Animal Crossing: Wild World features a very minimal plot. The objective of the game is to pay off a debt to Tom Nook, who allows the player to move into a house he owns. If the mortgage is paid off, the player's house will expand until upstairs, left, right, center and back rooms are included. This is slightly different to the Nintendo GameCube version, in which the finished house only consisted of a basement, a main room and an attic. While paying off a debt, the player can do a variety of optional tasks, including interacting with other villagers and filling the catalog of the things you have, like furniture, fish, clothes and stationary.
Animal Crossing: Wild World makes use of several of the Nintendo DS' features, including the touch screen, dual screens and internal clock. The touch screen is used for menu navigation and interacting with the surrounding area, including movement, using tools, talking to other villagers, entering buildings, picking up items, etc. The dual screens are used to display the overworld on the touch screen and the sky on the top screen, which varies depending on the circumstances.
HINTS
MONEY
Plants
Plant a fruit from another town in your town (not your native fruit). Keep planting them until you have an orchard (fifty or more trees). You should have your pockets empty when you go to collect them (to maximize efficiency). After your pockets are full, sell them to Tom Nook for 500 Bells each. You can get 7,500 Bells for each pocketful of fruit.
Eventually, you will find a coconut. Your mom may also mail you and include fruit with the letter. Bury them. After five to seven days, they will become trees. Shake them, and you will get more of that fruit. Sell them to Tom Nook, for 500 Bells.
To get coconut trees, find a coconut on the beach, then plant it within ten shovel spaces from the ocean. Keep planting the fruit you get from the trees. Soon, you will have a friendly tropical beach. You can also sell the coconuts for 500 Bells.
Get a fruit that is not native to your town. Plant it and go ahead in time. Bury those fruits you find and go ahead in time again. Repeat this, then eventually sell all the fruit.
After you plant flowers for Tom Nook, talk to him. On your next job, go out and use (B) to pick up the flowers you planted. Then, sell them back.