Analyzing MOTHER 3′s Battle Music

A flash game based on Mother 3′s combo system would be very addictive, fun and popular… If you really want to do something like this Mato you should see if anybody knows flash, or learn it yourself. Sounds like a great idea to me!

*Looks around, left and right*
I know Flash. o_o

If you and I chit-chat about this, I can see if it’s within my realm of expertise. I’ve done some apps that would use enough coding for this. I’d need some insight from you before I could feel comfy working– a song that’s in 29/16ths time sounds nightmareish to code properly, but I’m definitely intrigued.

I would absolutely love it if you could do that. I have a terrible time with the combo system but I’ve always loved the idea.

Oh come on, the combo system ain’t that hard…

Oh, Oh No, wait… OH GOD!

I’m very good at combos. I had plenty of time to practice.

I usually get 14-16 every time, I really don’t know how.

The only songs I can’t get often are the ones with odd beats like Serious, songs like that would probably do great in a Flash App like that…

I love the idea of it, but I’m pretty bad at it. Most of the time, anyway. Sometimes I get comboes when I’m not even trying and don’t when I am.

Songs like the Clayman theme and “Rock ‘n Roll” (the Jealous Bass theme) I found easiest. I dunno. Maybe I’m just inexperienced since I always used PSI to take care of the job, anyway.

I’m proud that I already knew everything in the article (braggity brag-brag, sorry). It was still a very nice read.

I think it’s funny that he came up with the same way of dealing with Back Beat Battle as I did, which took me three playthroughs to develop. Honestly, for that one the usual rhythm-combo fare is turned on its head, because you essentially have to /avoid/ tapping in time with the beat. That and the hard version of it are the toughest songs for me.

A song in 29/16…combine that with an emulator delay that usually causes me to aim for the offbeats in most songs, and you have a recipe for disastrous failure. Oh well, gotta love the idea at any rate. That’s a very well-presented article and a pretty fun read.

Wow, that article is really awesome. I’m poor at combis myself because I tend to listen to the sound of my attacks rather than the music after the first two hits, so everyone but Boney ends up distracting me.

The strong one heartbeat goes right to the beat of the song! But I wonder why the masked man version has no heartbeat, does it refet to the fact that the Masked Man has no heart, or something else……..

I knew that some of the songs in the game had odd meters (Fate/Serious go away D<), but I didn’t know they had a ‘hard version’. Other than that, I knew what the article had to say; it was still nice, though. I hope to do something like this for every track in the game, as in, provide the heartbeat track, then tips on how to combo to it with perhaps a musical transcription. The problem is that I have no place to get the tracks, so the most I’ll be able to do is record off the battle memory. :p

Thanks for posting that, though; Strong One has a freaking weird beat, but it’s still ~so cool.

whoa!!! after seeing that same website before seeing this post, i got the same idea
thats weird

A flash app would definitely be helpful
Hopefully this article helps me and some friends of mine, thanks ebcentral!

I’ve gotten 3 hits, possibly 4.

I one got 3 hits when I had the music off xD.

I wish my save file wasn’t dleted just at the final area…

I am pretty much between “I’m okay I guess, I can get good combos sometimes” and “I eat 16-hit combos for breakfast.”

Either way, sound battles are my favourite part of Mother 3.

It’s easy once you get the hang of it. I didn’t need any practice.

I just smash the A button and I hope that I get lucky, lol

What? I never knew you could use the Hypno thingy to find the beat. Thanks a lot!

He thinks Back Beat Battle – Hard is the most difficult? He obviously hasn’t tried Absolutely Safe Capsule.

I usually get 10-16 hit combos, but only if I’m playing the game on a GBA/DS. I can’t do combos on an emulator because of the lag.

uhm, couldn’t you just write a stepmania of it using only one of the arrows? i heard it comes with a step editor.

Ugh… the lag is very anoying on emulator, longest streak i can done just about 11-13. Try 9 frameskip.

Er…is it possible to play through Mother 3 without all this combo-related stuff? I don’t know, because I haven’t played it yet, but I’m hoping it’s easier than it sounds…

It is possible, even so, comboing is very easy to do.

I’m sure I’ll pick it up, but thanks though. That’s a huge relief.

“I eat 16-hit combos for breakfast” lol i voted i suck at it so bad