EarthBound Box Weirdness

I do, too! Also, the robot starman with Ness inside is another oddity.

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@Bobbyjkl
Ness isn’t inside the Starman–that’s his reflection.

There’s also a cross left in Burglin Park.

off topic but wasn’t Dalaam once snowy?

one of the worst typo’s in the player’s guide is that they say you can get the gutsy bat from the kraken in the sea of eden,which you actullay get from the bionic kraken in the very end of the game. So tell me how they messed that up!

@no name given
I hated that. You have no clue how many hours I pumped into killing the wrong kraken to get that gutsy bat as a kid. When I was older, maybe about 13 I realised it was a typo. Fought a Bionic Kraken… got it on the first try. I was sooooo steamed that I wasted so many hours and possibly days going after the wrong Kraken just because of a typo.

Well, almost every guidebook has a typo of some sort so, you can’t really blame them 😛

^ There’s a difference between a misspelling and completely incorrect information. They could have done a little fact-checking before sending that baby to the printer.

FIRST LOL

Hey, can we quit this stupid “FIRST POST” crap? It irritates the hell out of me.

Me and my friend where trying to get the gutsy bat, and we failed at two things:
1. realizing that you can’t get the gutsy bat from the kraken and 2. getting the gutsy bat.

I already expected there to have been misplaced screenshots and typos (everyone makes those in one way or another), it’s just funny that it was found out about after all this time.

I could probably find tons of pictures in the strategy guide that they used from beta or during translation. I just skimmed over the guide and found 7 so far.

I didn’t read anyones comments so somebody might have already said this. but it looks like the graphics from the beta before Itoi got help from those other companies to finish mother two. you know. before it became a 24 bit game 😀 (sorry for the vagueness of this message, I forget the names of the companies right now because I’m to occupied to really think, also why I haven’t read others comments)

Couldn’t you visit these places after you get done with Giygas and such? I mean, I’m sure these were taken with the debug menu, but all in all, there are ways to get the shots without debug menu, I believe.

Definitely can’t get to zombie Threed with only Ness. It’s probably possible to go to Dalaam, even so it’s such a weird screenshot to use either way 😛

I think I noticed something else wrong with the box a while back too, can’t seem to recall what it was.

the bublegum monkey part looks all wrong as well!

I found another weird mistake in the Earthbound players guide. If you look on page 111 at the Magicant walkthrough, check out the screenshots, one of them shows naked Ness, although NoA was strictly against that nudity case.
I wonder how they managed to produce such a faulty guide book!

^Being pressured to put it out as fast as possible because it had to packaged with the game; any delay in the guide would have delayed the game. So obviously they had to play with an early version, probably with a rougher translation which added to the errors.

Interesting find, I suppose, but nothing unexpected. This kind of inaccurate information on box covers or guide books is quite common, I believe.
On an unrelated note, what is it that keep you busy all the time, Tomato? Just wondering.

Maybe they only had ness as to not spoil the other characters that would be in your party?

Gabriel: Well, I’m a freelancer so when work comes, you gotta work like crazy. Also, I’m working on a few projects at once, one is basically like a second job right now, so there’s not much time in the day for other stuff lately.

Lol at dalaam

You have to wonder. Didn’t Mother 2 come out in 1994? And EarthBound, 1995? So why are there prototype screenshots by EarthBound’s time? Maybe they originated from the back of the Mother 2 box or some other publication, and the localizers never noticed? It’s just a little strange to see prototype screenshots and mockups after the initial release, though the same thing happened in the original Super Mario Bros. 3.

Mato, I’m curious… what’s your secret project?
It’s Earthbound Related?

Mato: Thanks for reply. 🙂
Ricardo: The only project I can think of is his EB0 one; however there must be others.

Gabriel: Long ago, Mato said he was working on a secret
project. I’m not sure if was the Mother 1+2 translation.
Anyways, M1+2 translation isn’t done yet…

mother 3 and mother 2 are awesome games but they are very very hard to get. you should make the mother games unchanged but make them for nintendo DS and DSI and sell lots at places like Target and Walmart. because most people don’t know about the games but if you put them in stores they will get get bought by people and they will be a hit. i love the mother series and so will everyone else will to. i might be only 9 but i can make a differnce! you should check out chuggaaconroy’s youtube videos on mother1 2 and 3 p.s. i live in (my address cut out because I’m not smart)

what is the secret project everyone is talking about

It’s a secret for a reason, yo

Davis Pruisman: Why are you telling people your home address?

@david pruisman
you REALLY shouldn’t post your home address anywhere online. ESPECIALLY if you are 9. Also, I think most people on this website have seen chugga’s LPs.

@davidpruisman

If you really are 9(Which I doubt you are, no offense but many spammers claim to be kids just to freak people out or get away with making highly irrelevant posts) It’s not advisable to post your home address and what is most likely your real name online. There are some weird people on the net – this community is probably one of the safer ones, but you need to be careful with information like that.

@davidpruisman Just like Omnomnominous said, you shouldn’t post your address in websites.
Anyways, Mato can’t sell the games, because they are Shigesato Itoi property (Shigesato Itoi is the MOTHER series creator) and selling them would be illegal. That’s why MOTHER 3 fan translation is free.

And…. I’m also waiting to know what the Mato’s secret project is….

The Dalaam is not a mistake. If you go there after dropping off Paula at the end you can be alone. May be true for threed as well

@Nate yeah you can go to Dalaam after doping off Paula, But defiantly not zombie Threed.