Does this Animal Crossing Cartridge work with an American N64?

[Leeloo55]

I hope i’m not breaking a rule by linking to this here, and I’ll certainly remove if it’s a problem.

It seems too good to be true, but will this cartridge work with my American N64?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/animal-cro...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

 

[Leeloo55]

For anyone who’s curious, it did, briefly. It was missing elements— no museum, no Able Sisters, no Tortimer, no Gulliver. But the villagers’ personalities were so much more vivid that my daughters and I still fell completely in love with this version. Then, each of our save files ran into a glitch at some point, and all are now unplayable. HappIly, the seller was immediately willing to accept a return.

Now I’m waiting for my new/old GameCube and AC GCN to arrive. I am such a sucker for this game franchise!

 

[ReanimatedSorceress]

To my knowledge the N64 is region locked

Edit: I didn't realize it was a bootleg at first. Interesting to hear your results. The entire game is only 32 megabytes and on the GameCube, once you've loaded your game you can actually remove the disc and continue playing with no problems unless you need to save, because the entire game can be stored in the GameCube's RAM. So it's very interesting that the Nintendo 64 can't run this. Is this supposed to be based on the American GameCube version or is it supposed to be a translation of Dobotsu no Mori (Animal Forest)?

 

[Leeloo55]

It’s a translation of Dobotsu no Mori (Animal Forest). They never completed the translation completely, so that a villager would hand you something and say, “Here, take this— it’s a ________” and since the noun name for the gift object was still in Japanese, we had to go back to our houses and place the gift to see what it was.

The whole thing was much more fun than I expected!

Even my kids, who I expected to scorn it because it’s so rough and pixelated compared to the high gloss of ACNH (or even ACNL), found it charming.

 

[toxapex]

Huh, I saw a while ago that someone was working on a translation for Animal Forest (or maybe Animal Forest e+?) and was releasing periodic "beta" versions, noting that not all of the villager dialogue was fully translated. So I wonder if someone made the bootleg by dumping one of those WIPs onto a cartridge