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Hacking in the Animal Crossing series involves the manipulation of gameplay in a way other than permitted in a game's original programming. By using codes and following some other methods, hackers can perform a variety of things to play around with the game, including, but not limited to:

• Being able to add any object to the inventory, including unobtainable objects.
• Gain any amount of Bells in their inventory, and in the savings account.
• Stop the grass from deteriorating (in City Folk).
• Change the layout of their town.
• Create hacked villagers or custom villagers.
• Create custom objects and HDLC.
• Jump, and therefore reach inaccessible areas, such as the top of cliffs.

Cross-game modifications

The following programs, modifications, and devices work throughout many titles in the Animal Crossing series.

Animal Crossing Save Editor

Animal Crossing Save Editor is a program initially released on July 3rd, 2017, that was developed by Cuyler36. It allows for game saves to be edited and is compatible with every mainline Animal Crossing game besides Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It includes many options that can:

• Change the player's appearance, birthday, and items.
• Change the amount of Bells in the player's wallet, in their saving's bank, and still in debt.
• Edit all player's houses, the private island, and the patterns they carry.
• Complete or clear all collections at the museum, all encyclopedias, emotion slots, the store's catalog, and the song library.
• Change the quantity of Nook Points, Island Medals, MEOW Coupons obtained.
• Disable Mr. Resetti's visit after a reset.
• Switch a type of acre for another.
• Place any kind of object possible in the town.
• Change the town name, its station type, gate type, grass type, the native fruit, town ordinances, and even the current weather.
• Modify a villager's personality and catchphrase.
• Replace a villager with a different one.

Physical game modification devices

A physical game modification device is a device used to manipulate gameplay in a way other than permitted in a game's original programming or load backed up saves. Examples of popular cheating devices used with Animal Crossing include the Action Replay line of devices produced by Datel and the GameShark line produced by MadCatz. These devices exist for every platform with an Animal Crossing game, with the exception of the Nintendo Wii U, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices.

Devices for the Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, and Nintendo DS feature codes that can be input to manipulate game data. Devices for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo 3DS do not feature codes, but instead feature the ability to load backed up game saves.

Animal Crossing: City Folk-exclusive modifications

ACToolkit

ACToolkit is a program initially released on November 23rd, 2009, that was developed by Virus. It allows for game save modification of Animal Crossing: City Folk including the ability to edit towns, acres, houses, players' pockets, among other things. The program was last updated on July 23rd, 2009. A Mac OS X version was released on August 5th, 2011.

PattView

Pattview is program developed by Vash that allows users to view and edit patterns from City Folk. It was last updated on January 12th, 2012. A Wii homebrew version was released on January 11th, 2011.