Jeff's New Leaf Blog

The New Leaf update coming later this fall will have a new Amiibo Camera feature. You can scan up to four Amiibo Cards, and those Animal Crossing villagers will appear in photos you take with your 3DS camera! Here’s an example that was shown on Nintendo’s Japanese site.

The Japanese Animal Crossing Twitter account also tweeted out this picture of Isabelle and Digby.

It’s quite reminiscent of the 3DS AR Games, which is a free app that comes with 3DS systems. It combined real photos with Nintendo characters like Mario, Link, Samus, and Kirby. Tomodachi Life also has an AR camera item, which allows you to take real photos with one of your Miis in the picture.

But this time you’ll be scanning in your Amiibo Cards instead of AR cards to add Animal Crossing villagers. While it’s nothing groundbreaking, it sounds like it will be a lot of fun!

You could use the Amiibo camera to make it look like you’re flushing an ugly villager down the toilet. Or you could pose a character next to your Animal Crossing Amiibo figures or plush toys. Maybe even make Isabelle sit next to your real-life dog? Or maybe she could even ride on your dog’s back! Leave a comment below and share your ideas for how you plan to use this Amiibo camera feature! 🙂

Meanwhile, in Forest…

Yesterday, Agent S asked me to bury a time capsule for her. I wonder if this is really a time capsule, or if she’s just tricking me into burying her nuts for her before winter comes.

I took it up to my usual time capsule spot (the very northwest corner of town) and buried it in a hole there. Doing it this way makes sure it’s very easy to find when the time comes to dig it up.

The scent of the freshly buried acorns must have drawn all the squirrels to Forest, because Filbert showed up at my campsite today. I wasn’t interested in asking him to move in, even though I do have a free spot right now.

And another squirrel showed up on Main Street for the first time. It was Cally, who moved out of town in July of last year. Her time in Forest was something I was trying to block from my memory, but that’s not possible now that she’s back.

My recent dream visitors have been Javier from Nestoria and Xavier from Quigley. Thanks for stopping by!

Yesterday, I met up with Jack, the czar of Halloween.

As expected, he filled me in with the details of how Halloween works (even though I know the routine by now). He also gave me a monster mask.

I made a couple of changes to my town to get ready for Halloween. First, I put my gravestone design back on my face-cutout standee.

Then I used Emily’s Halloween 2.0 design for my new path. I’m not sure if I’ll keep this path for the entire month, but this is how it looks for now at least:

Both designs (Emily’s path and my gravestone) can be scanned from the Halloween QR Codes page if you’d like to use them in your town. And if any of you have some Halloween designs of your own that you’d like to share on that page, let me know!

Today (October 3rd) is Big Top’s birthday! I made sure to attend his party. Aurora was also there to help him celebrate.

For Big Top’s present, I gave him a customized rococo table. He seemed to enjoy it so much that he couldn’t contain his excitement.

Aurora and I agreed that this was a successful birthday party.

This was actually Big Top’s 4th year having a birthday in Forest. Time sure flies, doesn’t it?

Up at the Dream Suite, Luna told me that Gabe from Rain was my recent dream visitor. Thanks for visiting!

I got Daisy’s goodbye letter in the mail today. She attached her picture to the letter too.

I also got my usual monthly letter from the post office, telling me I earned 99,999 bells in interest on my bank account.

Molly asked me for a butterfly, so I grabbed an emperor butterfly from my dock box. After I gave it to her, she said it looked like me!

She gave me some red tile (flooring) for my trouble.

During this first week of October, Jack can show up to explain (or remind) you how the Halloween festivities work in New Leaf. I actually didn’t find him in Forest tonight, but that may be because I didn’t start playing until after midnight. Still, Aurora mentioned the spooky pumpkin fellow.

He can appear any day through October 7th, so I’m sure I’ll meet up with him soon. The side effect is that the game considers these days to be event days (even though Jack will only show up once), and you can’t work at the Roost again until the 8th.

The arrival of October brings other Halloween related changes, too. Able Sisters begin to sell the monster masks necessary for scaring our villagers on Halloween. I already have all six of them in storage though, so I’m good.

Also, the Nooklings begin selling spooky furniture and candy.

Just a reminder that there are some Halloween QR Codes here on JVGS that you can use to get your town ready for Halloween. Do you enjoy this time of year? I know I do. 🙂

Anyway, Luna told me that Nacho from Eesti was my most recent dream visitor. Thanks for stopping by!