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The e-Reader attached to a Game Boy Advance.

The e-Reader is a real-life accessory for the Game Boy Advance first released in Japan in December 2001, with a North American release following in September 2002. It was never released in Europe. The e-Reader is used to scan e-Cards for either a playable game on the e-Reader, or digital content for other games like Super Mario Bros. 3, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, or Animal Crossing, by using a link cable. The cards have dot codes that grant items such as minigames, items, etc.

e-Cards[]

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A player using the eReader machine.

Main article: e-Cards

Many types of e-Cards are available for Animal Crossing. They can be accessed via the e-Reader machine in the Post Office. The cards feature a villager on them. When the card is scanned into the e-Reader machine, either a letter is received attached with a present, a new villager will be invited into the town, the player will receive an NES game from Tom Nook, or the Able Sisters will have a new design. Some cards have a portable minigame that can be played on a connected Game Boy Advance.

There are:

Villager cards[]

These show villagers, information about them and a Dot Code. Scanning them will grant a letter from the villager containing an item.

Sibling cards[]

These are the same as character cards, except they contain codes on both sides. They are called sibling cards because the characters on the cards are related, such as Timmy and Tommy Nook, Pelly and Phyllis, and Officers Copper and Booker.

Design cards[]

These contain designs that the player can wear as shirts or umbrellas, hang as flags, or spread on the floor or wall in the player's house.

Town tunes[]

These show pictures of K.K. Slider and grant special town tunes, as the name implies.

Minigame cards[]

When swiped across the eReader, they allow minigames such as jump roping.

NES Game Cards[]

These cards allow NES games to be played, many of them available on Animal Crossing.

These NES games were available on eReader:

Forbidden Four[]

Four NES games were not available in the original Animal Crossing. Two of them had e-Cards that were not available in Japan.

The two with eReader support are:

  • Mario Bros. (Arcade Classics)
  • Ice Climber

The other forbidden two are:

  • Legend of Zelda
  • Super Mario Bros.

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Trivia[]

Warning: Theory starts here.
  • Some people say that they were meant to be released by a universal code, or Nintendo wanted to release e-Cards but didn't because people lost interest in the system.
Theory ends here.
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