Testing is Swamp Bicycle
Testing is very nearly done now. I have one chapter left to go through, and the other testers are finishing up, too. I actually didn’t plan on making an update until the testing was done, but people were getting pretty antsy and there were too many comments in the last update to keep up with anymore. Luckily, no new major bugs have been found, just a typo or two and a few rare battle text lines needing fixing. They were all very simple to fix, of course.
This past week was very slow-going for me with real-life work, but pretty much everyone has stepped up to the plate in one way or another to help out. The testers are awesome and trying things I probably wouldn’t have even thought of. byuu’s been kind enough to help put the final patching program together for Windows and Linux, all while very sick. sblur’s been working on the Mac version. Jeff’s been around to answer testers’ questions. Very awesome teamwork. Send all free food and booze to them 
Testing will probably end in the next day or two. I still want demi to look through a few key lines to make them sound better, I set him up with all the stuff he needs for that. It will probably take him an hour or two, if he can find the time. If all goes well, there’ll be two updates left, one when everything is done and one with the patch for download.
Details about stuff will come next time.
Yeah Mato your the best and hurray i am the first to comment
Second
Can’t wait for it, Mato!
Congrats on the quick testing!!!
Hooray for unbearable excitement.
Posted two minutes ago? Wow, I’m so precise =p
its almost here its almost here I’m doing back flips right now I’m so excited
Awesome. This’ll be great.
Wow! 11 minutes ago! I honestly canNOT wait for this, now I just have to figure out how to get a 32 bit ROM instead of it always being around 15KB… @___@
Still, I love Mother 3 to death, and now I’ll finally be able to play it. You guys are AMAZING. Thank you!!
Thanks Tomato, for everything.
I’m so excited I’m licking my elbows.
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!
Best translation EVER!
You sir are a scholar and a gentleman!
wow, 11min ago! Great job guys! We are all so excited to see your handiwork first hand! IMO this has to be up there with anticipation of waiting for RPGe’s Translation of Final Fantasy V!
i wish you luck
yayayayay!
i’m still hoping for monday
Yay!!! Almost done.
Buuuuut, I wish it wasn’t so early.
Why? because the cart i ordered was out of stock and my money hasn’t been returned yet. soooooo, I have to wait longer than most people(a month, maybe)
Mario: Mother3ia Mia
oh god I CAN FEEL IT IN MY BONES
Yes…Testing IS Swamp Bicycle! It truly is! ^_^
Im glad I won’t be 30 before this come out lol…
Just kidding. After like two years of waiting “It’s” practically already here. Pats on the back all around and I’ll bet you’ll be hella glad to get all us rabid Mother nuts off your back hehehe. Seriously though-Kudos and UGH….black market babies.
Oh and Mato & Friends, I love you.
Thanks for the update, Mato. You know that we gobble up anything that you can give us~
It’s very nice to hear that everyone is working together to get this done. This is what a unified translation can accomplish.
In any event, OM NOM NOM UPDATE *munch*
yay!
:):):):):):):)
O M G, O M G, O M G :B
so close….. love you guys
I love Mother 3 to death, and now I’ll finally be able to play it. You guys are AMAZING. Thank you!![2]
YOU GUYS PWNS!
Amazing! Stupendous! Superfluous adjectives! Cannot wait!
OMG YOUR FRUCKING AWSOME GUYS I LOVE YOU
See above
Awesome,
I hope everything goes well for sblur with the Mac testing ^^.
More than anything, I love the titles that are coming up for updates now.
So close :B
Sorry for the spam BUT YOU ARE THE BEST EVERRRRRRRRRR,I LOVE COMING HERE TO CHECK FOR UPDATES,I COME EVER FEW HOURS IM ADDICTED TO IT
Sweet Monkey Balls
Only idiots say they got first comment.
Amazing. Somebody whip up omlettes for these guys. Better yet, Cups of Lifenoodles!
Perhaps Kraken Soup?
asdfghj; YES. Thanks, Mato!
Hurray! This may come out next week, or even earlier! *obviously extremely optimistic*
Oh yeah, and what’s with all the people earlier going “OH LOL, DUDE MAKE BACKUPZ~”, I’m like, almost positive there hundreds of backup copy’s, aren’t there, Mato. xD
whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
OH MY GOD
I CAN’T WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIT
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Super Special Awesome!!!!!
Can’t wait. Good work everybody. I love you all now. Bye.
Wow. This is insane. I didn’t even know that Demi was in on this too. This is crazy. My excitement knows no bounds. The day that this patch comes out, my college life ends…
Hey Mato, do you mind if some of us mirror the patch?
Wow, that was quicker than what it was suppose to be, a month or so. Congratulations.
We’re already going to have a torrent, and we’ll already have mirrors up. We have like 1000 GB of bandwidth a month, so we’ll be fine, and we also have stuff in place in case the server strain gets too high.
So the patch will be released in another week or so? SWEET!
I’ve been a long blog reader but this is my first post. Mato you are great! Keep up the great work! I can’t wait!
Oh man, how am I gonna get my Midterm studying done now? =(
’cause now I’ll have something better to do!
and you thought it would take a month (I knew that it would only take a week or two cause your so good)
It’s getting VERY close now!
Soon, the Mother 3 ROM shall be played! Keep up the good work, Mato!
Awesome, awesome! Keep up the good work!
*very excited*
/cheer
Excellent news. Hopefully, the fans won’t go too crazy due to the level of excitement. You’ve given us all something big to look forward to - We all thank you heavily for what you’ve done here.
Noooo! My ez flash has not arrived yet! Oh well, I can just transfer it on after I get it. I can’t wait!
wow, i was guessing Translation would be at magicant…but this is great…
Never did get to ride the bicycle through the swamp… and I won’t have enough time to play through earthbound before mother 3 comes out, at this rate.
Awesome! AWESOME!!
Just in time for Thanksgiving weekend! I am going to get fat off turkey and bask in the awsomeness of this game.
I’m going to miss reading this blog but I can always read your personal one, went through it a bit lately, lots of interesting stuff there
anywho this is great news, bet you can’t wait to take a long break from this
Congrats!
This is great. You guys have done a fantastic job. Can’t wait to devour the delicious fruits of your labor.
Will the patch put your names in the credits at the end?
Any plans to announce the patch release on starmen.net?
@reno7: are you talking about the poatch or all of Mato’s babies??
just another reason to put off studying for my classes. good job guys
So, would it be close enough to bite now? Maybe close enough to sniff?
This is awesome news, and you guys are awesomer. This has me more excited than anything.
Ah man, been waiting for the day to come for years now. This is gonna be great.
I’m so excited
:D 
:D
Having watched the update cycle for about a year now, I can’t really believe its almost there.
Mato, you’re amazing
IT’S ALMOST HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am excited.
Ive got to finish FF VII soon crap…. I just started. I MUST PLAY MOTHER 3!!!!!
Hell yes
I feel… h a p p y….
If you are a student, would you like us to do your homework while you just keep testing?
OMGWTFTEHPATCHISALMOSTREADYBBQ!!!!!111!1!!1!11!11!
God, I’m on the edge of my seat. ;_;
Jachi.
Arashi’s School Attendance Record (before patch):
Mon: Yes; Tues: Yes; Wed: Yes; Thurs: yes; Fri: Yes
After Patch:
Mon: no; Tues: no; Wed: no; Thurs: no; Fri: no
Oh my god, we’re SOOO CLOSE!!!
Will there be a hardware compatibility page before the patch is released? I kinda want to order a flash cart before this patch comes out…
OMG! WOOOOOOOOOOO Congrats! Me, my brother, and my sister cannot wait to download it and play
OH DANG!
I can’t believe that barely a year ago seeing updates like this was just a fantasy. This. Is. Awesome.
You guys rock. SRSLY.
My heart is FIGURATIVELY going to explode when this happens. I’ve played the game in Japanese, but this means I can share it with so many more people. All the love in the world should be funneled into you guys.
Oh my god, I love you.
I’ve been watching the progress since the beginning, and I can’t believe it’s finally almost here.
This game has easily required the most work of any unofficial translation project ever.
I might just have to buy a bunch of those 3 in 1 expansion pack things, so all of my friends can experience the awesomeness of Mother 3.
Two updates! We can make it, Mr. Frodo!
in b4 c&d
Man I haven’t gotten this happy waiting for something since I was a little kid waiting for my christmas presents lol,its great to have this feeling again.
I’m so freaking excited!
By the way, check out my teaser trailer for this upcoming release of the patch
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGveXSbt0k
Sweet, only two more updates. Then we get to experience the game we never thought we would. Now I can feel like Nintendo was doing a good thing by even making a sequel, despite the hurdles we’ve got to get over to play it.
Apterous: That was the plan, some gbatemp folks offered to make a list, but I’m getting concerned that their list won’t be ready in time. For the most part, it should work on most everything, but some hardware might have trouble saving (happens with the original ROM too). We’ll have a tool for said people.
But if you want to know ahead of time, look around the flashcart topic on the msg board.
…
I’m just speechless, you guys…
Thank you.
At this rate, the patch may be out before I get my flash cart. I didn’t put really fast shipping on it. Luckily the company is only two states away, so hopefully it’ll come on Monday, along with my copy of Mother 1 + 2. (Bought the Mother 3 deluxe box already when it was still available. Mother 3 translation on Mother 3 game boy Micro for the win!)
I tried the current build on the Mother 3 GBA Micro just now and whoa. I’ve only tried it on a really old first-generation DS all this time, and although it’s looked awesome on there, seeing it work on such a bright, clear screen is incredible. I’d take a pic, but I also don’t have a good camera.
I should try it in my NES GBA SP sometime.
Anyway, about halfway through this last chapter now. One of the testers doesn’t have internet access until late tomorrow, and he’s the one who’s looking into the strange text speed changing glitch. If we can’t find a way to reproduce it, then I’ll probably end the testing there. If we can find a way, I’ll fix it.
I can’t believe it.
13 years of waiting, and in less than a week I’ll finally be finishing the series.
Oh lord have my children and if you don’t want them I’ll cook them for you.
@ Andy: No, within six months.
babies _will_ rain from the sky.
MY BABIES
You will have them.
Duuuuuude I fawken love you guys
*prays that the glitch can’t be found*
Yeah, I know you want this to be professional…and if this was a month ago, I would have wanted you to fix it (even though no one plays on Slow anyway).
But goddamnit, I want the patch now!
the entire internet is going to shut down when you upload this
LAST POST!
…
I’m not even joking anymore. Have my babies.
It’s so close we can almost taste it. Am I the only one who feel a bit like this right now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU
I already tried out Tsukuyomi (the Linux ups patcher) - someone was kind enough to make a .ups menu patch out of the old .ips menu patch a while back for me. Everything worked great! byuu probably ought to put a .deb in his repo for people who don’t want to compile it, but other than that everything ought to be just swell from the Linux sector.
(psst: Sarsie wants you all to use Mednafen. Its input and sound latencies are really low, too!)
Countdown:
2 more updates. -splurge-
A typical “lazy gamer” you are not. Way to show those moms out there what a gamer is really capable of! (although they would probably just go “eh?” if you told them)
Maybe no the internet, but at least mother3.fobby
Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooly Snap!
Thanks to you guys, I’m not going to be studying as much for my test in the past few days. (Not that, that’s a BAD thing…)
OH LAWDY!!
This is so exciting! You guys are awesome!!!
Swamp bicycle? Now THAT was unexpected.
Yay! Now everyone can start trying to lick the patch
(Just remember to set a Friday afternoon as the target release date for the sake of all your fans!)
Mato, that rocks. This whole translation team rocks. A winner is you!
i’m so excited i did a barrel roll
ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod
I’m going to explode!
Thank you Byuu. I was so worried there wouldn’t be a linux patcher.
Ani: I would ask if I could have your babies, but I’m only interested in dragons.
Kura: I’m literally twitching with excitement.
Ryu: …
Ymerej: He says “WEWT!”
Ian: Swamp bicycle? Is the last one going to say Photo Album?
Kir: <3
Sweet
I can’t wait! I’m going to do my best to play through it non-stop…if I can’t find a job before then
WOAH! Incredible, INCREDIBLE job you guys have done!
YOU DA BEST YOU DA BEST YOU DA BEST YOU DA BEST YOU DA BEST
…Sorry, kind of hyper here!
*explodes*
Been watching this progress since the beginning, glad to know its almost hear. Thanks for all the hard work.
Sweet merciful f***, 110+ comments in 4 hours?
I can’t believe it, the patch really is coming out sometime within the next couple of days from the sounds of things. Mato, byuu, sblur, Jeff and anyone else on the testing team that I may not have mentioned, thank you so much.
2 POSTS LEFT!!!1!
Mato, how sick are you of this game? eh?
But thanks so much for working this translation out.
I’ve been watching it for a while and I am really pumped to be able to play through.
I see instead of donating - you want us to buy the japanese version of teh game. I dont know if I want to do that. can i just donate directly to you?
I-it’s like the cake is right in front of me and I just have to walk a few steps to eat it.
Mato, I freakin’ love you, in a non-gay way.
Like how someone might love their AA sponsor. You would make an awesome AA sponsor.
I will gladly do my part to seed the torrent when it’s out.
HYPE HYPE HYPE
The hype is killing me. D: At least I know this is one game which will live up to the hype.
Reading that gave me chills, I can’t wait, Christmas comes early this year.
Looks good on a GBA micro? I’m so glad I bought one recently >:D
HYPE HYPE HYP|E*
When I saw the title I knew things were good…
I hope my flash cart arrives in time for the patch, otherwise I’ll still be waiting after the release.
Lol, I wonder what the comments will be like on the day this is released?
“OMG HAVE MY BABIES x100000000000!!!!!!”
OK this hasn’t been discussed yet. Is it Mother 3 or Earthbound 2? Or is it hush-hush until that time?
Also, sorry about the double post, but I’ll use imageshack’s torrent service so I can seed even when my PC is off. Wii VBA will be used after all!
“Testing is Swamp Bicycle”? xD
I’m gonna be falling behind in school for the next week or so, playing the finished translation. Congrats on being so close to done, Mato.
Majora: Right
Holy crap! Two more updates! This is so nerve racking, you guys rule. How can I express it, you just made my day. YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! I’m gonna send some food and booze to you guys!
Swamp bicycle made me giggle like a kid. That’s a perfect title and reinforces just how close we’re getting here. I hope the final one is called Letter From Your Fat Neighbor or something.
Also, I imagine Mato is probably feeling a bit like this at the moment:
http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/6186/wavepr7.jpg
i pooped
So, who wants some Tomato Soup?
Hi, I’ve been lurking, but I have a question. I’m on the fence on getting an emulator for this so here’s my question: Do you have to sign up now to get the patch? Or will you have it for download after this so people can come back later to get the patch again (or if they found out about it after you finished)
But congratulations Mato. You’ve been doing fantastic work.
You guys… You are literally the best. There are just so many great things to say… You’re bringing us Mother 3! I may cry…
YES!
Instead of praising you like all of the other brown nosers, I’m going to taunt you and talk behind your back
I really appreciate you and your staff for sacrificing a lot of your time to complete this project. I’m truly humbled to see this team pull off such a major task.
From the shores of Eagleland to the Nowhere Islands, we, the aspiring players, thank you.
Yes!! I can’t wait for this to come out! The entire translation is just the best!
This news fills my bladder with excitement juice.
Been lurking around the comments without posting anything since the project started, now I absolutely cannot help but say this:
I am literally TWITCHING with anticipation. I know I’ll be saying this again once the patch comes out, but thanks so much for putting forth this much dedication to get this patch done. Its a dream come true.
Assuming they cannot fix the text speed bug or perhaps don’t want to bother with it I am sure one of the legions of followers can do it, not that it’s a big deal anyway
NEXT UPDATE:
Testing is THE END…?
*is speechless*
so hey mato, random question here:
when you make backups, do you make a backup of the 32mb rom each time? cause that must take up a loooooooooooooooooooooot of space after a couple hundred backups…
w00t
I was wondering about something…
Was Mother 3’s original japamese script as funny as you guys are trying to make it? I originally thought “of course!”, but then again, I heard Mother 2’s enemy names were pretty blah compared to EarthBound’s, so I just wanted to know from someone who at this stage, could probably recite the ENTIRE SCRIPT.
I’m pretty sure he saves it as an IPS patch. Also, amazing work! I have been waiting for quite the long time, and I can’t thank you guys enough!
Very much looking forward to this patch Mato. I imported the the game just to play through it in its original intended form on the GBA. can’t wait to have a second play through in english. (:
@Champio30
At least whenever I write something I don’t assume people can hear my voice much less care if they read what I write. Your post is nullified.
Do you have an estimate on the file-size of the finished product?
@ls1silvia: IPS can’t patch roms bigger than 32MiB, so he’d probably use UPS for his snapshots (and indeed the finished patch).
Correction, 16MiB. Oops.
ahem… 256MiB
OH MY GOD YES
Okay so I never post anything on the internet ever and I always see people posting rules about proper posts so if I’ve done something taboo I apologize but seriously I’ve been anticipating this release since early summer and I’m usually very adhd so I didn’t think I’d be able to hold out but I’ve patiently waited this whole time and I have to say the anticipation is killing me. The fact that there are still people out there that do this kind of thing just for the love of the game is a true testament to gamers everywhere. You guys seriously rock keep it up
You mentioned PSP testing in the last update; how has that been coming along so far?
Having lost my original GBA (along with its flash cart) during my last move, I actually picked up a PSP a couple weeks ago, with a major intent to play Mother 3 on it.
I don’t even remmeber any swamp bicycle…
Sounds good to me. Appreciate all that you and the team have done. Free booze sounds like a bargain to me for the work everybody put into this. Your love of Mother 3 is bigger than I could imagine to stick with this all the way to the end. Get together and have a free beer when your finished guys. You deserve it.
Mato, it’s so close we can taste it. Thanks for all the toil, I’m sure the final product will be one of the best (and most quickly!) produced fan translation works for a game to date. You and yours should be very proud of your efforts. I know we’re all proud of you for sticking with it. ^_^
arashi, after you beat earthbound, you could ride your bike in the swamp, which was ordinarily impossible because you couldnt ride your bike with party members, and you had to have all 4 when you first enter the swamp
YES 8D
Arigato, Mato-san! *claps*
Yayz!
I think I just had a heart attack… Or maybe its just me.
I will gift Jeff a penguin.I want to thank the entire translation team for all of its hard work.Thank you.
You have done an excellent job with the translation. I commend you on the time and effort to work on this translation. The team deserves 100 cookies each for every person who worked on this project.
So it all comes down to this…
Won’t be long now
Mato, after you take a few years off, I’d really like to read the translated Mother 2 novelization.
Thanks for your hard work throughout this. I wouldn’t be able to do it without you.
It seems like yesterday I stumbled on this site after ordering my copy of Mother 3, and squealing with joy. Now that it’s almost here I have been anxiously visiting the site hoping to see the post “PATCH HERE DL PLZ K THX” XD. I’ve been waiting so long for this game to be in English, even if I had beaten it already I’m still going to replay it because your translation is 100x better than the script ones I’ve seen floating around the net(plus no more looking up constantly to see wtf they’re saying XD). Kudos to you guys and I await the release XD.
Hey, I turn 21 on monday, and this could not be a better gift. I got an import copy of mother 3 on my last birthday, so it’s perfect that the translation timeline works out like this. Spoooooky.
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
I am so excited. So like, within A COUPLE OF DAYS?!
Thank you, mato, for doing this. And everybody who helped with the translation.
LOOOOL….
Gotta love Youtube’s related links:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=yfQUcWFXrJA&feature=related
The secret behind PK Thunder will now be revealed
Words cannot express my happiness.
I think I passed out from happiness. What day is it again?
Seriously though, I don’t think you guys could be doing a better job with this.
Mato: Admit it. It must feel pretty cool being adored and worshiped my a ton of fans who want you to inseminate them, even though the majority of posters are probably male…. Anyway thanks for the update. Swamp bicycle is only possible after you defeat giygas…. sounds like we may have this any day now.
Also I’m no expert on this subject but I’ve seen torrents being available (for tv shows for example) before the file is available. When it is the leecher has the torrent in their client ready to go without having to log on to the website where he got it from. If you made a torrent for the patch available now you may be able to offset the inevitable crash that will occur then 30k people try to log on and dl. Like I said I don’t know the specifics of it but it may be something to into. I’d love to wake up one morning, get the email, and having the patch in my downloads folder ready to go. Rather then cursing the blog cause the website is down.
So when you say testing wil be done in two or three days do you mean that when the patch will be up for download?
OMG! YOU GUYS FUCKING RULE MY WORLD HARD!
By the way.. Why does everyone insist on talking about babies? Everyone keeps saying “HAVE MY BABIES!!” xD ! So random and annoying, yeah, hope you guys find that bug!
WOOT! =)
No, 2 or 3 days is when testing will end. I’ll make a post. We still need to finish the patcher programs, write some quick readmes/troubleshooting FAQ, get all the server stuff together, do the emails. Which is why I said there will be 2 updates left.
So, patch out in about a week then?
I’ll make an update when I know for sure.
btw, I know I suck at answering people’s questions, but it’s getting pretty crazy trying to keep up with comments anymore, already there are like 200 here. Which is cool in itself, but I can’t keep up. So don’t feel bad if I answer someone else’s questions but not yours.
Most stuff will be answered before too long, when the patch is out anyway.
Mato, have my cow.
……Its been acting up.
lol well that was original
HOW DO I SHOT WEB
Aw man, so excited for the patch release but I’m going out of town for 2 weeks starting tomorrow (with no internet) so I’m going to miss the big debut. I was hoping the patch would be done by the time I leave so I could play it on my trip but no dice. Anyway, thanks so much Mato. You do awesome work.
So all bugs have been resolved,(except the text speed one) and no more bugs will be found right?
You and your team are working very hard, take it easy.
Hee hee, kind of hard to say “no more bugs will be found.” That would make testing basically meaningless, wouldn’t it?
Anyway, this is amazing. Don’t you dare pull a Persona 2 on us (Punishing everyone for the actions of a few? What is this, middle school?)
The entire team is awesome. So very awesome.
I can wait. If I couldn’t, I would have given up on life a long time ago. However, I’m only willing to wait about… three days. Tops.
Chop chop guys! <3
Testing is SEXY BEAM!
I love you!
I CAN’T WAIT!!!!!
Thanks again, Mato!!! And pass along thanks to all the other guys and gals, if you would!
Hey btw, since you translated Star Ocean, should I play the SNES version after I beat M3, or should I wait for the enhanced PSP remake? :S
If i were estimating (though not knowing what is going on now in the testing and other phases) i’d say Thursday or Friday this week for a release? but thats a rough guess and probably out of line to assume.
Is this the fastest fan hack/translation ever?
The spam filter doesn’t enjoy me very much.
http://i37.tinypic.com/2egb42d.png
Mitch: I lol’d.
Yeah Mato, the only reason NOA hasn’t had you shot yet is because they want you to finish the patch. So before posting the next update, I suggest you hire a bodyguard before they come turn you into spaghetti sauce.
Wowy… so close…
Its been really amazing seeing this translation unfold, one update at a time. I plan to play through this game thoroughly after all this wait - talk to everyone, examine everything, and really savor all the glorious translation-ness.
<3 I am really looking forward to this.
so you did it huh? THANK YOU!
GODS OF OUR TIME WE PRAISE YOU!!!
Can’t believe this is going to be done soon. I need to get my Flash 2 Advance ready.
Questions won’t matter once we have the patch, Mato!
I can’t wait until a week or two or three when everyone is trying to lick the patch at the same time…
Oh, and as for the text speed weirdness, are they sure they didn’t load a savestate where the speed was set differently or something? Because that doesn’t feel like the sort of thing that should even be possible unless there’s crazy memory corruption which should be moonside-ifying the game, not just changing text speed… Somehow, I imagine that they won’t be able to reproduce that bug again
I won’t be licking the patch. Really, how many people have licked it already?
Nice work to Mato and the testers, keep it up, hopefully you’ll find that everything works well.
Also, I don’t know if it’s been asked yet, but you held off your work on the EB -> EB0 hack for this hack, which was pretty much neccesary (this is pretty big and hacking EB is easy mode in comparison), but when exactly do you plan on working on it? After you’ve had a breather from Mother 3?
I was just thinking that it would be hilarious if Nintendo sends the cease and desist, in as little as 4 or 5 minutes after the patch has already been uploaded.
Because as everyone knows, once a file has been up on the internet for 3 minutes, it’s circulation cannot ever be stopped. Ha.
But really.. in all seriousness, i’m very much looking forward to Mother 3 in English.
Haha. What a coincidence. Looks like my little baby Lucas is going to be born at around the same time as you guys finish the translation!
The due date is 11/08, but we think it will be sooner than that!
I can’t wait to play it. Keep up the good work you guys!
I’ve licked the translation. It’s rich in taste and low in fat. Just like cats.
hallo mato. I’ve been watching this thing for about a year now, but this is the first time I’ve ever decided to post anything.
I was just wondering what type of a sacrifice you preferred and in what manner you wish it to be delivered.
Sooooooooooo close. So anxious.
V8 SPLASH!
Ok, no, we wouldn’t want Mato to be turned into juice.
From this day on, tomatoes shall no longer be consumed around the world. We will honor them, respect them, and fulfill their every desire, even if it means sacrificing our own brothers.
*reads newest update*
*eye twitches*
Itoi’s Love Child: I don’t see how torrenting something before it exists is possible; considering that torrents have a hash of the actual file in them so you can’t just put up the torrent and supply the actual file before it’s actually made.
I could be wrong though, but that’s not likely.
Is it even worth it to bother with a torrent for the patch? Someone’s just going to create another one with the patched ROM anyway…
holy crap lois it’s almost done
woah!..ive been wating for this for a long time…i cant believe its finally here!!!! im getting excited!!!
i wish theyd have 2 different patches…the one with “Earthbound 2″ as a game title and the other, Mother 3…
You must be Jesus because all of the Mother 3 translation staff just performed a miracle =D
Lol i’m past tasting it. I’m digesting this whole article down my throat. CAN’T WAIT. 2-3 days of testing is perfect. My M3 should be arriving by Tuesday-Thursday (3 day weekend so it ships on Tues) which means there’s a slight chance of my M3 arriving on the same day as the release.. It’ll be better than Christmas morning. I walk home, open the mail box, find my M3 package there, I do my Lotto dance and run inside, I log on to my computer, and an MSN window pops up from my friend with a message saying “THE WAR AGAINST TRANSLATING IS OVER! THE PATCH IS RELEASED (10 Billion happy faces)” so I jump to the site A.S.A.P, download it, hook up my newly prepared DS+M3, and Voila.
Perfection Complete. M3 on my M3.
If only that happened. But I know one of them is going to arrive late. And I have a feeling it’s the M3. Which M3? Who knows OOO SUSPENSE.
MAT-O…FINAL STAGE!
@ blackgadgetx:
Really? Is the name that important to you?
225 response I believe, unless a few people post before me and in which case i’ll be about the 227. did anyone see the main page?
Under “When will the testing be done”.. well, take a look for yourself.
If you’re too sticky due to being glued to this page, here’s the exact text:
‘When will the translation be done?
Soon.’
Nintendo won’t know what hit ‘em when they see the outburst of Mother 3 Fans downloading and translating all across the place. They’ll see M3 English vids pop up on youtube everywhere and realize what a mistake it was to not translate such a blessed game. BAHA NINTENDO YOU FAILED JUST LIKE YOUR E3 PRESENTATION. Y’SEE, IT SHOULD BE M3 FOR MOTHER 3 SINCE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN YOUR ONLY SUCCESSOR IF YOU DECIDED TO PRESENT AND TRANSLATE IT! But nope. Too bad.
Anyway. Let’s wait for the explosion of tranlsations
Almost…
By the way, there’s a homebrew Wii GBA emulator, have you tested the patch on that? If not are you going to?
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Visual_Boy_Advance_GX
If you want the title to be Earthbound 2 so bad, hack the ROM yourself. =3
Ill just say a few things on my behalf.
This rocks.
I just finished homebrewing my psp, so i cant wait to play the legend literally portable.
I turned off the email signup thing a little while ago, I know it doesn’t matter to most people here though
Oh yeah, ‘Patient on the outside’, that’s right.
Hey Mato. Do you know if the patch will still work if it’s used while attatched to the ROM when it’s being used on the Wii homebrew VBA emulator?
how many emails are listed?
i bet 50000+
Testing is Exit Mouse
I really cannot wait for this, I just hope my DS isn’t still in the repair shop when it’s released :S
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you! And thanks again. You (the whole translation/testing team) are truly, most certainly, without a doubt, wholly and totally awesome. Boing.
Don’t stand too close.
…I just farted.
Been Readin this for about 4 months now and i have to say i’v never been this excited for some thing of this nature.
all my base are belong to you…
yup i said it…
just hope NOA dont set you up the bomb. =P
actually, I think you could not send out half the emails and it wouldn’t even dent your downloads.
so many people probably signed up the second they found the site, but now they check it everyday; that it’s probably useless to a lot people now.
What if they announce the official translation NOW? What then?
I’ve been watching too much about politics. I read that as “exit moose” and thought that didn’t make any sense
But with any luck, all testing will come out perfect, Mato will finalize all plans, and we’ll all be playing this in a weekend or two
…oh my gosh yay <3
Must find a mother3 rom right now before the internet explodes from everyone downloading this patch
I just noticed that you also changed the
“when will the patch be out?”
to soon. Awesome
Yeah seriously, I signed up for e-mail xD Now I have this site on the list of bookmarks I check everyday…
I can’t wait~!
I need to slow down while I’m playing so I don’t burn it down and then be done in like a couple of days.
I want you to know that this game will hopefully bring back that feeling that I’ve been waiting for ever since I used to be a child and play FF3/6 and Earthbound and all of those. When I was a kid. I miss games that made you feel like that. I appreciate you translating this a lot more than you think. Thank you all. You’re giving me another piece of cake that I’ve been waiting what it seems like ten years for… Thank you.
The Downloads page still says there’s a couple months of work left to do.
I am so glad that that isn’t so.
I just hope Testing doesn’t reach the “Mummy After Giygas” stage. Thankfully Mato says he has everything backed up. I remember reading something about a catastrophy with the Star Ocean project. I have to play that sometime. I enjoyed SO2 but never beat it before I had to give it back to my friend.
Looks like things are coming out nicely… but I seriously don’t think this update needed 250 comments in just 15 hours since being posted. Gotta love them spammers.
there is no way to explain the happines that the EB community feels atm. i will never for get waht mato and everyone else has done for us. if anthing is keeps our child hood alive that mutch longer.
Is there anywhere to buy a legal ROM of the game? It feels so wrong to steal such a great game.
Nintendo should at least sell the ROM online so its legal, and they would also get profit, and we have the joy of playing mother 3 in English. that sounds like a win win for them they get money for just making it available, and they wouldn’t have to put work in to translating it.
Friends, I’ve run a good race, but because of his hard work, I’d like to pass the torch to Mato this election season.
Vote Mato/Biden ‘08!
I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message.
Almost done!
Thankyou Mato and thankyou Mato’s team!
I don’t feel this way since I prayed for Ness and his friends.
lol @ Barack Obama
full on robot chubby
Just wanted to comment, you guys are awesome. And I am so happy you are finishing just in time for my birthday!
yes.
i would like continuity.
and GLASS u better shut ur mouth up.
C’MON MATOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! The cave is blindening you with its brightness! you can do it!!
Its pretty crazy that in under 24 hours he almost has 300 posts….
i’m hoping on some good news for friday.
This would totally make my weekend.
Swamp bicycle?
sounds fun.
Almost there,i’ve been talking about this non-stop for like a week and my friends are getting pretty annoyed.
Perhaps a return to Onett would satisfy my needs for a little while until Lucas is ready to take up the task.
Keep up the good work Mato & Co.
Hurray!
I’ve waited so long and now its nearly here, thank you.
To everyone working on the patch: Round of drinks on me!!!!
I can see the light… I think I’m reaching the edge of the woods…
That field of wildflowers is just a few moments away…
Mato, continue to be my machete and keep cuttin’ down these vines! You’re almost there!
omg that was fast
Yeah, Mato, I’m really curious, about how many email addresses were submitted?
Great! The translation project is almost finished!
I am the third most happiest from us!
About time.
man! I’m really psyche about this.
Keep On MAN!
Mato.
My babies.
Have them.
NOW!
Hey Mato, how much of the quirky little humor is in this game like where you have the sign that says you had to trample flowers to reach it? I love things like that!!
BTW, has anyone here seen the Earthbound reference in Kirby Super Star Ultra? In the Great Cave Offensive, you’re supposed to search for treasure, most of which is somehow nintendo-related. One of the treasures is a Mr. Saturn!!
SAM-E-BOI: The game is filled with quirky lines. The problem is, I’ve seen every line so much that I’m numb to it all. But judging from people’s reaction to the recent videos, I feel confident people will like and quote a lot of text from the game.
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Someone asked how many email signups we got, it was over 30,000. Yes, I know that’s over 9,000, there’s no need to mention it. Some of the sm.net staff have been going through it all manually and weeding out the obviously fake stuff and jerk stuff. I checked our site stats and we hit 500,000 unique views (since the site’s opening) today. At about 5,000,000 total (not unique) views. About 18,000 or 19,000 menu patch dloads.
Anyway, mini-update, I finished the last chapter of testing, so now I’m waiting on one last tester who doesn’t get net access back until tonight/tomorrow. The next update will probably be monday or tuesday, and the patch update not long after.
We have lift-off and we want more!
500k unique views? jesus christ
I’m making my response video today. OMG IM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!
Instead of sending free booze and food to everyone… how about high fives and rainbows
Hi, grats Mato, and all that. Ordered M3 over the internet. Plan to vba emulate it. Question. Is there any way to enlarge the screen of the visual boy without lowering the quality? Its really bad at full. What should I do?
Oh my god you must be very proud of yourself mato! you didn’t give up mid-way like most hackers (I’m sure you head this a million times before :p)
I’m pretty excited, but it’s not like I can force you to release the patch now.
Besides, wheres the fun waiting and building up suspense if you did?
I just hope the site doesn’t crash with everyone trying to download the patch at once.
Hey Mato are you going to post download stats of the patch, maybe if Nintendo sees 500k people playing the game in English they might consider a DS or Wiiware release.
rofl, I really doubt we’ll have 500,000 dloads. I’m not even sure if we’ll get into the six-digits.
Mr. Mato
how am I supposed to be studying botany when I am playing Mother 3 all day?
I’m from Spain. Here, the time is 18:00. What time is in EEUU?
Sorry for the stupid question…
Don’t worry, everyone’s spreading the word on Mother 3.
*Note that EEU is USA.
Mato, I can’t thank you and your team enough for doing this.
The years of disappointment finally pay off, and it’s all thanks to you.
This is such a big deal to so many people. I hope you realize the intensity of how much your work is appreciated by literally thousands of people.
Thank you so much!
Woot! Ok I’m going to have to call in sick to work when i know it is releasing. i can’t miss it! I CAN’T!
As you wrote that, it is 12:00 PM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TGvl8jTGyA
MATO or ANYONE ELSE looking at this comment, PLEASE view this glitch that I found personally ;_; it was hard as hell, but I found a new glitch before Mother 3 was fully translated! xD
You guys rock!
\m/ >.< \m/
Mato, you must not know how… avid these Mother fans are
Holy Hell we’re so close!
And Thank You for getting a Mac Version done, I was worried one wasn’t coming =D
“Anyway, mini-update, I finished the last chapter of testing, so now I’m waiting on one last tester who doesn’t get net access back until tonight/tomorrow. The next update will probably be monday or tuesday, and the patch update not long after.”
*dies*
I’ve been checking this site every day for about a year now, and it just feel so surreal that the patch is actually coming out in less than a week. I don’t think I’ve ever posted on here before, but just letting you know you’ve done an incredible job on something that I never thought would even exist. Thank you so much.
I’m waiting for the next update: “The Testing Ends..?”
Hey I can’t wait for this to be finished.
I bet it will be alot of releif for the entire team.
holy moly!
Jamian - Uhh…that had nothing to do with Mother 3 at all.
500,000 is a stretch, but I’m nearly positive it’ll be in the 6 digits.
Time to pull out the Mother 3 GBA Micro and get it warmed up!
okay fine mato, not monday
BUT MAYBE TUESDAY! yayayayayay!
Um… and neither do half the comments?
The video is somewhat relevant, Mother 2 <.< just glitches before everyone completely dumps the game they can try.
HP: If you haven’t used it in a while, you might want to charge it, and then run the battery down, and charge it again. Repeat that a couple of times to work some life back into the battery. Rechargable batteries that don’t get used for a while appear to lose capacity, but a few charge/discharge cycles get them back in working order.
(I dug mine out, and the battery lasted less than an hour. A few cycles later, and it’s back up to 4-5 hours.)
How many people here have posted on every update. I remember before Anna would post really long comments all the time, but now she seemed to disapear. Who are the most vocal people on this blog besides Mato?
This has been the most anticipated release since SSBB
YES! It’s so close. If only my tongue was long enough to taste it! But yeah, that was random. Plus I’m off this week. This makes me a very happy panda.
man it feels weird now. You guys are almost done with it and we waited for a long time. It feels different for some reason because completion is almost done.
*sIGH* nOW I CAN PLAY eARTHBOUND 2! i AM GOING TO AS’PLODES!!!!
I doubt it’ll be in the 6 digits. My guess is, a good number of people (mostly those of us that check the blog often) will download the patch and apply it ourselves. But I would expect websites that host GBA ROMs will put up the already patched into English ROM on their site, and I’d bet multiple people will create torrents with the patched ROM. So although a 6 figure number of people will likely play the translation, I really doubt that the # of downloads here will reflect it.
I’m glad you guys are putting in that little screen when you run the game, so people who haven’t been following the blog might understand how much work has been put into this.
It won’t be in the 6 digits, it will be in the 7-digits.
This is kind of a dumb question, but how many different places have you tried getting ROMs from? I mean, the rom from site X might be slightly different than the one from site or torrent Y, which might screw up the patch process.
Maybe I’m just being paranoid, maybe not, but you should try patching several different ROMs from several different places, just to be on the safe side.
If you’ve done this already, then just ignore my post. Either way, Good freaking job, Mato. I can’t wait for this to come out.
SOOO CLOSE!
@SamerIFrog: To make it look better, go to
Options > Pixel Filter > WhateverX > HQwhateverX
Pick whichever number you want for whatever.
This isn’t the place to ask this,
But I answered it anyway.
How many posts have there been so far from the entire blog do you think?
^Over 9000!
1nKoGn17o said:
“This is kind of a dumb question, but how many different places have you tried getting ROMs from? I mean, the rom from site X might be slightly different than the one from site or torrent Y, which might screw up the patch process.”
If the ROM has been properly dumped, it shouldn’t matter where you get it from. Jeffman has previously posted the MD5 checksum for the clean ROM on which they’ve been working, so it should be easy to check.
Or you can use GoodGBA…
Damn damn damn damn damn….. going away from the internet tomorrow for a WEEK!
will miss patch….. gutted.
@dan0: you can’t buy a legal ROM, but you can always buy the GBA game. The ROM is still illegal, but at least you’re showing your support for Mother3.
For a “donation” of $932, you can have a the patch delivered by a combination of boat, train, satellite, and pigeon straight to any latitude or longitude! Or just wait a week.
@NessNomar: 23′474 posts since the blog was created.
Mato & friends!!
I just wanted to thank you guys SO much for all the hard work you put into this. You guys are my heroes!!!!! ^_^
SEXUAL FAVORS TO WHOEVER GIVES ME THE PATCH EARLY
Show Lucas some love today on Gamefaq’s character battle!
@Shuri: Unfortunately, I don’t think Lucas will win that character battle on GameFAQs.
Yeah…sadly, my heart goes out to the Jinjo. They kicked Grunty’s ass.
It’s my birthday tomorrow. BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER!
You guys are the best. Seriously.
Man oh man oh man I’m excited.
@1nKoGn17o: It doesn’t matter wether the rom was a different rip, if they are both clean roms the patch will work.
Mato, what’s your address? I have several babies that need mailing to you.
but on a serious note, crazy amounts of thanks for this entire project towards the entire translation/hacking team, tis truly awe-inspiring
Well, We have made it to the (or what seems to be) end. Can’t wait to play. All my thanks go to you guys.
So, will you need to get no$gba or an emulator or will there be full application versions?
Engineer: The file being released is supposed to be a patch to the game file, as far as I’m aware. So you’ll need to patch the game, then find some way of playing the patched game file: be it emulator, flash cart + actual gba, or something else.
So Glad This Is Nearlly Done. I wanted to play this game since smash bros came out in ENGLAND
Don’t steal my name plz
I can’t wait. It’s incredible what you’re doing in your free time for no money at all!
It’s so close
Oh, and I noticed the “When will the Translation be done?” thing next to the Clayman, “Soon”.
We all seriously need to throw a party for you guys, with a gigantic cake that has the Earth symbol on it for design.
ive been waiting years already!
one week is just too much
thanks to everyone who made this possible.
Sh*t, the Lucas votes on the GameFaqs character battle are lower than the center of the earth. D=
Now, in relation to the update, WOOT, random fanboy gibberish, yadda yadda, blah blah, etc.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPDATE!
SWEET
Only one word can describe my feelings right now…
Zomfgzlolollolollooolzz1!!!!!!11!!!1!11
You guys are freaking awesome for doing this and dedicating your time to this. I love you guys!
I hear there’s a MOTHER 3 fan translation starting up soon. I can’t wait for them to be finished
I can’t wait for Mother 4 to be released in America
What do you mean when you say that you are “playing the game by ear”?
anyway, so yeah, i got psp, cant wait to play this on it.
Hurray! Now I’ve got to convince all my friends to play Earthbound before the patch comes out!
COME ON MATO!
Please do not get turned to V8 juice before 2 more updates!
Mr. Nosy: see definition 2 here. Definition 84 here.
ooooooo I can’t wait for this.
*sniff*
I’m going to miss visiting this site twenty times a day.
I finally snapped from all the anticipation, and the craziness caused me to draw this:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a397/eyfey/mother3insanity.png
you guys are awesome for doing this Thank you!
I can’t believe how consistently you powered through this, Mato!
and i just realized it,.. but i cant believe i checked this site at least a couple times a day, every day for over a year…………..that’s pretty damn ridiculous..
@ Triangle: I know right! I can’t say that I’m not going to miss it though.
Have you tested the snes4iphone app on iPhone 2.x firmware? That’s probably the main way I will play the game if it works, that or my laptop.
Thanks for all the amazing work Mato, Reid(great name by the way!), sblur, and others!
*sniff* this blog has become part of my lifestyle, so sad to see it go. *sniff*
Edit: I meant Jeff, not Reid. But if there was someone named Reid that helped, that’s awesome too!
Hey! Thanks a lot Mato! That’s a lot of email subscriptions. It might be a good idea to start off with more than one person seeding the torrent. If you email it or something to the entire team and have them all seed it at once, that will probably get the ball rolling even faster. Just an idea, I might be wrong, as I often am. ;D
over the last few days ive been checking it every few hours.
mato should seriously use this to keep people from dying. i know that this translation has been like #5 on things to live for for me.
Mato, have my babies!
Mato, have my babies!
My babies have mato!
…
I mean, “Mato, have my babies!”
Doesn’t really have that EarthBound police officer feel to it. “Get out of my way!”
thefan: EMO!
But in all seriousness, this is literally as good as waiting for a new game release!
非常に多くのお客様の忍耐マトをいただき、ありがとうございます。
I. CANNOT. EFFING. WAIT.
GRAGGLES!!!!! NUT BREAD IS SOOOOOOOOO FOR THE HEAD
My birthday is Tuesday.
A release date would be the best birthday present ever.
I check this site once an hour, in anticipation!
I Cant wait!
Also I will be recording the whole playthrough in English!
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=DCy2l9psNjY
I check this site between every other page i click on.
EVERY. OTHER. PAGE. (eye twitch)
Wow. I cannot believe it’s almost here. I’ve been watching this site for so long it’s going to be weird to not be constantly checking back here for updates. Thank you so much to all of you for the time and hard work and love you’ve poured into this project.
Thank you so much for doing this. I have been checking on this site ever since I heard it was gonna be English translated. I just randomly went on today and saw the new update and nearly Mr. Saturned my pants. I have drawn many differnt Mother 3 pictures over the years and even made my own Mother 3 T-Shirt to show my support for the series. I almost want to remake it to say MATO IS AMAZING!
I do have one question though…. What happens after it gets released?
<3
Can’t believe it’s basically done. I’ve been watching for months. It really is like waiting for a new game to come out. Oh, and btw, this is gonna go down in Nintendo history. THANKS MATO! YOU ROCK!
hopefully when this is done maybe some group will pick up on finishing the mother 1+2 translation which unfortunately has been touched since chrisRPG died. it would be great if that was finished.
# bunz said 1 minute ago:
hopefully when this is done maybe some group will pick up on finishing the mother 1+2 translation which unfortunately has been touched since chrisRPG died. it would be great if that was finished.
That would be awesome, as then we could play all 3 Mother games in one emulator!
or instead of a useless thing like that just download all the games. why the crap would you go throuhg all that work if you can already play them seperatly?
It’s sad I can’t stop checking this page tonight for new info.
wait, swamp bicycle?