Dōbutsu no Mori (Game)

Dōbutsu no Mori (Game)
Developer	Nintendo
Publisher	Nintendo
Platforms	Nintendo 64
Genre	Social Simulation

Dōbutsu no Mori(Or Animal Forest in English) is the name of the Animal Crossing game for the Nintendo 64 released only in Japan. This game was translated and ported to the Nintendo Gamecube because the Nintendo 64 was at the end of its life, and because of that sales would have been affected if it were released on the Nintendo 64. This game is compatible with the Expansion Pak and has a sharper image when it is used. This is due to the number of pixels in its resolution being multiplied by 4, from 320x240 (quarter of a normal television's resolution) to 640x480 (the exact resolution of a television).

GCN Port Differences

The Bell Shrine in Animal Forest.

• The Able Sisters and their shop is not in this game, thus designs are not available.

• Some of the wallpapers and carpets from Animal Forest are redesigned or removed in Animal Crossing.

• Some of the clothing from Animal Forest, for example, the N Logo shirt (G Logo in Animal Crossing), are redesigned or removed in Animal Crossing.

• 2 stationaries from Animal Forest are redesigned, for example, the New Year's Card and the Fortune Paper.

• The holidays from Animal Forest are either changed or removed in Animal Crossing.

• Tom Nook wears very slightly different uniforms.

• The wishing well from Animal Crossing is a bell shrine in Animal Forest.

• The input keyboard from Animal Crossing is a dial that contains the letters, numbers, and symbols that appear on the screen in Animal Forest.

• In Animal Crossing, Gulliver would give the player a rare furniture piece for saving him. In Animal Forest, he gives the player a random furniture piece.

• In Animal Crossing, 3 items could be stored in container furniture such as dressers, wardrobes, etc. In Animal Forest, only one item can be stored in those kinds of furniture.

• In Animal Crossing, any house you start out with had a wooden box that a college rule journal on top. In Animal Forest, this is not included, so this means this feature was either not included or both items have to be bought from Nook.

• In Animal Crossing, the catalog has a section called "Handhelds" where umbrellas, pinwheels, fans, balloons and tools could be ordered. In Animal Forest, this section is called "Umbrellas" and only umbrellas can be ordered from that section. This means pinwheels, fans, balloons, and tools cannot be ordered from the catalog.

• In Animal Crossing, the player could store multiple airchecks in Stereos, Radios, etc. In Animal Forest, only one aircheck could be stored in them.

• Buildings such as Tom Nook's shop, the Post Office, and the Dump have slightly redesigned logos in Animal Crossing.

• There is no Museum, thus there is no Blathers.

• Taking a trip on Animal Forest requires you have 1 Controller Pak to save travel data on, and 2 Controller Paks are needed to travel directly. On Animal Crossing, an extra Memory Card is used to save travel data, and the player can travel directly to the other town if 2 Memory Cards with town data are in use at the same time.

• The American Animal Crossing has e-Reader support, as well as the Japanese GameCube e+ version of Animal Forest along with e-Reader+ support. The European version of Animal Crossing and Animal Forest don't have e-Reader support because it was never released in Europe and it was not yet released in Japan at the time the Nintendo 64 was at its end, respectively.