I'm doing a hack of EarthBound, and I was wondering that maybe you people out there wanted to try it out and see what it's like? Here's a couple things it features:
-An extended text box (though, there are a few text wrap glitches that need to be worked out)
-Because of the extended text box, some stuff had to be moved around and resized
-The commands were changed, and the command window was resized to allow for the new text
-One line of dialogue was changed
-Characters can learn more PSI powers
-You can run by holding the Y button

Screenies:


I'm wondering if I should change all the enemy names to their japanese name, but I'm thinking I may make a separate patch for that. Anyway, I'll attach a ZIP file containing the IPS patch to this post. Try it out, and give me some feedback, if you'd please. Thanks.

Hey, this looks pretty good

Are these things inbuilt features of PKHack, or did you do this yourself? If you did, try and see if you can do this for the M2 translation. It may help the VWF look a little better. I'm working on patching some of the holes in it now.

And the green color definitely looks cool.

It was done using PK Hack. And yeah, I like the green color too. It's my favorite window flavor. The other flavor I imported is called "Blueberry" flavor, it's kinda cool.

And by holes do you mean the holes in like the Goods menu and the Status menu?

Also, on the topic of our translation, I've been fooling around with it, and I've got some stuff done. Like, for example, I have the Equip menu complete. The text is just like Mato's translation, except in the VWF. The only thing that is crazy is when you select a category to equip an item; then it goes all screwy. I can take a screenie and send it to you via PM. Oh, and I also translated the PSI power types to like they are in Mato's translation.

But, I shouldn't get off-topic from this topic. Any suggestions/comments on this hack?

Looking good so far!
Hacking the game with PK Hack can be a pain, so I'm impressed!
But, basically, what are you going to do with this? An "Earthbound Deluxe" hack?
'Cause I would like an "Earthbound Beta remake" hack. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "HURR DURR HACK THE GAME TO LOOK LIEK TEH PROTOTYPEZZ!!", I'm just giving you an idea.
Good luck!

Well, basically I'm just going to expand some text windows and stuff to have more text on the screen at one time, and make the game a little easier by having characters learn PSI powers they wouldn't normally learn (like Ness learning PSI Thunder, as you can see from the pic, and PSI Magnet, Paula learning Lifeup and Healing, etc.). Basically, I want to fill up all the empty spaces for PSI powers. So, if there is a blank space in a character's PSI menu in Earthbound, it will be filled with the appropriate PSI power in this hack. Get what I mean?

And what do you mean by "Earthbound Deluxe" and "Earthbound Beta remake", exactly?

Ah, cool. Do PM me those screenies.

I should also let you know, I'm nearly done with that text inserter. Maybe a week or two more, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

Awesome!!! That'll make this hack go VERY smoothly! And yeah, I'll PM you the screenies.

What I meant with "Earthbound Deluxe" is that, an improved version of Earthbound. Bigger text boxes, new PSI powers, and a lot of new neat features.
The "Beta remake" hacks are modifications made to a game to make it look like a prototype. See this, for example: http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_1_Beta_Remake
It's Sonic 1 Beta remake, a hacked version of Sonic 1 for the Sega Genesis, that looks and acts like an earlier build of the game.

It's going to be an "Earthbound Deluxe" hack. Or, at least, it's meant to be one. I'll release a new IPS patch soon, and it'll allow Paula to learn Lifeup and Healing.

Cool. Oh, and try to give Heavily Armed Porky some PSI attacks. He has PSI already programmed (using PSI Magnet, you can drain PP from him), but the programmers didn't gave him any PSI attacks. Could you do that?