Animal Crossing update became available to download on 25th February 2021. It wasn’t actually possible to access the Mario items until they go live on Animal Crossing Bells 1st March.
Nintendo is giving you something to tide you over, though. As the company revealed in a blog post, “Players who download the Feb. 25 update will receive the mushroom mural in their in-game mailbox as a thank-you gift. Super Mario Bros. themed items won’t be available for order until March 1, but the mushroom mural might help inspire your imagination…you can pretend to be Mario while you wait!”What time did the Animal Crossing Mario update arrive?
The official Japanese Twitter account for Animal Crossing revealed that the Mario update would be available to download from 10am on 25th February, Japanese time. In other time zones: America got the update on Wednesday 24th February at 5pm PST, 7pm CST or 8pm EST, while gamers in Australia got it at 12pm AEDT on Thursday 25th February, and fans in the UK got it Buy Animal Crossing Bells at 1am GMT on Thursday 25th February.