November 6th, 2015 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, Hacking, Videos | 3 Comments

Editing/hacking EarthBound’s music has always been a tough, tedious chore. Usually it involves plugging in lots of numbers, data, and other complicated stuff that takes beyond the grasp of most people. But the situation has improved and now EarthBound music hacking is a little easier thanks to a bunch of new updates from EarthBound hacker BlueStone, including support for MIDI instruments! F...Read More »

September 18th, 2015 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, MOTHER 3 | 7 Comments

Nelward Music has done some cool MOTHER 3 tunes lately – what’s so unique is that they sound like they’re from EarthBound at first! Anyway, here are some of the latest musicial creations: There’s a lot more to see and hear, too, not just EarthBound stuff! Go here to check them out! ...Read More »

September 11th, 2015 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, Events, Interviews | 1 Comment

Ryan Stevens sent this in the other day: Hey! My name is Ryan Stevens and I made a podcast called Game is a 4 Letter Word, it’s not a typical “Whatcha playing/talk about the news” roundtable, it’s a documentary show, like This American Life, that uses a 4 letter word each week for inspiration. For episode 3, CULT, my producer Matt went to Fangamer 2015 and produced a bunch...Read More »

September 3rd, 2015 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound 64 | 51 Comments

For the past year or so I’ve heard a number of different rumors and stories that someone has acquired a prototype of the Nintendo 64 version of MOTHER 3. I’ve never put much faith in it because it’s never accompanied with pictures or other evidence. Here’s an interesting e-mail from a reader, though: Hello, I was looking at earthbound 64 info because.. eh why not? anyways, ...Read More »

August 27th, 2015 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, Merchandise | 20 Comments

Ship to Shore is releasing the officially-licensed MOTHER 2 soundtrack outside of Japan soon! You can pre-order an LP of the soundtrack here… and you can get it in one of four different designs! Giygas Red & Black Ness Yellow & Blue Mr. Saturn Hot Spring Pink Classic Black They all look really great, I don’t know which one to pick myself 😛 In an interesting twist of ir...Read More »

August 13th, 2015 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, Videos | 4 Comments

Smooth McGroove is well-known for his acapella renditions of video game music, and he recently did one for EarthBound – specifically, Onett! If you haven’t already, check out his other stuff here! ...Read More »

July 16th, 2015 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, Videos | Comments Off on EarthBound Eight Melodies w/ Lyrics

I shared this on a past EarthBound Central Live, but it’s too good not to share here! This is a cover of the Sound Stone music from EarthBound, with some new lyrics added: The musician also added this info in the description: Earthbound is my favorite RPG of all time. By sheer chance I came into posession of a copy when I was about 9 years old and the impact the game had on me was immeasura...Read More »

July 8th, 2015 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, Videos | 2 Comments

I shared this on EarthBound Central Live the other day, but it turned out to be too cool not to post here! Pishi sent this in a good while ago: Hi ‘Mato! I found this very good rendition of the two Earthbound themes. Unfortunately I don’t know much about the band. And here’s the video: The first part is Fourside’s music, and the second part is Twoson’s. You can skip ...Read More »

July 6th, 2015 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, MOTHER 3 | 6 Comments

A few weeks ago I posted about an amazing version of Pollyanna doing in an Onett style (see here) and now Nelward Music has done a new one – the MOTHER 3 Love Theme done in a Fourside style! I do remember the very first time I heard the MOTHER 3 Love Theme (from here, in fact) and was confused because the first few notes started to sound like Fourside’s music. Now it’s all come ...Read More »

July 2nd, 2015 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 3 | 28 Comments

A good while back, I posted about how ROM hackers managed to extract MOTHER 3’s music data in a way that removes the “fuzziness” of playing it on the Game Boy Advance. You can read all about that here. Anyway, there used to be a big torrent file with all this music, but it’s since disappeared. So a reader named Jaco sent this in a while back: I searched the site and found a...Read More »