Experiencing Animal Forest N64 for the first time.

[PoizonMushro0m]

I don't know what category this goes in since I rarely ever see anyone mention Animal Forest N64, move this thread if necessary!

As an editor of Nookipedia, I was fascinated when I heard there was an Animal Crossing made for the Nintendo 64. After a few weeks of prep, I finally downloaded the game. This is my first experience ever playing a game in Japanese and I can’t wait to see how different Dōbutsu no Mori (どうぶつの森 or Animal Forest) is from the Animal Crossing we all know on GameCube!

 

[mitzi_crossing]

I think there are quite a few major differences between the Japanese version and the one for gamecube, them being holidays and a handful of different villagers. I think there may be some other differences but I just cant place them right now hope you enjoy playing

 

[charmi]

Oh, Joan. . . haha x)

 

[strawbewwy]

never knew they made one for the n64!

 

[mayorcarlie]

Oh wow! Please post more screen shots for us!

 

[PoizonMushro0m]

Oh wow! Please post more screen shots for us!

Ask and you shall receive! I took these mainly for Nookipedia, as these are some of the main differences that I noticed from my brief time with the game.

This is Dōbutsu no Mori's version of the Wishing Well, called the Bell Shrine

Copper wears a much lighter uniform in this game from the looks of it!

 

[Bwazey]

What kind of villagers do you have?

 

[PoizonMushro0m]

What kind of villagers do you have?

Funnily enough, I just hopped on my game to find my progress erased. It doesn't matter all that much as I only spent 10 minutes into the game.

 

[Bwazey]

Funnily enough, I just hopped on my game to find my progress erased. It doesn't matter all that much as I only spent 10 minutes into the game.

Awwww. Well tell me what villagers you get this time! If you decide to start it up again.

 

[PoizonMushro0m]

Very late update to my blog of Animal Forest N64, but I decided after the last post that I would not continue Animal Forest N64 until I pick up a USB N64 Controller as the emulator made the game very tricky to control, mainly in the way of trying to figure out which buttons were which. I hope that I will be able to continue this very soon!

 

[gameboy]

Very late update to my blog of Animal Forest N64, but I decided after the last post that I would not continue Animal Forest N64 until I pick up a USB N64 Controller as the emulator made the game very tricky to control, mainly in the way of trying to figure out which buttons were which. I hope that I will be able to continue this very soon!

Looking forward to seeing more updates about the game. By the way, do you understand Japanese? If not, how hard would you say it is to navigate through everything?

 

[JayGaymes]

Looking forward to seeing more updates about the game. By the way, do you understand Japanese? If not, how hard would you say it is to navigate through everything?

If they don't know Japanese, this might be a good way

Btw, you are so lucky to get to play this version! I love those graphics too

 

[PoizonMushro0m]

Looking forward to seeing more updates about the game. By the way, do you understand Japanese? If not, how hard would you say it is to navigate through everything?

Unfortunately, I do not understand Japanese, I took classes in high school to assist me in learning it, but I had to take days off as my mom was in poor health at the time. If I can find time somewhere in the future, I would love to pick it back up again.

If they don't know Japanese, this might be a good way

Btw, you are so lucky to get to play this version! I love those graphics too

Heh, all I did was look around on the internet for an original .ROM of the N64 game. I can't say as I don't want to tracked down for helping people get games illegally, but I will say Google is a great resource (Make sure you have a very good anti-virus software as well!)

 

[Kristen]

I've heard about it and would play it except for the fact that I don't know Japanese is stopping me.. haha.

By the way, a pro tip for playing roms (as I saw your post about finding a controller) on your PC, you can buy a wired Xbox 360 controller and plug it into your computer. Most emulators will recognize the controller and you can assign the Xbox buttons to certain N64 buttons. I use it for playing Banjo-Kazooie/Banjo-Tooie on my PC and I really love it.

 

[PoizonMushro0m]

I've heard about it and would play it except for the fact that I don't know Japanese is stopping me.. haha.

By the way, a pro tip for playing roms (as I saw your post about finding a controller) on your PC, you can buy a wired Xbox 360 controller and plug it into your computer. Most emulators will recognize the controller and you can assign the Xbox buttons to certain N64 buttons. I use it for playing Banjo-Kazooie/Banjo-Tooie on my PC and I really love it.

Funnily enough, I sent away for a wired Xbox 360 Controller on Cyber Monday to use with other PC games. I will have to check on this once it arrives. Thank you for the tip!

 

[Kristen]

Funnily enough, I sent away for a wired Xbox 360 Controller on Cyber Monday to use with other PC games. I will have to check on this once it arrives. Thank you for the tip!

Haha, you're already a step ahead of me! Good luck with it

 

[spamurai]

There's some info in my signature about all the versions of Animal Crossing

 

[pika62221]

It's cheap enough to find the actual cart on ebay, and if you cut those plastic tabs off your 64, it'll play it with no problem. If you don't feel like doing surgery, you could also use a Game Shark since they're all region free. This was back in a time when region locking meant doing slight cartridge design differences. That's why I have the actual cart, and the biggest difference right off the bat, yeah it has a clock that runs, but ONLY WHILE THE SYSTEM IS ON! You turn it off, wait a year, turn it back on, it'll literally still be the last day/time it was when you last played! You have to manually set the clock every freaking time or leave your system on forever! Glad they use the GC's clock on the GC version, soooo annoying when starting DNM!

 

[PoizonMushro0m]

It's cheap enough to find the actual cart on ebay, and if you cut those plastic tabs off your 64, it'll play it with no problem. If you don't feel like doing surgery, you could also use a Game Shark since they're all region free. This was back in a time when region locking meant doing slight cartridge design differences. That's why I have the actual cart, and the biggest difference right off the bat, yeah it has a clock that runs, but ONLY WHILE THE SYSTEM IS ON! You turn it off, wait a year, turn it back on, it'll literally still be the last day/time it was when you last played! You have to manually set the clock every freaking time or leave your system on forever! Glad they use the GC's clock on the GC version, soooo annoying when starting DNM!

I am aware of modifiying my N64 in order to play games out of my region, but I really do not like to perform mods like this to my console unless I have the game. As for the actual cart, I am very inexperienced with eBay, so I that is why I do not have the physical cart. If I did, I might have actually modded my N64.

I do agree though, the in-game clock is quite a pain!

 

[spamurai]

It's cheap enough to find the actual cart on ebay, and if you cut those plastic tabs off your 64, it'll play it with no problem. If you don't feel like doing surgery, you could also use a Game Shark since they're all region free. This was back in a time when region locking meant doing slight cartridge design differences. That's why I have the actual cart, and the biggest difference right off the bat, yeah it has a clock that runs, but ONLY WHILE THE SYSTEM IS ON! You turn it off, wait a year, turn it back on, it'll literally still be the last day/time it was when you last played! You have to manually set the clock every freaking time or leave your system on forever! Glad they use the GC's clock on the GC version, soooo annoying when starting DNM!

I am aware of modifiying my N64 in order to play games out of my region, but I really do not like to perform mods like this to my console unless I have the game. As for the actual cart, I am very inexperienced with eBay, so I that is why I do not have the physical cart. If I did, I might have actually modded my N64.

I do agree though, the in-game clock is quite a pain!

Instead of modding your console, you can just take the back of a cartridge from your region and put it on the doubustu no mori cart.
I got mine off eBay, but you can also find them on Amazon and playasia if you'd prefer a different website.

I'd recommend getting the physical copy just for the nostalgia