Too bad for me, but for anyone who's been pining after a deluxe version of Animal Crossing all these years, this seems like a great way to pass the 5 weeks until Animal Crossing: New Horizons comes out on the Switch. I actually picked up a copy in Japan on a whim last year, but I'm out of luck-it's the first release, not the e+ version.

Okay, actually, there really is a lot of new stuff (opens in new tab). You can become 'best friends' with villagers, and also snoop on their conversations. You can find a random, special rock in town and break it to enter the 'Reset Monitoring Center' where overzealous mole Mr. You can wake up Tom Nook after hours by banging on his door, but he'll walk around slowly in his pajamas and charge you more for whatever you buy. But there are some really cool little differences.

Ultimately, if you played Animal Crossing on the GameCube 15 years ago, this isn't going to feel like a new game. They wrote a custom patcher to do everything for you. With an ISO of the game, it's a cinch to load into the GameCube emulator Dolphin (opens in new tab), and Cuyler's beta release (opens in new tab) even includes some install instructions. So how do you use this patch, anyway? Well, you need a copy of Animal Forest e+, which you can find on Ebay or Yahoo! Auctions if you go hunting.

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