July 7^th, 2005 (3:59pm) - According to a recent interview with Katsuya Eguchi, Producer of Animal Crossing DS, and Takashi Tezuka, General Manager of the EAD Software Designing Department (the team developing the game), details about Animal Corssing DS have been elaborated upon.

In the single player mode, there are to be new characters and new furniture, buildings have changed, and the museum has a second floor with a different kind of exhibition. The first floor of the museum has a coffee shop where K.K. Slider plays. Tom Nook’s department store is much bigger and has a beauty salon that can customize your character’s hair.

As for the online multiplayer mode, visitors can come to a host’s town, so the session will take place in the time zone of the host. The host can hide several "presents" and three visitors can come into the town and start a scavenger hunt. More features like this will be available as well.

Currently there are no plans for downloadable content.