What, sort of a pleasant level of amusing Japanese weirdness?
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
any and all levels of amusing Japanese weirdness tbh
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
What are yr fav examples of these things?
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link
LSD? Seaman? Incredible Crisis?
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Duane Barry, Friday, 13 November 2015 01:18 (eight years ago) link
yooooo how do I play that (w/o dropping stupid coin on a mod-chipped PS2 and shipping an import game overseas)?
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 13 November 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
Can't help with that, sorry. I live in a country where it was released!
― Duane Barry, Friday, 13 November 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
ugh, fuckin' Europe
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 13 November 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
how good's your pc? i have emu'd ps2 before to some success
― nerd shit (Will M.), Friday, 13 November 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
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
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 13 November 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
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
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Friday, 13 November 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 13 November 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
did you play cave story?
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 November 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
Only the very beginning, and Ikachan on my 3ds
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Friday, 13 November 2015 22:59 (eight years ago) link
https://youtu.be/TYud4GeEF-c?t=8m55s
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Saturday, 14 November 2015 01:08 (eight years ago) link
Undertale looks awesome but with the Fall Sale looming I feel compelled to wait & see if it gets discounted
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 04:01 (eight years ago) link
oh my gosh I love Undertale SO MUCH
― cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 27 November 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
https://gifsound.com/?gif=https://media.giphy.com/media/QDYXASCjiW568/giphy.gif&v=204BDmIg7B4
― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 22:43 (eight years ago) link
y'all I am finally playing thru Mother 3 rn and it makes me so happy that I want to cryalso I feel like as a game this game is better than EarthBound
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
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
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
this made me irl lol
https://lparchive.org/Mother-3/Update%2010/51-44.png
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
yeah it's better than earthbound in all aspects imo
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
i am mr. passion
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
omg i love mr passion
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
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
>:(
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 7 December 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
how are you playing this Stevie?
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Friday, 7 December 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
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
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 8 December 2018 03:54 (five years ago) link
oh wow. I'm really hoping they make some sort of ROM I can play on my SNES mini.
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Saturday, 8 December 2018 10:14 (five years ago) link
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.
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 8 December 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
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
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
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.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
i feel like i'm a retropie factory this holiday season. built about 4 so far and about to start saying no
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh i finished it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 16 December 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
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)
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 3 May 2020 05:44 (three years ago) link
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!
― lumen (esby), Sunday, 3 May 2020 05:59 (three years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Sunday, 3 May 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
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!!
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 3 May 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
Apparently they still make r4 cards!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 May 2020 07:02 (three years ago) link
did you ever play this? it's like... better than earthbound
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 29 May 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
omg i wanna play this
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 29 May 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
me too. don't have any real way to do it though, unless ps4 is now an option? or SNES mini
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 29 May 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
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
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 29 May 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
this is far from optimal but it workshttps://www.playemulator.com/gba-online/mother-3/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 29 May 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
heard it got cancelled
― ||||||||, Friday, 29 May 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
RIP mother 3, too problematic for our modern times ;_;
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 29 May 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
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
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 29 May 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
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
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 29 May 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
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.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 31 May 2020 08:22 (three years ago) link
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
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 31 May 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link