M2 vs. EarthBound: Monkey Caves

I’m assuming you’re playing through both games on an emulator – wouldn’t you be able to save time and not actually have to go through the effort of actually playing them by using one sram file for both? (Assumptions again – this is riding on the supposition that M2 and EB saves are interchangeable…)

Then again, I imagine you could miss some stuff if you did it that way. Whatever the case is, it’s a pretty cool exposé 🙂

They’re not interchangeable, but it wouldn’t make much sense to do it that way anyway, since I need to play both versions to be able to make the comparisons and screenshots.

WTF I WAS JUST PLAYING THIS PART LOL!

Um. Something Mato.
In the part about Manki Manki , you said it’s japanese name was Yamada Saruo and that that sounded like a real human name except for Saru. I ask you , do you know that Yamada is sometimes taken as the equivalent of Smith but in Japanese?
Kinda like , one of the most common surnames there. That might be the reason.

I don’t think you understand – I’m not saying “why is he named this?”, I’m saying, “His name is Yamada Saruo, his name was meant to sound like a real Japanese name, except it has ‘saru’ in it.” So, yes, I know Yamada is a common name, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to make that connection 😛

Ahh I see. Interesting.
I’m impressed with your work. Keep up with it!

Count me among those who didn’t know about the teleport thing initially. I caught on to it about the second playthrough after you teach the monkey in Deep Darkness.

I love these updates most of all, Tomato. :3

Talah Rama’s speech about “universes known as man” is actually pretty standard Hindu thought. The Upanishads talk about “Brahaman,” which can be thought of as the essence of reality, and it both a personal and an impersonal thing — Brahman is absolute and unknowable, but is also embodied by every individual. The Chandogya Upanishad introduces the key phrase “Tat Tvam Asi,” which is generally translated as “Thou art That” — the idea that as grand and mysterious as the universe is, each and every one of us *is* that mystery.

So, yeah. Universes known as man. 🙂

I had always assumed the song the monkey spoke about in EarthBound was the actual song playing in the game and never thought the dialog was all that strange.

I am a universe. I feel so good about myself.

This is sort of an off topic question, but is there a way to transfer a translated game onto an actual MOTHER cart?

Why does this not have it’s own site anymore? I remember there was a really nicely designed page just for “MOTHER 2 EarthBound and back again”!

See this post from a few days ago: http://earthboundcentral.com/2009/04/mother-2-vs-earthbound/

NOOOOO!!!!

Is there any chance that there is any reference to The Monkees? You know, the cheap US ripoff of The Beatles? One of the monkeys wrote a song. Maybe he was a Monkee.