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None foundDecember 6th, 2009 | Weekly Round-Up
This week was surprisingly active on EB Central, lots of cameo-related stuff especially. Now let’s see what other EarthBound stuff has gone on around the internet this week, shall we?
Community News
- Mother 3 – A superb game, but it fails to match Earthbound
- Nepotism FTW: Spirit Tracks has Mother 3’s rope snake
- OILD – Winters
- You Could Be The Proud Owner Of Earthbound Zero – someone should point this out to TokyoGuy
- Homeward Bound: More Earthbound For The US
- Video-Bound!
- Mother.
- Radio Free Nintendo: Episode 172
- By This Time Next Year: Volume 3
- Mother 3 Spieletagebuch Teil 4
I live on the moon in a cave, so I can’t possibly keep up with every single thing that happens in the EarthBound community, so if you’ve done something cool or if you know of something cool that belongs here, let me know!
Cool Auctions & Merchandise
Some really cool EarthBound stuff showed up on eBay this week, so let’s get right to it. Don’t forget you can also see all the EarthBound / MOTHER stuff on eBay all gathered in one handy place here!
- Earthbound Mach Pizza Air Freshener – extremely rare and not set at an insane price!
- EarthBound with Player’s Guide for only $84.99! – if this auction isn’t a mistake, then it’s probably the EarthBound deal of the year 😯
- MOTHER 3 Deluxe Box Set with Game Boy Micro
- MOTHER 1+2 Keychain Bag – what a strange auction, this is one of the bags those MOTHER 1+2 keychains came in. I’ve never seen them sold by themselves, wonder what it’ll go for…
- Rare MOTHER 2 manga – there’s another one for like $150 or something right now, so this will probably be a good deal. Plus unlike the other manga, this is more like a conventional comic that tells the entire story of the game and was illustrated by the game’s character designer.
- New MOTHER 3 Courage Badge Keychain
- EarthBound + Final Fantasy III + Zelda Super NES game lot!
- MOTHER 3 Perfect Guide – an out of print MOTHER 3 strategy guide, don’t see it on eBay too often
And here’s some cool stuff on Yahoo! Auctions Japan:
- Official MOTHER 2 T-shirt!
- Mr. Saturn Art Book with unopened Mr. Saturn plush
- Super-rare Takuya Kimura MOTHER 2 in-store poster!
- MOTHER 2 manga set, very good deal
- Cool-looking MOTHER series fan music CD
And stuff on Amazon:
- EarthBound’s gone up in price quite a bit this week on Amazon, averaging $100+. Crazy.
What’s Up With Itoi
- This week Itoi seemed to talk about food a lot. One thing that seemed interesting was that he got up in the middle of night wanting ice cream he had in the freezer. He thought about that fact and realized that many decades ago people liked to imagine what the “world of tomorrow” would be like, with space travel and weird gizmos and all kinds of weird stuff, but in that short moment he realized that in one sense it’s become the “age in which you can have ice cream in the middle of the night if you want to”.
Final Thought
It took readers a while, but last week’s “what’s wrong with this picture” was finally completely figured out. Most overlooked was the change in the text 😛
So here’s this week’s “find out what’s wrong with this pic”. Be sure to look closely!

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35 Comments to Weekly Round-Up #47
PK instead of PSI and obviously the color swap another good week here at EBC, my one stop shop for all my obscure EarthBound needs
Yeah they got it PSI and the color. Pretty cool week with Mother 3 on AT number 3.
![]() | Mato said on Dec. 6, 2009 |
someone70: I believe these were the things from last week’s:
– No stuff on the right sidewalk
– Missing tree
– Mr. T
– “Mr.” missing from text
I think that was all, but I might be old and forgetful.
![]() | Komaru said on Dec. 6, 2009 |
– It says “Pk” instead of PSI.
– There’s supposed to be a ribbon on the house.
– There’s an extra ‘M’ on the Mr. Saturn’s text.
– Mr. Saturn’s ribbon is flipped the other way?
– It says “Good” instead of “Goods”.
– It’s inverted.
Those are some I could find, I’m sure there’re more.
I think part of the cliff in the lower right is layered over itself, but I probably need to see the game again to check if that’s normal.
Interesting. We haven’t reached the era of time travel and stuff, but we’ve reached the era of “I can have ice cream in the middle of the night if I want to”. LMAO.
About the picture – Most important, Saturn Valley looks BLUE, BLUE… whithout Happy-Happyists.
OMG OMG oMG zOMG!!!!!!!!!!! The person who put EB0 up for auction REMOVED the item!!! 0_o NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
![]() | Mister Crosser said on Dec. 6, 2009 |
Ok, who brought the Mani Mani in Saturn Valley??
![]() | Jeagle101 said on Dec. 6, 2009 |
“Pk” should be “PSI”, “Goods” is missing its “s”, the screen is negative… Ribbon on the house…. All I could find 🙁
hey dudes! Just registered, anyhow, I think we found all the difference Mato, no need to tell us until next time!
Sorry for generic comment, can someone please tell me what is my avatar/sprite/turtle buddy’s name and which game it’s in, it’s either from EarthBound or Mother 3, anyhow, about the whole sprite thing, has Mato ever given sprites from Mother/EB0?
![]() | LakituAl said on Dec. 6, 2009 |
@Ninji
I think it is Mecha-Turtle from Mother 3. I don’t think I’ve actually ever seen any EB0 sprite around here. Most importantly, I would like to know if there is any way to change the one I have (it is reeeeally important for me, seriously.)
@LakituAl
I wanna change too.
because i am a guy ,but
my picture is not
that’s a haiku.
![]() | Poe said on Dec. 6, 2009 |
Sprites are randomly chosen when you sign up. Sorry 8D
![]() | Leirin said on Dec. 7, 2009 |
“Mother 3 – A superb game, but it fails to match Earthbound” — wouldn’t expect anything more from IGN. 😛
@LakituAl
You don’t like being one of the local ruffians?
@Starguy256
Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator.
Hope somebody from here snags that air freshener! I got the one in the last round up. *drools at merch*
![]() | LakituAl said on Dec. 7, 2009 |
@MarioFan3:
Me and my big mouth!
@Xi
You see, I’m a Mexican living in California. As such, I’m always proud of saying I’m not involved in any gang activity, because I stay at home and study, etc. Ironically, I register in this site and what happens to be my avatar? A gang member! Seriously, that sucks!
Don’t feel bad LakituAl, being a Shark is awesome, but I like my Mecha-Turtle better…. LOL
Also Ness looks a bit different when colors are inverted. Thanks to OS X that’s a keystroke away for me.
My random icon is Poo. I’m actually feeling lucky I got such an important character as my icon.
Umm… Axel, that’s a mistake on your part, it ALWAYS says Talk To through out the entire game
I picked out another thing, the Mr. Saturn to the right is missing, ZOOM!
(Unless it walked off screen, which is unlikely because I checked for 10 mins in that spot and it didn’t go off screen, then again, I checked when the phase distorter is there so correct me if I’m wrong)
Another thing I noticed, the window on the building has the reflection the wrong way around, the U shaped black (supposed to be white) is actually supposed to be flipped vertically. It’s very picky, but you can’t fool me on that one, the windows always had reflections going up.
I put nut bread on my head, and eat ordinary hats, so I can’t possibly keep up with every single thing that has changed in this picture, so if you see something cool, or know of something cool that belongs here, let me know! (mockery, remember the fan translation glitches?)
Sources are from me, re-inverting the image, and comparing with screen shots in the game.
Instead of PSI, it’s Pk?