It's been a very very veryyyyy long time since I've played with other people on New Leaf since online play came back online with Pretendo. The online servers for Pretendo were taken offline for a while due to an exploit that they were fixing and then the servers came back online for New Leaf around … Continue reading My First AC:NL Wi-Fi Session of 2026; Strolling Through Walnut!
HawkinsDream Address: 9387-3305-7975Date of Visit: 30th December 2025 With Stranger Things coming to an end with the season 5 finale finishing today I thought I'd celebrate by visiting a Stranger Things related Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. This island was created by Sou (@byler-going-crazy-together) on Tumblr.Here's what Sou said on their post whilst sharing their … Continue reading The Dreamy Island of Hawkins: When Stranger Things Meets Animal Crossing
I have finally started my modding journey for Animal Crossing: New Leaf after dreaming about creating mods for the game for years. I thought I'd write a brief tutorial on how to install my mods just so that if anything changes in the future I can always edit this tutorial as I won't be able … Continue reading How to Install My Mods for Animal Crossing: New Leaf
SaffronDream Address: 5365-3237-1618Date of Visit: 13th December 2025 It's been a while since I've last toured someone's island via AC:NH's dream suite feature so I thought I'd check out the dreamy island of Saffron created by TiredMushroom, the co-owner of a Discord server that I'm in! TiredMushroom is a talented creator that uploads long-play styled … Continue reading The Dreamy Island of Saffron
So Nintendo randomly dropped a new trailer in relation to Animal Crossing: New Horizons announcing a Switch 2 version and a new free update that includes a lot of new content which will be releasing in January of 2026. There was a lot of new things shown in the trailer so I wanted to document … Continue reading My Thoughts on The Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 Update Trailer
I absolutely love media from Japan, whether it's video games, anime, music— and whatnot. Some of my hobbies nowadays includes purchasing goods using a proxy to buy stuff directly from Japan. I mostly purchase anime figures but for my latest haul I decided to purchase some of the Animal Crossing: New Leaf magazines I've seen … Continue reading Melodic Town Tunes From a Japanese PikoPuri Magazine!
At the end of May 2025, the fan-made project Pretendo finally announced that online play for Animal Crossing: New Leaf would be open for the public! Although not all of the online play features are currently available, a large majority of it's features are finally back including Club Tortimer, the best friend feature and visiting … Continue reading The Kingdom of Serenity Opens it’s Gates For The First Time
I've been asked a few times now if I'm playing AC:NL on an emulator and how I get beautiful HD graphics in game but I'm actually playing the game on my Nintendo consoles! I upscale my photos using a website tool that gets rid of the pixels and makes my images in high quality so … Continue reading How to Get High Quality Screenshots for Animal Crossing: New Leaf
I noticed whilst working on Meadow that Mayor Kiki only had a couple of fish missing from the encyclopaedia so I decided to dive straight into trying to catch them! I was missing the king salmon, soft-shelled turtle, blowfish, saddled bichir and mitten crab. I time travelled to September 2024 after I knew none of … Continue reading Lots of Bug & Fish Catching in Meadow
It's been a while since I've played in my winter/Christmas town of SnowBelle so I decided to spend about a few hours of my time playing in SnowBelle as a "mini break" from working on Serenity. Bianca moved in sometime whilst I was taking a break from SnowBelle to work on Serenity, she was an … Continue reading SnowBelle: A New Resident, New Town Flag/Tune & House Renovations
