Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Tips & Tricks

Go to Takakura and you buy a pond for 2,500 G some time during the Summer in Chapter 2. Then, wake up later than your wife in the morning.

1. First Order a pond.
2. During Summer of Chapter 2, wake up at a later time than your wife.

If you go Grant/Samanthas house you might find Grant standing by the couch. He will give you an alarm clock, but you have to either be on any chapter besides the begining.

Buy a Seed Mixer and put in any of the fruit from tree crops. Sell the seeds instead of the fruit to make lots more money. For example, grapes sell for about 35 G each but the seeds are worth 450 G each.

Go to the mine every day and collect things and sell them to Van.

When the dogs are stray you can't pick it up. It only runs away from you, but if you put dog food in the food bowl, dogs will start coming to your farm more and more, sometime the dog will let you pick it up and it will be yours!

note the stray dog with the blue bandana tied around his or hers neck will come close to you if you press 2 on your controller. (the 2 on the right)

When you go into the Inner Inn and Rock and Tim are in the main room, go over to Rock. He will ask to have a milk drinking contest. Try going there on Spring the 9th at about 2:30.

Select the "Diary" option and choose to go to sleep. Save the game when asked, then reset the Gamecube. Load that saved game file to resume just before the time you went to sleep, but fully rested.

You can tell if you are friends with a person when they look at you as you or they walk by.

DO NOT press "A" as soon as you feel the big bite. wait about a quarter of a second before holding "A".

Pick up your chicken, nuzzel with "Y", look at the right half of the water "dish" while still holding your chicken, go to the shadow of the incubator facing the screen, look there STILL HOLDING THE CHICKEN, look in the shadow again, put chicken down. it will be frozen in place. you can pick it up, but it will not move.