Testing is Magic Cake

3 months ago by Mato

Testing continues, slowly but surely. Nothing really new to report, which is good. It’s making me want to go back and fix some tiny, tiny issues that don’t matter anyway, but I must fight the urges. I don’t have the free time for it anyway though.

At this point, it pretty much looks like the translation will work on most everything out there than can emulate/play GBA games. If you want to be really sure ahead of time, try playing the Japanese version a tiny bit and see if you have any problems. If you can save your game properly (which is a common problem for Mac GBA emulators…), then you’re probably good to go.

When the patch is released, we’ll have a detailed list of hardware and emulators you can play the translation on. Some fine folks at gbatemp have offered their help in that regard, so the list should be pretty thorough. Until then, if you’re interested in running the translation on actual hardware or on other systems, this thread may be worth a read.

I figure we’ll let the testers do their stuff a little while longer, and during the meantime I’ll do my own testing and help get a handful of key lines polished up. Since more and more people are finishing the game (and playing through again) without any new bugs, the patch could be out a bit sooner than I had thought.

Posted on Monday, October 6th, 2008 at 12:24 pm by Mato, filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

573 Responses to “Testing is Magic Cake”

  1. trynet said 3 months ago:

    clicked a link to this site and 0 minutes since the post. 1st?

  2. Adam said 3 months ago:

    Horray!

  3. outphase said 3 months ago:

    I have held onto my EZV 3-in-1 card for the sole purpose of Mother 3. It’ll finally be useful again!

  4. Chris Highwind said 3 months ago:

    Sweet! I haven’t found a full Mother 3 ROM yet (the one in Emuparadise is only about 14-some MB, which isn’t the entire ROM), but I hope to find one soon and check this out when it comes out!

  5. Frinky said 3 months ago:

    Hi Tomato

    I am excited by this news

    You are an exciting fella

    Thank you for your hard work and dedication

  6. thedeo said 3 months ago:

    trippy drug induced testing, yay!

  7. ZombiePosessor said 3 months ago:

    Wow, that’s great news. Playing this on my M3 Pro will be awesome. I have every GBA ROM dump on it, and now the translation will be added to it. Keep it up!

  8. Spooty said 3 months ago:

    This is awesome news. Can’t wait! :D

  9. I LOVE YOU said 3 months ago:

    .

  10. Naraku2000 said 3 months ago:

    so what will come next? Testing is Magicant? Testing is Cave to the Past? Testing is Giygas’ Lair? :O

  11. Vagn said 3 months ago:

    A winner is you Mato!

  12. Hale said 3 months ago:

    Go Go TOMATO!!!!

  13. Xander said 3 months ago:

    :3 … I like you guys.

  14. MrPopo said 3 months ago:

    You, sir, are spectacular.

  15. Germ said 3 months ago:

    Nothing new to report… except for how AWESOME this is; am I right?

  16. Edrees said 3 months ago:

    Wow..iTS SO CLOSEEEE :D

  17. Andy said 3 months ago:

    So close I can smell it!

    Please don’t go all emo on us like Gemini.

  18. JD said 3 months ago:

    You really should be getting paid for this!!

  19. Seith said 3 months ago:

    When I read “the translation will be out sooner than I thought”, the song “Triple Chrome Dipped” by Michna came on on my playlist, and the horns at the beginning accentuated the wide-eyed look I got on my face.

  20. Michael said 3 months ago:

    @Naraku2000:
    Testing is Happy Happy Village?

  21. Senaka said 3 months ago:

    # Andy said 5 minutes ago:

    So close I can smell it!

    Please don’t go all emo on us like Gemini.

    hehehehhe I suppose gemini did that so we could finish mother 3 first and THEN persona IS

    Or our heads would probably blow up =P

  22. EarthboundFanatic said 3 months ago:

    Excellent news not running into bugs.Can’t wait you guys are the best!

  23. brandon cormier said 3 months ago:

    man i can’t believe it’s soon gonna be done!
    can’t wait to play the sequel to one of my favorite rpgs of all time!
    i’ve been getting sick of playing the original and mother 2 over and over and over i can pretty much recite every line in it!
    and i don’t want to ruin it by playing the jap one!
    can’t wait!!!!

  24. brandon cormier said 3 months ago:

    and i’m like the magic cake reference to mother 2 lol summers baby YEAH!!!

  25. Jeebus McChrist said 3 months ago:

    Here’s to hoping the patch will be out in as little as two weeks!

  26. unsavory maggot said 3 months ago:

    Will he throw us a curveball and say Testing is Finnish? Heheh… Finnish… it’s not Swedish!

  27. Murmur95 said 3 months ago:

    so where are we going to be having the mother 3 party?

  28. NintendoLover64 said 3 months ago:

    i think i just shit myself :D

  29. buttfrenzy said 3 months ago:

    I just hope it works with mednafen on ubuntu. Its the only GBA emulator I’ve been able to get to work on there.

    In b4 I’m a fag.

  30. Err1112 said 3 months ago:

    btw mato……. i saw that vid u made before about how u were going to make earthbound 0 (mother) and hack it so that its in SNES graphics (basically hack it so that itll look like EB when itsrlly EB0) how is that coming along?

  31. Reagle said 3 months ago:

    I… I can’t wait… good god…

  32. Zade said 3 months ago:

    Happiness is a Warm Blog.

    Thanks as always for your dedication!

  33. Arlin said 3 months ago:

    Hello everyone, I’m Italian and also here, in my country, we are all waiting for MOTHER 3 Patch! (not all all…just all the folks that love Mother series ^_^ )

    Mato & Co. WE LOVE YOU!

    Greetings from Italy

  34. Aphrodine said 3 months ago:

    I would really like to play M3 using a flashcart, but whenever I try to learn how to use one all I get out of it is “bloo bloo bloo blah blah bobbity boppity boo.”

    I am under the impression that people who use flashcarts follow the following steps:

    1.) Buy the flashcart.
    2.) ??? Some magic happens or something.
    3.) OH HEY LOOK. Mother3 just appeared out of nowhere. That’s just swell.

    I’ll probably just end up playing it on an emulator. ^__^;

  35. elemental101 said 3 months ago:

    CANT……WAIT……LOSING…..BREATH!!!

  36. J said 3 months ago:

    This is unbelievable! There are is no music sweeter to my ears than “the patch could be out a bit sooner than I had thought.”

    Awesome job, everyone!

  37. CloudCereal553 said 3 months ago:

    nice, I hope we can play it on the PSP so I can play the game during class when the teacher is not looking. =3

  38. Krnxmatt7 said 3 months ago:

    “nice, I hope we can play it on the PSP so I can play the game during class when the teacher is not looking. =3″

    You might be screaming with excitement during class, so don’t try lol :D

  39. the guy said 3 months ago:

    Sooner than you thought?

    So you DID have a release date in mind!

    (j/k)

  40. Naraku2000 said 3 months ago:

    say, will you release it on a special date when you’re ready on something like 12:00AM and then set up a countdown or will you release it as soon as you’re ready with it?

  41. bunz said 3 months ago:

    sooner than you thought…. somebody get me a towel

  42. Zaratus said 3 months ago:

    @Naraku2000: My vote goes for ‘Testing is OVER!!!!!111 1.’

    Sure, not likely to happen for the next update, but I can dream, can’t I? =P

  43. Mato said 3 months ago:

    No, there won’t be a countdown or anything like that, that’s lame and then what if something happens and we can’t release it when the countdown hits 0? We’ll have made MANY people pissed, all because we were trying to be dramatic ;)

    We’ll probably announce the release date only a couple days in advance, once we know it’s going to be ready for sure.

  44. Paul said 3 months ago:

    Legends. Well done!

  45. cc said 3 months ago:

    imagine if this was all a dream

  46. NT said 3 months ago:

    Man… everything just went all pink and swirly in my head when I read this.

    Magic cake indeed.

    Y’know, just to put things in perspective for those of us joining the EB craziness now. I only got into EB fairly late, at the end of my junior year of high school. That was sometime in the spring of 2005. Around that time the rumors about this game were starting to bubble up, but nobody really knew if Itoi was really making it or not since so little had been leaked. After some tiny tidbits in the form of present boxes and the like (which the starmen team were so kind to translate), Mother 3 was actually released almost exactly a year after I first played EB. I have been checking nearly every day on the status of the translation of Mother 3 since then, that’s about 2 and a a half years. That’s from when I was finishing senior year of high school until my first semester of my junior year in college. In that time there have been 3 translation attempts, all eventually boiling down to this one…

    And now it sound like it’s almost done.

    I think I might flunk out of school thanks to you guys.

    (PS. Thank you!)

    (PPS Mato, I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but someone else has been translating a documentry on the Miyazaki movie “Princess Mononoke.” One segment involves a conversation with Itoi about the tagline of the film, you might be interested:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKRYGp4hKOg)

  47. HellHammer said 3 months ago:

    Don’t even announce it ahead of time.
    Just release it when it’s done and watch the entire site slow down for a few days straight.

  48. TheReaper08 said 3 months ago:

    YES MY WISH MIGHT COME TRUE

  49. BlueStarManDX said 3 months ago:

    0_o

    Awesome. Freaking awesome. Just don’t have cake for dessert tonight. Actually do, you may have a dream of somebody (far in the east) that will help you in getting M3 in America. *COUGHnintendorepwhoactuallycaresCOUGH*

  50. Christian said 3 months ago:

    It’s so refreshing to hear good news about Mother releases for the first time in 15 years. Rock solid.

  51. Mato said 3 months ago:

    Someone posted something about “trample” but it got caught by the spam filter and I accidentally deleted it. But I will point said person to this:

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/trample

    I gotta admit though, it’s been annoying whenever people decide to nitpick things and argue about things that aren’t even set in stone, such as apostrophe use, comma use, even the use of “the”. Just let those things go. Be more carefree, like a hippie of this new age.

  52. Moogpaul said 3 months ago:

    I know everyone here will hate me for saying this but have you thought about holding off on the patch till we know more about this DSiWare or whatever they end up calling it. I would really hate for the game to finally officially come out and bomb. Once you release something on the internet, it’s impossible to take it down.

  53. MagicBarrier said 3 months ago:

    I can’t believe no one’s said this yet.

    HAVE MY BABIES!

  54. bob said 3 months ago:

    Mato said: Be more carefree, like a hippie of this new age.

    New Age Retro Hippie FTW!
    BTW, does this game have hippies and the theme song for them?

  55. Husky_Washu said 3 months ago:

    <:D

  56. MagicBarrier said 3 months ago:

    Oh, and Moogpaul: Are you saying that we should wait for the DSi to be released in America in hopes of an official translation? Because people won’t want to wait until mid-2009 at the earliest (assuming that Nintendo will release it - which they probably won’t) when they could download a perfectly good translation patch in a couple of weeks-a month.

    Or are you saying that the patch will hurt sales? If so, I bet plenty of people will still buy the official version. And if it does hurt sales: well, that’s Nintendo’s fault for not releasing it earlier.

  57. BobTheFork said 3 months ago:

    What more can be said. You seriously hit it right out of the park and the ball hasn’t landed yet. Total respect here for taking this effort over and plowing through. Never any hard feelings about what was said at Neogaf, you proved you were completely right on all counts. Glad more than anything to finally be able to play this soon. Damn right sir, damn right!

  58. StarFoxA said 3 months ago:

    When I use Visual Boy Advance on my Macbook, there is a slight bit of lag when I save, but it works nonetheless.

  59. Symphony_Sid said 3 months ago:

    Question: Will the mac saving problem be fixed or will the mac users need to get creative?

  60. ruok said 3 months ago:

    Anyone plan on making a pkhack for mother 3? anyway good job

  61. Mato said 3 months ago:

    Symphony_Sid: It’s not as if we have full control of the universe and can fix whatever we want ;) The mac emu issues are mac emu issues.

  62. Biiaru said 3 months ago:

    Mac users should use Mednafen. Only problem is you have to start it using Terminal, and it doesn’t have a GUI configuration thing… but it’s certainly the best Mac GBA emulator out there.

    http://mednafen.sourceforge.net/

  63. The Game Master said 3 months ago:

    When you said “Magic cake” I thought “Demi in the far east” for some reason.

    @ruok: I already asked for one and Mato said it would be almost impossible, since it has sloppy programming, and Earthbound was flexible enough for that stuff. EB2 isn’t. But I think there will be a text editor.

    @Err1112: He’s not hacking EB0 to have earthbound graphics, that’s impossible on an 8-bit system. He’s hacking Earthbound so it will have EB0’s story, characters, settings, etc. And he said he stopped work on it and probably won’t get back any time soon.

    Man Mato I didn’t think you would survive long enough to see this.

  64. chad3670 said 3 months ago:

    OH SHI– Almost as good as dividing by 0

  65. TheReaper08 said 3 months ago:

    Mato I agree with you that its time that people just let things go and be more carefree,like a hippie of this new age LOL because I have notice throughout this whole translation project that the littlest of things can make people go mad.

  66. Josh Weinberg said 3 months ago:

    As far as Mac emus go…I’m currently working on a report of VBA to OSX, among other emus. (Not a fan of Richard Bannister and his charging for emus). I currently have NES, GBA and GB/GBC emulation working under an umbrella application. Think MESS, but with proven cores, instead of writing my own…

    This is the first time I have announce this anywhere, but I will try to have it all ready and working by the time this is release, at least a Beta release. I’ll make sure saving is working for this game, but I’m almost positive it is.

    Some may know me already…I was working on a re-port of Nestopia to OSX known as OpenNestopia. This is a continuation of that work, which has been completely rewritten.

    - Josh

  67. Erik said 3 months ago:

    Yay. Nice to see nothing is happening.

  68. Jabberwocky said 3 months ago:

    I am sooo stoked for the patch. It could be out as soon as Halloween!!! :D

    I should go out as Lucas to celebrate.

  69. Aerostella said 3 months ago:

    Wow, I’m so happy! Great job, team mother 3. What would you estimate the release date to be? Before the end of the month? Beginning of November?

  70. NFITC1 said 3 months ago:

    *drools*

    Now I HAVE to get an M3! :P~

    Fan-freakin’-tastic!!

  71. Adam Palma said 3 months ago:

    Been following this forever and just wanted to say
    Love.

    Thanks for the awesome work.

  72. Vers said 3 months ago:

    I motion to construct a statue of Mato in front of NOA HQ. This will forever immortalize the toil of our hero.

    I wonder what the text engraving would say.

  73. m3woop said 3 months ago:

    @chad3670: gtfo
    @Mato: You legend! Go for it!

  74. Arashi said 3 months ago:

    *resists temptation to make huge post with lame jokes*

    AWESOME! YOU ARE THE MAN, TOMATO!

  75. Moose said 3 months ago:

    I beleive it should say

    ‘Welcome to th
    :|’

  76. EmpoleMew said 3 months ago:

    NFITC1 said 6 minutes ago:

    Fan-freakin’-tastic!!

    Hey, you stole my catchphrase! j/k

    In all seriousness, its good to see things are going well, even if it is being seen in purple-pink.

  77. Yay said 3 months ago:

    Now let’s all wait for the huge game-breaking bug that someone stumbles upon that requires two more months of fixing.

    I have a house to jump off of if this happens.

  78. SHIGERU MIYAMOTO said 3 months ago:

    mato’s work is good enough i might not have to sue him for screwin with my game.

  79. Moose said 3 months ago:

    SHIGERU MIYAMOTO said:

    “mato’s work is good enough i might not have to sue him for screwin with my game.”

    Lol

  80. EliotAndrews said 3 months ago:

    Mato, you’ve done (and continue to do) amazing work. We are all in your debt.

  81. someone said 3 months ago:

    Mato, you said you can’t fix the universe. You can beat a sparrow, squash bugs, and create game patches, but you can’t fix the UNIVERSE.

    Oh well, generic praises and lols. Go and test your heart out, but have a surgeon at your side.

  82. MikeDCray said 3 months ago:

    Chris Highwind said 3 hours ago:
    Sweet! I haven’t found a full Mother 3 ROM yet (the one in Emuparadise is only about 14-some MB, which isn’t the entire ROM), but I hope to find one soon and check this out when it comes out!

    Interesting theory Chris. I got the one from EmuParadise and it’s 32 MB. Check your computers internet connection. Maybe it died before the download was done. Sorry if I sould like an @$$, I’m just trying to help. The Rom at EmuParadise IS the full game, like all other GBA Roms I’ve gotten from there.

  83. rc5 said 3 months ago:

    Yaaaay!

  84. Tezen said 3 months ago:

    D00d you are my hero, and you’d perfectionist touches never cease to amaze me. All your works just are so professional and we all appreciate the work you do, now I hope someday I could see that remake of Earthbound Zero ;3 after I enjoy this translation.

  85. KirbyPhelpsPK said 3 months ago:

    Sooner? How much sooner?

  86. GODLY said 3 months ago:

    Awesome.

    1. Translate Game
    2. Hack Game
    3. Test Game
    4. ??????
    5. PROFIT!

  87. fed306 said 3 months ago:

    Mato, why don’t you just patch one copy of the ROM and then put that ROM up for download. I know ROMs are normally can cause legal problems but since its YOUR translation is it OK?

  88. rogueofmv said 3 months ago:

    Today’s my birthday!
    This compatibility news is a present worth five birthdays. Thanks for the gift, Mato! :)

  89. Michael said 3 months ago:

    Please say you hired the Runaway Five for the opening ceremony, Mato…

  90. Josh Weinberg said 3 months ago:

    @fed:

    No, because its HIS translation on top of NINTENDO’S property :) Still infringing if he offers the original or patched ROM for download.

  91. MikeDCray said 3 months ago:

    Happy Birthday rogueofmv! Let’s celebrate with a birthday party at my EB-a-Thon Ustream page. I’ll provide the birthday song and even a cake on the audio-and-video streaming thingy.

  92. RichKid said 3 months ago:

    Must… stop… sudden and erratic… heart palpitations… Also, thanks Mato and all that are putting forth time and effort to test the patch! You guys are heroes!

  93. noco said 3 months ago:

    :3
    that is all.

  94. Tal Kabesa said 3 months ago:

    I’m willing to test the patched game once it’s out on my supercard mini SD, I’ll probably play it anyway so it’s not like a favor or something :)

  95. blueflare said 3 months ago:

    Oh, jeebus. I am excited.

    Yay.

  96. Mr. Caffeine said 3 months ago:

    Getting closer :P

  97. Aurilliux said 3 months ago:

    man… practically 100 posts in 4 hours.

  98. ste said 3 months ago:

    Not entirely sure Mednafen will work guys, my terminal shows this with the Japanese rom open:

    SRAM emulation disabled by write to: 0e005555 000000aa

  99. xybur said 3 months ago:

    Oh hey, if this game is done by my birthday, October 16th, which according to Mato sounds completely plausible at this point, it looks like I really have to keep my end of the bargain and send some birthday cake mix over.

    Really though, thanks a bunch for doing this. And singlehandedly taking on a project of such magnitude. And of course, thanks to everyone else involved in the hack, if it weren’t for them the project would’ve been stifled ages ago.

    In any case, truthfully Mato, thanks alot. I appreciate it.

  100. Kinda said 3 months ago:

    Awesome. I can’t wait for this…man, I just beat Earthbound a week ago, now this is going to be out soon…

    This, is the best news I’ve heard all day. And I’ve had a really awesome day, even before I heard this news. I can’t wait, and great job!

  101. ste said 3 months ago:

    oh, seems to save perfectly fine!

  102. mike k said 3 months ago:

    Dude…I cant wait for this and I cant wait for punch out!! wii and I cant wait for Battlefield heroes and I cant wait for mario and luigi rpg 3. Thats 4 things I cant wait for. Also, the dsi is going to suck because there is no gba slot and there are 2 cameras. Is 1 camera just not enough to satisfy your camera needs?

  103. Biiaru said 3 months ago:

    “ste said 13 minutes ago:
    Not entirely sure Mednafen will work guys, my terminal shows this with the Japanese rom open:

    SRAM emulation disabled by write to: 0e005555 000000aa”

    Saving does work, though. I know - I’ve done it :P

  104. Zaxtur said 3 months ago:

    100th!

  105. DKjunior said 3 months ago:

    VBA GX 1.0.2 (for Wii) has just released, with the core updated to VBA-M:

    http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9182

  106. JapanMan said 3 months ago:

    HOT HOT HOT!

  107. Reagle said 3 months ago:

    I also vote that the patch release topic title be:

    Welcome to th :|

  108. Itsnotmyfault said 3 months ago:

    I’ve been watching this sucker from back when the project first merged. It’s wild to think that it’s almost done. Winding down as it is, I figured now is as good a time as any to post my appreciation for the amount of time and effort that has been put into this. I am becoming exceedingly eager, and will easily spend many hours playing the first day. To continued success, Mato, Jeffman, and the rest of the crew.

  109. Radd said 3 months ago:

    I. Cannot. Believe. It.

    The thing that really got me exited was the last sentence.

  110. Zatech said 3 months ago:

    Will those “tiny, tiny” issues be fixed at some point in a patch when you have the time or something? If they aren’t really noticeable it’s all fine, but it’d be nice to have a totally, totally complete project by the time you completely stop on the project. No hurries though, I’m already happy enough you guys have gotten this far.

    By the way, have you considered maybe making a deal with Nintendo and giving them a finished version for them to sell right away or something, in exchange for some monies or even nothing if you feel like being generous? If I was Nintendo, I wouldn’t see why not.

  111. Alfonso Alfredo said 3 months ago:

    Once the translation’s done, everyone should spam out the message. Think of how fast we could flood the internet…
    Plus it would help to have more people play the Mother games.

  112. Vialpando said 3 months ago:

    @ GODLY

    “4.??????”

    PLAY GAME!

    I’m expecting the VC release, given they listen to us, to be released within a few months. When it comes out, I will buy about 30 copies and gift them to other Wii friends. I just have cash to burn. =P

  113. clydethemagikbunny said 3 months ago:

    *obligatory have my man babies post*

    Now that that’s out of the way, OH YEAH

  114. rogueofmv said 3 months ago:

    Sure thing, MikeDCray, but… what’s the password to get into the stream? xP

  115. kevinchai said 3 months ago:

    “Once the translation’s done, everyone should spam out the message. Think of how fast we could flood the internet…
    Plus it would help to have more people play the Mother games.”

    NO

  116. rogueofmv said 3 months ago:

    Disregard that last message, I checked my USTREAM box. :D

  117. A Fan said 3 months ago:

    At this rate, it feels like we’re heading towards a Halloween launch. Make sure to have zombie paper ready! :-)

  118. Shigesato Itoi said 3 months ago:

    This… This… This is amazing. I couldn’t have done better myself. The DSi will have downloadable games. I’m offering you and your team $100,000 USD if you allow us to release this translation on the DSi’s downloadable game service.

  119. BlackZero said 3 months ago:

    All right! Way to go Mato! I can’t WAIT to play Mother 3 in english. It shall me the most incredible gaming experience of my life. *shot*

  120. BlackZero said 3 months ago:

    Goof, “me” should be “be”

  121. Troy said 3 months ago:

    I am not even a female, and I want Mato to father my babies. DO IT.

  122. Trimalchio said 3 months ago:

    What about tool-assisted testing? Have you done that yet?

  123. PK Tormenta Estelar said 3 months ago:

    SQUEEEEEEE! If I had any money left after buying my stuff to play the translation I would pay you! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!
    GRACIASGRACIASGRACIASGRACIAS!!!

  124. Alfonso Alfredo said 3 months ago:

    I think this candidate is best suited to fix the problems we’re having in the U.S.

    http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=370743&altf=Uif&altl=Hbnf1Nbtufs

    Hope the link works.

  125. kevinchai said 3 months ago:

    You’ve tortured me with waiting so much I’m becoming Giygas.
    Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato
    It feels.. good

  126. Alfonso Alfredo said 3 months ago:

    Yes.

  127. Alaska Nebraska said 3 months ago:

    I’m mildly faint. And I have finished the game thrice over and I’m STILL hyped.

    Yesss.

  128. Patient on the outside said 3 months ago:

    “No, because its HIS translation on top of NINTENDO’S property”

    There’s also the fact that the ROM is 32MB in size. A patch, which is much smaller, takes less time to download.

    Sooner than you thought eh? So much for finishing Mega Man 9 before the patch came out…eh, I dunno why I said that. :\

  129. conveyer said 3 months ago:

    GBA emulators on Mac suck simply because GBA emulators on Mac suck. The demand for it isn’t that high. I remember trying to run Fire Emblem 6 on a G3 back in 2004 using the crappy Mac port of Visual Boy Advance… NOT FUN. I’m so, SO glad I have a new computer that isn’t a Mac.

  130. Mistour said 3 months ago:

    Mato is such a winrar, he’s some fancy pro edition you have to pay for. That’s right, he’s got that many awesome features.

  131. NovaMan XP said 3 months ago:

    Alright. Time to test Mother 3 on my PSP just to make sure…

  132. Starman Jr. said 3 months ago:

    Does anyone know if he mentioned in the past what the “tiny, tiny issues” he is talking about are? I’m kinda curious.

  133. Helelos said 3 months ago:

    Oh god oh geez oh god Oh god oh geez oh god Oh god oh geez oh god Oh god oh geez oh god OH GEEZ OH GOOOD OH GEEEZ OH GOOOD OH GEEEZ

    OH GOD OH GEEZ

  134. Magus said 3 months ago:

    Starman Jr.: Things he doesn’t like. This may possibly include bugs present in the non hacked up version of the game. I don’t remember when he mentioned that though.

    Also I’m probably wrong altogether.

  135. jellytack said 3 months ago:

    testing is magic cake, eh? awesome… i prefer magic pudding myself, but whatever gets us there :)

  136. Yogurt93 said 3 months ago:

    Thank you! You’ve done a great thing.

  137. aguy said 3 months ago:

    I’m just happy this’ll be out before the LHC collisions start and potentially wipe out all of human history, culture, etc. for the sake of testing some largely irrelevant hypothesis.

  138. snake_in_a_box said 3 months ago:

    Good job Mato, hope the testing isn’t getting too boring! A countdown would be cool, but as you said, risky.

  139. Bret said 3 months ago:

    I would actually prefer not being told the translation is coming. For two reasons really: 1. Can you imagine if you just look on here one day and there is the translation…wow what a rush! 2. What if Nintendips are watching this and they are waiting for you guys to announce the translation is done before they make an announcement of their own? Anyway…my two cents!!! Just surprise us man!

  140. hank said 3 months ago:

    MATO are you throwing a party to celebrate after the patch is released?

  141. raiderx said 3 months ago:

    Testing is Moonside

  142. Mato said 3 months ago:

    Ooh, found a tiny bug of my own, in one of the battle text lines I had typed [31 FF] (which is the pause code) instead of [11 FF] (the subject name code). Easy enough to fix. Also fixed the translation for that line since I had never seen that line before.

  143. MikeDCray said 3 months ago:

    rogueofmv, I think it’s safe to come back now. Willah uber-banned the hacker.

  144. jackal27 said 3 months ago:

    Any idea on a date? Estimation??

  145. mike k said 3 months ago:

    Mato: what is your favorite video game of all time? if it is a non-mother game, what is your favorite mother game? if it is a mother game, what is your favorite non-mother game?

  146. A Fan said 3 months ago:

    @Trimalchio: I’m pretty sure he’s been doing tool-assisted testing just about the whole time. After all, he keeps tons of savestates on the emulator so that he can go to particular parts of the game to test things without having to replay everything every time :)

    Anyhow, good luck to Mato in catching all those evil bugs/typos!

  147. Asbduhas said 3 months ago:

    Sweet! I f this is done by the end of the week I get to start Mother 3….OVER FALL BREAK!!!!!!!! YYEEAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!

  148. Belmont said 3 months ago:

    Your speedy work never stops amazing me. Nice Job.

  149. Shigesato Itoi said 3 months ago:

    It’s me again. Mr. Itoi here. Have you decided on whether or not you want this to be downloadable on the DSi? I’ve raised it to $500,000.

    Either way, this has inspired me to create a MOTHER 4. Check your local video game store in the year 2013. ;)

  150. Kitty said 3 months ago:

    Shigesato Itoi: Say wha?

  151. SoreThumb said 3 months ago:

    You know what’s great, Mato?

    This translation has been done so fast, that all the Mother jokes about how awesome you are, like, gaining a level and s***, are all only moderately annoying.

    They haven’t even reached “Freakin’ aggravating’ yet :D

  152. SHIGERU MIYAMOTO said 3 months ago:

    Back off, Itoi. I’m the man.

  153. Juan Love said 3 months ago:

    Hey Mato I know this probably wont help much but I did try and play the menu patch version a while back and since i usually don’t like to use guides and just play the game like any other human being by talkin to people to figure out where to go i gave up since i can’t read or speak japanese. But i did run into a small issue with gpsp when loadin a save state during the part where its raining kinda close to the beginning when the forest was on fire only thing you can see is the rain and no map until you move to a different part like going thru a door or entering a different part of the map that must be loaded altho minor i thought i should mention that.

  154. Juan Love said 3 months ago:

    emu = psp
    ver = 0.9
    fw = 4.01 m33 update 2

  155. blrasmu said 3 months ago:

    Way to go Mato! You must be the most praised person on the internet.

  156. Mato said 3 months ago:

    I think I have the most babies ever. Now to sell them on the black market. My true plan is complete!

  157. Mikeyman64 said 3 months ago:

    Guess it’s about time to bring out the ol NeoMax and see if it still works. :S

  158. Lark said 3 months ago:

    G-giant step to magic cake? It seems everything is progressing along very quickly! I-I can’t wait ;v;

  159. Reggie Films-Aime said 3 months ago:

    Both of you back off! I’m in charge now! You will all bow down to my almighty DSi! No more GBA, no more Mother series! From now on an endless supply of Mario Party sequels, sports games, and “casual gamer” games marketed to insecure teenage girl!

  160. Baby Buyer said 3 months ago:

    How ’bout $20 a baby?

  161. Ian said 3 months ago:

    Just wanted to say that I am a huge fan of Mother 2(Earthbound) and have been following the progress on this site for awhile. Mato, you are great! I can’t wait to play it is going to be a major MILP(Mother I would like to play!)

  162. jellytack said 3 months ago:

    No Reggie, for gods sake NO MORE MARIO PARTY!!!!! I CAN’T HANDLE ANY MORE!!!!!!!!!!

  163. jjs said 3 months ago:

    Are you gonna throw a release party, or possibly even a release gala??

  164. Zach said 3 months ago:

    You’re really awesome for doing this, Mato. I really admire that you’re treating this like a professional and making sure everything is perfect upon release rather than update after update. I can’t wait to see the final product.

    Looks like I’m going to have to beat Earthbound a lot sooner than I though. I bought and played the game when it first came out but never beat it. I got stuck on the last boss! Ahh why didn’t somebody tell me to use pray, haha.

  165. Old West said 3 months ago:

    Wonderful to see the progress. You guys are so, so close.

  166. Err1112 said 3 months ago:

    The Game Master said 6 hours ago:
    When you said “Magic cake” I thought “Demi in the far east” for some reason.

    @ruok: I already asked for one and Mato said it would be almost impossible, since it has sloppy programming, and Earthbound was flexible enough for that stuff. EB2 isn’t. But I think there will be a text editor.

    @Err1112: He’s not hacking EB0 to have earthbound graphics, that’s impossible on an 8-bit system. He’s hacking Earthbound so it will have EB0’s story, characters, settings, etc. And he said he stopped work on it and probably won’t get back any time soon.

    Man Mato I didn’t think you would survive long enough to see this.

    thats wut i ment to say LOL

    also mato U KICK ASS

  167. nekoaitsu said 3 months ago:

    @ jjs:
    I would not be suprised if there is an insane number of people in the starmen.net irc when it releases, but I don’t know about a party per se.. considering that this is all still on shaky ground.

    I dunno if I would even show up anyways, considering what I will be busy playing~

    Let’s just hope that the patcher is done in time.

  168. zomg... said 3 months ago:

    I came.

  169. Superfluous Moniker said 3 months ago:

    Ohhh yeah this is getting good.

  170. Well I already found Mato's babys so there!!! said 3 months ago:

    -n00b

  171. Doc said 3 months ago:

    Hmm? Black market of babies? No thank you, I think I’ll just buy the gene-pool.

    Anyways I suppose while maybe this might conflict with your “No countdown” is there a raw rounded off estimate to how much testing you’ve done?

  172. SmashBass said 3 months ago:

    Thank you.
    Gracias.
    Muchísimas gracias!!!

    Thank you very much! You´re heroes!

  173. Nevi901 said 3 months ago:

    Omg, the translation is really coming, arghh.ehh…I must…do…something. NOW!

    *bites Mato’s butt*

    *squeals* It was so….YUM!

    Well i’m relieved now. I can’t believe that preety soon I’ll be able to play this game.

    Keep going Mato! And I won’t bite you anymore, promise.

  174. Josh Weinberg said 3 months ago:

    For those that payed attention to what I said before about the forthcoming GBA emulator for OSX that I’m working on. I just checked SRAM stuff with the JP version of the rom, and it worked like a charm :D So for anyone who has problems, this one should work like a charm.

    Now…this is the first time i ever opened this ROM, and let me just say, I’m more excited now than ever.

    Three cheers for mato!

  175. KupoKK said 3 months ago:

    Hey… I just saw that in the To-Do list, the “tool-assisted testing” just disappeared. That means…

    IT’S CLOSER THAN EVER NOW GUYS

    SO CLOSE 8D

  176. rusty said 3 months ago:

    I haven’t been following all the comments as religiously as I once did, so maybe I missed this, but:

    What happened with the 3rd revision of the script? Is it done already/everything go smoothly? I don’t remember hearing anything about it!

  177. Nevi901 said 3 months ago:

    I believed Mato scrapped it because Demi is currently running his own company and didn’t have too much time for this, and the second script was already great looking, so Mato went with it.

  178. deckard said 3 months ago:

    you are my new heroes

  179. TBird said 3 months ago:

    w00t! Let’s throw an eparty when this is done. I’ll bring the ebratwursts!

  180. nword said 3 months ago:

    my psp desperately awaits the release of this patch like a cat in heat.

  181. The MAZZTer said 3 months ago:

    “No, there won’t be a countdown or anything like that, that’s lame and then what if something happens and we can’t release it when the countdown hits 0? We’ll have made MANY people pissed, all because we were trying to be dramatic

    We’ll probably announce the release date only a couple days in advance, once we know it’s going to be ready for sure.”

    Obvious solution is to set a countdown for April 1st and then at T minus 5 to replace the front page with “This Account Has Been Suspended”.

  182. YAMAUCHI Hiroshi said 3 months ago:

    I am most displeased with this project and, more generally, the deterioration of the great NINTENDO empire since my departure — despite the fact that I have become unspeakably rich beyond human comprehension. I order this project to cease immediately. It will bring terrible shame to my legacy.

    Do you not remember my wise words of yesteryear? You are all depressed gamers who like to sit alone in your dark rooms and play slow games! Never have these words been more true than today. Turn from your downfallen state before your babies become mine forever.

    Such a pity…

  183. EBP said 3 months ago:

    how pissed off would you be if you had just announced that the patch was gonna be released in 2 days then NoA demands that you don’t release it…also it would prove that NoA hates all things MOTHER related..

  184. That_one_person said 3 months ago:

    The cake is a lie

  185. azsxdc said 3 months ago:

    Do you also take donations in mouth?

  186. Deeman said 3 months ago:

    I would never let Mato have my children, he would prolly make a sweatshop of Mother hackers… oh… wait… maybe that aint a bad idea ^^

    Forgot what i was going to ask but anyway, Merry Christmas!

  187. thedeo said 3 months ago:

    crescent fresh maaan

  188. Psychomax said 3 months ago:

    I know it’s probably far too late for this (and I don’t want to sound like I’m telling you how to do your job,) but in the translation of Okami, for the long strange Japanese names, instead of changing them completely they just made them shorter: Okikurmi became Oki, Ushiwaka became Waka, and Izanami became Nami. If you’re not happy with some of the unpronounceable-in-English names or can’t think of a good English cognate, you could try that.

    Or, in the likelihood that you already knew all this, this is directed at everyone else: Wasn’t that interesting?

  189. Anthony Santosuosso said 3 months ago:

    Im pretty sure that VBA has an OSX version.

  190. Faux said 3 months ago:

    Mato, your refusal of money for all of this work speak volumes about the direction of the development community. Real inspiration to do something like this is not motivated by money. Game developers should follow suit. Something so easy to copy should not be so expensive. Is it piracy to paint an exact copy of the Mona Lisa? Isn’t it piracy to take a photo of a painting?

  191. grandleon said 3 months ago:

    mato dominating the world with babies for sale? goodness, you’re more of a genius that I thought.

  192. Inzoum said 3 months ago:

    @Faux: “Is it piracy to paint an exact copy of the Mona Lisa?”

    No, because the Mona Lisa is old enough to have fallen into public domain. Besides, copyrights didn’t exist back then… Mother 3’s copyrights still have a lifetime to go before they expire :P

  193. dude said 3 months ago:

    copyrights disappear 100 years after the authors death…. so yeah you can’t copy this game. maybe your great grandchildren will be able to lol.

  194. Tansunn said 3 months ago:

    Has anybody tested the translation on the GBA emulator for Wii yet? That’s how I’m hoping to get to play it - even if it’s not on its intended system, at least it’ll still be on an official Nintendo console.

  195. Googi said 3 months ago:

    @Inzoum: Faux knew the answer to this, he was stating it to make his point.

  196. Chris Highwind said 3 months ago:

    # MikeDCray said 15 hours ago:

    Chris Highwind said 3 hours ago:
    Sweet! I haven’t found a full Mother 3 ROM yet (the one in Emuparadise is only about 14-some MB, which isn’t the entire ROM), but I hope to find one soon and check this out when it comes out!

    Interesting theory Chris. I got the one from EmuParadise and it’s 32 MB. Check your computers internet connection. Maybe it died before the download was done. Sorry if I sould like an @$$, I’m just trying to help. The Rom at EmuParadise IS the full game, like all other GBA Roms I’ve gotten from there.

    Actually, it was the full game, and it was 14 mb packed, but for some odd reason, Winrar saw an unexpected end to the archive and wouldn’t extract it. I got the M3 Rom from another site, and it worked fine.

    Anywho, I have a Mother 3 ROM just waiting for the patch!

  197. Fudgehat said 3 months ago:

    VBA GX 1.0.2 for Wii still doesn’t run Mother 3 very well unfortunately. The frameskipping problem makes doing combos in battle almost impossible. If you can get through the game without combos then it’s mostly fine otherwise.

  198. gpat said 3 months ago:

    Oh well, I fail at combos so no big lose.

  199. Vagn said 3 months ago:

    Guys you shouldn’t talk about where to find ROMS, Mato will smite you.

  200. Chris Highwind said 3 months ago:

    Vagn said 53 minutes ago:
    Guys you shouldn’t talk about where to find ROMS, Mato will smite you.

    Whoops, good point.

  201. Anthony said 3 months ago:

    wE’LL BE ABLE TO PLAY BEFORE THE END OF OCTOBER !!
    YEAH!!

  202. Rai said 3 months ago:

    It would be nice if we could get it before the end of October. My mom’s birthday is Halloween and I’d love to be able to hook her up with this patch. I got her hooked on EarthBound and now she’s very interested in playing Mother 3.

    But hey, no rush or anything. Take your time to find all the bugs and squish them. Thorough beta testing makes for a better game, you know?

  203. Symphony_Sid said 3 months ago:

    Sorry, Mato. I understand that the mac thing is out of your hands. I do appreciate all the work that has gone in. I have checked this site regularly and I cannot wait to play it. Thanks for actually responding to the comments. Laters.

  204. Carl said 3 months ago:

    Faux said 7 hours ago:

    “Something so easy to copy should not be so expensive.”

    I don’t get the connection.

    Games aren’t expensive because they’re difficult to reproduce; they cost a lot because it takes a lot of time, effort, and money to create them–the content itself, that is, and not just the physical media. If games cost significantly less than they do now, it’d be much more difficult or impossible to create them for a living, and we’d have fewer great games like MOTHER 3 to play. Surely this isn’t what you’d want?

    And yes, as other have already said, copying the Mona Lisa would be piracy if it was under copyright as is MOTHER 3.

  205. Master of Ramen said 3 months ago:

    @ Carl:

    http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Mona+Lisa&gbv=2

    I think that speaks for itself!

    @ Mato: Ah, but what if one of your babies turns out to be the reincarnation of Giygas? You could’ve had an alien’s reincarnation, and for selling it, he’ll come and destroy you for revenge!!!

  206. nintendope said 3 months ago:

    Thanks for the latest word, Mato. :)

  207. A Fan said 3 months ago:

    Quickly, to the Matomobile!

    (I always wanted to say that! :) )

  208. Jigga Brown said 3 months ago:

    Jigga Brown touches the soundstone to his head.

    He sees a picture of tomatoes majestically dancing around a translated Mother 3.
    …but only for a second.

    *Jigga Brown recorded the melody of the Tomato Translator*

  209. jellytack said 3 months ago:

    Beta testing is like Mato’s magicant

  210. Leafeon said 3 months ago:

    This wouldn’t happen to be the magic cake I gave you, would it?

    Don’t let the bugs bite, if they bite, squeeze them tight and post here about it so we can all go ‘yay’.

  211. FMArthur said 3 months ago:

    I think we should make a chart detailing the number of times “babies” is mentioned in each news post. Would be an interesting collection of data.

  212. FMArthur said 3 months ago:

    For now, here’s a ranking of threads based on that number from Google, but it doesn’t display a number: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&as_q=babies&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=20&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fmother3.fobby.net%2F&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=off

  213. SirVenom said 3 months ago:

    Next up: Testing isn’t right… isn’t right… friends…

  214. Alfonso Alfredo said 3 months ago:

    Just looked at the To-Do List, only one thing left.
    So close!

  215. StarZombie said 3 months ago:

    You cannot grasp the true form of Mato’s attack!

    10 million sales of mortal damage to Nintendo!

    I don’t know if I’ll even be able to play this patch because I can’t find a ROM anywhere. Everything ends up being links to porn.

  216. anonymous said 3 months ago:

    With the way Mato is power spawning babies, one would think he was on Power Thirst.

  217. Arashi said 3 months ago:

    If the government decides to look at a profile of Mato, they’ll find:

    Real Name: Tom Ato

    Married: ???

    Chidren: 394122

  218. kevinchai said 3 months ago:

    “I don’t know if I’ll even be able to play this patch because I can’t find a ROM anywhere. Everything ends up being links to porn.”
    I don’t think so. ROMs are EVERYWHERE. I can think of 5 sites right now that have GBA ROMs, but I can’t tell you because of the rules! :(

  219. dude said 3 months ago:

    i won’t tell you what rom site to go to, but searching for dash and roms in google might yield some great results.

  220. anonymous said 3 months ago:

    I have to admit, it was a bit more difficult than I expected…quite odd…

  221. Handsome Hobo said 3 months ago:

    Whoever doesn’t have a Mother 3 ROM, message me on AIM. I WON’T hook you up with it. ;)

    my AIM is omfglolhi

  222. Kazegin said 3 months ago:

    You’re a super star. :D

  223. MajorasMask9 said 3 months ago:

    Mato can I have one of your children?

  224. Exp HP said 3 months ago:

    Wow, I completely forgot about this when I got Disgaea. I gotta get my priorities straight. I mean, come on dood, this is Mother 3 we’re talking about!

  225. Mato said 3 months ago:

    Which Disgaea? I want to play 3 so bad but I need a PS3 and I need free time. I’m afraid that if I started to play it (or another one in the series) I’ll disappear for months :O

  226. Ghouls 'n Ghosts said 3 months ago:

    He probably means Disgaea DS.

  227. anonymous said 3 months ago:

    I’d guess the US release of the DS version of 1, since it just came out recently and the US release of Disgaea 3 isn’t out till the end of the month.

  228. Nesu said 3 months ago:

    i know where you can find a rom but you should know spanish

  229. CTC said 3 months ago:

    I know you don’t want anything from this translation Mato, but let us get you a PS3 with Disgaea 3!

  230. ScaryMonster said 3 months ago:

    “i know where you can find a rom but you should know spanish”

    Funny how you say that on a translation blog…

  231. Mato said 3 months ago:

    It’s cool that people want to give me free things (especially expensive things like PS3s, heh) but 1. I don’t feel comfortable accepting stuff, just feels… creepy and 2. even if it’s not money, there’s probably some legal thing somewhere that would put us in more trouble if we accepted stuff and then got taken to court.

  232. copb.phoenix said 3 months ago:

    Wow, this has come a long way. I don’t post much, but I’ve been watching this project more-or-less since it started.

    Thanks to everyone who has put forth the effort to make this work.

    A couple hisses and a *****slap to all the nay-sayers out there.

  233. Coconut of Enlightenment said 3 months ago:

    I’m glad to see it so near completion. I’ve been waiting for this as long as anyone (I played EarthBound when I was ten, right when it came out). You have no idea how much this makes other stresses in my life just disappear.

    For those of you who don’t have the ROM, keep looking, I know it took me forever to find one (at a website that I can’t reveal here).

  234. Vagn said 3 months ago:

    Hey Mato I bet you go through a weird withdrawal stage when this project is over. Its like when people are in school and all they want is for summer to come. But when summer comes eventually people start to miss school. When that happens just think of sprite text morphing and it should stop :)

  235. Triangle said 3 months ago:

    Mato… but there’s a way to donate to you, that people will no doubt find… no? but with even that there would be legal issues right?…..

  236. Zaxtur said 3 months ago:

    I forget who mentioned this, but I agree. It may be better not to give a heads up of when the patch is coming out, as it could put pressure on Nintendo to take action preventing its release. I think the patch has a better chance of seeing the light of day if there is no announcement of its release ahead of time. Just surprise us with it. There is less chance of it being stopped that way, and it would be an awesome surprise for many fans.

  237. Mato said 3 months ago:

    Basically, there are a few things you can do:

    1. Buy official merchandise, support the series, who knows, maybe good can come from it
    2. When the patch comes out, don’t rush through it super-fast, take time to savor it, since it HAS been almost 14 years in the making. Go out of your way and explore and have fun.
    M. Uhh, donate blood or money to charities or something in our names, I dunno.

  238. Trimalchio said 3 months ago:

    1… 2… M?

  239. MotherLover123 said 3 months ago:

    1.
    2.
    M.other 3?
    :P
    Maybe?

  240. Vagn said 3 months ago:

    Can I sacrifice a goat in your name?

  241. Handsome Hobo said 3 months ago:

    M is the new 3.

  242. Erik said 3 months ago:

    @Mato:
    1, 2, M… Sounds like a song or something. Are you about to reveal some song you wrote to remember the hardships of translating this game?

  243. Triangle said 3 months ago:

    so it’s official… M is the new 3 :) (except when writing Mother 3)

  244. Aurilliux said 3 months ago:

    Ooh, ooh, is testing going to be gutsy bat next?

  245. Mato said 3 months ago:

    Mini update

    I haven’t had much time in the last day to do much testing, but no new issues have come up, I’ve been trying to get as much rare battle text to show up as possible, too. Nothing new from the testing team either, they’re even testing it at different text speeds and trying all kinds of stuff.

    demi’s super busy so I’m probably going to make some videos of key lines so he can help make them better. After that and my current playthrough (two chapters left), I’ll see where we stand, and if all is well (I predict it will be), patch time will be upon us. I got a good deal of work the next few days though, so who knows how long this will all take.

  246. Reagle said 3 months ago:

    Mato: Eeeeeeeeeeeee.

  247. Monsuco said 3 months ago:

    Hmm, I think I am starting to see mato’s true plan:
    1. Translate Mother 3
    2. Obtain lots of babies.
    3. (or M.) ???
    4. Profit!

  248. Zinco said 3 months ago:

    I can’t wait to put off completing my thesis!

  249. SEAN said 3 months ago:

    I swear if I see anyone else use any 4CHAN.ORG lingo I will rage so hard. STOP! GO BACK TO /b/!!!

  250. noco said 3 months ago:

    october 13th… :3
    also, mother 3 = 33

  251. Mato said 3 months ago:

    It won’t be out by then, that’s definitely for sure.

  252. noco said 3 months ago:

    also also,
    @sean,
    south park

  253. Jr said 3 months ago:

    I hate to join in the general…creepy weirdness that’s been going around here lately, but: It’s at the point where I’m staring longingly at my Japanese Mother3 box and softly saying, “Soon, my dear…soon…”

  254. Viktor said 3 months ago:

    by the end of the month or by the first days of nov, we will be seeing/playing/licking/…(or else) mother 3!!!
    & as 4 me, at nov the 7 , i ll be unconscious by the feets of ….THE MARS VOLTA; #$&#$& YEAH!!! n_n

  255. Anonymous said 3 months ago:

    I will not change my underwear until this patch is released!

  256. MotherLover123 said 3 months ago:

    Oh yeah?! Well I won’t eat until the patch is out. Yeah, that’s right Mato, lives are on the line now. The clocks of my internal organs are ticking and only you hold the key to end their suffering. Good luck.

    P.S. I DON’T WANT TO DIE!

  257. noco said 3 months ago:

    @mato:
    ;_;

  258. Reggie Fils-Aime said 3 months ago:

    Normally, we’d have sued you by now, but this is too damned amazing… I will personally allow you to release this patch.

    To all the EarthBound fans out there, I’m sorry for removing EarthBound from the American version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. We at Nintendo may or may not release MOTHER 3 on DSWare. If we do, perhaps we could use this patch. I’m ready to offer you and your team 1/4 of the profits made from MOTHER 3 for DSWare if you let Nintendo use this patch. Think about it. ;)

  259. Mato said 3 months ago:

    The joke was funny a while ago, but it’s kind of old now.

  260. AJ said 3 months ago:

    hey if this is really reggie, i wanna know who leaked this site to you, and why arnt hardcore games arent comming out as frequently and why there is no super smash bros for ds

  261. GhostSonic said 3 months ago:

    It takes a skilled man to make his name Reggie Fils-Aime on this

  262. gBev said 3 months ago:

    I wish that was really Reggie :(

  263. GhostSonic said 3 months ago:

    @sean
    What’s wrong with 4chan lingo?

  264. SHIGERU MIYAMOTO said 3 months ago:

    Mato, you really need to treat yourself to Disgaea 3 at some point. It’s a great game. The writing is top notch, the humour never fails to give a chuckle, and if you just want to go ape with grinding, the Disgaea way is always available. You should let some creepy psychopath send you a PS3 just so you can enjoy it. Really.

  265. Joke wherein an average blog reader pretends to be an official representative of Nintendo said 3 months ago:

    I was funny a while ago, but I’m kind of old now.

  266. Landon said 3 months ago:

    leaked? lol

    its called “google”

    Loooong time reader, first time poster. Earthbound was one of my first games I bought for the Super Nintendo, and I still have the box with the game and the guide (the stickers still smell!). Just wanted to say THANK YOU for all of the hard work, and I can’t wait to feel like I am 14 again playing Mother 3.

    Thanks again, Mato!!

  267. KielTen said 3 months ago:

    Ohgodohgodohhhgod.

    I’ve been pretty much lurking for a good while now, unsure why I never posted. Maybe the sheer awesomeness of this left me speechless. Still am, really. I’ve been waiting for a damn while now, and hell, I’ll wait ’til I’m 60 let it be said. But if the patch is going to be released soon, awesome. Less agony for me :3 And Mato, you really have no clue how fun it is to tell people of your awesomesauce project, and have them say in confusion “Mato?” They said “is that someone working for Nintendo?” XD Boy, those never get old.

    But enough of that then. ::Goes to set up my computer for MOTHER 3::

    ( I still need to finish 2… .w.;;; )

  268. KielTen said 3 months ago:

    ( And about the above comment, I’m not around 60 hardly. I’m a teen still >w>;;; I was just saying I’ll wait forever.)

  269. nekoaitsu said 3 months ago:

    Mato, could we get a brief update on how the patcher is coming when you get a chance?

    If not, then I will just be patient. :3

  270. nekoaitsu said 3 months ago:

    patcher, patching program, whathaveyou*

    And yes, I am aware that you are not making that yourself.

  271. Mato said 3 months ago:

    I gave byuu a basic list of what the patcher should look like/do, but he’s a busy guy so for now we play hungry hungry hippos.

  272. Reanzet said 3 months ago:

    so what are we talking? days? weeks?

  273. Dude said 3 months ago:

    Mato, How will you name your children????

  274. Patient on the outside said 3 months ago:

    Wait, they made Disgaea 3? I thought they—hold on.

    The PS3…just fabulous.

  275. SHIGERU MIYAMOTO said 3 months ago:

    jesus, I can’t believe it got leaked this late in the project.

  276. Handsome Hobo said 3 months ago:

    Holy crap… It’s so soon. I’m so excited.

  277. TBird said 3 months ago:

    Hungry Hungry Hippos? Because The Waiting Game is boring perhaps?

  278. Marzz said 3 months ago:

    Wow.

    This is my first comment on this blog for the entire project. I just wanted to say, that I’ve waited so long for this translation.

    Right now, i’m playing through Star Ocean on the SNES, done by the Dejap team. Little did i know, that Tomato is one of the translators for that script.

    The quality of the translation is fantastic, and i know this one will be too. I can’t wait.

  279. Oh NOES said 3 months ago:

    Please not until after october 14th.

    ……
    The new world of warcraft patch comes out that day!

  280. Mato '08! said 3 months ago:

    Breaking News!

    Mato ‘08!

    Electoral Projections now have Mato winning in a landslide vote! Democrats and Republicans are completely confused having never heard of the “Mato Party” nor having any idea that Mato was even running for President.

    We all look forward to the first US President ever to keep all his campaign promises. While it’s true that Mato only made one promise–to create an English translation patch for Mother 3–this accomplishment makes him stand tall, far above the other candidates, even if questions remain as to whether Premier Election Systems (AKA Diebold) voting machines in key electoral districts may have been tampered with.

    The final popular vote tally was:
    Mato: 4883974982374982374
    Obama: 1
    McCain: -12

  281. hadoken_zero said 3 months ago:

    ^^^^
    release it then.
    just for the lolz.

    It’s almost done, hooray!,
    We’ve been watching this for ‘at least 100 years’.

    hehe

  282. rogueofmv said 3 months ago:

    *crosses fingers in hopes that next blog is “Testing is the Devil’s Machine”*

  283. nekoaitsu said 3 months ago:

    Thanks, Mato.

    @ Reanzet:
    As Mato says, no concrete date set, so I say that even the release was a few days away, assume that it will be sometime in the next month or so. If you want to be optimistic, think a few weeks, but things can always come up. This way, you will most likely not be disappointed, and perhaps even surprised. :D

  284. George Washington said 3 months ago:

    Reggie Fils-aime! TIME BATTLE!!!

  285. Jack said 3 months ago:

    The wait rapidly becomes unbearable now that it’s so incredibly close. I just like to think of it as a Christmas present - if it comes out before then, incredible, if it comes out after, well that’s okay too!

  286. Foffano said 3 months ago:

    OMG! It’s so close!

    I hope I’m not at the college when I read “it’s done” in the blog or I’ll start running around and jumping like crazy kicking all the other students insanely…

    Well… It looks like fun!

    No, it’s better no…

  287. FMArthur said 3 months ago:

    Dude: “Mato, How will you name your children????”

    He will have to use arrays.

  288. Chris Highwind said 3 months ago:

    # noco said 10 hours ago:

    october 13th… :3
    also, mother 3 = 33
    # Mato said 10 hours ago:

    It won’t be out by then, that’s definitely for sure.

    As long as it’s out sometime this month, I’m good. Or at least next month. This patch and the patcher would be great anniversary gifts for my girlfriend :)

  289. zero to hero said 3 months ago:

    I CAN’T WAIT TO BOMB SOME MUTTSHROOMS!

  290. zero to hero said 3 months ago:

    I’m gonna be be “sick” from school to play this. C’MON MATOOOO!!!! Oooh when I get home from school there’ll probably be an update!!! Can’t wait!! Don’t be late!! It’s Mato we appreciate!! Soon he’ll have a clean slate!! I do not understate!!

  291. Rai said 3 months ago:

    I will have a “very important project” to do that will keep me from doing anything else at work when this comes out.

  292. Mato said 3 months ago:

    Kinda reminds me of that weird Japanese law or whatever that Dragon Quest games can’t come out on weekdays or something :P

  293. Plumadore said 3 months ago:

    They should have just renamed they series dragon warrior like it was here in NA to avoid that whole issue, at least temporarily

  294. Auri said 3 months ago:

    Mato, if you’re over the age of 35, a natural-born US citizen, and been living in the US for over 14 years, you might end up with some votes for president.

    They might take the name Tom Ato as a joke, though….

  295. mitch said 3 months ago:

    Tomato was born from an egg in a small Microasian island in 2004. Sorry, Auri.

  296. Auri said 3 months ago:

    Poop.

  297. Trimalchio said 3 months ago:

    What do you plan to do about the tools for translation into other languages? What happened to tool-assisted editing? Have you made a read-me yet? Which hippo is your favorite? How long do you expect byuu to take? Who is chewy? How big is the patch, approximately?

    Sorry, my bag of questions ripped open and spilled them all at once.

  298. Mewz said 3 months ago:

    @Trimalchio

    Sense Mother3 is a 32MB game, I’d assume the patch is going to be at least 16MB, if not more, considering all the fixes, and the fact they maxed it out.

    Remember, GBA game has to stay exactly 32 MB, lol

  299. A Fan said 3 months ago:

    Actually, Mato, for the sanity of the people here, it WOULD be kind of you to release the patch on a Friday evening… :-)

  300. Handsome Hobo said 3 months ago:

    Actually, I think patches are really small compared to the ROM. I’m guessing 1MB max… But then again, I know nothing about hacking.

  301. Mato said 3 months ago:

    The patch file, when zipped up, will be about 1 MB. But I don’t know how the applier program will work, so it may be bigger than that when you figure that in.

    The ROM can’t be over 32 MB, which is the size it already is, so we’ve had to do reshuffling, compression-ish stuff, and blank-space hunting to make stuff fit.

  302. Kopper said 3 months ago:

    :D This is but a generic can’t wait post. Or is it…

    Don’t have my babies, you have too many. Plus the species thing. Instead, I might take some of them off your hands if no-one buys. I need food too ya know *mauled by baby lovers* Wow… Lucky Flint was here :D

  303. breakcircuit said 3 months ago:

    i know im gonna sound wierd here but dudes i would pay you money cause this means alot i mean u did this in spare time and this is like with ur working lives and stuff u guys rock out loud ! thank u the sooner it released the better #sniffle#

  304. Coconut of Enlightenment said 3 months ago:

    How many playthroughs will each tester do? You’ve already mentioned that some are already finished and have started over again. Will they play through again when this second playthrough is done?

  305. What? said 3 months ago:

    whats mother 3?
    where can i use it?

  306. Kopper said 3 months ago:

    I hope that was irony. I REALLY do.

  307. Shadow Link said 3 months ago:

    A warning to all you people who keep saying that Nintendo/NOA/ESA will crackdown on this, and thsoe who impersonate respected Nintendo staff members and the like: do not, I repeat, DO NOT jinx it. I know many, many friends who are good with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and if something does in fact go wrong, we will hurt you. A lot.

    But that aside, I honestly cannot wait. From the sounds of things, the patch could be out fairly soon. If it were possible, Mato, I would send you and your team some peanut butter cookies in support (yes, I know how to make peanut butter cookes, what of it?). Best of luck in finishing off this grueling endeavor.

  308. Magus said 3 months ago:

    Nah listen. If anything they’ll crackdown the moment I say they won’t crackdown on this.

    That’ll be someone (me) jinxing it.

    Moo hoo ha ha ha.

  309. Akihito said 3 months ago:

    I hereby decree this translation project a holy relic.

    *oooh hoooo aaaaaaaaaaaaah hooooooooo*

  310. Carl said 3 months ago:

    Nintendo, crack down on the MOTHER 3 fan translation? Don’t make me laugh! How could that POSSIBLY happen?

  311. Mato said 3 months ago:

    Still very hard finding time, but I did find a typo just now, which is good. We may have also found a bug that switches your text speed from Slow to Medium without your knowing, but it’s too early to say if that’s the translation’s fault or the original game’s.

  312. nekoaitsu said 3 months ago:

    Guys, seriously. That is going to upset a lot of people, so please stop.

  313. Edrees said 3 months ago:

    We all hope it was irony for the sake of the free world.

  314. dude said 3 months ago:

    I think I will skip making the blood offering in the name of the mother 3 translation team because demons have already tricked me into it before and I wont get fooled again, so I will show my appreciation in a different way.

  315. Champio30 said 3 months ago:

    lets just keep on the positive side.

  316. kevinchai said 3 months ago:

    Who uses slow anyway? Come on…

  317. Mato said 3 months ago:

    Slow text does make the game more challenging, due to rolling HP ;)

    If we can’t figure out how to recreate the bug 100% of the time though, it might not be fixable anyway, so it’s not too big of a deal. That’s pretty insanely minor.

  318. MidnightCeltic said 3 months ago:

    Jesus, who is the idiot who makes the whole “I’m a nintendo employee” game. It seriously was funny for about, 3 times. Now it is pushing it.

    Angryness aside. YAY!!!

  319. loren said 3 months ago:

    awesome

    adjective
    inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; “New York is an amazing city”; “the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight”; “the awesome complexity of the universe”; “this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath”- Melville; “Westminster Hall’s awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent”

    you, my friend, are awesome.

    -loren

  320. Arashi said 3 months ago:

    Ok, we need a new joke, since the Reggie, Shigesato Itoi, babies, the Flints, Boob Wizards, and welcome to th:| have gotten old.

    Any suggestions? Or better yet, why do I deteriorate my life on this blog?

  321. Mato said 3 months ago:

    Everytime someone makes a comment, eat a pixie stick. That should make things go faster.

  322. nekoaitsu said 3 months ago:

    Holy shiza, Mato.

    What about just a piece of candy corn or something? 8D”;…

  323. Turnip said 3 months ago:

    Candy corn vampiiiirrreeee

  324. Lincon Logs said 3 months ago:

    Mato, Ever since you started this translation i have noticed you stopped playing with me.
    I remember the good ol days when you would make me four feet tall and knock me over. “Rawr rawr” you would scream… :’(
    I miss the good ol days, Please come back soon.
    - Lincon Logs

  325. flclrocks07 said 3 months ago:

    or do cocaine

  326. Exp HP said 3 months ago:

    I have two things to say right now, one of which is as per average response time, and the other one of which is delayed almost a full day.

    @Mato (not so delayed response):
    Wouldn’t the extra sugar make us more hyper, meaning our minds are more active, meaning that time seems longer?

    @Mato (very delayed response):
    DS. Just the very fact that you suggest that I may have a PS3 hurts me deeply. It almost makes me want to crawl up into an OmelletteHome Ru and cry.
    I kid my friends the PS3 owners! Or do I? MWUHUHUHUHAH-[is shot]

  327. noco said 3 months ago:

    where’s ok when you need him :(

  328. Nervous player in attendance said 3 months ago:

    Go Mato, go!

    P.s. Testing is bearing children

  329. gBev said 3 months ago:

    It’s time for change in the gaming world.
    Mato is that change.

    Mato ‘08

  330. Alato said 3 months ago:

    Thanks as always. I finally got my EZ Flash 4(well, my brother’s, but I’ll use it, too). Although I can always take apart my EZ Flash 3in1 to make it work on the Gamecube.

    Anyway, things are looking/sounding awesome.

  331. Edgar the Alien said 3 months ago:

    Do Want.

  332. EmpoleMew said 3 months ago:

    If I may ask, what was that typo?

  333. Triple10X said 3 months ago:

    Lincon log’s comment = win, despite the terrible typo. It’s Lincoln logs - like the president?

  334. disc said 3 months ago:

    I picked up an EZ 3in1 Expansion Pack for my slot 1 flashcart, eagerly awaiting the end of testing!

  335. Mato said 3 months ago:

    It was “Can I can find some blah blah blah I forget the rest of the line”.

  336. Zeldarocks said 3 months ago:

    have the others finished their testing periods yet?

  337. Erik said 3 months ago:

    I now must replay Earthbound.

  338. Zeldarocks said 3 months ago:

    I have also noticed that the ‘tool assisted testing’ item in the to-do list is gone, have you guys decided to cut testing short?

  339. Mato said 3 months ago:

    There aren’t “testing periods” and there isn’t a set # of playthroughs. We’re mostly playing it by ear and when things seem acceptably tested, we’ll stop the testing and release the patch.

  340. Mato said 3 months ago:

    Tool-assisted testing is basically part of the main testing anyway, it was kind of dumb of me to separate it like that. I’ve done some of the stuff manually already anyway.

  341. Super3dcow said 3 months ago:

    I ordered an ez flash V+ a few days ago. Along with my 3-in-1, I hope it works well and doesn’t glitch and stuff.

  342. WeWeWeWeWeWe said 3 months ago:

    lcolcolcolcolcome to Moonsi nsi nsi nsi nsi

  343. Adam P said 3 months ago:

    I tried saving my game with the japanese version, but i cannot read Japanese, but I don’t think it worked: what does this say??

  344. Weegee said 3 months ago:

    ……………………..

  345. Adam P said 3 months ago:

    Sorry, it wouldn’t let me embed the pic, so here’s a link:

    http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y272/darthangel310/2377-Mother3J02.png

  346. Chris Highwind said 3 months ago:

    Adam P: It didn’t work. I know, because I ran the Japanese M3 ROM on VBALink (I use it because it doesn’t have such massive slowdown as VBA does) and when I saved it, some file info popped up in the file I saved in.

  347. Jesus said 3 months ago:

    Mato we should have lunch again some time soon…

  348. I have a time machine said 3 months ago:

    Hello people. I have used my time machine to see when the patch will be released. It will be released on Friday, October 17th at 5:31 eastern time. That is a little more than a week from now. Hopefully this will answer