Hinge's Animal Crossing trading post

Originally posted by NebraskaDragon:
<strong>You have a NES on your first day? Ive been playing it for a week and I dont even have one!!! </strong><hr></blockquote>

You've been playing the Blockbuster copy, no? This is why. I had it for a whole week, and same here. The reason he's got two is because they're special on the mem card... they're already there. It's like a house warming gift. You still get NES games, but not right away. Don't worry, you can do the PW trade and get it still.

Spike

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Originally posted by Hinge:
<strong>Mine was the first game created on this memory card, and the memory card was the one that came with the game (Animal Crossing sticker on it). maybe that has something to do with it
They came as mail from "Nintendo" and didn't show up in my mailbox until I saved, quit and restarted.

Blaine - You're right, I can't make a "t-shirt" item with my patterns.
Be sure to get the E reader too - it's awesome. I didn't see any Animal Crossing cards for sale at EB but they're supposed to have them soon. All they had was NES games for it.

[ September 17, 2002: Message edited by: Hinge ]</strong><hr></blockquote>

Yeah, I've heard that it is specific to the Memory Card, but it could also be that the Blockbuster ones are 'different'. At any rate you get one as a housewarming gift, if you create another character and occupy the house your original one should get another one, you should get two on your birthday from Yamaguchi (former pres. of Nintendo) and one on Christmas.

I think that's right.

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Originally posted by td741:
<strong>Question: Do you need a Gameboy Advance to play the NES games or can you play them on the GC?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Yes!

A less smart ass answer is you can do both.

Spike

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Originally posted by rarehero:
<strong>i m sorry but how are trading stuff on the internet?
i thought you had to trade memory cards or through
the gba.
i just got the game.
i found a soccer ball.
and you can t imagine how much fun that was!
they kick it back!
;D</strong><hr></blockquote>

If you go to Tom Nook, you can send an item to someone. He'll ask for their name and town name, then give you a two line password to send to that person. You lose the item afterward, but can buy almost everything from the catalog anyway.

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Originally posted by brentsg:
<strong>I'm up for some trading today.

Cool stuff avail:

Excitebike
Golf
bonsai tree
billiards table
working train set

Mostly looking for other NES games, primarily DK.

Brent</strong><hr></blockquote>


oh man, i want the billiards table...
i dont have much though

excite bike
tennis
keg
master sword (woot)
cabana vanity
cabana wardrobe
peaches
a growing cherry tree
a bird house
pond lantern
orange box
bus stop sign (l33t)
chess table
fan palm
old brick wall wallpaper
shanty wall paper
checkered tile floor
birch flooring
paw shirt
work uniform
trendy top
No.67 shirt
jade check print (awesome)
sunny parasol
shovel
K.K. Love Song
tons of stationary
classic sofa
Yoko figurine

i REALLY NEED a pear

like desperately, 2 would be great.
i also made a pretty cool pacman skin...makes a great tshirt

i also need some good wallpaper. and is there a black/white check floor, that would be awesome...

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Originally posted by sonic1687:
<strong>ok i need 2 pears if possible.

i can hook you up with an orange and peaches.

my town/name is:

name: Sonic
town: Segagaga

i'll get the pw's for u in a little bit..

edit...fuck. the store is closed, i cant get the password untill tomorrow...sorry dude.

this real life time thing is definately love/hate

[ September 18, 2002: Message edited by: sonic1687 ]</strong><hr></blockquote>

Yup, same here but I can get you the passwords tomorrow.
Would you like to trade Tennis for Pinball or DK Jr Math (Or both)?

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Originally posted by mookystains:
<strong>wait, do you have to connect to the internet to trade?
i really dont understand.

but this does make me want to buy a gamecube.</strong><hr></blockquote>

nah yo

you just get a password that only you can use (because it uses your town name and your name) and then you just put it in.

its really quite effective IMO

dude, get a gamecube. animal crossing 0wnZ m3 f4r phr33.

too bad i still need to get a gba, a link, a erader to get the max out of animal crossing

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Originally posted by mookystains:
<strong>how the fuck does it send the stuff to the other person then.
i dont get it, how does it link to other peoples things and stuff if its not connected?
i dont understand, and im scared.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Whether or not this is EXACTLY what it is is irrelevant as it probably works this way.

Let's say you want to send me an apple.

Within the Animal Crossing game an apple probably has an inventory number of we'll say 00020.

What you do is go to Tom Nook, the General Store owner and say you want to send something to your buddy Blaine who lives in Tesseract (Blaine is my character's name on my game and Tesseract is the name of my town, you have to know both these things first).

He'll say 'okay' and then give you a password something like a3290aelrwru.

What happened was inside the game it did a form of cryptography, only not trying to protect anything.

It probably takes the item number, the reciepient name (as a set of numerals) and the town (also as a set of numerals) and performs a mathematical function on it, we'll just pretend it's multiplication.

When I go to my Tom Nook and give him that password it does the same process only with just my name and town as the two keys (cryptography consists of two keys and a message, normally you'd have a key and I'd have a key, but using both would just make it super fast), he'll try to 'decrypt' the password and if he get's a vaild number, the passcode probably has a check sum, he'll know the package is indeed for me and will know what item in the game to unlock and drop in my inventory.

Again, is this EXACTLY what is happening? No but I promise it's something similar.

This way you can 'send' me things very easily and it helps chop down on cheating because unless someone else was named Blaine and also lived in Tesseract, no one else could use that passcode to unlock an apple.

Pretty neat stuff if you ask me.

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