GCN Animal Crossing e+ fan translation

[Chary]

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I'm not sure if there's already a thread on here about this, but I feel like no one's really talking about this. Yeah, it's just Animal Crossing GameCube with a few changes, but I feel like the changes here are enough to interest fans or get them to play the game years after its original release. Looks like someone named Cuyler has been working on a fan translation, and the project appears to be still going strong! Might be worth keeping an eye out on this if you love the GC Animal Crossing.

If you wanna know what changes e+ has over Animal Crossing, here they are, from TCRF.

• The player can adjust their fluency with kanji (Chinese pictographs re-purposed for the Japanese language) in the main menu.
• During the part-time job segment of the game, the player is no longer required to do favors for villagers.
• While Tom Nook's store is closed, if the player hits the shop's door with a shovel or an axe three consecutive times, the shop will open for the player. However, as Tom Nook was sleeping, he moves much slower, prices of his wares are inflated by 17%, prices of your wares are deflated by 30%, and you can only buy or sell what is on display in the shop. There is also a special "after hours" theme that is basically a groggy, legato variation of Tom Nook's theme.
• Tom Nook will sell party poppers at his store in the later half of December to celebrate New Year's Eve. He also offers a greater variety of items during his sales, including holiday knickknacks such as the party poppers, fans, balloons, and pinwheels (the latter of which was previously only available from grab bags on Sale Day).
• The player has the option of hiring Tom Nook to build objects found around town for display for a fee. These include objects such as a water mill, sewer lines, street lamps, and so on. Several of these decorations were reused as Public Works Projects in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, 10 years after the release of e+.
• The island now serves as the product for the player's final loan, which totals in at just under a million bells. Each player will own their own private island, as opposed to all 4 players sharing a single one.
• K.K. Slider will perform for the player's birthday. The song he plays was later accessible in New Leaf as "K.K. Birthday" (itself only obtainable on the player's birthday). Villagers will also acknowledge the player's birthday by congratulating them and sending them gifts, and the player's mother will mail them a birthday cake.
• Medicine is added, which can cure bee stings and help heal villagers, who can now become sick. This feature was later implemented overseas in Animal Crossing: Wild World.
• There are over 60 new neighbors featured in e-Reader cards, and it is possible to choose which neighbors the player wants to move into their town by collecting their corresponding e-Reader card and then swiping them; this feature would later be implemented 13 years later with the Welcome amiibo update for New Leaf. The player can also make neighbors perform a few more actions than usual if one becomes good friends with them, such as waving to the player when they see them. This is not available in Animal Crossing because the e-Reader cards only cause the character on the card to send the player a letter with a gift and further give another gift through a written password on the back of the card. The added friendship actions that neighbors will perform also is not seen until Animal Crossing: Wild World.
• The player can eavesdrop on conversations held between two neighbors in e+. The neighbors in Animal Crossing talk only for a split second, preventing the player from doing the same. This feature appears again in Wild World.
• In Animal Crossing, asking for errands will cause them to either ask for an item from another neighbor or give an item to the player to deliver to a select neighbor. These items, however, are always unusable even if they were the same kind of object that could be normally used (like clothing or tools). In e+, they will do the same, except the items are always those that can be used by the player, and are contained in presents tied up with blue ribbons. If the player chooses to unwrap the present, they are able to use the item inside, but the one who gave the player the errand will be temporarily angered. They also sometimes offer errands involving the player personally giving another neighbor a letter, which they can choose to read. This is another feature added into Animal Crossing: Wild World, except the color of the ribbons on delivery presents is changed to green.
• The player can copy players and towns from + to e+. The player can only take a few things with them, such as their name, birthdate, fishing and insect catching records, their personal patterns, and their item catalog. The duplicated subjects are not deleted from the + version, and are still fully accessible there.
• The Post Office can now hold up to five sections for saved letters, each with 160 slots, either on the same Memory Card or on multiple ones, allowing the player to save up to 800 letters.
• All holidays in Animal Crossing were transferred over to e+ version as well, but additional events were vaguely mentioned, including how certain neighbors will wear hats during Christmas Eve and the Harvest Festival, and how the player's mother will send letters about Tanabata (Festival of the Stars) and Mamemaki (Bean Throwing Festival).
• The Reset Surveillance Center can be accessed after encountering Mr. Resetti twice. After the player smacks every rock every day for up to a week, a rock will smash open and reveal the entrance. Mr. Resetti can be found in here as well as Don. This was not available in Animal Crossing, but the Reset Surveillance Center can be visited in both Animal Crossing: City Folk and Animal Crossing: New Leaf through different means.
• Eight new fish (Horse Mackerel, Puffer Fish, Dab, Olive Flounder, Squid, Octopus, Seahorse, and Blue Marlin) and eight new insects (Birdwing Butterfly, Hercules Beetle, Diving Beetle, Flea, Crab, Hermit Crab, Coconut Crab, and Dung Beetle) are added. Almost all of these fish and insects would reappear in later installments in the series, the only exceptions being the Crab and the Coconut Crab.
• New furniture sets are added.
• The player can play unique minigames on a linked Game Boy Advance.
• New songs are added, twelve of which are available through e-Reader cards. In addition to new songs, looped live versions for play on the radio exist. All songs can be obtained by becoming friends with villagers, each with their own specific song. These new songs would later make their overseas debuts in Wild World.
• Data can be transferred via a Nintendo Secure Digital Memory Card Adapter that can be used to duplicate and save data on separate SD cards; this data can then be used to upload files to a computer or a compatible photo printer.
  • Among other functions, the player can take screenshots of the game and save them to the SD card; this feature would return in City Folk and New Leaf.
• In Animal Crossing, the first player created on the included promotional memory card will receive a special letter from Nintendo, containing a grab bag with two NES games and a song from K.K. Slider inside. In e+, this grab bag arrives as a gift in a letter from Mom.
• After completing a delivery, the sender will ask for the recipient's feedback. This feature was later implemented in Wild World and onward.
• During the Fishing Tourney, Chip will give the player a fishing rod if they don't have one in their inventory. This feature was latter implemented in New Leaf.
• Jacob's Ladders are introduced, and only grow in perfect towns; this feature would become a staple for the series.
• The player can pluck flowers and carry them around as novelty items.
• The main theme is remixed, featuring much more instruments than in previous versions:

 

[wooble]

Yes this is so important and deserves much more recognition!

 

[snails1221]

Woah, I remember seeing something about this project and few years ago and I figured it died. Guess I was wrong!

 

[Catsinabucket]

Yessss! I love e+ and I'm so happy to see this!

 

[Random__Dude]

Is it possible to get the Animalese sound effects from the Gamecube Animal Crossing to Animal Forest e+?