Animal Crossing: Wild World

Animal Crossing: Wild World
Also known as: Oideyo Doubutsu no Mori (JP), Nolleooseyo Dongmul-ui Sup (KR) Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo DS Released in JP: November 23, 2005 Released in US: December 5, 2005 Released in EU: March 31, 2006 Released in AU: December 7, 2005 Released in KR: December 6, 2007 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused items. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prerelease article

Animal Crossing: Wild World is Nintendo's DS sequel to the surprise hit Animal Crossing. This is the game that would become the basis for every following game in the series, replacing the top-down, grid-scrolling view with a front-facing, log-scrolling one, and adding a slew of new features that would become commonplace in later games (among other things, you finally have hair). As a result, it and later main-series entries provide a vastly different experience compared to the N64 and GameCube entries.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Items

To do: Some of these need some elaboration.

Seeds

While they are popularly referred to as "seeds", the internal names for these items are usually garbled characters. They are not unused per se, as the game uses them internally when creating the town layout. However, they are normally not obtainable outside of Action Replay cheats, and for good reason.

When dropped from the inventory, they usually spawn a landscape feature: a tree, a house, a structure...and even townspeople, depending on the nature of the seed. You need to enter then exit a house to see the changes, which can't be reversed once saved.

While used by many people just to customize their own town layout, some used them during Wi-Fi visits in other players' towns to create game-breaking layouts that may trap players irreversibly...or worse, cause the game to crash by overloading the system and rendering the game useless if it crashes on the title screen (as the Erase File option can't be accessed).

Paint Cans

Nook does sell these, but the paint goes straight to your roof without ever touching your inventory. Strangely, they're found in the player's guide.

Beehive

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, this can be obtained normally.

Sold Out Sign

A sold out sign similar to the ones from the first two games.

Four-Leaf Clover

Under Special Items. Your avatar can't wear it. It was later used in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Cardboard Boxes

Comes in sets of 2, 4, and 5. While the items themselves are unused, their graphics are used for neighbors moving in or out. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, they became available as items.

Big Rug1

Tom Nook's unused catalog version of the Exotic Wall.

Big Rug2

Tom Nook's unused catalog version of the Exotic Rug.

Honey Comb

Incorrectly uses the leaf graphics when you are inside your house, but uses its normal graphics outside.

Invisible Chair

Two of these are programmed into the game, in fact.

Unused Floor/Wallpaper Sets

There are four unused flooring and wallpaper sets for Nook's Cranny, Nook 'n' Go, Nookway, and Nookington's upstairs.

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  Nook's Cranny Wallpaper

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  Nook's Cranny Flooring

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  Nook 'n' Go Wallpaper

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  Nook 'n' Go Flooring

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  Nookway Wallpaper

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  Nookway Flooring

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  Nookington's Wallpaper

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  Nookington's Flooring

Unused Text

Some testing text can be found under /script/ENG/message/Other/test_.bmg. Most of the entries test various text commands.

Animal Crossing DS
test message
12345678901234567890

Banned Words List

The file under /script/ENG/st_taboo.bmg contains a list of all banned words in the game.

Oh dear, I do believe I have the vapors. This page contains content that is not safe for work or other locations with the potential for personal embarrassment.

SH*T
B*TCH
WH*RE
SL*T
B*ST*RD 
C*CKSUCKER
C*NT
D*MN
N*GGER
F*G

Unused Graphics

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Various unused cloud graphics can be found in the sky directory, labeled as "weather test". These seem to be leftovers from an earlier build of the game.

Located with used textbox graphics are boxes containing "MES 1", "MES 2", "MESSEAGE", and "01234567890123456789".

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Three tilesets presumably used for testing messages sent while playing with others. They only differ in the graphics shown at the top—Japanese text and a Bell bag in the first, camera controls in the second, and time, fish, and bug symbols in the third.

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Text box mock ups for speaking to a villager, displaying general dialogue, and choosing from multiple options.

A tileset for the bulletin board with Japanese text at the bottom. Like the textbox graphics above, the word "message" is used as a placeholder.

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Dummy wall and floor patterns, and a test graphic.

The normal main inventory menu, with text written where the town and player names would usually appear. The text translates to "Ninten Village" and "Matsushima", the latter of which very likely refers to Yoshihiro Matsushima (who is credited as the game's UI Designer).

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Temporary icons for the main inventory slots, and for the fish and bug menus.

With the town map files is a placeholder banner for one's town name.

A tileset with options intended for the Bell bank interface. From top to bottom: もってる おかね ("take money"), ふりこむ おかね ("transfer money"—perhaps to pay off your mortgage), のこリ ("remaining"), and a more garbled one, べル ("Bell").

The first box in these Town Tune graphics reads ぜんぶけす ("mute everything"), and the smaller boxes contain the musical scale ソ ラ シ ド レ ("so, la, ti, do, re").

Three options found with the pattern designer graphics.

A single handwritten word has been left in this Friend Code registration tileset: とうろく, or "register".

This tileset from the ingame message-typing menu has two unused phrases on the right, コピ- ("copy") and はりつけ ("paste"), are unused. The terms themselves are used, but in the final game, they use a font that is uniform to the rest of the game's text.

Two tilesets related to the Timer item.

A graphic with leftover handwritten notes on the right.

Test Animation

With the animal villagers' models is an animation titled "ta_test" that quickly cycles through all of their emotion textures.

Windows Shortcut

/bg/a0/0001.arc/a/bcl/ contains a Windows shortcut (.lnk) file called "bcl へのショートカット.lnk". With a tool like LECmd, you can get some interesting information from this file. However it does not seem to support Shift-JIS, so the below printout has been corrected to correct mojibake. "bcl へのショートカット" translates to "Shortcut to bcl" and "ネットワーク全体" translates to "entire network". You can download the .arc file here.

LECmd version 1.4.0.0

Author: Eric Zimmerman (saericzimmerman@gmail.com)
https://github.com/EricZimmerman/LECmd

Command line: -f bcl へのショートカット.lnk

Warning: Administrator privileges not found!

Processing 'bcl へのショートカット.lnk'

Source file: C:\bcl へのショートカット.lnk
  Source created:  2020-06-30 14:52:39
  Source modified: 2020-06-30 14:52:39
  Source accessed: 2020-06-30 14:52:39

--- Header ---
  Target created:  2005-03-22 00:02:37
  Target modified: 2005-03-22 00:02:37
  Target accessed: 2005-05-06 10:07:48

  File size: 0
  Flags: HasTargetIdList, HasLinkInfo, HasRelativePath, IsUnicode
  File attributes: FileAttributeDirectory
  Icon index: 0
  Show window: SwNormal (Activates and displays the window. The window is restored to its original size and position if the window is minimized or maximized.)

Relative Path: .

--- Link information ---
Flags: CommonNetworkRelativeLinkAndPathSuffix

>>Volume information
  Drive type: Removable storage media (Floppy, USB)
  Serial number: 00000014
  Label: *

  Network share information
    Share name: \\SRD-SERVER2\FOREST2
    Provider type: WnncNetLanman
    Share flags: ValidNetType

  Common path: NITRO\model\bg\outdoor\grd_d1_2\bcl

--- Target ID information (Format: Type ==> Value) ---

  Absolute path: My Network Places\ネットワーク全体\Microsoft Windows Network\Ead\\\Srd-server2\\\Srd-server2\forest2\NITRO\model\bg\outdoor\grd_d1_2\bcl

  -Root folder: GUID ==> My Network Places

  -Entire Network ==> ネットワーク全体

  -Microsoft Windows Network ==> Microsoft Windows Network

  -Domain/Workgroup name ==> Ead

  -Server UNC path ==> \\Srd-server2

  -Network location ==> \\Srd-server2\forest2

  -Directory ==> NITRO
    Short name: NITRO
    Modified: 2004-05-28 08:06:54

  -Directory ==> model
    Short name: model
    Modified: 2005-04-25 05:26:06

  -Directory ==> bg
    Short name: bg
    Modified: 2004-12-28 10:29:10

  -Directory ==> outdoor
    Short name: outdoor
    Modified: 2005-04-27 06:22:44

  -Directory ==> grd_d1_2
    Short name: grd_d1_2
    Modified: 2005-03-28 03:14:42

  -Directory ==> bcl
    Short name: bcl
    Modified: 2005-03-22 00:02:38

--- End Target ID information ---

---------- Processed 'C:\bcl へのショートカット.lnk' in 0.03392010 seconds ----------

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Crash Debugger

This game has a crash debugger triggered similarly to the one in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

To access the crash dump screen, first crash the game. Then, hold L + R + A + Left, let go, hold Down + B, let go, and finally hold Start + Select. This screen also exists in Super Mario 64 DS and New Super Mario Bros.

Build Date

Present in the file data/BUILDTIME.

Japan v1.0	USA v1.0	Europe	USA/Japan v1.1	Korea
ROM2005-10-24 14:56:40 forest	ROM2005-10-24 17:42:42 forest	ROM2006-02-02 12:40:37 forest	ROM2006-02-10 17:52:59 forest	ROM2007-10-22 22:19:51 forest

Revisional Differences

To do: Document other changes and glitch fixes made in Version 1.1 of the game (e.g., Talk On Chairs being fixed).

A revision of the game was released in Japan and US as Version 1.1, and it fixed a few glitches present in Version 1.0 of the Japanese and US versions.

Gulliver's UFO Glitch

When the player has hit Gulliver's UFO out of the sky with the slingshot, the UFO will always be bound to crash land somewhere in the topmost signposts of the town. When those sign posts are already occupied by some villager's house, the crash landing noise will be heard, but the screen will never fade out and the game will softlock.

Regional Differences

To do: Document other changes made between different regional releases of the game.

Mini Mustache

The Mini Mustache accessory item is altered in the European release of the game from a toothbrush mustache to a pair of triangles. This is most likely due to the former style's association with German dictator Adolf Hitler.

Shoji Screen and Tatami Floor

Also in the European release, the Shoji Screen wallpaper item and the Tatami Floor flooring item are changed to the Basement Wall and Basement Floor, respectively, from the original Animal Crossing. Despite this, they're still referred to as the Shoji Screen and Tatami Floor.

Virtual Console Changes

When Animal Crossing: Wild World got a digital re-release on the Wii U, the player cannot visit other towns, making the Katie Set or the Mario Series unobtainable without hacking. (By contrast, Nookington's and Shampoodle can still be unlocked in the Virtual Console version by spending the required amount of money without the need of another player.) This has become a problem for most players of the DS version, as players who only have one Wild World cartridge can't, of course, have another one nearby. The only way to get these now, excluding the Mario Series and Katie Series, is to use local (same-room) communication or one of the Nintendo WFC alternatives (Wiimmfi). This problem was fixed in the next game, where the player doesn't need a friend to shop.

Also, in the next game and Animal Crossing: New Leaf, players can simply get Mario Series items by shooting down balloon presents. In New Horizons, however, all the Mario Series items from the previous games were made available through a March 2021 update for the Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary, along with some new items and key differences; for instance, the ? Blocks are now in midair instead of on the floor, and they're ordered via the catalog instead of through balloon presents.