Free Furniture
Sometimes when you go to the Town Hall, the recycling box may have furniture that you need. The lost and found at the Main Gate also may have free items. Talk to Booker, the dog on the left, to get to the lost and found.
Getting Money
Buy a fishing rod or bug net. If catching fish, keep the fish if they are rare or at least worth 1,000 Bells. If not, throw it back. You can also collect seashells of the same value. If catching bugs, catch them by listening to their sounds or watch for their colors. You can also look for treasure and many other things to collect money.
Easy Money
Go to the bank and access your account. Save all the money you have into the account. Save the game and turn off the DS. Change the date to ten years later and your money will go up, depending on how much is in there. It usually goes up 99,999 Bells.
Change the system date to January 1st to get mail from your Mom with 10,000 Bells.
At 12:30 on any day, walk along the beach shore and look for fruit. Any fruit you find along the shore will be worth 500 Bells. Additionally, keep hitting rocks with an axe or shovel until finding a special one that gives a bag of Bells. Keep hitting the rocks until the bags stop to appears. Note: This only happens once per day.
Dig up fossils in your town. Have Blathers check them, then sell them to Tom Nook. Many are worth up to 2,000 Bells.
Use the Golden Shovel to bury money. It may grow into a tree that will grow Bells, depending on how much money was buried.
Take your Golden Shovel and dig in random spots. Eventually you will dig up 100 Bells.
Find a star on the ground and dig it up with your shovel, then sell it to Tom Nook. If it is a fossil, talk to the museum owl. Make sure you do not donate it, even when he asks if he can keep it. Sell it to Tom Nook for a few thousand Bells.
Go to an online friend's town and pick their fruit and plant it in your town to make more money from the fruit when it grows.
Easier Fishing And Bug Catching
Walk when fishing, and creep when catching bugs.
Entering Crazy Redd's Tent
To enter Crazy Redd's tent you must give a password the first time and become a member. You can usually find the password by talking to some of the villagers.
Selling Items
When you try to sell items back to Tom Nook or Mabel they will only give you 25% of the original price.
Changing Time
If you change the system time to certain extremes you will be punished by nature. When you resume your game, there will be hundreds of weeds everywhere which will take a long time to clear. The only upside is that you may find a four leaf clover.
Legend Of Zelda Series Reference
Go to a neighbor's house that has the Kiddie set of furniture. This is the set with the floor that looks like puzzle pieces. Find the long dresser that takes up two squares. Press A or tap yourself while facing it to open the drawer. A message box will pop up, reading "You found 10 rupees! Lucky! Too bad you can't use them in this town."
Tortimer Reference
Go to the Post Office and talk to Pelly at the Civics part. If you look at the background, you can see a bit of Tortimer's face behind a counter.
Events
- Bug-Off: Every third Sunday in June-September from 12:00 Noon to 6 p.m.
- Fireworks Show: Every Saturday in August from 7 p.m. to 12 p.m.
- Fishing Tourney: Every third Sunday in January, March, May, November, and December from 12:00 Noon to 6 p.m.
- Flower Fest: Second week of April.
Trophies
- Bug trophy: Catch the biggest bug in the Bug-Off.
- Fish trophy: Catch the biggest fish in the Fishing Tourney.
- Flower trophy: Create the best garden in the Flower Fest.
Songs
To play the following songs, when "^" appears before the note, use the higher octave.
Imperial March from Star Wars
E_E_E_CGE_CGE
The Legend Of Zelda Theme
^A _ E _ _ ^A ^A ^B ^C ^D ^E _ _ Z Z Z
The Simpsons Theme
^F_ _ ^A _ ^G _ ^D ^C _ _ ^A_ ^F_ ^D
Super Mario Bros. Theme
E E _ E _ C E _ ^G _ _ Z G ZZZ
Animal Crossing: Wild World Tips and Secrets for Nintendo DS submitted by Dan 'The Man' Becker. More on next page...
