That will probably take 3 years again, like with Mother 3.
Oh wait, that's two games. Shit :gonk:

Just be sure to get one with GBA Compatibility. The R4 does not support GBA-games. When looking at M3, have a look at M3 Real. It does both NDS and GBA thanks to the extra GBA-cart that's included.

Not sure how much they fetch nowadays. Around $50-$60?

:):):) I'm not going to play this right away, maybe in a couple of weeks. I need to thoroughly complete Earthbound first. Huge thanks to the Mother 3 translation team!

Also, that handbook looks absolutely awesome. I might preorder one myself.

Ahh, thanks for the info. I figured it'd be around $50. I was lucky to find one for sale on Amazon, just under $40 (A little over after S&H), so I'll be going with that, and of course scrapping through Brady's thread about it later.

By the way, what did they mean exactly by the 'secret project'? Earthbound on the GBA I'm guessing?

They were referring to a translation project of the Mother 1+2 cart, DN.

I see, I was in the ballpark at least. That would probably take a while.

Actually, there is a patch that is half-completed already. forgot if it was Mother 1 or 2 though.

Is it that big of a difference between the gba versions to Nes and Snes Mothers? O.O'

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't GBA stunt the quality of music, at least for 1 + 2?

I'm only about an hour into Mother 3 but I love it. I was kind of worried that I wouldn't like it as much as Earthbound, or that I would be unfairly comparing the two games. Mother 3 has charm in spades. It's so awesome.

The GBA version of Mother 1 fixes a few bugs from the original game making it a lot harder if I remember correctly.

I think the main reason they want to translate the cart besides deep-rooted obsession is that the translation for "Earthbound Zero" is from the official translated prototype cart and there was probably a lot of localization/simplication involved.

Really? Made by whom?
Honestly, could anyone be more sophisticated with a translation than the guys who brought us Mother 3? Jesus, all the work they've done. With the guide and everything.

Going back to the topic of the game in question, am I the only one finding it pretty challenging? I'm at the part when


I'm really enjoying it though. The translation feels very well made, and it's given me a couple of laughs already.

RPGOne "translated" the first game. By translated, they dumped the script for EB0 and put it in there. They also translated the menus of EB1/Mother 2.

Romhacking.net

Unfortunately, it seems that after the owner of the site passed away, updates have been infrequent. Understandable so.

I'd wait for Tomato and the rest to translate Mother 1 and 2...

So, for those of us without any flash thingies for a GBA/DS, what would any of y'all recommend?

The three moments that sold me on Mother 3:






I've heard a rumor that there's actual gameplay in there too that's pretty good, I'll investigate further and get back to you.

Yeaaahhhh! It has been too long. Hope it works on my wii. That way it feels more nostolgic to that of Earthbound. Ahh memories.

I don't understand, plz to be explaining. That guy is my second favorite NPC though, the first being Thomas cuz he runs like a cartoon character.

One thing I thought was major-league awesome, a lot of the people in town have sprites ripped suggested strongly from Earthbound townspeople. It's like OH HEY LOOK A CRANKY LADY I MISSED YOU~

That's why LOL EARTHBOUND 2.

On Chapter 7 and loving every minute so far. I really like how the game feels like it's taken some steps forward, rather than just being a rehash (the dash ability is terrific since movement was such a crawl in Earthbound).

Best of all, even though references to Earthbound were a little thin on the ground, early on (save for the general look and feel), the fanservice comes hot and heavy later on, with:

Late Ch. 6 spoilerand
Early Ch. 7 spoilerand best of all...
Mid Ch. 7 Spoiler
Incidentally, if anyone can't find a ROM or has patching difficulties...get it here.

Holy shit totally fucking gasped in horror at chapter 1, check out why and see if you agree with me.



The game is pretty sweet so far.


I had a hard time getting it to work on my EZFlash V 3-in-1 slot 2 device. See the way playing Mother 3 works on that device is that it uses NOR mode because the PSRAM mode isn't big enough to handle the mighty 32 mb of Mother 3. Problem with NOR mode is that it takes a while to copy it over. That isn't terrible but what it does is basically store the entire GBA rom in there. Just to make sure Mother 3 would work on the device I had tried it out before the patch came out. So later I kept trying to run the patched version and it kept popping up in Japanese. It still had the unpatched version stuck inside the device and it thought the patched version I was trying to run from my Cyclo DS was the same rom (it technically is as far as the device is concerned) so it didn't bother transferring it over. So I had to start an application (GBA ExpLoader) and clear the NOR and transfer the patched version of Mother 3 over.

One more tip is that once you've put Mother 3 on a EZFlash V 3-in-1 you have to keep using that cartridge to load your save data. I put Mother 3 on another EZFlash V 3-in-1 I had and it couldn't load the save data without corrupting the data. I doubt this would affect many people but it's just one of the things I found out and should the situation come up that two people live in the same place they need to keep their EZFlash V 3-in-1 paired to their Cyclo DS or whatever slot 1 cartridge they use or they forfeit all their precious progress in the game.

Tell me about it. I went all :psyduck:.

Just finished the game. Play time, probably around 24 hours or so. You should probably avoid the spoilers in this post if you haven't beaten it yet.

GENERAL


BATTLES/DIFFICULTY


TRANSLATION


FLAMEBAIT

24 hours is a bit short in this day and age. Exploring the world, talking with the people, and fighting the monsters, though, make it seem to last a lot longer than it does, because every hour is enjoyable (okay, the second to last chapter drags a bit). There's no filler, because everything that is filler just seems like another part of a damn enjoyable game. Awesome shit.

Don't forget New Game + kidlets.

Damn, CHz, you're a machine. I've been playing every free hour and still only Ch.7.

Hey, another RPG that does not have a main character.

Taking it slow bro. Just made it to Fun with Cripple Man sequel to What A Downer.

Oh, I forgot to mention Hard Mode.