Animal Forest PSP
どうぶつの森 · Doubutsu no Mori
An unofficial PSP port of the N64 Animal Forest, built from the game's decompilation and playing in English with text taken from your own GameCube Animal Crossing.
What it is
This port recompiles the Japanese Nintendo 64 Animal Forest to run natively on the PSP, using the community decompilation of the game and N64Recomp, with audio handled by the PSP's Media Engine. The author reports it running smoothly at 30 fps on PSP and in PPSSPP.
English text
The dialogue, names and letters come from the European GameCube Animal Crossing, so you also need your own copy of that disc. If you add the existing English fan translation of the N64 game, the title screen, menus and signs are in English too; otherwise they stay Japanese. A small number of messages with no GameCube counterpart were translated for the port with AI help.
Playing it
The repository holds no game data: you build the port yourself from your own dumps with the provided scripts (or in Docker) and copy the result to your PSP or PPSSPP, following the instructions on the official page. The project was made with heavy AI assistance, as the author openly says, and bug reports are welcome.
Credits
Port by bruder-grimm, building on the zeldaret Animal Forest decompilation, Mr-Wiseguy's N64Recomp and mcidclan's Media Engine core, with help from nergton_fm.