Animal Forest is the literal translation of the Japanese name for Animal Crossing. While most western regions got Animal Crossing for the first time ever for Gamecube, Japan had Animal Crossing debut in the N64. It might not be such a bad thing that we had to wait, though, since there are very little differences between the two versions.

There's an internal clock (since the N64 didn't have a clock of its own). It's missing two villagers from the Gamecube version. It doesn't have the island minigame (because there's no e-Reader). It's missing certain NPCs like Kapp'n and Tortimer. There are only 32 fish/bugs.

It makes sense that this version lacks certain features that the newer versions have. Even the Gamecube version was made near obsolete by the DS and Wii Animal Crossing games.

"Dongwu Senlin", alternately "Animal Crossing" or "Animal Forest (Doubutsu no Mori)" in other regions, uses emulated FLASHRAM on iQue and accesses its internal RTC. Functions to check if controller devices are present and send values were stubbed. After patching the iQue title, hardware FLASHRAM, RTC, and controller slot devices will function on retail N64s.

The patched ROM expects a 1Mb FLASHRAM on its board and (optionally) a RTCK-NUS real-time clock; CIC is 6102. Controller Paks are supported. It should now be able to run correctly on 4MB.
In addition, several other liberties were taken. The clock's upper threshold was lifted from 2030 to 2099. The Controller Pak manager, both in-game and at boot, have been translated. The in-game debugger, if activated, will be write-enabled. Animalese support has been expanded; phonetic punctuation should be a thing of the past.

Apply the xdelta patch using the similarly named xdelta; use version 3.0.8 or up. The patch will only apply to a *decrypted* ROM in native (big-endian) byteorder.

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This unQue patch series is directed at restoring save support and reversing library changes in iQue titles so they function reliably on retail consoles and a wider range of emulators--at the expense of breaking iQue support.

*Patch: "Dongwu Senlin (China).xdelta"
*Common Names
2104108
00201B2C.z64
Dongwu Senlin.z64
*Original File Checksums (Decrypted)
*SHA-1
B0F25508CCC99551190B86F88DA6772942308F85
*SHA-512
577C5E4CC28B0E0712329C7268801BF79C3B147B2310057AE971B3045CF4AB7B3E46FC5BA5BF694269F87FBF77C63524E320F7FBD36A05AD1E2575DA8693F7C8