ACGC Desktop v1.0.0

Animal Crossing (GameCube) as your live Windows desktop wallpaper: your own town, from your own save, running behind your desktop icons in real time.

Getting started

1. Download ACGC-Desktop-v1.0.0.zip below and extract it.
2. Put your Animal Crossing (USA) disc image (.iso, .gcm or .ciso) in the rom folder. To use the town you already have, add your Dolphin save's .gci files to the save folder.
3. Double-click Start Wallpaper.bat. Your town appears behind your icons after about 20 seconds.

Windows may show a SmartScreen warning the first time: click More info, then Run anyway.

What's in it

• Live wallpaper: a slow camera wanders your town and follows your PC's clock, seasons and weather.
• Hourly music: the town's music for the current hour (turn it up with the widget's volume slider; it starts silent).
• Desktop widget: the town clock in the in-game style, with camera controls, music volume, a weather on/off button and settings.
• Play anytime: Play (or Ctrl+Alt+P) turns the wallpaper into the game. Ctrl+Alt+W sends it back.
• Safe for your save: the wallpaper never writes to your save file. Save in-game before returning to the wallpaper.

See the README for every option.

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11 and an OpenGL 3.3 GPU.
• Your own copy of Animal Crossing (USA, GAFE01 Rev 0). This download contains no game files.

Built on ACGC-PC-Port and the ac-decomp decompilation. Fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo.