How To Change Island Name in Animal Crossing New Horizons | ACNH Island Name Change Guide
This guide sorted from ceomg's video will teach you how to change your island name in Animal Crossing New Horizons. Maybe you didn't know what you wanted to name your island when you first started the game and now you wish you could have named it something different, or maybe you're starting a new island theme and you want a name to reflect the theme better and you don't want to reset. So in this guide, we are going to show you how you can do the impossible and rename your island without resetting.
Can You Change Your Island Name In Animal Crossing New Horizons?
Officially, you cannot change your island name in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) after it has been set during the initial game setup. This means that if you have made a mistake while naming your island or you simply no longer like the name, you do not have an official in-game option to change it. However, there is an unofficial way to do so, which involves using mods and a modded Nintendo Switch console.
How To Change Your Island Name in Animal Crossing New Horizons?
Can I change my island name on Animal Crossing New Horizons? Yes! Up until now, this has been impossible to do, while many of you really want to change your island names. But you can only change your island name with mods!
We are all with you for wanting to be able to change your island name without resetting but we are pretty sure Nintendo has it set this way for this reason: If you were able to change your island name, Nintendo would also need to change each island name with each of your friends, we think this is something easy that Nintendo can do but as you see Nintendo doesn't even bother deleting old friends who have since deleted or restarted their islands, so if Nintendo can't even clean up our friend's list, there is no way in the world that Nintendo is going to spend time and resources to go into everyone's friend list and change your island name, also with the fact that you can't change your villager name either. So this is why you can only change your island name with mods and even though most of you won't be able to do this if you don't have a modded Switch.
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Follow the below steps to change your island name with mods easily:
Step 1 - Get your Switch Modded and Prepare a computer because we will need to put this island save on your computer, you can't change your island name directly on your Switch
Step 2 - Save the island and then extract it from your Switch
Step 3 - Download the program named NHSE stands for Animal Crossing New Horizon save editor on your Computer
Step 4 - Access the NHSE mode and Remane your island name under Players -> Town Name (Input the name you want to change)
Step 5 - Pop the file back into your Switch and load your game up, then you will see your island has been changed
So as you know it is so easy to change your ACNH island named with mods, while the first step you should mod your Swith, for that you can google the detailed guide.
