Cover art for Animal Forest for Nintendo 64
The Nintendo 64 (N64 for short), codename Project Reality and Nintendo Ultra 64, is a cartridge-based home video game console made by Nintendo, released in 1996 in Japan and United States, and 1997 in Europe. Part of the 32-bit era, it is the company's third home console, the first with 3D graphics and is named after its then-advanced 64-bit CPU. The console revolutionized gaming with three-dimensional games and many are known as among the greatest of all-time. The Nintendo 64 uses Silicon Graphics (SGI) and MIPS Technologies, which were responsible for the R4300i microprocessor and the 3D graphics hardware used in the Nintendo 64. The N64 was discontinued on November 30, 2003 with 32.93 million units sold worldwide. Its predecessor is the Super Nintendo Entertainment System while its successor is the Nintendo GameCube.
The console that debuted the Animal Crossing series, Animal Forest was originally released only in Japan for the Nintendo 64 in 2001 months before Animal Forest+ was released on the Nintendo GameCube internationally as Animal Crossing, late in its lifespan. Unlike later consoles, however, the N64 uses its battery in the cartridge for not only storing save data, but in order to use the internal clock, putting the game at eventual risk of drying out and therefore lose the file entirely until it gets replaced.
Controller Pak[]
The Controller Pak is an accessory for the Nintendo 64; it is plugged into the back of the console's controller as a memory card to combine with the existing N64 system. It is used to serve games that need the extra memory for saving. Doubutsu no Mori utilizes that controller pak.
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