Level 80 - Animal Forest - Time to Cross into the Forest

Welcome to Remember 64, where
this week we're just a couple of cute little animals chilling in
the forest, kicking off our episodes for 2026.
Hi everyone, welcome to the show.
Hello again if you're a returning listener or a viewer,
and welcome if this is your first time joining us here on
Remember 64.

We play and discuss the good,
the bad, the ugly and everything in between.
Definitely an in between.

We got going today throughout
the Nintendo 64's library.

My name, of course, is David
Petrangelo.

And no, I don't want to work in
your store, Sir.

I can make my own way.
Why don't you peddle your wares someplace else?
Why did I pick this silly little nothing town anyways?
Jiggy look back.

Why did I do it?
Hello, How are you?

Jiggy look back.
Happy New Year.

I'm good.
Happy New Year.

I don't know why you picked the
town, but I'm very curious what you called your town.
But let me let me say this.

Tom Nook gets a bad Rep, but
literally he just invited you or like you go into town and he
just invites you to have a house.
He's like here, you can get one of these.
He's like, oh, you don't have money for that?
Well, you can come work for me part time.
Not even full time, part time.

I think he is more than
reasonable.

He gave us a flipping house
that.

That is an argument.
That is an argument to be made.

I just think he's really rude.
That's my problem.

Yeah, he's really rude.
Also.

Like I don't want to be your
like your shelving guy, you know?
OK.

Like I I got more worth than
that, don't I?

Or maybe I don't, I don't know.
Maybe I just.

I'm gonna say something right
now just cause your mic sounds a little iffy to me.
Oh it's it sounds it like it's coming through.
No problem, but I check your settings.
Oh, I think you're right.

If it's set to your actual mic
or your headset.

You're right.
Oh, Mr. Live.

How about yeah?
Oh yeah, That's so much better.

Yeah.
Yeah.

Off 2026 the way it's supposed
to be.

Yeah, there you go, much better.
I.

Was listening and I'm like, you
know, it's not as good as he usually does.
It's probably set wrong.

Yeah, I'm usually just I.
Didn't notice it before though.

Super smooth, super smooth.
No, you know what?

It's crispy, so crisp, so crisp.
We're we're kicking off 2026 with something a little bit
different.

We've done this from time to
time where we've played games that are, you know, mods, for
example, or well, I guess mods are actually mostly what we
we've done Kirko mods most recently last year.
But this time we're actually playing a game that probably
most people, I would say watching and listening to this
have not played.

I didn't even really knew,
really know that it was accessible up until I think
sometime last year.

It's called Animal Forest in
English, but I'm going to get the pronunciation wrong for
sure.

But dobutso no Mori I think in
Japanese.

Something like that.
Nobody.

There you go.
Exactly.

And that is, I don't know.
I don't know, but we're going to go with that.
That is only released Animal

Crossing game for the N64 that
was only out in Japan, 2001, I think it was.
I wrote down 2000, but I think it was actually 2001 that was
was not released in North

America.
So it was a fully Japanese game, first Animal Crossing game that
before it hit GameCube and sort of became the big franchise that
it is.

It was originally planned for
the N64, was shown at Space

World 2000 during sort of like a
highlight reel of things in the same show.
So that's probably one of the reasons why maybe we somewhat
forgot about it even despite the release or not.
The same show that they showed off GBA specs and the Game Boy
Advance and of course the

GameCube.
So that was a big, obviously massive thing.
It's their next console, it's only months away, all these
types of things.

So this Animal Crossing game or
what was what is called Animal

Forest, never released in North
America.

But of course, through the
beauty of technology time, people being able to get the
ROMs and make these available, we were able to play it.
And, and I think Jiggy, you had the idea of a couple months ago
saying this would actually be a cool thing to explore because
it's on the list of games and there are English translation
versions available.

So even better.
So that's what we did.

So that work, that's what we're
playing this week and talk sort of played over the last couple
of weeks over the the holidays and everything.
So we put it out there to say if anyone had a chance to play it
so we can kind of compare notes.

I know that Paul from Remnant
controllers is in the chat once again.
Hello Paul, How are you did play it?
Was playing it and has a voicemail for us or a text.
So we'll get to that in a little bit because we'll we'll sort of
like sprinkle that into our our discussion, what we thought
about the game.

But I have that in front of me.
I'm going to play that before we get to the game, though, Jiggy,
I want to play one text message here from something that is not
related directly to this game from a previous there it is.
So voice cast dot app slash.

Remember 64 is where you can
send these in.

We have text message available
now if you don't want to record your voice, which is totally
fine and you can also do a voicemail.
Either one of those can both be both be sent to us for free and
we can play it on the show like this.
This is a text message from someone called that called
themselves Biofreak.

So you know you can call
yourself an everyone freak

Biofreak.
Come on sound.

Found you guys from your
Biofreaks and Powerpuff girls episode and wanted to know if
there was any plans to do a game swap like this again.
It was a cool idea and a cool way to find the show.
Take care.

Thank you.
AI voice that translated that text message.
Yeah, the game swap thing we did.
So if anyone did not watch or listen to that, that was us both
bringing a game that neither one of us had played before in the
64, coincidentally enough, they were fighting games and we
discussed the 2.

So I think we said in the show
we want to do that again at some point.
Yeah, I think it's fun.

Maybe we could maybe we could
schedule that as like a a quarterly thing or something
like every every like two or three months or something.
We just like throw out a a game swap idea 'cause I like that
too.

That was really.
Cool it it might be again.

I I still feel like it's gonna
be tough for me to get a.

Game, yeah.
I was like, what you're gonna say is, is, yeah.
Yeah, I maybe it would be something that like maybe you've
only had minimal experience with, you know, something like
that.

Every once in a while I'm sure
we'll run into something, but we'll figure it out.
We'll we'll toss maybe be like once a season, BE11 Christmas
Game Exchange every season of the year, something like that,
You know, along with some of the mods that we're playing and
stuff.

It's a good way to sort of break
up just the general list of what the 64 S library is.
And then Speaking of mods and stuff, first of all, thank you
for sending that in Bio Freak, whoever you are.
That's awesome.

A quick little text message that
was that you can choose, you can actually check a little box when
you write it if you want to have us be able to press play and
make it an audio form.

And what it does is it just gets
read to us through kind of like a voice to text kind of.
Thing, yeah.

Can we make it like the old
school, like Microsoft, you know, you know what I'm talking
about?

Like you type in text and you'll
be like yeah.

Found you guys from bio freaks
power.

Yes, exactly.
Exactly.

Yeah.
Well, unfortunately I can't pick.
What games swap was a good idea?

Yeah, I, I, I don't know what
the actual choices are cause

I've never actually or sent it
in.

The flip note of that would be
Patrick Warburton.

Yes, please.
I found you guys.

Where's like, oh, I don't have
it.

I don't have it from I don't
have my Cronk.

It's in my kids room because
that's yeah, he's got his little squirrel.
The game that we swapped games, the game swap game.
Oh, right, the podcast, I don't know if you saw there was a
video that he put out.

I don't even know when it was
dated because you know how the algorithms work.
They just kind of throw whatever at you.
I that's like my favorite animated movie ever.
And Emperors New Groove is the funniest thing I've ever seen in
my life.

It's amazing he did a thing
where his three sons are all reading lines from that just.
Like 2 of the three, there's one that sounded exactly like him,
there's another one that sounded a lot like him, and then there
was one it was like you must sound like your mom.
Yeah, you got your mom's traits.

For better or for worse.
You got your mom's traits, right?
Yeah.

I mean, he's always funny putty.
And Seinfeld's a big thing, right?
All that stuff for me so.

Yeah, his voice will live out.
Yeah, I the, The thing is about these ones is that there's a
there's a drop down menu of ones you can choose.
I don't know what they sound like because I've never, you
know, played one back or whatever, never sent one in to
ourselves.

I don't even think I could do
that.

So it's whatever choices are on
there, whatever interesting to choose.
So yeah.

So anyways, I wanted to mention
this one thing that I came across before we get into Animal
Forests quickly Speaking of of

ROMs and games that are
available and things like that,

I'm just going to pull it up on
the screen.

I know these are available in
lots of places, but decompilation projects is a cool
thing because basically what that is, is people have the
source code essentially of what these games are, not just 64,
but other games as well.

And they make it work for modern
hardware, meaning mostly that you can play it on APC.
And I think that's really cool that that's even possible,
right?

Is that how you did you play a
ROM of Dinosaur Planet or is this how you did it?
I don't recall because that's one of the things that this
website has that.

No that the decompilation of
dinosaur planet just happened recently.
OK.

I played it actually on my N64
hardware which at the time I think actually ran better than
the.

If you played it on like APC
emulator like the native hardware ran it better but now
it's probably flipped the script.
Right, right, yeah, right, Cuz you, you played a like the
incomplete version of it on the whatever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember.

That correct?
I could get all the way through, but not without doing some BS
stuff.

Right.
You have to, like, go in and out a bunch of times and crash a
bunch of things.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's like a, there's like a clipping tool where you can like
basically just walk through walls.
And if you didn't, if you did it at certain spots, it would like
not trigger cutscenes and then you just couldn't progress.
So you had to like be really careful about when you used it.
It was like you needed it quite a bit.
Right, right.

And you know what that's the the
fact that it was available at all was already cool, right?
Like that, That's the thing.

So you.
Know what?

I actually have a sort of?
I should comment on this because this is like the perfect,
perfect time to comment on this.

Allegedly.
I'm not saying, I'm not saying this is a guaranteed thing, but
someone had reached out to me about having they acquired
basically an E3 demo cartridge of Conker's Quest.
And so potentially there might be something about that on my
channel in the future.

And then I'd love to come on
here and talk about it.

Lovely.
Yeah, it could be really cool.

So I I'm talking with them about
getting some sort of exclusive access before anything is
released in the world.

But yeah, it we'll see.
We'll see.

Nice, nice that that.
That's the thing.

Like when we get to, you know,
Bad Fur Day, like I, I would love to kind of do a little bit
of what we do with Banjo Kazooie and sort of explore the other
titles and stuff like that, 'cause I, I've played Diddy Kong
Racing, like that's my conquer exposure.
And you know, most of Bad Fur

Day years ago, right.
So to to sort of experience something like that, like what
you're talking about too is like as a as a part of it even.
Not that I necessarily have to play it, but like just that one
of us plays it and and gets to it.
If that's a possibility.

Ash, BOB-5000 says don't tease
us.

That sounds like a dream come
true.

Yes, that's that's correct.
Yeah, I agree.

I'm hoping it pans out, but
yeah, we'll see.

We'll, we'll keep our fingers
crossed and knock on the wood of my desk for that.
That'd be awesome.

So this is cool.
If anyone wants to find this, it actually takes you to all the
GitHub files and breakdown of how you can do it and play these
games.

It's read only memo, not memory.
Read onlymemo.com and then it's it's like slash decomp, N64,
blah, blah, blah, all these things.
But if you search read only memo, N64 decompilation,
decompilation, I think it'll show up.
So basically right now it's going to be updated every month.
It says the people that are running this.
So they'll be updating with different ones.
There's a bunch of other ones that aren't from the 64, but the
specific 64 ones that are fully accessible right now.
Our dinosaur planet, Doctor

Mario 64, Duke Nukem 0 hour,
Majora's Mask, Mario Kart 64, mystical ninja starring Goemon
and Star Fox 64.

I've played that Star Fox 64 one
and then they took those files and put them and up res them and
it's it plays fantastic.

I played it on an Xbox
controller at the time ran beautifully.
It's it's cool, so.

Something you like pumping into
the ultra wide monitors and stuff and that's.
Pretty cool.

Yeah, that's, that's what the
the Starfux 64 one did the version that I played, it upped
the textures and and the screen.

It was it's really cool.
So like you click on it, it takes you to like the GitHub
page and it gives you all these files and all the assets and and
and sort of instructions and all these things.
So it's it's pretty cool.

It's a good.
Do they not?

Have occurring of time.
Not on this particular site.

OK, this one I thought was cool
because it had a bunch of other things on it as well.
Oh yeah, dude, Sonic Unleashed.

I remember hearing about this.
That is really cool because they have not ported it on anything.
And this was like, this was a big deal because they're like,
well, Sega's not gonna do it.

We did it.
Yeah, I love it.

And, and that's great.
All these sort of community projects and things like that.
I love that kind of stuff because we've had a chance to
play a lot of those now.

And you know, obviously Kirk
Ohmuds makes things, you know, he made essentially a whole new
Banjo Kazooie game, which we absolutely loved last year.
But you know, Smash Remix was a perfect example when we played
that.

That's a group of people making
this happen.

And that some of these are are a
perfect example of that too, of how that works, right?
So people are going in and they're doing that.
Oh, there it is.

Yeah, there's a Starfox 64 when
Ocarina Yeah OK, so these.

Oh, OK.
This is a separate section.

That's why I clicked on the
wrong section.

So perfect Dark is in there.
There's the Starfox one that I played.
Yeah, and some of these two, like the Starfox one, it says
also see Dreamcast.

That's because they'll take this
code and they'll make it available for other consoles
too, which is such a cool idea.

I love that too.
So that's.

All possible I've been seeing
it.

It's very interesting to see the
the latest thing I saw was Super

Mario 64 running on APS 1 and
granted it's not without issues.

They're still trying to get it
to like they're optimizing it and everything.
Definitely the texture is just popping in and out and like
flying all over the place, but the fact that you can move
around is Mario and it plays largely the same and looks
fairly close.

Kind of amazing.
I I love that like those types of yeah playing Doom on
PlayStation, all these things that you know, driver 2 like I
play that game, that game just kicks my ass.
But like there's other ways you could play Super Metroid on your
PC.

Probably upress quality.
I don't know.

I didn't click on that one in
particular, but like that's great, all these.
Things that arcade games to arcade games.
Yeah.

Oh my God, yeah.
You can see so much in front of you.
That'd be so cool.

It's so cool and it's such like
a it's all about the vibes in

Metroid a lot of the time,
right?

So that's always fun.
So yeah.

And then like arcade games, they
have the rush games, like games that you would never literally
the version of the game you'd never be able to play at home.
You can do that, like things like that.
And that's awesome.

So, yeah, so that's kind of
cool.

I just wanted to highlight that.
I was looking through this the other day and I just thought I'd
highlight it because it's just fun, cool stuff that's at least
vaguely related to what we're doing here.
So, all right, so let's talk a little bit or a lot about.
Tobuzzo no Mori.

So no Mori of course, and we
start that with some lovely intro music I think.
I love it.

Are we just like in the jazz?
Is it great?

I love it.
Oh, you're really good at piano.

I didn't know that isn't it?
It's still.

Fantastic.
It's so good, it's so the the music is lovely, just lovely.
It's so lovely.

Yeah, if anyone's watching this
or not watching it, the the footage we're we're looking at
is it has Japanese text on it.

That's the version I was able to
find.

But the game is the same.
The game looks exactly the same, plays the same.
I I was looking through some of the long plays and stuff.
It's operates the same way.

OK, Animal Forest, like I said,
very late into the N64's life cycle, only released in Japan at
the time.

Now ROMs make that available to
us to be able to experience this.
Jiggy, My question to you is what's your experience with with
Animal Crossing in general?

Of course, I assume we haven't,
you haven't played this before, but what was your sort of
feeling going in?

Because I think at this point,
based on the pandemic and New

Horizons and what seemed like
everybody in the world played that game for a year, there's
certain expectations of what

Animal Crossing is or has
become.

What's what's been your history
with it?

Coming.
Well, I go back to the OG, the official Animal Crossing.
This is my copy that I've had.

Since wait wait, I got to put, I
got to.

There we go, this This is my
copy that I've had since, I don't know, 2000.
Two or three.

Probably 2.
It was early on.

Well, OK, it's late enough that
I have a Player's Choice edition, OK, But it was like I
got my little memory card, my animal crust.
First released 2002 it looks like in North America.
So there you go.

Yeah, yeah.
So I've had this.

And then that one might have
been released the year after just because it says player's
choice or something.

So.
Yeah, this game, this game's cool.
I actually remember getting it because it was one of a few I
got.

I got this one Wario World.
There was one more in there, but

I can't remember what it is off
the top of my head.

Actually, from my friend.
Shout out to David Unzer, who I went to elementary school with.
I haven't talked to that guy in a long time, but that's where I
got this copy.

This was originally his copy,
and he sold it at a rummage sale.
And I was like, dude, I'll buy it.
And it was, it was great.

But yeah, it was fairly early
on.

Like it was still a relatively
not new game, but new, newish, still in the Yankee era of
things.

And I gotta say, I played the
crap out of it.

One of the things I loved about
Animal Crossing was hunting for sort of secret things based on
the season that you were in.

I remember like that was the
that was the time really.

Like on my YouTube channel, for
those who don't know, I have a mystery series where I basically
just like look at a game that I have played all the time growing
up and I sort of had these childhood like, well, what if it
did this?

What if it did this?
Like those thoughts as you're playing a game, I just basically
like verbalize those and put it in a video, right?
Those those channel touches like why does Banjo wear pants?
You know, stupid stuff like that.
Don't you hate pants?

Yeah, right.
I wouldn't wear pants if I was a bear, but anyway.
If there was an option, I mean come on, why are we wearing
pants like let's be?

Honest why?
Why?

If there's an option, why are
you doing it?

No one's gonna judge him.
He's, he's in a forest.

He's like, right, just just go
for it, man.

He just lives with a bird.
In the middle of the mountain he's the like the only one there
besides some vegetables and maybe models the mole who
doesn't wear pants himself so.

Also doesn't wear pants and this
kazooie's not gonna care.

Let's go, Janus.
Anyways, yeah, Animal Crossing sort of sparked some of those
childhood.

I gotta do a mysteries video on
this game because there's a particular Halloween setting
where you could get a ghost.

And so we used to go into the
game.

Well, first we tried it like
actually on the holiday.

And I was like giving up.
So I ended up like retrying and setting the date on my console
to Halloween so I could go hunt for this ghost and find it.
And I sort of thought my friend was like messing with me when he
told me that happened.

And then no, lo and behold, I
did find it.

It took me a little.
Bit but like stuff like that,

Like is it like someone that
ends up being a a like a a neighbor or something?
That has there's like it's no, I don't think it's a neighbor.
I'm trying to remember exactly what it did, but it's just like
a ghost that can be found only on like Halloween time.
And he's like at a specific like hours, like specific hour range.
And he just sort of like wanders around and it's just one of
those things where you just like, no way, you know, as a
kid, you're like, no way.

That's not true.
They didn't do.

That that's not possible.
But what if?

And so you go and explore for
hours, you never find it.

And then you find out that you
have to have very specific like triggers and like it has to go
with this, this specific time, this specific window of time.
Like, but that that kind of stuff this game is filled with
and I love it.

And Animal Crossing is
definitely a childhood thing.

I I sort of fell off after
GameCube.

I can't say that I ever I played
a little bit on the DS.

That was fine.
My brother was really into the 3DS one, but I feel like I
wasn't really.

I have a three DSI have a bunch
of games for it.

It wasn't one of the games I
played on three DSI Feel like I just sort of got a 3DS to get a
3DS and I didn't really explore the library too much.
Me too, honestly, I got mine pretty late and I didn't
experience, I mean, I, I like it.
I, you know, I, I've, like I've said before, I've played Luigi's
Mansion Dark Moon like 6 times.

I love that game, but it's also
'cause it's one of like 10 that

I have.
Yeah.

Not that I've only played 10 but
I have 10 on hand and that's one of them.
It's one of my go to's so.

You know, it is a few games.
I got a 3DS four and they were

Smash Bros.
Yeah, and Kid Icarus.

I wanted that one really bad.
I wanna try that.

Yeah, I haven't.
Played that and I also wanted the ports of Ocarina and Star
Fox.

At the time, Majora's Mask
wasn't a thing, but we did eventually get that.
Yeah, I have the Star Fox on, but I do not have, do not have
the Zelda games that'd be.

Sweet.
The thing the thing I think that threw me off with these older
the the newer Animal Crossing games.
Like I have the one on switch

New Horizons is the is the new
one right?

Yep.
They're always like new Leaf,

New Horizons.
Yeah, Yeah.

But New Horizons it when they
switch to the like, it's almost like a a giant.
The world's like a wheel sort of that like rotates.
So as you like run back, it sort of rotates over you whereas.
Oh yeah?

You mean like the earth 'cause
it's round like that or?

Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.

Well, well, the the real Earth.
Is.

Oh, I know.
Animal Crossing 1 knew this and so the earth was flat.
But no, no, no, you know what

I'm saying?
Like, like it's like you, you, you sort of your perspective is
different and it's.

Almost like you're It is.
It's almost like everything is on a slight hill.
Yeah.

And you're going over and it's
sort of like rotating underneath you versus this, which is more
like ARP classic RPG, like Zelda over the top sort of style, a
little bit different.

But feels it feels like you're
playing some of the PS1 like

Final Fantasies or the Octopack
Traveler games that are out now, like that sort of angle, yes.
Just without battles, but.

But not battles, Yeah.
How do I set without battles?

Yeah, but that's like the angle
I can kind of like, oh, I'm playing Final Fantasy 9.
It's almost like a that angle and it looks like it's sort of
anyways.

Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I, I definitely prefer this,
this first one in the style.

There's just something special
about this first one in my book.

I, I know a lot of people, like
my niece being one of them.

She comes over and like asks for
my old switch because she wants to play Animal Crossing.
She built a little village and she's like, can I just like have
this so I can play Animal

Crossing?
And I'm like, no, but I'm like,

I don't know.
Who knows, I might get one.

Sadly the original switch is
still not cheap enough to just be like.
Just go get one.

It's an OLED too, yeah.
Oh, it's OLED.

Too.
Mine's an OLED so I'm not giving it up but.
Yeah, I still have the launch one like I have.
I, I got it.

I mean, it's considered the
launch one.

It was out within the first
whatever, six months or something like that.
But yeah, mine's not a fancy one.
It's still running, still works.

It's it's good.
I'll set it aside for my little guy when he's ready to be at
that level, which will probably be in like 6 years so.
Hopefully, hopefully it holds.

Up sit there.
Yeah, yeah, Actually, over the holidays we had friends over for
an afternoon at one point.

And my buddy's kid is, is he 8
or just turned 8 or just turned 9?
And he got a Switch last year for Christmas and he's got Mario
Kart and whatever, and he's excited to play the new tracks
that came out for his Switch 1.

So he's got all the extra tracks
and stuff.

So he's we're, we're down here
in the basement in the room just behind this wall here playing.
And you know, our son's a year and a half.
He's not old enough to play or understand.
He's not really watching TV just yet, things like that.
But like he sits on my buddy's kids lap and I gave.
Him like.

A Switch controller that wasn't
connected to the actual game we were playing.
And he's just like, loving it.

I mean, there's lots going on,
sure, but like he just wants to hold a controller because
everybody else is.

And I am so proud of him because
without even telling him what to do, he tried.
His hands are too small.

Try to put both thumbs on the
thumb sticks.

Oh man, you know what you got to
do?

Just naturally.
When you're in that setting again, take that controller away
and give him a Nintendo 64 controller like that.
Oh, I.

Should I never get out of that?
Train him up the right way.

If he can play this, he can play
anything.

I wonder.
I wonder if he yeah, actually the yeah, yeah, I should, I
should do that.

Yeah.
I don't know if I want and I feel like he would.
He would hold the the D pad and and the C buttons would be my
assumption but.

You should make it a little
video for the channel.

Just be like I.
Should.

Be like training them up, right?
That's no good.

Just throw it away.
What is this garbage?

What is this?
Yeah, yeah, you got I'm.

Young Oh the The thing I wanted
to say the the thing that makes this game the best Animal
Crossing back in the day.

It is one of the few games that
had a crap ton of emulated games inside of it.
The the GameCube one did.

Yeah, you could play.
You could play NES games.

There were tons of NES games in
this game.

And actually, I didn't know that
this version also has some NES games, though not as many.
I missed that.

I did not experience that at
all.

Yeah, that's part of the thing.
I would just you'd fill your house with like basically
they're NE s s Yeah.

And and you just put NES and
each NES has a different game.

So like the noon fight?
Ice Climbers like all those?

Oh, ice climbers what?
I love ice cream.

That's really cool.
Oh man, I did not get to that point at all.
That's awesome.

I, I, I wanna, I wanna see Ash
Bob 5000 was saying before he goes, how crazy is it that
Europe didn't get Animal

Crossing at all in 2004?
That I guess we were still in the era of the PAL region
getting games so much later.

I thought we were past that by
the time GameCube came out, but

I guess this was one of them.
Like, Yep, that's wild and sucks honestly.
Totally.

That's brutal.
They also say that the game doesn't look great on GameCube
to them, but it looks great on the 64 and I'm going to start
there and say that this game I think does look really good.
I I can't picture in my mind exactly what the game cube 1
looks like, but I there's something about this and I did a
quick video on this about last week when I was still playing
the game and I was like, the game just feels like it looks
good.

Like it's like the art style,
the character silhouettes, the, the, the, the setting, the whole
thing just feels like it was meant to be in this style, you
know, and maybe that's part of the design on purpose, right?
But the whole thing just feels right.
I think on the 64, just the way that it looks.
It's I don't, I, the question I asked you is about your
experience with with Animal

Crossing in general.
I don't really have any stories about it at all.
For me, if we got New Horizons like everybody else, after a few
months of playing it a decent amount, I would say I was like,
my God, what am I?

I don't know what I'm doing
anymore.

Like, do I need to?
I felt like I kind of lost it lost its luster on me.
But it's one of the few games that my wife kept playing for
hours and hours and hours.

She had like triple the amount
of time.

She's not a gamer, never really
has been every once in a while.

Like they had a Genesis, I think
when they were growing up.

So like, you know, she's played,
but she's not someone who can, who does keep up with games in
any way whatsoever.

She just hears about it from me,
but she loved it and it and it makes sense.
I think it was a good sort of communal thing to it was it's a
good game.

You know, they're still working
on it.

Like the fact that they're
actually going to put out content for it in January of
2026 or maybe it's February and have a Switch to version of this
game that came out now almost six years ago is kind of crazy
to me.

So I wonder if they're doing the
Mario Kart thing, just releasing the same came over and over.
So, yeah, so I went into this just just expecting kind of, oh,
what's the base version of what

I played mostly on a Switch a
few years ago.

And that's kind of what I got, I
think.

And that's fine.
I think it's pretty good.

I had a pretty good time sort of
just wandering around kind of like this person that we're
watching here trying to find things, get an idea of how they
work the map.

Because one of the things with
the way that this game is structured, and I don't know, is
this a game coupon?

Do this where it's almost like
it's broken up into different screens.
Yeah, yeah, that's OK.

It's, it's very, it's very, very
similar to the GameCube version.

I mean, the port, the port, it's
a port.

It it plays very similar and
looks very similar to be honest.

OK, I didn't see that.
That's The thing is like this ended up instead of coming to
North America as the Animal

Crossing game, they put it out
in Japan.

But really it it is kind of, I
guess you're kind of confirming that it is pretty much the same
game, it just happens to be.

Yeah, I, I actually looked up
all the differences because I was playing and I'm like, Oh my
gosh, I gotta know what's actually.
Different and you can compare because you've you've had
experience with both.

Yeah, And I can say that the
obviously the controls are a little different, but it's not
like the world itself.

I was kind of blown away at how
close this game actually looks to the GameCube version.
I didn't get into the specifics of what resolution this is
running at versus the GameCube.

I'm sure, right?
I'm sure the GameCube is slightly higher resolution.
Like I mean the N64 was capable of outputting a similar
resolution right?

That 480P technically.
Or maybe it's 480I.

I'm sure the game keeps
outputting a higher resolution

I'm sure, but I.
Don't.

Know but the frame rate seemed
like it was perfect in this version it.
Was fine, I had zero issues with it.
It's not a game that you're gonna be playing and being like,
oh, you're gonna notice if it's 30 versus 60 FPS because it it's
so slow paced and you're just wandering around.
But I was blown away at how good this game actually freaking
looked.

I'm like, this looks exactly how
I remember.

Like if you handed this to me
and someone told me that they just converted the GameCube
controller to an N64 controller,

They're like, check it out.
You can play, you can play this with a, with an N64 controller.
I'd be like, oh, cool.

And they'd be like, Oh no, this
is actually running on N64.

I I'll be like, you're crazy.
Yeah, no way, man.

It just looks so good.
I like you man, but you're crazy.
You're crazy.

But yeah, dude, that that game,
it's, it's, it's mind blowing how good this looks like as an
N64 game in particular, this holds up so well.
I I totally agree.

Like the style suits it.
It just everything about it looks good.
And what's cool about it too, is

I kind of expected, I mean,
I've, I've seen some video, I've seen some screenshots of the
GameCube game and I think I knew someone that had, I can't
remember it was ADS or the 3DS one.
So I've, I've seen it and seen it in person and stuff too.
Not that that, you know, necessarily confirms everything,
but it's just, I'm just, I'm kind of amazed at how a lot of
what this looks like and how it moves too, how the characters
animate and all that is like the same as what I played six years
ago on a on three generations, 4 generations later.
Like that's, that's awesome.

Like they, they just, I think
what that, what that shows is that they kind of got it right
in the 1st place and they realized what they had and they
just kind of built upon that with the technology as it kept
going and like they just made the games bigger.
You could do more.

Obviously online stuff's a big
part of it all that stuff.

So I, I think I think that's
cool.

I think that made like that was
a big part of why I was like,

Oh, this works for me is because
it just, it works the way it needs to there.
There was no major slowdowns, like you said, like there's
nothing super fast-paced that's going to bog things down.
And it looks and sounds and feels when you're playing it
just the way I would have wanted and expected it to and doesn't
feel modern, but it doesn't feel like it's 25 years old.
Yeah, let me tell you something.

This.
Is here 'cause I I haven't pulled up.
So one of the, one of the main differences that people will
know right off the bat who've played Animal Crossing on
GameCube is that the text entry is wack in the N64 version.
It's like a dial that you slide the thumb.
It's not very intuitive.

You can figure it out and make
it work, but it's not very intuitive.
Versus the GameCube is just like the classic, like bring a
keyboard on the screen and navigate and type it out.
Yeah, GameCube much, much more preferred in that way.
A lot of the changes happen to do with like townsfolk, people
that come into the town, just a lot of them aren't present in
the N64 version that are on the

GameCube version.
I'm not sure if there's any that are only present on the N64
version, but I know there's a lot that were on the GameCube
that aren't on the N64.

Yeah, that I saw.
I I had the list pulled up.

I thought I thought I'd save the
link.

The biggest 1 is probably, or
one of the biggest ones is probably the Able Sisters.
That's on it.

Yeah.
They give you, they give you the ability to like make clothing
and stuff and design things.

And that's not in this N64
version, which honestly that's a big draw for me 'cause I used to
like, make shirts and stuff in the game and different.
Patterns.

Well, yeah, that was such a big
part of New Horizon too, of people sharing their their
things online and being able to wear each other's clothing like
it's a cool idea.

I never would have expected that
to be something even in the

GameCube 1, never mind this one.
Like, that's cool.

I like it.
I like.

It there's one that I actually,
where did it go?

I had it pulled up.
Where did I put it?

I don't know.
Let me see if I have like 50 tabs open.
Oh, I did.

In the meantime, Dan Caparello
says, I went back to the original Animal Crossing on
GameCube recently, have a huge amount of nostalgia for it, but
it's hard to recommend in 2026.

And that's that's OK.
I think you can definitely.

Oh Jiggy, you got your oh, you
shared your screen, Jiggy.

Oh, hello.
Yeah, look at this.

Where is it here?
Hey.

These are exclusive on the N64
version.

On the GameCube version, you had
a Me.

I don't think I'm muted.
Yeah.

What?
Why am I muted?

I'm not muted on my end.
I don't.

Know why?
I don't know.

I'm going to talk with it.
Looks like an elephant.

Oh, design.
Oh, look at designed here.

I'm gonna pull that up.
Look at that.

We got ourselves an elephant,
which is the character in little

N64.
Yeah.

That's awesome.
All I can figure is that am I?

Can you hear me now?
Still, man, still.

I don't know how I can't hear
you messing with me.

Is it me?
Maybe it's.

Me.
It's gotta be you.

I feel like I'm let me pull up
the stream.

I'm gonna I'm gonna see if I'm
actually.

Yeah, I'm good, I'm good.
I don't know why would they can hear me, but whatever.
Now figure out what's going on.

So you're the audio.
Super loud, actually.

Chad, tell us if you can hear
us, because I can.

Super loud, right?
Anything at the moment?

It's just like.
Jiggy blink twice if you can hear the game all right.
I turned the sound off.

All right, it's.
Still loud.

Keep talking.
I'll I'll figure this out.

Keep talking.
OK, well what I was talking about was that the yeah, why is
the game so loud?

The shirt that I shared, the N64
logo, those were three exclusive items on the N64 version that
got replaced by GameCube versions.
Basically same thing but the G replaced the N So on the N64 you
have the proper like N64 logo which I thought was really cool.
A couple other differences where they actually changed some of
the holidays.

They had a lot of like Japanese
holidays, which is one thing that they worried about the
future release in the in the

Americas, in the North America
region.

They were like, oh, well, people
aren't going to understand our holidays and stuff and they're
really complicated.

And so they're like, that was
one of the things that they decided they weren't going to
pass into the remake.

And then when they did remake in
the GameCube, they converted everything to make it like super
easy to understand and like the normal holidays.
They changed holidays.

They changed holidays.
Yeah, that was very hard to talk because I kept locking into the
game audio that was super loud.

Again, sorry.
So I was like losing my train of thought.
But yeah, they change the holidays.
Everyone watching and listening, this is just par for the course
for me.

I'm sorry.
It's whatever.

It's whatever.
It's whatever.

But yeah, they change the
holidays.

Tom Nook, slightly different
uniforms.

Oh, really?
Yep.

Yep.
Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep.

Let me see you other than people
being different.

I'm trying to think if there's
anything like super significant.

There's no museum, so there is a
faraway museum that you can go to and you can send fossils out.
But in Animal Crossing, a

GameCube, there's an actual
museum you can go to.

It is cool that the
functionality of saving your town to a controller pack and
like traveling to it with your friends is pretty much the same
as it would be with a GameCube memory card.
One thing that's interesting is the GameCube as I showed
earlier, comes with its own animals Animal Crossing specific
memory card.

Oh, it has no memory card?
What?

Yeah, this is, this is like an
Animal Crossing.

I don't know if you can see it.
It has a little character.

I don't know.
My camera always does this.

What character?
It's the little, the little.

Piggy tried to stick it to his
forehead.

Well, it seems to focus on my
face, but not the thing.

Yeah, your beautiful, beautiful
face.

It's like the the little cat
when you first show up on the bus.
Like the first.

Yeah, the guy who's on the
train, yeah, which is like super animated and like.
Yeah.

And so it just it says welcome,
and then you can write your name on it.
And then this was meant to be like passing around and it's got
a little holder for the memory card in the game case.
It's great.

I thought that was sweet and
it's cool that they just package that in.
My friends and I totally used this at some point.
Did.

You nice.
Yep, we, we did.

We went across our towns and
stuff and that's.

Great, that's so cool for that
time.

It would have been so neat to do
that on the N64 too, but I don't know that we would have because
I don't know if it's more commonplace for people to have a
GameCube memory card.

It wasn't as commonplace to have
controller packs for their N64 and not every game needed them.
So you'd be like.

Or multiple right 'cause like
like with PlayStation and game like especially PS1 and PS2 like
PlayStation definitely ran into this a lot where like they've
ran out of space super quickly. 64 did as well but like I think
I had one I think I just I honestly think I had one maybe
maybe 2 because it was me and my brother in the house I.
Think I only had one myself, I don't remember.
And like we've talked about this before, how some games just take
up like so much, so many blocks and it's like, I don't
understand how could this possibly like whatever, maybe
this was one of them where you might have needed it 'cause like
it's a pretty, I would assume the amount of space that saving
your town is could be a good chunk of what those memory cards
could, could fit.

So the fact that the Game Cube
one had that available included,

I didn't see anything anywhere
that said the 64 one had that available, but so late in the
life cycle that I would assume they're just counting on people
having one.

Yeah, and they're probably super
cheap at that point when the game releases, yeah.
For sure, yeah, You got five years, six years into the life
cycle, so that makes sense.

Other.
Cool things that are different in this version.
Some KK slider songs are different.
It's the little dog that plays stuff.
There are a few items like that look different when you drop
them on the ground, which is kind of neat.
There's no coconuts in this version of the game.
There are in the GameCube version.
Yeah.

It's it's sort of in line with
what you'd expect when they're remaking a game like this.
And they poured it onto a more substantial console.
They're like, well, we can just add more to it, right?
Add more yeah.

Add more, add more.
They really I'm just impressed in how much they didn't like
have to refine this game at all.

It is how it is.
Yeah, yeah, it's just solid.

Like it's just, and I think it's
what you expect too, but that's not a bad thing.
It's not like it's not gonna blow away your expectations, but
it's also not gonna disappoint you because it's like, oh, it's
Animal Crossing.

If you've had any idea of what
it is, even if you haven't played one before, you kind of
can see what you're gonna do.

It's pretty slow pace.
Like generally speaking, these games are just not really my
thing.

Like even like Stardew Valley,
which is obviously really huge and like an updated version or
idea of what this was would be based around and stuff there at
a certain point I feel like, OK,

I've, I know what this game is.
I know Stardew Valley is obviously deeper.
There's a whole bunch of different stories and all these
characters.

I I understand that.
But in general, these types of games, after a while, which is
what happened with me with New

Horizons, I just go, all right,
I feel like I've done what I can do in this, You know, I've done
what I think that this game is capable of showing me, and I got
other things I can play.

And we're doing this for the
show.

So it's not like I was playing
this for months and months, but

I feel like if I played this for
several months, I'd be like, I kinda like, I don't know.
I don't know if it stick with me now.
Maybe back then it would.

I don't think it's, it's because
the game, it's not the game's fault.
It's me.

That's how I react to those.
The game itself, I think plays really well, works well.
You know, the translation version that we that we had was
good too.

Like that.
That's fun.

The fact that that was done by
people that everything was translated into English was
great.

Not that it's super hard to
figure things out, but you're in a menu a lot.
You got to read what you're doing and know what things are.
And I don't want to accidentally throw something on the ground
I'm not supposed to, for example.
So that was OK.

The only thing about playing
this was that to get this going for me took a bit.
Really.

Yeah, because of the clock.
So I didn't think of this at the time and it looks like you
didn't think of that.

Either no, I have something
really interesting to tell you.

OK, mine's related to the clock.
Yeah, mine's related to the clock too, but I want you to say
yours first.

OK so basically so Jiggy had had
the ROM file, sent it to me and

I was like great, I'm gonna get
it, I'm gonna put on the

Everdrive, I'm gonna play it.
Problem is I have the X5 which does not have an internal clock
at the time.

The problem at the time when I
bought it, I was like, well, I don't need the X7.
I don't, I don't, you know, there's like developer things in
it or tools or however, however it's part of it, internal clock.
And as far as I know, I'll find a way around internal clock if I
ever run into that.

This is, you know, four years
ago, three years ago when I, when I purchased it, This is the
first time I've run into that issue.
So I played the the first, I would say screen, I guess you
could call it.

I saw slider.
That's pretty much it.

Once you kick into going past
that, the game is just blank.

That's it.
It goes black.

I let it sit there for 15
minutes at one point and I was like, why?
I don't know, like I thought I was like, maybe it's the wrong,
maybe I did something wrong.

I'll try it again.
And I did it and I was like son of a.
And then I realized, Oh yeah, it's got to be related to that.
So then I opened it up on retro work and played it on my PC and
it worked fine.

Every once in a while I did hit
some bugs, I think partially because of a retro arc thing
where like if I open the menu and close and open again a
little too quickly, the game would start like basically
flashing super fast.

So I would just save my state
'cause that would be available and that and I'd relaunch the
game and it would stop that.

So it's not necessarily a bug of
the game, I think it's just the emulation of it and stuff is
what I ran into.

But the first day that I tried
to sit down and play this, it did not go well.
Dude.

It did not go well.
That's so funny because my, my comment was actually going to be
I didn't know my X7 had an internal clock because I, I was
playing I, I thought it was my analog 3D for a second and I was
like, wait, did they put an internal clock in this?
So what happened was I I booted up the game and the date and
time were correct and I was like or like really close and I'm
like, wait.

On the analog or on the
Everdrive?

Well, just when I booted up the
game inside.

Oh, just in.
Oh, 'cause I guess you were playing it on the analog, is
what you're saying, correct?

Yeah, correct.
Using the.

Everdrive but I was like, wait,
what are the odds that the day is like the same and I I didn't
know I was like.

Was the year the same?
That would be crazy.

I thought it was going to ask me
to set it, but then it just like, yeah, it was, it was 2025
I think.

Or wow.
Crazy 26 Well, it was one of the two.
Yeah, whatever.

It was really close.
That's hilarious.

And you're like, wait, what?
Yeah, that's exactly what happened.
I'm like, wait, how is this?

What?
There's no what Nintendo's watching me.
How'd you they?

Know, they know.
They know all they're gonna shut you down, Jiggy.
You better hide.

Right.
Yeah, so then when I put it on the retro Arc, it recognized the
exact date.

So it wasn't a problem cuz it's
running on the date that was on my computer cuz I had I opened I
have it separately too, but I opened up retro arc on Steam and
played it through that and that

Steam has it's obviously has a
clock and everything right.

So Ashbrob says analog doesn't
have time features yet just like how the system has Wi-Fi
capabilities the OS doesn't support just yet.
So there you go so that could be a software update like they've
said there are changes in updates that are coming.
So that's good.

Nice to know because I, I don't
know offhand other games that need it, but it makes sense that
this is, I just didn't think about it at the time because,
you know, playing the the one on

Play New Horizons, I was like,
yeah, well, whatever, just change it, whatever.
But like then it reminded me, oh, when you're saying on
GameCube that you could just manually change it and do
whatever you wanted.

Yeah, I was, I thought that
that's what I was going to be able to do in this.
But it it actually just stopped working before it even got to
the point of it telling me when things were.
So yeah, that was it was rough.

I was like, Oh no, we said we're
going to play this.

I wanted to play it.
Jiggy's going to enjoy it.

I'm going to be like, oh God, be
that guy.

That's like, we got to play
something else.

Or oh, I got to find a different
way and all these things and thankfully, life.
Finds a way.

Life finds a way I want.
So I didn't play it on an actual 64 controller unfortunately
because of that, but I have like the retro brawler things which
is just a slightly different layout for the controller and it
worked fine.

So yeah, I mean, this is really,
this is not one that it it doesn't really matter what
controller you play for it.

No.
To be honest, it's it's very simple.
Like you, if you need to know you run with Z, you move around
the joystick.

A does like everything.
Start opens your menu.

Yeah, that's pretty much it.
And then I think you can press

L&R to zip between parts of the
menu, but a lot of it's just just run around a little bit
with the joystick and then just navigate menus.
That's mostly what it is.

And that's fine.
You know, that's just, oh, this guy's got a spaceship at his
house.

Whoa.
It's about it's about getting cool crap and loading your house
up, but it's mostly about getting the NES games and
loading that.

I had a house.
How did you do that with all of those?
I missed that, how did you do that?
Well, I didn't really do it in

Animal Forest because I, but I
in Animal Crossing, I, I, I had to grind.
I don't remember how I, how I got them all, but I got tons of
them.

Like I had a whole house just
build every little panel there had a new NES game.
I did have a list of which NES games.
Let me see if I can pull it up here.
We're in Animal Forest.

Here we go 7 Famicom because
this is Japanese, remember?

So 7 Famicom games can be
obtained.

Balloon Fight, Klu Klu Land,
Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Junior

Math for some reason.
Golf.

Yeah, golf, pinball and tennis.
Wow, that's pretty good actually.
Golf is fun.

I like golf is very like.
Very.

Early Mario Golf kind of thing.
Right.

Animal Crossing NES games list.
Yeah, so.

That's that's pretty good
because some of those games aren't just, I mean, a lot of
them are just press A, press B and that's it, right.
But for the most part, that's pretty good.
Some can be won at Tom Nooks lottery, while others are
obtained as promotional items from a special memory card found
in certain Animal Crossing games.
Nintendo E cards also have a few

NES games available for Animal
Crossing.

I forgot the e-reader was a
thing.

There was e-reader functionality
with this game on the GameCube, but I don't remember doing that.
But I did have a lot of NES games, so there's probably some
exclusive ones I didn't have.

Oh yeah, all of these
obtainable.

I definitely had, but yeah, so
Balloon Fight this, these are all the ones.
So you have the original 7 that were in Animal Forest that I
just mentioned with the addition of Excite Bike.
Those are all obtainable inside the game in in Nooks lottery.
Of course nooks run in a lottery.
You know what, Nook?

Get the hell out of here.
And then you can obtain from the island, Wario's Woods and
baseball.

And then right from Nintendo
giveaways, you can get soccer,

DK Junior, DK3, Klukulan D,
which I don't know what that one is actually.
I don't know what that is.

Yeah.
And punch out.

And punch out what?
And then unobtainable without external assistance.
Mario Bros, Ice Climbers, Super

Mario Bros, and The Legend of
Zelda.

However, I had all of those so I
am wondering how the heck I did that.
I I did have friends with an e-reader so maybe so they are
from E cards.

So very possible Mario like you
have Mario Brothers in.

I definitely had Super Mario
Bros and Ice Climbers.

I don't remember Zelda or the
original Mario Bros, but I definitely had the other two
'cause I sat there and played through them.
Man, that's that's.

So I'm gonna have to look at my
memory card here and boot it up, assuming I still have all my.
That's gonna be oh.

I wanted to ask you what you
named your town.

Oh, I named it poop.
Yeah, yeah, cool.

I knew it was gonna be something
stupid.

I panicked.
I panicked, couldn't think of a good name.
And I named mine Monkey in all caps.
There you go.

Yeah.
So I So what I try to do with stuff like this, and I did this
for certain games, I do this.

I basically name characters,
places, whatever after like our pets.
Yeah, that's that's a great idea.
Yeah, I do.

And it kind of suits Animal
Crossing 'cause it's just, you know, the, the, the creatures,
the animals, doesn't matter what you actually, your character
actually is.

Doesn't have to be a dog or a
cat or whatever, right.

So I try to.
So our dog, that's yeah.

Pooping monkey.
Exactly.

Paul.
Pooping Monkey.

Yeah.
Ash, Bob says Mario Brothers and

Ice Commerce.
I think we're the e-reader cards.
Yeah.

There you go.
So our, our dog that we lost in

April of last year, her name was
Charlotte and she had, she had like a bunch of nicknames.
We call her dog puppy poopy.

What like she's like she
honestly, she would respond to everything.
She was great.

And one of the, one of the names
that that my sister-in-law gave her was sharp, sharp, sharp
Streisand.

That's great.
You can't really fit that usually in a game.
But I've, I always tried to find like a version that would be
like a nickname of what our dog's name was.
And it didn't fit in this.

And I was like, oh, that's
disappointing.

So I was like, you know what?
Poop 'cause I'm, I'm on your screen.
So that's why sharing your screen.
OK what do we got?

I just booted up my game cube
and I just wanted to show on the memory.
Card.

What's vertical?
Why is it vertical?

Crazy.
Oh, it's just on my monitor that whatever, it doesn't matter.
So on my memory card, we have my

Animal Crossing town data save,
which is an exclusive logo, by the way, which is kind of neat.
And then you have any, a save data, which is 1 block.
So I, I think I need to dive in.

Oh, wait, except the game's not
in.

Let me replace that game.
Oh, I was playing that on the screen.
Let's go into Sonic Adventure.

Real time research everybody we
got.

Real time research.
Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna get into this, you
guys, people.

Have to watch this I know a lot
of people listen as opposed to watching that's totally fine
obviously, but watching this version of of the thing jiggy's
always got something up his sleeve here This is great I love
this I.

Did.
Yeah, I was.

I was just so curious.
This is basically just going through my thoughts.
It'll boot up in a second.

That's so cool.
Yeah.

I want to display in progressive
mode.

You know it.
Oh shit, and progress more didn't.
Let me do.

But it still looked really good.
Is this your?

This is the analog I assume.
No, this is my GameCube.

Oh.
Sorry, the analog, the GameCube.

I'm sorry.
My GameCube 'cause I wanted to show you the NES.
Yeah, you.

Wanted to fight.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Pinky.

I might be in trouble.
Oh.

My gosh, the fact that it held
this.

Oh wow, so the last time you
played it was 23?

Is that what it's trying to say?
Apparently I am.

Who am I?
Oh, real name drop.

That's OK.
I'm surprised.

Look at you not not using.
Your Well, if this was when I was a kid, I guess it would be
my real name.

Jayville.
Yeah, I'm assuming this is my old save 'cause I did recently
go back and play it.

Three years ago, it's.
Oh yeah.

Oh my gosh, I was dude.
I was totally doing the

Halloween stuff.
OK, I want.

Yep.
OK.

This is from when I was a kid.
Look at my outfit.

Do you see what that is?
I can't see from me.

I can't make it any bigger
unfortunately.

Here.
Wait, maybe I can make it bigger if I do this?
Is it better?

Oh, it's a bit bigger, yeah.
Yeah, 'cause it's not, it's not.

Yeah.
What is that?

Do I want to know what?
That is, my outfit is AI was into doing pixel art and I was
trying to do Sonic, so that is a

Super Sonic.
Oh my hat.

Can you see it now?
Yeah.

Now, now that you say that, I
can, I can picture it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's go in my house.

I don't know what's on my door
here.

Oh no, there's bugs.
Oh bugs, get them.

Get them.
I remember there being a lot of any.
Oh, I have levels.

Oh my gosh.
Umbrellas you got an upstairs OK that spaceship or or some sort
of large.

Hat I bet I was like remodeling
or something because there's no way this is crap.
This is great.

OK, where is my?
Here you go, the dungeon.

Whoa, people, I know.
Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh.
OK, here's the GameCube shirt and these are what the N64
replaced that I shared that image earlier.
The giant GameCube like table thing and the GameCube shirt.
I've got an R wing for some reason.
Because you have an R, that's why.
I remember there being something special about the star.
Yeah, Oh, blinks.

Look at that Master Sword and a
blinking Mario star.

This is great.
OK, look at this.

People who are listening find
Find us on YouTube and watch this because if you haven't
played this or seen this like I haven't, this is awesome.
See.

OK, so I have Donkey Kong.
Yeah, I have balloon fight.

See, I told you I had these.
Look at this.

Looks like Zelda.
Yeah, it does, Zelda.

And I don't know how we would
have gotten these other than using an E.
Reader, that looks like Mario or

Donkey.
'S Ice Climber Excite bike So some of these are from the
Lottery and Warriors Woods, and then this one looks like Super
Mario Bros.

Yeah.
Yeah, So you can go in.

I don't know what advance play
does, but it's like an emulation.
Oh my God, look at this.

And you can just straight up
play the game.

This was like my favorite thing
in.

How could it not be?
I can, it's just super cool.

Oh.
My God.

So yeah, you can do this inside
Animal Crossing.

And yet and yet and yet for the
longest time it's been an issue emulating and finding other ways
to yeah, is ahead of us.

It's time.
That's right, Ash Bob.

Exactly.
And finding ways to play this in

Nintendo would not either
provide a way or would get upset when people emulated and their
games and then this they were doing this.
Yep.

And what's amazing is this is
like it plays really well it.

Looks like it plays great, like
it looks exactly the way it should.
The original Mari Brothers, it's amazing.
And Jiggy just said World 11, everybody.
There you go.

Yeah, that's.
Cool, look at this.

It's like a live stream of
playing the the original Mari

Brothers.
That's amazing all.

Right, I'm out.
That's man, that's great.

Oh crap, there's one thing you
didn't experience with with this game.
Have you ever experienced Mr.

Ricetti?
Not in this, no.

He does show in animal forest,
so do you know what he is?

Rosette.
Mr. Ricetti.

Ricetti So let I I can I can
show you he's very obnoxious, but essentially.
Oh, this guy, I did not.

I did not in in Animal Forest.
No, I did not.

But I know, I know this
character.

Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
When you get out of your house or or not when you get out of
your house.

But when you don't save and you
quit and then you come back to the game, he pops up in front of
your house and he basically scolds you for not saving.
And he's like, you could have lost all your data.
I'm pretty sure he saves it for you.
Like.

What he's like, I'll save you
this time, but next time you're not, you're going to be lost,
locked out.

I don't know, it's just crazy.
Well, that's something I noticed in the game when you're setting
up, I don't know if it's Nook or someone tells you like make sure
you save, make sure you say like they mention it like 3 or 4
times in the same dialogue when you start before, I think just
after you or just before you pick your host, it's like make
sure you save your stuff because if you don't, you're going to
lose it all.

So that's funny that they
actually go and do that as well on top of it.
I feel like that's a fun little like, not meta joke, but sort of
like on that level, you know what I mean?
That's that's awesome.

I'm seeing if Loki I can find
the little ghosty because it's

Halloween.
The ghost thing.

It's sucking, it's sucking me
in, but I just there was a it's funny on Halloween.
So they do special, like holiday season stuff where like
villagers do different things and there's like events and
stuff that happen.

And so one of the things they do
is they do trick or treating and they walk around in costumes.
And if you get close, they're like, Oh my gosh, trick or
treat.

And they're like, give me some
candy.

And then she just asked for
candy.

And she's like, you better have
candy.

And I didn't.
So I gave her a fish.

And then she's like, this isn't
she ate it.

And then was like, this isn't
candy.

You're gonna pay for that.
And erased my outfit.

Oh my God, what?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's hilarious.
So vindictive, this game.

My God.
Yeah, Yeah.

Those did not realize.
OK, what?

While you while you try to find
Ghost, I'm actually going to play.
I'm going to play Mr. Paul

Remnant controller's message
that he is talking about the game and I'm going to do that.
Hopefully this sound comes through it.
I wish this game released on the

N64 outside of Japan.
The only Animal Crossing game I have extensive experience with
His New Horizons.

Obviously that game is several
iterations evolved past what

Animal Forest is, but I could
see sinking hours of my time into Forest as a kid.
I spent a lot of time alone with my 64 back then.
Considering how much of that time was spent in Ocarina of
Times Fishing Pond, it is safe to say Animal Forest would have
been a weekend morning staple.

With the New Horizons 3 Point O
update dropping in just a few days, it's hard to recommend
revisiting Forest unless you don't have access to the
aforementioned.

All in all, Nintendo's first
journey into the world of Animal

Crossing has good bones and laid
the foundation for what we have today.
Great little title to check out if you're curious.
Yeah, Yeah, I like it.

Yeah.
Paul, your voice, you're right, your voice is very soothing.
Yeah, it is called the Echo Mail defaults open AI voice according
to what it says under here.

So.
Ah yes, the default.

Oh yes, classic echo default.
So soothing.

I think you're I think you're
right.

Yeah, I come, I'm kind of on the
same page.

Like, I do think that if you
have a way to play this game with that internal clock going,
you know, on retro arc, for example, like I had to or the OR
the way that Jiggy did, I still think it's worth playing.
Like I think this is fun.

It's a good time.
It doesn't feel.

What's crazy is that a game that
came out 25 years ago doesn't feel dated because I don't think
that these are types of games that do drastically different
things.

And that's not a bad thing.
That's just how these games function.
So if you're a fan of Animal

Crossing, definitely give this a
shot I think.

Yeah, 100%.
It is a game you can sink hours into 'cause you can.
You go wedding, go fishing, like plant stuff, building your
house.

Like, it's definitely like a
really cool, really cool

Nintendo game that's a little
bit different.

Yeah, and it wants you to,
right?

It's one of those games where it
just, it wants you to do that.

So.
So now.

Nintendo makes like a billion
different genres of games, and I like all of them.
Look at this.

Someone pulled up the the math
Donkey Kong on the on the the long play that I have up.
You're playing games.

This is the Donkey Kong math
thing.

You have to get 36. 36 you
gotta.

He's gotta get a multiplication.
Well, you get the like different symbol for what you're gonna do.
So if he goes down and gets X and then he can get a.
Oh, I see, there it.

Is or and then he can get 36,
but he's gotta navigate around the numbers.
Well friends, not only did did

Tiggy play GameCube and NES,
we're watching someone play NES math Donkey Kong math as well on
the N64 in a Japanese version of this game.
DK Junior math is so bad I don't know.
I played is it?

Is it math munchers or something
like that number?

Munchers.
Number Munchers.

I played number munchers too.
I love number munchers.

On the school computer it was,
it was a go to on the school computer, Yeah, yeah, that and
the was.

It a big floppy disk, like a big
like black.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude.
We we played incredible machine a lot.
That was a go to those.

Games like that one.
It's it's what was it called?

Like the rude, rude Goldberg
thing where you basically use a bunch of different things to get
the ball from one end to the other, but you know, you use a
spring to jump it over here and then that spring hits a balloon
and the balloon knocks something out.
So like all those type like kind of like is it rat trap the the?
Yeah, yeah.

The game, it's kind of like
that.

That's what it is.
You make your own, which is really fun.
I guess it was good enough to be or educational enough to be in a
school computer.

So that's why we had it.
Yeah.

The only, the only thing about
playing this when we did or how we did is that at least I, I
don't think you changed your date.
We're stuck in winter when we played.
It would have been nice to kind of experience a different season
and stuff like that.

So.
Well, yeah, I yeah.

It is what it is like.
It's not you know what?

Maybe I just changed my date, so
that would be nice.

It'd be nice to start in summer
and then work through the seasons.
That was one of the things that was cool about Animal Crossing
though.

And I guess Animal Forest is the
season changed when he booted up the game.
So it was never exactly the same.
It felt like every day something changed a little bit.
And going back to my my game as a kid, like seeing the the old
stuff still there, but at the same time things are still like
weeds were still growing and my house is filled with bugs.
Like, it's kind of awesome.

Yeah, it's really cool.
It's a really cool, I, I think it was Ash, Bob said earlier.
Like those ideas are ahead of their time.
And even the emulation stuff like playing those games, that's
ahead of its time.

That's not something that was
done.

The fact that it was done in a
64 game and also a GameCube game, it's super cool.
That's stuff that that will be in a game nowadays that you're
like, oh, that's awesome.

That's so cool.
It's unexpected.

This happened 25 years ago.
Like that's great.

I love that idea.
So yeah.

So I think I think Paul summed
it up pretty well with this thing too.
Like maybe you don't have to go back to play this or or the
original, but there's a lot of charm still there.
And Animal Forest and the original Animal Crossing are
still pretty good, even if it's not my cup of tea 100% of the
time.

Like these types of games.
Like it's pretty great that it's available.
It's pretty great that it plays well, looks and sounds good.
I don't know, that goes a long way for me.
Is the presentation.

Yeah, and the one thing we
didn't talk about was the version you got.
How much was in English?

I would say most of it, yeah,
yeah, I didn't really.

I don't know what the
translation was like.

I don't know if it was like how
one to one it was.

Obviously it's not ever gonna be
5% perfect, but.

It sounds like they took just
like the GameCube translation and just put it injected it into
the Anzacs.

Before.
But it apparently created some glitches of like sometimes text
would go like over the bubble and stuff like that.
Yes.

I did run into that a couple
times.

But my like all the villagers
for me talk spoke in Japanese.

Oh no, mine didn't.
Yeah, OK.

So maybe it's just the version I
got.

I need a different a different
patch, but Tom Nook and like the main like coming into town,
everything was in English.

But once I got villagers, I went
to talk to villagers and read a couple signs and they were still
in Japanese and I was like.

There was a couple signs that
were a couple times there was texts were like one either word
or couple letters were in

Japanese, but I could still
understand what they were saying, like the sentence or
whatever, get the gist of it.

But it was fine.
Like as long as you can, you can navigate the menus I would say
and talk to Nook, probably the rest of it's and maybe some of
the villagers depending on what they're asking you, but.
Sometimes, yeah, they ask you questions to like complete
little quests for them, so.

Yeah, yeah, Little it's.
Probably gonna create a problem, yeah.
But it's still, it's a really cool piece of history and the
fact that there's two versions that are different that exist
for the same game is very cool.

Yeah, it's very cool.
It's great that we're able to play this.
Yeah, I would say if, if you can find a way to either patch the
Japanese ROM or get the one, the ones that we played, it'll help.
Because if you don't have that, you do need some instruction.
They they tell you what to do.

Like you said, there's tasks and
things like that.

So you do really need to have
it.

It's not like playing Mario
Kart, the Japanese version where you can just go.
Right.

One of the things they said that
Nintendo was sort of fearful about porting this game over to
American audiences or like other the other parts of the world was
just that it was very, it's a very text heavy game and I was
like, whatever.

But when it's in Japanese and
untranslated, yeah, 100%.

Yeah, I, I feel like, I feel
like maybe they were still, or maybe in general, we were still
in the mode of being afraid to take that chance because
probably in the 90s that was something that they probably did
actually hear.

Yeah.
But nowadays?

Yeah, you get, you gotta gauge
it from, it would take a lot of effort to translate that and
port it over.

And if they're on the fence of
whether the American audience would like this game anyways,
they're probably like, I don't know about that.
For some reason.

I, I think the fact that they're
like, we need another GameCube title.
We could port this this over with minimal effort and all we
have to do is translate stuff.

So it's like they had to put in
some work, but not as much work if they made an entirely new
game and this they already had this made.
So.

That's true.
It was already there.

Yeah, yeah, 'cause at the time,
like let's say this was hypothetically, this was planned
to come out in 2000, the last, you know, 8 months of the
console in North America.

You're right.
Not only do you have to make sure this game is, you know,
obviously functional at that time and stuff, but like
working, but to translate it isn't like, oh, let's just patch
it and you get your English patch like you can even in the
potentially PS3 PS two days, like those like you can't, you
can't download an update to this game.
They have to reproduce all of those games in English, ship
them across the world or get them sent or, you know,
whatever, and just hope that they're selling multiple
thousands of these 10s of thousands of these copies to
make it worth it.

And at the time, they probably
figured, yeah, it's not worth it 'cause people are moving on.
Look, we're showing this game and also the GameCube in the
same 10 minute period in this at space world.
I think we need to focus on that.
And the GBA, which wasn't even out yet too.
So they were just moving on.

And like you said, it seems like
it worked on GameCube.

So probably didn't hurt them.
Probably didn't hurt them.

I think they're probably the
right call.

But yeah, find a way to play
this if you want to, if you're a fan of Animal Crossing, and then
don't even, especially if you don't have, Oh, there's here's
what's his face getting angry.

Even Mr. Rosetti.
Looks like he's trying to hit the character with his pitchfork
or with his with his.

What are those things?
What are those things called?

No, it's a pitchfork.
Is it pitchfork?

No, no, it's.
Not a pitchfork, it's a pickaxe.

Pickaxe.
That's it.

Pickaxe.
I should know that anyways.

Yeah, the. #4.
I know my God call my call, my call myself a Animal Crossing
resident, my God, great game.

I think it's I think it's fun.
Again, not one of those things that fully, fully always grabs
me, but I appreciate that we got the chance to play this and I
love how well it worked and how it played and and that's
impressive.

And I and I, I like that we got
to play something that literally we would have no chance to play
in any other way.

So that's always fun to
experience something like that.

So that's the start of our 2026.
We have a couple games in the pipe that are coming up, either
the next one or the one after that.
We're going to be playing Tonic

Trouble.
That's going to be what we're gonna start with.
I started playing it on on a stream just a couple days ago
for the first time playing the

Switch 2 version enjoying myself
so far just a couple hours in, but that's that's the taste of
of something to come up.

But jiggy to start 2026.
How are things and what's the you know what's?
Cooking in my bubble.

What's Yeah, that's it.
What's cooking?

Yeah.
Wait, can you cook in bubbles?

Well, I am.
It's getting a little cloudy in here.
But.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sonic Adventure is my current live stream so I'll be doing
that.

Probably finishing next week, so
I don't know if this episode will be out.
Probably be out.

Probably be out just before
you're doing that or just after.

So like around that time, you'll
probably be yeah.

Going so I stream Fridays at
7:30 PM EST and yeah, I just been playing through some games.
We're going through the Sonic

Adventure series, so we're doing
Sonic Adventure One right now and then we're going to jump
into Sonic Adventure 2.

That's every Friday.
And then as far as videos go,

I'm working on a really fun
video about Banjo Kazooie, which

I'm entitling every species,
which is basically me highlighting every character and
looking at their sort of design and any any characters I feel
like have maybe some lore behind them or some stuff I can
theorize about.

I'm sort of doing that like.
Yeah, I could think of a couple just off the top of my head.
Be like, Oh yeah, I wanna know one more about.
More about that chatting about characters and it's.
Yeah, it's like.

And there's so many, right?
There's so many of those games.

Yeah, there's, I won't reveal
the total count, but just species alone.
That's not just characters, but that's species of characters.
There's quite a few.

Yeah, I can.
I can imagine.

And I realized today when I was
editing I missed 1 and I'm like crap.
And I gotta add like a little note in there.
It's really small potatoes, but

I'm going to add it in.
It's a potato.

Is that what it is?
Yeah, it.

Wouldn't surprise me.
Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me.

Yeah, that's right.
There are vegetables.

Yeah.
It's hilarious.

We're Yeah.
So we're kicking off first couple episodes of of the year
for 2026.

If there's anything that anyone
wants to sort of nudge our way and say, hey, play this, play
this.

That's one of the reasons why
Space Station Silicon Valley happened is because a lot of
people have said over a couple years like play this, like not
not bugging us, so to speak, but like, you know, saying, hey, you
should play this.

It's you'll have a good
experience with it.

You should try it.
I want to hear your thoughts.

Always happy to get that.
You can send us a message on on social media, remember 64 show
or of course, leave a text message doesn't or, or a
voicemail doesn't necessarily have to be played on the show,
but I'll get the message anyways.
And then and then we'll kind of we'll, we'll go from there and
we'll, we'll, we sort of make our choices as we go.
We feel like playing, but always nudging us in a direction is
always welcome to because wanna know what everybody else has to
wants to play or hear us talk about or anything like that.
So going to line up a couple of guests as the year goes on as
well like we usually do.

And you can also hear myself on
a couple of episodes of the

Still Loading podcast to kick
off the first couple months of of 2026.
We're talking about Yoshi's

Island, which is one of my
favorite Mario games, games of all time that I don't know
exactly the dates, but still keep your eyes out on still
loading in our social media for that.
And then also, I am joining him once again, joining Josh once
again for Punch a Nazi month, which I did last year with him
as well.

No reason for that to be a topic
or anything these days, but that's that's what we're going
for.

And I'm going to be playing so
far looks like I'm going to be playing one of the Wolfenstein
games like early ones.

So that'll be kind of cool too.
So there's going to be two very different games, I guess spot on
that podcast.

Great show in general.
Josh is awesome.

So keep an eye out for still
Loading.

Yeah, Josh keeps busy.
He just messaged me not long ago about hopping on to discuss
Perfect Dark.

And I was like, I was like,
absolutely.

I was like, don't play the game
on Perfect Agent.

Like, 'cause you know, he's
gonna go through and play the game and he's like, he's like, I
wouldn't dare.

I've been playing under the
middle difficulty and I'm still having troubles on submission.
Yeah.

Which is that?
Yeah, it's exactly what I was doing.
Yeah, same thing.

That's great.
You can tell that story on his show, too.
Yeah.

Like, Oh my God, don't do it.
Don't just don't do it.

It's cool, but don't, it's not
worth it.

Don't do it.
Would that take you like 10 weeks or something crazy like
that?

It was like, Oh my.
God, it was longer than that, it was.
Granted, that's one day a week playing it, but still.
It is, but still a couple hours minimum at a time.
It's.

Like 5-6 hours every time.
Oh my God, you are a champion,

Sir, you are a champion.
OK, so stick with us.

Remember 64 show across social
media and voice cast dot app slash remember 64 is where you
can send us a message, voice or text and we can play it on the
show or not.

You can always let us know if
you don't want to.

That's not a problem at all.
If you want to just let us know your thoughts and stuff.
Always happy to get those.

But YouTube subscribe like tell
your friends all those things and the same with Jiggy do that
with his as well.

Happy new year, everybody.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you for everyone that's popped into the stream today.
You have a you have a little little good mind.
I was going to.

I was.
Going to leave you, leave you with one thought before you can
play the outro.

Are you ready to play the outro?
I have it.

I have a queue.
Up, let's do it.

This is my final thought.