Mother 3! The sequel to Earthbound!

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

https://lparchive.org/Mother-3/Update%2010/51-44.png

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

Huh, I googled about cartridges and apparently there are quite a few bootleg English cartridges of the game on Etsy! I think I might go with one of those and just try to find a GBA somewhere. Thank you!!

Apparently they still make r4 cards!

did you ever play this? it's like... better than earthbound

omg i wanna play this

me too. don't have any real way to do it though, unless ps4 is now an option? or SNES mini

literally it's so fucking good, it has all the charm of EarthBound but where EB was incredibly formulaic in terms of gameplay and narrative and linearity, Mother 3 shakes things up a lot more.

I think you p much have to play it with a GBA emulator on a computer, they still haven't released any official English translation

this is far from optimal but it works
https://www.playemulator.com/gba-online/mother-3/

heard it got cancelled

RIP mother 3, too problematic for our modern times ;_;

one thing you have to watch out for with emulation is that it's really hard to get the audio properly synced. the battle system is rhythm based so you're not going to have a very good time.

you can buy reproduction carts with the translated version on 3t5y and 3b4y then pop it into your beautiful DS Lite

oh yeah i forgot about that, my brain eventually got the hang of it but it was undoubtedly trickier than the real thing. certain emulators are much better than others (I think mGBA is supposed to be good?) and I think there are settings you can tweak to adjust the latency

I wound up ordering a GBA cartridge of the translated version from Etsy. It works extremely well!! They’re only $15 USD plus shipping too. If anyone wants to play it I’d say that’s probably the best way to go if emulators aren’t your thing. I haven’t had any issues with the rhythm battles either

I actually just finished chapter six and, like, holy shit, this thing is incredible. I don’t know how this ends but I’m guessing I’m gonna get emotionally wrecked.

I’m surprised at how different it is from EarthBound actually! The gameplay in EarthBound was dense and the world it created was very strange in the best way, but there wasn’t much of a story. This one, however, has a beautiful story and the world in it is lots of fun to explore. You’ll want to talk to everyone and inspect everything just to read the humourous script. And the music is top notch

Maybe my one complaint about it is that I wish the battles were harder? I didn’t die a lot in Earthbound but the battles in it were so tense and thrilling, whereas I seem to be just coasting through this thing. There is some interesting stuff going on it though — and katherine’s comment up thread about how stats up/down spells are actually important in this game is very true.

all of that is incredibly OTM. It retains the quirk and joy of EB but it has many heavy themes that make the overall vibe a little less breezy and lighthearted

I take back my previous comment about difficulty - these last two chapters are tough!!!

too problematic for our modern times ;_;

― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, May 29, 2020 12:07 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

hoo boy um yeah

but yes this is somehow better than earthbound

i enjoy that when you're playing as duster your attack combos express themselves as a wicked slap bass solo

If you have a mac and want to use an emulator OpenEmu is the best program.

I finished this last night at like 1 a.m. and uh yeah that ending is just devastating