Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Also known as: Tobidase Doubutsu no Mori (JP), Twieonawayo Dongmul-ui Sup (KR) Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo 3DS Released in JP: November 8, 2012 Released in US: June 9, 2013 Released in EU: June 14, 2013 Released in AU: June 15, 2013 Released in KR: February 7, 2013 This game has unused areas. This game has unused graphics. This game has regional differences. This game has a bugs page This game has a prerelease article

Animal Crossing: New Leaf is the fourth major installment in the Animal Crossing series, with new features like being the mayor, new villagers, customizable furniture, the island, the wet suit...and how could we forget the Shrunk Funk Shuffle?

To do: Debug files and more E3 goodies

Unused Areas

It is possible to go out of bounds in various areas using one of a few glitches in the game. This grants access to an area commonly referred to as "the Abyss". The Abyss is an empty area that connects the top and bottom parts of a level, creating a cylindrical loop. Each of the three Happy Home Academy showcase areas features two small squares of grass in their respective Abyss regions.The image above shows a player standing directly above a square piece. These squares are almost a full body's length beneath the player. The two pieces are also horizontally adjacent to each other, suggesting that they may have been used for measurements. If the player chooses the "Save and Continue" option from the pause menu, they will be transported back to their house.

Unused Graphics

E3 Leftovers

There are a few leftover graphics from an E3 2011 demo. The in-game screenshot shows early designs for a house, trees, shrubs, and flowers.

Miscellaneous

Dummy	Final

This dummy door texture is similar to one of the final designs.

An early design for the K.K. Swing album cover.

A guideline for designing clothes.

A scrapped interaction icon that seems to relate to furniture.

A main dummy texture that can be found in many different archives.

Various dummy textures. The second pair can be found in Gracie related files. The third pair are labelled as Carpet Dummy and Wall Dummy respectively. The fourth set relates to shoe textures.

Unused Oddities

Debug folder

Inside a folder named "debug", there are four files: debug_sphere, debug_cylinder, debug_cube, and DebugFile.bin. The .bin file contains a bunch of placeholder data, containing the letter "a" repeating over and over. The sphere, cylinder, and cube models have no textures associated. They can be seen below.

"PadReplay" folder

There is a folder named "PadReplay" which contains four .bin files, two of which were intended for E3: GardenReplayBeachForE3.bin, and GardenReplayFlatForE3.bin. As with the debug files above, these currently can't be viewed.

Regional Differences

To do: There's A LOT more.

Japan	Europe	North America
コンビニのATM (English: Convenience store ATM)	in-store Bellpoint	24-hour-shop ABD

The banking machine has a different name across the Japanese, European, and North American releases. Bellpoint is a play on cashpoint, commonly used in some English-speaking countries. ABD is short for Automatic Bell Dispenser.

Japan/North America	Europe

SMPTE Color Bars are used in the Japanese and North American version, while Hanover Bars are used in the European version.

Totaka's Song

To do: Replace video with audio, maybe?

A short signature tune of composer Kazumi Totaka, hidden in nearly every game he has worked as composer for can be found in New Leaf (ignoring the K.K Slider record "K.K Song", which now also appears during DJ KK performances). To hear it you need to remain on the loading screen for the online Island for around 3 minutes, which is only possible if your connection to the internet is of bad quality.