This post provides additional technical information to accompany a dedicated video on this topic. Background Back in 2001, Nintendo held Japanese-exclusive magazine promotions through Famitsu and Nintendo Dream. Readers could enter a special giveaway by mailing in a letter with their thoughts about Doubutsu no Mori, the original Japanese N64 version of Animal Crossing. To our knowledge, si...

Introduction The original Animal Crossing for the GameCube allows you to mail letters to your resident villagers. To handle villager responses to these letters, the developers implemented several checks that internally score the contents of any letter you send to a villager. This internal score affects how the villager responds to the letter, as well as your friendship with them and whether or ...

Introduction This documentation covers the structure of Dōbutsu no Mori e+ villager e-Reader cards. The header/title section is universal and can be applied to other e-Reader projects, but the rest of the data is specific to Dōbutsu no Mori e+. Format By default, e-Reader cards come formatted as a compressed .raw file. In order to view data in a hex editor or make modifications, you must de...

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Since nobody can seem to find Nintendo’s rarest Controller Pak item… how about we just recreate one ourselves? This video includes mistakes, misinformation, or oversights! See below for corrections. Mistakes & Corrections It turns out I am not the first one to test a Famicom game on an actual N64 console! This process was originally replicated by Jhynjhiruu on the C...