Dōbutsu no Mori e+

Dōbutsu no Mori e+, often called Animal Forest e+ by English fans, is a Japan-exclusive update of the GameCube port. When Nintendo decided to port Dōbutsu no Mori to the Nintendo GameCube system, the American version,, had much more than the Japanese version Dōbutsu no Mori +. Not only did thousands of lines of text have to be translated, but the translators had to create new holidays and items. Nintendo of Japan was so impressed with the results of the translation done by Nintendo of America's Treehouse division that they translated Nintendo of America's version back into Japanese and released it as Dōbutsu no Mori e+. Dōbutsu no Mori e+ was released in Japan on June 27, 2003, and sold 91,658 copies during its first week of sale.

New Features
Animal Forest e+ had many new features and characters. One of these new features was the Town Decoration. Town Decoration Items are items that you can place on signposts, but as the name says, just to be decoration. These items can be bought in Tom Nook's Store or by inputting codes that you can find in the official site.

Exclusive Content
The game has many characters exclusive to it, like Marguerite. The island is also present, without the need of a GBA hookup and eighteen new islanders. There are three exclusive insects: The Crab, the Hermit Crab, and the Coconut Crab.

Differences from
In addition to being an upgraded re-release to the Dōbutsu no Mori +, there are also many differences between Dōbutsu no Mori e+ and Animal Crossing.


 * In addition to being completely re-translated from English back to Japanese, Dōbutsu no Mori e+ is manufactured to be only playable in a Japanese Nintendo Gamecube, although certain cheat devices like Action Replay are capable of forcing any other nationalized Gamecube to recognize and run Dōbutsu no Mori e+. In addition, not only does Dōbutsu no Mori e+ have to be saved with a memory card that does not already contain saved data from a different localized game, but it requires much more space to save. Animal Crossing requires 57 blocks for the main game plus 1 for saved data when playing any NES game you find in-game and potentially 4 more blocks for travel data if your character migrates via the memory card into another player's town on their memory card. Dōbutsu no Mori e+ requires 57 blocks for Town Data, 5 blocks to save data for stored letters in the Post Office, 5 more blocks to save any designs made in the Able Sisters Tailor Shop, 1 block for saved data when playing any NES games, and an additional 4 blocks for Travel Data.
 * Dōbutsu no Mori e+ retains the dial system when typing characters in letter or dialogue featured in the original Dōbutsu no Mori e+ instead of the keyboard system featured on Animal Crossing.
 * Although you cannot transfer any characters made in the original to, it is possible to move your character from Dōbutsu no Mori + into Dōbutsu no Mori e+. You can either migrate both the town and your character(s) from Animal Forest + into Dōbutsu no Mori e+ or (if you already have a town in Dōbutsu no Mori e+) migrate a character from Dōbutsu no Mori + to Dōbutsu no Mori e+ as long as there is at least one house empty among your four possible player-owned houses. The imported 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 character migrated to Dōbutsu no Mori e+ is still available for play in their original spot in Dōbutsu no Mori +.
 * You can adjust how fluent you are with kanji in the main menu.
 * When doing favors for Tom Nook in the player's first playthrough as their new character, Tom Nook will tell the player to do favors for the neighbors while you wait for him to come up with the next task he wants you to do. Dōbutsu no Mori e+ skips this and goes straight to the next package you have to deliver.
 * You can wake up Tom Nook after hours by banging on the doors three times with the shovel. He will be in his pajamas and allow you to shop, but he will move much slower, prices will be inflated more than they were during the store's normal hours, and you are only allowed to either sell what you have or buy what is on display in the store. This was not available in Animal Crossing.
 * Tom Nook will sell party poppers at his store in the latter half of December to celebrate New Year's Eve. This does not happen in Animal Crossing, which involves Jingle visiting town before New Year's Eve. He also offers much more of a variety of items during his sales, including holiday knickknacks such as the party poppers, fans, balloons, and pinwheels. In addition, you can also open 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. You can also choose to tear down these special town decorations.
 * Animal Crossing's Post Office can hold up to 160 letters in a storage. Dōbutsu no Mori e+ can save 160 letters in a storage as well, but can make up to five storages on the same or different memory cards for the potential of up to 800 letters.
 * The E-Reader is set up in the "ETM" machine in the Post Office in Animal Crossing. In Dōbutsu no Mori e+ it is set up in the wishing well. Also, there are new options added into option selections among NPC characters, including creating and destroying objects from Tom Nook's Store, selecting where a letter should be saved among designated memory cards and you can play mini games and access E-Reader options in the Wishing Well.
 * The Town Tune board uses letters to represent note pitches in Animal Crossing. These letters were replaced with katakana letters in Dōbutsu no Mori e+.
 * The debt you owe Tom Nook for each house upgrade differ between Animal Crossing and Dōbutsu no Mori e+. Also, your last upgrade is ownership over your own private island that follows after the second floor addition. You can also refuse to have the statue of your character erected once you pay off all your debt.
 * Totakeke and many other characters celebrate your birthday by attending a live performance Totateke sets up for you as well as give you personal greetings in Dōbutsu no Mori e+. In Animal Crossing only one neighbor will personally congratulate you and give you their gift, and only if you leave your house between 6 A.M. and 6 P.M.. Everyone else will send your gift through mail, as will your mom who gives you the Birthday Cake.
 * The neighbors can fall ill in Dōbutsu no Mori e+ and medicine is buyable and used to treat them. The medicine can also be used to treat the player's bee stings. This is not available in Animal Crossing and was not seen overseas until the same system appeared again in.
 * All the holidays in Animal Crossing were transferred over to Dōbutsu no Mori e+ as well, but additional events were vaguely mentioned, including how certain neighbors will wear hats during Christmas Eve and the Harvest Festival, and how Mom will send you letters about Tanabata (Festival of the Stars) and Mamemaki (Bean Throwing Festival).
 * There are 60 brand new neighbors featured in the E-Reader cards in Dōbutsu no Mori e+, and it is possible to choose which neighbors you want to move in to your town by collecting their E-Reader card and then swiping them. You can also make your neighbors perform a few more actions than usual if you become good friends with them, such as waving to you when they see you. This is not available in Animal Crossing because the E-Reader cards only cause the character on the card to send you a letter with a gift and further give you another gift through a written password on the back of the card. The added friendship actions your neighbors will perform also is not seen until.
 * You can eavesdrop on conversations held between two neighbors in Dōbutsu no Mori 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 you an item to deliver to a select neighbor. These items, however, are always either open or non-usable even if they were the same kind of object you could normally use (like clothing or tools). In Dōbutsu no Mori e+, they will do the same, but sometimes give you wrapped items instead. If the player chooses to unwrap the present and/or use it, the one who gave the player the errand will be angered with them and avoid talking to them for a while. They also sometimes offer errands involving you personally giving another neighbor a letter, which you can choose to read. This is another featured added into Wild World.
 * The aforementioned Private Island available as the last house upgrade in Dōbutsu no Mori e+ is also the same island accessed in Animal Crossing via the Game Boy Advance and Link Cable. However, Dōbutsu no Mori e+'s island does not require the Game Boy Advance or Link Cable to access, and you can have up to four tropical islands, one per each player. The players can also visit each other's islands, but only after all of these characters have paid off their debts. In addition, the islands do not come with a pre-selected islander, but instead, are available through E-Reader Cards. Once the player scans the card for their desired islander, that islander will be found washed up on the island's shores in a similar manner to Gulliver in the mainland. They will then stay on the island and request for furniture in the same manner as the islander in Animal Crossing. As a reward they will give the player a piece of the Islander Furniture Set or rare games.
 * Several new fish and insects are available in Dōbutsu no Mori e+, including the Horse Mackerel, Squid, Octopus, Dab, Olive Flounder, Puffer Fish and the Swordfish for new fish and the Crab, Hermit Crab, Coconut Crab, Flea, Water Beetle, Birdwing Butterfly, and Hercules Beetle for new insects. the latter two are only obtainable on the island. There are also 18 new islanders in Dōbutsu no Mori e+ in addition to the original islanders seen in Animal Crossing.
 * The Reset Monitoring Center can be accessed after encountering Mr. Resetti twice. After you smack every rock every day for up to a week, you will find a rock that smashes open and reveals the entrance. Mr. Resetti can be found in here as well as Don. This was not available in Animal Crossing.
 * In addition to the aforementioned extra fish and insects on the island, there are even more fish and insects found in the mainland, many of which make their appearance in Wild World. There are also new collections of furniture, clothing and other objects, some of which include objects seen in Dōbutsu no Mori e+, but scrapped in Animal Crossing.
 * There are mini-games available for play via the Game Boy Advance in addition to the NES games available in Animal Crossing.
 * There are additional tracks available from Totakeke's live performances, and twelve more available via E-Reader cards.
 * Although E-Reader is compatible with Animal Crossing, both the E-Reader and the cards themselves are sold separately. Dōbutsu no Mori e+ comes with its own E-Reader and five bonus cards.
 * Data from Dōbutsu no Mori e+ can be transferred via a Nintendo Secure Digital Memory Card Adapter that can be used to duplicate and save data on separate SD cards and use that data to upload on the PC or via photo printers.
 * The color of the Nintendo logo changes. In Doubutsu no Mori e+ it was blue, in Animal Crossing it was red, and in Doubutsu no Mori + it was white and Doubutsu no Mori has the N64 logo.
 * The promotional memory card that comes with Animal Crossing allows the player's first character to be made in that town to receive a special letter from Nintendo as well as a grab bag with two NES games and a song from Totakeke. For Dōbutsu no Mori e+ the grab bag holding these items arrive as a gift in a letter from Mom.
 * Sometimes when completing a delivery of a wrapped gift, the neighbor who asked the player to deliver it will later ask for the receiving neighbor's feedback. This does not occur in Animal Crossing but is used in Wild World and City Folk.
 * In Animal Crossing, Chip will explain the rules and take any fish you have as entries during the Fishing Tourney. In Dōbutsu no Mori e+, he will also give you a Fishing Rod for free if he notices you do not have one in your inventory.
 * Certain fish had their shadows in the water resized.
 * There is an extra event with the Marlin in Dōbutsu no Mori e+, where you can sometimes see it swimming up along the waterfall and later follow it in Kapp'n's boat.
 * When infested with fleas, neighbors will raise their arms and flail around.
 * In Animal Crossing, flowers are only able to be planted or held inside your pocket. In Dōbutsu no Mori e+ you can use these flowers in addition to finding the new flower, Jacob's Ladder. It will grow near the cliffs when the town is given a "perfect" rating. Jacob's Ladder would reappear in Wild World, but do not require the town to be in perfect condition to grow.
 * In Animal Crossing, gyroids inside a house will begin to move the minute the player enters the room they are in. In Dōbutsu no Mori e+, gyroids in a neighbor's house will pause for a moment before they all begin at the same time, while gyroids in the player's home can be set to be synch to each other or a song playing in the room and stay synched even when you go out and come back.
 * Diaries dropped on the floor in Animal Crossing appear as objects stuffed inside a brown paper bag with Tom Nook's symbol printed on it. This symbol is also used for saplings. In Dōbutsu no Mori e+, diaries now appear as envelopes.
 * The ink meter that appears in Animal Crossing when writing a letter or a Bulletin Board post was removed in Dōbutsu no Mori e+.