Animal Crossing New Leaf ROM Editor: Patch ACNL's code and files with QoL improvements to change the gameplay.
This tool is a WIP Rom Editor For Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
ACNL_REditor is inspired by the amazing pk3DS project by kwsch.
Compilation: Requires QT. (Only QT 5.13.1 has been tested, milage may vary with other versions).
1) Acquire the necessary files. These can be dumped from your console via the ACNL_REditor File Dumper.gm9
script.
To use the ACNL_REditor File Dumper.gm9
script:
1) Make sure you have latest version of GodMode9.
2) Copy ACNL_REditor File Dumper.gm9
to SD:/gm9/scripts
.
3) Open GodMode9. If using Luma3DS, this can be chainloaded. Upon turning on your console, hold Start
, then choose GodMode9.
4) Press the HOME Button, thhen navigate to Scripts
and click on ACNL_REditor File Dumper
.
5) Choose the game you want to dump files from.
6) Once finished with step 5, turn off your 3DS. Remove the SD Card and copy the rom
folder from SD:/ACNL_REditor/GAMETYPE/rom
to somewhere on your PC.
* `GAMETYPE` will be the game you dumped the files from.
2) Open ACNL REditor, navigate to the File
tab and click Open
. From here, find the rom
folder you previously copied. Once found, click on it, then press Select Folder
.
3) Make whatever changes you want in ACNL_REditor.
4) When finished making changes, navigate to the File
tab and click Save
. This will create a new luma
folder in the same directory as the ACNL_REditor.exe
. Copy the luma
folder to the root of your SD Card, overwriting any files, if asked.
5) Upon turning on your console, hold Select
to open Luma’s configuration. Navgate to Enable game patching
, enable it if it is not already, then press Start
to save the configuration.
6) You are now finished. Open your game, and enjoy the changes you made