August 23rd, 2010 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge | 38 Comments

An old lady in Twoson will usually comment on how Ness and Paula make a good couple… but what happens if you only have Jeff in your party? Fanfic writer squad, activate! I think a lot of people know about this little oversight already – you can get it to happen after Paula gets kidnapped in the Fourside department store – but I like to document little things like this on the sit...Read More »

August 20th, 2010 | MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 29 Comments

In MOTHER 3 are some mice living in an attic who speak very strangely. If you’ve played the game, you’ve probably talked to them and said, “What????” If you haven’t seen them yet, here they are: Originally, these mice spoke in an incredibly difficult-to-understand dialect of Japanese, I think it was a Nagasaki dialect but I can’t remember off the top of my head...Read More »

August 16th, 2010 | MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 28 Comments

For the MOTHER 3 fan translation, Jeff and I added a couple new secrets and new features to the game. One of these is the inclusion of a “hard mode”. You could normally learn about its existence by fulfilling some other special requirements, but since it’s been almost two year since the patch’s release, it’s probably okay to spill the beans by now… besides, most...Read More »

August 14th, 2010 | MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 21 Comments

This is something most people probably know, but just for those who don’t, the cover of the MOTHER 3 Handbook is based off of the U.S. Army survival manuals: It’s obvious Jonk put a ton of work into designing the handbook, even down to the cover. Incidentally, I recommend checking out both books, they’re both filled to the brim with interesting info! ...Read More »

August 12th, 2010 | MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 17 Comments

EelSlimeTime on the MOTHER 3 GameFAQs posted about a neat little bug in MOTHER 3 I never heard about anywhere before, so I made a video of it: Basically, go to Tanetane Island and get one of those fevers you get before learning a PSI technique. Go into the sludge pit and Boney won’t join you. Walk around until the fever goes away, then go into the PSI menu and then exit back out. Lucas will...Read More »

August 3rd, 2010 | EarthBound, MOTHER 1, MOTHER 1+2, Uncommon Knowledge | 33 Comments

Ivan R. recently sent me an e-mail about the MOTHER series logo, namely the planet that’s used in the “O” n the name. I had totally forgotten about it, this is exactly the kind of thing I made EarthBound Central for! So without further ado, here’s where the MOTHER planet logo thing comes from. Here, we see the planet in the logos. These are the GBA MOTHER 1+2 versions so th...Read More »

August 1st, 2010 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge | 31 Comments

For those of you who’ve never heard of it, there’s an organization called Twin Galaxies that keeps a catalog of video game world records – you can read some more about it here. If you’ve seen King of Kong, for example, you’re probably familiar with Twin Galaxies. Anyway, a new EarthBound world record was made a few days ago: a verified, real-life run of the game was c...Read More »

July 11th, 2010 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge | 42 Comments

Even though official releases are usually pretty polished, most text-heavy games will have the occasional misspelling or typo or whatnot, and EarthBound is no exception. For example, there’s the well-known “unverse” typo: I know that sometimes you can get the game to refer to Paula as a “he”, and I think there might’ve been a typo in some of Ruffini’s end...Read More »

July 5th, 2010 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 25 Comments

This is pretty common knowledge by now, but after you save Paula, you can do a trick involving the Runaway Five that will make it so no enemies appear in Peaceful Rest Valley or the Lilliput Steps cave. What you might not know is that you can use that trick to glitch the game up in an interesting (though currently useless) way: Not much more to say, but I think it’s cool that we’re st...Read More »

July 1st, 2010 | Images, Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge | 25 Comments

A while back I posted about how Shigesato Itoi had a special, limited-edition type of curry. I found out recently that he also had a limited run of instant ramen: Here’s another pic of it I don’t have any details to go with this discovery, but if anyone comes across any more info, let me know! ...Read More »

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