What if Animal Crossing Sounded Like Star Fox 64?

Here’s a new video that I think will give you a laugh: What if Animal Crossing Sounded Like Star Fox 64? It features voice clips from Star Fox 64 over footage of Animal Crossing and Animal Crossing: City Folk.

Trivia

To record the audio clips, I went into the Star Fox 64 settings and turned off the game music and sound effects. So the voices were all I heard as I played. Perhaps not the most enjoyable way to play the game, but I got what I needed.

Believe it or not, the hardest footage to get was not the UFO. The clip that took me the most time was the one where I used a glitch to push Emerald into the river; it took weeks for me to run across Emerald in that specific acre.

The second-hardest clip was the last scene where Jambette was in the city. It took me hundreds of attempts before the frog of my nightmares showed up. Interestingly, the day she finally showed up was Friday the 13th! Even more interesting is that when Jambette first moved into my ACCF town in 2012, it too was Friday the 13th!

Even though the UFO scene was in my plans since the beginning, that specific UFO clip in the video happened by accident! I had already recorded a (different) UFO scene, and I was out looking for a balloon present when that UFO surprised me. Still, I got my slingshot out and hunted it down. That footage turned out to be better than the first clip (including an exterior shot of the UFO), so it made it into the video.

Also in the UFO scene, I wasn’t originally going to use the “You’re not as tough as I thought” quote. But when I accidentally used my watering can (I thought I was already holding my slingshot), I felt that the insult from Gulliver/Leon became justified.

The Animal Crossing GameCube scene with the cockroaches was recorded from my secondary town, Ohio. All other GameCube footage was from my main town, Forest.

A few of the City Folk (ACCF) scenes were recorded in my secondary town of Bananas. That includes the fly scene, the emperor butterfly scene, and the snowball scene. I do not time-travel in my main town of Forest, so I used Bananas for those three clips. Otherwise, I would have had to use a watering can for the “surprise attack coming from above.” And that’s not nearly as funny as a giant snowball. 😛

This video is the real reason I wrote my Star Fox 64 blog entry last month. I figured I might as well talk about the game since I was playing through it anyway. And yes, that means I’ve been working on this video for a month. Over a month, actually.

No frogs were harmed in the making of this video.

Deleted Scenes

There were several scenes I originally intended to include in the video. But after testing them out, they just weren’t funny or interesting at all. Here’s what they were:

I wanted to use the clip of Falco saying “Are you gonna listen to that monkey?” I wanted to use it with a GameCube clip where Porter refused to let me ride the train because there wasn’t a second memory card in the slot. But when I tried it out, it just didn’t feel right.

I wanted to use Fox’s “I spot the train” after my GameCube character spotted the train (what else?). But it didn’t feel like a complete scene, and it wasn’t funny. So I derailed those plans.

I originally wanted to end the video by making my ACCF go up to the attic, get in bed, and save/quit the game. I would play the robotic enemy boss voice clip that said “I must be complete.” However, it just didn’t work out and it was sent to the scrap heap. But the audio clip remains for those who stuck around to the very end.

Thanks for watching!

I hope you enjoyed the video! If it made you laugh (or at least chuckle a bit), please share it on social media or elsewhere. I hope that many people can get a laugh out of it. The video was a lot of work, but I think it was worth it.

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