Topic: As of last night, I finally got to 999999999 Bells in AC:WW.

[JonLeung]

And yes, I have done it in Animal Crossing for the GameCube as well.

What is it with Nintendo and difficult tasks?  I expect I'll have to get to nearly a billion Bells in every AC game that will ever be.  I only have like 380 of the 386 Pokémon (the ones left are from stupid promotional thingies that I miss out on).  I can't pass F-Zero GX Story Mode 7 (but maybe just 'cause I suck at racing).

Sure, it's a good feeling when you finally accomplish something difficult, but things like a billion Bells in AC is so tedious and time-consuming it's almost not fun.

And yet, I keep going.  >_<  *sigh*

[Mario]

Have you maxed the score in New SMB?

That is a TON of bells, does that all fit in the bank? If it does now you can try littering the entire town with money bags. Though that'd be kinda ugly

[UncleBob]

That's not a billion bells.  You're one short.  Haha.

Seriously, congrats.  I don't have the attention span to do that.  I need to feed my Nintendog.

[Sir_Stabbalot]

Whoa, how'd you do that?  

[vudu]

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Originally posted by: JonLeung
I remember using the "doppelganger trick" in the original game to multiply my money.  At an average of 14.5 million Bells a day, it still took me over a couple months to get to 999999999 Bells just for that stupid post office model!  I wonder how I'm going to get that amount now, short of getting a cheat device (which I don't want to).

[JonLeung]

Ah, you found that in the other topic. did you?

No, I didn't get an Action Replay or whatever for the DS.

Yes, it's a similar workaround, and yes, it still took a very long time.

Is it cheating if it still requires several days of effort?

[vudu]

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Is it cheating if it still requires several days of effort?

I don't know--is it still stealing if it takes you several days/months/years to "earn" the pay out?

[JonLeung]

Okay, maybe it is.

It involved me travelling to a hacked town that had bags of 99000 Bells each just strewn about everywhere.  Each trip I was able to carry 26 bags (or 2574000 Bells, which was pretty close to the amount I had actually earned before I started all this).  It still involved nearly 400 trips back and forth...back and forth...back and forth...MY EYES...

Now, I could've grabbed the town hall model from the hacked town.  Nope, I wanted to get my own by saving 999999999 Bells in the bank myself.  Which I did.  Now if someone actually made that much via more proper channels, that would be impressive.

But seriously, who can play AC 24/7?  Even if they did it'd be unlikely that they could have a billion Bells by now.

[Arbok]

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Okay, maybe it is.

It involved me travelling to a hacked town that had bags of 99000 Bells...

Yeah, it definitely is, even if it still took you awhile to do it.

[JonLeung]

Okay, okay, so it is cheating.  Even though someone else did the hacking and it still took me nearly 400 trips.

Who's more insane - Nintendo, for including such a crazy goal (it's required for the town hall model) that it takes even cheaters forever to get, or me, for actually doing it?

[couchmonkey]

Well, technically it's still cheating, but cheating is okay in my books...of course if you cheat your way through all games you're only cheating yourself, but when a goal is so hard that you can't achieve it on your own, or the game turns into a chore before you can achieve it, then "cheating" is perfectly acceptable.  Getting 1 billion -1 Bells legitimately would probably take tens of thousands of hours.  That's ridiculous, so I say that technically it's cheating, but realisitically...congratulations!