Mother 3! The sequel to Earthbound!

i am curious (itoi)

The entire trilogy is printed in one book, too, plus it goes fast. I finished it in a day and a half.

http://www.zacgorman.com/IDNIN/Strip001_PKWAFFLES3.gif

We may be tiny, but we're still living beings. We eke out our lives as mole crickets.

that comic is great!

this game makes me bawl.

4 real dude it was a str8 connect w/my lachrymal glands

Lol this thread is crabbit's beetlejuice beetlejuice beetlejuice

I love the way it builds up & how effectively it maneuvers in the emotional spaces between funny, weird, bleak, cute, cynical, repulsive, terrifying, heartwarming & heartbreaking.

probably a must play for any earthbound fan:

http://undertale.com/

I bought that last week but haven't played it yet. I have seen it mentioned along side earthbound so much

It's really good! I feel like there's a lot of depth, but that's just a guess, I was advised to go into this game with as little info as possible + that was good advice.

Definitely Earthbound-influenced enough so that it could be a game in the series in some ways, but still has a lot of interesting touches + fun gameplay elements in addition to the familiar ~feelllzzz&vibbezzz~

I just want all of the games as thoroughly and charmingly playful/quirky/bizarre as EarthBound and Katamari

What, sort of a pleasant level of amusing Japanese weirdness?

any and all levels of amusing Japanese weirdness tbh

Fair enough. That's what I liked about the PS2 & Dreamcast, as it seemed they were great for importing such rich veins of barely translated Japanese insanity into domestic consoles.

What are yr fav examples of these things?

LSD? Seaman? Incredible Crisis?

I've played Undertale twice now, and got two different endings. I don't know if I have it in me to play the "genocide" route.

One PS2 Japanese import I loved was Gregory Horror Show. The actual gameplay in itself was perhaps a little repetitive, but it didn't matter because it was fun to just hang around and spy on the crazy tenants going about their daily routines.

yooooo how do I play that (w/o dropping stupid coin on a mod-chipped PS2 and shipping an import game overseas)?

Can't help with that, sorry. I live in a country where it was released!

ugh, fuckin' Europe

how good's your pc? i have emu'd ps2 before to some success

it's a 3 year old Lenovo Thinkpad w/ onboard video. I just finished Super Mario 64 w/o any stuttering or errors but idk abt PS2

Weird Japanese awesomeness:

That futuristic fishing game including as a demo on one of the OPM discs.

Seaman

Odama

Jet Set Radio

Katamari

Earthbound was like all of this, of course, particularly the tea break and power of collective prayer

Oh I forgot abt Jet Set Radio!! Ugh Seaman seems impossible to emulate. I've got a Dreamcast lying around somewhere, too. I should just track it down.

did you play cave story?

Only the very beginning, and Ikachan on my 3ds

https://youtu.be/TYud4GeEF-c?t=8m55s

Undertale looks awesome but with the Fall Sale looming I feel compelled to wait & see if it gets discounted

oh my gosh I love Undertale SO MUCH

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y'all I am finally playing thru Mother 3 rn and it makes me so happy that I want to cry
also I feel like as a game this game is better than EarthBound

Please note when this gets an okay for US Release; looks funnables.
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, April 4, 2006 12:28 PM (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this made me irl lol

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yeah it's better than earthbound in all aspects imo

i am mr. passion

omg i love mr passion

i'm rly annoyed at how hard Masked Man is and i'm EVEN MORE MAD that when i tried to google battle strategies i got massive spoilers instead

>:(

how are you playing this Stevie?

I have a translated ROM and I've been bouncing back and forth between an emulator on my Wii and an emulator on my Android tablet (transferring the save file back and forth) but I finally set up my Raspberry Pi so now I'm finishing it on that

oh wow. I'm really hoping they make some sort of ROM I can play on my SNES mini.

Doubtful, since it was a GBA game. Have you looked into the Raspberry Pi much? It’s $35 and you can build it out as an emulation box and fit literally every game for every console ever made up through the 16 bit era on a small SD card.

belatedly, this is one of the few RPGs where stat up/stat down spells are not completely useless in practice, and in fact are necessary for most of the bosses

Stat buffs and debuffs are pretty much essential in Dragon Quest games(which is appropriate given how much inspiration the Mother series took from there), less so in Final Fantasy.

The only way Mother 3 would ever run on a SNES Mini is if you hacked it and installed Retroarch. There are plenty of devices that support GBA emulation though, even a soft-modded Wii will do it sufficiently.

i feel like i'm a retropie factory this holiday season. built about 4 so far and about to start saying no

waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh i finished it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh

So uhhhh how exactly do I go about playing this thing? Does everyone just use computer roms/emulators of the translated version?

I’d love to figure out how I could get it on my 3DS but I know like nothing about homebrew and hacking and shit. (I just finished Earthbound so naturally I need to get on this)

yeah it shouldn't be too hard to find a patched or translated rom, also there are a lot of ppl who sell the eng. translation as a bootleg gba cart on ebay. love mother 3, beautiful game, get in there!

3ds can't play gba games at least not from a cartridge so yeah you'd have to do some hacking stuff or get an actual gba or emulate it on pc