Animal Crossing: New Horizons

About the game

Build a home and an island community, collect wildlife, and shape a daily routine. Animal Crossing: New Horizons changes its wildlife with the season and time of day, so continuity of saves and time matters beyond reaching the title screen.

Island life and expansion content

Nintendo describes fishing, gardening, decorating, museum collections and relationships with residents. The S2Arm profile targets 3.0.3 with Happy Home Paradise. Include whether that add-on is present when comparing behavior.

A matching Mac build for 3.0.3

The Mac observation dated 2026-11-08 reports gameplay entry, no recorded crash and 16,644 rendered frames. Its ff1d1c… build matches the profile’s main build, allowing this observation to be associated with the configured version.

The row does not describe island progression, day changes or visits from friends. It contains no corresponding iPhone run. Its frame count is a cumulative total, not a steady frame rate.

Check tools, camera and text entry

The profile selects the full virtual-pad layout and specifically identifies the directional tool ring and right-stick camera. For an initial check, exercise those controls and a naming or text-entry screen instead of checking movement alone.

The profile separately records a shader limitation in the keyboard background. If only text entry looks wrong, identify that screen in the report rather than describing the whole island as black.

Keep a complete backup before migration

Save inside the game, stop it, and export through the save manager. Check game, version and DLC identity before restoring. S2Arm’s backup format preserves account and device-save ownership; do not manually combine multiple users’ files into one user.

Time and region metadata in a backup do not automatically change the computer clock. After a transfer, check island progress and the in-game date. This evidence does not establish day-transition behavior or online synchronization.

Runtime observations

MacThis observation passed

16,644 rendered frames. Entered gameplay: yes. No crash recorded. This is a bounded upstream run, not a completed playthrough.

Title ID: 01006F8002326000
Confirmed tested version: 3.0.3
Entered game: Yes
Build: ff1d1c05670db6021c85b624a710b963
Date: 2026-11-08

Limitations and notes

Evidence applies only to the recorded platform, build and date. It does not establish full-game compatibility on every device.
Mac observations do not establish iPhone or iPad compatibility. Hardware and OS details are not inferred when absent from the source.