Changing normal joycons into New Horizon ones

Video guide on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6CVfUjJchE

Having New Horizons Joycons is a must for this game, as you get the New Horizons themed switch in the mail at the start of the game, which sells more than a regular switch. This is a very clear advantage over people who don't have these Joycons. If you're like me, and don't want to spend $$$ on them, you don't have to. There is a tool that doesn't require CFW to use, which can change your normal Joycons into the beautiful NH joyboys.
If you're using CFW and would like something that does the same thing, then go to the bottom of the page.

You're going to be using something called [JC_Toolkit by CTCaer](https://github.com/CTCaer/jc_toolkit/releases). Download the latest version, and extract the zip. (if you have trouble extracting, try downloading [7-zip](https://www.7-zip.org/)) Before opening, connect either your left or right controller to your computer through bluetooth, and once connected, open the .exe. If your computer does not have built in bluetooth, then you can use USB bluetooth dongles. If you get an error upon opening, then your controller isn't connected.

Once opened, you *SHOULD* make a backup of your SPI, but this isn't needed. If you don't make a backup, remember that you're responsible for not taking the safety precautions :/ Making them will only take 10 minutes, and they're only 512kb's each so there's not much space taken up by them anyway.
Download [colors.xml](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TUF_Vj8U01DrVrsgjlMuxx_I2HNJC4y9/), which has a preset for most Joycon Bundles.. Drag this to the download location of JC_TK. Then select "Body & Buttons Color". You'll see the colors under Custom Color Sets. First column is for the left controller, second column is for the right controller. The second row is for the buttons. Select the colors accordingly (selecting buttons to change from body to buttons), then hit OK. You'll be taken back to the first screen with what your controller should look like, but it is not applied yet. Select "Write Colors" for the changes to be made. Now, whenever you connect your controller back to your switch, the change will be made. And watch in disbelief as you get a NH switch with grey joycons 🥴

If you want to revert back to your normal controllers (or change them to whatever you want), simply open the app up again, select "Body & Buttons Color", then change it back to default or another template.

**But what if I wanted to use CFW?**
The CFW method uses [JC_Toolbox by CompSciOrBust](https://github.com/CompSciOrBust/JCToolBox/releases/), which is just JC_Toolkit but presets are already within the app. Download the latest version, and extract the **contents** to your SD card, having JCTB.nro within the /switch/ folder, and JCTB.cfg within the /config/ folder. The config file is the most important, as without it, nothing would show up in JCTB.

Boot into CFW, then open the Homebrew Launcher (or whatever alternatives there are), and open JCTB. You use UP/DOWN on the DPAD to choose the template, and then press A to apply. If the change isn't made, make sure that your controllers are connected directly to the switch. Once it is made though, disconnect then reconnect your controllers to the console to see the applied template. 

You can make your own template by editing the config, however I won't be going through that here. Read the config file and you'll figure it out.

If you have any questions (or something didn't work) ask in the Discord. I've got noti's on in there (for whatever reason) so no need to ping 🥴

First Debt options for miles (Most recent version)

Thought I'd list the miles you can obtain to get to 5000 for the first debt here, as there don't seem to be any guides for the most recent version:

Birthday + 500 miles you're given at the start of the game:
If you set your switch's date to 20xx/01/01, and the time to around 4:50, you can do the first part of the run in under 10 minutes, and have the day reset, and give you 2000 miles for your birthday. The game only checks for this if it is a brand new day, so doing this is necessary, otherwise, you can reset manually by closing the game and changing the date, but that takes a lot of time. - 2500 Points

After this, you can take a photo with your phone for 300 points, edit a design in the custom designs app for another 300 points, change your passport phrase for another 300 points, and add a notice to the plaza notice board for 500 points. - 3900 points

Here's where the run differs from a normal run. If you have the first update version or NH Joycons, you can skip this step
If your animal crossing game is in the first update of the game, you receive a Nintendo switch in the mail, can sell it, and buy 10 saplings to easily earn the points you need (this also works with the NH Joycons, if I'm not mistaken). However, if you don't have this version or NH Cons, you can go around the island quickly shaking trees for wasps nests. If you find two, you get 300 for being stung twice and can sell the wasps nests to Timmy for an additional 300 points, and 600 bells. - 4500 points

After selling the wasps nests, the next best option is to buy a less than 600 bell item from the nook stop in the tent where Timmy resides. HOWEVER, if you're lucky, you could find a furniture item from one of the trees earlier while searching for wasps nests. If that happens, you can cut out the time needed to open the atm and buy the item. This would definitely cut down on time. - 4800 points

To finish off the run, the last step is to just open your phone 9 times (for the final 300 points, leaving you at 5100, just over the amount needed to end the run), and collect your points from the nook miles app, After which you can talk to Tom Nook, and complete the run.

Now, clearly, this guide is not going to be winning you any world records, since the current world record for this category is in the old version with the Nintendo Switch in the mail. Simply, this guide is to try and make the category a little more accessible, even if not many people want to run it.

Golden Net Route by yorunoteiou, Dagnel and Bluekandy (Google Docs)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IWFV7x6GVn-0oVjr7-30Or64ZNgJ3fuEir59PiyOuX4/edit?usp=sharing

v3.1 edit: updated route for March mystery island early -> 6 palm tree strat in August mystery island. Cleaned up minor formatting and sentence structure and added some tips in spots.

Bluekandy

inconsistent

transgirlcathy

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Switch

Lemons_Picrun

ianpark

Pre 1.2.1

1.2.1+

NH JoyCons

Version

Previously the rule said: "Timer ends on the regaining control of your character after talking to Tom Nook and paying off your first debt."

This was a little ambiguous, as some runs stopped the timer when the final text box cleared:
![](/static/blob/5e1r7vz0.png)


Others waited until the camera fa

Name	Author
Changing normal joycons into New Horizon ones	inconsistent 2 years ago
First Debt options for miles (Most recent version)	transgirlcathy 3 years ago
Golden Net Route by yorunoteiou, Dagnel and Bluekandy (Google Docs)	Bluekandy 2 years ago