Cuyler operates a modest Patreon to www.miyea.com help support the project, which so far has been a Herculean one-person job. "Pledging on Patreon helps me offset the cost of translating this game, as it's insanely time consuming. I've spent well over 1,500 hours between reverse engineering, tool creation, and translating! I am the only person actively working on the project," they wrote on Youtube. The Patreon mentions hiring a professional translator if Cuyler starts receiving more money, though it seems like at this point, the project is close to finished, even with Cuyler's admitted "basic Japanese" skills. Backing the project gets you access to monthly patch updates and Discord perks.

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. With an ISO of the game, it's a cinch to load into the GameCube emulator Dolphin, and Cuyler's beta release even includes some install instructions. They wrote a custom patcher to do everything for you.

Ultimately, if you played Animal Crossing Bells on the GameCube 15 years ago, this isn't going to feel like a new game. But there are some really cool little differences. 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. You can find a random, special rock in town and break it to enter the "Reset Monitoring Center" where overzealous mole Mr. Resetti and Don Resetti hang out. You can become "best friends" with villagers, and also snoop on their conversations.