March 27th, 2012 | MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 10 Comments

I thought I had posted about this before, but I guess not! A fellow named John reminded me that Nintendo and a bunch of other people applied for a patent many years ago for the music battle system used in MOTHER 3. You can see more pics and info in the entire patent file right here: Patent (English, PDF) I think we first discovered this in 2004, around the time MOTHER 1+2 was first announced: P...Read More »

March 21st, 2012 | MOTHER 3 | 16 Comments

I just stumbled upon this on Amazon Japan, anyone know what’s up with it? Book cover Apparently there’s a whole bunch more too: I’ve heard that there’s a trend of copying Wikipedia articles into PDF format and such for sale, I can only assume that’s what’s going on here. Anybody know, or have more insight? ...Read More »

March 11th, 2012 | EarthBound, MOTHER 3, Videos | 4 Comments

This is pretty old by now, but way back when MOTHER 3 was *just* released, the guys at 1up.com made a video review (of sorts) about MOTHER 3. It even includes info about Starmen.Net’s past petitions and stuff. You can see it here: For reference, this was years before the fan translation was released. You might also want to read Jeremy Parish’s review of EarthBound, published at about ...Read More »

March 8th, 2012 | Fan Games, MOTHER 3, Videos | 10 Comments

Every time I see a video of that Ultimate Chimera Hunt Gmod, I’m amazed by something new. And even this particular video is pretty old by now, I’m still amazed by the way all these MOTHER 3 locations looks in 3D: I don’t have the stuff to play this myself, but my many hats go off to the fans who designed these awesome-looking levels and the neat little touches like turning into ...Read More »

March 3rd, 2012 | MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 73 Comments

Apparently sometime last year some enterprising Japanese MOTHER fans discovered a way to check out various scenes in MOTHER 3 with a cheat code. Using this code, it’s possible to see scenes that were unfinished or never used! I recorded video of a couple different ones, you can see it here: You can see this for yourself! Load up the ROM in VirtualBoyAdvance and use this cheat code: 0200B578...Read More »

February 22nd, 2012 | Events, Images, MOTHER 3 | 33 Comments

A wave of e-mails suddenly came in this morning, talking about a display at the Nintendo World Store. Here’s one from Felipe: Hey Mato! This news was posted on GoNintendo a few hours ago, and I think it would be important to share it with you. The Earthbound Cartridge, Mother 3 and other merchandise are on display at a cabinet in Nintendo World Store in NY. Ironic, huh? Here follows the link...Read More »

February 10th, 2012 | Auctions, MOTHER 3 | 23 Comments

Each week for the past few weeks I’ve been selling some neat and unusual stuff from my EarthBound/MOTHER collection. This week is this Ultimate Chimera prototype figure! This was made many years ago by Meeellla/Camille Young, who you probably know as the awesome Fangamer lady who did the clay models for the MOTHER 3 Handbook. Here it is for size reference: This one’s been sitting on ...Read More »

February 8th, 2012 | Images, MOTHER 3 | 16 Comments

I randomly stumbled upon a re-creation of Tazmily in Minecraft, check it out here: It was on a pretty old message board post here, I don’t know if anything more came of it, but I salute shawnachu just the same! I don’t really follow Minecraft stuff as much as I should, are there any other EarthBound-y locations and stuff that fans have made? I get submissions about people making spri...Read More »

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 »

February 1st, 2012 | MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 15 Comments

Dr. Fedora helped translate some of the MOTHER 3 stuff very early on in the fan translation project. He recently posted some of his thoughts and translation notes, which you can check out here! Here’s a sample: Fassad’s English name has a surprisingly unexciting origin. The Japanese name Yokuba/ヨクバ is basically derived from the word for “ambition” or “greed” (“yokubari”/�...Read More »

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