MOTHER3+ and MOTHER3i Gone?

And just when I was about to buy it. 🙁

Good thing i got them before they disappeared

I got both of them when I first got an iPod. Mother3i is full of wonderful medleys of game music, including Theme of Bad Boy, which has King P’s battle music and the music for his robot cronies. Mother 3+ doesn’t have as much of that goodness, but the 16 Melodies and Pollyanna are excellent renditions of the popular Mother songs of yore. It’s a shame they’re gone now.

I prefer Mother3i to Mother3+, but both are great albums. Hopefully they get put back up soon.

Good thing I got both albums two years earlier. 😀

Aww, that’s terrible timing with the Handbook coming out. 🙁 Hope it comes back soon.

The image attached to this post makes me frown, too. 🙁

Worry not, EB fans. I know for a fact that there are perfect, lossless backups of these albums. 🙂

Glad I have Mother3i burned to a CD for safe keeping. I figured this would happen at one point.

Dangit. I was just about to buy them.

Now I’m glad I bought both albums off iTunes when I did and backed up all the songs into CD, flash drives and an external hard drive.

i’m so glad that i got them before they disappeared

Damn, I just got an iTunes gift card to use too….

Oh well, now it’s time to download illegally.

Whoa, that was a close one, I purchased them a few weeks ago. o-o;;

But still, why take it down? Hopefully it’ll be back up for other people to buy soon. :O

I bought them JUST in time! Phew!

Hi you guys… I was the one who submitted the news. As a longtime Earthbound fan, I can’t express in words how deeply I was disappointed, too. But as a longtime experienced Apple user, I can probably confirm that in order for Apple to reach its goals of a DRM-free iTunes MUSIC store before the 1st quarter ended, they had to get the 256 kbps tracks from the record holder themselves, because even though they had the DRM-free tracks on their servers (remember, all the Fairplay licensing BS is done by the iTunes client), they only had the 128 kbps tracks, and in order to qualify for iTunes Plus (256 kbps, DRM free), they needed the 256 kbps from the record holders themselves. Now I don’t know what happened from this point on, but I bet that Nintendo took this opportunity to tell Apple to pull it off the servers, and they complied. :'(

So the lesson here folks… be an honest customer and you get screwed!!! Just kidding, I share in all your sorrows.

Take Care,

Victor D.

…And I know this is inappropriate, but I actually giggled at the frowning picture!… Sorry. :'( :'( :'(

i was just about to get them first no mother then no mother 3 then no EB on virtual console then removing mother 3 off itunes 🙁

IT WAS ALL REGGIE!!!! xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

This does not make me happy. Fortunately, I have MOTHER3i. But I hadn’t purchased all of MOTHER3+ yet. I hope they put them back up. 🙁

I guess this means I can now illegally download Mother 3i without feeling guilty. Oh joy!

Good thing I got them before they disappeared they’re some of my favorite music

what does DRM-Free mean?

i got mine a while back, last year, on itunes.

it’s a shame their not their anymore.

even though i have them it makes me feel sad 🙁

DRM free means communist hippies can steal your car.

Man, this really bites. I have them on my iPod though, but it’s still sad. I highly admire this blog for spotting every last bit of EB info, though. =) I hope the soundtracks pop up again sooner or later.

So… where i can now download this?
Anyone?

Sorry, I’m afraid we can’t let you know that.

This is beyond ridiculous. Two of the few things that Americans were legally allowed to have that were related to Mother 3 are now gone. What has gaming come to?

Darn. Looks like I will never even know how the two albums sound like.

Well the music is still on youtube, but if this is a legal thing then we can expect youtube to start taking those videos down.

this might have something to with the DSi having a possible music store

NOA’s work.

man i was gonna get plus too XD; oh well i should serve me well 🙂

Just when I was going to buy them too… 🙁

i am SO glad i downloaded them when i did.

I looked it up, came back a few days later to buy it, and it was GONE. I was hoping it was just my computer or my version of iTunes or something, but this really sucks.

Whew. Lucky I bought it when I did.

If you REALLY want to buy it, you can actually buy Japanese iTunes cards from a site called J-List/Jbox. Sure, it’s a hassle, but it makes it legal and possible.

http://www.jbox.com/SEARCH/itunes

It shouldn’t require an act of God just to get access to what little MOTHER music is available out there. lucastizma@me.com Why did I put my e-mail address here? Hm…

This is ridiculous. Why is it so hard to get Mother/EB music? (aside from remixes)

Awww =(

I was gonna get those a while but I forgot, damn.

If you switch over to japanese region mode, then you can buy MOTHER 3i that way, but I don’t know how to change back D:

man i wanted to boy this SOOO bad!

oops i meant buy

Can someone who bought Mother3i remove the DRM from the AAC files and share them?

Please?

just look around, dude. they’re not hard to find at all.

I’ve found low-quality MP3 and WMA transcodes. Someone should remove the DRM from the iTunes M4P (AAC) files and share them (for preservation’s sake).

If you know where these can be found, please let me know.

The quality of Mother3i from iTunes sucks in the first place. There is rampant digital clipping and a swashy sound like it’s recorded from inside a bottle. If you can’t tell (or don’t care), you are deaf.

That’s why a lossless, DRM-free rip is important.

Lossy + Lossier = Lossiest

SmartOne WOW Seriously! Your probably just jealous you couldn’t get the Mother3i soundtrack when it was buy-able! Seriously I feel ashamed to call you an Earthbound fan!

Burn CD, rip, encode using FLAC. Share. If you can’t figure out how to remove the DRM.

Please.

You can rip the music off youtube. That’s what I did.

I’m willing to bet everything I own that Nintendo was the one that told them to get rid of this

I tried to download the Mother 3i soundtrack, but it said I needed japanese iTunes so instead I got the raw files from Starmen.net

But that was really a long time back.

Came back here after 3 years. Wow. I’m just super embarrassed at my post here. 0_0 Bluhhhh, that’s what I get for posting at the ol’ one-4!

I’m more super-shocked at the misinformation that’s been spread here, though, esp. from me. First, they’re still available on the Japan iTunes store, but still not with the DRM taken out, though. :'(((((

OK, nuffa that. More importantly, if you DID buy this in the past (before it was removed from the l’Americane section) like I did and have the latest version of iTunes (10) on hand, you can actually re-download this from iTunes Cloud. Even though there is still Fairplay DRM encoded in the AAC(shames), the important thing is that you get the original tags and metadata intact. Use GOOD software like Requiem DRM to strip out the Fairplay, and you’re golden!

Alas, SmartOne is NOT a very smart one, since MOTHER3i was a digital-only release, meaning there is no CD release of this to rip. (MOTHER3+ OTOH was released on CD, but good luck trying to find a FLAC rip of this on the internet! I have it, but it’s RARE. Took me at least a goddamn year to finally get it.) Comments like his disappoint me, though, whenever they start to complain about the SQ. You’ve got a low-quality transcode, of course it’s going to sound bad! (gEt a load of this hornses ass.) Just forget about dem “flaws” and enjoy the music for what it is. Nak.

(AHA, the references pile doesn’t stop from getting taller.)

(And for the record, I REGRET NOTHING!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAAHAA. HEE. HEE. HOO. HOO.

(>*wonk*<)

*)

is this ever gonna come out again 🙁

Nope, nintendo doesn’t want anyone to remember or know of the Mother series ever.