MOTHER Remake Hack Walkabout

OH EHM GEEE

IT LOOKS AWESOME!!!

Tho cant seem to help but noticing some framerate drops? which will only increase with enemies/NPCs on screen.

Definitely cool to see the amount of effort they’ve put in, and the creative liberties they’ve taken with certain areas. There are some things I probably wouldn’t have gone with, but that they’ve done as much as they have, and more than I ever have, I don’t think I have the right to gripe. 😉

A lot’s been put into this, and I’m curious to see how far it’ll go from here.

Is there any way to get involved with this? Do they need any playtesters yet?

Nope. I think H.S is holding out on “testers” until the game is pretty much finished. I think it’s a smart move; obviously there’s going to be tons of glitches when the script/text for the game has barely been written. The most important part of making this game is nearly complete though: the overworld maps!

WOAH, Halloween looks FANTASTIC! Magicant looks pretty much the same, but then again, I thought it already looked amazing on the original game, so it’s cool. Really excited to play this.

Dang this looks amazing! But one little question I have if anybody knows it, will the option to “run” / “speed up” be in this?

What is the music from 1:20 in the video, when they’re in reindeer? I don’t recall that being in Earthbound zero/mother. But I like it.

Actually there’s alotta cool music there. Is there somewhere we could get a hold of it?

@Anonymous

http://earthboundcentral.com/2012/08/early-eb0-remake-mp3s/
There is also a link there to the thread on the starmen.net forums where you can probably find more.

@Anonymous

The music that wasn’t directly from Earthbound are all new versions of the old songs made to use Earthbound’s instuments and uploaded into the rom. It was actual game music.

The song in Reindeer was a new song made by Mr. Everdread on the forums. Because the original game mostly just plays Being Friends for most of the overworld, it was decided that different areas should be given different music so it wouldn’t get too repetitive. That means a few areas are getting brand new music while others are getting remixes of the old tracks. The track that played in halloween was also some of Everdread’s work.

awesome work guys!

Can’t wait to play this bad boy!

This is actually looking really cool! I really like how they changed some aspects of some areas, like, for example, the swamp looks like they totally redid that. One thing, though this might be just me, but, I always thought naming towns after holidays was kinda weird, and would have preferred to see them use the EB0 town names instead. Still, though, this is looking really good so far, and I can’t wait to play it!

ZOMBIE!!
Hahahaha!

The game is getting better and better!

@SSBMaster11

Well that was itoi’s original intent and they are trying to keep it as close to the original as possible so…. yeah i dont want the eb0 ones..

Well that’s a strange argument to make given that there’s new music now 😛

Looks great! I think the changes have been tasteful and warranted. 🙂

Well I think the new music was kind of needed but besides that it is pretty similar

Hey, quick question to anyone who might know. I guess slight spoiler alert to anyone who hasn’t played Mother 1 and might be waiting for this hack to play it…

Will this hack allow us to keep Teddy AND Loid? I always disliked having to choose between the two in the original game, and I assume it was an engine limitation that forced the separation in the first place. I’m all for keeping the hack pure in terms of story, but honestly, since Loid and Teddy already play such small roles in the story I feel like adding this feature wouldn’t impact the game too much. It’d feel like a nice reward for playing the hack, as well. I suppose some minimal additions to the story would have to be made for this to happen, and maybe it would be really hard to do in the first place, but I think it’d be a cool feature.

I think all of us at one time or another tried to remake this game either in RPG Maker or PK Hack. It’s great to see such a project not only go the distance but to look great as well. Can’t wait to play this someday!

You won’t be able to keep Teddy and Loid at the end of the game, no. There IS talk of possibly adding a bonus dungeon once everything else is complete where Teddy would rejoin you.

@ebfreak

I would argue that the EB0 town names are actually a lot closer to Itoi’s original intentions in this case.

You see, from what I remember, he went with the names of holidays celebrated in the US because he thought it would add an extra layer of western flavor for the players. That works in japan, however for native english speakers familiar with the culture it just comes off as really weird. However, all the town names changed in EB0 are based off of real towns and cities across the US. They sound familiar, and they invoke the image of various places across the country, which is probably much closer what Itoi wanted to begin with. It’s the whole localization vs. straight translation thing.

Wow, the group that’s doing this is doing one heck of a job. I definitely look forward to seeing more of this as time goes on. 🙂

Keep up the good work dudes!

I like how you are doing this hack. The maps look cool! But there are a couple of things I’ve noted in the video that could be just a little bit better:

Lloyd seems to be one or two pixels taller than Ninten and Anna, and that’s strange because he is supposed to be the joungest. Their short heigth also makes Ninten and Anna look fatter, so I would give them an extra pixel or two. They looked as tall as adults in the original so it wouldn’t be worse.

The other thing is that I remembered the maps pretty much wider. I supose this was because of the way you encountered enemies (you needed to be out of any town and encounters were random). I like the way you have connected the different areas to one another but I keep having the feeling that the map is smaller. This is probably to memory limitation and anyway it’s not important.

Please, don’t let this coment take you down, you are doing some wonderful hack. It’s just that I sometimes get a bit too perfectionist in my projects and I tend to assume everybody does in their ones too.

Oh, one question, would Pippi be playable (as much as she was in the original)? She could easily play with Teddy items and stats at the beggining, and then the level and items could be reseted once she leaves the group. The only problem would be the sprite set and the name.

hehe – walking because the trains “don’t exist yet”

This is beautiful. I am excited to play it when it is finished. Keep it up!

Wow that’s really cool! 🙂

Galvancito1. the reason why the maps are smaller is because earthbound zero maps are much larger than the earthbound maps. So they had to make all the maps the created more compact.

it says this video is private!