Anna: Your technical answers to people’s questions does help out a bit, thanks for that. I’m a bit pressed for time to answer stuff lately, so it’s appreciated.

And yeah, I do probably work too hard to spread MOTHER stuff around. I don’t even know why, I mean I like the series and stuff a good deal, but I’m not sure what it is that makes me want to do all this stuff. I definitely got lots of non-EB stuff I’d like to pursue, so why do I stick with EB stuff so much. It’s a mystery.

Seriously like, it’d be rad if there was a Tomato Channel on the Wii. It would be all Mother interviews and information such as translated Itoi stuff (technically speaking, it’d use Opera and connect to a special http server only accessible to subscribers), as well as a launch board for playing Mother 3 and Earthbound 0 Remake, and maybe the original Earthbound and any other neat projects for a few extra Wii points (the price of the game, of course!) I’d pay subscriptions for this, totally. I’d easily pay something like 500 Wii Points a quarter to see new features and updates you do, then typical import rates for the games (of course, those wouldn’t expire). I’d go higher/more frequent on the subscription, even, if there was piles of new stuff constantly.

Unfortunately I’m not so unrealistic to think this could ever actually happen, although it would quite possibly result in the maximum amount of dollars Nintendo could squeeze out of the Mother franchise from us westerners and fans. A fan can dream, can’t they?

Anyway, back to reality. I COMPLETELY understand that being pretty much a complete stranger of dubious dedication I don’t have much to offer and I knew this at the time I asked, but I couldn’t live with not at least putting it out there! In the meantime I’ll just keep trying to intercept time consuming questions that I can [mostly?] answer where possible or something.

Oh and I’m sure you’ll keep us updated, but on the off chance there IS something you might need grind-worked with semi-skilled labor on the horizon let me know ASAP so I can start playing with a script and the menu patch haha.

Are the sprites for the text created by the game instantly, based on the data and calculations that you described? Or it’s something else?

If it’s something else, then I really didn’t get this >_>

Thanks for the update!!!

A Fan: My pseudocode there would save cycles (doing division is pretty costly too) and make more sense to people reading it. Which is the point of pseudocode

Kamon: The Rock Candy thing was more of a glitch than a trick, but there’s one that’s almost equally as cool in MOTHER 3 - you can almost do a New Game+ type of thing. I forget how to do it but it involves copying a save to another slot and then erasing it and starting a new game there or something. I forget.

Inzoum: that’s done by this: next_tile_row = letter2_row < < (8 - width) in case that wasn’t clear.

Getting this all to work with MOTHER 3’s code is pretty sucko though

If you look again, you’ll notice that within that conditional statement, that pseudo-code doesn’t only apply the modulus, it also moves the pointer onto the next tile. Checking whether the max width has been exceeded is essential to determin whether a new tile is needed, and if so, where should the next character on that tile print.

There is one thing missing, though… if a character is broken in half at the end of a tile, that conditional statement should also print the other half on the new tile (with a negative offset) before moving on to the next letter…

I just pictured a ‘Mato with an ax, going ballistic on a Hostile Elder Oak, and little green ones and zeros flying out, rather than wood chips.

May the psychokinesis be with you. I just wanna see PK Starstorm in action again.

Honestly…the first is probably more likely, because they knew the fans wanted M3 in the first place, and they ignored us. Still, I think most translations slip by relatively unscathed, especially if the company has no plans to bring the game to our shores.