A Teaser

The main translation notes will come first, but for now, here are some quick looks at just a few of the things we'll be revealing and taking a look at. MOTHER 3 is chock-full of unused stuff, it's pretty incredible.

Unused Enemies and Bosses

Here is a quick look at some unused battle-related stuff.

Don't recognize these guys? We'll take a look at them later.

Unused Music

Though the Sound Player only has 250 songs, there are actually about 2000 entries in the game's sound data. Many are simple sound effects or background nature sounds, but among them are many unused songs. We'll analyze them later, but you can check a few of them out here in the meantime:

• Barren Factory - this isn't unused, but often overlooked
• Giygas-y? - sounds Giygasy, but it could just be a part of something else
• Sad Tazmily
• Sad Pigmask Song - the original ending song?
• Short cut-scene song?
• Scary
• Love Theme version - simliar to end credits, but different
• Boss music from EarthBound
• Alternate train song
• Underwater Morning

Unused Maps

There are a number of unused maps in the game. We'll look at them later on, but here are a few examples.

Unused Graphics

The ROM is filled to the brim with graphical data, and we've managed to dump most of the game's sprites and a lot of the compressed graphics. There are so many that we're always finding new things. Here are some interesting previews of what's to come.

Unused Text

There's a lot of unused text in the game, some of it very interesting. Did you know New Pork City was meant to be New Pork Island? Or that the seventh Magypsy was a regular Magypsy originally? This stuff and more will be covered eventually.

Other Unused Stuff

There are other things we still don't know much about, like a number of dummied-out debug menus, a battle action called "Consider", the mysterious "Kindness" stat, and more.

Since you've come all the way down this far, here's a secret! Hold L and R when going into the Status menu. You'll see a beta menu we undummied! Tons of neat info gets gathered in there as you play, so check it out! Hopefully that'll tide you over until we can get this section up and running!