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'''''Dōbutsu no Mori e+''''' (どうぶつの森e+), often called '''''Animal Forest e+''''' by English fans, is a major update, or potential sequel, of {{PG}}. When [[Nintendo]] decided to port ''[[Dōbutsu no Mori (game)|Dōbutsu no Mori]]'' to the Nintendo GameCube system, the American version, {{PG}}, 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.
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{{nihongo|'''''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'''''|どうぶつの森e+|Animal Forest e+}} is an updated version of {{DnM+}} based on its western localization {{PG}}. As the original game features traditional Japanese content, Nintendo of America's localization team Treehouse redesigned many items and holidays so that they would be familiar for western players. Nintendo was impressed with their localization efforts, and retranslated {{PG|nolink}} back into Japanese with additional new content.  
  
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Due to the limited success of the e-Reader outside of Japan, as well as the e-Reader never being released in Europe, the game was not localized for western regions, and instead {{WW}}, which was released almost a year after e+, was localized in its place. Despite this, many features introduced in e+ have reappeared in localized games, such as [[Medicine]], and nearly all of the villagers introduced in this game reappear in english games as well. A fan translation of the game, created by online persona Cuyler36, is also available.
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{{DnMe+|nolink}} features expanded compatibility with the [[Nintendo e-Reader]], with a new series of [[e-card]]s released to tie-in with the game. This includes the introduction of [[music]] cards which allow the player to obtain new in-game recordings, and a series of minigames that can be played on the [[Game Boy Advance]]. [[Villager]]s can be invited to move into a player's town by scanning their e-card. A similar concept would later be revisited with [[amiibo]] in {{WA}}.
  
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==New Features==
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{{DnMe+|nolink}} was released in Japan on June 27, 2003, and sold 91,658 copies during its first week of sale. {{DnMe+|nolink}} was not localized in the West as the e-Reader saw limited success outside of Japan, and was not released in Europe. Despite this, many features and changes introduced in {{DnMe+|nolink}} have become mainstays in all subsequent games. Several fan-translation efforts for the game have been made by the community in recent years, though there is yet to be a complete translation of the game.
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''Animal Forest e+'' introduced many new features and characters, such as [[Antonio]]. One of these new features was the [[Town Decoration]]. Town Decoration Items are items that can be placed on signposts, but as the name implies, they are just decorations. These items can be bought in [[Tom Nook's Store]] or by inputting codes that are found on the official site.
 
  
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==Exclusive Content==
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==Features==
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The game has many characters exclusive to it, both regular villagers and special card-only villagers such as [[Meow]]. The [[Animal Island|island]] is also present, without the need of a [[GBA]] hookup and contains eighteen new islanders. There are also eight newly added insects and fish.
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===e-Reader support and new villagers===
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[[File:E-reader.png|thumb|200px|The [[Nintendo e-Reader]] can be used to move villagers into a town by scanning their e-card.]]
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[[File:Animal Forest e+ e-Card 050 (Marina).jpg|thumb|[[Marina]]'s {{DnMe+|nolink}} card.]]
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{{DnMe+|nolink}} expands the previous game's support for the [[e-Reader]] with the introduction of 60 new [[villager]]s and 18 new [[islander]]s. Villagers can be invited to move into town, and islanders to the [[Animal Island|island]], by scanning their [[e-card]]. The ETM is no longer present in the town's [[Post Office]] as all e-Reader functionality is now accessed from the [[Wishing Well]]. As well as villager cards, there are music cards and new [[GBA minigames|minigames]] that can be played on a [[Game Boy Advance]]. The game comes packaged with an e-Reader+ and five cards.
  
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==Differences from {{PG}}==
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The newly added villagers and islanders are as follows (names in ''italics'' denotes characters whose names have not since been localized):
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In addition to being an upgraded re-release to {{PG|nolink}}, there are also many differences between ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'' and ''Animal Crossing''.
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{|
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|width=140px|<big>'''[[Normal]]'''</big>
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|width=140px|<big>'''[[Peppy]]'''</big>
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|width=140px|<big>'''[[Snooty]]'''</big>
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|width=140px|<big>'''[[Lazy]]'''</big>
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|width=140px|<big>'''[[Jock]]'''</big>
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|width=140px|<big>'''[[Cranky]]'''</big>
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|- valign="top"
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*[[Alice]]
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*''[[Carrot]]''
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*''[[Clara]]''
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*[[Gladys]]
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*[[Lolly]]
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*[[Maggie]]
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*[[Margie]]
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*[[Marina]] [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*[[Nan]]
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*[[Norma]] [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*''[[Patricia]]'' [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*''[[Sunny]]''
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*[[Sylvana]]
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*[[Agent S]]
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*[[Bella]]
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*[[Charlise]] [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*[[Chrissy]]
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*[[Felicity]]
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*[[Ketchup]]
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*''[[Koharu]]'' [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*''[[Megumi]]''
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*''[[Meow]]''
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*[[Merry]]
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*[[Paula]]
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*[[Peggy]]
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*[[Victoria]]
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*[[Violet]] [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*[[Vivian]]
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*[[Becky]]
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*[[Bree]]
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*[[Francine]]
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*[[Julia]] [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*''[[Lulu (islander)|Lulu]]'' [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*''[[Madam Rosa]]'' [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*[[Miranda]]
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*''[[Petunia]]''
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*[[Sylvia]]
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*[[Tasha]]
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*[[Tiffany]]
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*[[Willow]]
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*''[[Aisle]]''
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*[[Benedict]]
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*[[Big Top]]
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*''[[Bow]]''
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*[[Broccolo]]
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*[[Hopkins]]
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*[[Jacob]]
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*[[Kidd]] [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*[[Moe]]
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*''[[Nobuo]]''
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*''[[Pironkon]]'' [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*[[Raddle]] [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*[[Wade]]
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*[[Walker]]
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*''[[Analogue]]''
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*[[Antonio]]
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*[[Frobert]]
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*''[[Fruity]]'' [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*''[[Gen]]''
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*[[Kid Cat]]
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*[[Kit]]
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*[[Leonardo]]
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*''[[Masa]]'' [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*''[[Nindori]]''
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*''[[Pierre]]''
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*''[[Poko]]''
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*[[Rod]]
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*''[[Shinabiru]]''
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*''[[Shoukichi]]''
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*''[[Tarou]]''
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*[[Angus]]
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*[[Avery]]
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*[[Boyd]]
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*''[[Champagne]]''
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*[[Curlos]] [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*[[Curt]]
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*[[Del]]
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*[[Frank]] [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*[[Harry]] [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*[[Ike]]
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*''[[Joe]]''
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*''[[Jūbei]]''
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*[[Roscoe]]
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*''[[Verdun]]'' [[File:Animal_Island_PG_Icon.png|12px|link=Islander]]
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*In addition to being completely re-translated from English back to Japanese, ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'' is region locked 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 found in-game and potentially 4 more blocks for travel data if the [[player]]'s 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.
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===SD card support===
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*''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'' retains the dial system when typing characters in letter or dialogue featured in the original ''Dōbutsu no Mori +'' instead of the keyboard system featured on ''Animal Crossing''.
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Photos can now be taken in-game and are saved to an SD card using the Nintendo GameCube SD Card Adapter. From there, the photos can be transferred to a PC and edited or printed.
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*Although the player cannot transfer any characters made in the original {{DnM+}} to {{PG}}, it is possible to move their character from ''Dōbutsu no Mori +'' into ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+''. They can either migrate both the [[town]] and their character(s) from ''Animal Forest +'' into ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'' or (if they 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 the 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 +''.
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*The player can adjust how fluent they are with kanji in the main menu.
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Travel data can also be written to the card, transferred to a PC, and then sent to another player. The receiving player can visit the town, save the modified data, and return it to the original player. This allows players to visit other towns without the need to acquire other memory cards.
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*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 they wait for him to come up with the next task he wants them to do. ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'' skips this and goes straight to the next package that Tom Nook wants the player to deliver. This was changed because they overhauled the villager quest system and asking for chores is no longer present.
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*The player can wake up [[Tom Nook]] after hours by banging on the doors three times with the shovel. Once this is done, the light in the store will switch on and the player may enter. Tom Nook will be in his pajamas and allow the player to shop, but he will move much more slowly, prices will be inflated more than they were during the store's normal hours, and the player is only allowed to either sell what they have or buy what is on display in the store. If the player has upgraded to [[Nookington's]], this effect is also applied to [[Timmy and Tommy]]. This was not available in ''Animal Crossing''. [[File:DnMe+NookAfterHours.png|thumb|left|Tom Nook in his pajamas after being awoken.]]
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===Town migration===
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*[[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 party poppers, fans, balloons, and pinwheels. In addition, the player can also open the option of hiring [[Tom Nook]] to build objects found around town for display if they pay a fee. These include objects such as a water mill, sewer lines, street lamps, and so on. They can also choose to demolish these special town decorations.
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[[Town]]s and [[player]] characters can be migrated from an existing ''Doubutsu no Mori+'' save to {{DnMe+|nolink}}. Additionally a player can migrate to an existing {{DnMe+|nolink}} town as long as there is a vacant [[House (player)|house]] for them to live in.
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*''Animal Crossing's'' [[Post Office]] can hold up to 160 letters in storage. Dōbutsu no Mori e+ can save 160 letters in storage as well, but can create up to five storages on the same or different memory cards for the potential of up to 800 letters.
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*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 the player can play mini games and access E-Reader options in the [[Wishing Well]].
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After the migration, the [[player]] will retain their name, appearance and birthdate. They will also carry over their encyclopedia, custom [[design]]s, and their [[catalog]]. They will lose all savings and inventory items, as well as the contents of their house, and effectively begin again as a new character.  
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*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+''.
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*The debt the player owes [[Tom Nook]] for each [[house]] upgrade differ between ''Animal Crossing'' and ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+''. Also, the player's last upgrade is ownership over their own private island that follows after the second floor addition. They can also refuse to have the statue of their character erected once they pay off all their debt.
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{{DnM+|nolink}} save data is unaffected by the migration; the original town and player characters remain available to play as normal.
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*[[K.K. Slider|Totakeke]] and many other characters celebrate the player's birthday by attending a live performance Totateke sets up for them as well as give them personal greetings in ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+''. In ''Animal Crossing'' only one neighbor will personally congratulate the player and give them their gift, and only if they leave their house between 6 A.M. and 6 P.M.. Everyone else will send their gifts through mail, as well as [[Parents|Mom]] who gives the player the Birthday Cake.
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*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 {{WW}}.
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===Town Decoration===
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*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 [[Parents|Mom]] will send the player letters about Tanabata (Festival of the Stars) and Mamemaki (Bean Throwing Festival).
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Unique [[Town Decoration|structures]] can be built around the town by [[Tom Nook]] and take the place of one of the [[Signpost]]s in town. Many types of structures that can be built could only be unlocked from [[Redd]] via passwords on the game's official website. The service to generate passwords is now discontinued however.
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*There are 66 brand new neighbors featured in the E-Reader cards in ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'', and it is possible to choose which neighbors the player wants to move in to their town by collecting their E-Reader card and then swiping them. They can also make their neighbors perform a few more actions than usual if they become good friends with them, such as waving to them 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 them another gift through a written password on the back of the card. The added friendship actions the player's neighbors will perform are not seen until {{WW}}.
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*There are also 18 new islanders in ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'', all of which are only obtainable from E-Reader+ cards.
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==Gameplay changes from {{PG|nolink}}==
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*The villager E-Reader+ cards introduced in ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'' contain the villager's data on the card. This allowed Nintendo to create as many new villagers as they wanted, even after the game was mastered and in the hands of players. This feature would be implemented again (but unused) later in {{CF}}.
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{{DnMe+|nolink}} features many differences from {{PG|nolink}}, largely with the addition of new content and refined gameplay mechanics. Although the game is primarily based on {{PG|nolink}}, it does retain some Japan-exclusive content from the previous games. This is includes the dial-based typing system, certain furniture and clothing, and katakana characters on the [[Town Tune]] board. Additionally, [[Jane]] retains her original, controversial appearance from {{DnM|nolink}} and {{DnM+|nolink}}.  
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*The player 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''.
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*Clothing styles make their first appearance in ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+''. Each villager has a favorite style and a hated style.
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===Interface===
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*New dialog was added that branches based on things such as if the player has a basement, if they have an island, if Nook's has been upgraded, and much more.
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*{{DnMe+|nolink}} uses a total of 72 blocks of data on a Nintendo GameCube Memory Card. 57 blocks are required for Town Data, 5 blocks for saved letters in the [[Post Office]], 5 blocks for saved designs at [[Able Sisters]], 1 block for NES game save data, and 4 blocks for travel data if this feature is used.
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*[[Lost Item]] quests were introduced in ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+''. A villager may ask you to find a generic item (they'll refer to it as gyroid, furniture, carpet, etc) for them. It will be on the ground somewhere in town.
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*The player can adjust their fluency with kanji from the options menu.
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*Announcements can be made using your house's gyroid. They can be played after a certain amount of time has passed, or at a specific time specified.
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*The ink meter when writing letters or posts on the [[Bulletin Board]] has been removed.
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*In ''Animal Crossing'', asking for errands will cause them to either ask for an item from another neighbor or give the player 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 the player could normally use (like clothing or tools). In ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'', they will do the same, but sometimes give the player 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 the player personally giving another neighbor a letter, which they can choose to read. This is another featured added into ''Wild World''.
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*Diaries that are dropped on the ground now appear as envelopes instead of brown paper bags.
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*The aforementioned [[Animal Island|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 the player can have up to four tropical islands, one for 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.
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*Eight new fish and insects are available in ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+''. The following fish made their first appearance: [[Dab]], [[Olive Flounder]], [[Horse Mackerel]], [[Seahorse]], [[Squid]], [[Octopus (fish)]], [[Puffer Fish]], and [[Blue Marlin]]. As for bugs, the following were added: [[Diving Beetle]], [[Flea]], [[Dung Beetle]], [[Crab]], [[Hermit Crab]], [[Coconut Crab]], [[Birdwing Butterfly]], and [[Hercules Beetle]]. The ''Puffer Fish'', ''Blue Marlin'', ''Birdwing Butterfly'', and ''Hercules Beetle'' can only be found on the island.
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===Locations===
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*The [[Resetti's Headquarters|Reset Monitoring Center]] can be accessed after encountering [[Mr. Resetti]] twice. There is one day a week where a [[rock]] around [[town]] will become the entrance to the center. This means that checking each rock every day for up to a week after your latest reset will eventually lead to finding the Reset Monitoring Center. [[Mr. Resetti]] can be found in here as well as Don. This was not available in ''Animal Crossing''.
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[[File:DnMe+NookAfterHours.png|thumb|200px|Tom Nook in his pajamas after being awoken.]]
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*There are new collections of furniture, clothing and other objects, some of which include objects that went unused in ''Animal Crossing''. {{Youtube|25_HIXL-GGY}}
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*[[Tom Nook]] can be woken after-hours by hitting the shop doors three times with a [[shovel]]. Nook will be in his pajamas and allow the player to shop, but he will move much more slowly, sale prices are inflated by 40%, he will purchase items for 20% less, and the catalog is unavailable. If the store has been upgraded to [[Nookington's]], [[Timmy and Tommy]] will also appear in their pajamas after-hours.
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*There are mini-games available for play via the Game Boy Advance in addition to the NES games available in ''Animal Crossing''.
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*[[Tom Nook]] sells party poppers in the latter half of [[December]] in anticipation of [[New Year's Eve]]. He also offers a greater variety of items during his sales,  such as party poppers, fans, balloons, and pinwheels.
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*There are additional tracks available from Totakeke's live performances. The twelve new tracks can be requested to K.K. Slider, but you will only receive the airchecks if you scan their respective E-Reader card.
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*The [[Resetti's Headquarters|Reset Monitoring Center]] can be accessed after encountering [[Mr. Resetti]] twice. Once a week a random [[rock]] around [[town]] will become the entrance to the center and can be broken with a [[shovel]]. Mr. Resetti and [[Don Resetti]] can be found here.
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*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.
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*[[Animal Island]] is no longer accessed by connecting a [[Game Boy Advance]] to the [[Nintendo GameCube]]. Instead, each player must now first purchase their own private island from [[Tom Nook]] (after paying off all house loans) in order to access it. Players can another player's island after the other player has repaid their loan.
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*Photos can be taken in ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'' when an SD Card adapter with SD Card is detected. These photos could then be transferred to a computer.
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**The island initially does not have an inhabitant. An [[islander]] must be introduced by scanning their [[e-card]], which makes them wash ashore. The player can revive them, and they will then move into the smaller bungalow on the island.
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*You can also "lend out" your town using an SD Card adapter. You could then send the file of your town to a friend who could "visit it" with their character. They would then save the modified town and send the data back for you to reload. This allowed for visiting towns without needing to have each other's memory card.
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*The color of the Nintendo logo changes. In ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'' it was blue, in ''Animal Crossing'' it was red, and in ''Doubutsu no Mori +'' it was white and ''Dōbutsu no Mori'' has the N64 logo.
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===Villagers===
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*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.
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[[File:DnMe+PaoloFleas.png|thumb|200px|[[Paolo]] speaking to the player, having contracted [[flea]]s]]
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*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''.
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*It is possible to become "best friends" with villagers after interacting with them a lot and performing many favours for them. Best friend villagers react to seeing the player by waving or calling out to them and can also give the player special items.
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*In ''Animal Crossing'', [[Chip]] will explain the rules and take any fish the player has as entries during the [[Fishing Tourney]]. In ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'', he will also give the player a [[Fishing Rod]] for free if he notices they do not have one in their inventory.
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*It's no longer possible to request errands from [[villager]]s. They can only be received randomly from general conversation, as is the case in all subsequent games.
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*The [[Coelacanth]] was changed to only appear once per play session. Even if the player fails to catch it, it will not reappear until the game is reloaded in some way. Saving and continuing does not reset it. It also had its shadow size increased.
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**Pursuant to this, when working for [[Tom Nook]] he no longer instructs the player to perform errands for the town's [[villagers]] in between the jobs he assigns.
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*Fleas can now appear on animal neighbors.
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*The player can now eavesdrop on conversations held between two different villagers.
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*In ''Animal Crossing'', flowers are only able to be planted. In ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'' planted flowers can now be picked and held in the player's hand. [[Jacob's Ladder]]s were also added. It will grow near the cliffs when the town is given a "perfect" rating. The Jacob's Ladder reappears in ''Wild World'', but does not appear near cliffs as there are none in that game.
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*New villager dialog is included that is conditional on the player's accomplishments, e.g. the size of their house, whether they own an island, the size of [[Tom Nook]]'s store etc.
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*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 sync to each other or a song playing in the room and stay synced even when the player goes out and comes back.
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*Villagers can become ill and require to be given [[medicine]] to treat their illness. Medicine can also be used to treat the player's [[bee]] stings.
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*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.
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*When delivering gifts as an errand for a villager, the request-giver may ask the player for the recipient's feedback.
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*The ink meter that appears in ''Animal Crossing'' when writing a letter or a [[Bulletin Board]] post was removed in ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+''.
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*The gifts and letters that villagers may task the player to deliver can now be opened and kept, incurring their anger.
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*[[Lost Item]]s can be found on the ground and returned to villagers in exchange for a reward.
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*Villagers can have [[flea]]s, which can be removed by the player with the [[Bug Catching Net]].
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===Interactivity===
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*[[Flower]]s can now be picked up and held in the player's hand.  
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*[[Jacob's Ladder]]s appear near the town's cliffs when a "perfect" rating has been achieved.
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*Players can make announcements using their personal [[Gyroid (outdoor)|Gyroid]]. These can be scheduled to play at a specific time, or set to play after a certain amount of time has passed.
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===Events===
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*During the [[Fishing Tourney]], [[Chip]] will now give the player a free [[Fishing Rod]] if they do not have one in their inventory.
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*Holidays are now identical to those in ''Animal Crossing'', with Japan-exclusive events removed. However, [[Parents|Mom]] will send the player letters about Tanabata (Festival of the Stars) and Mamemaki (Bean Throwing Festival).  
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*Villagers now wear hats on Christmas Eve and during the [[Harvest Festival]].  
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===Insects and Fish===
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*8 new insects are introduced: [[Diving Beetle]], [[Flea]], [[Dung Beetle]], [[Crab]], [[Hermit Crab]], [[Coconut Crab]], [[Birdwing Butterfly]], and [[Hercules Beetle]]. The latter two insects can only be found on the island.
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*8 new fish are introduced: [[Dab]], [[Olive Flounder]], [[Horse Mackerel]], [[Seahorse]], [[Squid]], [[Octopus (fish)]], [[Puffer Fish]], and [[Blue Marlin]]. The latter two fish can only be found on the island.
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*The [[Coelacanth]]'s shadow size is increased and it now only appears ''once'' per play session. Even if the player fails to catch it, it will not reappear until the save is reloaded.
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===Music===
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*The game's title theme has been remixed with added percussion.
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*[[K.K. Slider|Totakeke]] will stage a live performance to celebrate the player's birthday, and the town's villagers will attend and celebrate with them.
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*3 new songs are available from K.K. Slider: [[My Place]], [[To the Edge]] and [[Forest Life]].
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*12 new songs are available from K.K. Slider only after scanning their corresponding e-Card: [[Agent K.K.]], [[King K.K.]] [[K.K. Dixie]], [[K.K. Marathon]], [[K.K. Metal]], [[K.K. Rally]], [[K.K. Rockabilly]], [[Mountain Song]], [[Marine Song 2001]], [[Neapolitan]], [[Pondering]], and [[Steep Hill]].
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*Every K.K. Slider song now has a corresponding vocal recording that can obtained and played on a music player. The vocal recordings can only be received by the new villagers after becoming best friends with them.
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*Gyroids can now be set to sync with [[music]] that is playing in the player's house, and will now remain in sync even when the player leaves and returns.
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===Miscellaneous===
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*The color of the Nintendo logo when loading the game is now blue. In ''Animal Crossing'' it is red, and in ''Doubutsu no Mori+'' it is white and ''Dōbutsu no Mori'' has the N64 logo in place of the Nintendo logo.
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*As with {{PG|nolink}}, the memory card that comes with ''Dōbutsu no Mori e+'' contains a grab bag with two [[NES games]] and a song from [[K.K. Slider]]. In {{DnMe+|nolink}} however, the grab bag arrives in a letter from [[Mom]].
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*The amount of debt that the player owes [[Tom Nook]] for each [[house]] upgrade has been altered. The final repayment is for the purchase of a [[Animal Island|private island]]. After paying off the loan for the island, Nook will offer to build the player a statue outside the [[Train Station]] but the player now has the option to decline having it built.
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*More custom [[design]]s can be saved at the [[Able Sisters]].
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*A maxmimum of 800 letters can be saved at the [[Post Office]], and increase from the 160 letters in {{DnM+|nolink}}.
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*The ETM in the [[Post Office]] is no longer present, and all e-Reader functionality is now accessed from the [[Wishing Well]].  
  
 
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Dōbutsu no Mori e+
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Developer(s) Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Platform(s) Nintendo GameCube
Genre(s) Life simulation
Modes Single player
Input
methods 		GameCube controller
Game Boy Advance
Nintendo e-Reader

Dōbutsu no Mori e+ (どうぶつの森e+ Animal Forest e+?) is an updated version of Doubutsu no Mori+ based on its western localization Animal Crossing. As the original game features traditional Japanese content, Nintendo of America's localization team Treehouse redesigned many items and holidays so that they would be familiar for western players. Nintendo was impressed with their localization efforts, and retranslated Animal Crossing back into Japanese with additional new content.

Doubutsu no Mori e+ features expanded compatibility with the Nintendo e-Reader, with a new series of e-cards released to tie-in with the game. This includes the introduction of music cards which allow the player to obtain new in-game recordings, and a series of minigames that can be played on the Game Boy Advance. Villagers can be invited to move into a player's town by scanning their e-card. A similar concept would later be revisited with amiibo in Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome amiibo.

Doubutsu no Mori e+ was released in Japan on June 27, 2003, and sold 91,658 copies during its first week of sale. Doubutsu no Mori e+ was not localized in the West as the e-Reader saw limited success outside of Japan, and was not released in Europe. Despite this, many features and changes introduced in Doubutsu no Mori e+ have become mainstays in all subsequent games. Several fan-translation efforts for the game have been made by the community in recent years, though there is yet to be a complete translation of the game.

Features

e-Reader support and new villagers

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The Nintendo e-Reader can be used to move villagers into a town by scanning their e-card.
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Marina's Doubutsu no Mori e+ card.

Doubutsu no Mori e+ expands the previous game's support for the e-Reader with the introduction of 60 new villagers and 18 new islanders. Villagers can be invited to move into town, and islanders to the island, by scanning their e-card. The ETM is no longer present in the town's Post Office as all e-Reader functionality is now accessed from the Wishing Well. As well as villager cards, there are music cards and new minigames that can be played on a Game Boy Advance. The game comes packaged with an e-Reader+ and five cards.

The newly added villagers and islanders are as follows (names in italics denotes characters whose names have not since been localized):

Normal Peppy Snooty Lazy Jock Cranky

SD card support

Photos can now be taken in-game and are saved to an SD card using the Nintendo GameCube SD Card Adapter. From there, the photos can be transferred to a PC and edited or printed.

Travel data can also be written to the card, transferred to a PC, and then sent to another player. The receiving player can visit the town, save the modified data, and return it to the original player. This allows players to visit other towns without the need to acquire other memory cards.

Town migration

Towns and player characters can be migrated from an existing Doubutsu no Mori+ save to Doubutsu no Mori e+. Additionally a player can migrate to an existing Doubutsu no Mori e+ town as long as there is a vacant house for them to live in.

After the migration, the player will retain their name, appearance and birthdate. They will also carry over their encyclopedia, custom designs, and their catalog. They will lose all savings and inventory items, as well as the contents of their house, and effectively begin again as a new character.

Doubutsu no Mori+ save data is unaffected by the migration; the original town and player characters remain available to play as normal.

Town Decoration

Unique structures can be built around the town by Tom Nook and take the place of one of the Signposts in town. Many types of structures that can be built could only be unlocked from Redd via passwords on the game's official website. The service to generate passwords is now discontinued however.

Gameplay changes from Animal Crossing

Doubutsu no Mori e+ features many differences from Animal Crossing, largely with the addition of new content and refined gameplay mechanics. Although the game is primarily based on Animal Crossing, it does retain some Japan-exclusive content from the previous games. This is includes the dial-based typing system, certain furniture and clothing, and katakana characters on the Town Tune board. Additionally, Jane retains her original, controversial appearance from Doubutsu no Mori and Doubutsu no Mori+.

Interface

  • Doubutsu no Mori e+ uses a total of 72 blocks of data on a Nintendo GameCube Memory Card. 57 blocks are required for Town Data, 5 blocks for saved letters in the Post Office, 5 blocks for saved designs at Able Sisters, 1 block for NES game save data, and 4 blocks for travel data if this feature is used.
  • The player can adjust their fluency with kanji from the options menu.
  • The ink meter when writing letters or posts on the Bulletin Board has been removed.
  • Diaries that are dropped on the ground now appear as envelopes instead of brown paper bags.

Locations

Tom Nook in his pajamas after being awoken.
  • Tom Nook can be woken after-hours by hitting the shop doors three times with a shovel. Nook will be in his pajamas and allow the player to shop, but he will move much more slowly, sale prices are inflated by 40%, he will purchase items for 20% less, and the catalog is unavailable. If the store has been upgraded to Nookington's, Timmy and Tommy will also appear in their pajamas after-hours.
  • Tom Nook sells party poppers in the latter half of December in anticipation of New Year's Eve. He also offers a greater variety of items during his sales, such as party poppers, fans, balloons, and pinwheels.
  • The Reset Monitoring Center can be accessed after encountering Mr. Resetti twice. Once a week a random rock around town will become the entrance to the center and can be broken with a shovel. Mr. Resetti and Don Resetti can be found here.
  • Animal Island is no longer accessed by connecting a Game Boy Advance to the Nintendo GameCube. Instead, each player must now first purchase their own private island from Tom Nook (after paying off all house loans) in order to access it. Players can another player's island after the other player has repaid their loan.
    • The island initially does not have an inhabitant. An islander must be introduced by scanning their e-card, which makes them wash ashore. The player can revive them, and they will then move into the smaller bungalow on the island.

Villagers

Paolo speaking to the player, having contracted fleas
  • It is possible to become "best friends" with villagers after interacting with them a lot and performing many favours for them. Best friend villagers react to seeing the player by waving or calling out to them and can also give the player special items.
  • It's no longer possible to request errands from villagers. They can only be received randomly from general conversation, as is the case in all subsequent games.
    • Pursuant to this, when working for Tom Nook he no longer instructs the player to perform errands for the town's villagers in between the jobs he assigns.
  • The player can now eavesdrop on conversations held between two different villagers.
  • New villager dialog is included that is conditional on the player's accomplishments, e.g. the size of their house, whether they own an island, the size of Tom Nook's store etc.
  • Villagers can become ill and require to be given medicine to treat their illness. Medicine can also be used to treat the player's bee stings.
  • When delivering gifts as an errand for a villager, the request-giver may ask the player for the recipient's feedback.
  • The gifts and letters that villagers may task the player to deliver can now be opened and kept, incurring their anger.
  • Lost Items can be found on the ground and returned to villagers in exchange for a reward.
  • Villagers can have fleas, which can be removed by the player with the Bug Catching Net.

Interactivity

  • Flowers can now be picked up and held in the player's hand.
  • Jacob's Ladders appear near the town's cliffs when a "perfect" rating has been achieved.
  • Players can make announcements using their personal Gyroid. These can be scheduled to play at a specific time, or set to play after a certain amount of time has passed.

Events

  • During the Fishing Tourney, Chip will now give the player a free Fishing Rod if they do not have one in their inventory.
  • Holidays are now identical to those in Animal Crossing, with Japan-exclusive events removed. However, Mom will send the player letters about Tanabata (Festival of the Stars) and Mamemaki (Bean Throwing Festival).
  • Villagers now wear hats on Christmas Eve and during the Harvest Festival.

Insects and Fish

Music

  • The game's title theme has been remixed with added percussion.
  • Totakeke will stage a live performance to celebrate the player's birthday, and the town's villagers will attend and celebrate with them.
  • 3 new songs are available from K.K. Slider: My Place, To the Edge and Forest Life.
  • 12 new songs are available from K.K. Slider only after scanning their corresponding e-Card: Agent K.K., King K.K. K.K. Dixie, K.K. Marathon, K.K. Metal, K.K. Rally, K.K. Rockabilly, Mountain Song, Marine Song 2001, Neapolitan, Pondering, and Steep Hill.
  • Every K.K. Slider song now has a corresponding vocal recording that can obtained and played on a music player. The vocal recordings can only be received by the new villagers after becoming best friends with them.
  • Gyroids can now be set to sync with music that is playing in the player's house, and will now remain in sync even when the player leaves and returns.

Miscellaneous

  • The color of the Nintendo logo when loading the game is now blue. In Animal Crossing it is red, and in Doubutsu no Mori+ it is white and Dōbutsu no Mori has the N64 logo in place of the Nintendo logo.
  • As with Animal Crossing, the memory card that comes with Dōbutsu no Mori e+ contains a grab bag with two NES games and a song from K.K. Slider. In Doubutsu no Mori e+ however, the grab bag arrives in a letter from Mom.
  • The amount of debt that the player owes Tom Nook for each house upgrade has been altered. The final repayment is for the purchase of a private island. After paying off the loan for the island, Nook will offer to build the player a statue outside the Train Station but the player now has the option to decline having it built.
  • More custom designs can be saved at the Able Sisters.
  • A maxmimum of 800 letters can be saved at the Post Office, and increase from the 160 letters in Doubutsu no Mori+.
  • The ETM in the Post Office is no longer present, and all e-Reader functionality is now accessed from the Wishing Well.

Gallery

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External Links


Animal Crossing series
Video games Doubutsu no Mori (Dòngwù Sēnlín) • Animal Crossing (Doubutsu no Mori+ • Animal Island) • Doubutsu no Mori e+ (Doubutsu-tachi to Asobou!) • Wild World • City Folk • New Leaf (Welcome amiibo) • New Horizons (Happy Home Paradise) Animal Crossing
Spin-off games Happy Home Designer • amiibo Festival • Pocket Camp
Applications Icon+Tokei CD-ROM • Calculator • Clock • Plaza • Photos with Animal Crossing • New Horizons Island Transfer Tool
Other media amiibo • e-Reader card • 🎬 Gekijōban Doubutsu no Mori • Manga • Soundtracks
Related media Mario Kart 8 • Sweet Day (Nintendo Land) • Super Smash Bros. series (Melee • Brawl • for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U • Ultimate)
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