News / Pretendo Network: You can now StreetPass your 3DS friends from anywhere in the world! ----------

Have you had trouble finding anyone to #StreetPass for Happy Home Showcase in New Leaf?

If you have, the team at @pretendo have just made it easier! With the latest version of Nimbus (which allows you to connect to the network), you're now able to StreetPass people online from anywhere in the world!

However, it's not that simple. Due to the buggy implementation of StreetPass for some games, you'll only be able to StreetPass people you've friended on your console (well that's 0 for me). It makes use of a feature called StreetPass Relay which was used at Nintendo Zones which allowed you to upload your data and download others.

I think I'll just stick to real StreetPasses for now though (I got 3 in the last year). Anyone reading from the South West or West Midlands?

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNL #ACNH #AC #Pretendo #PretendoNetwork #3DS #Nintendo3DS #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Weekly Event Outlook: Events in the Animal Crossing World taking place on 2024 Week 21 ----------

Here's what's happening in the Animal Crossing world this week!

Monday

• T-Bone's birthday

Tuesday

• June's birthday

Wednesday

• Colton's birthday
• Mabel's birthday

Thursday

• Peggy's birthday

Friday

• Deli's birthday

Saturday

• Derwin's birthday
• Gulliver's birthday

Sunday

• Mother's Day [France]
• Flea Market [Let's Go To The City]
• Yay Day
• Bruce's birthday

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Weekly Event Outlook: Events in the Animal Crossing World taking place on 2024 Week 20 ----------

Here's what's happening in the Animal Crossing world this week!

Monday

• Biskit's birthday

Tuesday

• Canberra's birthday

Wednesday

• Leonardo's birthday

Thursday

• Ike's birthday

Friday

• Gayle's birthday

Saturday

• Fishing Tourney [Let's Go To The City and New Leaf]
• Pekoe's birthday

Sunday

• Fishing Tourney [Wild World]
• Olaf's birthday
• Sasha's birthday

Just want to end this post with a thank you to everyone supporting this account. This post is currently being scheduled a few weeks in advance (today's the 25th of April), but right now, I may possibly be preparing for GCSE exams since they start this week for me on Thursday. Seriously, thank you.

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Weekly Event Outlook: Events in the Animal Crossing World taking place on 2024 Week 19 ----------

Here's what's happening in the Animal Crossing world this week!

Monday

• Tank's birthday

Tuesday

• Ozzie's birthday

Wednesday

• Parent's Day [South Korea]
• Curlos's birthday

Thursday

• Bunnie's birthday

Friday

• Flick's birthday
• Patty's birthday

Saturday

• La-Di-Day [Wild World]
• Cherry's birthday

Sunday

• Mother's Day [United States, Germany, Italy and Japan]
• Ellie's birthday

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Weekly Event Outlook: Events in the Animal Crossing World taking place on 2024 Week 18 ----------

Here's what's happening in the Animal Crossing world this week!

Monday

• Coach's birthday

Tuesday

• Angus's birthday

Wednesday

• Start of Mushroom Season [New Horizons / Southern Hemisphere]
• Spring Cleaning [Animal Crossing]
• Clyde's birthday
• Don Resetti's birthday

Thursday

• Mint's birthday
• Roswell's birthday

Friday

• Sylvia's birthday

Saturday

• Flea Market [Wild World]
• Deirdre's birthday

Sunday

• Mother's Day [Spain]
• Paolo's birthday

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / StreetPass: Modders have gotten StreetPass to go online! ----------

If you're a #Nintendo3DS owner, you might be pleased to hear that modders have made an online version of #StreetPass called NetPass, which allows you to StreetPass users on your 3DS.

It's great if you're struggling to find people, although I have thankfully had some StreetPasses with 3 people in the last year, 2 of which gave me Animal Crossing New Leaf data!

Jon from the YouTube channel Good Vibes Gaming made a great video on it: https://youtu.be/Z50tuxYvAO0

If you want to learn more about the project, there's a GBAtemp page at: https://gbatemp.net/threads/a-new-way-to-experience-streetpass.653810/

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNL #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Weekly Event Outlook: Events in the Animal Crossing World taking place on 2024 Week 17 ----------

Here's what's happening in the Animal Crossing world this week! Apologies for the slightly late post again 😥

Monday

• Nature Day (definitely need to check that out)
• Phoebe's birthday

Tuesday

• Miranda's birthday
• Booker's birthday

Wednesday

• Walt's birthday

Thursday

• Bertha's birthday

Friday

• Weeding Day [New Leaf / North America]
• Kevin's birthday

Saturday

• Katt's birthday

Sunday

• Fishing Tourney [Wild World]
• Ava's birthday

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Weekly Event Outlook: Events in the Animal Crossing World taking place on 2024 Week 16 ----------

Sorry that I missed posting last week, I think I was a bit unorganized 😥. Pretty empty week unfortunately so just listen to a bunch of villager birthdays 😂.

Here's what's happening in the Animal Crossing world this week!

Monday

• Grams's birthday

Tuesday

• Vesta's birthday

Wednesday

• Charlise's birthday
• Porter's birthday

Thursday

• Piper's birthday

Friday

• Pietro's birthday (oh no)

Saturday

• Stu's birthday

Sunday

• Agnes's birthday

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Nintendo Network Shutdown: Online services for the Wii U and 3DS has shut down ----------

The time is up for online services for the #WiiU and #3DS consoles.

It is now April 9th at 1am BST, which means online services for both consoles are no longer available. This means you will be no longer able to splat anymore squids, challenge anyone to a Mario Kart race or even try to show off your bowling skills on official Nintendo servers on the #NintendoWiiU or #Nintendo3DS consoles.

To continue playing online services on both consoles, you will need to mod your consoles. Guides to do that are available on https://wiiu.hacks.guide and https://3ds.hacks.guide. After that, install @pretendo and follow the brilliant guides for installation for Wii U or 3DS. They cover everything you need to know about modding your console and getting Pretendo set up (I've helped add some commits to the Pretendo guide to make it easier to get started).

If you want to know what the shutdown means for either the Splatoon or Animal Crossing franchises, please visit our page at https://experiencersinternational.github.io/labs/fedi/splatoon/onlineclosure.

It's unfortunate that many popular games did not last a decade of online support, but it was good whilst it lasted.

If you have any memories of online from either consoles, I would love to hear it in a reply down below!

> > > Cross-posted between @crossing and @splatoon. > >

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Events: April Fools Day is happening on Monday ----------

Ready to get pranked?

Whether you're running into Blanka on the final days of Tortimer Island online or you're visiting Tortimer at the plaza, April Fools Day is happening on Monday!

Might go and experience it myself for the first time as well as exploring the last days on the island.

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Weekly Event Outlook: Events in the Animal Crossing World taking place on 2024 Week 14 ----------

Here's what's happening in the Animal Crossing world this week!

> > > Thank you for helping us reach 100 followers by the way! > > > > A quick reminder that online services for #ACNL and #ACHHD will cease to function at 12am BST on the 9th of April which is about a week away now. > >

Monday

• April Fools Day
• Cephalobots birthday

Tuesday

• Tammi's birthday
• Cashmere's birthday

Wednesday

• Eunice's birthday

Thursday

• Buck's birthday

Friday

• Cherry Blossom Festival [GameCube / Day 1]
• Beau's birthday

Saturday

• Cherry Blossom Festival [GameCube / Day 2]
• Flea Market [Wild World]
• Hopper's birthday
• Resetti's birthday

Sunday

• Cherry Blossom Festival [GameCube / Day 3]
• Rasher's birthday

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

Title, basically. I often see the advice to grow flowers from seeds for breeding hybrid colors, because they have identical genotypes, whereas wild flowers have different genotypes even when they're the same color.

But what genotypes do they have? Do they always have a single gene for their color and no genes for the other colors (e.g., a "100" or "r" genotype for a red tulip seed)? Do some flowers differ from this? Is there a list somewhere?

News / Nintendo Network Shutdown: Contribute SpotPass data now! ----------

If you're familiar with the #WiiU and #3DS, you may know that SpotPass is one of the key components of the online services (particularly back when both consoles were still actively supported).

SpotPass will cease to exist once Nintendo Network shuts down and revival services such as @pretendo will need SpotPass data for some online services to function properly. Right now, data for SpotPass can be insufficient in places and in order to make sure it still works properly, they need your dumps.

If you have a unmodded/modded Wii U console or a modded 2DS/3DS console, please visit https://spotpassarchive.github.io/ to learn how to dump your data now. It's quick and easy to do and it won't take long. I did it personally myself last night

> > > Cross-posted between @crossing and @splatoon. > >

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Sales: Animal Crossing New Horizons is discounted to £33.29 in Europe! ----------

Just to let you all know, Nintendo has another sale going on in Europe. If you'd like to pick up New Horizons for the first time, it'll be discounted to £33.29 until April 7th!

I could be wrong but it looks like one of the first times that the Happy Home Paradise DLC is being discounted too, being reduced to £15.74.

Visit the Nintendo website to check out the sale now: https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-games/Animal-Crossing-New-Horizons-1438623.html#Overview

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Weekly Event Outlook: Events in the Animal Crossing World taking place on 2024 Week 13 ----------

Here's what's happening in the Animal Crossing world this week!

Monday

• Billy's birthday
• Celia's birthday

Tuesday

• Louie's birthday
• Fauna's birthday

Wednesday

• Lolly's birthday

Thursday

• Baabara's birthday

Friday

• Biff's birthday

Saturday

• Felicity's birthday
• Daisy Mae's birthday

Sunday

• Klaus's birthday
• Bunny Day

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Events: Yay Day and the Flea Market is on Sunday ----------

If you're in a Wild World town, be prepared to give your villagers a compliment on Sunday as it's Yay Day!

Or, if you're playing in a Let's Go To The City town, get ready to snag a great deal since the Flea Market is on Sunday!

\#AnimalCrossing #ACCF #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Anniversaries: Animal Crossing New Horizons is officially 4 years old today ----------

Just a quick one, Animal Crossing New Horizons has now turned 4 years old today, releasing 4 years ago on Friday March 20th 2020 (it was certainly a fun time, I'm lucky my pre-order came in at like 9am on launch day).

Do you have any memories of picking up ACNH 4 years ago? Let me know in the replies below.

Thanks @yassie\_j for instilling sanity into me.

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Events: Spring Sports Fair is taking place in GameCube towns on Wednesday ----------

To celebrate the Spring Equinox, the Spring Sports Fair will be taking place in GameCube towns on Wednesday.

This is a fun filled day that will allow you to participate in various activities! A timetable for each activity is listed below!

• 9-11am: Gymnastics
• 11am-1pm: Foot Race
• 1-3pm: Ball Toss
• 3-5pm: Tug-o-War

\#AnimalCrossing #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Nintendo Network: A quick heads up to remind you that there is less than 21 days left now ----------

Just wanted to post a quick heads up to everyone that Nintendo Network will be gone in less than 3 weeks now. As a reminder, online services for the #WiiU and #3DS are shutting down on April 9th at 12am BST.

Don't forget that we still have a few events left in our Matrix space if you want to play some games with others before it is too late!

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNL #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Events: Father's Day is on Tuesday in ES/IT New Leaf towns ----------

If any of you are in Spanish or Italian towns in New Leaf or Let's Go To The City, expect to get a letter from Dad (with a red carnation attached) on Tuesday to celebrate Father's Day!

Or, for New Horizons players, be sure to hit up the Nook Shopping application to get exclusive items.

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNL #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Weekly Event Outlook: Events in the Animal Crossing World taking place on 2024 Week 12 ----------

Here's what's happening in the Animal Crossing world this week!

Monday

• Dom's birthday

Tuesday

• Merengue's birthday
• Pelly's birthday
• Father's Day [Let's Go To The City and New Leaf | ES/IT]

Wednesday

• Hornsby's birthday
• Spring Sports Fair [Animal Crossing]

Thursday

• Elise's birthday
• Faith's birthday
• Spring Sports Fair [Animal Crossing]

Friday

• Paula's birthday

Saturday

• Axel's birthday

Sunday

• Skye's birthday
• Yay Day [Wild World]
• Flea Market [Let's Go To The City]

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Events: Shamrock Day is on Sunday ----------

Happy St Patrick's Day on Sunday! Shamrock Day will be taking place in New Leaf towns where you'll be able to strike a pose in front of a standee!

Also, if you're playing Wild World, a Fishing Tourney is on today! Make sure to please Tortimer with a nice catch.

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNL #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Events: The Fishing Tourney is on Saturday in New Leaf ----------

Another Fishing Tourney is taking place on Saturday in New Leaf and Let's Go To The City towns! Catch the biggest fish to win!

p.s. there's a tourney in Wild World tomorrow too!

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNL #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Weekly Event Outlook: Events in the Animal Crossing World taking place on 2024 Week 11 ----------

I wanted to try something new so I can keep you informed on villager birthdays without posting every day about them and let you know about all events (that I'm aware of) in the week ahead.

Here's what's happening in the Animal Crossing world this week!

Monday

• Hopkins's Birthday

Tuesday

• Midge's Birthday

Wednesday

• Megan's Birthday

Thursday

• Dotty's Birthday

Friday

• Julian's Birthday

Saturday

• Doc's Birthday
• Fishing Tourney [New Leaf and Let's Go To The City]

Sunday

• Cheri's Birthday
• Fishing Tourney [Wild World]
• Shamrock Day [New Leaf]

(i will admit I've never heard of some of these villagers)

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Events: La-Di-Day is taking place on Saturday ----------

It's that time of the month when villagers hope to make the new town tune! On Saturday, La-Di-Day will be taking place in Wild World towns.

\#AnimalCrossing #ACWW #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

At some UK Lego shops they're letting you build a small version of Fauna's house that you can keep. Hopefully Lego are doing this promo worldwide too! Spread the Animal Crossing news if they are, because it seems to be quite unknown. I really love these sets so I'll be going to try this out.

Community / Events: List of Nintendo Network shutdown events ----------

Will be posting this on both Crossing Corner and Splatoon Unofficial just to provide information about all the #NintendoNetwork shutdown events we plan to hold and #Wiimmfi 10th anniversary events.

To participate, send me your friend codes before the event (on Discord or Matrix) starts if you're not currently friends with me and let me know whether you're interested in participating in an event. Events may be cancelled if there is no interest a day before the event.

• CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF INTEREST Thursday 14th March @ 8:30pm GMT: Mario Kart 7
• CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF INTEREST Friday 15th March @ 8:30pm GMT: Animal Crossing New Leaf
• Thursday 21st March @ 8:30pm GMT: Mario Kart 8
• Friday 22nd March @ 8:30pm GMT: Splatoon Session 1
• Thursday 28th March @ 8:30pm GMT: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
• Thursday 4th April @ 8:30pm BST: Splatoon Session 2
• Monday 8th April @ 7:30pm BST: Splatoon Session 3 (this may be a short one sorry)
• Thursday 2nd May @ 8:30pm BST: Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City
• Friday 3rd May @ 8:30pm BST: Mario Kart Wii CTGP Session 1 (Custom Tracks Fun Room)
• Friday 10th May @ 8:30pm BST: Mario Kart Wii CTGP Session 2 (Wiimmfi Regular Worldwides)

Events: https://matrix.to/#/#splatoonevents:matrix.org Splatoon and general matchmaking: https://matrix.to/#/#splatooneventdiscussion:matrix.org Animal Crossing matchmaking: https://matrix.to/#/#animalcrossingmatchmaking:matrix.org

Discord: https://discord.gg/BgYD6YapUq

\#WiiU #3DS #NintendoWiiU #Nintendo3DS #AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / LEGO: LEGO Animal Crossing Sets are available to preorder ----------

Just wanted to let you all know that you're now able to preorder LEGO Animal Crossing sets on the UK My Nintendo store!

https://store.nintendo.co.uk/en/merchandise/shop-by-franchise-merchandise/lego-x-animal-crossing

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Events: Girls Festival is on right now in Japan ----------

Anyone reading from Japan? The Girls Festival is on right now in Animal Crossing New Leaf towns!

For more information about this event, visit Nookipedia: https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Hinamatsuri

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNL #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

Community / Events: We're playing Animal Crossing New Leaf with members of the fediverse community on the 15th of March! ----------

As part of our Nintendo Network Shutdown events across Splatoon Unofficial (@splatoon) and Crossing Corner, we are looking to play Animal Crossing New Leaf with members of the fediverse community on the 15th of March at 8:30pm GMT.

If you're interested in joining, you will need to be in our Matrix (link to events room - link to matchmaking room). This is simply because it is an easier way to communicate with others interested in participating and it'll make it easier for us to exchange friend codes. We don't have any Discord servers for Crossing Corner stuff, sorry!

If you're interested in playing, please exchange your friend code with me in the matchmaking room before the event starts (if I don't get sent any friend codes or don't see any interest a day before the event, I'll have to cancel 😭).

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNL #AnimalCrossingNewLeaf #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing @[email protected]

News / Events: Weeding Day and Flea Market is starting on Saturday! ----------

Great news! The Weeding Day in Animal Crossing New Leaf for South Korean regions and the Flea Market in Wild World is on Saturday!

Pick up weeds to keep your town clean or sell off some items you don't need. The choice is yours.

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNL #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

Stumbled across this channel recently and its pretty interesting content. I thought I new most of the gamecube Animal Crossing trivia, but there is a lot here that I've never seen.

News / Events: Leap Day is happening on Thursday! ----------

Once every 4 years, you get to celebrate the Leap Year on the 29th of February! On Thursday, Leap Day will happen in both Animal Crossing Let's Go To The City and New Leaf.

It's not really that notable but if your birthday is set to February 29th, you'll be able to celebrate it then!

https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Leap\_Day

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNL #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Events: Southern Hemisphere New Horizons players can play in the Bug-Off on Saturday ----------

Are you ready to catch some bugs? Southern Hemisphere players, it is your time to catch as many bugs as you can in this weekend's Bug-Off. It takes place from 9am to 6pm on Saturday (which could mean right now).

Good luck!

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

FIANLLY!! I'm almost done breeding every flower. I just need black and gold roses to finish up the set.

News / Events: Bright Nights starts on Monday ----------

Anyone playing Wild World? For the next week, Bright Nights will be taking place in the game.

Villagers will be decorating their houses throughout this event, choose the best decorated house to name a villager as the Bright Star!

https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Bright\_Nights

(i do not remember this whatsoever and WW was my first game)

\#AnimalCrossing #ACWW #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Events: The Fishing Tourney is taking place today ----------

It's time to reel in some fish! The February Fishing Tourney is now on in Animal Crossing New Leaf and Animal Crossing Let's Go To The City!

Pick up the longest catches for a chance to win.

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNL #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Events: The Flea Market is on in Wild World ----------

Looking to flog off some of your items to your villagers and make some Bells? Or are you looking for a good deal?

The Flea Market is on this Saturday in Animal Crossing Wild World (which may mean right now) so get bidding!

\#AnimalCrossing #ACWW #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing

News / Events: Groundhog Day is happening on Friday ----------

In Animal Crossing, City Folk (NA only) and New Leaf (NA only), Groundhog Day is happening on Friday!

Be sure to log on for the latest information from Resetti on whether Spring will be coming early or not (or to collect a model of Resetti of course).

\#AnimalCrossing #ACNL #AC #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch @animal\_crossing