When playing Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, it can be tempting to use cheats to gain an advantage, such as unlimited resources or improved stats. However, obtaining cheat codes for the PS1 Classic version of the game can be challenging, as the most powerful ones require a GameShark, which is only available for original hardware and emulators.
For those who do not have access to a GameShark, there are alternative solutions to overcome the Back to Nature’s challenging aspects. Various tips and tricks are available to help players progress through the game without the need for cheating. These methods can be valuable to players seeking to master the game and overcome its difficulties through legitimate means.
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Harvest Moon: Back to Nature cheats, GameShark codes, tips, and hints
For those seeking a helping hand in Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, the following hints can provide guidance without resorting to cheating. It’s worth noting that these hints contain spoilers for the game, so players who wish to avoid them should proceed with caution.
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature hints, tips, and tricks
Easy Money
This trick requires two memory cards, and a save file that has some type of animal (preferably cows or sheep).
- Copy the file to memory card two, then play the game on either file.
- Go to your diary and choose to exchange animals.
- Next, have an animal come in from the other memory card.
- When this is done, sell the animal.
- Repeat as many times as needed.
More Ore While Mining
The following trick requires the Harvest Basket and the Final Rucksack.
- Bring the Harvest Basket with you to the mine.
- Set it down and start mining.
- You should be able to deposit ore into the Harvest Basket.
- The basket can get full after a while. Empty it by facing a bin and pressing Square.
- When you are tired, just heal at the Hot Spring Pool.
This also works well in winter.
Get Another Horse
If you lose your horse and have a good pasture, you can get another one.
Make Your Wife Leave
Give your wife many things she hates (preferably weeds) until her heart turns black, and she has no hearts on the start menu screen. Then, go to sleep. The next day the game will state that your wife is gone, and you will shake your head.
How to get recipes
- Cheese Fondue: Give a Tomato to Doug.
- Chocolate Cookies: Give Pink Cat Flower to Sasha.
- Fries: Caught in a bottle when fishing off a pier.
- Fruit Latte: Give a Tomato to Basil.
- Ice Cream: Give egg to Yodel.
- Ketchup: In winter, cross the ice and enter the mine. Dig to find the recipe.
- Mixed Juice: Give a blue medicine plant to the Doctor.
- Ohitashi Greens: Give a Pink Cat Flower to Manna.
- Pastor’s afternoon snack: Give an egg to the Pastor.
- Pickled Turnips: Give an ear of corn to Saibara.
- Popcorn: Give an ear of corn to Kai.
- Potato Pancakes: Give bamboo shoot to Gotz.
- Sandwiches: Give Pink Cat Flower to Ellen.
How to Get the Mystic Berry
- Year: Any
- Season: Spring, Summer, or Fall
- Day: Any
- Time: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
- Location: Mothers Hill Lake
If you throw three Cucumbers into the lake at the base of Mother’s Hill, the kappa will give you a Mystic Berry. You must stand in front of the two trees on the left side of the lake to make this happen. Possessing the Mystic Berry slows your accumulation of Fatigue by 50 percent. When eaten, it reduces your Fatigue by 1 point.
The Big Tree
- Year: Any
- Season: any
- Day: Any
- Time: After 11 a.m.
- Location: Mother’s Hill
A big tree stands in a clearing halfway up Mother’s Hill. If you start to chop the tree, the tree will ask you not to. If you relent, the tree will give you a Power Berry. If you try another time, Gotz will get angry, plus you will pass out and wake up in the clinic.
Note: You’ll pass out every time you try to chop the tree after that.
Blue Power Berry
- To get the Blue Power Berry, you must grow cucumbers and save 3.
- Take them to the lake and stand near two lined-up trees.
- Throw them in the water, and the water imp will come out and give you the Blue Power Berry that gives you Fatigue -50!
- This gives you a LOT more energy to work.
However, you can’t do this during winter.
Legendary Fish
The Legendary Fish probably helps your percentage score.
You need the Fishing Pole to get them (you have to have 50 fish in your pond, and Greg the Fisherman will stop by and give you the Fishing Pole).
You can’t keep the fish, but you get fish prints. To view your fish prints, go to the start menu.
- Angler: To get the angler, go to the beach in the Winter between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. Fish in the ocean, and you should eventually get this fish.
- Carp: To catch the carp, it can be any season but winter. You have to have caught the other five fish, and once you have, you can catch this fish in Mother’s Lake.
- Catfish: To get the catfish, dig in the Winter Mine to the very bottom. Then go into the cavern that has a tunnel leading to it and fish with your pole in the pond. You will get the Catfish Print.
- Char: To catch the char, you have to have the recipes for Sashimi, Grilled Fish, and Sushi. You catch this fish at the river that is on your farm or the small river near the hot springs.
- Sea Bream: To get the sea bream, it can be any season but winter. You have to have shipped 200 fish; then, you can catch this in the ocean.
- Squid: To get the squid, take a small fish to the ocean and throw it in. Then use your fishing pole in the ocean. The small fish will be “bait” for one day, so if you don’t catch the squid the first day, you have to throw another small fish in the next day!
Perfume
There is always a hurricane during the summer (when Kai is home). If you found the bottle, go visit/talk to Kai the day after a hurricane. He’ll fill your bottle with perfume!
Sprite’s Tea Party
Ever wonder where everyone is getting Relaxed Tea Leaves? Well, here’s how!
- Have the largest Rucksack and buy seven flours from the supermarket in Spring.
- Go to Sprite’s house between 3 and 4 p.m. and give each sprite a box of flour.
- They will “invite” you to the tea party (which happens automatically), and you get the tea leaves!
Power Berry Locations
Power Berries are essential if you are aiming for a high percentage in Harvest Moon: Back to Nature. There are 10 of them in the game.
- Try to cut down the tree on Mother’s Hill (past the lake and over the bridge). It will talk to you and give you a choice whether to continue cutting or stop; say stop, and you’ll get a power berry.
- Mine in the mine behind the waterfall, you’ll eventually get a Power Berry.
- Mine in the Winter Mine, you’ll eventually get a Power Berry.
- Win the Swimming Festival in the summer.
- Throw five items(one per day) into the Goddess Pond(stand where behind the waterfall to throw things in), and she’ll give you a Power Berry.
- In the Winter, go behind and to the left of the mine. Press X and walk around (against the wall you can’t see), and you’ll find one!
- Buy one from the TV Shopping Network after you have bought all the kitchen utensils.
- Buy one at the Horse Race. (Manage to win 1000 medals, of course)
- Fish in the Ocean, and eventually, you’ll get a Power Berry!
- Mine down to the bottom of the Winter Mine in the winter. Go into the cavern with the pond and start fishing; you’ll eventually get a Power Berry.
- Plant more than 90 flowers on your farm, and when Anna comes by(when they bloom) tell her she can have as many as she wants. She’ll give you a Power Berry.
How to get Bees
In any season, plant some flowers in your garden. When they bloom, a bee’s nest will be in your apple tree. You can get honey from the nest every day, even in winter. The honey will sell for 50G, but if you give some honey to Louis, he’ll give you 60G.
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature GameShark Codes
- Infinite Lumber
- 80070d38 03e7
- Infinite Fodder
- 80070d3a 03e7
- Infinite Chicken Feed
- 80070d40 03e7
- Infinite Fish Food
- 80070d3e 03e7
- Have Maxed Power Fruit
- 800712bc 000a
- Max RuckSack Storage
- 80071a1e 0002
- Max Level Sickel
- 80071a40 ffff
- Max Level Hoe
- 80071a42 ffff
- Max Level Ax
- 80071a44 ffff
- Max Level Hammer
- 80071a46 ffff
- Max Level Watering Can
- 80071a48 ffff
- Infinite Money
- 80071a5c ffff
- Max Money
- 80071a5c 967f
- 80071a5e 0098
- Infinite Medals
- 80071a60 ffff
- Max Medals
- 80071a60 967f
- 80071a62 0098
- Max Earnings
- 800711fc 967f
- 800711fe 0098
- Zero Reduction Expenses
- 80071200 0000
- Max Stamina
- 80071a12 003c
- Zero Dead Animal
- 80127232 0000
- 10 hearts for Dog
- 8012724c 000a
- 10 hearts for Horse
- 80127258 000a
- Popuri in Love
- 800786b4 ffff
- Elli in Love
- 80077298 ffff
- Karen in Love
- 800767a0 ffff
- Ann in Love
- 80076ef0 ffff
- Mary in Love
- 80077bbc ffff
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