Making Custom villagers in Animal Crossing New Leaf Welcome Amiibo Tutorial

Slattz · Nov 28, 2018

I'm gonna be completely honest; There's so much wrong with the current state of this 'tutorial'.

Firstly, while OnionFS is technically fine, people generally now use Luma's LayeredFS for modding, as 1) NTR itself has tons of annoying issues, and 2) nearly everyone already has Luma CFW, so it's easier to make people use that.
Also while the whole point of this is to be 'easy', etc, you should really be linking to the tools required and not including them directly in the pack, especially without the creator's consent.

Secondly, I see you're including files from the game's romfs directly in your pack. This is illegal as they're the property of Nintendo, and are certainly not allowed here on gbatemp. A way to avoid this is directing the user through GodMode9 to dump the game's files themselves, or, even better, creating a GM9 script to automatically dump ACNL's files.

Thirdly, you can easily mod any version of ACNL, regardless of if Welcome Amiibo came pre-installed or not. The difference is you may need to dump some files from the update rather than the base game itself.
So the BOLD CAPS WARNING you have going on is really not accurate information at all.

Fourthly, there really isn't much info in this post at all in regards to making custom villagers, it all seems to be in your 'pack'. Which is fair enough, except (maybe this is just me) the info that is here is really hard to read, and generally all over the place. Some more attention to the formatting of the post would make it alot easier for people to follow, especially those not as 'technologically literate'.

Lastly, editing specifics about villagers such as initial clothes, birthday, coffee preference, etc, hasn't really been looked into by the community afaik, and so, isn't really possible atm. I assume "ConstPack.bin" or "Package.bin" are the files that contain this info, but seeing as they haven't really been looked into much, you'll need to do your own reverse engineering to actually achieve what you want to do.

Also, one thing to note: I hope you take all of this as constructive criticism and suggestions, I'm not trying to hate or anything like that. This can be a hard topic to try tackle, so, as a 'seasoned' ACNL Modder, I appreciate the effort.

If you have any questions about ACNL's romfs file structure or ACNL Modding in general, feel free to DM me on Discord.

Flame · Nov 28, 2018

ive removed the Attached File can you do a version with out them and tell people how to get them with your tutorial.

because the content you have is copyrighted material. sorry.

TheModHead · Nov 28, 2018

Slattz said:
I'm gonna be completely honest; There's so much wrong with the current state of this 'tutorial'.

Firstly, while OnionFS is technically fine, people generally now use Luma's LayeredFS for modding, as 1) NTR itself has tons of annoying issues, and 2) nearly everyone already has Luma CFW, so it's easier to make people use that.
Also while the whole point of this is to be 'easy', etc, you should really be linking to the tools required and not including them directly in the pack, especially without the creator's consent.

Secondly, I see you're including files from the game's romfs directly in your pack. This is illegal as they're the property of Nintendo, and are certainly not allowed here on gbatemp. A way to avoid this is directing the user through GodMode9 to dump the game's files themselves, or, even better, creating a GM9 script to automatically dump ACNL's files.

Thirdly, you can easily mod any version of ACNL, regardless of if Welcome Amiibo came pre-installed or not. The difference is you may need to dump some files from the update rather than the base game itself.
So the BOLD CAPS WARNING you have going on is really not accurate information at all.

Fourthly, there really isn't much info in this post at all in regards to making custom villagers, it all seems to be in your 'pack'. Which is fair enough, except (maybe this is just me) the info that is here is really hard to read, and generally all over the place. Some more attention to the formatting of the post would make it alot easier for people to follow, especially those not as 'technologically literate'.

Lastly, editing specifics about villagers such as initial clothes, birthday, coffee preference, etc, hasn't really been looked into by the community afaik, and so, isn't really possible atm. I assume "ConstPack.bin" or "Package.bin" are the files that contain this info, but seeing as they haven't really been looked into much, you'll need to do your own reverse engineering to actually achieve what you want to do.

Also, one thing to note: I hope you take all of this as constructive criticism and suggestions, I'm not trying to hate or anything like that. This can be a hard topic to try tackle, so, as a 'seasoned' ACNL Modder, I appreciate the effort.
If you have any questions about ACNL's romfs file structure or ACNL Modding in general, feel free to DM me on Discord.

Thank you for the feedback.
I am aware that LumaCFW has a built in game patcher, though I'm not exactly sure how to use it. The reason I'm using OnionFS is because when I was making my first custom villager (Patchs) thats what I found worked, though I am going to find a way to use Luma instead.
Also, the reason I said it only worked on the Welcome Amiibo version, and not the update is because I tried doing it on my original copy, though it ended up leading to a complete system crash, though thinking about it, that could have been a conflict between my other mod I was using.

Again thank you for the info, I am going to release a new version of the pack with better writting, and without the files from the romf, as I have no idea why I thought that was legal. (sorry if this was too professional, I'm not good at talking using computers and always over think things)

chaitea · Dec 20, 2018

VERY cool kanye!

EDIT: It's cool just to see anyone being active in the ACNL modding scene. I'd suggest a rewrite once you figure more out about Luma, there's already /sorta/ tuts out there for it but not on this site. Lookin forward to your future contributions to the site if you decide to make anymore!

TheModHead · Dec 22, 2018

chaitea said:
VERY cool kanye!

EDIT: It's cool just to see anyone being active in the ACNL modding scene. I'd suggest a rewrite once you figure more out about Luma, there's already /sorta/ tuts out there for it but not on this site. Lookin forward to your future contributions to the site if you decide to make anymore!

(sorry for the late response)
I've actually learned how to use Lumas patching function, though I haven't updated this to no longer have the download for OnionFS as I've been trying to document the way villagers work, and I've been trying to rewrite the tutorials to be more clear.
Oh yeah, if your interested theres a discord server for animal crossing new leaf modding. Heres the invite link: https://discord.gg/EZSxqRr
I occasionally go on it and either give modding tips that I learned the hard way, or ask questions in the rom-hacking channel.
I'm surprised not many people have looked into the villager side of New Leaf, as villagers have the most modding potential. For example, I' trying to find out how to change villager personalities and even how to add new ones, as it would be fun to release a mod that adds new villagers and personalities instead of just replacing old ones, as the game only has 8 personalities, meaning you could have 1 of each personality in your town (something I somehow accomplished) witch makes the game kinda dry after you've played for a long time.
Also, I'm planning on updating the tutorial soon, as I've learned how to change the villagers favorite saying, its stored in a file called "SYS_Motto.umbst" witch allowed me to finally change the saying of my custom villager to no longer be ironic, as they were missing an eye, and were replacing Bonbon, whos favorite saying is "Hindsight is always 20/20"
I have also learned to increase the name size of the villager, and (with the help of Slatz) I found out how to increase the size of the pictures item name without messing up the other items bellow it.
I have also discovered how to change the house model, though I haven't fully documented the file, and have discovered some values lead to a crash if changed to some values, and though that might seem bad, almost all my research on the file (ConstPack.bin) has been done by making the game crash, as that tells me that it has something to do with that part of the game, for example, some of the values in it crash amiibo camera if they are tempered with, but also make the villager show up as a different one in the cases it doesn't crash, but they are also in the original release, telling me they were merely re-purposed for amiibo camera.

But yeah, if your curious in getting into modding new leaf yourself, all you need to do is dump the cia file, download a hex editor and your ready to go, the only other thing you'd need is a modded 3DS so you can see what each change does

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