MOTHER Hiding in EarthBound Zero

Hahaha, That’s pretty interesting!

This, in the era where cart space was limited enough to really mess with the translation of games. You’d think they would have wanted to be as efficient as possible, but I get not.

im more concerned about the glitch itself rather than the logo in there.

So there is probably a way then to make an english version of the game have the Mother logo appear at the beginning instead of EarthBound Zero.

They would be cool! What happen to the original text? Is that still there or was that completely erased and replaced with English?

Back in the good ol’ days of video gaming; where it was much more work to take stuff out and shift every instruction than it is to leave fun secrets in.

For what it’s worth, they could’ve replaced the MOTHER tiles with the Earth Bound tiles, and just leave some there if Earth Bound is too small.

…Now that I think about it, Earth Bound might’ve need MORE space than MOTHER, and then it’d probably be easier to just move it to the end…

…So I guess, in short: “This ^”

What’d be cool if is the Mother 2 logo is still present in EarthBound.

Heh I’m not that suprised. Mother seemed like it kinda was hacked together to begin with. Changing the tiles rather then just adding new ones at the end of the code could have been disastrous.

I have a love/hate relationship with these kind of glitches. On the downside, they render the game nigh-unplayable. On the upside, they tend to reveal the graphics like this. I remember when my copy of Little Nemo The Dream Master malfunctioned and showed me a myriad of Katakanas and Hiraganas. Fun fun fun~

“I bet if I hacked into the games even more I could find more code/data leftovers… but I’ll leave that as an exercise for future hackers”

If you can find Mato’s hidden mountain palace and survive the 7 deadly tests, maybe he will train you. But at what cost…

@LakituAl I feel the same way.

I like to trigger glitches just for fun 😀 But I really hope they don’t f*ck up my games…

Anybody else notice that unused doll enemy in the second pic?

Add this to TCRF.

Woah, pretty nifty! Gotta say, I’m amazed that old NESs reveals things like this…

Cool

Mato, I think you may want to invest in a new NES.

I just had a funny thought… What if EB0 had been released, and some kid got a glitch like this, having no idea about the Japanese title? I know I’d be pretty freaked out if I popped in one of my favourite games only to be greeted with a screen full of “MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER”.

Does that mean Earth Bound might be in Mother 1+2? Meta.