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Harvest Moon 64 recompilation release
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- GitHub - HarvestMoon64Recomp/HarvestMoon64Recomp: PC Port of Harvest Moon 64 made using N64: Recompiled (Windows/Linux/Mac)
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- HarvestMoon64Recomp
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I'll have to get this up and running on my SteamDeck. I owned this game on N64 back in the day and even wrote a GameFAQs guide for it!
I used this guide back in the day. What the fuck.
I hope you didn't find it as painful to read then as I do now, 20+ years later :D
What a small world, I opened your guide and I remember using it a long time ago! GameFAQ guides were my go to for a long time, I may still have yours and a couple of others downloaded on one of my old hard drive. I went on a minor back up spree of some information from the web that wasn't too big that I was worried could be removed, and I would lose access to it.
I also wrote a fairly popular one for Friends of Mineral Town! I don't know what compelled me to write these things in my teens, but I put everything into them. My sense of humor, my immaturity, my love of the games, etc. are just all over the text and in retrospect I'm really glad to have these snapshots of my teenage self. Plus I genuinely love little encounters like this where people recognize my work years later. I've had that happen IRL once or twice with friends and it was just neat.
For anyone who is a Harvest Moon fan or are curious to give one of the games that inspired Stardew Valley and the modern farming/life sim games a try, you can now play Harvest Moon 64 natively on your computer.
I didn't want to have the main link for this post to the Harvest Moon Subreddit announcement post, but you can find that here which provides credit and a link to a mod portal that has a few mods for this game, including a "deluxe" mod that adds in QoL features
Announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/harvestmoon/comments/1uhkrlw/harvest_moon_64_recomp_native_pc_port_out_now/
Mod portal: https://thunderstore.io/c/harvest-moon-64-recompiled/
I also like to bring this up when Harvest Moon 64 is mentioned, but if you'd like to go into this game with a guide so you get the most out of your play through or are returning and would like to learn more about the game, there is a free fan made strategy guide you can find in PDF form here: http://blog.gerrysguides.com/merchandise/
There is also a missing 4th television channel that has been translated by fans which you can find in the following link. In the announcement post comments it was mentioned that there are plans to add this content to the deluxe mod: https://lostinlocalization.com/projects/hm64-variety/
I'm super excited and plan to give this a try after work today!
Wow I thought the 4th channel was missing as a nod to the Japanese superstitions about the number 4 being unlucky. You calling it "missing" sent me on a google search and it turns out it was simply ditched outside of Japan because of how much cartridge space the translation would've taken because of how text heavy it was.
edit: oh this is interesting. I wrote another comment and linked to a GFAQs guide I wrote, and out of curiosity I looked for what I wrote about channel 4. And in the guide, that I WROTE, I mentioned the actual reason for it missing. So clearly I once knew the real reason, forgot, and filled in the blanks with the wrong one :D hilarious.