Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life How to get a lizard!
Around fall or winter time a big white monster type thing will be walking around the area by the sprite's home. Be nice to it (talk to it) and give it fish (it loves to eat) and then some time before year two he'll give you a lizard!
P.S do this before year 2.
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Fishing Advice 2
When you obtain the fishing rod from Van, try fishing from the bridge in between the town. If your lucky enough, you can catch a small fish called a Sharshark that goes for 600 units of money.
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Get Different Pets!!
Other then regular animals, you can get some other pets and animals in AWL. If your a big animal lover, try getting them all!
Cat: Visit Ramona every day and give her flowers and milk every day. Eventully she'll become your friend. During the summer in Chapter 2, wake up before your wife and Ramona will give you a cat.(I think all the wives wake up at different times, my wife[Celia] wakes up at 6:00 AM a lot) The cat will be black, and you can name it, but it doesn't do really anything.
Chiwawa(sp?): I'm not too sure about this one, but the Chiwawa is at the dig site in the tent. I THINK you have to befriend the guy who digs there, and then maybe he'll give you the Chiwawa. However, I've heard that you have to feed it, so make sure you really want it.
Lizard: Befriend Makumaku(the white monster who comes out in the Winter) and give him fish. He'll eventully give you the lizard with the bandage on it's leg. It doesn't do anything, however.
Racoon: Befriend Vesta or Marlin(Vesta likes milk and Marlin likes crops that you grew) and eventully they'll give you a racoon. It doesn't do anything, but it's soooo cute^_^
Ducks: Simply buy the Pond in the Food Storage Room. They make eggs, just like the chickens.
Goat: Buy it from Van. With the goat you can make cheese and butter.
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Weather Control
If you are disatisfied with your weather go to your TV and keep turning it on and off on the weather channel until it gives you the weather you want.
Win All Horse Racing Bets
Before attending a horse race, save your game ahead of time. After the race ends, remember who won the race, then reset your GameCube and load the file you saved before the race happened. Once the game is loaded, return to the horse race and place your bets on the horse that originally won the race.
Banana Gold
Buy a banana seed, plant the seed, and take care of it. Then, buy the seed harvester. The next summer, take your bananas and harvest the seeds. Plant a few fo the seeds, but sell the rest to Van--they sell for 750 a seed, and a tree will yield 30+ bananas.
Chase Away Rain and Hurricanes
When it's stormy outside and you want to stop the rain, visit a mine and do some digging. As you emerge from the mine the rain will stop.
Earn Easy Money
If you own a seed maker and any type of tree you can easily get thousands of dollars. When you shake the tree for the fruit don't sell the fruit. Instead, put it in your seed maker to get seeds from the fruit. When the seeds are made, sell them to Van for more profit.
Find Out Who Loves You
To find out how much the girl of your dreams wants you, look at her diary. You can find Celia's on her bed in the upstairs of her house. For Molly, you can look on the table with the flowers at the Blue Bar. For Nami, follow her to her room at the Inner Inn.
Fishy Advice
Early in the game, the best way to make money is to fish. Buy the rod from Van and go up the river to where you see three rocks. You can make over a 1,000 in money a day. Also, if you cast and there are no bites for a very long time, don't give up and don't recast either! Wait it out and you'll be rewarded with a Yamame or Big Yamame, which go for 500 and 1,000 respectively.
Quick Cash
If you are having trouble making money, gather up all of your fodder. Fodder sells for 10 gold a piece and one sell of 99 pieces will get you 990 gold.
Sleep Without Passing Time
Select the Diary and choose to sleep. Save the game when prompted to, and then reset your GameCube. Load the save file you just made and you'll begin before you went to sleep but will be fully rested.
Love Tips
It's pretty easy to win over any of the girls. You just have to give Muffy almost any flower, or you can give her the Pretty Ore. Also, she only likes one fish--the Big Huechep. To Nami give her artifacts and in the fall give her trick blue flowers. Give Celia flowers and she will love you anyday.
Give your girl one of these things each day and she will be falling for you in no time. If you do have trouble getting Nami to fall for you, just propose to the other girls and she will get jealous, and end up liking you more.
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