Strange glitches in New leaf?

pfefferminz

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Ok so this an admittedly out of memory account and i do not have any prove for this as it was years ago at this point but i just wanna know if anyone knows of this. But in my time playing i have encounter a few strange things that i just have no place for.
So new leaf was my first animal crossing game so i was like 8 when i got so i didnt know how to tell glitch and gameplay apart. But one day i was playing and i went on the footbridge and jumped into the water, now this isnt weird on its own but i didnt have a swim suit on at the time. i was so ecited cause i didn't know swimming was possible at all (i was a pretty bad player obviously i had a hard time getting over 10000 bells in the game and didnt unlock the museum shop until i picked it up again as teenager spend most of my time talking to my villagers tbh) so imagine my disappointment when i tried again and it didn't work.
also sorta swimming related but another time i was just walking towards the river and my plaer charater just jumped into the river as a kid was exited at first until i realised there was no way to get out and i had to reload without saving.
Also i still have the same town from back then and it never seems to spawn perfect fruits nor the trees without leaves (idk what theire called in the english version i only ever played german so forgive me)

Are these common glitches that can just occur? can they be recreated in some way or another?
 
But one day i was playing and i went on the footbridge and jumped into the water, now this isnt weird on its own but i didnt have a swim suit on at the time. i was so ecited cause i didn't know swimming was possible at all
When I was playing around a hacked save lately I found that if you do end up in the water somehow (glitch or hack) you can swim without a swimsuit, however once you get out of the water you can't get back in. Interesting how you triggered it without a wet suit!
 
I know that there were certain glitches (patched out with the welcome amiibo update I believe) that allowed players to glitch into the river... maybe you did one of these by accident? Like, hit a vertex wrong and the collision detection got weird. In that case though the character wouldn't swim, just be walking on top of the water. And I think you would be able to get out by walking (it would push you back to land if you touch the edge of the river). I don't think I've ever seen footage of someone swimming in the river!
 
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