March 10th, 2010 | Hacking, MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 8 Comments

MOTHER 3 was released in Japan almost four years ago now… and released nowhere else. So fans came together to translate the game into English, French, Spanish, and many other languages. But I don’t think most Western fans know that there’s also been a completely separate project to translate the game into Chinese and that the project is almost nearly complete now. Here are some s...Read More »

March 10th, 2010 | EarthBound, Food, Interviews, Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge | 9 Comments

I’m not sure what magazine this is from, but it’s from way back when MOTHER 2 was released in Japan. Basically, the magazine people made some Strawberry Tofu for Itoi to try, and he said: This is really something! It has a profound flavor that makes me feel sad. (laugh) I thought this would be something an American with an unusual understanding of foreign cultures might make, but this...Read More »

March 7th, 2010 | MOTHER 1, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 25 Comments

As you may remember, an EarthBound Zero prototype cart was put on eBay last month and was won buy our own fellow fan Roo for $1100. Roo is also an avid researcher and video-making guy, so naturally he made a detailed video about the prototype and information about all the EB0 prototypes. It’s interesting stuff, check it out! For $1100, I would’ve hoped the prototype could also clean ...Read More »

March 3rd, 2010 | EarthBound, Images, Uncommon Knowledge | 14 Comments

Since there’s been a bunch of EarthBound-related promotional stuff lately, I thought it might be good to quickly mention these things. These are photo slides of EarthBound stuff, sent by Nintendo’s PR company to media outlets for use in magaznes and whatnot. As far as I know, these two are the only ones known to exist, or at least are the only ones that are floating around out there in...Read More »

February 25th, 2010 | MOTHER 1, Uncommon Knowledge | 23 Comments

In MOTHER 1/EarthBound Zero, the Bread item can be eaten like any normal food to restore HP, but it can also be used to make a trail of bread crumbs. What’s neat about that is that you can warp back to the start of the trail. Obviously this is nothing new; anyone who plays the game will probably read about it at some point in the game and possibly use it once or twice after getting lost on t...Read More »

February 25th, 2010 | EarthBound, Images, Uncommon Knowledge | 24 Comments

Good ol’ LucasTizma, collector of all things EarthBound, snagged that complete copy of EarthBound + set of rare EarthBound promotional stuff that showed up a few weeks ago. It cost him over $500 (and he already owns EarthBound), but he got it anyway AND was awesomely nice enough to scan the promo stuff for all fans to enjoy rather than keep it all for himself (more…) ...Read More »

February 21st, 2010 | Auctions, EarthBound, Merchandise, Uncommon Knowledge | 34 Comments

eNot too long after those EarthBound promotional materials were recently auctioned off, a fellow by the name of Starman 99 contacted me and mentioned he happened to have one of the super-rare EarthBound rulers that were also used as promotional items back in 1995. Luckily for collectors, he decided to put it up for auction here! This marks the first time I’ve ever seen one of these actually ...Read More »

February 17th, 2010 | EarthBound, Images, Uncommon Knowledge | 11 Comments

Lately we’ve been taking a look at old Japanese magazines, so I thought I’d continue with that theme. This is one of the ads that ran in Famicom Tsushin magazine in 1994 a few weeks before MOTHER 2’s release. The scan is courtesy of good ol KingDarian, another crazy (as in crazy awesome) collector of MOTHER/EarthBound merchandise. click to enlarge (be warned, it’s a big pi...Read More »

February 11th, 2010 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge | 24 Comments

It’s been a long time since I updated the MOTHER 2 vs. EarthBound stuff, we were stuck on Winters #2 for many months. The next section is Summers #1. There are some interesting things in there, plus some of the detailed, nitpicky things. Of most interest is probably the player naming screen stuff and a sign left behind by Pokey. Then there’s the usual alcohol reference changes and all...Read More »

February 5th, 2010 | EarthBound, Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge | 5 Comments

I covered this topic before in this update debunking a myth about the “demon baby” story in EarthBound, but fellow EarthBound fan and translator Chewy recently posted an article giving some more info about the subject and the book “Let’s Meet in a Dream”. Check out her article here! ...Read More »

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