Animal Crossing
Developer(s)	Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Designer(s)	Shigeru Miyamoto Katsuya Eguchi Hisashi Nogami Takashi Tezuka
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Genre(s)	Life simulation game Role-playing game Communication Adventure
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone PEGI: 3+
Platform(s)	GameCube, Nintendo 64 (Japan only)
Media	N64 Cartridge 1 × GameCube Optical Disc

Animal Crossing, known as Animal Forest or Dōbutsu no Mori (どうぶつの森, Dōbutsu no Mori^?) in Japan, is a Japanese-developed video game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development and published by Nintendo. Originally published on April 14, 2001 for the Nintendo 64 in Japan only,^{[citation needed]} it was enhanced and released in the United States on September 15, 2002, where it was a critical and popular success.^{[citation needed]} This is a listing of computer and video game genres with brief descriptions and examples from each genre. ... Life simulator games, or life simulators, are simulation games in which the player lives or controls an (or several) artificial lives. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A new type of game where players live in a town or village and interact with the villagers. ... In computer games and video games, single-player refers to the variant of a particular game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session. ... The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is a self-regulatory organization that applies and enforces ratings, advertising guidelines, and online privacy principles for computer and video games in the United States. ... PEGIs logo Pan European Game Information, or more commonly PEGI, is a European system for rating the content of computer and video games, and other entertainment software. ... The Nintendo GameCube (Japanese: ゲームキューブ; originally code-named Dolphin during development; abbreviated as GCN) is Nintendos fourth home video game console, belonging to the 128-bit era; the same generation as Segas Dreamcast, Sonys PlayStation 2, and Microsofts Xbox. ... The Nintendo 64, commonly called the N64, is Nintendos third home video game console for the international market. ... In a variety of electronic equipments, a cartridge (in video game terms, cart, game pack, or Game Pak) can be one method of programming different functionality, providing variable content, or a method by which consumables may be replenished. ... The Nintendo GameCube (Japanese: ゲームキューブ; originally code-named Dolphin during development; abbreviated as GCN) is Nintendos fourth home video game console, belonging to the 128-bit era; the same generation as Segas Dreamcast, Sonys PlayStation 2, and Microsofts Xbox. ... Namcos Pac-Man was a hit, and became a cultural phenomenon. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Nintendo EAD Tokyo. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (Japanese: 任天堂, ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY.pk, TYO: 7974 ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese playing card game of the same name. ... April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ... 2001 2001 in games 2000 in video gaming 2002 in video gaming Notable events of 2001 in video gaming. ... The Nintendo 64, commonly called the N64, is Nintendos third home video game console for the international market. ... In the video game subculture, an enhanced remake (also called updated classics) is an updated version of a video or computer game that was originally developed for a less advanced system. ... September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Animal Crossing is open-ended and places no pressure on the player to overcome challenges. Instead, each player has a unique town, with a home to decorate, various optional tasks to complete for money or decorative items, and neighbors to interact with. Time passes in the game to match the real-world flow of time: if the player turns on the game at noon, it will be noon in the game, and if the player turns on the game on December 25, it will be Christmas in the game. Noon is the time exactly through the day, written 12:00 in the 24-hour clock and 12:00 noon in the 12-hour clock. ... December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. ... Christmas is a Christian holiday held on December 25 which celebrates the birth of Jesus. ...

Gameplay

Animal Crossing has been dubbed a "communication game" by Nintendo, but has been rated as an Action game. It is an open-ended game, where a player can live a separate life with no preset plot or mandatory tasks. There are, however, certain tasks which players can choose to complete, and goals they can choose to achieve. The game is played out in real-time - observing days, weeks, months, and even years - using the GameCube's internal clock. There are many actual events and holidays spanning the year, including Independence Day, Christmas, Halloween, and Thanksgiving, among others. Other regular activities such as early morning fitness classes and fishing tournaments are included in the game as well. Some players purposely adjust the clock to skip forward or backward in time, a practice known as "time traveling." Other players insist on using cheat codes. A new type of game where players live in a town or village and interact with the villagers. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (Japanese: 任天堂, ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY.pk, TYO: 7974 ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese playing card game of the same name. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Sandbox (videogames). ... Look up plot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Nintendo GameCube (Japanese: ゲームキューブ; originally code-named Dolphin during development; officially abbreviated as GCN by Nintendo of America) is Nintendos fourth home video game console, belonging to the sixth generation era—the same generation as Segas Dreamcast, Sonys PlayStation 2, and Microsofts Xbox. ...

House Improvements

The main and most obvious goal of the game is to expand the size of the player's house. This house serves as the repository for furniture and other items bought or acquired during the course of the game. It can be customized in a number of ways, including roof color, furniture, what music (if any) plays when a player enters the house, wallpaper and flooring. House expansions grant the player a larger house, and thus more space to store items or more decorative flexibility.

Tom Nook, a tanuki in the Japanese version and a raccoon in the American and European version, runs the local store. At the beginning of the game, he gives the player their first house with a mortgage of 19,800 Bells (the currency used in the game). The house is comically small, furnished only with wallpaper, flooring, a box, a journal, and a radio. Upon paying off the entire debt, part of which is done through a part-time job to Tom Nook, the player is offered to expand the house. If the player accepts, the house is enlarged overnight for 120,000 Bells. If the player refuses to have their house expanded, Nook expands the house nevertheless, claiming that the player will need the space. Upon paying this debt entirely, Tom Nook gives the player the option of either having the house expanded again for 398,000 Bells or having a basement built for 49,800 Bells. After the player chooses one and pays back the debt, Tom Nook then offers the other. The last addition to the house is the installation of a second floor. Upon paying back the 798,000 Bells for this last expansion, Tom Nook builds a statue of the player in front of the train station. To reach this point, the player will have paid Tom Nook a total of 1,413,600 bells in home expansions. The statue is in gold, silver, bronze, or jade, depending on the order that the other players pay off their entire debt. Tanuki with typically enlarged scrotum, in a print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. ... Type Species Procyon lotor Linnaeus, 1758 Species Procyon cancrivorus Procyon insularis Procyon lotor Raccoons are nocturnal mammals in the genus Procyon of the Procyonidae family. ... A basement is a story or several stories of a building that are either completely or partially below the ground floor. ... Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street station in 1865. ...

Though Tom Nook is more than willing to sell furniture and other items to fill a house, there are many other ways to acquire furnishings. A trip to the town dump may yield items that were unwanted by someone else and are thus free. The police station has a lost and found department run by Officer Booker, who will allow anyone to claim any item that has ended up there. Other villagers that live nearby may need favors and will reward the player for their help. Players can even obtain new furniture items by shaking trees until a piece of furniture falls from one. The downside to tree shaking, however, is that bees may come out instead. If this happens, a player must run into the nearest house or building, or else they will be stung. However, there is an upside; if the player has a net, they can catch the bees and sell them to Nook or donate them to the museum. A landfill compaction vehicle in operation A landfill, also known as a dump (US) or a tip (UK), is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment. ... A typical suburban police station in the United States (this one is in San Bruno, California). ... Lost And Found is a Christian rock band from the United States. ...

Villagers

Main article: List of Animal Crossing residents

The Animal Crossing village initially contains a handful of villagers, and others will move in or out depending on the player's actions. All of the villagers are animals, hence the game's name, and each has their own small home that the player can visit. There are many possible interactions between the player and the villagers. These include talking, trading furniture and other objects, completing tasks for rewards, and writing letters. Villagers will also interact with each other. There are roughly 200 villagers, but no more than fifteen will ever live in a town at once. Each villager also has a sound or phrase they repeat often, often relating to the animal they are. For example, a cow might exclaim, "Macmoo!" These phrases simply add personality to the character, and can be changed at times if the villager asks the player to do so. A village is a human residential settlement commonly found in rural areas. ...

If the player doesn't interact with individual villagers on a regular basis, they are likely to leave the village. The village also has a level of attractiveness that depends on certain parameters that are never explicitly described to the player, but are hinted at by a spirit living in the village fountain. A high attractiveness will draw new animals to live in the village.

Nintendo Entertainment System games

Nearly two dozen NES games are available to collect in Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing is packaged with a memory card that gives the player two games. Others are acquired in various ways. The games available are: Nes is: A municipality in the county of Akershus in Norway, see Nes, Akershus. ...

• Balloon Fight
• Baseball
• Clu Clu Land
• Clu Clu Land D
• Donkey Kong
• Donkey Kong Jr.
• Donkey Kong Jr. Math (shortened to DK Jr. MATH in the menu)
• Donkey Kong 3
• Excitebike
• Golf
• Ice Climber
• The Legend of Zelda
• Mario Bros.
• Pinball
• Punch-Out!!
• Soccer
• Super Mario Bros.
• Tennis
• Wario's Woods

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• Gomoku Narabe
• Mahjong

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• Excitebike
• Soccer

The other games in the differing versions are exactly the same, totalling exactly 19 games in all GCN versions. Excitebike for the Nintendo Family Computer. ... Soccer. ...

There are four NES games often referred to as the "Forbidden Four" that can only be obtained by using an Action Replay cheat device or an e-Reader. Ice Climber and Mario Bros. are available through both hardware devices, while Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda are only available by using an Action Replay. Previously, this was referred to as the "Forbidden Five", as "Punch-Out!!" was only available by means of Action Replay until the European release, when the Nintendo of Europe website for Animal Crossing offered a code similar to the ones needed for Clu Clu Land D, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3, and Soccer on the American website for Animal Crossing. The code worked for U.S. copies as well. These codes were the only way of obtaining the five games. Action Replay is the brand name of a series of devices created by Datel, primarily used for changing the behavior of video games. ... The e-Reader with card. ...

Advance Play is when a person links their Game Boy Advance into their GameCube to download the NES game to their handheld temporarily. For this to work, a player must download a game that does not require saving, meaning that Clu Clu Land D, Legend of Zelda, and Wario's Woods cannot be played on the Game Boy Advance. Punch-Out!! can't be played on the GBA as well due to the fact that the original NES release uses password to save, and while playing within Animal Crossing, the password is saved. All other games can be played on Advance Play, but they are slightly stretched on the Game Boy's display and are limited to one player.

Extra NES Games (decoration only):

• Super Tortimer
• NES Console

Secrets

For the Animal Crossing Secrets see Animal Crossing series#Secrets

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Common Bugs

DUMMY

A picture of the DUMMY item (the white triangle)

Around Winter, villagers will start to make igloos around town. Sometimes villagers will make bets with the player. If a villager asks the player to pick a bag and they are able to buy the item inside, the villager may give an item to the player titled "DUMMY". It is a white triangle that has the word "dummy" written on it in katakana. It can only be obtained in this manner and it counts as furniture. The "DUMMY" is worth no HRA points. If the item is dropped on the ground, it cannot be picked back up, and resembles a fishing lure. Image File history File links Image1. ... Image File history File links Image1. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Manyogana 万葉仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Rōmaji ローマ字 For other meanings of Kana, see Kana (disambiguation). ...

Note: By using the Action Replay disc, when one of the "Item in Slot 1 is..." cheats is selected, the item will physically appear to be the dummy item, but it has the other item's attributes, such as price, log NUM, and memory space. Action Replay is the brand name of a series of devices created by Datel, primarily used for changing the behavior of video games. ...

Missing Face

Missing Face Screenshot

A person's character has one of eight pairs of eyes selected when a player starts the game based on the answers they give Rover to certain questions. However, if people leave their village, save their game to a second memory card, and start the first game again, without the second memory card, their character will have no eyes nor mouth textures. This is because their character's eye and mouth texture data has been stored on the second card, so the game, located on the first memory card, does not know what the textures are, resulting in the "missing face." This does not affect game play, however, as people can play normally with no face texture. It has been theorized to remind the players to save with the Gyroid and remember their memory cards. This can also occur if the player resets the console without saving in another person's town. Players will also lose all of the items in their inventory and their money if this happens. However, if the game is fast-forwarded to the next day, the player's original facial textures will become intact once more. Image File history File links Image2. ... Image File history File links Image2. ...

It should also be noted that in this game, as well as Animal Crossing: Wild World for the Nintendo DS, the villager Coco, a rabbit, bears a face resembling the "missing face" from its Gamecube counterpart, this time complete with a set of rabbit ears. There's no doubt that this character is an in-joke provided by the developers, and any doubt is lifted when the player sees the inscription on her picture, which reads, "I'm feeling kind of blank today.", jokingly implying that she is, in fact, missing her face. The Nintendo DS (sometimes abbreviated NDS or DS, also as iQue DS in China) is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo, released in 2004. ...

Grab Bag

If the player uses the memory card that comes with the game there will be a letter from Nintendo and a present. The present will be a Grab bag that has Japanese letters on it like DUMMY. The player can also walk through it. Open it to get a piece of furniture and two NES games.

Multiplayer

There are several types of multiplayer game play in Animal Crossing.

In the first, up to four players can create their own houses in a single village. No two players can play at the same time, but by taking turns they can each affect the village in their own ways, communicate with each other via the town board and mail, and share in the experiences of the village.

In the second, two players can play NES games together. All that this requires is two controllers and a compatible NES game (keep in mind that not all of the NES games have the two-player option). Once the controllers are in the players are able to select the NES game they want to play. Once the game is started, players can select the two-player option and start playing multiplayer.

A third type of multiplayer play consists of trading items with another player using a system of codes. By specifying the name of another player and the name of their village, a player can "trade" an item, generating a code which the other player can input to retrieve the item. Also, a well known easier way to trade items is to simply travel to a friend's town and drop the item the player wants to give them. This prevents the loss of the item code which must be memorized or written down.

Travelling

Animal Crossing has a travelling system that allows one character to visit a friend's village. This method is quite simple and can be done two ways:

First Method: With a memory card with no Animal Crossing data, players go to the train station and tell the porter that they'd like to take a trip. The train will arrive and they climb aboard. This saves "travel data" on the other memory card, which may then be used in conjunction with a friend's memory card to visit their town. Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street station in 1865. ... A porter carries objects. ... For other uses, see Train (disambiguation). ...

Alternative Method: If players have a memory card with another town in memory card slot B, they may travel directly to the other town.

Since no two villages are alike, players can meet new villagers and shop at Nook's, which will have different stock. Inviting a friend over is also the only way to get Tom Nook's final expansion, Nookingtons.

Users on Japanese versions of Animal Crossing on the Nintendo DS are unable to travel to towns of English versions of Animal Crossing or vice versa.

It may be notable that, whenever a player uses the second method to visit a town, a villager from his town may move to the visited town, and vice versa.

Tropical Island

In Animal Crossing, each town has its own tropical island. One can access it by plugging in one's Game Boy Advance to Gamecube Link Cable and going to the southeastern part of town where the dock is. Players will meet a friendly old Sea Turtle named Kapp'n (this is a pun on 'kappa', a turtle-shaped imp from Japanese mythology) there, waiting inside a tiny little row boat. Kapp'n is as generous as the other residents of the town, and will ferry players across to the island for free, while singing bizarre sea-shanties and making his trademark ribald, inappropriate remarks. Arriving at the island one will see a new animal roaming the tiny island and can become friends with him/her. One can knock down coconuts, decorate a small communal beach house and fish at the shores. By staying there for a long period of time, (only when it's sunny, not raining.) players will get a tan. With an Action Replay and a copy of the NTSC American version of the game, it is possible to access it without the Game Boy Advance with the cheat that enables the player to jump. Kappn is a fictional, seafaring kappa captain from the video games Animal Crossing and its sequel Animal Crossing: Wild World. ... Action Replay is the brand name of a series of devices created by Datel, primarily used for changing the behavior of video games. ...

Item Trading

Animal Crossing has a popular Offline Item Send & Receive feature. Through the use of codes customised by Player and Town name, players can transfer certain items to each other. If both of the memory cards are present, however, it is much simpler to just drop the item in one's friend's town. It is also possible to get special gifts from Nintendo with special Universal codes. (Please note using universal codes may have an effect on the game, such as the rare glitch fish and death fish.) Nintendo Company, Limited (Japanese: 任天堂, ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY.pk, TYO: 7974 ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese playing card game of the same name. ...

Characters

Main article: List of Animal Crossing characters

• Blathers: Blathers is the curator of the local museum. He is quite ashamed that his museum has no exhibits, so Blathers trusts the player to donate fish, bugs, fossils and paintings to the museum. He has an awful habit of talking too much, hence his name. Insects (especially cockroaches) creep him out, oddly enough, and he loves goldfish.
• Copper: Officer Copper is in charge of monitoring who comes to town, and notifies players of special events in town and their location. Officer Copper will also let players know exactly how many things are in the police station. He is also a member of B.I.P., which stands for "Busting Illegal Parkers", which explains his grudge against Gracie. He also suspects Katrina of being an alias, and perhaps suspects her fortune-telling occupation of being a front. He seems to be the more active of the two, seeing that he wakes up at 7:00am after July 25th to host the village in aerobics.
• Kapp'n: Kapp'n is a kappa that appears when the player connects their Game Boy Advance to their GameCube. Once the systems are connected, Kapp'n will appear at the docks and offer to take the player to an island. If he or she says yes, he or she will get in his boat and will soon arrive at an island.
• Porter: The (seemingly) unnamed monkey who works at the train station. When players talk to the porter, he will make sure that they get on board the train safely and will wait for them at the station in the village they are visiting.
• Redd: Redd is the owner of a black market called "Crazy Redd's Furniture Emporium". Although Redd sells rare items like paintings, he sells fairly common items at sky-high prices, which explains his title of "Crazy" Redd.
• Rover: Rover is a cat who will sit next to players on the train. When they move in to their new town, he will ask odd questions which will determine their gender, clothes and appearance. Since he is almost always on the train, it is possible that he does not have a home and lives on the train.

An image of K.K. Slider

• Tom Nook (たぬきち): A raccoon who is the local shopkeeper. Once players pay off their mortgage, he will rebuild the players' house, build a basement, and, if the players have the biggest house in the game, he will build a statue of the player in front of the train station. If players spend a certain amount of bells at Nook's Cranny, Tom Nook will expand his store, giving him more space for more items.
• Tortimer: Mayor Tortimer is a tortoise who hosts many events and holidays at the wishing well. Talking to the mayor allows the player to have a long conversation, but he will give away rare models.
• Totakeke: Totakeke is a musician who plays music in front of the train station every Saturday night, from 8:00 to midnight. After players listen to Totakeke's music, he hands out a tape recording which they can play on a radio back at their house. On stage, Totakeke is known as "K.K. Slider".
• The villagers: ranging from a wide variety of animal species and personality types. For male animals, there are three, generally described as "Athletic," "Moody," and "Forgetful", and for female animals, there are also three, generally described as "Sweet," "Peppy," and "Snobby." The "Athletes" usually talk about working out. "Moody" guys and "Snobs" usually insult players. The "Forgetful" ones can be described as sleepy and hungry. "Peppy" animals like gambling games. And the "Sweet" animals usually compliment players and trade things.

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Using the Game Boy Advance

Game Boy Advance connectivity can play a role in Animal Crossing for those who own one. To link the two, one needs a Game Boy Advance-GameCube cable. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Nintendo GameCube (Japanese: ゲームキューブ; originally code-named Dolphin during development; abbreviated as GCN) is Nintendos fourth home video game console, belonging to the 128-bit era; the same generation as Segas Dreamcast, Sonys PlayStation 2, and Microsofts Xbox. ...

The island

When the two systems are linked, Kapp'n can be found at the dock and will row the player to the island, where a villager has taken up residence. The player can give the villager items in return for money and other commodities. Also on the island are coconut trees, and this is the only place they can be found. It is always summer on the island, and only summer fish and insects can be caught there. When the player leaves the island, he or she can choose the option of transferring the island to his or her Game Boy Advance and interact with the islander as a minigame for in-game rewards. In Fantastic Dizzy, the player has to complete a sliding puzzle to get an extra life. ...

e-Reader compatibility

Animal Crossing is compatible with the e-Reader. One can use e-Reader cards to get new items, including NES games, a new town tune, or a shirt design. The e-Reader with card. ...

Trivia

• One of Japan's most important gaming magazines, Famitsu, gave the Nintendo 64 version of Doubutsu no Mori a gold score of 32/40. Doubutsu no Mori + (Animal Crossing) for the Gamecube received a much higher platinum score of 37/40.
• One of the rarest fish in the game, the coelacanth, is also one of the rarest fish on Earth.
• Three Animal Crossing game trophies are available in Super Smash Bros. Melee: Tom Nook, Totakeke (also known as K.K. Slider), and Mr. Resetti. The characters were listed as being from a "future release", as Super Smash Bros. Melee was released before Animal Crossing in the United States.
• Elements from Animal Crossing also appear in Daigasso! Band Brothers, WarioWare: Twisted!, Pikmin 2 and Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour.
• The European release was significantly delayed. Translation issues are one reason for the delays, as Animal Crossing was translated into 7 additional languages. Nintendo later promised Europe that "we are not going to be two years late, as we were with Animal Crossing on GameCube, on any other products."1
• The Australian release of the game is the only PAL version to have e-Reader support as it is a direct port of the U.S version and was released much earlier than its European counterpart.
• There is absolutely no connection between these games and the anime and manga series Animal Yokocho, although the title "Animal Crossing" was used for that series in some early English-language articles.
• In the Japanese version of the game, "gyroids" are called haniwa, after a kind of archaeological artifact native to Japan. This in a way makes the player's town an old grave yard because haniwa were used to mark graves.
• Mario, Link, and other Nintendo Characters are often referenced to throughout the game by animals such as Kapp'n, Gulliver, and Rover ^[1]. Players can also gain rare video game-themed items, such as Fire Flowers, the Master Sword and an Arwing model. There are also Mario and Luigi statues and shirts.
• The game featured a code system whereby players could trade items by getting a code corresponding to the item and giving the code to their friend. Most of these codes were dependent on the player and town names of the players involved in the trade, but some, known among players as universal codes, were usable by any player in any town; it is speculated they would be used for Nintendo contests or future e-reader cards. A very common way to earn items was for people to go online and look for codes to give to Nook. This can make it much easier for people to pay off their debt and get rare items. This is also the only way to get some of the rarest items, like the Nintendo bench or Mario series.
• Because of its complexity, the game uses 57 blocks of the standard 59 block memory card. If bought new, it comes with a memory card with an Animal Crossing sticker already on it and a 1 block "grab bag" in-game present in it. If the player has an NES game in Animal Crossing and the present is not collected, the entire memory card is used up. However, the grab-bag is an NTSC exclusive -- all other versions come with a normal memory card and sticker, and the player does not receive any gift from Nintendo.
• The tune Kapp'n sings to is the Banana Boat Song

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Notes and references

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External links

Official sites

• The Crossing Guardian - Official Animal Crossing Website
• European Animal Crossing Website

Fansites

• Animal Crossing Community
• Animal Crossing Ahead
• Project Hyrule - for codes

Interviews and media

• GameFAQs's Animal Crossing page