Re: Dobutsu no Mori/Animal Forest (Wasn't Answered

You can check the ffa links on this site for sites with emulators or games, and the point of this request thread is to find the games that aren't necessarily on the site already. Vimm has stated multiple times that Japanese games won't be hosted, and that mostly goes for translated versions or translation patches as well. I'm not sure what the criteria is for Vimm hosting a translation, but that's his decision at the end of the day.

I don't quite agree with the reasoning, but I respect it. I would argue that Animal Forest (the English translation anyway) is a version of a game that was released in the West. For me, the only reason I play the ORIGINAL version of Animal Crossing is that I have handhelds that are capable of N64 emulation but not Gamecube emulation. I think the argument for Animal Forest E+ not being included is much more sound. It had features which we never saw in the West. My impression is that the rule is to make it easier to vet games so that Vimm wont need to sift through a mountain of Japanese ROMs. I understand that.

That being said, I think it could be helpful to create pages for these games that linked to other sites. It could even be lumped into a page titled "Japanese Animal Crossing Translations". It can be really difficult to find a safe link to the room for the N64 version in particular. That way, they wouldn't actually need to be hosted on the site, but people could find the ROMs via... what is effectively the largest (by traffic and name share) ROM site on the internet.