Animal Crossing N64 — credits and sources

Project by TheDiscordian, with AI-assisted development.

Nintendo
Original Doubutsu no Mori and Animal Crossing games, English localisation,
artwork, and music. This is an unofficial fan translation, not affiliated with
or endorsed by Nintendo. Supply your own Japanese N64 game and North American
GameCube game; no full ROM or disc image is distributed here.

Zoinkity
Earlier Animal Forest translation work and reverse-engineering notes supplied
with AFProjectDistro. That patch is a research reference, not this project's
base cartridge. English text and artwork are drawn from the verified GameCube
input or project translations; agreement with the earlier patch helps identify
matching text. The original archive and its bundled utilities are not distributed.

Decompilation and format research
  zeldaret/af — Nintendo 64 structures and symbols
  https://github.com/zeldaret/af

  ACreTeam/ac-decomp — GameCube structures, symbols, and text formats
  https://github.com/ACreTeam/ac-decomp

  Cuyler36 — Animal Crossing text-format research
  Dolphin contributors — GameCube sparse-disc format research
  https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin

  ares contributors — emulator and debugger used during validation
  https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares

Zoinkity's accompanying notes also credit byuu's UPS patcher, _Demo_'s Zextract,
Shevious's Yaz0 utilities, and Obsidian's macetII. These programs are not included
in the browser patcher or required as downloads for players.

Licences
Original project tooling is MIT licensed; see LICENSE-tooling.txt. That licence
does not apply to Nintendo's games, extracted content, or third-party work.
The decompilation projects retain their own notices and exclusions; in particular,
zeldaret/af's root licence does not cover its excluded SDK and subrepositories.
Requiring both original games and providing a patch does not itself establish
redistribution rights for game-derived material.

Source, technical records, and bug reports
https://github.com/TheDiscordian/doubutsu-no-mori-english

—Claude