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Harvest Moon DS is the first entry for the Nintendo DS in the long-running series. It seemed to have made the mark of the franchise's decline, due to the increased difficulty and repetition in the game, along with the glitches present depending on the region and version.

A girls' version was released later on in the same year in Japan, though it would not come out in North America for another year and a half.

• 2Unused Graphics
  • 2.1Unused Character Expressions
• 3Unused Music
• 4Unused Sounds
• 5Unused Text
  • 5.1Scrapped Events
• 7Oddities

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Unused Graphics

Unused Character Expressions

Sprite Station Members

Each character of the Sprite Station shares the exact same expressions, only with different colors. Some of following ones are unused.

..While those graphics of them looking angry aren't used at all.

Unused Foods

There are three unused food items with unused sprites, and one existing food item with an unused sprite. These four sprites are still present in the data of Harvest Moon DS Cute. To view these sprites in-game, use the Action Replay code 023D6B24 0100xxxx (or 023B9BAC 0100xxxx for Cute) to place it in the first Rucksack slot. Replace xxxx with an item ID listed below.

Water (0159) is an existing item that can be purchased at the Blue Bar. But none of the drinks there have sprites in the shop menu, and they cannot be held nor placed in the Rucksack. When hacked into the Rucksack, it has the same description as in the bar.

This Milk (0151) is different from the S/M/L milks that can be obtained in-game. It is also different from the drink that can be purchased at the Blue Bar, Moomoo Milk. Milk heals +2 Stamina and -20 Fatigue, while Moomoo Milk heals +2 Stamina and -21 Fatigue. When hacked into the Rucksack, its description reads, 'Drink milked from a cow.'

This unused soup (0088) does not have a name or description, but it is functional, and heals +5 Stamina and -3 Fatigue.

This unused dish (00AD) also has no name or description, and it has no effect when consumed.

Unused Music

Three different music tracks go unused in the final game.

FESTIVAL_CONTEST

The theme used for some contests from Friends of Mineral Town. Judging from the filename, it was likely intended to be used during contests rather than as an obtainable record.

FESTIVAL_CEREMONY

The theme before the Music Festival ceremony in Friends of Mineral Town. It's used in DS Cute at the beginning of the game where the character, dog, cat and farm is named.

CONCERT

The song used during the concert in the Music Festival from Friends of Mineral Town. The Music Festival may have planned to make a return in the game.

Unused Sounds

SE_DAMMY

A placeholder sound effect. The filename is mistakenly spelt as 'Dammy' rather than 'Dummy'.

CICADA

CRICKET

The Cicada and Cricket noises were used in Friends of Mineral Town, but they cannot be heard at all in the game.

Unused Text

Scrapped Events

There are some random events that don't appear in North American or European versions of the video game, but some of them have leftover text. They eventually all reappeared in DS Cute, but most of the text for them have been completely re-translated.

Daniel Walks

While Daniel does make an appearance in the game as a background character, his character mugshot doesn't appear at all.

Gambler Vs. Gambler

'Picking up girls' was changed to 'hitting on girls' for obvious reasons. There's also a typo in that sentence.

Small Adventure

Whip Practice

Memory Stories

Mailbox

In the Japanese version, the player could read letters sent to the mailbox, but that feature was cut from international releases.

Unused options for reading the Mineral Newspaper or a letter.

Thomas would have said this if the player had too many letters in their mailbox.

Unused Item Descriptions

Xbox tiger woods pga tour. Those coins ARE obtainable in the Third and Fourth Mines, but they're stored to the player's inventory automatically leaving the unique description unused.

Placeholder Message

Translates to 'There is no message data'. It's used in Cute if the player tries to request Gotz to build something out of stone, and the player decides to provide the materials for him.

Revisional Differences

The original North America version was rife with glitches which were fixed with a later revision, v1.1. Among them:

• Due to missing requirements, two characters are unable to be married. The Witch Princess (because the game fails to count dead animals) and the Harvest Goddess (if the Buckwheat Noodles are obtained instead of the needed Buckwheat Flour at the New Year Festival, because they are unavailable elsewhere)
• Mining Data (because of the Choker not registering), Recipe Data and Shipping data (because of Buckwheat Flour not registering) cannot be completed
• Typos and random freezes and save-corrupting glitches (Winter, after 255 saves, saving in the Harvest Tree or while hiring the fishing team)
• The milker easy-leveling glitch.
• Other glitches

The Japanese version had a V1.1 version issued shortly after the original release date, which fixed most of the glitches of the original game. For some reason, Natsume used the original glitched version when creating the American version, despite the JP V1.1 being available. The European version used the bug-fixed Japanese version as a basis.

Oddities

Alternate Leaving Forget-Me-Not Valley Dialogue

When the player tries to leave Forget-Me-Not Valley, they will be stopped by Jackie the Harvest Sprite and be teleported back. Though Jackie is required to be unlocked, he has unique dialogue for when the player tries to leave the valley reminding that 'dark roads are dangerous' rather than the player telling to get back to work. This could probably imply that Mineral Town could have been visited during development of the video game.

Vinyl Record Cabinet

The cabinet where records are stored list the number of records the player has collected, and doesn't seem to have much use in the game. In the previous entries, songs from past games could actually be played from on a record player inside the player's house. It was likely replaced by Channel 5 of the Harvest Sprite Station making the music playable wherever the player goes.

Sad Grant Curiosities

Sad Grant is one of the unlockable records in the video game that can be bought after the character gets married. It's the only piece of music in the video game to be non-sequenced, and is compressed into a different file format from all the other songs in the game. It's description suggests it went unused in Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life.

In some versions, the song doesn't play at all.

Leftover Menu Sound Effect

Contrary to popular belief, the menu selection sound effect from Friends of Mineral Town is actually used in the game during the Witch Princess' fighting challenge (that can be activated when the player looks at their doghouse at 4:44 AM) when the player uses Super Defense.

The name for the sound effect in the file is called 'WINDOW_OPEN', meaning it was likely used during development of the game.

Golden Egg Request

On Winter 2, Thomas will ask the player to get an unusual item in exchange for Golden Lumber (and Harvest Sprite Leader Oran if they do it the first time), and one of the items he could ask for is a Golden Egg. A Golden Egg is obtainable in Friends of Mineral Town as an item, but it's not referenced in the item name list or in the code at all, meaning this was likely a leftover from earlier in development.