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Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing's NES emulator

2018191 points13 comments Games & Graphics details

While looking for ways to activate the developer menus left over in Animal Crossing, including the NES emulator game selection menu, I found an interesting feature that exists in the original game that was always active, but never used by Nintendo. In addition to the NES/Famicom games that can be obtained in-game, it…

Reverse engineering Animal Crossing's developer mode

2018180 points20 comments Games & Graphics details

Last summer I began reverse engineering Animal Crossing for the GameCube to explore the possibility of creating mods for the game. I also wanted to document the process to create tutorials for people interested in ROM hacking and reverse engineering. In this post I explore the developer debugging features that are…