Trivia / Harvest Moon 64

• Christmas Rushed: Widely thought to be the reason for the English translation's general lack of polish, such as the large number of typos and the like; the game was released on November 30th, 1999.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The game has been put up on a pedestal by the fandom as one of the best titles in the series, however it is not the easiest title to actually obtain. Few fans played it when it came out (most fans got into the series from Back to Nature, A(nother) Wonderful Life, or (More) Friends of Mineral Town) and the cartridge is easily one of the more pricier Nintendo 64 cartridges (ranging at $40-$70). For years Natsume stated they were unable to release it on Virtual Console due to technical reasons. However in February 2017 they finally released it on the Wii U's North American and European Virtual Consoles.
  • However, with the closer of the Wii U Virtual Console in 2023, the legal ways to play the game is once again no longer available. Made worse, the Japanese version of the game is on Nintendo Switch Online service, making the game now a No Export for You.
  • Finally averted, as the game has now launched internationally on the Nintendo Switch Online service in December 2023.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: There's a rumor that Ellen only dies if you marry Elli. Her death is inevitable. The only way to stop it is to not talk to her when she appears to be dozing on the porch. There were also numerous rumors about how to access Channel 4 on the TV. This was originally a variety channel in the Japanese version, but due to cartridge space limitations it was removed from the English version and replaced with static. There is no way of accessing the variety channel in the English version of the game since it's not on the cartridge, and even if you could none of it would be translated.
• What Could Have Been: There's a scrapped character called "Princess Vanilla". She's purple haired with a white dress. Princess Vanilla was turned into a turtle, kidnapped from her home, the Prune Kingdom in Flower Country, by a mole, and was being forced to marry a frog. The player finds the princess after she talks to a few Harvest Sprites. If Pete chooses to pick her up, he will become a turtle as well. Eventually, possibly from a kiss from a bachelorette, Pete returns to normal, and proceeds to turn the princess back as well. From then on, Princess Vanilla stays in Flowerbud as a regular character. It's unknown why she was scrapped.