Town tune
The town tune (formatted as Town Tune in Animal Crossing and known as the island tune in New Horizons) is a melody that plays in the player's town. It is customizable and can contain one to sixteen notes.
Creation and usage
A town tune is represented by frog icons for each eighth note. They can be set to the natural pitches between G3 and E5 (almost two octaves), a question mark representing a random sharp note, a dash which sustains the previous note, and a sleeping frog representing a rest.
Town tunes are played in the following situations:
- When the player talks to a villager or special character for the first time in a certain amount of time, the town tune plays. Each character plays a unique variation of the town tune with instruments and timing that reflect their personality.
- At the beginning of each hour, the town hall's bells chime to the melody of the town tune.
- When someone enters or exits a building with a door, bells will jingle to the melody of the town tune, sped up.
- In games prior to New Leaf, when the player interacts with an instrument, the tune will be played at the same speed as any music playing in the room.
- When a villager is happy, they will sing the town tune.
Appearances
In Animal Crossing
In all first-generation Animal Crossing games, the town tune is customized via a board outside the post office. In Animal Crossing and Doubutsu no Mori e+, the player has the option to scan a Town Tune e-Reader card at the board, which sets the town tune to the one on the card. Additionally, in Doubutsu no Mori e+ only, scanning a Town Tune Card at the board allows the card's song to be requested from K.K. Slider.
Villagers mention the town tune in the following dialogues:
- Hey, you know about the town melody bulletin board over by the post office? That's where you can go to change the town tune. Anyone can do it. That's why it's always changing, probably. I hear that song all the time, like when the clock chimes. It's <Town>'s own way of rocking out! <Player>, you oughta try changing it around, too, <catchphrase>. You look like a musical soul.
- I wonder why nobody's changed the town tune lately. Is this town slowly becoming less funkified? I mean, anybody can do it! All you gotta do is go to the big bulletin board by the post office and mess with it. You're welcome to change it, <Player>. You look like you got groove. But don't do it unless you're serious! It's the town's theme song, after all, so it better be something that rocks the house, <catchphrase>!
The default town tune differs between Animal Crossing and Doubutsu no Mori e+.
In Wild World and City Folk
In Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, the town tune is customized in town hall by speaking to Pelly or Phyllis at the civic center. The default town tune differs between the two games.
In New Leaf
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the town tune is customized in town hall by speaking to Isabelle. Once the player creates a tune, Isabelle will preview it by singing it.
There are four possible default town tunes in New Leaf.
In New Horizons
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the island tune does not play until Resident Services is upgraded to a building. Once the upgrade occurs, the tune can be customized by speaking to Isabelle. Like in New Leaf, she will sing the chosen tune upon its creation.
Gallery
Default town tunes
These are the default melodies for the town tune throughout the series. Each game features a variation of the same basic tune.
The default town tune in Doubutsu no Mori and Animal Crossing
The default town tune in Doubutsu no Mori e+
The default town tune in Wild World
The default town tune in City Folk
One of the four default town tunes in New Leaf
One of the four default town tunes in New Leaf
One of the four default town tunes in New Leaf
The default island tune in New Horizons
- WW DefaultTownTune.flac
The default town tune in Wild World
e-Card town tunes
These tunes can be found on the back of music cards in each Animal Crossing-e series. Each one is based on a song by K.K. Slider.
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