Mother 3! The sequel to Earthbound!

yeah, i said it. also, if they call it "NWii" for short, do you pronounce it like ennui? It might open a whole new avenue for puns if the big names start calling it the NWii (a la NGC, PSX, etc)

When the hell is this happening?

12th of never

the two groups working independently decided to join forces, so it's continuing. Nintendo still won't port the thing.

http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/01/DSPrintsMoney.jpg

there's an animated gif of that

http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives/License%20to%20Print%20Money.gif

Sadly, a huge number of fan translations never see the light of day, and I still don't actually think I've seen one for the Nintendo DS... I really, really want to see this happen. See also: Mother 1+2 NA release. Seriously, Nintendo is silly for not doing this. If I were Nintendo, I'd watch the fan translation closely and when it's done send Shigeru Miyamoto himself to their houses and offer to buy the translation for a pittance. Their fanboyism will take over, they'll sell it for maybe a 4- or 5-figure sum, and they can release it over here for virtually nothing.

Err, by NDS I meant GBA.

more importantly when is earthbound going to show up on virtual console

Seriously! The kicker is that it will cost them like negative-zero dollars to release, and they'll see how many people are willing to pay for Earthbound. Urrrgh.

I really really reeeeeeally want to play this :( It's like the only video game I'm interested in buying now

hey at least you'll be able to get a glorified bathroom scale for your Wii. good going Nintendo, you know what we really want.

who is this we?
prediction : wii bathroom scale would outsell mother 3 by a huge margin

no shit, sherlock

who is this we?

whose is this wii?

wtf, you are loopy

everyone on this thread except you wants Mother 3, probably even more than Wii Fit, believe it or not.

i want fft

everyone on this thread is not a clear litmus test of nintendo's target audience. I want mother 3 too but we all know that what they're doing now will make them more money. Still, I think it'd make them a BIT of money to get translators to do Mother 3, surely? Is more money NOT more good or something?

I don't even care about mother 3, I barely touch the DS anymore as is, I just want Earthbound on the VC.

u would want the classic controller for that, because the best part about Earthbound is using the L button for everything

Still, I think it'd make them a BIT of money to get translators to do Mother 3, surely? Is more money NOT more good or something?

My entire point was that there's no reason not to do both, especially with all the money they're making with this other crap they could throw old school fans a bone besides endless Mario/Metroid/Zelda updates.

but...mario and sonic are at the olympics.

Could y'all please call the Nintendo hotline and ask if they'll release MOTHER 3 (sequel to Earthbound)?

Sadly, the GBA is basically dead to new carts right now. And I definitely can't imagine them going to the effort of translating the cart for DS, because that'd mean using another screen, blah blah blah...

they should really just rerelease every GB game ever for the WVC at two bucks a pop.

Its coming out at the end of this week!!!!

no wai; link?

link!
http://mother3.fobby.net/2008/10/14/testing-finishes-patch-this-week/#more-842

so awesome! will be loading this onto the flash cart

ZOMFG

*my boner a-splode*

HOLY SHIT

Earthbound is one of those games I really enjoyed as a kid but think I appreciate more as an adult. There is nothing like it; it's like a video game art piece, but on more than a purely aesthetic level like most games. RPG creators need to spend less time ripping off the Final Fantasy franchise and more time ripping off Earthbound

Earthbound is definitely amazing... as a kid it was this weird wacky throwback kinda game, but now you realize there's so much to appreciate it in. There was a good essay I read about it and its creator a while back, but I totally forget what it is now. How helpful.

its out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://mother3.fobby.net/

I know I can google my way to it, but could somebody hold my hand and explain what's necessary to get this from the website to my DS?

I am willing to spend money if pointed at the right places.

forks - you'll have to spend money to get it to a DS. I'm surprised nobody else on here posted a response earlier as I know there are people on here with more knowledge / experience than me on this kind of stuff. Obviously it would be much easier to play this on your computer via one of the popular gba emulators. Also illegal, but. I've never actually hacked a ds, but I was looking into it recently. To play GBA games on a DS, not only do you need to pick up a slot one micro sd adapter (R4 and the CycloDS seem to be the most popular choices), but also an ezflash 3 in 1 for that goes into slot 2 (the gba slot). There are lots of tutorials on how to make this work on youtube... just do a search for the products I mentioned. There are places to buy both online - just do a google search. You also will obviously need a ROM image of the Japanese game and the patch.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/3528/hiphopee1.png

Nice. ANy of you guys know where to find one of those MOther 3 roms? I'm totally throwing this on my cracked PSP... I can't find my GBA + flashcard anywhere.

HOLY SHIT

― original dixieland jaas band (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:55 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark

^^^ this

patched rom
http://rapidshare.com/files/155028165/Mother_3.gba.html

thanks for the tips dudes

Okay, we need to bump that RPG names thread. Best/most sophomoric character names win.

Dude thx sleep!

I always name a character "Banyon II."

I've played through some of it today and it looks to be really well done, a real labour of love.

Nintendo should get some money to these guys and get the translation released for real. Are there any logistical, political, publishing, or commercial reasons why they wouldn't? The main entrenched cost in this kind of project is the translation isn't it? I imagine they would get labour for a snippet of the price from these dudes, were they to choose to 'license' it.

Abbott, why?

also i'm just now picking up on "fassad" = "facade." i bet the fans who translated the game think they're hilarious for this

Mother 3 is more sophisticated than Earthbound, but comparing the two feels like apples and oranges. I feel similarly about, idk, SMB & SMB3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8_huZmO0aQ

yoooo

you can't make me watch that

I ordered a translated copy of Mother 1+2 a few days ago so I’m about to find out. will report back with my results. I know there are hacked versions with an “easy ring” item that double your xp and cash, but I’m curious about its difficulty..

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, June 14, 2020 7:55 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I finished the first Mother game last night (w/o the easy ring) and PHEW it is tough. You've got to do hours of grinding and it's hard to know where to go next without a walkthrough. Sometimes you'll defeat an enemy, take two steps you'll get attacked by another enemy right away. there's lots to enjoy though... the music's great, the charm's still there and the battles are often quite fun (especially the last boss fight which has wonderfully creepy 8-bit sound effects). It's obvs inferior to its two successors but it's neat for what it is

aw man now i'm done all the mother games and I feel sad :( i don't know what to play now.. is this what's finally gonna make me pick up Undertale

play undertaaaaaale

Undertale disappointed me, it has some truly funny moments but the overall vibe for me felt try-hard and too impressed w itself

I GUESS

We don't have an Undertale thread?

I've picked it back up after feeling similar to Stevie D(eux) upthread: Fun, but a little tedious and gratingly try-hard in places.
But I was filled with determination and managed to complete it. Once I was in the swing of it, it really came into its own.
It did start off like a lol pastiche of Earthbound-style RPGs, which felt a bit futile considering Earthbound is a pastiche in its own right.
But there's a LOT more to Undertale than mere wacky laffs. Toby Fox has thought it through and put in a lot more love and care into the lore, the plot and the playability than first meets the eye.
And yes, it can be frustratingly slow-going at first, but *SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS* once I played it through, I was hooked enough to go right through and play it again (TWICE!). In fact successive playthroughs are much more fun: I found faster workarounds, tons of Easter Eggs (anyone else discovered 'Hard Mode' yet?) and the plot makes a lot more sense and is actually very touching.

It’s a pretty quick game that you’re supposed to play through a few times, right?

yes, relatively quick. I did stumble a couple of times and gave up the first play through. I guess it's no big secret that it can be played in different ways and that the story alters not just according to the decisions you make, but how many times you've played it. For example *minor spoiler*, the third time through, one of the characters launches into his usual spiel before stopping and saying 'Wait, you're looking at me as though you've heard this all before...'. It's done in quite a knowing way, but it's genuinely amusing and unsettling at times. I even heard that it is smart enough to know when a player is trying to 'game' the system by doing crafty resets. There are loads of guides online on how to get past some of the more tricky puzzles and enemies if it does get too tedious

And as I say, the different styles of play-through depend on different playing styles. So, one style depends very much on logical decisions whereas another depends almost entirely on arcade-style reflexes.

i have only ever played/finished the game on pacfist mode, i cannot bring myself to hurt the monsters out of solidarity

I've finally gotten around to playing Undertale and I just finished my first playthrough (neutral mode)... everything about it is incredible except for the combat? Like yeah, it's cool that you can spare monsters and talk to them, but it would be so much more interesting if it was more complex in the way that most 90s JRPGs are!!! it also just felt too easy, but maybe it'll be harder if i try pacifist mode

the characters, music, setting, story, writing, retro graphics, commentary on violence in video games, etc, are all 10/10 amazing though. the dialogue with burgerpants might be the hardest I've ever laughed in a game

Completing it on neutral is just half the game. Pacifist and genocide (and there are a few secret modes too) is where it gets proper full on. I agree, it's a shame it's really quite a linear playthrough but I guess it's more of a parody of JRPGs than an actual one. I love the music score

there was a time where my son would exclusively request undertale OST in the car

and

i have only ever played/finished the game on pacfist mode, i cannot bring myself to hurt the monsters out of solidarity

― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Wednesday, August 5, 2020 11:49 AM (seven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

still true

flowey is taunting me into trying the game on pacifist mode so i guess i'm gonna do that next

and lol i can't imagine having the Undertale soundtrack playing all the time in the car, i'd feel like i'm trapped in a cartoon

i listen to stuff like that when i'm working. big fan of "Shop"

who could hate on a bit of this https://open.spotify.com/track/2w1FN8hCcAPs10rQw8g20L?si=VYJYQwNHTnydHarM0okrEA

I really should replay Undertale, I think I got most of the way through but never finished it and it was great but not excellent.

Are the routes discussed or explained anywhere within the game? Like is there any suggestion that a player should do things a certain way?