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EB0 Remake: Big Bag Implementation

March 12th, 2012 | EarthBound, Hacking, MOTHER 1, Videos | 13 Comments

There’s a new video up of the EarthBound Zero remake hack that’s in progress. It’s still extremely rough and mostly placeholder stuff for now, but you can see things slowly coming together. Here’s what H.S says about this video: EarthBound Zero has the Big Bag item, which restores the same amount of HP as a Magic Herb, and has 30 uses (or charges, if you will). The problem ...Read More »

Pre-Mt. Itoi Path Differences

February 20th, 2012 | Images, MOTHER 1, Uncommon Knowledge | 17 Comments

After my update yesterday about the EarthBound Zero Map Viewer, H.S quickly discovered that the path leading up to Mt. Itoi is different in MOTHER 1 and EarthBound Zero. The EarthBound Zero version was greatly simplified so the player couldn’t get lost. The MOTHER 1 version was made TO get lost – so essentially an entire challenging part of the game was taken out: MOTHER 1 Path: Earth...Read More »

EarthBound Zero Map Viewer

February 19th, 2012 | MOTHER 1 | 25 Comments

Yesterday I got an e-mail from H.S (the awesome guy doing a lot of EarthBound Zero remake hack stuff): I had a question about something. In this page on Earthbound Central, you had a map of the Magicant caves from the Famicom version of Mother 1. I was wondering if you knew where to get some other maps from Mother 1, that were changed in EarthBoung Zero and the Mother 1+2 port. Specifically, I...Read More »

A Detailed Analysis of MOTHER

February 11th, 2012 | MOTHER 1, Uncommon Knowledge | 14 Comments

Pitchfork recently posted a really in-depth analysis of the first MOTHER game – check it out here. Even if you’re not a fan of the first game, some of the info and ideas in here might be new to you, so I’d still recommend reading it! It looks like he played through my MOTHER 1+2 translation and looked up a lot of interview translations I’ve done, so he’s definitely d...Read More »

The Newcomer’s Guide to MOTHER

February 5th, 2012 | EarthBound, MOTHER 1, MOTHER 1+2, MOTHER 3 | 53 Comments

An extremely common thing I see on message boards and e-mails is: I want to get into the Mother / EarthBound games but don’t know where to start. What do you recommend? So I thought it’d be nice to make a short page about the topic to make everything nice and clear. I present to you The Newcomer’s Guide to the EarthBound / Mother series! Now I know a lot of people will disagree ...Read More »

MOTHER Intro Redux

January 31st, 2012 | MOTHER 1, Videos | 23 Comments

Riccardo sent in this video he made – it’s a really cool remake of the original MOTHER game’s intro: Nice work, everyone involved! ...Read More »

Prof. Sakamoto MOTHER Medley

January 13th, 2012 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 1, Videos | 9 Comments

I can’t remember if I’ve posted about this or not before, but just in case I haven’t, check out this great piano medley by the famous Prof. Sakamoto: What’s cool about this is that he’s become famous enough in Japan that he’s even done stuff with Shigesato Itoi’s company. Here’s a page about a live recital he did for Itoi’s site and here’...Read More »

MOTHER Reviewed by Pokemon Creator

January 12th, 2012 | MOTHER 1 | 11 Comments

Ultra translator Chewy has come through again – this time she’s translated a review of MOTHER 1 by Satoshi Tajiri, who went on to create Pokemon in the 90s. This review actually predates Pokemon, so I wonder how much influence MOTHER 1 (and maybe MOTHER 2) had on his inspiration for Pokemon’s game design. At any rate, it’s a long and interesting read – I like how he d...Read More »

Local Band Covers MOTHER Tunes

December 31st, 2011 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 1 | 11 Comments

Evan sent this in the other day: Greetings, Mato! A local band a few towns over from me called Lost Woods just released their debut EP. They do rock covers of video game tunes, and I’ve been following them for a while. I suggested they cover some EarthBound tunes, and as luck would have it, they covered Snowman and Mother Earth from the MOTHER series, and they’re awesome! One can down...Read More »

Custom MOTHER Bag

December 30th, 2011 | Images, Merchandise, MOTHER 1 | 16 Comments

A few weeks ago LucasTizma was telling me about some vector graphics he was working on for some sort of MOTHER-related project. I just recently found out what it was: For Christmas, I had some custom MOTHER items hand crafted for me. I got a sweet messenger bag, a MacBook Air sleeve, and an iPad sleeve. I think it turned out really well! The guy did a great job with the embroidery. Anyway, just wa...Read More »