Chinese EarthBound

That’s interesting. I’m not sure I recognise those screenshots, either. Is that Happy Happy village?

There isn’t a higher resolution of these images, is there?

Ugh. I want it. Mato, leave us in blissful ignorance of all the obscure, rare MOTHER merch that we can’t have. >.<

@LucasTizma

I think you need to start thinking of things in terms of pennies.

$70 for this piece of merchandise? Okay…

vs.

7,000 pennies for THIS?! No way!

Interesting.

Those are the biggest pics I could find. And yeah, that page is from Happy Happy Village. My Chinese is very rusty but I can still understand much of it thanks to knowing Japanese kanji. It looks like they call it Happiness Village or Pleasure Village or something like that.

Personally I like this Paula clay figure better. I never cared for her figurine, don’t know why…

She sure looks younger.

The condition of video games in China is hard to understand. I’m aware of the NES/Famicom clones, but was the SNES/SF even sold there? Was it released on that iQue thing?

Yeah… they had it in China too. My friend who came from China this year said that they had that game there for years! Also, that he played it. It’s in Chinese also. He says he never owned it, though.

That still looks like Paula to me.

I like this Paula figure better too. The other one was freaky looking.

A Chinese version of Mother 2? Could it even hold all of the kanji for the dialog? I don’t know how they could pull it off without it being a huge mess.

Skinny Paula is also found on the back of every MOTHER 2 game box, although from a higher angle.

My guess is that it’s one of the countless bootleg translated games available in China, and this guide was probably made to be sold alongside it.

Lolwat,
so maybe this is the ‘chinese version of earthbound’ someone was talking about on youtube.

Man if there really is a Chinese version I wanna play it very much.

Hmm, found this. Continuing to search places.

地球冒險

uhh, my comment was cut off after the kanji! =O it originally said:
地球冒險

is this some kind of bug? =\
anyway, I’m trying to say that “Earth Adventure” is a pretty generic-sounding name …

地球冒險 a;erlgnkael;rkbn

@lampi

or it could be 妈妈二

Chinkie Earthbound. Cool.

China quality–
Oh wait, oops. This is EBC, not Sankaku Complex. >_>;

Interesting, so there was no Chinese translation obviously? Is that how most video games work, only a Japanese and English text version?

i prefer this paula figurine… she looks really weird in her other one.

I’m happy to finally see a clear picture of the early Paula. The one I have is blurry…

And a french one usually.

*sniff sniff*
This reaks of Chinese PIRATE!
Yes there are Chinese pirated Super Famicom games, but not as many as for the NES or Genesis (MegaDrive) because the Super Famicom actually had some better pirate lockout. But hey, pirated cartridges mean that Earthbound is officially cool!

Speaking of which, I wonder if the piracy protection would go into effect on this game. (Y’know, more enemies, freeze and save wipe at the final boss)

I wonder if there is a mother 3 Chinese guide too.

Most likely. Chinese pirates translate anything on any system! Heck they made a Chinese Chrono Trigger for the Famicom!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z7Vs21TeF0

And trust me, that’s only the tip of the Chinese piracy ice berg…

我会瘦一点中文！现在我主在江苏中国而我找那个游戏！
I speak a little of Chinese and right now I live in Jiangsu, China. I’m going to take a look around the internet and see if I can find a Chinese copy or anything EB related in Chinese. All I could find on the Chinese equivalent of E-bay are these little guys:
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=15074118825

@Nicky G
你好！我来自中国上海！Hi,I come from Shanghai,China!
Well,I never heard of a”Chinese Version”of EarthBound before…About this”Taobao”Webside,I only found a few Japanese version on it…(You can find it by searching”地球冒险2″or”Mother2″)
But I think maybe there is a”Chinese Version”of EarthBound in Taiwan because they have made a lot of unoffical Chinese TranslationXD
And for the Chinese name of “Mother2″(or EarthBound),we call it “地球冒险”or”老娘”or any word you can call your mother in Chinese!Or just call it Mother2 or EarthBound…

Wow, thanks for the information! 谢谢 😀