The "secret code" system in the original Animal Crossing is both super cool, but also somewhat painful to use. Luckily, players can now generate their own codes themselves through the work of some pretty fascinating reverse engineering.

— Corrections —
• There are 64 possible characters the game pulls from to make the password, but I’m ommitting ‘#’ and ‘%’ in the shown graphic at 02:23. You would think this makes 66 characters, but it turns out ‘0’ and ‘1’ are translated to ‘O’ and ‘l’ by the game internally. This means only ‘l’ and ‘I’ are responsible for incorrect character confusion.

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Animal Crossing's decompilation project:
https://github.com/Prakxo/acdecomp

Cuyler/Nookipedia's secret code generator:
https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Secret_co...

This video was recorded with an HD community texture pack for the game ran through Dolphin emulator. You can find info about this highly detailed, customdrawn pack here:
https://forums.dolphinemu.org/Thread...

Music credits:
• Animal Crossing (Winter) Mario Kart 8:
   • Animal Crossing (Winter) Mario Kart ...  
• Timed Minigame Animal Crossing New Horizons:
   • Video  
• K.K. Cruisin' Jazz Remix:
   • KK Cruisin Jazz Remix  Animal Crossing  
• 12 P.M. Animal Crossing New Horizons (Smooth Jazz Remix):
   • Animal Crossing: New Horizons  12pm ...  
• Working at the Roost Animal Crossing New Leaf:
   • Working at the Roost  Animal Crossin...  

Assets and other information were pulled from the Animal Crossing GameCube community megasheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:48 History of Secret Codes
0:04:01 The Game's Code Encryption
0:08:54 Conclusion
0:09:20 Channel Announcements

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