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10/3/2003
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Contents
WHAT IS THIS GUIDE?
ANIMAL INTERACTIONS
ANIMAL (GAMEBOY) ISLAND GEMS
ISLANDER PREFERENCES
ISLANDER PERSONALITIES
NES GAMES AND THE BEST ITEM LIST EVER
TEXTURE CREATION SOFTWARE (I'll make a texture for you out of any image!)
MISCELANEOUS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CLOSING AND CONTACT INFORMATION
LEGAL JUNK
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WHAT IS THIS GUIDE?
There's a lot of good information available on Animal Crossing, but it's buried
in a lot of junk. More and more "topical FAQs" are coming out. But there's
some good information I thought should be more available. So my goal for this
FAQ is to mine out the gems, and present them here. I will not cover much in
the way of basics, but provide answers to some of the common puzzlers and other
tidbits of highly useful information.
SUGGESTIONS?
Email me at
[email protected] if there is a difficult subject that you want
covered, and it's NOT already covered in the other FAQs.
WHAT THIS GUIDE IS NOT
This guide is not a guide to glitches, clock-resetting, and other ways of
so-called "cheating" (please don't email me that clock setting isn't cheating).
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ANIMAL INTERACTIONS
When talking to the animals, it's a good idea to have a fish, bug, shirt, and
piece of furniture in your inventory. You may want to have a wallpaper and
floor too. Make sure that it's all stuff you don't want, because the whole
point is to sell (or give!) them to the animals to make them happy if they ask.
Often you get stuff back. I always talk to them at least once before asking
if they want a favor. Sometimes I get an item just for talking! Also, make
sure that you have a few bells (I like to have 10,000-20,000). But don't have
too much, because the more you have, the more they are liable to ask for!
Here's a couple of noteworthy interactions:
If an animal asks you to arm-wrestle, he won't actually arm-wrestle you, but
will give you a "quiz" and ask you how many pushups he did. It's multiple
choice, but if you're wrong, the animal takes all the bells you are carrying.
One of the quizzes has to do with the Chinese Zodiac. Apparently even if you
get it all correct, you still get nothing. But here's some info anyways. I
haven't encountered this one, but from what I've gathered, here is the critical
information you need to get it right. The order of the zodiac is Rat, Ox,
Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat (or Sheep), Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig
(or Boar). They also seem to ask you which animal is a pig, and the answer is
Joan. And which animal is monkey, the answer is Porter.
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ANIMAL (GAMEBOY) ISLAND GEMS
On Animal Island let your islander use the golden fishing pole, you might get
Wario's Woods and Baseball (unconfirmed).
Wario's Woods with the golden shovel:
Step 1 (on Gamecube): Go to your Island and bury FURNITURE, leave some FRUIT
that it likes there (at least 3 pieces of fruit per furniture) and leave a
GOLDEN SHOVEL there. (Don't worry, you'll get it back. I've heard that even if
the islander doesn't drop the shovel, it's there when the Kapp'n takes you
back.)
Step 2 (on Gamecube): Transfer your Island to your GBA.
Step 3 (on GBA Island game): Bring out your Islander and feed it the FRUIT that
it LIKES until it is at its maximum happyness level. (I think once it drops
bells it's at maximum happiness. Also, the eyes look different and the music
speeds up. See next section for more details.)
Step 4 (on GBA Island game: Put the GOLDEN SHOVEL in your Islanders hand, have
her go to your buried FURNITURE and she will dig it up and replace it.
(note: to make the islander drop the shovel so it will eat more fruit, just
click on the islander. After it has dropped the shovel, give it more fruit.)
Step 5: After all your buried things have been replaced transfer your Island
back on to your gamecube.
Step 6 (on Gamecube): Go dig up all the replacement furniture and collect your
new items.
Step 7: Chances are, Wario's Woods wont be one of these items, repeat steps 1-6
until you have Wario's Woods!
Note: if you bury lots of furniture, then he won't have a spot to plant flowers
and become less happy.
Have your islander use the net to catch floating presents.
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ISLANDER PREFERENCES
This is a relatively long section, so I decided not to lump it in with the
other Island stuff...
I've collected a bunch of information off of a looong gamefaqs post on this,
and would like to get more. Any contributors are welcome! Please email to
[email protected]
what your islander's favorite fruit, and favorite items are! Please note the
difference between favorite items and "impulse buying" below. I will update
this periodically. If you email me about favorite fruit, please also tell me
WHY you think it's the favorite, so I can tell if you're doing it the "right"
way.
If you're new to this, when playing Animal Crossing Island directly on the
gameboy (NOT through the gamecube), if you feed your islander its favorite
fruit, you get 30,000 bell bags! It's hated fruit produces a little skull
cloud for a coupla seconds, and you get nothing. Some people find that there
is a fruit that often gives 10,000 bell bags. I am calling this a "second fav"
fruit.
Turns out that the islander's favorite fruit and hated fruit are NOT random. A
particular islander will always love and hate the same fruit. For example,
Drift always hates apples.
It appears that the items islanders ask for are not random! Each islander has
his or her own "favorite items." It seems, however, that they do NOT ask for a
complete furniture set (such as all the regal furniture), although some ask for
many items from a particular set. Also, they may ask for a RANDOM item IF IT
IS IN YOUR INVENTORY (this has been coined "impulse buying" No point in keeping
track of these, because they can be anything. So, please, IF YOU EMAIL ME
ABOUT ITEMS, MAKE SURE THEY HAVEN'T ASKED FOR AN ITEM THAT YOU ARE CARRYING.
Just to clarify: The favorite fruit is the one that makes the islander drop
big money bags, plus music " picks up in tempo", and the islander keeps the
stupid grin on his face, with the ^^ eyes. THERE IS A WAY TO TELL FOR SURE
WHICH IS THE FAVORITE FRUIT. When you first start playing on the GBA island, it
will take 3 of most fruit to get your first money bag. The favorite fruit makes
them happy faster and it will only take 2. If you want to tell for certain what
is the favorite fruit, try this with different fruit, but you must try it with
a different fruit EACH time you START playing on the GBA so that the islander
always starts at the same level of happiness.
Note: A claim has been made that you can get more bells from non-favorite
fruit. If you'd like to investigate this, take a set number of favorite fruit
(say 15) to the island. Keep track of total bells. Then do the same with each
kind of liked fruit. Email me the results. If you aren't bored out of your
skull by then, feel free to do it all again! ;)
Another note: islanders often complain and give back furniture you have given
them, even if it is a favorite item. They will often ask for it back again. I
suggest storing stuff they give back in the island house. Then if you carry it
with you, they will often pay you for it again, even if they haven't asked for
it recently!
What I've done is put the letter "y" behind an item for each person who
confirmed an entry (so one y means two posts said the same thing, two y's mean
three posts, and so on). If something says YES behind it, that means I'm sure
of it (at least ten confirmations) and I don't need more confirmations. Of
course there could still be errors. No way for me to verify better than noting
when multiple posts/emails say the same thing. If the favorite fruit is all in
CAPS, it means that at least one person very clearly knew what they were doing.
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Name Favorite Hated Furniture
Fruit Fruit
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Ankha CHERRY yy apples YES Regal y
the Cat harp yy
ivory piano yyyy
regal dresser yy
regal vanity yyy
retro stereo yyyy
shrine lantern yyy
white king yyy
white queen yyyyy
Hawthorne Bonsai yy
Tape Deck yy
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Annalise PEARS y oranges YES Regal
the horse
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Bliss No info oranges YES Cabana yyy
the squirrel
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Boomer pears cherries YES Space y
the Penguin Lunar Lander y
Robo Clock
Spaceman Sam y
Standing Stone
Stone Couple
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Bud cherries peaches YES chess board
the Lion pears Corn plant yyyy
conga drum
Djibe Drum yyyy
Ebony Piano yyyy
Jukebox
modern bed y
Modern Bed yyy
Reel-to-reel yyyyy
rock guitar yyyyy
strange painting yyyyy
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Dobie PEACHES cherries YES garden furniture
the Wolf mossy stone
Red vase yy
shrine lantern
stone couple y
tape deck y
pond lantern
maybe blue wardrobe
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Drift ORANGES y apples YES Construction YES
the frog wet road sign
men at work sign
haz-mat barrel
oil drum
orange cone
flagman sign
CD Player
leaning stone
potbelly stove
exotic screen
kiddie table
cactus
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Elina Pears yy peaches YES Exotic yy
the Elephant or apples? Yyyy birdcage yyyy
blue vase yy
exotic bed y
exotic chair y
exotic screen
exotic wardrobe yy
glass-top table yyy
exotic screen
sleigh
turntable yyy
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Faith Oranges pears YES baby bear yyy
the Koala Cherries elephant slide yyyy
executive toy yyy
jack in the box
mama bear yyy
papa bear yyy
ptera skull
red aloha shirt
red chair
Robo stereo y
starry shirt y
water bird y
Wobbelina yy
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Flash Apples peaches YES Blue y
the bird AND coconuts beach table
Blue bed
blue bench y
blue bookcase
blue cabinet
blue chair
blue dresser
blue wardrobe y
bromiliceae
classic bed
croton
green chair
high-end stereo
kitchy clock
neutral corner
ranch bookcase
rocket
train set
wave breaker
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Flossie CHERRIES oranges YES Green
the Mouse Coconut Palm
Green bench
Green Chair
Hammock
Lovely kitchen
Refrigerator
Stove y
Turntable yy
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June Peaches pears YES Cabana Table yy
the bear Iris Chair yy
Lady Palm
Lovely Stereo
Tulip Chair y
Wide Screen TV
cabin low table
noble shirt
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Maelle Apples oranges YES Ranch
the duck Peaches Aloe y
cabana bed yy
Classic Hutch
Classic sofa
phonograph y
ranch end table
ranch bookcase
rubber tree yy
Tanabata Palm
Vibraphone yyy
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O'hare ORANGES y peaches YES Regal y
the rabbit computer y
gold stereo y
Regal Bookcase
Ranch Bookcase
wide screen tv
Writing Chair
Writing Desk
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Pigleg Pars peaches YES Blue
the pig Barrel y
cube clock
Fan
Keg y
Melon Chair
melon table y
<note: pop machine and soda machine are two pop machine
different items and he seems to want both> soda machine yy
stove
toilet
watermelon chair y
watermelon table y
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Plucky Apples cherries YES Ranch y
the chicken ORANGES cabin
peaches amber y
But coconuts gives more bells Cabin Couch
classic end table
Fan Palm
Jukebox
Ranch Bookcase
Ranch Hutch
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Rowan No info pears YES Cabana
the Tiger amber
Cabin
cabin bed
Cabin Clock
Cabin Couch
Cabin Low Table
Flowery Painting y
Hi-fi stereo y
Worthy Painting
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Yodel APPLES y cherries YES Exotic yy
the Gorilla exotic end table
exotic bench
exotic bureau
azeala bonsai y
hawthorne bonsai
plum bonsai y
Pine Bonsai
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ISLANDER PERSONALITIES
Here I will put people's posts about their islanders' personalities. Again, if
you want to contribute, I'm at
[email protected]. I got descriptions using
pictures available at
http://www.animalxing.com/characters.shtml
I made an interesting observation while doing this. Almost without exception,
the females have a flower and the males have a hat. The only ones that don't
do this are:
Ankha - she has that Egyptian thing instead
Bud the Lion - what's his excuse? His mane? His sunglasses?
Dobie the Wolf - he's got no excuse; he's just a non-conformist!
Drift - hard for him to wear a hat with his eyes on top of his head!
Ankha
Yellow, Egyptian-style cat (will the puns in this game never end?...)
I can't stand her, she acts like a complete snob.
Annalise
Basic brown horse, with a yellow flower in her hair.
Bliss
Red-orange Squirrel, flower in hair, yellow spiral in tail
She seems to be really into spiritual things. She talks about magical stuff and
how you have a beautiful soul.
Boomer
Hefty penguin wearing an old-fashioned leather flight helmet and a parachute on
his back (but penguins can't fly...).
He is pretty cool, he says "human" a lot.
Bud
A laid-back looking, very brown (must be a deep suntan) Lion with pink
sunglasses.
He acts like a hippie.
He's a hip surfer bum who likes to steal my furniture and give it back the next
day.
Dobie
Your basic gray Wolf.
He's kind of mysterious, like that one guy from Outlaw Star! Yeah, dress Doby
up in that uniform and you've got the perfect personality.
Drift
Thin, reddish frog.
Acts nicer than most of my townspeople.
I'm sick of being called brah. he's a lot like Michaelangelo the teenage mutant
ninja turtle.
Elina
Elephant with a big white flower on her head.
Faith
Big-nosed Koala with a yellow flower in her hair.
Flash
Blue bird with a big Panama hat.
It is a he and I'm a he, and he always asks me to dance with him the night away
with him.
Flossie
Little tan-colored mouse with a blue flower in her hair.
She thinks she's cool or something.
June
Teddy-bearish, with a yellow and orange flower in her hair.
Maelle
Yellow duckling with a big white flower in her hair.
O'hare
Skinny brown rabbit (had to be a rabbit with that name!); wears a straw hat.
Acts alot like Flash. Asks you to dance.
Pigleg
Piratey pig with bandana (?), beard stubble and eyepatch.
Plucky
Plain brown chicken with what looks like it might be a sailor's cap. Another
player says Plucky isn't wearing "Something that looks like a sailor's cap",
but she's wearing her blue feathers up in a bun (it looks vaguely polynisian).
Also, she asks you to change her phrase every other time you talk to her, but
it was originally "Clucky". She's also very vain and always asks you for
clothes in your inventory and gets angry when you don't give them to her. She
takes clothes A LOT! Makes her happy, but then sad because she says she had
that shirt as a kid, but then when she tries it one, it "doesn't fit" and makes
her feel fat. Plucky is some what of a tomboy, she brags about it a lot. She is
very picky about what furniture she takes, and she often ends up giving some of
it back.
Rowan
Your basic orange tiger with black stripes. Sports a funky little hat.
This guy is weird! He always takes my clothes and struts. He asks me to dance
and gets hearts and flowers over his head a lot. He always makes me write poems
in his guest book
Yodel
Yodel the Gorilla is /very/ effeminate although sometimes it seems he is just
spacey (confused and moronic) like some of the village males. Yodel will
always request any shirts I have on me (it seems the more 'colorful', the
better for him) as well as the lovely furniture series (he went simply wild
over a lovely bed and armchair I had one me once).
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NES GAMES AND THE BEST ITEM LIST EVER
The Prima Strategy Guide AND Game Informer magazine report that there are 19
Nintendo Games. Prima goes on in saying that 4 will be released via E-Reader
card. Here's a list of known games:
Balloon Fight
Baseball
Clu Clu Land
Clu Clu Land D
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong 3
Donkey Kong Jr
Donkey Kong Jr Math
Excitebike
Golf
Pinball
Punchout
Soccer
Tennis
Wario's Woods
I got this list off of Wraith10's awesome item page. Check it out at
http://www.animalxing.com/
then click on Master Item List.
I'm only adding the following because I want people to STOP emailing me about
it. I haven't investigated it, but apparently Zelda and Super Mario Bros has
been found. See
http://www.codejunkies.com/article.asp?c=US&cr=USD&cs=$&r=0&l=1&i=5362
for details. Others claim you can also get ice climbers, and punch out. Looks
like Super Mario Bros and Ice Climbers are available on E-reader cards (by
scanning only, no code):
http://acforums.megadoomer.com/viewtopic.php?t=20208
Remember, please don't email me about this one way or another (or Ice Climbers,
either!) thanks.
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TEXTURE CREATION PROGRAM
There's a program that converts 32x32 images into AC textures. I've figured
out how to use it on a most images, including photographs.
Download it at
http://proth.bravepages.com/anicrodesapro/index.html
If you want me to use the program on any images you have or find, just send
them to me. You can even put my email on your web page with a note to that
I'll convert images for people. Just include these instructions:
-Images need to be square or pretty close to it. I can crop if needed.
-I can take jpg, gif, bitmap and tiff, or even a web page address
Send them to
[email protected]
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MISCELANEOUS
Trading - Save those codes! You can use them infinitely. After 3 times, Nook
will say that he is out of items. Don't believe him! Just save and quit and
go back. The silly raccoon will forget what he told you and give you three
more. And the code is permanent - you could use it a year later if you wanted.
If you're doing the "money rock," it's faster to hit it with your axe, so
you'll get more bags. Of course, unless you have the golden axe you'll break a
lot of axes this way. You can also dig holes so that your character doesn't
get knocked around so much.
When planting a money tree, the more you plant, the more you get. So if you
plant 30,000, you'll get back 90,000!
If bee nest falls, get out your net, but aim for the HIVE, not the bees flying
at you, and you'll catch a bee. Another method that someone claims works: Go
around shaking trees until the familiar sound of a bees' nest appears. Pause as
quick as you can and equip your net. Unpause and run around the tree twice, in
the direction away from where the nest landed. The bees will circle twice as
well, but they will take much longer. After you've circled, just wait and swing
the net when the bees get to you.
Psychic Hotline: You will need the Lovely Phone. Once you've got it, put it in
your house and press A in front of it. The Psychic Hotline will give you hints
on specific events taking place that day.
Nook mail order: Save and quit, then restart, and the catalog item you ordered
will be in your mailbox. (You do NOT have to turn the cube off)
How To Look Behind Trees/Buildings
To find out if objects are buried behind trees (or buildings), instead of
cutting them down or digging randomly, bury one of your own items behind the
tree you want to look behind. Then, just dig it up. Your character will hold
the item up, and the camera will zoom in. The tree will temporarily disappear,
and you can look around for the telltale X marks. Very useful!
Talking to villagers that want to sleep:
When you want to talk to your villagers but they're sleeping outside and you're
afraid they're going to go in the house and sleep, push them away from their
house, then talk to them. Push them slowly so they don't get mad. It almost
always works. Sometimes you only get one response before they go back to their
house. To prevent this, dig holes in front of their house so they can't go in.
Some say to walk, don't run as you approach them, because sometimes when you
run it wakes them up and they go inside. Another approach is to push the
villager away, position yourself between the villager and its house before you
wake it up, then go in its house before it gets there. They say some funny
stuff when you do that, and it's even been reported that they leave the lights
on and you can re-enter as much as you want! (obviously I haven't tested this
yet)
Supposedly, this is a picture of a real coelacanth:
www.dinofish.com/cimages/coel03b.jpg
Here's some other images from the same site. I couldn't find where they are
identified or described, but they seem to be coelacanth:
http://www.dinofish.com/cimages/coediv2.jpg
http://www.dinofish.com/cimages/coel01.jpg
The main page is pretty cool if you want to find out about these fish:
http://www.dinofish.com
Changing Your Inventory Background:
1. Take any shirt you have in your inventory and put it in the bottom-right
spot in your inventory.
2. Grab it, then press down. It will act like another spot is there and if
you drop the shirt, it will put the shirt's design as the background. This will
only work with shirt designs.
Don't reset while traveling. If you reset while visiting another town,
everything you are carrying, including all letters, will be forever lost. One
person reported that she reset after talking to Porter, but before getting on
the train, and lost everything.
Free shirts and letters at the start
This is a simple trick, but ya only got 1 chance.
1.At the start when Tom gives ya the shirt,drop it outside.
2.Repeat 6 times.
3.Do the same thing when ya get the letter.
4.Mail everyone a letter w/the shirt so they'll like ya.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My thanks to:
gamecubed23 for use of golden fishing pole on GBA island
Miyamoto Wannabe for "look behind stuff" tip
knucklesZ25, MunkMann, Merodi, malik700, Nibbyman and 66Stingray427 for talking
to sleeping villagers tips
scyth02 for originating a post on islander preferences, and to too many people
to mention that responded. See the posts for details at:
http://s2.cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.asp?board=12178&topic=4545996&page=4
and
http://s2.cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.asp?board=12178&topic=4698123&page=2
and
http://acforums.megadoomer.com/viewtopic.php?t=8352
jokey655 for first coelacanth picture link
Credit to MarshallT3 for information about possible additional NES games.
www.animalxing.com/characters.shtml for pictures of islanders
Everyone who posted islander personality information at
http://s1.cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.asp?board=12178&topic=4793153
AND THE MANY MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE EMAILED ME. THANKS FOR NOT MAKING ME LIST
YOU ALL!!! Heh...
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CLOSING AND CONTACT INFORMATION
Just about everything I know about these subjects (and many things I don't
really know for sure!) is in here, so it probably won't do you any good to
email me, but you can try. I'm at
[email protected]
Corrections, additions, information, etc. etc. etc. - it's all welcome!
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LEGAL JUNK
This document Copyright 2002 T. Cromis. If you would like to post this on your
site, send a request via email to
[email protected], and I'll be glad to let
you post it, as long as you post it entirely and unchanged. This document
cannot to be sold, distributed, or reproduced individually or part of a package
for any purpose without my consent. This FAQ can be used or printed by anyone
for PERSONAL use.
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