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News / Pretendo Network: You can now download all ACNL Dream Towns from Pretendo's archive

If you're waiting for the news that you can play New Leaf online again: this is NOT it.

However, you can now download all 239105 Dream Towns from the Internet Archive thanks to preservation work that @pretendo has done.

I'll quote parts of the announcement post by @jon here:

"As mentioned in our last blog post [pretendo.network] we have begun processing the data from our Animal Crossing: New Leaf archive. The first round of processing is completed, and we've started making this archive available to the public! Following this round of processing we will now be researching more specific areas of the data to see what we can find.

As of yesterday our upload to the Internet Archive has completed! Anyone can now view/download the data from our archive. The archive contains data for 239,105 Dream Suite towns, totaling over 110 GB of data. The archive also has a separate SQLite database, which is only ~90mb, which contains just the metadata about each town.

Also mentioned in our last blog post, we are working on a website which lets you browse the data in this archive to see information about each town [I've attached a preview to this post]. As we learn more about what data is available to us in this archive this site should be updated to reflect that data. You will also be able to download individual towns from this website, if you so wish.

And finally, not only are we working on our own Animal Crossing: New Leaf server (which is in development!), we will be looking into hosting a "snapshot server" using the data from this archive. This (separate) instance of the server would essentially be read-only, and would let you interact with the Dream Suite towns from Nintendo Network prior to the shutdown.

If you'd like to take a look at the archive itself, visit us on the Internet Archive! archive.org/details/animal-cro"

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