Wow! I didn't know that Animal Crossing first came out for the N64 exclusively for Japan! Damn Nintendo denying the rest of the world with a lot of awesome Japanese games Anyhoo... An English fan translation seems to be in the works & though it is still yet unclear as to when the project will reach completion but still great news is great news... Relevant links: http://www.romhacking.net/trans/1581/ <- RHDN news Article. http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=14426 <- fan translation discussion thread.
Also an interesting fact... The gamecube port is just a n64 rom buffed the hell out! I got a iso that had the buffing data removed, 14mb...god that was a waste of a disc >_> Anywho, this will be nice (although the ds version is better, not just in designed portability but in general features)