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Nintendo Interactive
Animal Crossing employs the use of other Nintendo hardwear, and old Nintendo games, in order to expand

Gameboy Advance
With a Game Boy Advance and a Gamecube Link Cable, players can travel to their own island.

Animal Island
The island can be accessed once the GBA is plugged in, by going to the southeastern part of town where the dock is. Players will meet a friendly old Sea Turtle named Kapp'n (this is a pun on 'kappa', a turtle-shaped imp from Japanese mythology) there, waiting inside a tiny little row boat. Kapp'n is as generous as the other residents of the town, and will ferry players across to the island for free, while singing bizarre sea-shanties and making his trademark ribald, inappropriate remarks. Arriving at the island one will see a new animal roaming the tiny island and can become friends with him/her, and can give their islander village items in return for money and other commodities. Players can knock down coconuts and take them back to town to be planted there. Players can also decorate a small communal beach house and fish at the shores. By staying there for a long period of time, (only when it's sunny, not raining.) players will get a tan.

When the player leaves the island, he or she can choose the option of transferring the island to his or her Game Boy Advance and interacting with the islander as a minigame for in-game rewards.

Able Sisters' Design Tool
With the GBA, you can design patterns for free by going to the Able Sisters and downloading the design tool to your GBA. The design tool works in the same way on the GBA as it goes on the Game Cube, you just don't have to pay Bells to use it. Players then reconnect to the GameCube in order to transfer their new designs back. The GBA will keep the design tool and the designs on the GBA (up to eight) in memory until the player powers down the system.

Advance Play
Advance Play is when a person links their Game Boy Advance into their GameCube to download a NES game to their handheld. This only works with games that do not require saving, meaning that Clu Clu Land D, Legend of Zelda, and Wario's Woods cannot be played on the Game Boy Advance. Punch-Out!! also can't be played on the GBA because the original NES release used passwords to save. While playing with Animal Crossing the password is saved, but it isn't when. All other games can be played on Advance Play, but they are slightly stretched on the Game Boy's display and are limited to one player.The GBA will keep the game in memory until the player powers down the system.

E-card Reader
Animal Crossing is compatible with the e-Reader. Players can use e-Reader cards to get new items, including NES games, a new town tune, or a shirt design.