Tips for MAKING MONEY in Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life: Special Edition (PS2)

Don't actually know whether it would work in HMAWL

I'm giving all of you a complete set of 'Money - Making Guide'.

Table of Contents:

1.      Planting turnips (starting Method)

2.      Fishing

3.      Collecting wild plants and flowers (saving Money - Method)

4.      Digsite/Excavation site

5.      Banana trees

6.      Seed maker

7.      Dhibe cakes

8.      Eggplants

9.      Normal cow

10.     Star cow

11.     Golden eggs

12.     Yams

13.     S - rank crops/seeds (hybridizing Method)

14.     Befriend Van (enchanting Method for you to make profits)

15.     About the guide and me/The Author

1) Planting turnips

Just plant about 25 turnips and change it to pickle turnip in salad menu

(cooking menu). One turnip is required to make a pickle turnip. After about 22-

24 pickle turnips that you have made, you will unlock Dessert and Entree menu

which are new cooking methods that can offer you to cook more dishes. This

will be really - really useful afterwards.

Note: Pickle turnip can be sold for 25G (same price as the normal/raw turnip)

2) Fishing

This is the secret.

Keep fishing and fishing.

After unlocking the Entree menu, go to it and use one fish to make a sashimi.

Sell it to Van and he will offer 150G for each of the sashimi. Say 'no' until

he offers for a higher price which is 180G each!

Tips: Use fish which has a value below than 150G.

This is because you can turn it to sashimi to sell it.

For fish which has the price higher than 150G, just sell it to Van such as

Sharsharks and Huge Rainbob.

3) Collecting wild plants and flowers (saving Money - Method)

Collect them, sell them, eat them and give it to your cat or dog. Don't ever

eat/drink milk! It's a major waste! Here's the list:

Spring:

*Mugworts: 15G   Goddess Drop Flowers - 15G   Toy flowers - 10G

Summer:

*Royal Ferns - 15G   Happy Lamp Flowers - 15G   Mist Moon Flowers - 10G

Fall:

*Hackberry - 20G   *Matsutake - 25G   *Toadstool - 100G   *Bracken - 15G

Gemsoil - 20G   Trick Blue Flowers - 10G

Winter:

*Sorrel - 20G   Upseed Flowers - 25G   Amorous Flowers - 10G

Note: * means edible/can be eaten

4) Digsite/Excavation site

Go to the Digsite and dig as many and as long as you desire.

You can sell the artifacts/fossils/statues to Van or give it to the villagers

to befriend them. The more chapters that you go, there will be more artifacts

that can be discovered which have a higher and better price.

Chapter 1

Coin: 10G   Skull Fossil: 50G   Human Statue: 40G   Moon Ore: 40G

Tablet C

Chapter 2

Sugar Ore: 50G   Fossil: 40G   Horse Statue: 70G   Silver Coin: 40G

Tablet D

Chapter 3

Hip Fossil: 60G   Hop Ore: 80G   Jade Ball: 150G/180G*

Tablet E

Chapter 4

Gold Coin: 50G   Strange Fossil: 100G   Strange Item: 300G/360G*

Tablet F

Note: * means if haggled

5) Banana trees

To get money as soon as you can, buy banana seeds from Vesta. Plant them in

one of your fields (I recommend the first field near your house). Now just

wait until next year (you don't have to water your trees). During chapter 2

spring, your banana trees should flower and in summer (maybe not in the 1st

day of Summer), you will see bananas at your tree. After that, collect the

bananas. Now, if you have a seed maker, turn all (or most) of the bananas into

banana seeds. Once they have become seeds, take them to Van, haggle the price,

and sell it.

6) Seed Maker

This extension is a MUST if you want to turn your fruit/crops to seeds. You

can either buy it for 6000G or befriend Daryl to get one for free. Once his

head turns toward you as you pass him by, go to his house at around the

evening (I think so). You should get the cut-scene where he will give you the

free seed maker. However, remember that you cannot get the free seed maker if

you've talked to Takakura and he's offered to buy it for you. The seed maker

will be in your ledger for 6000G if you've talked to Takakura, which mean that

you will not get the free seed maker. So now, just turn all or most of the

banana fruits to banana seeds which can be sell for 140G each. If haggled, you

can sell it for 168G each

Tips: Each fruit will give two seeds and it will take several days to turn it

to seeds. You can also store some for hybridizing.

7) Dhibe cakes

In chapter 2, after getting tartan. Once you have him and the hybridize option,

make some dhibe seeds using turnip and strawberry (seeds is better because it

can save a lots of money if it has accidentally failed ). Plant as many dhibe

seeds as you want. Once they are fully grown, harvest them. Then, go to your

kitchen (you'll need the dessert option). Use the recipe for dhibe cakes

(dessert --> dhibe, milk, egg = dhibe cake).

Take your dhibe cakes to Van, remember to haggle the price, and sell them to

him.

Note: Each dhibe cake can be haggled for 2010G each.

8) Eggplants

This crop can be sold for lots of money. It requires about 9 - 10 days to be

harvested. Here's the hybridizing table:

Bashber + Melober

Bashber + Kashry

Bashber + Paberryta

Bashber + Gretoma

Gretoma + Melober

Gretoma + Kashry

Gretoma + Tobatama

Kashry  + Melober

Melotoma + Tobatama

Melotoma + Potamelo

Melober + Potamelo

Note: If I am not mistaken, each Eggplant can be sold for 800G (if I am wrong,

mail me). I think if it is haggled, it can reach as much as 960G.

9) Normal Cow

You will get a Normal Cow when you first started this game. Take good care of

her and this includes snuggling, talking to her and brushing her as well.

In about the middle Fall and Winter, after you had take a good care of her,

she will produce S - rank milks. Each S-rank milk can be sell for 150G and if

can be haggled, 180G each. If you already purchased Food Processing Room for

30 000G, turn all the milk that you have to butter or cheese. Here's the price:

Butter Maker:

Normal Milk B = Butter (average quality) - 225G to 270G*

Normal Milk A = Butter (average quality) - 225G to 270G*

Normal Milk S = Good Butter - 300G to 360G*

Mother's Milk = Mother's Butter - 115G to 138G*

* = means if haggled

Note: The price for the cheese is also the same as the butter's price

depending on the it's gred.

10) Star Cow

Each Star cow costs you 7000G. If you have take a good care of her, she will

produce S - rank milk.

Here's the price:

B - Grade = 270G 

A - Grade = 405G 

S - Grade = 540G

Butter/cheese = 300G (all grade)

Tips: I recommend you to change B - rank milk only to cheese or butter not the

A-rank and S-rank milk.

11) Golden eggs

Your chicken will be giving you golden egg once they have 10 hearts. Also, you

need to keep snuggling, talking and watch their health in order to make them

to give you the golden eggs. Each golden egg can be sell for 300G and can be

haggled until 360G.

12) Yams

This method is not actually recommended because it takes too much time. But,

if you have planted some yams and if you are considering to sell it, I advice

you to change it to food which can be more profitable.

> Grill Yam (Dessert menu) 75G

> Yam Soup (Soup menu) 110G to 132G

---> Both of this recipes require only one yam only to change it to dishes

13) S - Rank Crops/Seeds (hybridizing method) (enchanting Method for you to

make profits)

Crops can be sold for more profits when they are at a better gred. To make a

B - rank crops to S - rank, you must hybridize the crops/seeds with Tartan and

with the required flowers. Use this flowers to any crop to improve its quality

and characteristics. The more flowers you hybridized the crops/seeds, the

higher the price.

Happy Lamp - A green circle appears next to the seed's name, red in colour,

>>>plants can be grown at any season if hybridized.

Gemsoil - Black circle appears next to it, a looking - pale flower,

>>>plants can be grown at any type of soil.

Upseed - A red and bluish - looking flower

>>>Improves seed's (only crops not trees) quality to S - rank if hybridized.

14) Befriend Van

This is not a tip for making money but this is actually an important key for

you to make one. After you had sell and buy something from him, he will be

your friend. You can also give him statues, eggs and cooked food when he comes

to open his shop. This will increase the chances for you to haggle the price

for a better and more satisfying profit. This haggling method will just work

for something which has a value of more than 100G (this does not include 100G)

and it requires patience and a few tries before he offers for a better price.

Also, you can decrease the price of the goat from 4000G to 1200G.

Tips: After you unlocked Entree and Dessert option, keep cooking (does not

matter if it still the same recipe) until you unlock a new cooking option

which is the Main Dish (you need to cook about 7-10 more foods in order to

unlock it)

Tips: If I am not mistaken, each thing that can be haggled can actually

increased the price of that thing to as much as 20%. So play smart because

this haggling processes are proven to be very - very beneficial and profitable.

The end.....