Corrupted villager data
Hello,
some years ago I was messing around with the safe editor to get myself exclusive villagers on my island.
Back then you still had the option on the safe editor to replace a villager with characters like Wisp or Melinda, even if that would likely crash the game. As I was messing around I replaced my sixth villager with Wisp. Obviously the game crashed when coming close to the house of tapping it on the map.
I wanted to load my old garden file onto my cartridge but somehow I lost the file.
Now I was stuck with this corrupted villager in my town.
I tried to revert the change but the safe editor did not see a sixth villager on the villager tab, even if the house was still present on the editable map.
The only thing that I was able to do was to put the villager at the coordinates 0/0, which worked completely fine.
Besides the game crashing while playing the town tree credits, the game works completely fine, but I‘m still curious if this problem is fixable or not.
Posted Mar 9, 2026, 11:38 AM UTC