ACNL CUSTOM VILLAGER/NPC/NPC VILLAGER GUIDE 2025
PLEASE READ THROUGH EVERYTHING BEFORE ATTEMPTING!!!
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS WITH YOUR 3DS OR GAME!!!
PLEASE BACKUP YOUR FILES BEFORE ATTEMPTING!!!
Hi! I'm here to make a guide on how to make a custom villager/switch an npc to a villager in 2025, since there are not a lot of guides, and any guides out there are now old and obsolite
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (cartridge or digital)
Any Image Editing Software (i.e FireAlpaca, Gimp, Photoshop)
First things first- you're gonna need the romfs files of your game. The way to get them is through GM9 (GodMode9) The way to acsess GM9 is to turn on your 3DS, and as it boots up, hold down the START button.
Besides editing the sprites, this will be the LONGEST part out of this entire process. The romfs has EVERY SINGLE GAME ASSET, so youre basically dumping every single thing from the game onto your SD. For me, this took ALMOST 2 HOURS, so be ready!
Go to the file that has .3ds (NOT THE .trim.3ds)
Click NCSD image options…
Click Mount image to drive
Go down to romfs and hit Y to copy the romfs files
You can now paste the romfs files to any folder on your SD, but if you want to be organized, created a designated folder for your romfs on the root of your SD
To get to your SD, go back by hitting B until you get to the first page
Go to [0:] SDCARD and click on it, and you'll be in your SD card.
Find the folder you'd like to paste your romfs in
Open the folder and hit Y to paste the romfs, and now you wait
Hit the Home Menu button in GM9
Go down and click on Title manager
Find Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Go to Open title folder and click it
Click NCSD image options…
Click Mount image to drive
Go down to romfs and hit Y to copy the romfs files
You can now paste the romfs files to any folder on your SD, but if you want to be organized, created a designated folder for your romfs on the root of your SD
To get to your SD, go back by hitting B until you get to the first page
Go to [0:] SDCARD and click on it, and you'll be in your SD card.
Find the folder you'd like to paste your romfs in
Open the folder and hit Y to paste the romfs, and now you wait
When that is finished, power off your 3DS, eject your SD, and put it into your computer.
Move your romfs to your computer or a USB, that way you don't have them clogging your 3DS' SD and you have a backup of the vanilla files
To keep things organized, make a folder to copy any files you're going to edit to that folder.
romfs> Npc> Normal> Model
There you can find the .bcres files of every villager
romfs> Npc> Special> Model
There you can find the .bcres files of every NPC
Open Ohana3DS rebirth to open and view the .bcres files so you can find the villager or NPC you're looking for
Once you find them, copy them to your desiganted folder
If you want to edit a villagers name you'll need the STR_NNpc_name.umbst file
To find the file go to romfs> Script> Str and find the file, then copy it to your designated folder
If you want to edit your villager's icon go to
the file will look like brm_(villager id).bcres , FOR EXAMPLE brm_mus17.bcres
When making an NPC into a villager, you're going to have to find a villager to replace. FOR EXAMPLE I edited Sabel and replaced Penelope, so I renamed Sabel's file, hgc.bcres, to mus17.bcres
use this guide when it comes to editing the textures and renaming your villager [link]
Now that you have finished your character, heres how you'll put your files on your SD so they'll load into the game
Put your 3DS's SD card into your computer
on the root, located the luma folder
now go to luma> titles> and find Animal Crossing: New Leaf's title ID
0004000000198F00 for New Leaf
0004000000086300 for Welcome Amiibo
If there is no title ID folder for ACNL, make one
Inside the title ID folder make a romfs folder
In the romfs folder, make a folder for whatever files you edited, so if you edited an NPC, the script, and the NPC icon make 3 folders and name them: Item, Npc, Script
Lets start with Npc first, if you edited a villager or replacing a villager with an NPC, open the Npc folder, make a folder named Normal, open the Normal folder, and make a folder named Model, and in the Model folder put your .bcres file
So luma> title> (title ID)> romfs> Npc> Normal> Model
If you edited an NPC open the Npc folder, make a folder named Special, open the Special folder, and make a folder named Model, and in the Model folder put your .bcres file
So luma> title> (title ID)> romfs> Npc> Special> Model
Now with the script, open the Script folder, and in the Script folder, make a folder named Str, and in the Str folder is where you'll put the .umsbt file
So luma> title> (title ID)> Script> Str
Finally, the villager icon. In your Item folder, make a folder named Model, and in your Model folder, put in the .bcres file that is the villager's icon
So luma> title> (title ID)> Item> Model
Once you have finished that, put your SD back into your 3DS, turn on your console, boot up Animal Crossing, and your custom villager should be there waiting!!
germansingergirl
vaporwave
2087
