Guide To: Placing Patterns Like a Pro with RAM Editor

If you haven’t thought about placing patterns with the RAM Editor yet, you should. It will make your life a whole lot easier in terms of placing patterns – and I’m even here to teach you a little trick to make it twice as easy.

This guide assumes you already know how to DUMP and INJECT your RAM files, and have used the RAM editor before.

Let’s take a look at the RAM Editor and its Pattern options:

In the red box I’ve highlighted, you can see that there is a Pattern option in the Current Item list. There is only one pattern option here.

To the right of that, you see another dropdown menu labeled Flag. This is where you can manually select which QR pattern you want to use. You can select from all four player characters’ patterns.

Going back and forth between the Flag menu and the map to lay down patterns can be a bit tedious, especially when you need to alternate patterns a lot – thankfully, there is a quicker way.

Load your ACNL game with the player character that has the patterns you want to use.

Find an easy spot to lay down ONE OF EACH of your player’s patterns on the ground. If you look above at the picture, you’ll see I laid mine out in two rows of five by the train station in the black box I have highlighted. Now that you have one of each pattern laid out on the ground in an easy-to-remember order, save and DUMP your RAM file. Open your RAM file in the RAM Editor. You will see your patterns laid out on the ground as little gray squares, as shown above in the black box I have highlighted. They will all be gray, regardless of what pattern they are. To select a pattern for use, RIGHT click on it. Right-clicking on an item in the RAM editor copies that item. So if you want to use pattern #4 to lay down some paths, right click on gray square #4 in the RAM Editor. Now, you can LEFT click anywhere in the RAM Editor to place that pattern down. Everywhere you left click, you will place pattern #4 down. To switch to a different pattern, simply right click on that pattern in your handy “pattern template” you laid out. (Demonstrated in black box above.) So if you want to switch to pattern #7, right click on gray square #7. You have now switched. Voila! You can now left click to place pattern #7 down anywhere you want. Once you are done laying down your patterns, SAVE the new RAM file. Copy the new RAM file to your SD card and INJECT it into your game once your game is loaded. Enter and exit the nearest building. All of your patterns should now appear on the ground! Congratulations, you are done. Unless you are not, in which case, get back to work. Remember to save and quit to keep your changes.

Note: To DELETE a pattern you have placed, right-click on an empty square somewhere, and then left click on the pattern you want to delete. :)