Animal Crossing - Nintendo Universal Codes FAQ. Created By: Matt - Croft237 Direct Questions to - ignfaqs(at)gmail.com. Game Info: Title: Animal Crossing Console: Gamecube Developer: Nintendo. For Animal Crossing on the GameCube, Universal Codes FAQ by Shynkz.

Get Cash

Sell fruit, fish, shells, bugs, or other unused stuff to Nook. He’ll only give you 25% of what you paid for the item though.

Maximize your time by not selling cheaper fish. You’re better off throwing it back in the water and fishing for more expensive fish. That way you won’t have to go back and forth between Nook’s and the river/sea so many times.

Send presents to the villagers in your letters and they’ll send you furniture or different kinds of fruit that are not native to your town. They’re worth 500 bells instead of 100, but if you plant them you’ll have many trees with lots of fruits that are worth 500 bells!

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Deposit money in your bank account and you’ll earn interest every month. You can also cheat by changing the date and get a lot of money in interest. However, be careful because the town will be full of weeds. If you decide to do it, you might as well do it several times to make it worthwhile.

Shake trees and you’ll find a few bells here and there or even hidden furniture. If the bees come out, they will most likely sting you, but you should try to catch them, as they’re worth 4,500 bells at Nook’s!

Do errands for your neighbors and they’ll reward you with furniture or other objects. You can keep these objects or sell them to Tom Nook for some cash.

Fish at the ocean at night time, when it’s snowing or raining. It’s your best chance to fish a Coelacanth, which is worth 15,000 bells. You also have more chances to catch the Red Snapper and the Knifejaw. These are worth 3,000 and 5,000 respectively.

Hit all the rocks in town once a day. One of them will turn red and spit out money bags. Hit it several times consecutively, and you’ll get more money. You can dig three holes around yourself and the rock so when you hit it you don’t accidentally step back. You have to do this before hitting each rock for the first time though.

When you see “stars” in the ground, use your shovel to dig out a fossil, which you can donate at the museum (for free) or sell it to Nook for big bucks after it’s been identified by Blathers the owl. Sometimes it won’t be a fossil, but you can still sell the Gyroids. Pitfall seeds are worthless though.

When you see a glowing portion of earth, make a hole with the shovel and bury a money bag. In a couple of days, it should grow into a money tree.

You’ll receive money in a letter from your parents on January 1st – It will contain 10,000 bells. You can change the Gamecube’s date back and forth between different years, always on January 1st, and that way you’ll receive a bunch of letters with 10,000 bells. However, there’s some risk. You may lose some of your beloved neighbors, and your town will be full of weeds!

Nook’s Cheats, Codes, and Hints

Nook’s Store Upgrades
Nook will make his store bigger and better the more you shop at it.

Home Upgrades
Expand your house by paying off your mortgage. When you’re done paying what you owe, go talk to Nook and he’ll ask you if you want the upgrade. Say yes and wait until the next day to see your expanded headquarters.

Restock Nook’s Store
If the store is getting empty and you want more items to shop today, just save the game and then change the date before you restart it. Nook’s store will be full of merchandise all over again.

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Restock an Item at Nook’s
If you want an item you just bought to become available at Nook’s again, save your game, change the clock to an earlier or later date, save, and then return to the original date. The item will be at Nook’s again.

Unlock New Stuff:
Enter the following codes when talking to Nook – Select “Other Things” and then “Say Code.” Also, go to the “Item Lists” page for codes to unlock the different Gyroids.

Special Objects

Golden Bug Net
Catch all 40 bug species. The golden net will allow you to catch bugs much more easily.

Golden Shovel
Buy two shovels. When you find some a portion of the ground that’s glowing, make a hole and plant one of the shovels there. It will turn into a golden one.

Golden Fishing Rod
Catch all 40 fish species. The golden fishing rod will allow you to catch fish much more easily, and you’ll also get a trophy in your house.

Golden Axe
Obtain a “perfect” rating by taking good care of your town (planting flowers, the right amount of trees, pulling out weeds, etc. If you maintain it for two weeks, you’ll get the Golden Axe from the lucky spirit Farley, at the wishing well. This axe never breaks.

Unlock other special objects by entering code at Nook’s. Read more about this on the “Nook’s Cheats & Hints” page.

Special Visitors

Chip: (6am-6pm June-November) He holds a fishing tourney every Sunday during the months of June and November. He’ll give you a prize if you caught the biggest bass that day (so far). At the end of the day, if you were the winner, you’ll receive a prize on the mail.

Franklin: (3pm to 9pm on Thanksgiving) Find him hiding behind trees and buildings. Give him the forks Tortimer gives you at the Town Hall and he’ll give you special “Harvest” furniture. You can repeat this until you have the whole collection.

Gracie: (6am-6am – 24 hours on a random day) Wash her car by tapping A really fast when she asks you to and she’ll give you one of her unique shirts.

Jack: (6pm Oct. 31 to 1am Nov. 1) Everyone in town will be dressed up like Jack that day, but you have to find the real Jack. He will not chase you, but you’ll have to give him candy you bought at Nook’s during the month of November. He’ll give you “Spooky” furniture. If you’re persistent, you’ll find the whole collection.

Jingle: (Dec. 24 – 8pm to Dec. 25 – 1am) Talk to him several times and he’ll give you pieces of the “Jingle” series furniture. Only trick is…you have to change your clothes each time so he doesn’t recognize you!

Joan: (Sunday 6am – Noon) Buy turnips from her and sell them to Nook any day of the week except Sundays. The prices vary like the stock market, so you may make extra money or lose some. Also, you can buy red turnips from her, which you can plant for a special surprise. Turnips rot after a week, so sell them before that!

Katrina: (9pm – 9pm- 24 hours on a random day) She’ll tell you your fortune. Sometimes it’s nothing important, but sometimes she will tell you something special.

K.K. Slider (aka Totakeke) (Saturday 6pm to Midnight) Watch him play music at the cafeteria. He’ll give you a record after the song is done so you can play the music at home. Find the song list at the bottom of the page.

Mr. Resetti (After You Don’t Save the Game) You should be familiar with him by now, but he shows up every time you forget to save your game before quitting. He’ll be really annoying and will talk and talk until he thinks you’ve understood why it’s important to save.

Nat (3rd Saturday in June, July, August, and September) Nat hosts the Bug Catching Contest. He’ll reward you with gifts each time you bring him the rarest bug. Also, he’ll send you the Bug Trophy if you were able to catch the rarest bug that day.

Saharah: (6am to 6am – 24 hours on a random day) She trades rare and exotic carpets for one of your carpets and some money. The prices go up the more you buy from her, but sometimes it’s worth it.

Snowman: (Dec. 25 to Mid-February) If you notice small balls of snow in the ground you should roll them around to make them bigger. Find another ball and roll it on top of the other to make a snowman. If it has the right proportions, he’ll give you special “Snowman” furniture. If he’s out of proportion, he’ll just complain.

Wendell: (6am to 6am – 24 hours on a random day) When you find him, you’ll have the opportunity to give him fish three times. He’ll give you wallpapers in exchange.

Wisp: (Midnight-3am) He’ll appear in your town every night, and you have to catch him with your net. When you let him go, he’ll let you choose one of several items, including rare furniture and objects.

Other Hints and Secrets

Get NES Games:
There are a few other ways to obtain NES games, but here are a few:

1. When you’re done running errands for Nook, you’ll receive a “welcome package” with three items. Two of them are NES games.
2. Talk to the neighbors and eventually one of them will ask you when your birthday is, especially if you choose the 2nd talk option once in a while. Tell them and, on your birthday, one of the neighbors will visit with a present for you, a NES!
3. When you go to the Island (special GBA connection), give the villager a shovel and he might dig out a NES game. You can then try to bribe him with fruit.
4. On Christmas’ Eve, you’ll get a NES game on the mail. Yeay!

Pick a Song from Totakeke
Fill your pockets so you can’t carry any more items. Go to the concert and hear the song. Totakeke (a.k.a. K.K. Slider) will realize you don’t have room to store his music track. Keep coming back with your pockets full and listen to the different songs. When you hear one you like, come back with space in your pockets, request the song, and when he’s done singing you’ll get the copy you wanted.

Talk to the Neighbors
Talk to the neighbors you come across a few times. They might get angry, but you’ll also find out more about them and they might play games with you or ask you to do errands for them so you can get objects as a reward.

Making Mr. Resetti Angry and meeting Don Resetti
Turn off the Gamecube without saving, and Resetti will show up to give you his lecture. Keep doing it and he’ll get even angrier! At some point, his brother Don will be the one lecturing you, and if you insist in not saving (about 60 times), Mr. Resetti will come back and kick out everyone in town to give you a lesson.

Make your Neighbors Angry
Walk into the neighbors and push them around or hit them with the shovel or bug net. They’ll become mad and steam will come out of their heads.

Changing the Clock
You can hold A and B when the Gamecube logo appears before you start any games. There you can change the date and time so you can play on a different date in Animal Crossing. The other option is to start the game and select “Before I go…” You can change the game’s clock here without affecting the Gamecube’s clock and therefore other games. Either way, it’s always best to just play on the current date and time. If you change the clock back and forth you may miss stuff like special objects, so it’s not recommended to disrupt the programmed chain of events in Animal Crossing.

Nature’s Punishment
Play your game at least once a week, or the next time you go back to it, the town will be full of weeds and your flowers may be gone or dying. Same thing will happen if you start cheating by changing the date radically.

Item Lists

BUGS:

FISH:

GYROIDS:

K.K. SLIDER SONGS:

You’ll get these every time you go to a concert at the café. You’ll be able to put the different music tracks in your stereo at home and play them whenever you want.

'I see, I see. A flying saucer has arrived for you. Here you go. Thank you much.'

— Tom Nook, distributing an item

Secret codes, also known as passwords or simply codes, are a 28-character passwords used in Animal Crossing to give and receive in-game items. The codes are alphanumeric and are usually displayed as two rows of 14 characters each, that being the format that they are received from and input into the game. Valid code characters include all uppercase and lowercase letters of the English alphabet, the numbers 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, the ampersand (&), the at sign (@), the pound (#), and the percent sign (%). The number zero and uppercase 'o' are interchangeable. When generated by Tom Nook, a capital 'i' can be distinguished from a lowercase 'L' by the serif drawn at both the top and bottom of its stem. Note also that the number '1' is never generated in a secret code. Nook will only distribute three items via password per game load. To redeem more items, the player must save and quit and then reload the game.

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Types of codes[edit]

Animal Crossing makes use of a variety of code types, each of which serves a different purpose and has a different origin. All code types follow the same description as outlined in the introduction and thus appear very similar to the untrained eye.

Player-to-player codes[edit]

As an alternative to online play, the player-to-player code system allows players to send items to anyone in the world so long as they know the receiving player's character and town name. These codes can be both received and redeemed at Nook's shop via the 'Other things' menu. Unlike other code types which can be redeemed by any player in any town, player-to-player codes are specific to the character and town name combination they were generated for. This was done to mimic the experience of a personalized delivery service. Nook will only generate passwords for items that are orderable from the catalog (plus Mushrooms and Candy).

Prior to the discovery of universal codes which work for any player regardless of name/town combination, fans created a group named Project Hyrule, whose sole goal was to amass a list of player-to-player codes for every item in the game. To take advantage of such a list, each member used the credentials Link in Hyrule when creating their town. After the advent and proliferation of code generators the group eventually became redundant, however their dedicated cryptologists did manage to generate many universal codes, which when redeemed at Nook's provide the player with a gift from 'Project Hyrule.'^{[citation needed]}

Universal codes[edit]

Codes of this type will work for any player. Additionally, they can be used to acquire almost any item (including some beta items), whereas player-to-player codes may only be generated for orderable items. Universal codes were originally discovered by accident as players (sometimes intentionally) input the wrong code to Nook. They were also used by Nintendo to distribute the Mario Theme, with codes for individual pieces listed in various issues of Nintendo Power magazine and on the official website.^[1] The Nintendo Bench code was distributed through Tips & Tricks magazine.

NES contest codes[edit]

All NES games (excluding Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros., Ice Climbers, and The Legend of Zelda) can have NES contest codes generated for them. As with universal and player-to-player codes, NES contest codes are redeemed through Tom Nook and are unique to a specific player and town combination.

Soccer, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3, Punch-Out!! and Clu Clu Land D were exclusively released on the official Animal Crossing website using NES contest codes and can only be obtained through this manner; universal codes cannot be generated for these titles. As the game's official site is no longer online, these five games are now solely available via third-party code generators capable of creating this specialized code type.

Contest codes[edit]

These are distinct from their NES counterparts in that they are not limited to NES titles. Furthermore, they do not always guarantee an item; sometimes the player is told they haven't won the contest. These codes may have been included because Nintendo was planning to run contests for Animal Crossing items, however these plans never came to fruition. Contest codes are similar to universal codes in that they can be entered by any player regardless of character and town name.

Villager codes[edit]

Found on the back of Animal Crossinge-Readercards, these codes include an extra key icon in their first line (for a total of three lines of code), and must be sent to villagers via letter. In their reply, the villager will include a present with an item inside. If the player sends a code to the villager pictured on the front of the e-card (e.g. sends the code on the back of Bob's card to Bob), that villager will provide the player with a random NES game instead of a regular item from the catalog.

Cross-compatibility[edit]

The secret codes used in Animal Crossing are not compatible with any Japanese titles, nor can English code generators create codes that will work for Japanese games. Japanese universal codes do exist, however, and Japanese code generators may have been developed independently of their English counterparts, however their current status is unknown.

Code messages[edit]

Different code types will result in different messages from Nook. You can use these messages to determine a code's type as well as to diagnose potential issues when a code is not working.

Wrong password: This message is received after entering a player-to-player code that has a few typographical errors, but that is otherwise correct and can be redeemed by the player.

'Now that's odd... I think there's something the matter with your password. Do you want to tell it to me again?'

Someone else's password: This message is received after entering a player-to-player code that was not sent to your specific character and/or town name. Remember that these names must be entered exactly as they appear when generating a code for it to work.

'Oh?! What's this? You can't use that password, [player name]! Don't try to trick me by using someone else's password! Do you have a password of your own that you'd like to try?'

Send to animal: This message is received after telling Nook a villager code. This code type can only be redeemed by sending a letter to a villager in town. When mailing a villager code, make sure the key symbol appears by itself on the first line, the first line of code is placed on the second line, and second line of code sits on the third line of the letter. The villager will respond in a few days. If there is not a present attached to the letter then the code was typed incorrectly or is invalid.

'Eh? I'm sorry, but that password isn't valid here. Try sending it to one of the animals living in [player's town].'

Contest winner: There are two alternate dialogues for contest codes, one which mentions the sender's name and one which mentions the contest's name.

'I see, I see. A [item] has arrived for you from [sender's name]. Please take your present. Thank you much.'

'I see, I see. This [item] is the prize for winning [contest name]. Congratulations! Thank you much.'

Contest loser: This message is received after entering a losing contest code. Note that if the player attempts to reenter the code they may eventually 'win' the item.

'I see, I see... ...Now, this IS regrettable! Based on the notification I've received directly from [name]... it seems you are NOT a winner. But thank you much for trying!'

References[edit]

1. ↑'Animal Crossing: Special Delivery'. animal-crossing.com. Archived from the original on August 12, 2003. Retrieved October 22, 2020.

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