MOTHER 1+2 Translation

Dayng. I like Mother 1. But I’m too far into the game to download a new translation. Still, I’m rooting for you, as you are a better translator than the guys at Nintendo of America 😛

No votes for Mother/EB Zero? Retarded.

come on, EB0 wasn’t that good. Classic 8-bit gaming flaws: you have no idea what to do, there’s far too many random battles, you need to do too much grinding, saving your game is a mess, etc, etc.

Overall, MOTHER 3 is just the best game, if you looks upon it objectively. I’m sure the people who voted for EB only did so because of nostalgia.

EarthBound Zero was amazing for its time, but now it isn’t always so great compared to newer games on more powerful systems.

Maybe u should check the rate of random battles and change the value, ive heard people saying the rate of battles is to high in Earthbound, but then again you did put the easy ring so that might make it better.

There. Now MOTHER has my vote. It’s the best in the series, IMO.

This is awesome. Please complete this project and convince jeffman to help out and do mother 2. I bought this import when it was new, and I would love to see a fully translated patch available.

I don’t know why, but maybe I would have liked Earthbound/Mother 2 better if it were faster. Like, had running or something, like Mother 1 and Mother 3. Mother 3 was extremely touching and artistic so it’s my personal favorite, but Mother 1 also had a lot of elements I liked. And not just for its time do I like it, I think it’s a great game overall.

Is VWF a possibility? Fixed-width is hard on the eyes and slows down the game because of all the extra text-scrolling that it necessitates.

No, I’d have to redesign probably half of the game’s programming from scratch. Might as well make my own game if I’m going that far 😉

That’s why I opted to expand the text boxes and change the font to make it more readable. That plus a better flowing translation should make it a little more bearable at least.

Ever since I played Mother 3, I’ve been hooked on the Mother seires. I’m already playing EarthBound for the SNES, but I really, reallly, want you to finish the Mother 1 part of the game Mother 1+2 and then post it so I can do it in English. It drives me crazy when I don’t know what to do next. It SUCKS!

P.S. SUCKS soooo much.

where can i download your mother 1+2 version ?

It’s not done yet, so nowhere.

Can you post another video to see how far you got? Thanks!

The game’s script is in absolute random order, so there isn’t much point to making new videos until most of the text is finished. That’s partly why the current video has some stuff in Japanese and other stuff in English: the script is crazy random order.

O.K. Keep trying! ^_^

I hope the articles(a, an, the) are added where they are missing.

could you posibly put one or two of the party members at a higher level or at least higher stat once you get them in your party if not its ok

I can’t wait for the mother 1 translation!! Thanks so much for your effort on it, I recently started playing mother 3 and after a drought of good rpgs, I’m so impressed and addicted by the bizarre yet moving tale and I now want to follow the first two games. Fantastic series, 10 out of 10.

Mato, you code in your sleep. Please allow yourself to be watered & fed once a day. Place yourself near light as not to wilt. Great job btw, please keep us updated.

I’ve wanted to play Mother, but I really can’t deal with the translation job it’s had in the past. I trust you Tomato, I’m sure you’ll do it justice. Plus, now I can get EB and EB0 in one convenient package!

<3 I would love to have this translation on my cart. I’m psyched.

Mother 1 was my favourite game in the series, because it had the darkest plot. Mother 2 had a bit of an erratic plot and Mother 3 was just too sad.

I have a few questions.

You know in Mother 1 where “running” was just the game being sped up? Well, are you going to fix it so that Ninten is the only one doing the running, and not the other people in town?

In the GBA version, was the american ending included?

And lastly, are you going to make a menu translation like you did in Mother 3? I played through Mother 3 with just the menu translation and I’d like to see something like that again.

Fixing that thing would probably require a full rewrite of the game. I don’t know if they fixed it in the M1+2 port or not. If not, I wouldn’t expect it to be fixed in the translation 😛

Yes, the American ending was in M1+2.

I think you might be behind the times a bit, see here: http://earthboundcentral.com/mother12

There already exist full patches for the Mother 1 portion of the game which will work much better for you than a menu patch.

Do you think you could add more pepole so you know what to do next?

Mato. Finish this.
I might have to force you.
That’s how good Mother 3 was.

Why wasn’t this released on the NES years ago?

As EarthBound

Are there going to be any more updates?

Never.

I look forward to your translation. I hope you’re having a good time putting it together.

I have a question. I’m a little confused, but didn’t EarthBound Zero have an extra few cutscenes during the ending credits? Will this release include that?

You’re correct that EB0 had an extended ending. But the M1 in M1+2 was based on EB0, so it has the extended ending too.

Will you somehow be able to change everything back to the way it was in MOTHER?

Will you?

I don’t know what that question is asking.

You know, how EBO changed the ending, the crosses in the cemetery, that kind of stuff.

can’t wait to play mother 2, pls finish the translation.. thanks a lot!

Yeah, I’m excited for MOTHER 2 especially.

(Any Updates?)

I hated Mother 3’s ending, he kills himself.

I can’t wait to find a flash cart and get all 3 on GBA. Mother 1 looks much better then I expected it to be, but EarthBound still takes the cake for me.

EarthBound cannot be written to a GBA flash cart. I’ve tried before on one and I don’t think it’ll work on any other.

I’d like to see this translation project finished simply because I can NOT get a copy of the SNES Earthbound ROM to run properly. ZSNES has this bug where the game will simply halt at the black transition screen when entering a building. It’s random but always happens eventually. Since all the other emulator options are rather lame, it leaves the game rather unplayable. I do, however, own a proper GBA flash cart that can run Mother 3 with no problem.

Yes, vintage SNES copies are an option, but not for me. I won’t pay more than $20 for a video game on my current budget, no exceptions. Not that Nintendo would see a cent off that used game sale anyway- then again, I support the used game market and couldn’t give a flip of the developer sees a dime. They made their money off that copy already! They don’t get paid multiple times PER COPY! If Nintendo wanted money off SNES Earthbound they can port it and sell it.

However, I don’t see why the games need re-translations. Not that I ever played Mother, but the script for Earthbound was fine. Just because it’s not a literal translation of the original Japanese script doesnt mean it’s bad. Square Enix did this for Chrono Trigger DS and it just seemed unnecessary.

Hey Tomato, can you make an item that halves all damage in a fight?

Would be too much work, since damage comes in many different forms. The Easy Ring is already good at making the game playable.

DS flash carts have an SNES emulator right?

Yes, but the sound on them are WAY messed up.
I prefer an emulator on PC. But if you’re going somewhere, then an SNES emulator on the DS is a pretty good thing to have. It’s up to you.

Thanks. I don’t know if I’m going to get one, but I just don’t like how all the music and everything is changed in the MOTHER 2 portion of MOTHER 1+2.

And my computer’s speakers don’t work.

hey eb2 thanx for ruining the end jackass!!!!

Even though i’ve played through Mother3 (only ever using the English patch), it doesn’t mean everyone else has!

Not to sound harsh eb2 but don’t ruin it for people who haven’t beaten the game!

Mother3 is the only game that’s exceeded my expectations and ruining the ending is the last thing people need!

…sorry if that sounded a bit mean but i needed to get my point across.

The Mother 3 ending was ruined for me. I want to cry. 🙁

Oh man. This is like choosing between which one of my children I like more..
Uhh.. I guess..
Mother 3.

Mato I have three questions for you 1. when the dragon in mother 3 brings peace to the world do you think he brought Claus and Hinawa back to life? 2 Do you know why mother 1+2 sounds so different and weird while mother 3 sounds fantastic? and lastly and this is the one I hope you reply to but there are two characters in who were supposed to be in threed after the zombies left but were programmed wrong and did not appear do you think you could get them to appear please write back PkStarstorm1up

In Threed sorry I left out where they appeared in in my last comment

nevermind I did say where they were

You could be able to see enemies

this is something small, but is it possible to make it so the ATM can be used by checking it instead of having to use the ATM/cash card every time?

EarthBound by a mile.

I can’t wait for this patch to be finished.
But, it’s been taking a while. Jeffman must be having a bad time with the MOTHER 2 part.
Hope you guys can make it!

I just hope this doesn’t take four years, too! Ha ha ha! But seriously, kudos. Keep up the good work if you can.

i like earthbound better

YOU ARE AWESOME.

I can’t wait to play these 2 games. I enjoyed Mother 3 so much and it was such an amazing experience, so well told and unlike most RPGs it really was a humble experience, with absoloutely no pretention, self-gratuitousness and no attempt to try to be anything it was not – it was a real unique experience.

I never got chance to play Earthbound and I don’t particularly like playing on emulators on PCs so to be able to play these translations on PSP through gpSP is awesome, I’ve already bought my copy of Mother 1 + 2 in anticipation of the patch release.

Thanks for all your hard work. You are so awesome I think I might turn up at your house and take pictures of you while you sleep. Then I’ll cut the eyes and mouth out of the photos and wear them as masks so I can pretend to be you in the mirror, over webcams and when I go to the local shop to pick up bread, milk and some treacle to cover my body in (I like it when my dog licks it off my chest it feels good).

Hey ‘Pkstarstorm1up’ NICE ONE POSTING MOTHER 3 SPOILERS HERE YOU IDIOTIC MORON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good God you’re stupid.

But I love you Pkstarstorm1up.

Cool! I cant wait until it’s done! I just got Mother 1 + 2 and a how to read hiragana book from santa claus!

My favorite is Mother 2. P.S: I’m new here.

So, are you getting very far on this? It’d be great if you finished! Love The series

Nice…..

can’t wait for the translation to be finished.. I’m playing MOTHER 3 right now and it’s amazing.

THE VIDEO GOT REMOVED!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a question.
In the translation, can you put the running option like in mother on earthbound?
I’m just saying.

OMG!!!! Shigasato Itoi!!!!!!!!!!

Also, will you let the L button acess the ATM Machine in MOTHER like in earthbound?

I’m new here, too but most definitely NOT new to this series. Grew up on EarthBound, but for a while now I’ve been wanting to play Mother 1 so I hope the translation’s finished soon. I actually managed to make it through Mother 3 on my own using my previous Japanese experience…

Anyway… *crosses fingers* Good luck and God speed!

Will this even happen at all? Or should we all just lose hope and focus elsewhere?

I just finished Earthbound. Beat Mother 3 last year. I. Want. This. Translation. To. Happen.

Gonna hope the translation is better than NOA’s translation, because some of the lines have typos

MOTHER 3 #1 fav
MOTHER 2 #2 fav
MOTHER 4 #0 fav
MOTHER 5 planning on making it

i like mother 3 because its my favourite game the story is very intresting and good

I agree with you Millhouse and I don’t. I love Earthbound, but not just for nostalgia reasons, although that was included, but Earthbound, and kind of Mother, have a sort of feeling to them. I know this may sound lame, but just the music and the aura it gives you, I think that all Earthbound gamers alike can relate to what I am saying, and that’s why its my favorite.

I know this might be off topic, but is there any cheats for Mother 1+2? It’s kinda hard for me.

@Ninten easy ring much?

The translation was released without a full translation of Mother 2? Blasphemy! D:

Seriously want the translation of Mother 2 so I can play it on my PSP.

Mother 3 = Best RPG ever made.

@Shep Buy Earthbound for SNES and use Snes9xtyl. If you want the gameboy version, learn how to and devote the 3 years it’ll probably take to complete yourself. Mato’s put so much blood and swet into this. Don’t be ungrateful and bug him for other stuff.

Shep, did you even take any attempt at reading how hard this would have been?

Mato plainly said that it would have been an incredible amount of ridiculous steady for for at least 2 years to decipher, re-hack, and pick apart the scripting code for the Mother 2 part of the game.

And that’s just not worth doing, when Earthbound already exists in the form it’s in.

If you want it that badly on your PSP (and i’m assuming you mean homebrew emulation), just play the SNES rom on your PSP.

At least try to read the other posts before saying something like this.

@Karma, Oh! Ninja’d 😉 =P

The SNES emulator for the PSP sucks arse…

I’m not bugging him to make it, for the love of god stop yelling at me. 😛

? the snes emulator for psp is great.

I’ve been looking for earthbound gba roms but i never found one perfect one the one i have is japonise i spelled the word rong but it sucks

NO LIE besides im 11 years old and i might come back to this site if i remember it so plz help me

this looks good 🙂

How come nobody likes Mother 1? Just becasue It’s 8-bit and bthe oldest doesn’t mean it sucks. It is my 3rd faviorite game. If it was reamde in 16-bit (Which it is right now) Or Mother 3 graphics it’ll be a better game. But I find it find as it is right know. The only way the 3DS will be good if MOTHER, MOTHER 2 or MOTHER 3 is relesed. I’m not buying it until Nintendo releses those games

I can not answer this poll tomato! each game is special in it’s own way. i love mother 1 for how good it is for an 8 bit rpg, and the scene where lloyd becomes friends with ninten. i love mother 2 for being the game that brought us in to earthbound. i love mother 3 for it’s touching story. and i love the whole series for being a fun, easy, yet hard rpg, and it’s soundtrack for being the same as mother 3, strange, funny, and heartrendering.

I think that the mother saga needs to come to the Wii Ü as a anniversary release next to the Playstation Network or the Xbox live market. Much love to the Mothrites