Figures...

Just a couple days after PixyJunket was kind enough to send me the code for the gyroid paper, Tom Nook has it in his store. :)

I spend way too much time playing this game.

lol, you guys are making me want to dust off the ol' Cube abd play some AC again.

BTW, I haven't forgotten about your "grab bag" Pixy. I'll get you some codes ASAP. Work has been kicking my butt lately :(

Well I totally forgot about Explorer's day! I actually haven't played in a few days.

Hehehe.. it's all good. I actually got my Golden Axe this morning when I checked the well before I came to work. Been playing around with my little island guy on GBA, one session with him resulting in like 50,000 bells, 10 pieces of new furniture, and 2 new gyroids.

I still haven't gotten the golden axe. I keep putting off bettering my town, since the well is very vague about what I need to do to improve it. It says my town is satisfactory.

Check your trees.. you want 12-14 trees in about half of the acres in your town. Sprouts (the little flower that blooms when you first plant a tree) and trees that don't grow all the way count. So go around and plant or cut down trees in a bout 3 acres to get the number to 12-14, then check back with the well. If it's still just satisfactory, go plant/cut another 2 or 3 acres to 12-14 trees. How can you tell if a tree is in an acre? Well if you acn shake it from at least 2 sides, it's in that acre. If you can only shake it from 1 side, that means that tree is in the acre over.

Be sure to weed everyday, and plant flowers all over the place in case you miss a weed, flowers in an acre cancel weeds out (but you still want to pull them). Never leave garbage (boots, cans) outside of the dump.

All you need to do is check the well once a day, if it says "Perfect!" then go about your business. The first few days are tricky because a lot of the trees you plant will die the next day, so before you go to the well, check where you planted trees, if you see any that the spouts are dying, dig them up and plant another in it's place (or in the same acre). Once all of your sprouts have at least gorwn one stage and you town is perfect, all you have to do is weed everyday..

To get the golden axe, you need to get the well to say that your town is "perfect" every day for two weeks straight. Here's how to do it:

-First, every acre in town MUST have between 9 and 17 trees in it. Sprouts and half grown trees count. Some acres, like the wishing well acre, are just impossible to get that many trees in. You can safely ignore those.
-Second, you can't have more than 30 weeds in the whole town, and no more than 3 weeds in any one acre.
-Third, no trash or items laying anywhere except for the dump.

This will get you to "satisfactory" status. To get it to "perfect", a simple scoring system is used. The short version of it is to plant between 12-14 trees in various acres until the well tells you it's "perfect". The more complex version of it is as follows:

Special acres: Museum, Trainstation, Beach acres, Tailor shop, Pond.
Regular acres: Everything else.

Any regular acre with between 12-14 trees in it gets 1 point.
Any special acre with between 12-14 trees in it gets 2 points.
Any special acre with between 9-11 or 15-17 trees in it gets 1 point.

Once you accumulate 14 points in the town, the well will tell you it's "perfect". Now all you have to do is to keep it that way for 2 weeks. This means weeding every day and checking for any dead sprouts and replanting them or moving them elsewhere in the same acre, which is what I did. Moving them elsewhere means that they might grow in the new place, and leaving them in the same acre means it doesn't change that acre's score. Replanting in the same spot rarely, if ever, makes a tree grow. Anyway, make sure you check the whole town before talking to the well every day.

Flowers in an acre cancel out weeds in that same acre, but the 30 weeds total rule still applies.

And that's it. It's actually pretty easy once you know how.

Thinking about buying the game, but I have a few questions:

1. The game says 58-61 blocks of memory to use, but it only comes with a 59 block mem card. Has anyone's save ever needed 61 blocks? Wondering if I should just use the 251 mc.

2. What are these explorer days and other special days? I'm assuming these are determined by the time set on the system, If so, couldn't you just reset the time on the system and keep playing through the day? How do you know what days these events are scheduled, is there a calender in the game?

Thanks for any help in advance.

The game is 57 blocks to save and the extra 2 are for the NES games that come on the card I believe. I'd use a bigger card just in case you want to make more towns. But if you have more then one card, you can create a few towns and visit them :)

The days and events are determined by the Gamecube's internal clock. So if you wanted to, you could "time travel" (as we AC players call it) to another time or event by setting the clock forward or backward at your leisure. I'd advise against it, though, as most of the fun in AC is trying to get to the events yourself. As for knowing what days they are happening, check the bulletin board near your house. It will let you know of upcoming events, often well in advance. It will also have little messages from time to time, such as "I buried my _______ in acre A-2. Finders keepers, I guess." or something like that. The police officer at the police station will fill you in on who is coming to your town, and when as well.

Actually, the game uses the system clock only initially to set the game clock. After that you can change the clock from one of the menus in the game, indepently of the system clock.

You don't want to mess with the clock. Trust me. The mole scared the pants off me.

(Not to mention you could screw over your quest and all your hard work and hours of play)

The game never uses more than the 59 blocks on the included card. Using a larger card is pointless as you can't have more than one town on one card. However, I have used my 251 card to create another town so that I could have someone travel to my town (on the 59 card) and buy from Nook, in order to get Nook to do the final store upgrade.

Also, have only the 59 card in when you create the town for the first time, and after that you can leave the 59 card in slot 2, and AC will recognize it just fine even though the 251 card is in slot 1. I like to leave my 251 in slot 1, as many games I have don't like slot 2.

Messing with the clock is fine, but only do it in the forward direction, and not by large amounts. Don't time travel backwards.

Never turn off the game without saving unless you want a 15 minute lecture from an evil mole. :)

You can also find events by checking your calendar or diary or whatever you happen to get. All holidays get marked in the calendar. Days where people show up are not marked, but you find out about those by talking to people, reading the bulletin board, etc. It's usually pretty obvious.

Sometimes there's completely random stuff that you don't find out about in advance too. I just discovered this for the first time. I'm wandering through town and find a tent. Inside is "Bangle" the Tiger. He says he's camping. Gives me all sorts of advice on being ecologically friendly when I'm out camping and says he was pretty stupid to go camping in the suburbs. :D I did a lookup on GameFAQs about this guy, since he was new to me (and I've had the game for over a year), and it turns out that he's just another normal character. I guess he's on vacation from somebody else's town. :)

Oh, another tip to get the golden axe.. This is kind of cheating but...

Once you get your town to "perfect", save the game. Now reset and set the clock back a month. Go into the town, and when you're in the town, reset the game *without saving*. Now set the clock forward a month again and start her up. Listen to the evil mole berate you for a while, then go to the well. The well will have your axe for you, no 2 weeks needed.

yeah the animals on vacation ask you random questions and you can win a cool prize. If you get it wrong, though, they take something from you, usually your coolest, rarest item.

I think animals camp on the weekends.

The campers hang around in tents only in the summer. Apparently some more will move into igloos in the winter.

Very involving game, getting me more excited about buying it. Thanks everyone for all the help.

Yeah, I haven't played since June and so I was playing through to catch up, sort of thing. Appearantly they only show up on the weekends in June and July.

Woo. I got 5 copies of Wario's Woods last night!!

(..and not 1 of Baseball, argh!)

If you need somewhere to unload your extra Wario's Woods, I hear Scott in Spiketon hasn't gotten it yet. :D

Wario's Woods is untradable, I believe. Don't that suck. :(

Yeah.. it's untradable through a password. :( ..as well as a bunch of the cool furniture I got from the island too!

I was able to go to my friend's villages and drop him off a copy though.

I did get my Baseball finally! (Holy God, those first-gen sports games on the NES sucked so bad!)..

Now I'm just missing the 3 games from the website, and the 3 unreleased games. :(

Does anyone know how many towns there are to visit, or do towns just pop up every now and then? Not referring to towns from other memory cards since my friends don't have time to play their GC.

None.

You can only visis another player's town.

Ok, but there's a new thread with someone who has to deliver a package, but he can't find the person to deliver it. He can't find the person in his town and he doesn't have another town to visit, so how could this happen?

Also, from the way some of the responses are posted on this thread, it seems people have the same towns to visit? Could this just be their circle of friends?

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=324394

Some people make 2 towns so they can do all the stuff they could do if they had friends. :)