This guide will walk you through how to scan QR codes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Scanning these codes will allow you to import external images and textures into your game to customize your island. Whether it be memes, music album covers, or celebrity faces, you can import nearly anything you can think of by scanning QR codes.
Before we start, you will need to have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription in order to do this. It’s roughly $20/year for a yearly individual membership. You can visit the Nintendo Switch Online Pricing Plans to learn more about that.
Animal Crossing Picasso Qr Code Qr
14 Nintendo-themed designs to wear right now in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. But thankfully we have a whole guide focused on how to use QR codes in New Horizons. Legend of Zelda costumes.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons QR Code Guide
Step 1 – Pull up your Nook Phone
Once you have your Nook Phone open, you will want to open up the Custom Designs app, which is the middle icon.
Step 2 – Open Custom Designs App
This page will contain all of your custom designs in New Horizons. After you do that, grab your phone and download the Nintendo Switch Online App.
Step 3 – Download Nintendo Switch Online App
You can download this on your mobile phone, tablet, or any type of mobile device you have available with a camera. This is what we’ll be using to scan QR codes.
Step 4 – Get Another Device to Scan QR Codes From
Next, you will need a THIRD device to pull up the QR codes on, such as a computer, tablet, or any other device with a web browser. The camera will need to be pointed at this third device in order to scan the QR code.
Step 5 – Open the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Page on Nintendo Switch Online App
Go back to your phone and sign into the Nintendo Switch Online App. Navigate to the Animal Crossing: New Horizons page inside the app. This will open up NookLink. From here you can view your passport, create designs, view your friends, and do other various things.
Step 6 – Open Custom Designs
Tap on the Custom Designs app from NookLink. You will see a button that says “Scan a QR Code.” You can only scan one individual QR code at a time.
Step 7 – Points Your Device At The QR Code
Point your phone, or whatever mobile device you’re using the Nintendo Switch Online app on, at the QR code on the third device. It will automatically scan it.
Step 8 – Hit the + Button On Your Switch
Hit the + button and it will bring up a message asking if you want to connect to the internet and download a custom design. Tap Download and it will tell you which design just popped up. Confirm it and select a spot to place the new custom design.
- Important note – If you are having issues with this step, you will need to activate NookLink on your game first. Go to the home screen and on the bottom left of the screen you will see a “-” sign. Click that to activate the NookLink. You will then need to reset the Nintendo Switch Online app on your phone after you enable this feature on your Switch.
Step 9 – Display Your New Design
You can now display the imported custom design. Display it on the ground, in your house, on your t-shirt, or wherever you want.
Clothing Items
Scanning clothing QR codes is the same way, except there will be four QR codes instead of one. After you scan the first QR code, a screen will pop up with four different QR codes to scan (shown below).
These are all the necessary steps you need to follow to scan QR codes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It is a bit of a long process, unfortunately, but it does get easier once you memorize how to do it. Hopefully, this has helped. Here’s a list of our favorite Animal Crossing: New Horizons QR codes to check out in the meantime.
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!
How to get costumes from this list
Animal Crossing Picasso Qr Code Codes
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.
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