Month: November 2012

Before I get into what happened in ACCF today, I’m first going to describe what will happen if you transfer your ACCF save from your Wii to your Wii U. There’s a lot of confusion about what will work on Wii U and what won’t, so hopefully this will clear things up.

Here’s what will work:

• Your town, villagers, and items remain intact.
• Friend rosters remain intact and you can still play on Wi-Fi.
• You can still use USB keyboards for typing.
• You can still take pictures and save them to SD cards.
• You can still get Katie/Kaitlin, and presumably Blanca as well.
• Animals can still move to/from your friends’ towns.

Features that used WiiConnect24 will no longer function

• You will not receive any new DLC. But Nintendo stopped sending out new DLC in 2012 anyway.
• You can no longer send or receive letters to/from friends in other towns. (Exception: A visitor can send you a letter if they are in your town when they mail it).
• You will not see friends’ items at the auction house.
• You will not see friends’ rooms as the model room at the HRA.

Also note that once you move your data to Wii U, you can not move it back. So be sure before you transfer. If you have any other questions, let me know and I’ll update this entry if necessary.

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Back to the usual bloggy stuff

Last night, before I transferred my data to my Wii U, I made a test town on my Wii U to test many of the things listed above. This town is Bananas!

Bananas had Rolf, which is always a good thing, but I hated the town layout. Especially without a bridge in the northwest corner of town, it made for a very long walk from Nook’s to town hall. And that’s a walk you have to make many times when working for Nook at the beginning. But it was kind of nice to see Nook’s Cranny again. I haven’t seen it in years.

After finishing my job for Nook and testing things out, I transferred my Wii town Forest to my Wii U. So Bananas no longer exists.

Meanwhile, In Forest

Today in Forest, I got a goodbye letter from Iggly, who moved out this morning.

I talked to Del, who told me that Saharah is in town. He says he has heard her speak perfect English before, when she was a comedian at the Marquee theater! He figured that her poor grammar was a ploy to increase sales. I don’t quite follow that logic, especially since she just exchanges carpets/wallpapers, not sells them.

I met up with Egbert, who gave me a new nickname: Bud.

At the site of Iggly’s old house, you can see how I had to re-route my path around his house. I hope no one else moves into that spot.

I eventually found Saharah and then asked all nine of my villagers for old wallpaper. Not a single one had any to give me.

Later, I saw Anabelle and Amelia chatting. Anabelle had a flea on her, so I got my net out and caught it. But when I talked to Amelia, she actually wanted that flea! In fact, she gave me a modern dresser for it!

That’s all for today, but the harvest festival is tomorrow! I hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving!

If you want more information on the Wii-to-Wii U transfer, and how it applies to games in general, check out today’s entry from my gaming blog.

I saw Del today and he was looking for his wife. Today is November 20th, the day Yann said she was marrying Del. 😛

Avery tracked me down and invited me to play a game of hide-and-seek. I had ten minutes to find Avery, Anabelle, and Amelia: The three A’s.

Avery didn’t go very far; he hid behind the bulletin board about ten feet away from the starting point.

Amelia didn’t go very far either. She was right behind Scott’s house.

And before long, I also found Anabelle. She was behind Sydney’s house. It only took me about three and a half minutes to find them all, and a good chunk of that time was saving these three pictures. That was probably the fastest I’ve ever won the game.

Afterwards, Avery awarded me with a mini poltergoid.

I then finished watering my flowers. I went in Iggly’s house and found out that he’s moving out. He’s all packed up and ready to go. Iggly was alright, but I don’t mind him moving out because his house is really in a bad spot that ruined my path.

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In an unrelated note, I now have a Wii U. My Nintendo Network ID is jvgsjeff, so if any of you want to send a friend request, feel free. I just got it, so I’m not entirely sure how it all works, but I hope to get it figured out soon.

I started up the game and noticed that once again, for about the 8 millionth day in a row, it wasn’t raining. So I had to again water my flowers. It’s a shame I can’t take one day off from watering my flowers without risking a bunch of my hybrids.

It’s as if Nintendo went out of their way to make maintaining your town as big a pain as they could. Pulling weeds every day? Nah, not evil enough. Let’s make them water flowers and punish them if they dare skip a day! Muhahaha!

Maybe if they want to add more length to their games, they should try adding more features instead of going about it the cheap way and turning everything into an annoying chore. If anything ever kills my interest in Animal Crossing, it’ll be tedious nonsense like this. Of course if the grass didn’t wear away and turn towns into deserts, I never would have had to deal with flowers in the first place.

I then went to the city to check emotions. Once again, no Frillard emotions.

For the past 161 weeks, I’ve been trying to acquire every emotion at least once. That’s over three years, and there still two emotions that have not shown up in all that time. The rates at which rare things show up in this game is ridiculous.

I then went to identify some fossils. I had five altogether; three I found today plus two I had in my pockets from yesterday. And one at a time, I had to hand it to Blathers, and scroll through his annoying speeches. Then I had to hand him the next one, and so on.

Why can’t Blathers identify more than one at a time? Better yet, why can’t my character automatically know what they are? He can automatically tell a classic wardrobe from a classic dresser, so why can’t he tell the difference between a piece of amber and a T-rex skull?

Animal Crossing is a fun game at its core, but the tedious, useless tasks you’re forced to perform make you wonder why you even put up with it.