so how exactly do I patch this?
You need the Doubutsu no Mori AKA Animal Forest ROM, and AFProjectDistro.zip from zoinkity's site.
1. Make sure both are unzipped.
2. Drag and drop the ROM onto extendo.exe which can be found in the Programs folder of AFProjectDistro. Type y and press enter when it asks if it should extend the ROM. This makes a new ROM file which is extended and ready for patching.
3. Make another copy of that extended ROM.
4. Also in the Programs folder you should find ups.zip which is the actual patcher. Unzip it.
5. Run ups.exe
6. For the input file select the extended ROM. For the output file select the copy of the extended ROM.
7. For the patch file select the .ups file which is in AFProjectDistro. The current one is called NAFE-WIP-25_10_2008.ups
8. Click apply and it should say patch successful or whatever in the box.
Not sure if these instructions are 100% accurate but I think that's what I did to get it to work.