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March 2nd, 2015 | EarthBound, Hacking, Merchandise
A very common question I’ve had over the last year or two – especially within the last few months – is, “I’ve found this version of EarthBound called ‘EarthBound Uncut’ on eBay. Is it an official release? What’s the deal?”
It’s true – EarthBound Uncut cartridges have suddenly sprung up everywhere and in a bunch of different forms! Here’s a look at a few:
As you can probably guess, these aren’t official cartridges – they’re bootleg reproduction cartridges. It’s common for repro cart makers to take others’ ROM hacks and put them onto cartridges, which is what’s happened here.
As far as I can tell, EarthBound Uncut is based on this old EarthBound ROM hack that a fan made based on my EarthBound localization comparison. I’m not even sure my comparison was complete back then, so I don’t even know how “complete” this uncut patch is. There are LOTS of hacks that are meant to uncensor EarthBound, though, so I might be wrong. If anyone has more info, let me know.
Anyway, for those who are curious or who might ask in the future, hopefully this info will help!
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22 Comments to The EarthBound Uncut Cartridge
 | The Man With No Name said on Mar. 2, 2015 |
I like how the last one says “liscened by Nintendo” like THAT copy is the only offical one lol
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| Fun Observation said on Mar. 2, 2015 |
I like how the first cartridge has a KA rating on it while the last one has an M one.
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| Anonymous said on Mar. 2, 2015 |
Something about the last one makes me think it’s not the Earthbound > Mother 2 patch, because even without censoring Earthbound shouldn’t be rated M.
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| Nathan said on Mar. 2, 2015 |
It looks like these are actually selling for higher than the real things right now. What’s that about?
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| socksmusicalcat said on Mar. 2, 2015 |
Wouldn’t these encounter the pirate detection issues, or did the ‘uncut’ romhack fix that?
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| Neo said on Mar. 2, 2015 |
Those guys have no shame? Selling repro cartridges based in a old romhack?
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| Max said on Mar. 2, 2015 |
I also remember seeing a few repros on Mother 25th Anniversary Edition.
 | FlyingManCourage said on Mar. 2, 2015 |
Honestly, I’m not really against reproductions, as long as they are honestly represented as such. I know some people don’t like them for various reasons, but that’s not really for me to decide. I’ll let more intelligent minds have that debate.
I have to confess about these reproductions. A couple of them catch my eye. I really like that bottom one for a design piece. I guess if you can look at these in simple terms of new and different artwork, then they are pretty enjoyable.
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| Nicho-Mania said on Mar. 2, 2015 |
The one thing I know is that these rom-production sellers must be really good at ips-patching, as I’ve tried day and night to put every single* Earthbound uncensored patch onto a rom to no avail, using every single* program available. The darn thing just gives me a black screen saying “Sorry Jimbo McGee, but you can’t have your Earthbound uncut, that’s just life.”
– Any help would be amazing
*Hyperbole? …I guess it wasn’t a metaphor…
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| Billy said on Mar. 3, 2015 |
The only good part of this is that it cuts down on the amount of forgeries being passed off as the real thing.
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| Anonymous said on Mar. 3, 2015 |
Is it possible to put Mother 3 on SNES cartridge?
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| joeymartin64 said on Mar. 3, 2015 |
Love the one with Brawl artwork on it. Nothing says “swear-to-God official version of a game from the mid 90s” quite like artwork from the late aughts.
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| RudyC3 said on Mar. 3, 2015 |
It’s even written “REPRODUCTION” in full capitals on one of the picture examples above. How can people think it’s legit :P?
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| eb64 said on Mar. 3, 2015 |
is it possible to put mother 3 gba on n64 cartridge again?
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| Zaxtur said on Mar. 3, 2015 |
That’s my hack! LOL. So funny. It’s been so long since I’ve touched it, I wouldn’t even know where to begin if I went back to update it. I remember the hardest part was to get “PSI (Favorite thing)” changed to “PK (Favorite thing)” I was so excited when I got it to work correctly.
 | An E and two 8 said on Mar. 3, 2015 |
I gotta say, that artwork with the lined up Starmen looks pretty cool.
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| tintinophile691 said on Mar. 6, 2015 |
Man, it’s been a while since I posted here. This is the first of two patches I have used which attempts to restore censored and mistranslated content. The other one is here, for the sake of open discussion. It appears to take a different approach and seems to be based on a more recent version of Tomato’s comparison.
http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Community/PKHack/EarthBound-Restored
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| An E and two 8 said on Mar. 6, 2015 |
Here’s another “Uncut” hack that is very complete:
I personally recommend this one.
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| joe said on Mar. 15, 2015 |
I want one of these uncut ROMs on the internet so we can see this bootleg crap because I love crap and this would be intruguing.
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| poolin said on Jun. 14, 2015 |
tell me howe to tell
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| hcgamer said on Jul. 21, 2015 |
Earthbound Uncut is Mother 2,The Japanese version of Earthbound, (Mother 2), had inappropriate content like Ness walking around naked. So, they restored the cut features of Mother 2 onto a SNES cartridge instead of a Super Famicom cartridge for the US.
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