While some people play Animal Crossing: New Horizonsto partake in simulation shenanigans like crafting items, building out a town, or make a few animalistic pals, others understand the game’s true purpose: cosplay. One of the best parts of New Horizons is using the design app to live life as your favorite fictional characters.
If you want to get started on experiencing New Horizons’ true purpose, we’ve rounded up 14 starter costumes from popular Nintendo properties. Don’t experience tree chopping like your surly old self, do it like Link!
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- In the Nintendo Switch Online App, tap on Animal Crossing: New Horizons and then Designs. Press the Scan a QR Code button. Allow any permissions requested, and then simply point your camera at a QR code. You can easily find one on Google if you wish to test.
For Animal Crossing: New Leaf on the 3DS, a GameFAQs message board topic titled 'Any Blazblue Fans? (Pro Design/QR Codes)'.
How to get costumes from this list
If you want to obtain a costume listed here, all you need is a cell phone with the Nintendo Switch Online app. There’s a bit of special set-up process involved, but thankfully we have a whole guide focused on how to use QR codes in New Horizons.
Legend of Zelda costumes
If New Horizons has placed a craving to become the Hero of Hyrule during your island life, this section has you covered. We found perfect renditions of multiple Link tunics, like the blue one he donned in Breath of the Wild or his classic green garb.There’s also a very special costume based on Midna from Twilight Princess.
Breath of the Wild Link
Classic green Legend of Zelda Link
Midna from Twilight Princess
Pokémon costumes
You explore and manage friends based on animal life in Pokémon and do a similar task in New Horizons. The only difference is that you can't order Tom Nook to shoot flames from his face orifice at K.K. Slider. Of course, you'd want to bridge the gap a bit more by donning Pokémon Trainer attire. You can make yourself look like the iconic protagonists of Ruby and Saphire, Red, or Ash Ketchum himself. The choice is yours!
Red from Pokémon: Fire Red and Leaf Green
Brendan and May from Pokémon: Ruby and Saphire
Ash Ketchum from the Pokémon anime
Fire Emblem: Three Houses costumes
2019 and 2020 have been massive for Fire Emblem: Three Houses. The latest title in the JRPG series is steeped in just about every emotion, and the big news just keeps coming, from the Cindered Shadows DLC to the disappointment that greeted Byleth's arrival in Smash Ultimate.
No matter your feelings on the franchise, you can't deny their cast dresses extremely well. Now, courtesy of DeviantArt user, ACNL-QR-CODEZ, you can dress just like the students of Garreg Mach monastery, which means you can look extra fly too.
Byleth and the three house leaders: Claude, Dimitri, and Edelgard
If you hate all that house affiliation and simply want to say 'I like Fire Emblem: Three Houses,' try the academy uniform.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses Garreg Mach uniform
Animal CrossingSmash Bros. villager outfit
Is your cosplay of choice an Animal Crossing villager? Why not the one who stars in Smash Ultimate? Sure, their visage has been dragged through the mud online as a possible ax murderer, but you're not going to hold that against them, right?
Animal Crossing Smash Bros Villager shirt
Now that you're done with this, there's a whole world of fashion at your disposal. If somehow, you got through this list without finding an outfit that struck your fancy, perhaps it would be for the best if you crafted your own attire through the online editor. There's nothing holding you back from your best fictional self!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is now available for Nintendo Switch.
Get all the designs you need in New Horizons
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Updated: 22-05-2020. Original post 22-03-2020
Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It's a good game, and we can't get enough of it. In fact, I myself once again spent multiple hours this morning playing Animal Crossing before breakfast, and once again, I am hungry, yet have paid off a considerable amount of debt. Swings and roundabouts.
One lovely feature you can use in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the ability to scan QR codes of designs created in New Leaf or Happy Home Designer, and then import them into your main game. You can only do one at a time, sadly, and not all designs look clean with New Horizons' new image smoothing put onto pixelated designs, but this is a feature I love since I can steal designs from more talented people online.
If you want to share designs made in New Horizons however, it's a bit more complicated, and you will need a Nintendo Online Subscription in order to share them. Frustrating, I know, but luckily the QR codes are free at least.
To find out how to scan QR codes and share your new designs, just take a look at our guide below… But if you want to create your own QR codes, or even convert images into ACNH designs, check out our guide.
Scanning QR codes from New Leaf
In order to scan QR codes from New Leaf or Happy Home Designer, you will need to use the Nintendo Switch Online app on an Android or iOS device - you know, that app for voice chat and Splatoon 2 items - and you will need to connect it to your New Horizons save file. Follow these instructions to link up NookLink…
- Download the Nintendo Switch Online app, and ensure you are logged in with the same account you use for your New Horizons save file.
- On Animal Crossing: New Horizons, press - on the main menu screen, this will take you to the game's settings. Here you can activate NookLink.
- Restart the app on your mobile device, and NookLink should now be active.
Now NookLink is active, and you can start scanning QR codes. Unfortunately, you can only scan one at a time into the game, and the face cut-out boards that were available in New Leaf are now no longer compatible with the game, so don't try those.
- In the Nintendo Switch Online App, tap on Animal Crossing: New Horizons and then Designs.
- Press the Scan a QR Code button.
- Allow any permissions requested, and then simply point your camera at a QR code. You can easily find one on Google if you wish to test.
- Once you have a QR code scanned and saved, it's time to open up New Horizons.
- Go to your designs app, and then press +. This should download any saved designs.
- Pick a slot to save your new design in, and it should be complete!
Sharing designs in New Horizons
Finally, you can share designs made in New Horizons, but not with QR codes anymore, meaning that previous advice is meaningless when it comes to this. First you will need to construct the Able Sister's Tailor shop, and once that is done, along with a Nintendo Switch Online Subscription, you will be able to share your designs…
- Go to the Able Sister's shop, and at the back of the room should be an online kiosk.
- When you first use this kiosk, you will be assigned a creator code. Share this code and people will be able to find all of your designs at any point.
- You will be able to upload your designs now. It's as simple as navigating the menus, and each designs will also be assigned a code that you can share online.
- And finally, of course, you can type in design or creator codes if you want to seek out certain designs that people have created. That's all you need to know!
Unfortunately, you will need the online subscription to use this kiosk, and frankly, it's not as easy as scanning a QR code, but we're glad the creator codes allow you to showcase all of your best designs.
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