Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing is a video game series developed by Nintendo, in which the player lives his/her own virtual life in a village populated with anthropomorphic animals. The game takes place in real time, reflecting the current time of day and season. The individual games have been widely praised for their uniqueness and innovative nature, which has led to the series becoming one of Nintendo's leading franchises. As of January 2010, over 15,000,000 units of games from the Animal Crossing series have been sold.

Game Boy Advance <-> GameCube Connectivity
NOTE: Some versions of VBA-M may not work properly with the latest version of Dolphin. To ensure compatibility, make sure to try various revisions of VBA-M. The version of Dolphin after the GBA <-> GCN rewrite does not matter.

This title supports GameBoy Advance connection support can be supported via joybus emulation. Such requires VBA-M (r947 or newer) and a dump of GBA BIOS (see here for an excellent dump guide). To connect GBA:
 * 1) Launch Dolphin, start Animal Crossing.
 * 2) There is a special island that is unlocked with a GBA connection and you can play NES games on the GBA screen.
 * 3) In both cases, have one of the spare ports, choose GBA and run a compatible version of VBA-M
 * 4) Launch VBA-M, go to Options => Emulator and uncheck "Pause When Inactive". Then, go to Options => Link => Joybus options, mark "Enable Joybus Connection" and use default settings (127.0.0.1)
 * 5) After enabling joybus in VBA-M, Dolphin will freeze (don't panic, its OK!). Now load the GBA BIOS in VBA-M, after the splash screen Dolphin will recognize the joybus link and game will detect that a GBA was connected.

To those having issues, please remember to unblock Dolphin and VBA-M in your firewall, some may block joybus link, leaving Dolphin stuck in connection screen. You can also refer to this video for more details.

NES Games: Bad Graphics
NES games are distorted by default. They require RealXFB to display correctly due to scaling. You can also avoid that by using Progressive Scan to play them without RealXFB. Also playing them on the GBA works without RealXFB.

NTSC-U
040037A0 3C608000 040037A4 C38337AC 040037A8 4805ACBC 040037AC 3FE38E39 0405E460 4BFA5340

PAL (English)
8C05F4BC 7C7E1B78 040037A0 3C608000 040037A4 C38337AC 040037A8 4805BD1C 040037AC 3FE38E39 0405F4C0 4BFA42E0 00000000 40000000

PAL (French)
8C05F37C 7C7E1B78 040037A0 3C608000 040037A4 C38337AC 040037A8 4805BBDC 040037AC 3FE38E39 0405F380 4BFA4420 00000000 40000000

PAL (German)
8C05F25C 7C7E1B78 040037A0 3C608000 040037A4 C38337AC 040037A8 4805BABC 040037AC 3FE38E39 0405F260 4BFA4540 00000000 40000000

PAL (Italian)
8C05F1FC 7C7E1B78 040037A0 3C608000 040037A4 C38337AC 040037A8 4805BA5C 040037AC 3FE38E39 0405F200 4BFA45A0 00000000 40000000

PAL (Spanish)
8C05F0DC 7C7E1B78 040037A0 3C608000 040037A4 C38337AC 040037A8 4805B93C 040037AC 3FE38E39 0405F0E0 4BFA46C0 00000000 40000000

PAL (English)
000BB6A1 00000009 000EF2C8 00000001 8C006A90 88FF0330 04006AC4 38A00000 04006B48 380001E0 04006B94 38A00000 04006B9C 380001E0 00000000 40000000

PAL (French)
000BB561 00000009 000F0BA8 00000001 8C006A90 88FF0330 04006AC4 38A00000 04006B48 380001E0 04006B94 38A00000 04006B9C 380001E0 00000000 40000000

PAL (German)
000BB441 00000009 000EFCE8 00000001 8C006A90 88FF0330 04006AC4 38A00000 04006B48 380001E0 04006B94 38A00000 04006B9C 380001E0 00000000 40000000

PAL (Italian)
000BB3E1 00000009 000F0A68 00000001 8C006A90 88FF0330 04006AC4 38A00000 04006B48 380001E0 04006B94 38A00000 04006B9C 380001E0 00000000 40000000

PAL (Spanish)
000BB2C1 00000009 000EFB68 00000001 8C006A90 88FF0330 04006AC4 38A00000 04006B48 380001E0 04006B94 38A00000 04006B9C 380001E0 00000000 40000000