Animal Crossing New Leaf hints tips and cheats... - 3DS

How to Duplicate Anything

The Duplication Glitch is both a powerful and dangerous tool. If done properly, you can duplicate any item in the game. If done wrong, the item could be deleted forever. For a more safe approach to getting as many Bells as possible, look into Beetle hunting or even time travel.
The first thing you have to do is go to a friend's town with the item you want duplicated. It appears that you can either be connected locally or through the Internet, both work.

Once off the train in your friend's town, go outside and drop the item on the ground. Once the item is out of your hands, have your friend press Start and choose "End your multiplayer session."

This will start to kick you out, so get ready. The game will show that you are leaving, then the save screen will pop up. There is a small icon in the lower right corner during the save screen depicting a circle. It will "rotate," starting at the top of the circle. Let the circle rotate once, then hit the wireless switch on the side of your 3DS. It's a small window to hit, so if you are too fast or slow, you risk not having the glitch work correctly.

Once the switch has been hit, you should get a Resetti screen. Now, after that, you will show up back in your town. If the glitch worked, you should now have the item in your bag as well as the original item still on the ground in your friend's town. 

Secret Photo Filters

When having your TPC photo taken in the photo booth, holding down either shoulder button will apply a special filter to your photograph!

• Left L Button - Black and white
• Neither - Color
• Right R Button - Sepia tone

Museum Shop Items

If you already have the second floor in the museum unlocked, new items will be available for sale in the museum gift shop after making a certain number of donations to the museum. Donate each of the following to unlock these items for sale.

• Dig-Site Floor - Donate 30 fossils
• Dig-Site Wall - Donate all fossils
• Jungle Floor - Donate at 50 insects
• Jungle Wall - Donate all insects
• Museum Model - Complete the museum
• Paintball Floor - Donate 20 works of art
• Paintball Wall - Donate all works of art
• Silver Net - Donate at 30 insects
• Silver Rod - Donate 30 fish
• Silver Shovel - Donate 15 fossils
• Underwater Floor - Donate 50 fish
• Underwater Wall - Donate all fish

Nookling store upgrades

• Super T&T - T&T Mart must have been open for 10 days, and you must have spent 25,000 bells there. Also the Gardening Store must have been open for 10 days.
• T&T Emporium - You must have spent 100,000 bells at T.I.Y and completed 4 Gracie Fashion Checks at Satisfactory level, and T.I.Y must have been open for 30 days.
• T&T Mart - 10 days after your town is open and the you have spent at least 12,000 bells in Nookling Junction. Also, you must have moved out of a tent.
• T.I.Y - You must have spent 50,000 bells at Super T&T and it must have been open for 21 days.

HHA Prizes

Prizes are dependent on which mode you are playing under. Prizes for the theme challenge cannot be earned while under the standard mode and vice-versa. Speak to Lyle about changing to and from the theme challenge.

• Arched Golden Door - Get a score 700,000 (theme challenge)
• Gold HHA Plaque - Get a score of 70,000
• Gold HHA Trophy - Get a score 100,000
• Gold House Model - Get a score 150,000
• Golden Exterior - Get a score 500,000 (theme challenge)
• Golden Fence - Get a score 900,000 (theme challenge)
• Golden Mailbox - Get a score 1,100,000 (theme challenge)
• Golden Roof - Get a score 300,000 (theme challenge)
• HHA Jacket - Get a score 30,000
• HHA Pennant - Get a score of 20,000
• HHA tee - Get a score of 10,000
• Silver HHA - Plaque Get a score of 50,000
• Silver HHA - Trophy Get a score of 90,000

Fortune Cookie Prizes

Buy purchasing a Fortune Cookie from any of the Timmy and Tommy-owned stores, you can trade in a Lucky Ticket for any of the prizes below.

• 1-Up Mushroom Fortune - Cookie #24
• ? Block Fortune - Cookie #25
• Arwing Fortune - Cookie #36
• Bad Bro's Stache Fortune - Cookie #44
• Big Bro's Mustache Fortune - Cookie #45
• Bill Blaster Fortune - Cookie #28
• Block Fortune - Cookie #17
• Block Floor Fortune - Cookie #02
• Blue Falcon Fortune - Cookie #34
• Blue Pikmin Fortune - Cookie #14
• Coin Fortune - Cookie #18
• Fi Mask Fortune - Cookie #50
• Fire Bar Fortune - Cookie #27
• Fire Flower Fortune - Cookie #20
• Goal Pole Fortune - Cookie #19
• Green Shell Fortune - Cookie #22
• Hero's Boots Fortune - Cookie #49
• Hero's Cap Fortune - Cookie #08
• Hero's Clothes Fortune - Cookie #03
• Hero's Pants Fortune - Cookie #05
• Kart Fortune - Cookie #32
• Majora's Mask Fortune - Cookie #09
• Master Sword Fortune - Cookie #35
• Metroid Fortune - Cookie #47
• Midna's Mask Fortune - Cookie #11
• Mushroom Mural Fortune - Cookie #01
• Peach's Parasol Fortune - Cookie #07
• Pikmin Fortune - Cookie #33
• Pipe Fortune - Cookie #26
• Random Item Fortune - Cookie #38
• Random Item Fortune - Cookie #04
• Random Item Fortune - Cookie #06
• Random Item Fortune - Cookie #30
• Random Item Fortune - Cookie #16
• Red Pikmin Fortune - Cookie #13
• S.S. Dolphin Fortune - Cookie #39
• Samus Mask Fortune - Cookie #10
• Super Mushroom Fortune - Cookie #21
• Super Star Fortune - Cookie #23
• Toad Hat Fortune - Cookie #12
• Triforce Fortune - Cookie #37
• Triple Bananas Fortune - Cookie #48
• Triple Red Shells Fortune - Cookie #31
• Varia Suit Fortune - Cookie #46
• Varia Suit Pants Fortune - Cookie #42
• Varia Suit Shoes Fortune - Cookie #43
• Virtual Boy Fortune - Cookie #40
• Wii Balance Board Fortune - Cookie #41
• Yellow Pikmin Fortune - Cookie #15
• Yoshi's Egg Fortune - Cookie #29

Silver & Golden Tools

These are tools in the game that you unlock.

• Golden Axe - Talk to Leif the sloth after purchasing at least 50 tree saplings from the gardening shop.
• Golden Fishing Rod - Talk to the fishing tournament host after catching every fish in the game.
• Golden Net - Talk to the bug catching tournament host after catching every bug in the game.
• Golden Shovel - Talk to Leif the sloth after purchasing at least 50 fertilizers from the gardening shop.
• Golden Slingshot - Shoot down the present with 3 gold balloons attached to it.
• Golden Watering Can - Talk to Isabelle after maintaining 15 days of perfect environmental conditions.
• Silver Axe - Purchase from the island shop for 8 medals.
• Silver Fishing Rod - Purchase from the museum's second floor extension after donating at least 30 fish.
• Silver Net - Purchase from the museum's second floor extension after donating at least 30 bugs.
• Silver Shovel - Purchase from the museum's second floor extension after donating at least 15 fossils.
• Silver Slingshot - Shoot down the present with 2 silver balloons attached to it.
• Silver Watering Can - Talk to Leif the sloth after purchasing at least 50 flower seeds from the gardening shop.

Badges

Occasionally, when you complete certain requirements, Phineas will arrive in your town to give you a badge for accomplishments in the game. These accomplishments range from the amount of Bells saved, to how often you catch bugs, fish and sea life. Badges appear as a section of your town ID card.

• Amateur Turnip Trader - Earn 500,000 Bells worth of profit in Joan's turnip trade.
• Avid Bell Saver - Deposit 1,000,000 or more Bells into your savings account.
• Backyard Gardener - Plant over 100 trees and flowers from the state of seeds or sapplings.
• Balloon Buster - Shoot down 100 or more balloons.
• Balloon Hunter - Shoot down 30 or more balloons.
• Balloon Master - Shoot down 200 or more balloons.
• Bronze Medalist - Earn 300 or more medals from the tropical island's tour games.
• Catalog Maniac Bronze - Unlock 20% of Timmy & Tommy's shop catalog.
• Catalog Maniac Gold - Unlock 80% of Timmy & Tommy's shop catalog.
• Catalog Maniac Silver - Unlock 50% of Timmy & Tommy's shop catalog.
• Dive Master - Catch 1,000 or more sea creatures.
• Dreamer - Visit Dream Suite 50 times or more.
• Expert Angler - Catch 2,000 or more fish.
• Expert Bug Catcher - Catch 2,000 or more insects.
• Expert Shopper - Purchase 2 million Bells worth of items at Timmy & Tommy's, Leif's gardening store, Abel Sisters, Kicks, GracieGrace, Redd's, or the Museum gift shop.
• Fish Encyclopedia - Catch 80% or more of the fish specimens.
• Fish Maniac - Catch 50% or more of the fish specimens.
• Gardening Specialist - Plant over 500 trees from the state of seeds or sapplings.
• Gold Medalist - Earn 5,000 or more medals from the tropical island's tour games.
• Good Host/Hostess - Invite more than 50 other players to visit your town.
• Good Samaritan - Help your neighbours by performing 50 favours for them.
• Good Shopper - Purchase 500,000 Bells worth of items at Timmy & Tommy's, Leif's gardening store, Abel Sisters, Kicks, GracieGrace, Redd's, or the Museum gift shop.
• Goodwill Ambassador - Invite more than 500 other players to visit your town.
• Great Host/Hostess - Invite more than 200 other players to visit your town.
• Great Samaritan - Help your neighbours by performing 100 favours for them.
• Happy Homer Bronze - Earn 50,000 points or more from the Happy Home Academy (HHA).
• Happy Homer Gold - Earn 150,000 points or more from the Happy Home Academy (HHA).
• Happy Homer Silver - Earn 100,000 points or more from the Happy Home Academy (HHA).
• Heavy Sleeper - Visit Dream Suite 200 times or more.
• Insect Encyclopedia - Catch 80% or more of the insect specimens.
• Insect Entomology - Complete the insect encyclopedia.
• Insect Maniac - Catch 50% or more of the insect specimens.
• K.K. Slider Diehard - Watch K.K. Slider perform at Club LOL on Saturday nights more than 100 times.
• K.K. Slider Fan - Watch K.K. Slider perform at Club LOL on Saturday nights more than 20 times.
• K.K. Slider Fanboy/Fangirl - Watch K.K. Slider perform at Club LOL on Saturday nights more than 50 times.
• Letter Author - Mail 100 or more letters.
• Letter Writer - Mail 50 or more letters.
• Master Angler - Catch 5,000 or more fish.
• Master Bug Catcher - Catch 5,000 or more insects.
• Master Shopper - Purchase 5 million Bells worth of items at Timmy & Tommy's, Leif's gardening store, Abel Sisters, Kicks, GracieGrace, Redd's, or the Museum gift shop.
• Master Turnip Trader - Earn 10,000,000 Bells worth of profit in Joan's turnip trade.
• Mr./Mrs. Sandman - Visit Dream Suite 500 times or more.
• Neighborhood Traveller - Visit a different town over 100 times.
• Postmaster Mail - 200 or more letters.
• Pro Diver Catch - 200 or more sea creatures.
• Pro Turnip Trader - Earn 3,000,000 Bells worth of profit in Joan's turnip trade.
• Prof. of Ichthyology - Complete the fish encyclopedia.
• Prof. of Seafood - Complete the deep-sea encyclopedia.
• Refurbishing Beginner - Refurbish 30 or more items at Re-Tail.
• Refurbishing Expert - Refurbish 100 or more items at Re-Tail.
• Refurbishing Master - Refurbish 200 or more items at Re-Tail.
• Seafood Encyclopedia - Catch 80% or more of the deep-sea specimens.
• Seafood Maniac - Catch 50% or more of the deap-sea specimens.
• Silver Medalist - Earn 1500 or more medals from the tropical island's tour games.
• Skilled Angler - Catch 500 or more fish.
• Skilled Bug Catcher - Catch 500 or more insects.
• Skilled Diver Catch - 100 or more sea creatures.
• Space Traveler - Visit a different town over 500 times.
• Streetpass Beginner - Get tagged via Streetpass more than 100 times.
• Streetpass Expert - Get tagged via Streetpass more than 300 times.
• Streetpass Master - Get tagged via Streetpass more than 1000 times.
• Town Concierge - Help your neighbors by performing 300 favors for them.
• Tycoon Bell Saver - Deposit 100,000,000 or more Bells into your post office savings account.
• Village Gardener - Plant over 250 trees and flowers from the state of seeds or sapplings.
• Village Leader - Exceed 200 hours of play time.
• Village of Honor - Exceed 500 hours of play time.
• Village Representative - Exceed 50 hours of play time.
• Wealthy Bell Saver - Deposit 10,000,000 or more Bells into your savings account.
• Weed Buster - Pull 2,000 or more weeds.
• Weed Hunter - Pull 500 or more weeds.
• Weed Menace - Pull 5,000 or more weeds.
• World Traveler - Visit a different town over 250 times.

Best Selling Prices

You can make most of your money by selling rare and valuable items from Fossils, Fish, Bugs, and other items. But knowing where to sell them might be a little tricky, in Animal Crossing New Leaf you can sell your items at both Re-Tail (Recycle Shop) and Nooklings in the main street area where all your other shops are at. If you take your items to Nooklings you will only be able to sell them at their lowest average price, if you take your items over to Re-Tail (Recycle Shop) you will be able to sell them for a little more than what they are if the price is reasonable, if you set them on auction at the Recycle Shop you can sell them for double their worth, the max amount your villagers will pay for that item depends if it's worth that value or not ie: Say you were to sell Amber which is usually about 1,200 you can double that to about 3,300 bell. the max limit for most rarest items can go for about 9,500 bell, any higher and the villagers may decline from buying it if you are offering it to them when they see it on the stall.
It should also be noted that you can change the price after a villager expresses interest in your item if you did not use this advice initially. The moment you see them take interest, go to your item and simply increase the price times 4 minus 1 bell. [EX: Item is offered for suggested 400 bells and you are selling it for less than 1,599 bells (400 * 4 = 1,600 - 1 = 1,599).

You can also sell your items directly to Re-Tail (Recycle Shop) by talking to Reese, she can take just about any or all items you want to sell, and they usually sell a lot higher than what you can get from Nooklings. Any rare items such as Silver and Gold Tools will only sell for about 150 Bells. Reese may decline buying fake items such as paintings and sculpts you may have obtained from Crazy Redd's store which appears as a tent on certain days inside your village. Reese will offer to trash these fake items for free, or you can place them in your own trash bins if you have them in your village.

Trash and Lost Items

Unlike in previous Animal Crossing games, where you had a single dedicated recycle bin found inside the Civic Center, in New Leaf you can place trash cans in your village through Public Works, which cost 53,000 bells. Any items you throw into the trash are permanently gone forever. Your Lost and Found items can be obtained from the Police Box by picking them up from the row of desks. 

Booker stands watch over lost and found items and you are free to take them as you wish. In a dream at the House of Dreams you cannot pick up these items from the Police Box, nor can you pick them up while over in someone else's village if they've invited you over. If you don't have a trash can, you can have Reese dispose of the trash for a fee (or you can mail trash to villagers to avoid the fee).

Unlockable Locations

Most, if not all of these require it being 10 days past the start of the game, and most will all be available in the public works list.

• Club LOL - Have Nookling Junction upgrade for the first time, give Dr. Shrunk permission when he visits your house, and obtain signatures from other villagers.
• Dream Suite - (Req: 7 days after game start) Talk to Isabelle when she is sleeping. Dream Suite will be added to the public works list.
• Fortune Teller Shop - Have your fortune read (which happens whenever Katrina visits your town) 20 times. Then speak to her and the shop will be added to the works list.
• Garden Center - Pull 30 weeds, plant 30 flowers or trees, OR water 30 plants.
• Kicks - Spend at least 8000 bells in the Able Sisters' shop.
• Museum Shop - Donate at least 20 items (at least one from each category) to the museum, and talk to Blathers daily; the shop will become a works project.
• QR Machine - Talk to Sable (in the Able Sisters store; the one sewing machine)for 10 days straight and on the 11th day it will be added to the back of the store.
• Reset Center - Turn off your 3DS without saving, and when you start up your town, Mr Resetti will say that the Reset Centre closed, then its a works project.
• Shampoodle - Spend at least 10,000 bells in Able Sisters' or Kicks. It must be at least 10 days since Kicks was built.
• The Island Resort - Start up the game after finishing your upgrade to a house. Tortimer will greet you at the start up; meet him at the docks. You can go one day later.
• The Roost Café - Donate 50 items to the Museum, and have the Museum Shop already unlocked. Talk to Blathers 7 days after the Museum Shop's opening.

Quick Method for Infinite Bells

You need two players both with Animal Crossing, one has to have a really strong price for turnips like 500 bells in their game (to be honest any price will do but this makes it quicker) and the other time travels (by setting the 3DS clock) to sunday morning. Now simply buy in the town that's on sunday and go and visit the friend's town and sell there and repeat with new money that you just got from the selling the turnips at like 5 times their normal value and you have a quick method of making huge amounts of bell. Have fun being a bellionaire. 

WARNING: Time Travel may lead to lost neighbors and an abundance of weeds that will overtake your town. They are NOT easy to get rid of. It can also take the fun out of the game, but that's up to the player.

Getting Rich with the Money Rock

Each day in your town one rock contains Bells which you can liberate with a well-placed Shovel strike. The more you hit the rock, the more Bells you get. To maximize the amount of Bells you get, find a rock stand next to it. Dig holes to the rear and either side of your character. Better yet, plant bushes for a more permanent solution. Either method will trap you alongside the rock, and cancel the "push back" effect of your shovel strike. This allows you to rapidly hit the rock and make more money. Depending on what kind of tool at the time your shovel will have a different effect.

Hitting one of the permanent rocks in your village with a Basic Shovel will produce Bells totaling 16,000. Hitting one of the permanent rocks in your village with a Silver Shovel will produce either 16,000 - 18,000 Bell, or make 8 colored Ores pop out, this can happen randomly on any day from only ONE of the permanent rocks in your village, you can only get Ores or Bells on the day. The Gold Shovel has same effect as Silver Shovel when striking a permanent rock in your village.

ATM Savings Rewards

Save the following amounts of bells in the ATM (located in the post office) to have a gift mailed to you.

• ABD - Achieve a balance of 100,000,000 bells
• Aluminum briefcase - Achieve a balance of 5,000,000 bells
• Box of Tissues - Achieve a balance of 100,000 bells
• Letter Set - Achieve a balance of 500,000 bells
• Mailman's Hat - Achieve a balance of 50,000,000 bells
• Piggy Bank - Achieve a balance of 1,000,000 bells
• Post-office - poster Achieve a balance of 10,000,000 bells
• Safe - Achieve a balance of 20,000,000 bells

Magic Rocks

Like in the previous Animal Crossing games, there is a rock in each town that, if you hit it with a shovel or axe, gives out money. It only does this once per day, of course, but you can get up to 16,000 bells if you hit it enough. Every day there will be an extra rock in your town. Hit it with a shovel and it will break and reveal a different mineral. You can take these to Cyrus (once he wakes up) and use them as an additional way to make your furniture different. Or you can just sell them. Once you have the silver shovel, you have a chance of making gems come out of the money rock instead of bells. Also, you can take 3 gold gems to Cyrus and he'll make you a random piece of a special gold furniture set.

Free Furniture

If you go through a neighbors drawers, vanity, anything that qualifies as a storage unit, they may actually give you a piece a furniture for free. They will say something along the lines of not needed it anymore and simply give it to you.

View town's history

If you sit on the ledge at your mayor planted tree after it has grown for a month and wait a few seconds, credits will roll by showing your town history.

Avoid Bee Stings Easily

To easily avoid being stung by a bee, simply press 'Start' and select 'Save and Continue.' This will refresh the environment and cancel the flying bees, avoiding the need to run into a building or to try and catch them. The beehive will still be on the ground after the save completes.

Avoid Triggering Beehives in Trees

To shake trees for money and furniture safely without fear of getting attacked by bees, go to the Train Station and open your train gate to visitors. Beehives will not spawn when your train gate is open.

The first thing you have to do is go to a friend's town with the item you want duplicated. It appears that you can either be connected locally or through the Internet, both work.

Once off the train in your friend's town, go outside and drop the item on the ground. Once the item is out of your hands, have your friend press Start and choose "End your multiplayer session."

This will start to kick you out, so get ready. The game will show that you are leaving, then the save screen will pop up. There is a small icon in the lower right corner during the save screen depicting a circle. It will "rotate," starting at the top of the circle. Let the circle rotate once, then hit the wireless switch on the side of your 3DS. It's a small window to hit, so if you are too fast or slow, you risk not having the glitch work correctly.

Once the switch has been hit, you should get a Resetti screen. Now, after that, you will show up back in your town. If the glitch worked, you should now have the item in your bag as well as the original item still on the ground in your friend's town. Congratulations, you can now duplicate any item in the game!

Get Villagers' Furniture

If a neighbor of yours has a piece of furniture you want, you can get it by sending them seashells. They will begin replacing their furniture with the shells and their furniture will appear at re-tail for purchase. Make sure there are empty flea-market spaces, though.

Balloon Frequencies

Whenever the time on the clock ends in 4 (i.e. 12:34 or 8:54), a balloon may appear on one of the sides your town. This means you can get up to 6 balloon presents an hour. You must be outside for the balloon to appear.

Cliff Diving

It's possible to perform cliff dives straight from your town and into the ocean. Look carefully for a section of the cliff that doesn't have any beach area beneath it. Stand near the edge, equip the Wet Suit, and press the A button. Your character will jump off the cliff and land in the water below. Also, if your having a bad day or have a King Tut mask, you can jump in to rivers. How? I'll tell you. Find a corner to the river. make 2 holes and make sure they are one hole apart. Right now, you cant get in. So put a item in either one. Then go in the middle, turn around without moving, then dig it out. While your character shows you what you dug up, the back round will start to glitch and shake around. Put the item back and you will start. Then, you run at a angle which makes dust particles at your feat (Remember, you have to have a King Tut mask or be having a bad day to trip). Then you will trip in to the river, and you will be able to walk around in the river just like your on the ground (No water particles will appear). Warning: If you walk on the sides or up a bridge, you will do a magic jump up onto the ground or bridge.

Easier bug and fish catching!

When hunting for a certain type of catch, such as sharks or palm tree bugs, this trick will help. Search the area where you are looking for the creature, and if it isn't there hit start and save, but continue playing. This will reset the bug and fish spawns in your game, and it only takes a few seconds.

Extra item space

Whenever you're full of items in your inventory, you can store your items inside letters, preventing you from having to come back to get whatever you missed. This gives you 10 extra item spaces, handy for selling your bug/fish load from the island.

Hit Balloon Presents with Net

If ballooned presents come from the coastal side of town, go to the cliff the rest of town is on. Before the balloon reaches the cliff, hit it with your net. Also, if the present comes from the other side of the town, as the balloon reaches the cliff it will lower allowing you to hit as well.

Skip Kapp'n's Song

While traveling to or from the Tropical Resort, while Kapp'n is singing tap the the B button rapidly. He'll suddenly stop singing and say a few things and then drop you off. This saves a lot of time.

Time Travelling

You can change the time and date in your town on the New Leaf main menu screen before you enter your village. You can change the date and time to manipulate what Bugs and Fish are available, make Bells by appreciating your bank deposits over the new year lapse (You recieve interest returns in your bank account), or skip ahead to force house expansions. Time Traveling is technically cheating, but people still exploit it to get ahead in the game.