HM Help: Rules and Guidelines

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To those asking for help:

Please specify the game you need help with by adding the abbreviation to your thread's title

• SNES: the orginal SNES version
  
• HM64: Harvest Moon 64
  
• BTN: Back to Nature
  
• FoMT: Friends of Mineral Town
  
• MFoMT: More Friends of Mineral Town
  
• STH: Save the Homeland
  
• AWL: A Wonderful Life
  
• AnWL: Another Wonderful Life
  
• AWL:SE: A Wonderful Life: Special Edition
  
• GBC1: Harvest Moon for Gameboy color
  
• GBC2: Harvest Moon 2 for Gameboy Color
  
• GBC3: Harvest Moon 3 for Gameboy Color
  
• MM: Magical Melody 
  
• DS: Harvest Moon DS
  
• IL: Innocent Life
  
• RF: Rune Factory
  
• Cute: Harvest Moon DS Cute 
  
• IoH: Island of Happiness
  
• ToT: Tree of Tranquility
  
• RF2: Rune Facory 2
  
• RFF: Rune Factory Frontier
  
• AP: Animal Parade
  
• SI: Sunshine Islands
  
• GrB: Grand Bazaar
  
• HoLV: Hero of Leaf Valley
  
• ToTT: The Tale of Two Towns
• ANB: A New Beginning
• OTHER: Harvest Moon, use this ONLY if the above options do not apply to you 
  
• RF: All Rune Factory Games

-Please be patient. Many of us have work or school, and can't answer right away. If after 24 hours no one has replied, you may bump your thread.

-Please don't create multiple threads for the same help topic.

-Do not hijack someone else's thread. If the thread is about riding the horse in Magical Melody, don't ask about MFoMT heart events. Make your own thread. 

-Make your thread title relevant to your problem; if you need help triggering Muffy's Blue Heart event, then have that be your title, instead of "OMG! Help!!!11!!!" 

-Bookmarking the thread and adjusting your bookmark settings so that you get PMs or E-mail when a reply is posted is suggested. 

To those giving help:
-If you don't know the answer, don't post. Its useless if you say something like "Sorry, I can't help you. I've never played AWL", or "yeah, I'm need help with that too!"

-Please don't reply to threads which are very old. Its safe to assume that after a month or so that they have figured it out. 

-It is preferred that you try and put help into your own words based on your experiences, rather than copy&pasting, or linking to an off-site resource. 
However
-When directly quoting a source, please cite your source, either by simply naming it or by posting a link (Please do not post links to your own Proboards)

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When starting a new thread, you can choose to add a label for your game! We used to have a similar feature years ago and it was very useful!