Japan for all the cool events) but how does new leaf know which events you can celebrate because of your country? Is it your ds? Your game? Your actually location? I bought my game in aus but I don't know which country's events it will celebrate, is it just the default events and is there anyway I can get to celebrate japanese events? Or any other countries? I'm going to Japan soon so I might buy an acnl game there but will there be an option to change to english?

 

[remiaphasia]

Doesn't it ask for your location when you set the time/date? I could be wrong, I really don't remember.

 

[LunaLight]

It may go by your 3DS location. I'm pretty sure it asks what country/state you are in when you register your 3DS.

 

[momayo]

The 3DS uses region-locking to prevent games from one region from being played on the wrong console. For example, a North America console can't play games cartridges that came from Japan; it can only play cartridges that have been specifically coded to work with the North America region. If you buy a game from Japan, it will most probably not work with your 3DS.

That's also how ACNL guesses what "country" you're in. Since it's already coded for a specific region, it just uses that information to pull up which events, DLCs, etc it should have.

Hope that helps! If I got anything wrong, please feel free to correct me.

 

[HibariTheCarnivore]

No... My dreams are crushed... Oh well QAQ also what are cycling towns do you need another acnl for another town? Sorry I'm such a noob...

 

[remiaphasia]

No... My dreams are crushed... Oh well QAQ also what are cycling towns do you need another acnl for another town? Sorry I'm such a noob...

Cycling towns are towns that players create for the sole purpose of "cycling" through villagers to make a profit by selling/auctioning them off or just to find dreamies that they've been searching for. You do need to have a second copy of NL to have a second town.

 

[momayo]

No... My dreams are crushed... Oh well QAQ also what are cycling towns do you need another acnl for another town? Sorry I'm such a noob...

Oh! Well, as far as I know it's definitely recommended to get another copy of the game for a cycling town. Cycling towns are towns that intentionally enforce a high turnover of villagers. These most often require extensive time travelling (forcing the game to move to a specific date instead of waiting for time to pass) to move villagers out at a greater pace. Once a villager wants to move out, the owner of the cycling town can choose to either give them away or trade them off.

The reason why it's recommended to get another copy is because if you use your own main town to cycle, you'll run into the risk of accidentally moving out your dreamies. Plus, it's just way more convenient since you don't get to worry too much about ruining the town! (weeds, terrible placement of villager plots, etc)

(if I said something vague or incorrect, feel free to correct me c


edit: I am going to recommend going to this thread if you have any questions! http://www.belltreeforums.com/showt...AD-BEFORE-POSTING-HERE-OR-MAKING-A-NEW-THREAD!)

There's a big chance that your question has already been answered there before c:

 

[captainofcool]

Nintendo stalks you.
You set your location in the system settings and the game goes from that. You could change it to a different country to get exclusive items, but only if said country is in the same continent the system is locked in. For example, if you wanted the twelve-grape plate but you live in the U.S., you'd set the region to Mexico.

 

[Yui Z]

It's either your 3DS region (such as NA, EU, JPN, etc), or it's to do with the questions you answer when setting up your 3DS. I'm not entirely sure which one, but I'd assume that it's to do with the region of your game.

 

[WonderK]

1. The region your DS was sold in
2. Where you set up your location in the system settings.

 

[Punchyleaf]

Nintendo stalks you.
You set your location in the system settings and the game goes from that. You could change it to a different country to get exclusive items, but only if said country is in the same continent the system is locked in. For example, if you wanted the twelve-grape plate but you live in the U.S., you'd set the region to Mexico.

You would not do this
You just have to change your 3ds language to spanish

 

[captainofcool]

I figured it was one or the other. I only remember a bunch of Spanish.

 

[Punchyleaf]

I figured it was one or the other. I only remember a bunch of Spanish.

setting the region to a spanish speaking area doesn't change it though. I thought it did to when I changed it to my birth locations. Turns out the systems language is what changes it :> But only for small stuff like 12 grape plate and whatnot
Though the spanish dialogue is a lot more...drama like in spansih lol

 

[captainofcool]

Well, it could have made the default language Spanish. But obviously, it doesn't.
New Year's was over six months ago and I never bothered since. Cut me some slack.

 

[Punchyleaf]

Oh no I'm not saying anything bad :O It's just the spanish acnl reminds me an awful lot of those very drammatically jazzed up spanish soap operas lol
You reminded me that I should play in Spanish again, I'm forgetting my own roots language >__<

 

[captainofcool]

Now, now. I never said you said anything bad.
I think we should stop now... We aren't contributing much.

 

[Punchyleaf]

I contributed :> *flies away*