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"No Crossing Allowed!"

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....Noooooooooooooooo!! No Animal Crossing for good old Europe. Oh well. I gues we'll all have to wait till they don't release Animal Crossing 2 years from now. Cheers Ninty!

Looks like Datels Freeloader is back in business!

Last I heard that Nintendo was blocking them from releasing it.

Well:

A while back, MS lost a leagal battle in Australia - trying to make it illeagal to chip consoles.
The Aussie government said that the regional lock out was against their laws so chipping the console was perfectly fair and that consumers should not be prevented from getting the best import deals under Australia's trade laws.

In that case, Datel would be able to release their Software down under, from where your friendly importer would pick up the neccessary disks to let people buy their imported games.

Another World would be one of these importers, and I could pop to town to pick up Animal Crossing along with the Cheat Explorer (for glitches and secrets ofcourse!) and the Freeloader that came with it.


Now does anyone have any contact with Datel?

And if nintendo really said this, it'd be all over the net by know, i can't find any other sites that say this...

Right, so a small site, that is proboply run from someones livng room says animal crossing won't be released here, and you beleive it!

Riggghttttt

it reaaly is a great game. worth geting an import cube for, that and metroid, zelda, Super Monkey Ball2. All these games that come out in the US ages before over here. NOE hates us.

Ahh well, just as long a freeloader comes out in the near future!!

They release it in Australia because there are no localisation problems, and because Australia has it's own Nintendo department, which decides which games are released when.
Because the releases of games in the UK are controlled by NOE, the game would not be released here unless it could be released all accross Europe. As the translation of the game into so many languages would take more effort than the potential gain, NOE decide not to release the game. It's pretty simple.
And their policy is to release games in all the countries under it's jurisdiction, rather than just a select few, which is foolish but, then, it's NOE after all.

The graphics weren't great, but that's because it was such a huge and in depth game. If you liked Deus Ex, and The Legend Of Zelda, you'll love this. Alternatively, you could opt for Harvest Moon which is the realistic version of the genre - and will be amazing.

This is so annoying, anyway. Don't Nintendo see we speak the same language as the Americans? And that they've almost completed the European versions, so they might as well finish them? I reckon it probably will come out over here, actually.

Not too many?

I have seen this game running and to be honest I can't see what is so good about it. The graphics looked below par and although it looked very original I won't be missing out on it this year there are too many other GC titles that I want, not to mention Xbox ones :)

But wasn't it given the official stamp for Australia?

That being a PAL continent!