Harvest Moon: A wonderful Life, Friends of Mineral Town

In connecting to Friends Of Mneral Town, once I connect, do I
see the action of this game on the tiny screen of the Game Boy Advance,
or on the television screen, or both?

I do'nt have a Game Boy Advance, do I need one to finish this
game?

If not, can I fully enjoy this game from beginning to end,
without ever connecting to Friends of Mineral Town? Or, will I feel
I've missed something?

Is there any way of getting all the records of music
throughout the game without connecting to Friends of Mineral Town?
Perhaps even a cheat, to get them all?


Game Boy Advance, as well as the cables used to connect, I've
found, are difficult to find, nowadays. So, I will probably never be
able to connect to Friends of Mineral Town.

I wish I knew how many Harvest Moon fans are in this
newsgroup, perhaps very few. Wish there we're more!

I recently became a fan of Harvest Moon games, one, in
particular. "A Wonderful Life". But, I'm sure that now, I'd like them
all. But now, some of them are no longer available.
Well, they may be avaiable on ebay, but, I do not know the
slightest thing about ordering anything on ebay. I'd sure love to own
Harvest Moon 64, and any Harvest Moon games that are on Super Nintendo.
And, Harvest Moon: Save The Homeland, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
Special Edition.

I sure wish I bought these games, and started playing these
games way back when they we're first on store shelves.

Anybody have a time machine, so I could go back in time about
ten or fifteen years, so I could buy one of each of these games off the
store shelves.


I'm sure that some of you have wished you'd bought a certain
game that you saw several years ago, but now it's not available, and
you'll never have it, and you'll never play it. And you could kick
yourself now for not buying it back then.

I still remember when Nintendo 64 was the newest videogame
console out there. But now, it's passe'.



Terry

Terry <Terry37now.RemoveThis@webtv.net> wrote:
> In connecting to Friends Of Mneral Town, once I connect, do I
>see the action of this game on the tiny screen of the Game Boy Advance,
>or on the television screen, or both?

Friends of Mineral Town is it's own game. In that game you have a
different farm in a different town called "Mineral Town". After the
connecting the two games, you continue playing each game on it's own
system.

> I do'nt have a Game Boy Advance, do I need one to finish this
>game?

Nope.

> If not, can I fully enjoy this game from beginning to end,
>without ever connecting to Friends of Mineral Town? Or, will I feel
>I've missed something?

You can finish the game without feeling like you missed anything.

> Game Boy Advance, as well as the cables used to connect, I've
>found, are difficult to find, nowadays. So, I will probably never be
>able to connect to Friends of Mineral Town.

Well, getting the hardware shouldn't be that hard, although time is
running out. I suspect that by the end of the year few stores will
carry the Game Boy Advance SP any more. The hard part would be finding a
copy of Friends of Mineral Town, though I saw a copy in a Walmart bargin
bin a month ago.

> I wish I knew how many Harvest Moon fans are in this
>newsgroup, perhaps very few. Wish there we're more!

There aren't many fans of any games on this newsgroup. Mostly it's just
people who hate certain consoles.

> Well, they may be avaiable on ebay, but, I do not know the
>slightest thing about ordering anything on ebay. I'd sure love to own
>Harvest Moon 64, and any Harvest Moon games that are on Super Nintendo.
>And, Harvest Moon: Save The Homeland, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
>Special Edition.

You're not missing that much. The original Harvest Moon for the Super
Nintendo, Harvest Moon 64 and Back to Nature are all fairly similar
in terms of game play and characters. Back to Nature and Friends of
Mineral Town are almost identical. A Wonderful Life Special Edition
only adds a couple new things to A Wonderful Life. Save the Homeland
was a fair bit different, but not terribly well received by fans.

On the other hand, now is good time to be Harvest Moon fan. You should
still be able to find Harvest Moon: Magical Melody, it returns to a more
"cute" art style while making a number of interesting changes in gameplay.
You also have Rune Factory and Innocent Life for the Nindendo DS and the
Sony PSP respectively. These two new handheld games take the franchise
in new directions.

> I sure wish I bought these games, and started playing these
>games way back when they we're first on store shelves.

Well, if you really want to find out what the older games were like you
could get a Sony PSP and the recently released Harvest Moon: Boy & Girl.
It's an unenhanced port of Back to Nature. Harvest Moon DS is another
option, while it's set in Forget-Me-Not Valley like A Wonderful Life,
its game play is supposed to be more like the older Harvest Moons.

Ross Ridge

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