Welcome to Redbrook

My name is Zackarie and I play Animal Crossing: New Leaf! I am currently 19 years old. This blog is for chronicling my journey as the mayor of the town of Redbrook. This is a side blog, and so a public ask will get a reply from my main, xviditas.

[lullaboids]

[ezekiiell-deactivated20180615]

animal crossing new leaf is great, totally peaceful, my townsfolk are trying to sabotage the beauty of the town, arent donating to something they all wanted and are threatening to move town, yes totally peaceful

[strawberrycrosser-deactivated20]

pink home 🏡

[animelle]

spring can’t come fast enough 🙊🌸

[ruhesstadt]

walking around town

[mayorsuup]

[tealight-crossing]

Nintendo Ban Wave May 25 2017

You may suddenly find your console has been banned from connecting to online services. For more news, please go here:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/regarding-the-recent-3ds-banwave.471781/

[yesteria-blog]

people who do not hack are being affected as well! please be sure to turn off your wifi and limit wifi usage for the time being! 

[mayor-of-mysteria]

I don’t really understand how/why it would affect people who don’t hack? I don’t really understand it in the first place, actually. :/

[tealight-crossing]

Right now there are no confirmed reports of unhacked consoles being banned. Currently only CFW users have been banned, and the bans have been occurring all day throughout the day. If you have been banned but your console has never been hacked please let us know.

We think how the consoles are identified as having CFW is likely through SpotPass or another online (wirelessly connected) identifier *but there is only speculation at this point* as to how the consoles are being identified.

You are best to avoid using SpotPass or any online services if you have CFW, but this is not guaranteed to save your console from being banned. Your console could and may have been flagged already and your console may be marked for a ban that hasn’t been initiated yet so don’t be surprised if you find your console banned later even if you tried avoiding using wireless or any online services.

The only things banned right now are Miiverse, Friendslist, and any wireless multiplayer (local play still works) and global play services. Internet browser and eShop still work. This may change in the future, however.

[tealight-crossing]

For people who are confused as to what is covered by the ban,

Some random comments I have seen that need to be cleared up: If you have homebrew, that is hacking. You have a hacked system. You will likely be banned. Homebrew is not different from hacking. Homebrew, CFW, these are the same thing and both are obtained through hacking. Hacking violates your user agreement with Nintendo. Your console can be legally banned at any time. If you took items or a villager from someone who hacks, but you do not yourself hack or own a hacked system, you are not in any danger. This only applies to people who have physically modified their actual consoles themselves, people who actively hack, and does not apply to in-game items. It applies to the consoles that were used to actually perform the hacks.

[mayor-of-mysteria]

Thank you for being so helpful!

[tealight-crossing]

Doing my best! <3 Here’s another update on what we know so far: What could be risky to do, and may trigger bans:

- Running any game ROM backups, including your own game backups - Installing and running any kind of CIA’s - making a ROM backup from a game cartridge and installing it to NAND - installing homebrew to the home menu - running homebrew from the home menu - using the other shop or any ticket/titlekey managers - going on the eShop with homebrew installed to your home menu - leaving SpotPass on, or leaving Friend List “show friends what you’re playing” on - using unofficial or pirated themes in CIA format (themes installed “raw” through Themely or similar should be fine)

What we know so far about the bans: People are getting banned. and it is by the use of data, sent from your console to Nintendo. We do not presently know how Nintendo determines which consoles to ban. They can look at any data sent from your 3DS, to or through their servers.

What we think the cause may be: Friend services sends Nintendo your currently playing title, if you don’t disable this in the Friend List settings. If this includes a custom, homebrew or invalid title (not officially released by Nintendo) it triggers a ban. SpotPass also periodically sends Nintendo “system information”, including all installed titles, including homebrew, and the other shop, unless you opt out of system information sending, in the Spotpass settings in Internet Settings. eShop, the home menu theme shop, and embedded/DLC eShop applet (collectively, eCommerce Services), may be reporting title information to Nintendo servers.

What we think aren’t related at all: Fire Emblem Echoes; Pokemon; in-game cheating; save editing; pokemon genning; any specific game in general. What we’re certain shouldn’t be triggering bans: sighax, boot9strap, arm9loaderhax; upgrading to boot9strap; running homebrew from an entrypoint in an official app, applet or game (e.g., browserhax, menuhax, ninjhax); .3dsx homebrew applications themselves, running from a homebrew entrypoint.

What data is being transferred?

- Friends list data, presence information, Favorite Title information, Now Playing information, game/battle join information. This includes your currently running title. - Matchmaking data for all games. This includes your current playing game, ranking and player information, DLC owned, and so forth. - SpotPass (BOSS) service subscription data. This includes all titles you have installed, which have SpotPass enabled. - StreetPass service beacon and user data. This includes all titles you have installed, which have StreetPass enabled. - eShop, DLC/eShop Applet, and Theme Shop, when launched, may send a list of installed titles and themes to Nintendo. - When the system checks for an update, it retrieves a list of title versions. This request should not have user-sensitive data.

FAQ:

Q: What regions are affected by the banwave? A: All.

Q: What firmwares are affected by the banwave? A: All. Only the latest one will allow you to connect online, though, so that’s moot.

Q: What CFW/Luma versions/bootstraps are affected by the banwave? A: All.

Q: What 3DS models are affected by the banwave (only if system has been modified)? A: All.

Q: What homebrew methods are affected by the banwave? A: All.

Q: I got banned after upgrading to b9s, is it causing the bans? A: A9LH and B9S alone are not the reasons you are being banned. Both those and other CFW are susceptible to banning.

Q: Is the ban wave over? Will it end? WHEN WILL IT END?!?!?!?!?!? A: “Never.“

Q: Will there be a solution for consoles that are already banned? A: No. It is a permanent ban.

Q: How do I know if I’m banned? A: Go online, open Friends List. If you get an Error 002-0102, you are banned.

Q: Will doing this ban me? A: It shouldn’t, if you only open Friends List and nothing else, and be sure to have read the information on How To Avoid The Ban.

Q: Can I still play online with my SpotPass or Friend List info sharing disabled? A: Yes.

Q: Is my NNID banned or affected on other consoles? A: No. Your NNID will continue to work, and Miiverse and eShop will work as expected.

Q: What can I still do online while I’m banned? A: Use the Internet Browser, buy things on the eShop, access Miiverse (not post?), use homebrew with internet connectivity, and use local multiplayer.

Q: Ban “waves”? How many ban waves have there been, or will there be? Will there be more? A: The concept of a ban wave is misleading. Nintendo is likely logging information sent from your 3DS system to their servers, which is invalid (for instance, currently playing a homebrew title in Friends List.) When they see your information is invalid, it will flag your account for review. At an irregular interval, these flags will become bans permanently.

Q: My 3DS was in sleep mode. Can I still be banned? A: YES. It seems to be banning with SpotPass data, which is sent while your 3DS is asleep. Read the other pins for information on how to avoid bans.

Q: Is this a server/NNID ban or a console ban? A: Console ban. It affects your console-specific data. This data is not spoofable, and must come from a legitimate 3DS.

[tealight-crossing]

I will just keep updating as necessary; Re: Powersaves Using Powersaves is not affected by this, this is specifically for modified consoles. Using Powersaves does not require a hardware or software modification of the 3DS, and is in fact its own hardware that Nintendo doesn’t have access to trace. What Nintendo is after is actual 3DS consoles where the console *itself* has been modded to allow activity outside of Nintendo’s original intent.

[rosey-crossing]

This is so so important! Please follow these tips guys! Be safe:3

[bobthebobking]

anyone else have that one villager that lived in your very first animal crossing town and you just love them unconditionally

[heartballoon-moved]

early morning campfire ☆

[kriscantspeakgerman]

Concepts for an Animal Crossing library (more detailed explanations in reddit post). 

[delia-song]

3DS Update: If you plan to convert to CFW, do not update to 11.3

I just found out that Nintendo released a new 3DS update, 11.3, SO IF YOU PLAN ON DOING ANY CFW MODDING OF YOUR 3DS DO NOT UPDATE PAST 11.2.0-xx OR YOU WILL BE SCREWED FOR CFW. You will NOT be able to downgrade until an exploit for the new update is found. THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO SOUNDHAX. If you are using Soundhax to do ACNL edits, or other game edits, you may still do so. THIS IS FOR PEOPLE LOOKING TO MOVE THEIR 3DS TO CFW. DO NOT UPDATE IF YOU PLAN TO DO SO. If your 3DS is already fully on CFW, you are fine. If you don’t know what CFW is, don’t worry, this post is not for you. But feel free to google. <3

[mayor-aby-blog]

Actually don’t update if you are using soundhax, I was and it doesn’t work for me anymore!

[remade9876543456789-deactivated]

if you have followed this entire guide: https://3ds.guide/ you can update since you have a9lh and luma. i updated after i finished the guide with no problem at all, still got everything

[delia-song]

attackchance: You are talking about updating AFTER a CFW mod, which yes, if it is ALREADY installed than yes you can update “no problem at all”.

This is for people who have NOT yet moved over to CFW and your response makes it sound like those people are okay to update to 11.3 and THEN convert to CFW and that is untrue. Please don’t tell people it is “okay to update” when it is not if they haven’t yet CFW’d.

Please make sure to read, guys.

And since everyone keeps reblogging the godforsaken OP that doesn’t have my edit about Soundhax, AGAIN, Soundhax is also NOT working on 11.3 at this time.

[edencrossingofficial]

☁ Safe Haven is a magical and peaceful place full of love, trust, safety and happiness. In this little village, there is no harm, force, conflicts, hate, or anything like that. Recover yourself by walking through the beauty of nature and forget your worries for a while. You are safe here. Meet the friendly and understanding villagers and enjoy the harmonic atmosphere. ☁

Current dream address can be found on my blog! Tag me if you post pictures about your visit in Safe Haven or use #acnl safe haven so I can see & reblog them ♥

[lavnomori]

SOUNDHAX HAS BEEN RELEASED!

What is soundhax? Soundhax is the first method of launching homebrew that is “free, offline, and works on every version of the firmware for which the sound app is available.” (the soundhax repo on github)

For everyone who could not previously afford hax exploits such as oothax, ninjhax, freakyhax, this is for you! Set-up is incredibly easy as well, no more complicated steps or QR codes to scan! It even works on the current firmware, 11.2.0.35!

If you’re interested in setting it up, you can visit the github repo I linked above or follow the same instructions that I used to test this. Old homebrew users might need to update the boot.3dsx file on their SD card, it would only work for me after having done so. Make sure to download it while downloading the otherapp file!

  →  If you run into any issues, make sure to notify nedwill first!

[jinglefruit]

Yo! Free “game-less” Homebrew access for everyone again!

As this is a standard home menu icon, this very likely can be back-patched the same way previous free hacks were taken down. So If you don’t want to lose homebrew access make sure your wi-fi is turned off. [details in tags]

[zackiecrossing]

#so previously i would have said. turn wi-fi off on mondays and check after maintenance if it's safe to turn wi-fi back on #as nintendo have since ~10.2 made it so even if you don't update it still blocked access to some things #but the last set of patching they tipped this further by patching the exploit in 11.0 but it still allowed access. faking people out into up #*updating. which is why so many were affected when 11.1 blocked access  last time. #i imagine further checks may have already been implimented to get around this further which could spell doom for most 11.0+ consoles #but hopefully as this is a new entrypoint that so far as i know wasn't tipped off at ay point this could have got under the radar #but basically only use this with wi-fi on if you're below 11.0 and better still below 10.2. otherwise make sure you're prepared for a patch #every single monday evening. cause that's the risk you run. so don't leave your towns half finished! don't risk the p a t c h e n i n g! d: #:p #guide

(tags via @jinglefruit)

[chibikaizoku]

an underwater animal crossing where you play as a mermaid/man who makes gardens out of coral and anemones and make friends with fish and octopus aND SHARKS

[mindcrossing]

I’m sorry it’s rushed but-

coral trees, cave houses, and SEAL VILLAGERS

[chibikaizoku]

YOOOOOOOOOO

[animalcrossinggurrl]

Animal Crossing: Water World

[mayorchibi]

YASSSSS @ NINTENDO DO THIS NOW

[okmayor]

apricot💐🍊🌻🌿 5E00-0014-584D

[jinglefruit]

Don’t let this happen America! Please!

[jinglefruit]

Previously in history, war mongering, building walls and hate speech have been seen as some of the worst sides of humanity, associated with ill-times and bad leaders. I’d recommend doing a little research into historic leaders before voting for someone who wants to remove rights and restrict peoples lifestyle choices. Humanity is not one size fits all, and it’s selfish to attempt to make a country of ~320 million people follow the same rules on abortion, or conversion therapy, or deporting indiscriminately and tearing apart families. These are things people should be able to decide for their own situation, for what they want in their life, even if it’s not what you’d want in your life, people can want and need different things. Trying to make this a blanket courtroom decision for everyone is folly.

[jinglefruit]

If you’re still not sure on whether you should support her, a vote for Hillary is a vote against Trump. There are no other options, a protest vote is a vote worth 0 each side, while a vote for Hillary is effectively a -1 for Trump. We’ve already seen a lack of young voters lead to Brexit, don’t let it lead to Trump too!

[jinglefruit]

And it’s beyond too late for a third party to have a ghost of a chance. Don’t take your one chance to prevent a potential dictatorship and waste it.