Paper Airplane Corruption in Animal Crossing

This video details a very rare case of a corrupted item appearing in your Animal Crossing town that can potentially ruin your save file.

This video includes mistakes, misinformation, or oversights! See below for corrections.

Mistakes & Corrections

“Capacitors” as mentioned in this video should really be both “capacitors and transistors” to be more accurate. Notably some flash memory systems utilize different cell structures to hold data, but the general concept is similar.

I use graphics of Paper Mario and Pokémon Sapphire as an example of battery based save cartridges. Both of these games actually use flash memory to save, and real examples of games using battery-based saves would be the first two generation Pokémon games on the Game Boy and Ocarina of Time on the N64.

I talk about flash memory holding data for years, but I often incorrectly use graphics of volatile RAM memory, which was just an editing mistake.

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