Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
Also known as: Bokujō Monogatari: A Wonderful Life (JP) Developers: Marvelous Entertainment, Natsume Publishers: Natsume (US), Marvelous Entertainment (JP), Ubisoft (EU), Nintendo (AU) Platform: GameCube Released in JP: September 12, 2003 Released in US: March 16, 2004 Released in EU: March 26, 2004 Released in AU: 2004 This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused items. This game has unused text. This game has regional differences. This game has a data page

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life is the first Nintendo Gamecube entry in the series, which involves living the life of a farmer while everything ages over time.

A girl's version and a "Special Edition" for the PlayStation 2 was released the following year.

Unused Text

Unused Text The game contains a debug dialogue file with unused lines of dialogue. Many of them are untranslated.

Unused Items

To do: Add screenshots of hacked items.

There are a number of unused items that can be hacked into the game.

Invisible Items

Hacking these items into the game will show your character holding nothing (invisible item)

• Goat
• Teddy Bear
• Flower Pot

Tools

This could mean that there was originally the ability to chop trees/stumps, similar to other games in the Harvest Moon Series.

Name	Image
Ax

Lures

These items could mean that there was originally some planned customizability with regards to fishing.

Name	Image
Lure 1
Lure 2

Records

There are some unused records. Hacking these into the game will reveal that they don't have any included audio.

Name	Image
Record13
Record14
Record15

Nursing Bottles

Could mean that you'd be able to bottle-feed your child when it's an infant.

Name	Image	Description
Nursing Bottle (Pink Lid)		これロキャラのモ—ション用のアイテム
Nursing Bottle (Green Lid)		これロキャラのモ—ション用のアイテム

Consumables

These are items that the player encounters, but they are immediately consumed and are never put into inventory.

• Welcomush - these are the mushrooms that grow outside of the Harvest Sprites' home.
• Red Punch
• Blue Punch
• Moon Trip
• Moomoo Milk
• Cherry Pink

Miscellaneous

• DUMMY
• Trash
• Drawing Book
• Closed Book 1
• Open Book 1
• Closed Book 2
• Open Book 2
• Closed Book 3
• Open Book 3
• Closed Book 4
• Open Book 4
• Blocks 1
• Blocks 2
• Blocks 3

Unused Videos

Rebirth FMV Tech Demo

v1.01 of the Japanese release contains an unused video of Nintendo's Rebirth FMV Tech Demo, listed as demo.thp on the disc.

This was likely used as a placeholder video to play on the title screen when left idle.

It was replaced with actual gameplay footage (demo3.thp) later in development.

Regional Differences

Character Names

Many character names were changed during the localization process. However, the dialogue files for each character retain their original Japanese name (or some variant thereof).

English Name	Japanese Name (name of dialogue file)
Celia	Sepilia
Chris	Kris
Cody	Godey
Flak	Flat
Galen	Ghali
Grant	Gurat
Griffin	Garfun
Hardy	Badog
Kassey	Kesaran
Marlin	Mash
Muffy	Muumuu
Murrey	Moi
Nak	David
Nic	Ebony
Patrick	Pasaran
Ruby	Rou
Samantha	San
Tartan	Tsurutan
Tim	Tai / Tay
Van	Bahn
Wally	Suary