Battle Bug Fixed
After spending all yesterday tearing hair out, I decided on an easier (almost cheating) way to fix the battle custom control code bug. The fix is very easy, only like three lines of new code that work together with our existing code. In an ideal situation, I would’ve liked to fix this a better way, but this should fix 99% of all instances of the bug. If we had the source code to the game, it might be easier to do a better fix, but ah well. If, by some chance, the bug does still happen, it will only mean something like a missing “the” or an extra “the” where there shouldn’t be one. I wish I had the time to do an airtight fix, but it would take many weeks and I simply don’t have the time or energy left for it.
Anyway, as for what the bug was, there were many different little instances of it, but like I mentioned before, it’s easiest to show this way:
Before 
After
It wasn’t as simple as taking out the word “The” in the battle script, as enemy and player actions often share text. And again, the above is just a simple example that people have already seen in the videos, it’s not the only thing fixed.
I’m pretty sure I fixed most (if not all) of the battle text now, but there are like 1500+ different actions that can happen in battle, so during the testing phase we’ll be on the lookout for any battle text that might still need tweaking. Anyway, all that aside, we can cross off another thing on the to-do list.
I think I’m going to tackle the Block 0 stuff next, but it’s not going to be easy and consists of several different parts. This/these problems are also the last remaining things that will crash the game, so they’re a big deal. So don’t fret if updates are slim for a while ๐
for a name, why not just
Earthbound
the first game was gonna eb Earth Bound, the second game was EarthBound, why can’t the third game be Earthbound?
just checking…
Sounds great. Another step closer.
Sweet! Only a couple of major hacks to go!
Cubear: Read the FAQ
also, I’m completely impressed by the number of battle actions in this game, over 1000 is huge.
I suppose the Mother series is almost famous for having a lot of useless battle actions though.
woooooooooo! Block 0 yay!
Nice… well it shouldn’t be too much of a problem anyway even if the word “the” sometimes appears in the wrong place.
Wow. I actually check this blog every other day and this is my first post.
Mato, I’m already a huge fan of yours, from back in the dejap days, to Crayon Shinchan now. I also live in the UK, where our only taste of Shin was the lamentable phuuz version that had that awful phil n lil voice.
I can’t wait for this project to be released. I can’t wait to see what humour made it’s way in there.
As for Shinchan though, any chance of getting the UK’s adult swim section to take it on? I have to download it from demonoid every week. I also bought the first dvd, so y’know… not entirely a dirty, rotten pirate.
Just wanted to say that I love everything sofar I’ve tried that’s had your name attached. And I don’t want to suck up your ass too much.
So… uh. “farty farty, poop, fart!” I guess.
(assdances off into the sunset).
nice mato. can’t wait to play it. i got a gba emu working on my wii ๐
Awesome! Only two more ‘main’ things on the list. Shame that those will take the longest to finish. At least the game is slowly coming together and will be finished.
Good job, team!
my comments nevrr poosst
looks like a good fix. if you end up finding exceptions that cause the bug down the line… would it be possible to create something like a “proper name” control code that tells the game that a name is never variable?
Caleb gave the Skip Sandwich DX to Mato.
Hope this helps you out buddy :).
Huzzah and good cheer. One step closer to completion.
OMG Mato you’ve just made my day!! now go on and kick that blocks 0 in the sack! ๐
Good luck, Mato. I’m rooting for you. ๐
R@rs1 1 |3e 3^!1 |3\_0& ()!11!! | 3@7 u!1!11
Take that, Gingevitis!
It’s funny how something that I know very little about can make me so happy. Keep on truckin’, M3 Translation Team.
yesss. Though I will miss “The Flint”
Woah. I just realized that comments are still turned on! This just blew my mind. Sorry for the absence, guys. ๐ฎ
I posted this on the forum, but I like it enough to post here too. Actually, many weird pics can be found on the forum if you don’t care about spoilers. Anyway:
Makes me think of a city that’s kind of like the Boogie Tent in EB ๐
Woo! Almost there! It’s so close I can taste it O-O *lick*
…Tastes like tomatoes.
=O I posted at the same time Mato did! Sweetness.
That’s one quick update. Thanks, Mato.
Go Mato and co.! We wuv you.
yays
No more the Flint? awww ๐
Well, it needed to be fixed.
Keep chuggin’ Mato
Awesome
“The flint” will be missed.
It seems like people like The Flint. Maybe you should relase a seperate patch with The Flint in. That would be awesome. ๐
Nice jobz. Good luck on Block 0! (You do too much, you shall recive a cookie sometime in your life. :D)
Hahaha, Aww I will kinda miss ‘The Flint’ too.
Zomg tho, two days, two updates!
And only 3 things left on the to do list!!!!!!
Lol, two updates in one day, also congradulations on only needing 4 items on the to-do list to do. XD
Ohhh…there ARE 4! lol, but wait two in one day?
The way I see it, a missing or extra “the” where there should/shouldn’t be one makes it seem more professional. Pretty much 97% of games have a misspelling/grammar mistake somewhere in it. This includes all games with made up languages. (Legend of Zelda, M&L: Partners in Time, etc.)
BTW, Partners in time is an awesome game.
Should be called EarthBound 2…
You know it’s what it would be called if released in the u.s., and the hack is meant to be professional and how NoA would do it, so…
Here’s a picture. I think my comments are getting caught in the spam filter.
http://i36.tinypic.com/k21bas.png
One word…. YEAS!!! YEAS!!!!! YEEEEEAAAAS!!!!!!
Oh, I can’t resist doing this.
You guys are doing great. I can’t wait to see the adventures of The Lucas in The English. May the rest of your hacking experiences not be a colossal pain in the ass, The Mato.
The video posted in the comma in the update was awesome. It’s really cool to hear from the man that brought us the series.
Only 2 more stuff to do before it’s all testing…
Good job tomato! Now THIS is the quickest update!
Awesome one, mitch
That “The Flint” reminds me of Chuck Norris
@EarthBound Fan 21:
No. Get over it. It’s just a name anyways. You should hack your own, so you can do whatever you want with it.
I think my favorite part of this game is going to be beating up Dinosaurs.
They say that beneath The Flint’s beard is not a chin, they say it’s another Fist!
*The Flint shows up to punch the next poster with his third fist*
I can see it now; The Flint becoming the next Chuck Norris meme XD
Yay, nice going with the hacking Mato!
Also, yay, another Mitch comic!
A winner is you
awesome, keep it up
Ironicly, after you said that updates would start becoming fewer and farer between, they started getting more frequent then ever before ๐
Majora: Well, Mato has been saying that for the last couple of updates, and it was only this update that took a day. The rest have been as he said… so yeah…
And… just for future reference, it’s spelled “ironically.”
How exactly did you fix it in only three lines?
I don’t know much about ASM, but I’m under the impression that it takes seventeen lines of ASM for every two lines of C. So that seems amazing to me.
Keep it up Mato! This is getting so close I can almost taste it!
Just thought I’d throw out that IGN linked to EarthBound in their Mario RPG VC review. I thought it was cool. That is all. Hurray fan translation team.
Oh, I halfway agree with the Earthbound 2 statement. I guess it would only make sense. Didn’t Mato say something about possibly making that the subtitle or something?
It could be a new enemy – the Bity City, like the L’il Forest. Or something.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if there really was a Bity City. Instead of being all tiny like you are in the underworld, you’d be all gigantic and would always get the instant ‘YOU WON!’ message with encounters there.
And speaking of Chuck Norris, anyone see that video for the Chuck Norris cell-phone game they’re making? =P It actually looks decent. And they have a part where Chuck Norris picks up an army jeep over his head by the bumper and starts beating people over the head with the jeep. And stopping a chopper flying right at him with his bare hands. =P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbh2NCal_TM
What? Why? XD That’s… odd.
Oh yeah… I wonder how TheSpeedGamers did? They got over 2,000 people to call Nintendo over the weekends. Let’s attack Nintendo of America!! >:D
Attack? Why? I don’t think there needs to be any physical/verbal violence towards NoA >.>;
I will abandon all of my assignments and studying and fail my last year of high school so I can play this game
Tomato, you’re the awesomest. Your posts are entertaining to read (educational, too), and the amount of work you and the rest of the team have put into this is just staggering. Thanks for keeping up with it all the way through! As someone who tends to lose interest in projects halfway through, I really admire your work ethic.
Kill Block 0. With your hacksaw.
How is The Flint a bug? I mean, it IS -THE flint-!
Yeah, I feel like Flint definitely deserves an article every time he’s mentioned. He’s that epic. Anyone who forsakes modern weaponry for large pieces of lumber deserves some cred.
Keep up the good work! I can’t wait to see this thing completed!
block 0 block 0 watchu gonna do watchu gonna do when mato come’s for you.(my lame attempt at a cops theme cover) well hope you stomp on block 0’s nuts and destroy it. GO GO GO MATO!!!!!! I’m just really excited that its almost here, although mato has ways to go with block 0 . i can taste mother 3 now. *_* ~licks screen~ O_O
All hail master tomato, ruler of pastopia!
Sweet! Mato, is a release date on Oct. 3rd possible?
First stage of the final Block 0 bossfight eh? We’re all praying for you and the team Mato. Kick some ass.
21 defense? I haven’t played much of M3 but that seems like a lot for a level up. >_>
So, against Block 0 now? Be sure to take a chainsaw with you, 25% of a one-hit KO by using it… no, wait, that’s a different game. Anyway, good luck with that, since apparently, it is very dangerous from what it is being said in here.
I’ve been reading this blog for quite some time, and I’m so freaking excited I might pee a litle. I’ll most definitely be in line when you finally get this thing all ironed out.
I think I was the most disappointed little boy when Earthbound 64 got cancelled…and this has brought hope back into my life once again. Or something.
Keep up the good work, Mato and crew! I’m doing the pee-pee dance just thinking about it.
I’m gonna miss The Flint D:
Trav : i dont think it’s a level-up, because the enemy is still on screen… so i think he used an item of some sort
Someone said “That seems like a lot for 1 level up”
Flint has an ability that can raise his defence up he also has one for his attack
If it was a level up, there would be no enemies on screen. Definitely an ability or item.
the ability is called Toughen up, but that just as a side note.
I’m so happy to finally read more updates on this project! aw, the anticipation is killing me!!
only 4 more things to go on the to-do list, and the next one on mato’s list is the last one that crashes the game. which means, after block 0 will be defeated, the game can be announced “playable”. it’s not released by then, but it will be a big step finally having the patch so far that it won’t crash because of things like the stinkbug memory… (that was a neat glitch)…
I also miss the flint.
I propose now that ‘Awesome’ should be measured in CNs (Chuck Norrises), where Flint = 1 CN (and most other things are measured in milli or micro-CNs).
You know, just like evil is measured in Nazis (or kiloNazis, or whatever).
@Mitch
I lol’d a great deal at “LINUX ON XBOX!”
Nick,
I think a mid or late November release is a bit more likely. He said on the to-do list that a ROM testing job (where he tests it on various ROM applications) should take a couple months alone. Let’s not get too disappointed if it is released a bit late. ^^;
Nice job fixing this! I think it’s good enough =)
Actually, on the to-do list I say testing will be one month-ish. It may take longer if we find bugs of course, but I don’t expect we’ll find anything major left.
Oh, that’s good to hear!
Pistachio?:
Man, your post made me laugh.
But yeah, testing will definitely take a while. When the patch is done, it’s not really done. ๐ A couple of months may be pushing it, in my opinion, but who knows? Like Mato said, the solution to a glitch may take a few minutes, a few days, a few months, or even a few years in some cases.
Didn’t Mato say, “We’ll see it sometime before Christmas”? That’s reassuring. You guys are translating this faster than…. Natsume translated Harvest Moon games. I waited a year and a half for Island of Happiness, and they always have bugs in their translations (sometimes to the point of being unplayable!).
So you guys should be actual localizers. ๐
I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned Christmas, though I’d wager it will be out quite a bit before then. I can’t keep doing this much longer.
This is probably a lot like sitting in front of a pizza box, having two slices remaining. You have gotten this far, yet you know you must go further. Instead of sitting and pondering the plight of the remaining slices, you instead gobble them down as quickly as possible.
Of course, this could just be my point of view. I know I’d want to finish ASAP having spent the last couple of years eating such a giant pizza.
Oh my. before “the” Christams? Oh my.
You sir, are awesome. And honsetly, I don’t care if it takes untill after christmas. The fact that Nintendo will never localize it (and you are probably doing a better job anyway) makes me think I could wait a little longer if need be.
Seriously, keep up the awesome work man.
I think The Mato is much more epic than the Flint.
hmmm… Mitch drawing is necessary, then. Do you think you could remake that The Flint drawing with tomatoes?
kill block 0 with fire! or throw a tomato at it. Either way works ๐
Lei: I agree. The translation for Harvest Moon games is terrible, especially the newer ones. The dialogue feels so dead all the time.
I just thought of something…(not trying to be n00bish, just pointing something out)
We all want to kill Block 0, right? Well, doesn’t it hold all of the misc. text? You guys are basically saying nothing should come up when you open a present :p. I think we should look at Block 0 as a man who was injured severely by the hacking and is about to be operated on by Dr. Mato…(Dr. Mato, that sounds pretty cewl)
But then again, our rocks and catapults would become useless D:
I just can’t wait. I’ve done my best to avoid spoilers (and still got some anyway :P), and I’ve been quietly checking in the various efforts for a while, now. I’m so glad this one’s almost over.
I’ll be sure to keep my eyes open on my playthrough for any article twists.
May The Flint be with you.
Man, I’ve been following this thing for so long now (I think since November 2007) and have been checking almost everyday and usually multiple times a day. For some reason, it only feels like I’ve been checking for a month or two.
There are 4 forms of epic. There’s Chuck Norris and Captain Falcon.
And then there’s The Flint and Mato. I believe we all know which two are the most epic.
And by Mato, I mean THE Mato, of course.
I survived Gustav!
And it’s so much more refreshing to check this site and see that I missed not one but two updates! Way to go guys!
*buuuuuurp*
500 years from now I get to brag that I was in the same lifetime as Mato =D
Erm… My grandchildren get to brag… ^_^ (Sorry about the double-post by the way)
yeah, MOTHER 3 rocks ! Its gonna push MATO to the limit !!! LOL
Meh
The Flint is displeased. keep it up though ๐
I’ve got a question for anybody who knows… So, I remember back in the day the fan translation was being led by another website (mother3.org), and then some time later it turned out starmen.net was doing one too, so then they fused powers and this project began.
Where does Mato come from, mother3.org or starmen.net? Which site did what? Does anybody know the details about that project fusion thing?
I founded starmen.net in 1999 and am co-webmaster with reid.
Mato is from starmen.net. The main person to have come over from the mother3.org project is JeffMan, who handles the hacking. Neither site had done very much before the merger. But the merger was good because it helped defuse any drama having two separate projects would have created. Most of the other details you might be interested can be found here: http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Site/Newsroom/35475/first
Woah woah, YOU founded it. Wow, I see. Sweet! So you are the KING (or one of them, I guess).
Why were the projects separated in the beginning?
Thanks, Zinco.
d00d u r l33t
*bawz down 2 matoh*
I’m not worthy.
I’m not worthy.
I’m not worthy.
I’n wot morthy.
…dang.
Well, it took a little while, but that Greedier Mouse comic I promised is here. http://www.ebminon.cc/RPGComic/2008/greedier1.png
And for those of you who prefer the ‘alternate’ translation’s take on the Greedier Mouse….
http://www.ebminon.cc/RPGComic/2008/greedier2.png
Enjoy.
Consarnit, I am being caught in the filter it seems. I just wanna link the dang Greedier Mouse comics my partner and I created… http://www.ebminon.cc/RPGComic/2008/greedier1.png
And the ‘alternate translation’ version http://www.ebminon.cc/RPGComic/2008/greedier2.png
Due to the cacheing system of this board, it seems Skullrama can’t apologize for his apparent double or triple spamming of the link to the comic we made. So I apologize for him.
~Peace
Those comics are epic, you rock Skullrama ๐
Poor Mato. I think he’s done with fan translations after this. heh.
I’m convinced that Block 0 can only be killed with 1s ๐
Though it wouldn’t hurt to have a 2 as your secret weapon…
While it may be his last fan translation…It’s probably the biggest awaited fan traslation I’ve ever tracked so he’d be going off on an epic high note.
LOL! Those comics are great, Skullrama! Now I need to do one!
I love how Kumatora just emotionlessly stomps on him.
Mato, I suggest you don’t stop hacking (if it’s something you enjoy). You just don’t have to set such a rigorous standard for yourself, by being expected to have regular updates on a blog. Work at your own pace.
Hint: Work on mother 1+2 ๐
If there are any grammatical errors in this game I will actually be pleased. EarthBound had its own fair share of errors in text. It shows that you’re human and grammatical errors could add to the humor. I’m looking far too into this, but I like reassuring Mato. I already know that I will enjoy your patch no matter what.
Oh, and Jorge: shut it. There is no need to translate games that are already in english.
It’s been a few weeks since I last checked on progress and I have to say it looks like a LOT of stuff has been sorted, which is great news for us lot ๐
I vote to keep it mother 3, it’s a personal choice, and really it’s up to the translator, so really it’s his personal choice.
The Flint. Meet The Flint.
He’s the modern kick-ass cowboy.
From the town of Tazimilly.
He’s a page right out of awesome-ry.
Let’s dash with the family down the street.
Through the courtesy of button B.
When you’re with the Flint,
you’ll have a yabba dabba doo time.
A dabba doo time.
You’ll have an awesome time!
Everyone knows a gay ol’ time is better than an awesome time
…wait, what?
A Fan: there’s no such thing as 2!
Reg teh Yoshi: Of course, that just makes me think of Trauma Center now. Mato vs Dr. Stiles! And… I’ve got nothin’.
Personally, I think Trauma Center would be a lot easier if they just let me put the Magic Green Stuff on an IV drip. I could take out their organs and juggle them and they’d still be fine while I sew them back in. ^_^;;
Awesome, you guys rock. Really putting my faith on you guys, we are all depending on you!
Oh, and just for kicks:
“THE Flint is NOT happy with the removal of THE in THE Flint’s name!
THE Flint does NOT approve!
THE Flint SMASH!”
Mato, you know we don’t care if you use a quick “cheating” style hack instead of an airtight one. If you had access to the game’s source code and I was a CS professor, that would be a different story, so don’t feel guilty about having to cheat every now and then on this hack. No one expects divinity out of you…yet.
Great job Mato destroying that 99% of the battle bug without the source code.
There is an ominous presence among us.
…I think. I have a feeling something big is about to happen.
EmpoleMew said 3 minutes ago:
There is an ominous presence among us.
โฆI think. I have a feeling something big is about to happen.
Like Chuck Norris battling The Flint?
Don’t know what you mean about “big”, since I haven’t really done anything since this last update ๐
Then hurry up and use the Super Hacking Machine to fix this! (Not to be confused with the Suporma). ๐
If we don’t play this soon, The Flint is going to be upset!
Tomato, you should start testing now with a few of the professional testers. Becuase you have basically everything done, so just to speed up the process.
That would be particularly unwise, as the fixes to the remaining hacks-to-do could potentially cause bugs in stuff they would have already tested, meaning their work was for nothing, thereby wasting even more time and making the subsequent testing less thorough because of tired testers.
Geez, these The Flint jokes aren’t funny to me anymore. It’s just like Vin Diesel, Chuck Norris, and Captain Falcon. We should’ve left it that hilarious “Linux on Xbox” picture someone drew.
can’t you just name Flint “The Flint”? that way instead of getting 99% “Flint” and 1% “The Flint”, you’d get 99% “The Flint” and 1% “The The Flint”.
That would make all of you “The” lovers happy ๐
The Mato is pleased.
Simba Sprite said 1 hour, 29 minutes ago:
Geez, these The Flint jokes arenโt funny to me anymore. Itโs just like Vin Diesel, Chuck Norris, and Captain Falcon. We shouldโve left it that hilarious โLinux on Xboxโ picture someone drew.
How DARE you!
mato’s busy, liked a baked potato is busy in a baked potato kind of way
But he’s a tomato ๐
Would you impatient nerds quit trying to rush Mato. He’s doing us a HUGE favor and he is taking his time and making sure that this thing is professional quality, and then you people try to convince him to hurry it up by skipping the testing, starting the testing early, or cutting corners here and there. Cut it out! Thank you, Mato, for doing this, and please take all the time you need to make sure this is a top quality fan translation. Just ignore the impatient readers.
I have to agree with Zaxtur. The fact that this translation is already nearing it’s completion should be enough to keep everyone happy. I know, we all want to play Mother 3 in English as soon as possible, but Mato’s working his butt off as it is, he doesn’t need to push himself any harder. When the time comes…
The time comes…
Block 0 attacks!
Mato: >[Hack] [Defend] [Item] [Pray] [Run]
Mato hacks! …but missed!
You cannot grasp the true form of Block 0’s attack! 296 damage to Mato!
Mato: [Hack] [Defend] [Item] >[Pray] [Run]
Mato clapped his hands together and said, “Anyone… can you hear me? I need your help…!”
Mato’s call was absorbed by the darkness…
You cannot grasp the true form of Block 0’s attack! 236 damage to Mato!
Mato: [Hack] [Defend] [Item] >[Pray] [Run]
Mato: “Please… someone… anyone…!”
m…..3….by.n.. continued to pray.
Block 0’s defenses became unstable!
…her3.f…y.n.. continued to pray.
2509 damage to Block 0!
mot…3.f.b.y.net continued to pray.
5216 damage to Block 0!
mother3.fobby.net continued to pray.
15987 damage to Block 0! Block 0 became hacked!
YOU WIN!!
There was a present behind the enemy. Inside, there is a Complete Mother 3 Romhack! Mato takes it.
——————————
…I just HAD to do it. XD But seriously, we’re all rooting for you, Mato.
What no Smaaaash! attack?
Well, since you opened that door….
“Working through the night, Mato fixed the suporma.
After being fixed, the suporma became the Mother 3 English Translation Patch!”
*Generic Praises*
Man, I’m doing a History report right now, and it’s kind of lame because of my topic.
My topic should have been,
“Mato: How he delivered Epic Win upon this World”
But it’s history in-the-making, so I can’t write about that.
First sentence: Welcome to th:(
Mato, next time I harvest a tomato in my Harvest Moon file, I’ll think of you.
Why do you say “Generic Praises?” I think that’s very rude, and I’ve heard a lot of people say that on here. :/ Just thank him for real. He’s putting so much work into it and you can’t ACTUALLY thank him?
Sorry, I just think it’s rude.
By the way Shadow Link, that was awesome. ๐
Well, then why don’t we discuss the word ‘moose’? Did you know that, although people use it as its own plural, if you go back to the Native American language it was derived from, the correct plural of moose would be moosek? ๐
Just your fun fact for the day.
“generic praises” really isnt funny guys
love your work Mato, can’t wait for the finished product =)
shadowlink, magic ant, that was awesome.
I never actually noticed that your own name only starts appearing letter for letter. my name is Max, and the game already wrote the whole name on the first prayer… so thanks for clearing that up for me…
and as a side note, I recommend to everyone: instead of pushing mato to completing this faster, go and play through the first two mother games in a row, and try to speak to EVERYONE. that’s what I spend my time with.
welcome to th:|
I’m not saying it because it was funny. I’ve been leaving blog comments here for almost a year and I don’t think Mato needs or cares to see me say the same thing over and over again. That is why I say, *Generic Praises*, its my thing everyone else just stole it from me. I am by no means being rude, relax guys.
Will there be a way to reenable it? I want to name my character “Dude” and then it’ll always go “The Dude” and I can do a Big Lebowski-themed runthrough. ๐
“The Dude” is 8 letters or less, so you could name him that at the start.
Does it have a space character on the name entry screen?
Well, Mato said that you could name someone “the dude” at the start, so I’d have to assume there’s a space character.
Only four items left on the to-do list. I would say that’s pretty big. When the block 0 display routines are fixed, call President Bush: it’s time to declare a new national holiday. But we’ll have to find something else to call it besides “MOTHER day”. That would just be too confusing with “Mothers’ Day” in may. We couldn’t call it “EarthBound Day” either, because that would get confused with “Earth Day”. Hmm.
Mato Day. Or Starmen Day. Or “Holy crap, Mother 3 has finally been released” Day
I vote for that last one.
I was trying to write “stamen” in science today (we’re studying flowers) and wrote starmen. XD I had to erase it.
how bout “Absolute, Universal Happiness because of the End of the Long and Tedious Journey Of Hacking, Translating, and testing MOTHER 3 done by JeffMan, Mato, Demi and Others After 2 Long Years Of Non-Sleep Days, Wasting Free Time and Other Things To Bring This Amazing Game To Their Loyal Earthbound/Mother Fans Who Have Waited Constantly For Nintendo Of America to Release Mother 3 But Never Did Due To EarthBound’s Low Sales And The End of The GBA Era and Start Of The Nintendo DS Era Day”
That’s too long, and probably many people will not even know half of that stuff.
awww ๐
starmen day sounds cool & realistic ๐ฎ
even though “The Flint” bug was fixed i’m going to name him “The Flint” just for kicks, and the weirdest thing just happened to me well i was sitting in my room minding my own business when a knock comes at my door and its my neighbor she is an older woman in her 40’s and wanted to now if i could help her and her younger sister also in her 40’s move some stuff around so i’m helping them for a while and my neighbors sister asks if i want a drink (i’m 19) so i’m expecting water or some thing and she made me a margarita i’m like WTF? is she trying to get me drunk. (i had 3 margaritas) also her younger sister is pretty dam hot. O_O! so i’m here posting about it before i left she says “you can go home and rest i might have some work for you later tonight” idk ifshe was teasing me or what but what an awesome day. LOL
Haha you’re drunk off of 3 margaritas, here in Alberta we can buy booze at 18 so I find that really funny.
Here in Mexico…. aw, what would I know, i’m 13 XD
How about International Its Finally Here Day?
Also, I some weird dream a few nights ago where I let my brother play the translated Mother 3. He got to Chapter 2 in five minutes. O.O Which is weird, because it’d take him at least 2 days minus the do-overs because he forgets how to use the save function.
Just thought of something. Why would you want to be “The Dude” when you can be “The Guy”. C’mon, everyone wants to be “The Guy”.
Seriously, all of the “The Flint” fans should just name Flint “The Flint” ! It’s the perfect solution!
…wait, that’s 9 letters long, including the space. Crap, I thought I had a good idea.
Would “Da Flint” work?
Only if pronounced as George Wendt would say it.
I think it should be thought of it this way. Think of “The Flint” as you would think of getting a sword of kings or one of the other 1/128 items in earthbound. The chances are kind of close…
I wanna be ‘the guy’!
Looks like the FaB guys are gonna do a M3 show at some point!
Hopefully one of their side characters will be a guy going crazy pulling out his hair staring at this code constantly
Mo..Ther…3!
Mo..Ther…3!
Mo..Ther…3!
Mo..Ther…3!!!!!
Mo..Ther…3!!!!!
Mo..Ther…3!!!!!!!!!!!!
MO..THER…3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone play EBA before?
hey, is there an alive Mother 1+2 Translation Project going on? the site could be http://mother1+2.fobby.net.
But seriously, whats next Mato? A Holiday? A New Project? ‘Caus i say you need a looooong holiday after this project. Give yourself some time to grow back all those hairs you pulled out from trying to translate this game.
-8BitWalugi
f you for being able to buy booze at 18 DAMN YOU BRITISH COLUMBIA
hey wouldja look at that! the mother1+2.fobby thing links to earthbound saga 4 on starmen.net!
Mato you should do Bahamut Lagoon
man vagn is super lame
Blessfield: Google “I Wanna Be The Guy”. *grins* I’d post a link, but those tend to have an unfortunate tendency to fall into bottomless pits around here.
8BitWalugi: Of course, now I’ve got the mental image of Mato staring at a block of code, and screaming for help. But what song would they dance to?
I personally Think Mato should just retire from Fan Translations cause honestly…Completing something as big as this, we should all be thankful to him for this and he can retire on a high note.
Guess what just hit Virtual Console……Super Mario RPG!!!!
Give it a download and play while you wait for Mother 3.
@Austin: guess what? over here in Luxembourg, we can drink alcohol at the age of 16!! you guys must be screwed.
Mato, sorry to tell you, but you must go back and reprogram the naming screen to allow for 9 letters. I know it will take more place than allocated, but you’ll figure something out. we need The Flint. XD no, don’t worry, I’ll keep myself together with “hunting THE’s”. what’s the criteria needed for an occurrence of The Flint, btw? what’s that 1%? is there any way to provoke The Flint?
I got all the king’s items and all other items with the 1/128 chance of dropping, btw. I like hunting for those things. it prolongs the time I can spend playing the game.
Typhin: I dunno… Maybe Damnit! for all the times where the game stuffs up and then they fix it. but i didnt hear the full song so i dont know how it ends… i think a song that starts of like something bad has happened and then it gets fixed at the end. i just dont know. i think something hard rock will do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6uQiQbkinA – Dammit Blink 182
how bout โAbsolute, Universal Happiness because of the End of the Long and Tedious Journey Of Hacking, Translating, and testing MOTHER 3 done by JeffMan, Mato, Demi and Others After 2 Long Years Of Non-Sleep Days, Wasting Free Time and Other Things To Bring This Amazing Game To Their Loyal Earthbound/Mother Fans Who Have Waited Constantly For Nintendo Of America to Release Mother 3 But Never Did Due To EarthBoundโs Low Sales And The End of The GBA Era and Start Of The Nintendo DS Era Dayโ…………… YES! this day shall live in infamy!
I told you!
The Flint will be missed
@Snake Plisskin
Were you actually serious with that statement? There’s already a translation of Bahamut Lagoon out, and Mato did the translating.
See, I would’ve said the song should be “I Believe In You”, the verson with the vocals and everything. Maybe a remix or cover of it or something.
If Mato did allow 9 letter names, that would mean a 1% chance of:
“The The Flint’s defense increased by 1”
I believe Mato has said he’s going to take a well-deserved break after the project is done, before assisting with future translation projects.
Da Bears.
How about Mother’s day.
nah, that already exists
Super Maro RPG comes out on the Virtual Console, and Earthbound doesn’t?
I sense conspiracy…
Whoops, typo.
*Mario
You can always write it as “TheFlint”, but you don’t even give a name for Flint, do you?
yes you do
How about “Happy Happy Mother 3 is released praise mato ands bow at his feet until he gets sick of it then force every person to go to starmen.net to see the history of the project, then bow at mato’s feet again and praise him until he says he is sick of this day day”
…On second thought…NO.
Actually, yes.
Actually, AAAARGH!
GO MATO! That is all I will say…
So I’m curious, has any progress been made at all in crushing the horror that is Block 0, or has that not been touched yet?
@Vagn i wasn’t drunk at all yet, but i was later though after 7 beers ๐ i had a fun night.
Many hours of following code so far.
“# Arashi said 1 day ago:
how bout โAbsolute, Universal Happiness because of the End of the Long and Tedious Journey Of Hacking, Translating, and testing MOTHER 3 done by JeffMan, Mato, Demi and Others After 2 Long Years Of Non-Sleep Days, Wasting Free Time and Other Things To Bring This Amazing Game To Their Loyal Earthbound/Mother Fans Who Have Waited Constantly For Nintendo Of America to Release Mother 3 But Never Did Due To EarthBoundโs Low Sales And The End of The GBA Era and Start Of The Nintendo DS Era Dayโ”
We can abbreviate this: AUHBotEotLaTJoHTaTM3DbJMMDaOA2LYoNSDWFTaOTtBTAGtTLEBMFwHWCfNoAtRM3bNddtEBlSateotGBAEaSotNDSE Day
That’s a goodun
Many hours of being awesome more like it.
Arashi, I don’t think that it has enough letters. It’s a little short.
You’re probably right, It should have at LEAST 100
make that 700
This is gonna sound crazy but,
i think i’ll try to finish off ChrisRPG’s Mother 1+2 Translation.
All im gonna need is someone who can fix things like the amount of letters you can input for your name. i’d also prefer if they lived in Australia so i can talk to them real time over msn without much difficulty.
but c’mon, how hard could it be? we already know what we need to change, we just need to change it!
-8BitWalugi, over and out.
man, my birthday is on November 6! It looks like it could be realesed around that time!
Oh and about the tranlsation thing, im gonna need alot of help with letter limits. and inserting the original font.
…man this is gonna be harder than i thought!
BUT! if i do this, will i be well known in the mother community?
Waluigi you’d probably have more luck on the starmen forums
Oh k thanks!
and please, call me 8Bit or 8BitWalugi…thets Walugi. not Waluigi. and also, i dont like being called Walugi or Waluigi. the whole point of the name is the 8Bit part.
I just looked through the M3 Maps, and, Mato, whats with the giant toilet?
Lets just say that it took Earthbound’s bathroom jokes to a WHOLE new level. A very quirky level, but still another level nonetheless.
mm hmm… i wonder how itoi thaught of that!
8BitWalugi, you do realize you’re heading into some very rough terrain, right? I’m not trying to talk you down or anything, I was just giving a fair warning.
Mother 1+2, from what I’ve read, is not as hard as Mother 3 to hack, but it’s not too far either.
Saying that, I wish you good luck.
Thanks!
wanna see if you can help?
http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Mother/1/Mother-1-2-Translation-Help/first
The picture of kids on a gumball machine that look like evil version of Ness and Paula and the bag labeled “Earthbound Farm” my friend had would’ve been good SM.Net Fantography pictures. ๐
@8BitWalugi: I can’t hack, but I can support!
I posted this before, but it didn’t show up (filters). But just in case anyone sees 2 posts from me with my message to 8Bit, do something about one of the posts ๐
Block 0 traps you!
“…Mato…”
You cannot comprehend the true form of Block 0’s attack!
“…It hurts…”
You cannot comprehend the true form of Block 0’s attack!
“It’s not right…Not right…Not right…”
You cannot comprehend the true form of Block 0’s attack!
“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 Mato Mato Mato Mato Mato Mato”
You cannot comprehend the true form of Block 0’s attack!
Mato prayed from the bottom of his heart!
“Mato’s call
was absorbed
by the darkness.”
Come on everybody, keep praying!
Everyone prayed from the bottom of their hearts for Mato’s safety… except Skullrama, who couldn’t be bothered to stop mindlessly grinding away at Tales of Vesperia.
Block 0 ate Mato on a tasty salami sandwich.
…What? Stop staring at me like that.
Typhin: I am already aware of I Wanna Be the Guy!, though I haven’t touched it yet (I will do that -after- I beat La-MuLana, which is mostly easier said than done). But awareness should be raised, I think.
Spent a couple more hours following code since my last comment, there’s just so much code to follow and document that it takes a while. It’s also somehow sad when I consider that the GBA can do all of this code in milliseconds while it takes me days to go back and decipher how it does what it does (or doesn’t do).
Won’t have too much time in the next few days, but I’ll keep at it.
to tell you the truth, i cant believe you admitted to half assing that error you found. so what if it takes a week fix, this will reflect on you and your party for the rest of existence. 50 years from now ppl will still be playing this game (in several other languages too) and they will see this text glitch and think “god, i cant believe they were too lazy to fix that..”
i apologize if you take offense to this, but if youre going to do something- do it right!
Well Mato, next time someone wires a microprocessor in your brain you will have a reason to feel bad about not being able to calculate that stuff in milliseconds. Until then, be glad that your doing in hours, what would take most of us weeks or days. Cheers Mate.
Give me a break “me.” Anyone who’s spent anytime playing fan translations knows they are never perfect. These people do it as a gift to fans! The best Dragon Quest VI patch still has an entire town untranslated.
As it stands Mato & Jeffman are poised to release what, considering the technical hurdles, might be the best fan translation in history. And I’m not even sucking up to Mato…yet.
WOOOO!!! GO MATO! YOU’RE THE GREATEST FRUIT/VEGATABLE/MAN EVER!
Me, you are complaining about someone spending hours of their time, for years even, telling them that over a text glitch that only occurs 1 out of 100 times, if it does occur, and you think people will be saying years from now, I cant believe he spent years on this project basically alone and didnt get everything completely perfect!
I doubt you even follow your own advice, and would never bring yourself to do something like this, don’t say people will look down on him for not spending even more time on something so small as “The Flint” and then say don’t take offense to this.
Are millions of people going to look at your shoes and say, oh I can’t believe he didn’t tie them perfectly? I honestly doubt you would have noticed the error had he not flat out showed it to everyone, especially with how very few times it will ever occur during gameplay.
I am sorry, but its comments like yours that make this project a little bit more unbearable each day, something he is doing for the fans giving as much as he humanly can, and still being nitpicked and judged.
Quit enjoying your life tomato, you didn’t completely fix something that rarely happens, feel sorry for generations of people are going to LOOK DOWN ON YOU for something they will probably not notice.
You remind me of a little kid trying to sound important when he really should just be thankful that he is even given a chance to play this game in english.
Go count your blessings and stop complaining about every little thing.
@me
To tell you the truth, i can’t believe youre complaining about one extra ‘the’ every once and awhile – especially since battles happen so often that most people rush through them skimming any text that pops up anyways (unless it is a boss or a difficult battle).
“If you’re going to do something do it right”:
-Is your poor use of grammer the only exception to this rule? Certainly that wasn’t done right.
keep on truckin Tomato! Were all rootin for ya ๐
Why do people always ironically misspell “grammar” whenever they’re are calling someone out for a mistake in their sentence?
They could at least quit being rude about it.
I love you mato.
You make grown men cry
So “me”: Why don’t you spend 2 years of your life working on something huge in your spare time for no money and then come tell us how you feel about skipping over a tiny, tiny bug that most people will never experience.
Honestly, of all the complaints that I’ve seen in these comments over the past few months, yours is easily the most ridiculous – worse than all of the grammar nitpickers combined.
wow… what a jerk that guy is
Geez he is doing his best and it has taken quite a long time so don’t be saying stuff like I can’t belive that they were to lazy to fix that. So come on Mato keep on hacking we know you can do it. Man I’m really looking forward to playing this game in english.
Yeah me, this patch is Mato’s pride and joy. You can just shut up, or The Flint’ll give you a 16 hit combo.
Wait…if its me, then that means I wrote it, but everybody up above also wrote to me as if they wrote it…so does that mean that everybody wrote it? Or did nobody write it? Well, somebody had to have written it, so anybody could have done it! (God I hate paradoxes)
This “Me” dude is pretty much an ingrate. He’s whining over one little bug Mato had to take a sideways approach to fixing it. As compared to actually taking his own free time to complete one of the most eagerly awaited translations ever.
If “Me” doesn’t like it… Why doesn’t he go out and do it himself?
Yeah I would like to see “me” do it. I but if “me” did it, it would be horrible. Lol. well anyway stop complaining even though your saying that now I bet your going to download that translation patch aren’t you “me” and as soon as you start playing your going to hit yourself for 16 hours complaining about an extra the in someplace. I mean didn’t your mom tell you if you don’t have something nice to say don’t say it at all. Geez
@everyone bitching at “me”
He’s being ****ing sarcastic!!!!
Actually, if the bug still does happen (which I have yet to see happen), it would most likely be a MISSING “the”, not an added one, and it would be in the middle of a sentence, even less noticeable. And it would take weeks (not “week”) to possibly fix, I’d say at least a month, possibly/probably more, by which time I’d be sick of the project and progress would die. If I had infinite time and energy, sure I’d try doing it that way. As it stands though, this is already something Nintendo wouldn’t have done, they didn’t for EB or EB0 even.
I actually plan to list all the known little issues and bugs right out in the open when the patch is released, just like most respectable software developers do.
Yeah, a missing “the” every 1/1000 times isn’t really that big of a deal ;0. I mean, Mato and everyone else already put an insane amount of effort into this, and delaying patch for weeks because of something that small wouldn’t be worth it considering that it’s just as good as fixed now ;0.
in other news, many people here, such as empolemew, comment on MOTHER 3 Music videos on YouTube
@me
I’m writing a 10 page essay on everything wrong with you and your statement. Should be up on the internet in a couple days.
“me” has sullied the word “me”. Now how am I supposed to refer to the self?
Idiot. You’ve ruined English. Go and fail on someone else’s Internet.
Stop yelling at me!
…lol
Woot! Go Mato! You rock sooooo many socks for working so hard on this!!!
Can’t people appreciate the fact that some people are willing enough to destroy 2 years of their LIFE to make tens of thousands of people happy? Everyone should know who this is directed towards.
But what really gets me is that a simple “The” that appears very rarely would be enough to make someone go “WTF look at this moron!!!”. “Me”, I am very disappointed in you,and maybe you should think twice about what you post before you do, you may regret it.
If this project isn’t “perfect” enough for you, then just go somewhere else, we don’t need jerks like you making everybody miserable.
And Mato, everyone appreciates what you are doing here, keep on truckin’ ๐
Wow, I can’t believe there’s only 2 things left on the checklist.
Well, besides the final testing.
Great job! I can’t wait to play Mother 3 in English. =D
@me: The only thing I have to say to you is that you’re obviously the only one who gives a rat’s tail about an extra ‘the’ in the battle text, which won’t even happen a whole lot. (which is ironic, considering you’re accusing Mato of a half-butt job, while your post has a major lack of capital letters and spelling things out) So go away and stop being a jerk.
The chances of that extra ‘The’ appearing are probably not even close than getting one of the 1/128 chance items of Earthbound, and yet, someone complains? We know that nobody is perfect, so things like that are to be expected. And besides, sometimes, bugs like that are what makes a game better than without it. I mean, look how people liked the idea of ‘The Flint’, and all because of that bug. That “me” guy should really calm down and stop complaining.
Hey Mato if you could push a reset button and be back where you were 2 years ago (by accident of course), would you start a blog like this again?
Two years ago we hadn’t even made the DIYD announcement. And I’ve only really spent the last 15 months or so on the project, not 2 years. Had the m3.org stuff never happened though, the DIYD project probably would have been a blog-type thing from the start.
Mato, if it’s not too off topic, where did you learn your GBA ASM skillz?
I know a little about romhacking and stuff; I know I fail at it, but I was still interested in learning it. But I could only find docs on the NES and SNES, and was wondering what kind of stuff you read that got you started.
I went to romhacking.net, found all the GBA docs I could, read through everything I could. But most of all, I looked at some of the very small amount of hack code harmony wrote years ago for M3 and learned from that. The rest was just trial and error and lots of sweat and self-learning.
Mato, you’re amazing. I can’t even describe how excited I am for this, even though I beat the game once already. Keep up the good work and don’t worry about when it will be ready. Take all the time you need!
Man it has been impressive watching this project tick. I stumbled on this site very early after searching for a translation to M3 and gave my e-mail right away(I had to have been really high up on the list to register). It is honorable(so are the troops don’t write in) what your doing, devoting this much time to a project you easily could of not started, it is really appreciated(even if I only post once in a blue moon). Give the man a break and stop nitpicking, he fixed the bug, it must drive him crazy… and read the posts before you comment!
Well, here’s another “Keep up the great work” post. Can’t believe how close you are to completion, which I hope for your and my sake comes as soon as possible and frustration-less as possible. I’ve already said how much I have come to respect you through your several posts as someone who has several times crossed paths with assembly language programming and can’t even begin to understand how you’re doing what you’re doing and how difficult/frustrating it must be.
So, keep up the definitely brilliant work! Here’s to yet another point removed from the to-do list. I can’t wait to finally play such a masterpiece. Your constant updates are really appreciated as well, even in the form of comments, so keep that up as well.
Amazing. Awesome. Brilliant. Wonderful. Breathtaking. Grand. Majestic. Beautiful. Exceptional. Extraordinary. Magnificent. Outstanding. Remarkable. Excellent. Great. Fabulous. Monumental. Superior. Dazzling. Glorious. Splendid. Gorgeous. Divine. And most of all, Perfect. ๐
Just wanted to say, Mato u are so awesome. Thank you for taking the time to make this translation possible. EB was one of my beloved games from my childhood and absolutely cannot wait to play M3. Been following the translation since the beginning. Since then I check daily on the status ๐ U are a video gaming god! To quote Wayne and Garth “We’re not worthy!” Keep up the b!tch!n work
I did some quick random playing of the game about an hour ago, and the level of polish and great-lookingness of everything suddenly hit me. Dunno why, maybe I’ve had my head stuck inside the code and text for so long, but it feels very very polished, much more than EB and many other things.
Still juggling work (even late Sunday nights heh) with this stuff, so not too much done today, just more code following. It’s getting to the point where I dream about it, which is usually a bad sign heh. Much work this week but I’ll still make a “still alive” update in a few days if I have to. If only I had more free time.
Awesome, great work!!
Looking at the to-do list, besides testing, there’s only two unfinished items on there. That in itself is insane.
Glad to hear you still have a pulse while still fighting the code.
don’t you get vacations or anything?
Gotta admire the tenacity Mato. I respect you. Though, when you say it as a ‘still alive’ comment, I can’t help but to think of GLaDOS. Anybody else?
Thanks for fighting through this, Mato. I can’t wait…!
I just realized something.
There’s a good chance that this will be done by christmas.
Which would make it the best christmas present the world has ever gotten.
This. is a Triumph.
I’m making a note here, HUGE SUCCESS. ok, enough portal references
this looks even more polished than EB, you say? hell yes it does. by now, this game looks like it was developed in english, which is more than any of us (and you) could ever have hoped for. I mean, this is an independent and uncommercial fan translation, and still it’s done more professionally than most of Nintendo’s translations our there. the sheer amount of polish and effort put into this is amazing. I know you could have done off with a simple text replacement, without spelling and grammar chacks, without a second draft, and it’d still be playable. but you guys actually run for the finish line and make this game perfect. heck, you even added features to the game! (silver and gold star)
you guys deserve a monument. how about we all found a new religion? the MOTHER Worshippers. and Mato and the rest of the team will be our high priests, whether they like it or not.
ใพใใใใ
ใพใใใใ
ใพใใใใ!!
Positive feed back across the board, awsome work Mato and team B)
better to leave a bug in the game as a reminder of the translation
Hmm, I should say something besides generic praises, that is overused so:
“Name-brand praises”!
Looks great Mato I can’t wait to finally play it!
So, after careful deliberation, I’ve decided the name of our national holiday should be “the holiday that bites really hard when it bites, and doesn’t when it doesn’t Day”.
Also, “me” stinks.
Mato, you are one brilliant turkey to have just read some stuff online and jumped in. There’s no way I could have done that! You’re super smart! You deserve a pizza trophy.
How I wish I could give you my free time. I finish homework fast and get about 7-8 free hours a day
I used to dream about mario kart back in college. When I would close my eyes I would see them racing around. It got pretty scary.
Yeah, I’ve had that happen with Tetris, Mario Kart, and especially DDR. It’s when it becomes your dreams that things get sucky. I hate dreams where I’m working on work like it’s real work. So annoying. Lately, I especially hate trying to find/fix M3 bugs in my dreams, I have to wake up and tell myself I can’t fix them cause they’re not real.
@Mato:
You should try obsessively blasting your way through Taiko no Tatsujin for hours every day; Don’s face was scarred on to my eyelids for weeks. Probably a good thing my file on that got corrupted, really.
Also, generic praises, etc.
Keep it up!
Sorry, I just realised. *hits self*
Really rather distinctive praises!
I had those dream kind of things, too. it happened to me with pokemon. I couldn’t stop thinking about pokemon. earlier, it almost happened with tetris. but gladly, I lost my cartridge before it went that far.
and sometimes, I dream of finding bugs in my programs, too. but they sometimes turn out to have been real bugs and my dreamt solutions were real solutions, sothat kinda comes in handy, debugging while asleep…
Dreaming about work is stressful, but for me it was a breakthrough. Back when I got my first job as a checker at a grocery store, I can remember dreaming about being at work…and waking up to find myself trying to ring up and bag my pillow (oops), but I ended up getting really quick at it. Maybe all that practice in my dreams helped?
By the way, while you’re working your tail off, what keeps you energized food-wise? Do you eat truckloads? Just curious.
Millhouse brings up an interesting point. Have you, Mato, ever dreamed solutions for your woes that you were able to actually implement?
Keep going tomato! And by the way, what games do you work on with the Playsation?
to tell you the truth, i cant believe you admitted to half assing that error you found. so what if it takes a week fix, this will reflect on you and your party for the rest of existence. 50 years from now ppl will still be playing this game (in several other languages too) and they will see this text glitch and think โgod, i cant believe they were too lazy to fix that..โ
i apologize if you take offense to this, but if youre going to do something- do it right!
Wow dude you are an asshole ๐ Tomato, just ignore that dumb asswipe and keep working man! You probably have probably had no social life for a year, but you’re doing something great for the fans that nintendos’ lazy asses won’t do. So you’re like Jesus in a way becuase you’re sacrificing yourself for 50,000+ people!
I do think it should be called Earthbound 2, since Earthbound is the american title. I don’t know why, but Earthbound 2 sounds more badass to me than Mother 3. But of course, it’s just a title, so I don’t really care.
I agree with Super3dcow, Earthbound 2 sounds more authentic, as it’s the american title.
well it doesn’t matter…. the name is already decided (Mother 3)
I’m glad it’s Mother 3. I feel that since it’s not a direct sequel to Earthbound, it shouldn’t have the 2 tacked on…but on the other hand Mother 3 isn’t a direct sequel to Mother 2. Mother 3 FTW!
Mother 3 is the sequel to mother 2 (Earthbound…)
Also who cares about the title? you just kinda skip over that part anyway… right?
I recommend playing Contact for the DS while waiting for the ptch to be finished. It has a very similar feeling to Earthbound when you play it.
GO TEAM MATO!!!! DOMO ARI GATO MR. TOMATO!!!
…and Reanzet prayed fervently for the skill of Mato…
Block 0’s defenses became unstable!
I think its appropriately named Mother 3. Also can people stop saying that Mother 3 is not a direct sequel to Mother 2 cause it is. ๐
Mato, did you say you dream about DDR, as in Dance Dance Revolution? Not that anything is wrong with the game, I just don’t see you as the type.
Itoi’s love child: How can you judge that?
Pistachio?: It’s an indirect sequel.
Tomatoes don’t seem apt to pressing the DDR pad buttons. At least not when there are jumps, anyway.
Supalolipop:how so? >_<
Leave that discussion off of here, if you would. You can make a topic about that kind of stuff on the message boards.
Yes,your matoness! ๐
Mato, how long did it take you for you to learn how hack? It might sound like a stupid question, but I’ve not got a clue where to even begin, although one day I’ll give it a damn good shot.
Mato you are the man I can’t wait to play the game! I just might pee myself.
I like pie. Do you Mato? I was planning on baking you one
So your currently at the magicant stage of mother 3 then.
Your own little dream world were you make up bugs and try to fix them. And the mani mani statue is Block 0, heres hoping your time in that world ends soon , so you can absorb the powers of the sound stone, get that piece of space rock, and fight that evil last boss.
Simba Sprite: I’m not judging anything, just asking for clarification. But we’re getting off topic…
I’ve done the “dreaming about coding” thing myself. I was once working on a program for a former employer so much that when I went to sleep, I was dreaming about how to write some functions and objects. The creepy part is that one of them worked almost exactly how it appeared in my dream!
I don’t know if this is a sign or something, but on the topic of dreams, I had a dream that the hack was finished last night and I was playing a fully translated version of Mother 3.
Again, don’t know if it means anything…just throwing it out there…
Keep on going, guys!
Alex:
Mato mentioned going to romhacking.net to learn most of the stuff he knows.
ctrl + F >> “romhacking.net”
Dreamed it was finished, woke up and cried.