ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf Save Editor

[S4muel]

Well, I used the 'Grassifier' tool by mistake and it has ruined my town. How can I get the grass back to normal again?

 

[a0256]

Hello, I'm incredibly new to this (downloaded Homebrew and the save editor just today) and I'm having an issue I'm hoping someone can help me with. When I go to run the save editor from Homebrew, all I get is a screen saying "Missing Target Title" and "The application you are trying to run requested a specific target title. Please make sure you have that title!" All I have is the option to press B to go back to the menu. I have a 3DS XL at version 11.0, and the ACNL game is in the 3DS when I go to run the save editor. Did I install something wrong, or is it a version issue maybe? Or something else entirely?

Thanks in advance for any help!

I had the same problem and was never able to figure it out. I started using SVDT. When you open homebrew just scroll down until you get to it and press A. It should automatically generate the garden.dat file for you an place it in your SD card (as I assume this is a default setting). When you open your SD card you'll find a new file in your root called svdt -> animal crossing new leaf -> a file with a bunch of numbers -> garden.dat (well at least that is how it was for me). Once I edit my garden.dat with the editor I drop the new garden.dat in the root of my sd card (making sure there isn't another copy there from a previous edit). I then open homebrew again, scroll down to svdt and open it. The SD card is on the right column and I just scroll down to find the garden.dat file and press y and then press select. This overwrites the old garden.dat file with your edited one. Hope this makes sense...I'm relatively new to this as well.

Well, I used the 'Grassifier' tool by mistake and it has ruined my town. How can I get the grass back to normal again?

If you mean "ruin" as in it made everything look too green everywhere...when you load the next day everything looks normal again and any worn patches should be restored. At least this was my experience with the 1.1 version.

 

[Something whatever]

Going to update it wheb the Amiibo update comes out?

 

[BlueLeafeon]

So I've been reading through this topic, and I haven't quite figured out a solid answer yet. On one hand, several sources say that ram editors won't work after a certain version number...

I just installed homebrew on my 3DS version 11.0.0-33. Not the full homebrew, but enough of it to edit save files and stuff. Can I still use this tool? And the one thing everything seems to agree on is that it cannot be used on New 3DS's, right?

 

[iepuras]

So I've been reading through this topic, and I haven't quite figured out a solid answer yet. On one hand, several sources say that ram editors won't work after a certain version number...

I just installed homebrew on my 3DS version 11.0.0-33. Not the full homebrew, but enough of it to edit save files and stuff. Can I still use this tool? And the one thing everything seems to agree on is that it cannot be used on New 3DS's, right?

I'm confused - do you mean you installed Homebrew, but not any form of custom firmware? either way - if you are able to dump your save, then you are able to edit the save with this editor

 

[BlueLeafeon]

I'm confused - do you mean you installed Homebrew, but not any form of custom firmware? either way - if you are able to dump your save, then you are able to edit the save with this editor

Yeah, basically. I didn't downgrade my version or anything.

All right, thanks! I stopped playing this game ages ago because my perfectionism and the game's mechanics ruined everything. With this tool, I might be able to satisfy my perfectionism and play the game again. (And then use Action Replay to make backups in case some jerk decides to move out of my town. :| )

 

[iepuras]

Yeah, basically. I didn't downgrade my version or anything.

All right, thanks! I stopped playing this game ages ago because my perfectionism and the game's mechanics ruined everything. With this tool, I might be able to satisfy my perfectionism and play the game again. (And then use Action Replay to make backups in case some jerk decides to move out of my town. :| )

I feel you - Animal Crossing can be cruel like that. with this tool you can "unbox" villagers on the day they are in boxes to prevent them from moving away, though. they will never leave you again

 

[BlueLeafeon]

I feel you - Animal Crossing can be cruel like that. with this tool you can "unbox" villagers on the day they are in boxes to prevent them from moving away, though. they will never leave you again

From what I heard, New Leaf is worse than the ones before.

And REALLY?! Oh my gosh that is freaking awesome!! That is the single most epic thing I've heard all day. Now to get a physical copy of the game since my last one was a digital copy on my old 3DS.

 

[Ster2068675]

Hello everyone, i was hoping that some of you could help me out. I have Hombrew (Browserhax and Menuhax) and an o3dsXL with FW 11.0.33-U. I've been able to use the save data manager to get a back-up, but (up to this point) when i look in the file, i have 3 different garden.dat, and even when i find the most recent one, edit it and import it, when i load up the game, nothing has changed! At this point I'm just happy i haven't corrupted anything, but i still don't know what to do! please help me if you have any information

 

[EmmBee]

Now to get a physical copy of the game since my last one was a digital copy on my old 3DS.

I don't know why people keep saying you can't hack on a New 3DS. Must be from old info, cause I can hack on mine just fine. Also, you can hack a digital copy same as a cart (unless you're using Powersaves). I have both, and hack both towns, though you have to be careful you know which town you're dumping and injecting to, so you don't mix them up. One advantage to a cart is you can use a hackable DS to dump and inject if your main one can't be hacked due to an update.

Also, Nintendo just announced they're dropping the price for ACNL from 29.99 to 19.99 at the end of August, so might be a good idea to wait to pick up another copy.

 

[Deleted User]

I don't know why people keep saying you can't hack on a New 3DS. Must be from old info, cause I can hack on mine just fine. Also, you can hack a digital copy same as a cart (unless you're using Powersaves). I have both, and hack both towns, though you have to be careful you know which town you're dumping and injecting to, so you don't mix them up. One advantage to a cart is you can use a hackable DS to dump and inject if your main one can't be hacked due to an update.

Also, Nintendo just announced they're dropping the price for ACNL from 29.99 to 19.99 at the end of August, so might be a good idea to wait to pick up another copy.

The only reason they're saying that you can't hack the N3DS is because the N3DS can't use LeafTools... Which requires the O3DS's browser. There are better options now but if I'm not mistaken their was a way to install the Old 3DS's browser upon a N3DS

 

[Era]

From what I heard, New Leaf is worse than the ones before.

And REALLY?! Oh my gosh that is freaking awesome!! That is the single most epic thing I've heard all day. Now to get a physical copy of the game since my last one was a digital copy on my old 3DS.

I actually have a digital copy and a physical. It works the same for both

 

[ConcernedHannah]

That worked, thank so much!

 

[BlueLeafeon]

I actually have a digital copy and a physical. It works the same for both

My digital copy is on the 3DS that isn't hacked. Good to know, though!

 

[BlueLeafeon]

Okay, so I managed to get homebrew onto the 3DS that has NL on it, used the jk-somethingthatIcan'tremember app to extract my save data, but the save editor won't load my garden.dat. Did I do something wrong? Is there a newer version of this program that's not in the original post? The OP says that ram editing can't be done on 11.0.0 but other posts in this topic seem to imply that you can use the save editor. I'm not sure which to believe.

 

[Era]

Okay, so I managed to get homebrew onto the 3DS that has NL on it, used the jk-somethingthatIcan'tremember app to extract my save data, but the save editor won't load my garden.dat. Did I do something wrong? Is there a newer version of this program that's not in the original post? The OP says that ram editing can't be done on 11.0.0 but other posts in this topic seem to imply that you can use the save editor. I'm not sure which to believe.

Are you using the web NLSE or the offline one?

 

[BlueLeafeon]

Are you using the web NLSE or the offline one?

Offline one. I found a link to it somewhere. I thought it was in the first post but I guess not. Must have found it in another topic, or somewhere in this one.

Ah yes, found it in this thread.

For the reference, when I drag the garden.dat onto the .exe, it loads with all the buttons grayed out and says "Drag a file/folder to begin."

 

[EmmBee]

The OP says that ram editing can't be done on 11.0.0 but other posts in this topic seem to imply that you can use the save editor. I'm not sure which to believe.

If you can get your garden.dat from the game, then you should be able to hack it. I hack all the time, and I'm on version 11. People just forget to update the list of working firmware when an update comes out.

There are two different save editors, made by two different people. They get confused a lot, since they have similar names. This thread is for the web browser based "AC:NL Save Editor" by marc_max which is located on his site. The other editor is a downloadable program known as "NLSE" by Kaphotics and is located on Github. I prefer Marc's editor because I had some issues with NLSE. I seem to recall having the same problem you did, and I think I solved it by putting my garden.dat into a folder, then dragging the folder instead of the file.

 

[BlueLeafeon]

If you can get your garden.dat from the game, then you should be able to hack it. I hack all the time, and I'm on version 11. People just forget to update the list of working firmware when an update comes out.

There are two different save editors, made by two different people. They get confused a lot, since they have similar names. This thread is for the web browser based "AC:NL Save Editor" by marc_max which is located on his site. The other editor is a downloadable program known as "NLSE" by Kaphotics and is located on Github. I prefer Marc's editor because I had some issues with NLSE. I seem to recall having the same problem you did, and I think I solved it by putting my garden.dat into a folder, then dragging the folder instead of the file.

Okay, thanks. I was under the impression that the website variant didn't work. Looks like it does.

I couldn't get NLSE to load even by putting the garden.dat into a folder, so meh. I got the website variant to load, but can it reset villagers? If I boot up my game right now, Kid Cat will move out. It's why I haven't touched the game in AGES. (And I don't remember the last time I booted it up before he moved.)

 

[iepuras]

Okay, thanks. I was under the impression that the website variant didn't work. Looks like it does.

I couldn't get NLSE to load even by putting the garden.dat into a folder, so meh. I got the website variant to load, but can it reset villagers? If I boot up my game right now, Kid Cat will move out. It's why I haven't touched the game in AGES. (And I don't remember the last time I booted it up before he moved.)

if you load your save with marcs editor then it is possible to reset all your villagers. including boxed ones - just select the correct villager-option in the drop-down menu