Dogs and Ladders

Oh wow i remember this. I agree with your ideas Mato – perhaps you could go down into Lier’s house early? It was cool to notice things like this in the sprites for MOTHER 3 too.

Yeah, digging things up about games’ alpha/beta info is almost a hobby of mine. Thanks for another interesting tidbit!

I still need to get around to doing a map of where all the maps are connected, so everyone can have more fun without as much work using the Walk Through Walls cheat.

Lier’s house sprung to mind for me too.

King and Boney must be very talented to use ladders.

Psh, a dog using ladders. Absurd!

King and Boney are awesome dogs.

yeah, i noticed that when messing around with PK hack.

I would guess that he was originally planned as a more involved party member, since you name him, he is replete with sprites (*two* different sets of climbing sprites?), and his time in the party is so brief and unimportant that you feel like that they let him join you just briefly so that they didn’t feel like their hard work went entirely to waste. And wouldn’t it be fun to take your dog along on such an adventure?

Oh, I guess everyone has two sets of climbing sprites. Well, still.

Xi: Are you talking about something like the first two things here?

I wish you had King throughout the game.

Hey, the last two EarthBound Central posts have had “ladder” in the title. Hmmm…

Interesting ;o

Crap, my ladder fetish has been discovered

I do have a question, though:

Why would you need to get a teddy bear to see these sprites? Wouldn’t it be enough to have King with you and to walk through walls towards a ladder? I mean, the game does change Ness’s sprite to the climbing sprite when he comes into contact with a ladder, wouldn’t it do exactly that with King?

Thing is, you know how King is all glitched up and appears normal when climbing ladders?

When he’s with you and looks normal, he glitches up whem climbing ladders.

Mato: If that is the exact spots you encounter the screens when you use the code, then yes.

The title of the maps is rather ambiguous, no? If I was looking for such a map the title of that link wouldn’t jump out at me.

But hey. KFC > Popeye’s.

@Xi I think you have your symbol flipped.

<3 Popeyes

It’s kind of nostalgic to see people discussing this again. Mother 3 made everybody focus on the multitude of unused stuff there, it’s nice to see some love for a little doggy climbing.

My fiancee seems to recall seeing a ghost Everdred unused sprite. Truths? Guess he was supposed to die in Fourside… or maybe join the party?!

there is an everdred ghost sprite.

I was actually looking the the earthbound sprites that I downloaded and came across these a while back. I was thinking maybe they were kings walking sprites when your in four side

You used to probably be able to go into Lier X’s house at one point before King runs away, but for whatever reason they decided against letting players do that.

Cool.

I wish my dog could climb ladders.

Woah! I didn’t realize I made EB Central. I didn’t make that video, I just sent it in lol.

It’s possible that originally Itoi wanted King to be able to accompany Ness into Lier X. Agerate’s underground dig (since it is also on the mountain where you take King), but this would also imply that you could visit his dig earlier (at night) instead of later (after dawn). Just a theory.