Progress on the Last Hack
Didn’t get as much free time last week as I had hoped, so only a few things were accomplished these past few days.
Thanks to help from sblur, we ran the main script through a spell-checker. I had already done major spelling and grammar checking a few weeks ago, but I decided to run it through a program too. Out of hundreds of pages, it only turned up maybe 20 actual misspellings, so that’s pretty good. Any outstanding spelling/grammar issues will likely be caught during testing.
I also fixed up a couple little bugs and did some other mundane stuff. I also started working on the sprite text morphing problem. The sprite text routine is so incredibly ugly and complicated though. Regular visitors may remember the month or more we spent on that. Ugh. The start of the sprite text nightmare began around here for those who care to see how difficult this text routine turned out to be.
I’m still hoping that I’ll be able to finish this last hack by the end of the month, at which time we’ll move to the final testing and polishing, which should take a few weeks (4-ish is my guess) if all goes well.
Incidentally, another prominent fan translation will be out very soon: Persona 2 Innocent Sin. I also hear the Policenauts fan translation has suddenly burst back to life. Awesome.
great! atleast you are doing progres! ^^
Wow, only a month or a bit longer? That sounds so close now!
cool! I can’t wait.
Right when I try to post a comment, it says it wouldn’t let me, and you post a new post. I do hope it ends by the end of the month. The translaton. XD
Woohoo I’m still super pumped, and I’m likely to be right up until it’s released! 😛
Great job Tomato! Bust those bugs! 😛
Man, you guys have been working for so long on this. You must be so eager to get it done at this point.
Thanks for the update!
Halloween release please 😀
Or November 5th! Or thanksgiving or something to placate you yanks.
“Hey native americans. We stole your land, but we’re THANKFUL one day a year. So we cool?”
Never understood that holiday 😛 Oh well. I guess most countries are to blame. Seeing as, y’know… most of you are decendant of irish, scottish, dutch, french, spanish, english etc.
I’m not raggin on ya too much USA folks. The english are much worse. Most of europe hate them. A least only like… France and the middle east hate the USA.
Home stretch after this. Exciting stuff knowing the fruition of the project is so close. Keep it up guys, your creation is nearly done.
Keep on truckin’, Mato!
That sounded less stupid in my head.
Too tired? What?!?!
Only 4 more weeks guys!
Goooooooo MATO!
Thanks for the heads up on the Policenauts translation. I lost track of that for a bit. Good luck working through Creatures Inc.’s horrible programming.
It’s just amazing! I can’t F-ing believe it! Only little more than a month and I play Mother 3. THANK YOU xinfinity.
Wow, Seriously I feel you guys are so close to finishing it. Me and a ton of my friends are at the edge of our seats just anticipating the translation to be finished
Shweeeeeet
Huzzah! Hard to believe that it’s almost over. It’s going to be so sad not seeing these updates…though considering what we’re getting in exchange…
Just noticed the “We’re not affiliated with Nintendo.” thing at the bottom here. Cute. =P
Cant waitsssssss 😀 woot
Damn, less than two months away…WOO MATO! Seems like yesterday that it was much much more than that! Maybe we should make bets on which day it’ll be released on, eh?
Sooo close… the wait is getting painful. =)
I so can’t wait.
But I will. =)
So, basically you’re now hunting for free RAM & looking for things you can move out of the way?
How did harmony7’s lost hack deal with this, anyhow? Or did it have morphing troubles, too?
Mato, please bear my children.
(someone has to say this every update)
Glad to see this is going well. Hopefully the remaining hacks aren’t too stressful/exhausting, and the testing goes smoothly. I’m content if the release is a month, or if it’s six months, from now, it’s just good to see that the finish line is within sight for you guys.
A Fan: I’m gonna have to do something else, no way I can get that much RAM, and no way to move things around, too much stuff (everything) is placed in reference to other stuff.
harmony never had this problem because he hadn’t gotten to the sprite welding stuff yet.
Crap. I cant wait!!
Aww, no link?
Just kiddin. Go get some sleep dude.
Good luck, man! Hope it goes well!
Gwahhhh, so good! Me and my friends are waiting for the patch, it’s almost unbearable… SO GOOD! Mato, don’t give up! And even if Nintendo hints at making an english Mother3 themselves, don’t give up! You’re too close to stop now! 😀
The guys working on Policenauts lost themselves for quite a bit there (like a year or so? yeeeeah.) And persona 2 makes 3 BIG upcoming translations that I’m super excited about. Keep it up, guys! <3
<3
so close!
Awesome, you guys have progressed so far. I can almost taste the final patch.
You can do it! We believe in you! 😀
Awesome, only 2 months left! I cannot wait! I still haven’t clocked Mother 3 so I’m eager to try this out!
You’re the best =D
So… add some kind of lock?
Like, the screen’s redraw thingy skips exactly one pass through whenever text is still being drawn based on some flag or something?
Holy dude man, this is so exciting to see it all almost done.
You can totally do it TOTALLLLYY
guess I better start figuring out this flash cart crap pretty soon…butterflies are in my stomach 🙂
Don’t worry, if all goes well this should be done just the second that the large hadron collider sucks all in.
But then hey, maybe mato could finish it in the afterlife!
Oh Dear. The translations for three separate and moderately long games are inching to their finales at the same time.
While not a dead heat, it’s certainly going to be challenging to find time for all three anticipated games as they release. Is it wrong to hope for bugs and extended beta tests?
Cheers nonetheless.
The light at end of the cave is getting brighter… I ought to finish Mother before this ends!
This is going to be super special awesome!
Policenauts translation?!? SERIOUSLY?!?
*adds to list of awesome upcoming games*
i got so excited i started jumping really hard on my bed and now my head is stuck through the ceiling and i’m just hanging here but thankfully i keep a computer up there right above my bed just in case something like this happens. i’m typing with my nose.
Yeah, lots of awesome translations. On that same note, who’s disappointed in the DQIV remake’s botched translation? O:
@JimmyB: DQIV’s botched translation? I think you’re missing something. They are regional accents not translation flaws. Go read it up.
“Persona 2: Innocent Sin?” I discovered that a few days before this! (It is due to me playing Persona 3…)
By the way, some involed in the translation of Persona 2: Innocent Sin said this about the game:
“Here is the game programmed by Satan himself. This is one of those games you would NEVER like to be involved with. It has a massive amount of GPU tricks and strange optimizations, so believe me when I say this game is EVIL.”
Does this not remind you of the way Mother 3 is programed, Mr. Mato, since you frequently say about how crazy is the programming of Mother 3?
4 weeks?! i still haven’t found a jap mother3 rom yet and all i have is 4 weeks to do so. time to search google i guess…
oh and 4 weeks?!
soooooo close! don’t stop now!
Mr. Nosy: Gemini actually took a look at Mother 3’s code last year since he had offered to help, but apparently there was a ton more of it than he ever expected, so it’s a shame it scared him away from our game. But yeah, people had been saying the Persona 2: IS game was insane to hack for years. It basically takes crazy people with crazy resolve to hack these especially hard games.
Why not publish the script to the general public, or whatever?
I mean, we might find something you missed and tell you about it, you never know.
Better than having to release a lot of versions for the patch once the game’s released because the players will find mistakes…
speaking of breathing life back into other games has anyone else thought of picking up the mother 1+2 hacks. i know the managed to do mother but they never really broke any ground on mother 2
Have you figured out what the cause of the problem is yet? or are you still looking for that?
Mother 2 was released on the SNES as EarthBound… in English. That ground is broken.
OMG i can’t wait i can’t wait ive been waiting forever YAY but i don’t know how to make a jap rom into enlish after this is done won’t you post a tutorial or something how to do it
Yes, see the FAQ for info.
matomato canz u plz trasnleat this to japanese after your game is finshed?!!!!1 i luvd urfbowned and luv fangams pplzplzplzplzplzplzplzplz do it ill pay u
(sorry, I just had to )
I already did, but the Japanese language patch was so big it broke my house.
All joking aside, do you have any other roms translation plans sometime after the Mother 3 patch is released?
Personally I wouldn’t want to even touch rom hacking again (at least for a long long while) based on what you’ve been telling us about this nightmarish hack.
Yes, I have a few things planned, but I’ll only be doing translation. Holy giygas this project has made me never want to hack again though.
GReAT Looks like I’ll have to sacrifice 1000+ hours of my own as returning the favor.
Dlv03: Mato once said that he was going to take a long vacation from anything involving ROM hacking after this is over.
I personally hope that he’ll go back and work on that “DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MOTHER 2 AND EARTHBOUND” page.
What Mato really does is all up to him. I just hope that he’ll be able to relax once this is all over. That goes for the rest of the team as well.
… Wow, Mato.
That was fast. ):
Oh yeah. The M2 to EB site is really cool.
Keep on workin’!! I just like how hard you perservere, whether you really enjoy working on the project or not… it’s great dedication. I can’t wait!
(I regret picking up the Japanese version again now. Dang.) ^_^
Well, that’s Gemini’s fault for using the Satan persona while hacking the game. Sure, it gives massive power boosts, but it’s evil. Then again, what does one expect from a game series where it’s considered a good idea to have your dog get possessed by a demon?
Maybe he can find a computer program to do an exorcism to remove some of the evil from the code… but I don’t know if digital Catholic priests are as effective as the real thing, so maybe I should send over some holy water for use on Persona (and M3…).
Wooooooooo, tear it up!
yay!
now I’m good for at least 5 days without asking:D
Maybe a week…
way to go!
I’m at a loss for words right now. It’s so close. You know, someone should make a page somewhere that has all of the bugs and stuff that popped up over the course of this translation, for reference. Like we’d ever forget, anyway.
Mato, do you speak anymore languages besides English an Japanese?
@ZPE: I wasn’t referring to the dialects, I was referring to the localization team totally dropping the ball on Party talk. 60% of the game’s dialog is missing because they didn’t translate that feature 🙁
Man, Mato, it’s all so close! Whether you’ll hack again or not after this, you’re definitely leaving your mark in an awesome way.
By the way, thanks for all of the reference links in your updates. I know I have a fairly good memory when it comes to stuff like this, but those things are extremely helpful for newcomers and my stupid fits of amnesia, so it’s appreciated. 🙂
Please finish the Earthbound Zero remake after this! I would love to see that.
This is great news! My pump rate is at 88% and climbing fast! i liked the idea of a convention too that would be fun, how about in Cleveland OH? oh and can we say where we found a good rom in the spill over section? or is that against policy…
Arashi: I heard he speaks Tomato, Not to sure bout it, but, its a good guess.
Anyways… 200 mispellings is pretty good.
Whoops! I ment 20.
did you mean “meant” too? =P
ps someone should put a power point together or something as a time line this is like a 2 year investment
So with one last hack left. You guys must be so ready to check out.
Anthooo!!: I agree, I think someone should put together a little report or somethin about the history of this translation. It could even include interviews with mato and jeff and the like…
Yep.
He also speaks spanish, french and some others, as seen in that previous update. Is he going to do any of those translations? I don’t know, he also said he might be away from the internet for two years.
On thanksgiving we’re thankful for mother 3.
So when will the FE4 translation come back?
Tomato is not going to do any of the non-English translations.
Yeah, like someone said up there… I know that your a bit scared of failure, but it’d be really nice to release the script. Could you do that or is it still not *completely* done yet?
So, a release by or sometime in November is likely?
I bought a Flash Cart just for this
well, also because it’s awesome.. but mostly because of this
Hey Mato great work! I was wondering is there anyway you can apply a % till completion for this last hack like you did for the Block 0 Boloney. Thanks!
I’m about to release a huge sigh of relief here…
Wait for it…
…*sigh*…
Way to go, Tomato. Get this done, and I will never ask you for anything ever again. Ever!!! I won’t even ask for the SNES EarthBound 0 hack, though I do find it fascinating. To be honest, I don’t think any of us deserves you. I know I didn’t do anything to earn the work you’ve done so far. I hope you get other people to test the game, though, because you have worked hard enough by now.
Best Wishes.
First time poster, long time reader, yadda, yadda , yadda…
I must say thank you, Mato for translating this game for the public.
I myself am new-ish to Earthbound in general, having only heard of it from the Smash Bros series and general Nintendo sites. But, having the knowledge that soon i’ll be able to see and experience the series that many have been gushing about, fully and without Translation FAQ’s, is quite a grand and great thought.
So, although you’ve probally heard this a zillion times before, thanks.
I don’t know if this has made an appearance before, but I just saw this tattoo on kotaku (SFW):
http://kotaku.com/photogallery/readers_tats/1003701477
Thought it might bring a smile to a few people’s faces.
Why does everybody ask for Mato to bear their kids? He’s a tomato! He only bears seeds!
Sam: pretty good tatoo.
BTW I if I ever DO make that tribute hack to Mato I already got block zero the enemy planned out.
@MigueL_D
I hope Mato gets back to the Mother 2/Earthbound differences page too. I’ve been meaning to tell him that the “Just Play It” was a reference to Nike rather than a game slogan.
Heh, the FE4 translation? I think that hack has been stalled for ages. There’s a playable version out there, but a number of things don’t work right. Still, it’s a good game. I do wish that someone knew how to fix up that hack 🙂
TBird: I actually emailed him a while back about that exact same thing, too. He never replied, but it must have been the block 0 era =P.
Mato, there’s someone who is currently looking for a Japa translator, are you available for discussion?
but he has to finish mother 3 :/
Hmm, what I’m gonna have to do is pull the entire sprite text routine out of the game, replant it back in our empty hack area and then do some big time surgery. Based on some early tests, I *think* I can reduce most if not all of the morphing if I have it DMA the text less often, but I have to untangle some things the game does first.
It’s gonna be a pain, but beyond the pain is hope!
That sounds like quite a chore Mato… But We ALL believe in you!!!!!
Believe in me who believes in YOU! B)
I wouldn’t be surprised if Mato appeared in a few days, listed his fix for sprite text morphing and added an “Oh, by the way, I cured Cancer.” sidenote.
He’s just that good.
Haven’t checked the site for a long time but everything seems to be going smooth, which is great. Keep up the good work mato.
“beyond the pain is hope”. Wiser words have yet to be spoken.
I’m thinking about getting that tattooed. Maybe some tribals and yin yangs and 8 balls and ankh signs as well.
I’m looking forward to this translation more than anything, and I just became an Earthbound fan a few weeks ago… Just as well I guess, I couldn’t stand waiting for 2 years. 2 months is a lot easier.
Well done for keeping at this for so long 😀
Will moving the routine like that free up some RAM or something? Or is it just a matter of needing to understand and control the whole damn thing?
Anyhow, I’d think that morphing would be caused by a concurrency issue, so making it DMA less often would reduce (but not eliminate) the problem because there would always be times you got unlucky and a redraw occurred before all the data was in place. Unless you mean to make it skip a redraw whenever you’re busy welding text (and make sure it doesn’t weld text unless something has changed).
So, good luck fixing the stupid thing! 🙂
I initially misread mato’s post; ‘beyond the hope is pain’. Fortunately, mato is probably not (overly) masochistic and the translation is continuing to make progress. Huzzah! I’d send you bacon, but you’ll have to settle for those little bathroom signs on the hand dryers that say ‘push button… receive bacon’.
I sense a miniboss…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWZ8jEZd5uI&feature=related
Can’t let you hack that, mato!
Bacon Pizza for Mato!
Mato, will any of the other superhackers help you with this groundbreaking open-ROM surgery on mother? Keep a steady hand, man. We all believe in you, and we’re counting on you!!!
@The Game Master
Need some help with that? I could make tons of Block 0 enemies. But, they’d all take an hour to make….
You can do it, Mato. Don’t believe in me, who believes in you. Believe in yourself, who believes in you!
Alright, looks like I got the entire sprite text routine moved over and working properly still. Next I’ll need to reorganize some stuff and trim some of the game’s code and my code down a bit now that we can do that in the hack area.
After that I have to untangle some stuff and then change how I DMA stuff to the screen, the former being especially hard. After that I’ll see how things look and act. I expect a marked improvement though.
you’re not planning anymore hacking, so Earthbound->EB0 is officially dead?
A fan: “Well, that’s Gemini’s fault for using the Satan persona while hacking the game. Sure, it gives massive power boosts, but it’s evil. Then again, what does one expect from a game series where it’s considered a good idea to have your dog get possessed by a demon?
Maybe he can find a computer program to do an exorcism to remove some of the evil from the code… but I don’t know if digital Catholic priests are as effective as the real thing, so maybe I should send over some holy water for use on Persona (and M3…).”
Try true Christian priests (i.e. Protestants), or use an Evoker (gun or card?). I am not really joking about the Protestant half.
Mr. Mato: “Gemini actually took a look at Mother 3’s code last year since he had offered to help, but apparently there was a ton more of it than he ever expected, so it’s a shame it scared him away from our game. But yeah, people had been saying the Persona 2: IS game was insane to hack for years. It basically takes crazy people with crazy resolve to hack these especially hard games.”
Nah, if Social Links (from Persona 3) existed, yours would not be “The Fool,” but rather “Strength”. (If it was “The Fool,” you would be scared off hacking in Mother 3…)
Just think, you’re almost done with hacking!
I check this site too much.
We need like…an AA for this blog or something. ;_;
I actually heard a comedy routine about that.
“I hear there’s this new service to help people who are addicted to the Internet. And at the very bottom of the description, it says ‘See our website for details.'”
*Audience laughs*
“And *pause for excess laughter* And then the Net addict is like, ‘I don’t get it! I don’t get that joke!'”
It honestly wasn’t funny.
Yeah checking this site more than a couple times a day is probably not a sign of a healthy mind is it? 😛
Ooohhhhh welllll!
Good thing the hack area is there! I hope you can get things untangled so that you don’t have sprite updates happening while it’s drawing to the screen to get rid of this nasty morphing 🙂
Right now I have things in a very good state, if I can figure this one thing out it could fix it all. Except it’s not very easy-going at the moment. I might wind up having to trace a whole giygasload of game code first. The problem manifests itself as you can see here.
To get around this fix, I used to manually draw the correct parts of stuff, but that’s what caused the flashing/morphing/some slowdown in the first place. Gotta figure out what’s going on and how to fix it.
This is the nth ‘I’ve never posted on here but have been following forever’ comments you’ve ever received, but felt I had write something since you posted a comment only moments ago. I can’t wait, thanks mato and everyone for the hard work.
Chicken that’s low in faRes? Maybe it’s not an issue; I do like my chicken cheap.
Blue blue!
Ooh,I like chicken that’s low in FaRas.
Anyway,any chance of the EB0 in EB hack being revived when this is done?
Bah,forgot to put this:
because I can see this coming in the forseeable future of the year.
Very close Mato…. i hope fixing this does not force you to undo any of your progress…..i get a bit nervous about the sprite text welding though… only because i dont know much about it except for how much work it too… and it still seems like an amazing idea and thing to do… and here i see something that, since it involves text like that, that it might be relating to the welding…. but i’m just being paranoid and leaning on my own misconceptions
anways! goodluck with it dude 🙂
took*
Mato… I might not know anything about hacking, or anything of your past progress, but with that Grilled Chicken error, are you sure you’re not overloading the text box? I think I remember reading somewhere in the past progress, the limit to the text box was about 30 16×16 characters. I counted, and that line contains 32, 35 counting the “Res” from “Restore” on the next line.
Hmm, Grilled Chicken always causes computer errors. This is why Ness liked steak and not chicken, the developers never could figure out how to get chicken to be stable.
Wow… This is my first time posting even though I’ve been following M3’s translation before the DIY, but I just couldn’t resist… So close! Mato you’ve done an amazing job and I haven’t been this excited since waiting for the original FF5 fan translation, sitting on EFNet… ahh the good old days.
If I can make a prediction based on all the mini-updates and posts you’ve been doing, I bet you’re still working madly away at it right now. I wouldn’t be surprised if this suddenly gets stricken off the list tonight, your devotion and energy to this project is amazing.
Thank you.
Oh and a big thanks to all the other experienced romhackers that helped you guys out! If only every project in the world could be done with such friendship and sharing of ideas/technology.
Good, thanks to the LHC having a large mishap that will cause it to delay collisions until January of 2009, it looks like we’ll be able to play Mother 3 in English before the LHC (probably) destroys all life as we know it. Phewf.
It would be cool if it was released on october 10, to tie in with FDC2, another game patch of his.
But release it when it’s ready, Mato. We’re all rooting for you!
Thanks for your hard work and dedication. This is amazing seeing it all come together through your hard work and devotion to the project. Keep up the awesome work and I can’t wait for the next update 🙂
I am Mato’s alter-ego form the Parallel Dimension, I have come bearing gifts, namely, an officially translated Mother 3. In my Dimension, Nintendo is a company that listens to their fans and releases what the fans ask for, our equivalent of Reggie, Eiigger, is a smart, compassionate guy, who does everything in his power to give the fans what they want, we got Goldeneye on Virtual Console, and Mother 3 in English, it’s the perfect world.
Actually last time i read about Goldeneye , its kinda a funny story , since microsoft has rare now , but the eye was for the n64.
So each company wants the rights to use the game , but either both are gonna get it or neither.
And the real funny part is , its a game that really feels dated now, most people aren’t gonna wanna play it again.
Good luck! I hope the bad bit of code comes untangled so that you can get rid of it without having to trace through the entire game!
Otherwise, you might feel like Leeroy Jenkins for attacking this code. But at least you have chicken 🙂
lmao wow that brings me back 🙂 at least i’ve got chicken…
You know, I’ve been following these updates since the beginning… and I’m only now realizing how much of his day Mato is dedicating to this. It seems like big three-hour blocks, three-ish a day, in the afternoon, evening, and night. I’m in college, so I’m watching these updates come in between classes… and I can’t IMAGINE having that kind of energy to balance that kind of time with the rest of my life.
Let nobody tell you what you’ve done here is any less than titanic. It’s art, it’s programming skill, it’s linguistic skill, it’s a public service, and it’s hard work.
Alright, I see what’s happening now, and I know how to fix it, but it will indeed require documenting a good deal of code first. I dunno how much time I’m going to have today though.
Mato, forward me your work and I will do that while you work on the translation instead. Keep in mind, however, that I only know 3 words of Spanish.
Let me know.
Dunno why, but that seemed worthy enough of posting.
nice, bodlong. classic. we all <3 you Mato.
The Mini-Mini goes on your bodlong. Isn’t that obvious?
I tried kind of a cheating thing and I got it to flash quickly instead of morph. It looks a little better, but I’m confident I can make the text 100% awesome rock solid if I continue what I started last night. If by some chance my idea doesn’t work or something unexpected happens or I can’t get my idea to work soon, I’ll use this as the fall back plan.
I also need to test this temporary method to make sure it actually displays text properly 100% of the time, there’s a chance it doesn’t in rare cases.
Anyway, short story is, we’re a small step closer to finishing the hacking.
Sounds good. No need to finish it the hard way only to find there was an easier way all along.
Am I the only one that’s somewhat apprehensive about playing Mother3? As the patch becomes imminent I realize that this is the long awaited sequel to a game that’s been one of my all time favorites since I was in 5th grade. Now I’m nearly done with college, my friends are all getting married, and I have money. I remember saving up every nickel and dime I could find until I could afford Earthbound, and it took about 2 months. Now all I need to do to afford a game is to put in 3 or 4 hours of work. I’ve been looking forward to this ever since I saw the teaser sign in Fourside back in EB, so this game has more build up for me then any of the Final Fantasy’s ever did, and I’m a little worried about what life will be like after I’ve played it. I guess only time will tell…
How awesome was life after playing EarthBound? Pretty awesome.
How awesome will life be after playing Mother 3? Pretty awesome.
No worries.
mato: luck be with you.
everyone else: it’ll be a good game. it won’t be as good a game as you want it to be. expect the worst and let yourself be pleasantly suprised, instead of inspecting the best and being dissapointed.
Good luck, Mato! It sounds like things might go better than expected and I hope things work out well.
Just eat some of that chicken low in faRes and charge in there! 🙂
Mitch needs to make a drawing about the “To be equiped on the bodlong” that would be great!
At least nut bread on your head made some sort of sense… I don’t even want to KNOW what a bodlong is.
A Bodlong? o.o’
Anyway, after reading Mato’s mini-updates, the 6 hours of bad school day seemed totally worth it 😉
Bodlong is the new alternative to typing “WTF?!”. “Lol, wut” got old.
Ouch, you sound like me, ><. Although, other than the “bodlong” I don’t see a problem. It’s blue, and it’s pretty.
(blue, blue, blue, blue)
If I recall, you made a comment that names can be 8 characters long. That means that “The Flint” won’t fit, which is lame. =( But other than that, thank you very much Mato.
Watch NoA announce that they are going to release M3 in the US the day before the patch comes out. Just to get back at us.
@NT: Don’t jinx it!
sime1 set upa bomb! lol good luck tomato
I went to the Nintendo shop keeper’s store in Twoson (ran by Morshu) and this is what he told me when I tried to buy an official English Mother 3 cart($9000):
“Sorry BGM, but I can’t give credit. Come back when you’re a little MMMMMMMMMMM… richer.”
Darn you Morshu! Lol
gratz on the work Mato ..you owns ^^^
btw i vote for more update with pics ^_^
Hmm.. The less he has to update, the more time he can spend on the actual task :O
I do love updates though. It’s a real conundrum!
This is VERY off-topic but…
What sounds better as the name of a comic? “MOTHER: PARADOX” or “PARDOXBOUND”?
Paradoxbound, but a better name would be “Bodlongbound.” Now I would read that comic.
gettin close guys… gettin close.
# Ausl0 said 53 minutes ago:
Paradoxbound, but a better name would be “Bodlongbound.” Now I would read that comic.
Maybe for random comics that are irrelevant to the story. Because bodlong is random.
Tomato is not easy to clean, as I know too well from personal experience.
I found that on a site that uses the same comment system as this.
Anyway, I think he means it’s worthy because Mini-Mini sounds like Mani-Mani and it’s in blue. Mani also means leader.
@A Fan:There is a working version of the FE4 patch with no glitches but it’s only 80% translated and it’s never going to be finished.
@Tomato: You are a fake, in that universe Mato is called Tato short for Potato.
Anyway, your all doing it wrong. It’s like this:
That is why I Believe in you.
Im 10 years old and dying of AIDS, cancer, a brain tumor and an extreme debilitating arthritis….the arthritis will make me unable to play this game with my hands in weeks…i’ll play with my face though if i must…PLEASE PLEASE FINISH THIS WHEN YOU SAY (or sooner) otherwise i will die having not had the chance to play this game.
Mother 3 is the my dying wish.
Come on mato one more step then everything else will be to us. I hope that you do a Mother 1+2 translation one day as well…
Earthbound doesn’t have a lot of games, so we need to make the best of each game! you’re doing that now!:D
The more we manage to translate, the more attention we’ll get from Nintendo.
wow, dying child, you seem pretty good at typing for someone with such debilitating arthritis.
that post was annoying dude. not funny. just… argh.
enough of it.
Dying Child: The only contradiction in your post is, that you say you have extreme arthritis. How did you post that then?
Mato: You should make a mini-mini charm! 😀
That’s not funny dyingchild. You’re fake cause nobody out of a hospital could live with all of those:(
You’re a jerk ya loser. I have had to face a point in my life when i was close to terminally ill…I remember it all so shut up you freak. Tomato, please get rid of that message.
He’s reggie fils-aime in disguiseXD
But yeah your a jerk as i just posted a few minutes ago. 😛
at least he didn’t ask for the patch yearly
confused=XD
He kinda did in a sense
why is it that ehenever someone puts up a negative post, like 30 others come to flame him? it was clear it was a load of crap, leave it at that
@TheGameMaster: I know. That’s the FE4 patch I’ve been playing 🙂 And it DOES have glitches, though most are related to untranslated text / incomplete hacks that can show up. Just try having your characters get married, for example… I wonder if there’s some good way to bribe someone like demi or gemini to finish it up? They have all the sources to their work in a zip file on some website I have bookmarked…
I like the way it handles weapons (you only repair them, rather than buying new ones all the time) much better than the other FE systems.
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Back on topic, I’m really hoping that Mato’s idea works 100%. Then all that would be left is testing! 🙂
I signed up… YAY!!!
Arashi: An example of a clear load of crap is something like “I beat earthbound every day that mother 3 isn’t in english”
Making a dying joke isn’t funny!
I think anyone with common sense would realize that is offensive.
Great work, Mato-san and gang!!! 😀 I know that you don’t do this translation for profit, but I think it would be cool if you set up a donation link so that grateful gamers can donate money to you if they want to. You’ve deserved it big time! All the best!
Giygasload was the best EB pun made, ever.
So, once this is complete, will you guys start working on the M3 Walkthrough (because it said it was on hold until the translation was done) or translating it into other languages first?
>:D
I don’t seem to recall many people getting all mad about OK making “jokes” about Mato being addicted to meth all the time. Come on, take a chill pill dudes.
If I were dying I would use it to get laid….but that’s just me.
Mr. Mato: “I might wind up having to trace a whole giygasload of game code first.”
“Giygasload” made me laugh. but still, your “error screenshots” are like the burnt cakes of Nicholas’ mother (Think “Le Petit Nicolas”): they are those circumstances when something going wrong is a good thing.
Tomato-san: “I am Mato’s alter-ego form the Parallel Dimension, I have come bearing gifts, namely, an officially translated Mother 3. In my Dimension, Nintendo is a company that listens to their fans and releases what the fans ask for, our equivalent of Reggie, Eiigger, is a smart, compassionate guy, who does everything in his power to give the fans what they want, we got Goldeneye on Virtual Console, and Mother 3 in English, it’s the perfect world.”
/evokerplz/ (I am so disgusted that I want to shoot myself with an Evoker.)
And besides, since when is Google your e-mail?
Odan-san: “Actually last time i read about Goldeneye , its kinda a funny story , since microsoft has rare now , but the eye was for the n64.
So each company wants the rights to use the game , but either both are gonna get it or neither.”
I hope for both!
Matt_S-san: “If I recall, you made a comment that names can be 8 characters long. That means that “The Flint” won’t fit, which is lame. =( But other than that, thank you very much Mato.”
What about “Da Flint” or “DaFlint”?
Dying Child-san: “Im 10 years old and dying of AIDS, cancer, a brain tumor and an extreme debilitating arthritis….the arthritis will make me unable to play this game with my hands in weeks…i’ll play with my face though if i must…PLEASE PLEASE FINISH THIS WHEN YOU SAY (or sooner) otherwise i will die having not had the chance to play this game.
Mother 3 is the my dying wish.”
/evokerplz/
Mattiac-san: “Great work, Mato-san and gang!!!”
I thought I was the only one who used honorific titles!
I can’t wait for it to be finished . . . It’s gonna be better than Christmas!
/me gives mato a cookie for his hard work.
Keep up the good work! looks like you guys are almost at the goal line.
haha lol im dieing if a gigasload. wont to make a joke, but y wont u peopel liten up????????sometimes…..
Come on guys, DyingChild was just making a joke. I found it kinda funny.
btw mato i’m dying next week so if I could get the patch today it’d be nice thanks
i have aids too, also cancer, the flu, hepatitus A, B, C, and i’m gay. please release the game so I can play before i die of gay.
Oh no, guys, you won’t believe this… A desert wolf just bit me with his poisonous fangs… My health is slowly depleting!
Please Mato, I need that patch as soon as possible!
oh man. my bodlong has MAD amounts of fares. i gotta get that checked out. maybe mato can hack my bodlong when he’s done with this ?
Have my babies!
Dying Child-san: “Im 10 years old and dying of AIDS, cancer, a brain tumor and an extreme debilitating arthritis….the arthritis will make me unable to play this game with my hands in weeks…i’ll play with my face though if i must…PLEASE PLEASE FINISH THIS WHEN YOU SAY (or sooner) otherwise i will die having not had the chance to play this game.
Mother 3 is the my dying wish.”
I thought it was pretty funny…
Derrick T.:”Making a dying joke isn’t funny!
I think anyone with common sense would realize that is offensive.”
offensive to who? the dead? i think not. >_>
I take back my comment regarding Tomato (and the future). Those “Mato, bear my children” comments make me go /evokerplz/, not that “future Tomato”. The “bear my children” comments do not make sense to me.
I suppose it COULD be offensive to someone who just lost their grandmother, for example, but it’s only a joke. I’m sure nobody was offended when it seems like Everdred is about to die in Earthbound, and then he just runs off. 😛
Chill out guys. B)
A picture to go with my post above:
http://walkthrough.starmen.net/earthbound/image/screens/22/everdred.png
Wow Hope u get sprite text morphing done soon, well anyway Im 11 and Blond so im goin as Lucas On Halloween
@ elpaulo:
Your costume will be one of the more unique ones surrounded by all those people who are gonna be the Joker. Why So Numerous?
I’m 13 and have dark brown hair, so I’m going as Ness
I’m 20 and trying to convince my friend to go as Kumatora while I go as Flint.
Only problem is my friend’s a dude. He’s currently about 50/50 on the idea.
im 11 years old n last year i was ness 4 halaween. i had a shert with a strip and a hat and a bat!!!!!! it was sfun but my neigbor charly did’nt no who i was:(
Everdred was going off-screen, so that he would die without strangers staring at him. That entire post could be offensive to anyone who has any of those illnesses. Its not funny, its just wrong.
Instead of going on and on about how offensive that post was, how about instead we turn the conversation over to how awesome Mato is, hmm?
EmpoleMew:
No one knows if Everdred actually dies or not.
But either way, learn to take a joke, man.
Mato is awesome!
OMG! So i wasn’t the only one thats 13 and going as ness for Halloween i have dark brown hair and brown eyes and when there are pictures taken of me ill do the same pose as Ness on Earthbound and say “fuzzy pickles”
same here
i know hey arashi what state do u live in im not gonna ask city cuz i dont want u to think that im some sort old guy hey sexually assaults kids like in the videos they show at school
Another (same) dying child said: i have aids too, also cancer, the flu, hepatitus A, B, C, and i’m gay. please release the game so I can play before i die of gay.
Rainbow said: Oh no, guys, you won’t believe this… A desert wolf just bit me with his poisonous fangs… My health is slowly depleting!
Please Mato, I need that patch as soon as possible!
See the difference between a funny joke and a sick joke?
I wish you get feel what it’s like being a dying child with aids and cancer. In fact, if i could i would take a greatful child’s cancer and aids and give it to you!
Ahh, the internet. Serious business.
Let me just say that differently:
I mean take theirs away and give it to you not just give it to you no matter how much you deserve it nobody does.
Yeah, you really shouldn’t wish someone else to get cancer and AIDS.
Yeah i thought i made myself clear with that one but: If i could i would take a REAL dying child who would appreciate good health more with him the FAKE ungrateful jerk. It’s like illegal immigration, if they’re willing to risk their lives to come here, compared to someone who walks and burns a us flag, i think we could agree that the ones that are more grateful and brave and give them the shot at life here.
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wow that got way off topic so i’ll say something about M3…Did anyone ever answer what ever happened to duster being an assist trophy? I heard it was in the brawl database like roy and mewtwo…is that true?
@Derrick T.
Now, you’re just throwing negativity, which is not in anyway a joke. So take a deep breath and let it go before you make yourself out to be more immature.
I could come up with many responses to the flag burning comment, but I’ll let that go as long you never mention that again.
N-Dawg: Err… I’m in Mexico o.O
Derrick T. said:
“If i could i would take a REAL dying child who would appreciate good health more with him the FAKE ungrateful jerk.”
This sentence is still very unclear. I’m still not sure what you’re trying to say here.
But anyway, you’re taking what was obviously a harmless joke far too seriously. Sure, someone could take offense at Dying Child’s post, but the same could be said of darn near any post on any subject, particularly when it comes to humor, which tends to be very subjective. If you’re going to make a fuss over every comment that could possibly be construed as offensive, then there won’t be much left for anyone to say at all.
Lighten up, dude.
Can you guys knock this off? It’s stupid and every reply you make just perpetuates it.
a suspicious number of people on this site have terminal diseases…
THIS WEBSITE IS HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS AND MATO IS ACTUALLY THE SECRET BRANCH OF NINTENDO DEDICATED TO THE EXTERMINATION OF ITS OWN FANBASE
SO BE CAREFUL OK?
Great job on making Mato mad, guys.
Now I bet he’ll push the release date a week back for revenge. :/
OH NOES.
THATS NOT A SMART THING FOR NINTENDO TO DO!
I think instead that Mato, in his frustration due to the horror that is hacking mother 3, has infected us all.
OH NOES.
Mato, if you had to take a stab at it, how many hours would you estimate that you have put into the translation thus far?
@Arashi: Mexico is divided into states…
Anyway, why not just pretend that dying child’s post never happened? That way, we can get back on subject.
I’m hoping that this text morphing problem won’t take too much longer… I’m able and willing to wait until it is finished to near perfection, but just to get Mato back on his good side, I hope this doesn’t last much longer…
Ok, it’s done, we learned some people can’t take a joke.
Back on mother three, when you said Giygasload, it gave me the idea of making an enemy called Hades Giygas.
Generic praises and……. GIYGASLOAD!!!
Thats more than the stock market crash.
keep up the good work and I blame Mato for my diabetes just because.
13 1 20 15 rules
Furthering the journey away from non-joke-getting and cancer-wishing, I too was inspired by that term, “Gigasload,” but mine was a bit weirder. I imagined a hypothetical device which would have an infinite number of disc-drives and which could load all the discs at once – then merge all the collected data into one chaotic mutant form of Collected Humanity Art which would be part music, video, game, and picture: a stream-of-conscious and incomprehensible media which would drive any sane human mad after minutes, but which would be the most intense and fulfilling experience of the viewer’s life.
Then I went to get some cookies and forgot about it until just now.
my friends, i bring good news to rejoice over whilst the great Mato continues his hacking
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/09/25/disbarred
Matt_S-san: “Ahh, the internet. Serious business.”
The Internet IS serious business. Even in the Internet, whatever you do has consequences, so take responsibility. (I am saying this to anyone who read this.)
must. name. flint. “TheFlint”
must. make. favorite. food. pasta xD
I NEED MORE M3 FOR MY BODLONG!!
I recently contracted a disease which requires me to play a complete, translated, English version of Mother 3 or my body will be ravaged by an inexorable series of debilitating symptoms until I am practically an invalid.
My life is in your hands, mato.
….um yeah.,
on a more on-topic note, i’m just wondering what people are going to do on the day the patch is released… since last year i’ve planned to pop a bottle of champagne, and celebrate with friends, even though non of them would really care about the patch… but i can’t drink alone damn it….
well, personally, on the day the patch is released I’ll be playing the game
Erm sooooooooooo….
Mato hows the progress on the latest hacking im dieing to
see what has happen from the time you updated. Is it give you a worse time than Gigas or is it easier than beating one of
Those Spiteful Crows and geting a cookie?
ujgujgj: he always keeps us up to date when there’s stuff to be updated about, so i guess there’s just nothing much to say right now… but dont worry! in a week or less he’s gonna say “alright folks, no more hacking on this game ever!” 🙂
seth: well yeahhh dude…. but i mean to celebrate.. you’re not gonna be happy and do anything to celebrate the occasion other than just play the game?