Animal Crossing has a storied history, originally beginning as a Japanese-only Nintendo 64 game called Doubutsu no Mori, or, as it's more commonly known in English, Animal Forest. It wouldn't get a shot at a western release until the next console generation on the Nintendo GameCube, as the game we all know and love today: Animal Crossing. This version of the game added a variety of improvements, including, but not limited to e+ reader support, new villagers, GBA link cable content, and more. Eventually, this game made its way back to Japan, with even more extra content added in. These new changes were numerous, with the most interesting of them being the ability to decorate your town with furniture and structures, similarly to Animal Crossing: New Leaf, making the island a loan reward instead of a bonus for those who owned a GBA and link cable, new fish and bugs to catch, medicine for treating sick villagers and bee stings like in Wild World and further entries, a new birthday event for the player character, and many, many more things.

Regrettably, that version, called Animal Forest e+, never got a chance at a localization. Despite its release almost two decades ago, the game went untranslated, and those in the west only had the option of learning Japanese to experience the new content that the game had to offer. As of today, that's no longer the case. Animal Crossing modder Cuyler has released their first public fan-translation patch for Animal Forest e+. This patch is the culmination of years of work, beginning with a teaser video in 2017, which featured the tutorial section of the game translated to English.

With the release of this patch to the public, Cuyler has translated around 70% of the game's texts and dialogue content. In order to play the game in English, you'll need a legally obtained dump of Doubutsu no Mori e+ in Japanese, to apply the patch to. The fan-translation is expected to be fully completed prior to the release of the upcoming Animal Crossing: New Horizons, for the Nintendo Switch.

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[PityOnU]

I just can’t imagine an entire freaking Gamecube fullset... that’s probably gonna be at least 810GB worth of games, seeing as over 600 games were released (according to Wikipedia) and each 1:1 dump is 1.35GB in size. Not to mention that some games came on multiple discs and others included bonus discs. You’d be waiting years for it to download, but you’ll be entertained for life!

It's a couple TB when you factor in all the different regions/versions of the games.

You don't really even need to torrent these things anymore. They're old enough at this point that people/groups just upload them to filesharing sites like Mega. If you are "inverse poor" enough (i.e. and adult with a decent paying job), paying $10 for a month "subscription" to one of those sites really isn't out of the question and with some download automation tools you can get to whole set down and uncompressed in a few days, even on a modest connection.

Scanning, hashing, and verifying the files is what ends up taking the most time.

 

[Reshiban]

Nice!

 

[HentaiHappy]

Yep, this is the preview. I fired up the old new leaf to show me how they went wrong, vs when I play this bad boy.

 

[duwen]

So... I don't do discord and/or twitter... can anyone let me know if we're closer to an updated patch?
I was having fun with this, but ended up just booting the NA release disk and my original town on the memcard that came with the game - lots of fun having the townsfolk telling me they've not seen me for 203 months! Must admit I relied on Cuylers save editor to rescue me from manual weeding - to say that my map was overgrown after almost 17 years away from the game would be an understatement!

 

[fatherjack]

same here, progress on translation was great, but the untranslated mail made me jump back onto the original and been a daily visitor ever since!
Would love to know how @Cuyler was progressing towards 100%

 

[mchopt]

Does anyone know if this is being worked on anymore?

 

[x65943]

Does anyone know if this is being worked on anymore?

Seems Cuyler fell off the face of the planet after that last update

Last trace I can see of him doing any work on it was April of last year (3ish months after this patch was released)

His Twitter looks dead