Blue Disk Saga is Very Over

It’s just as well. We were finally able to experience Itoi’s dream for Mother 3… I always felt that the blue disks were being used as a kind of “look at me, I have the disks” being waved around in front of the EB community. Now that Mother 3 has actually been released they meant less, and now that we know what is actually on them the community will no longer have its heartstrings needlessly tugged on. Hopefully one day we will maybe get access to some EB64 beta, but at least this brings the community much needed closure. =)

I have a beta disk, but I need to purchase a new lung for my sister within 4 months or she’ll die. I have barely enough money as it is, so there’s no way I can afford expensive 64DD equipment. The lung and the surgery will cost over $59,000. Please Starmen. Help.

Aw, that’s a shame. At least we didn’t end up spending all that money that was raised… I donated $200 myself to the cause (reid returned it all, of course), and I can tell you now that I would have felt pretty stupid if we had discovered that back then.

THE END

oh well…

Really dudes, someone should have stole a beta on Spaceworld or something :p

I was just thinking about this the other day. Sucks that it wasn;t what we wanted it to be… but A+ for effort

wow… what a dissapointment.
i’ve always wanted (but never had the guts or communication skills) to send a letter to Itoi or someone to ask about any left over EB64 things, and to see if he could send one to me to spread to all the land….
or something like that…
I might try sometime though…

I think we all sort of saw this coming.

its like one big anticlimax.

Sucks

Why were they labeled that, anyway?

Well thanks for that update on the blue disks and its good to atleast know the truth about all of them,but Hopefully one day one of those Spaceworld 1999 mother 3 demo disk pops up on the internet for sale.

aww. that is just pretty disappointing D:

Strange, the blue disk saga popped into my head last night at random, and the next day I see something about it.
I didn’t really expect anything related to Mother 3 to be on those disks in the first place.

@16_Bit: My guess is that they’re labeled that way to be able to organize them in a certain order. Name, genre, build, date – either of those or something else.

Blue disks sound delicious. I support this training of Ninjitsu. Or perhaps Saturnjitsu?

As I said before on Starmen.net, I’m personally a little disappointed, but not surprised. Corey deserves some credit for doing all this for us and 64DD fans though. Plus, he may have just started the first of the 64DD emulation scene. wink wink.

Aside from that, where’s my news credit? (I’m not really trippin’)

Meh, I’m not disappointed.

HELL YEAH SATURNJITSU!

Wow, so Corey actually could boot something? and he wasn’t a major lie?
Shame that it was a downer, but at least it’s over. Stories with no ending are a bit more awkward than stories that end. :3

AM I THE ONLY ONE!!!!!

GUYS LOOK AT THE BACKROUND OF THE PICTURE!!!!!

THE DISCS ARE ON CASES OF THEIR RESPECTIVE GAMES!!!! TOP LEFT = MARIO ARTIST CASE!!!! TOP RIGHT = SIMS 64 CASE!!!!! HELLOOO PEOPLE!

Hyperhopper, it’s a coincidence. blue disks are debug. if they were retail, the disks would be black.

I have another blue disk and I’m not able to boot it D:
Also, I have a yellow cartridge and don’t know what it contains D:

N@ M*ther 3 rom you say! Me alls sad now zoom! Least of we owning gba m@ther 3! me feels all happy now!
BOING! \/
C:-8
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THE END…?

well look on the bright side! we now hav 3 out of 4 un-released games! just not one of them is earthbound 64…..

baaawwww! i was really hoping for eb64 D’X

Disappointing, but not a complete surprise. The idea that the disks contained anything Mother 3 related was just an educated hunch at best.

It would be interesting to get a hold of the latest build of Mother 3 64 and see exactly how different it is from the Game Boy Advance version. It certainly wouldn’t be anywhere near completion, but if the screenshots are so much of a vauge example, we could certainly learn a lot.

I have seen blue disks, though if I’m correct MOTHER 64 was never finished. I have seen them for unreleased games (not unreleased for the 64, but for the DD64). While MOTHER 64, being never finished, would have never even made it to debug.

Still, maybe when I grow up a little bit to be a crappy videogame past reviewer, I can contact friggin’ HAL to see if they’d let me enter their offices (and steal a couple beta cartridegs).