Animal Crossing/Version Differences/Item Differences
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Changed Items
Clothing
Several articles of clothing are changed across games; the changed items have the same IDs as the old ones, and affect animals who wear them as their default outfits in addition to their availability to the player.
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The N-Logo Shirt was replaced with the G-Logo Shirt from + onward, fitting the change in console.
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The Three-Arc Shirt (also known as the Familiar Shirt) was replaced with the Fortune Shirt in Animal Crossing and e+, likely due to the former's resemblance to the shirt worn by Charlie Brown from the American comic strip Peanuts (which had ceased its print run just a year before the N64 game's release).
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The Tomato Juice Shirt was replaced with the Fishbone Shirt in Animal Crossing and e+, likely due to the former accidentally resembling a bloodstain.
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The W Shirt was replaced with the Houndstooth Tee in Animal Crossing and e+, likely due to the former's resemblance to the logo of American fast food chain McDonald's.
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The Puzzling Shirt was redesigned in Animal Crossing and e+, featuring a more pastel appearance and recoloring the bottom-center square from orange to purple, likely due to the original design's resemblance to the Rubik's Cube brand of toys.
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The I Love 64 Shirt is the only clothing article to be redesigned twice; in +, it was changed to the I Love GC Shirt, fitting the change in console, while in Animal Crossing and e+, it was changed to the more generic Cherry Shirt, likely because the previous two variants were based off of the I ❤ NY logo, which is under the legal ownership of the New York Department of Economic Development.
Furniture
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The sign on top of the Birthday Cake is translated in the French, German, Italian, and Spanish versions of Animal Crossing to their respective languages.
| Doubutsu no Mori, Doubutsu no Mori + | Animal Crossing, Doubutsu no Mori e+ |
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The Bus Stop is changed to a more western-based design.
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The writing on the Chalkboard is changed from a Kanji lesson to the English name of a school subject in large lettering. In the US release of Animal Crossing and in e+, the writing says "Social Study," while in the European release it reads "English Lesson."
The original design for the Chalkboard would appear in all versions of City Folk.
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The Kamakura Hibachi is changed to the Chowder, reflecting the alteration to igloo interiors in-game.
| Doubutsu no Mori, Doubutsu no Mori + | Animal Crossing, Doubutsu no Mori e+ |
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The College Rule is flipped around.
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The Cubby Hole is changed to a more western-based design. The original design would appear in all versions of City Folk onwards.
| Doubutsu no Mori, Doubutsu no Mori + | Animal Crossing, Doubutsu no Mori e+ |
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The Detour Sign is changed to a more western-based design.
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The Diary is flipped around.
| Doubutsu no Mori, Doubutsu no Mori + | Animal Crossing, Doubutsu no Mori e+ |
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The sign on the Dump Model is changed to reflect the alteration to the actual dump.
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The label on the Fire Extinguisher is changed to a more western-based design. The original design would appear in all versions of City Folk onwards.
| Doubutsu no Mori, Doubutsu no Mori + | Animal Crossing, Doubutsu no Mori e+ |
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The Graffiti Desk is changed to the western-based Flip-Top Desk.
| Doubutsu no Mori, Doubutsu no Mori + | Animal Crossing, Doubutsu no Mori e+ |
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The Garbage Can is changed from a blue plastic one to a gray metal one.
| Doubutsu no Mori, Doubutsu no Mori + | Animal Crossing, Doubutsu no Mori e+ |
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The texture layering on the Glass Top Table is reordered so that the glass actually is on the top of the table, rather than being underneath the East Asian pattern.
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The High-End Stereo replaces the wood paneling on the speakers with metal, recolors the front of the speakers from dark gray to grayish-brown, and replaces the VU meters with a more conventional stereo system interface.
| Doubutsu no Mori, Doubutsu no Mori + | Animal Crossing, Doubutsu no Mori e+ |
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The Journal is flipped around.
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The Letter Cubby is changed to a more western-based design.
| Doubutsu no Mori, Doubutsu no Mori +, Animal Crossing (US) | Animal Crossing (Europe), Doubutsu no Mori e+ |
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The Luigi Trophy's base is shortened in the European version of Animal Crossing and in e+.
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The Mailbox is changed to a more American-based design.
| Doubutsu no Mori, Doubutsu no Mori +, Animal Crossing (US) | Animal Crossing (Europe), Doubutsu no Mori e+ |
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The Mario Trophy's base is shortened in the European version of Animal Crossing and in e+.
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The sign on the Market Model is changed to reflect the alteration to Crazy Redd's tent.
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The Work Ahead sign is changed to the western-based Men At Work Sign.
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In Animal Crossing, the Nintendo Bench swaps out the original Kanji logo, used from 1889 to 1950, with the more internationally-recognized rōmaji pill-shaped Nintendo logo that has continuously been in use since 1975. The former is rarely seen in Japanese versions of Nintendo games, with most opting for the usual rōmaji logo. Additionally, the katakana above the URL, which reads "Home Page", is removed, and the URL is enlarged, repositioned, and altered to that of Nintendo of America's official website. This change is reverted in e+.
| Doubutsu no Mori, Doubutsu no Mori + | Animal Crossing, Doubutsu no Mori e+ |
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The Organizer is flipped around.
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The Japanese Post Office icon on the Piggy Bank is removed.
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The steering wheel on the Miniature Car is moved to the left seat, reflecting real-world differences in car layouts between the United States and Japan. This change is kept intact in e+. The model would keep the right-hand drive steering wheel from Wild World onwards.
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The Police Model is changed to reflect the alteration to the actual Police Station.
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The Post Model is changed to reflect the alteration to the actual Post Office.
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The School Desk is changed to a more western-based design.
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The School Pad is flipped around.
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The Shop Model is changed to reflect the alteration to the actual Nook's Cranny building.
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The Japanese Post Office logo is removed from the Tissue.
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The Striped Cone is changed to the more western-based Traffic Cone. Both designs would appear from Wild World onwards.
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The Shrine Model (おやしろのもけい, "oyashironomokei") is changed to the Well Model (いずみのもけい, "izuminomokei"), reflecting the replacement of the Bell Shrine with the Wishing Well.
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The Vibraphone is mirrored in e+, tapering to its right rather than to its left.
Paintings
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The Fine Painting (based on Amedeo Modigliani's Jeanne Hébuterne with Yellow Sweater), Healing Painting (based on Claude Monet's Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son, a.k.a. The Stroll), Lovely Painting (based on Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers), and Pleasant Feeling Painting (based on Édouard Manet's Olympia) are all replaced in Animal Crossing for unspecified reasons. The Fine Painting is not to be confused with a different painting which uses the same name in the English release of Animal Crossing; the latter is present in all versions and based on Paul Gauguin's Arearea. The Lovely Painting would reappear in all versions of Wild World. The Pleasant Feeling Painting appears to have been removed due to its depiction of female frontal nudity and prostitution.
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In place of these four paintings, Animal Crossing features the Basic Painting (based on Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy), Classic Painting (based on Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware), Quaint Painting (based on Johannes Vermeer's The Milkmaid), and Scary Painting (based on Tōshūsai Sharaku's Ōtani Oniji III in the Role of the Servant Edobei). With the sole exception of the Classic Painting, the replacement artwork would reappear in all later games in the series.
Stationary
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The Fortune Paper and New Years Card are given more western-centric designs.
