Testing is Magic Cake
Testing continues, slowly but surely. Nothing really new to report, which is good. It’s making me want to go back and fix some tiny, tiny issues that don’t matter anyway, but I must fight the urges. I don’t have the free time for it anyway though.
At this point, it pretty much looks like the translation will work on most everything out there than can emulate/play GBA games. If you want to be really sure ahead of time, try playing the Japanese version a tiny bit and see if you have any problems. If you can save your game properly (which is a common problem for Mac GBA emulators…), then you’re probably good to go.
When the patch is released, we’ll have a detailed list of hardware and emulators you can play the translation on. Some fine folks at gbatemp have offered their help in that regard, so the list should be pretty thorough. Until then, if you’re interested in running the translation on actual hardware or on other systems, this thread may be worth a read.
I figure we’ll let the testers do their stuff a little while longer, and during the meantime I’ll do my own testing and help get a handful of key lines polished up. Since more and more people are finishing the game (and playing through again) without any new bugs, the patch could be out a bit sooner than I had thought.
clicked a link to this site and 0 minutes since the post. 1st?
Horray!
I have held onto my EZV 3-in-1 card for the sole purpose of Mother 3. It’ll finally be useful again!
Sweet! I haven’t found a full Mother 3 ROM yet (the one in Emuparadise is only about 14-some MB, which isn’t the entire ROM), but I hope to find one soon and check this out when it comes out!
Hi Tomato
I am excited by this news
You are an exciting fella
Thank you for your hard work and dedication
trippy drug induced testing, yay!
Wow, that’s great news. Playing this on my M3 Pro will be awesome. I have every GBA ROM dump on it, and now the translation will be added to it. Keep it up!
This is awesome news. Can’t wait! 😀
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so what will come next? Testing is Magicant? Testing is Cave to the Past? Testing is Giygas’ Lair? :O
A winner is you Mato!
Go Go TOMATO!!!!
:3 … I like you guys.
You, sir, are spectacular.
Nothing new to report… except for how AWESOME this is; am I right?
Wow..iTS SO CLOSEEEE 😀
So close I can smell it!
Please don’t go all emo on us like Gemini.
You really should be getting paid for this!!
When I read “the translation will be out sooner than I thought”, the song “Triple Chrome Dipped” by Michna came on on my playlist, and the horns at the beginning accentuated the wide-eyed look I got on my face.
@Naraku2000:
Testing is Happy Happy Village?
# Andy said 5 minutes ago:
So close I can smell it!
Please don’t go all emo on us like Gemini.
hehehehhe I suppose gemini did that so we could finish mother 3 first and THEN persona IS
Or our heads would probably blow up =P
Excellent news not running into bugs.Can’t wait you guys are the best!
man i can’t believe it’s soon gonna be done!
can’t wait to play the sequel to one of my favorite rpgs of all time!
i’ve been getting sick of playing the original and mother 2 over and over and over i can pretty much recite every line in it!
and i don’t want to ruin it by playing the jap one!
can’t wait!!!!
and i’m like the magic cake reference to mother 2 lol summers baby YEAH!!!
Here’s to hoping the patch will be out in as little as two weeks!
Will he throw us a curveball and say Testing is Finnish? Heheh… Finnish… it’s not Swedish!
so where are we going to be having the mother 3 party?
i think i just shit myself 😀
I just hope it works with mednafen on ubuntu. Its the only GBA emulator I’ve been able to get to work on there.
In b4 I’m a fag.
btw mato……. i saw that vid u made before about how u were going to make earthbound 0 (mother) and hack it so that its in SNES graphics (basically hack it so that itll look like EB when itsrlly EB0) how is that coming along?
I… I can’t wait… good god…
Happiness is a Warm Blog.
Thanks as always for your dedication!
Hello everyone, I’m Italian and also here, in my country, we are all waiting for MOTHER 3 Patch! (not all all…just all the folks that love Mother series ^_^ )
Mato & Co. WE LOVE YOU!
Greetings from Italy
I would really like to play M3 using a flashcart, but whenever I try to learn how to use one all I get out of it is “bloo bloo bloo blah blah bobbity boppity boo.”
I am under the impression that people who use flashcarts follow the following steps:
1.) Buy the flashcart.
2.) ??? Some magic happens or something.
3.) OH HEY LOOK. Mother3 just appeared out of nowhere. That’s just swell.
I’ll probably just end up playing it on an emulator. ^__^;
CANT……WAIT……LOSING…..BREATH!!!
This is unbelievable! There are is no music sweeter to my ears than “the patch could be out a bit sooner than I had thought.”
Awesome job, everyone!
nice, I hope we can play it on the PSP so I can play the game during class when the teacher is not looking. =3
“nice, I hope we can play it on the PSP so I can play the game during class when the teacher is not looking. =3”
You might be screaming with excitement during class, so don’t try lol 😀
Sooner than you thought?
So you DID have a release date in mind!
(j/k)
say, will you release it on a special date when you’re ready on something like 12:00AM and then set up a countdown or will you release it as soon as you’re ready with it?
sooner than you thought…. somebody get me a towel
@Naraku2000: My vote goes for ‘Testing is OVER!!!!!111 1.’
Sure, not likely to happen for the next update, but I can dream, can’t I? =P
No, there won’t be a countdown or anything like that, that’s lame and then what if something happens and we can’t release it when the countdown hits 0? We’ll have made MANY people pissed, all because we were trying to be dramatic 😉
We’ll probably announce the release date only a couple days in advance, once we know it’s going to be ready for sure.
Legends. Well done!
imagine if this was all a dream
Man… everything just went all pink and swirly in my head when I read this.
Magic cake indeed.
Y’know, just to put things in perspective for those of us joining the EB craziness now. I only got into EB fairly late, at the end of my junior year of high school. That was sometime in the spring of 2005. Around that time the rumors about this game were starting to bubble up, but nobody really knew if Itoi was really making it or not since so little had been leaked. After some tiny tidbits in the form of present boxes and the like (which the starmen team were so kind to translate), Mother 3 was actually released almost exactly a year after I first played EB. I have been checking nearly every day on the status of the translation of Mother 3 since then, that’s about 2 and a a half years. That’s from when I was finishing senior year of high school until my first semester of my junior year in college. In that time there have been 3 translation attempts, all eventually boiling down to this one…
And now it sound like it’s almost done.
I think I might flunk out of school thanks to you guys.
(PS. Thank you!)
(PPS Mato, I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but someone else has been translating a documentry on the Miyazaki movie “Princess Mononoke.” One segment involves a conversation with Itoi about the tagline of the film, you might be interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKRYGp4hKOg)
Don’t even announce it ahead of time.
Just release it when it’s done and watch the entire site slow down for a few days straight.
YES MY WISH MIGHT COME TRUE
0_o
Awesome. Freaking awesome. Just don’t have cake for dessert tonight. Actually do, you may have a dream of somebody (far in the east) that will help you in getting M3 in America. *COUGHnintendorepwhoactuallycaresCOUGH*
It’s so refreshing to hear good news about Mother releases for the first time in 15 years. Rock solid.
Someone posted something about “trample” but it got caught by the spam filter and I accidentally deleted it. But I will point said person to this:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/trample
I gotta admit though, it’s been annoying whenever people decide to nitpick things and argue about things that aren’t even set in stone, such as apostrophe use, comma use, even the use of “the”. Just let those things go. Be more carefree, like a hippie of this new age.
I know everyone here will hate me for saying this but have you thought about holding off on the patch till we know more about this DSiWare or whatever they end up calling it. I would really hate for the game to finally officially come out and bomb. Once you release something on the internet, it’s impossible to take it down.
I can’t believe no one’s said this yet.
HAVE MY BABIES!
Mato said: Be more carefree, like a hippie of this new age.
New Age Retro Hippie FTW!
BTW, does this game have hippies and the theme song for them?
<:D
Oh, and Moogpaul: Are you saying that we should wait for the DSi to be released in America in hopes of an official translation? Because people won’t want to wait until mid-2009 at the earliest (assuming that Nintendo will release it – which they probably won’t) when they could download a perfectly good translation patch in a couple of weeks-a month.
Or are you saying that the patch will hurt sales? If so, I bet plenty of people will still buy the official version. And if it does hurt sales: well, that’s Nintendo’s fault for not releasing it earlier.
What more can be said. You seriously hit it right out of the park and the ball hasn’t landed yet. Total respect here for taking this effort over and plowing through. Never any hard feelings about what was said at Neogaf, you proved you were completely right on all counts. Glad more than anything to finally be able to play this soon. Damn right sir, damn right!
When I use Visual Boy Advance on my Macbook, there is a slight bit of lag when I save, but it works nonetheless.
Question: Will the mac saving problem be fixed or will the mac users need to get creative?
Anyone plan on making a pkhack for mother 3? anyway good job
Symphony_Sid: It’s not as if we have full control of the universe and can fix whatever we want 😉 The mac emu issues are mac emu issues.
Mac users should use Mednafen. Only problem is you have to start it using Terminal, and it doesn’t have a GUI configuration thing… but it’s certainly the best Mac GBA emulator out there.
http://mednafen.sourceforge.net/
When you said “Magic cake” I thought “Demi in the far east” for some reason.
@ruok: I already asked for one and Mato said it would be almost impossible, since it has sloppy programming, and Earthbound was flexible enough for that stuff. EB2 isn’t. But I think there will be a text editor.
@Err1112: He’s not hacking EB0 to have earthbound graphics, that’s impossible on an 8-bit system. He’s hacking Earthbound so it will have EB0’s story, characters, settings, etc. And he said he stopped work on it and probably won’t get back any time soon.
Man Mato I didn’t think you would survive long enough to see this.
OH SHI– Almost as good as dividing by 0
Mato I agree with you that its time that people just let things go and be more carefree,like a hippie of this new age LOL because I have notice throughout this whole translation project that the littlest of things can make people go mad.
As far as Mac emus go…I’m currently working on a report of VBA to OSX, among other emus. (Not a fan of Richard Bannister and his charging for emus). I currently have NES, GBA and GB/GBC emulation working under an umbrella application. Think MESS, but with proven cores, instead of writing my own…
This is the first time I have announce this anywhere, but I will try to have it all ready and working by the time this is release, at least a Beta release. I’ll make sure saving is working for this game, but I’m almost positive it is.
Some may know me already…I was working on a re-port of Nestopia to OSX known as OpenNestopia. This is a continuation of that work, which has been completely rewritten.
– Josh
Yay. Nice to see nothing is happening.
I am sooo stoked for the patch. It could be out as soon as Halloween!!! 😀
I should go out as Lucas to celebrate.
Wow, I’m so happy! Great job, team mother 3. What would you estimate the release date to be? Before the end of the month? Beginning of November?
*drools*
Now I HAVE to get an M3! :P~
Fan-freakin’-tastic!!
Been following this forever and just wanted to say
Love.
Thanks for the awesome work.
I motion to construct a statue of Mato in front of NOA HQ. This will forever immortalize the toil of our hero.
I wonder what the text engraving would say.
@chad3670: gtfo
@Mato: You legend! Go for it!
*resists temptation to make huge post with lame jokes*
AWESOME! YOU ARE THE MAN, TOMATO!
I beleive it should say
‘Welcome to th
:|’
NFITC1 said 6 minutes ago:
Fan-freakin’-tastic!!
Hey, you stole my catchphrase! j/k
In all seriousness, its good to see things are going well, even if it is being seen in purple-pink.
Now let’s all wait for the huge game-breaking bug that someone stumbles upon that requires two more months of fixing.
I have a house to jump off of if this happens.
mato’s work is good enough i might not have to sue him for screwin with my game.
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO said:
“mato’s work is good enough i might not have to sue him for screwin with my game.”
Lol
Mato, you’ve done (and continue to do) amazing work. We are all in your debt.
Mato, you said you can’t fix the universe. You can beat a sparrow, squash bugs, and create game patches, but you can’t fix the UNIVERSE.
Oh well, generic praises and lols. Go and test your heart out, but have a surgeon at your side.
Chris Highwind said 3 hours ago:
Sweet! I haven’t found a full Mother 3 ROM yet (the one in Emuparadise is only about 14-some MB, which isn’t the entire ROM), but I hope to find one soon and check this out when it comes out!
Interesting theory Chris. I got the one from EmuParadise and it’s 32 MB. Check your computers internet connection. Maybe it died before the download was done. Sorry if I sould like an @$$, I’m just trying to help. The Rom at EmuParadise IS the full game, like all other GBA Roms I’ve gotten from there.
Yaaaay!
D00d you are my hero, and you’d perfectionist touches never cease to amaze me. All your works just are so professional and we all appreciate the work you do, now I hope someday I could see that remake of Earthbound Zero ;3 after I enjoy this translation.
Sooner? How much sooner?
Awesome.
1. Translate Game
2. Hack Game
3. Test Game
4. ??????
5. PROFIT!
Mato, why don’t you just patch one copy of the ROM and then put that ROM up for download. I know ROMs are normally can cause legal problems but since its YOUR translation is it OK?
Today’s my birthday!
This compatibility news is a present worth five birthdays. Thanks for the gift, Mato! 🙂
Please say you hired the Runaway Five for the opening ceremony, Mato…
@fed:
No, because its HIS translation on top of NINTENDO’S property 🙂 Still infringing if he offers the original or patched ROM for download.
Happy Birthday rogueofmv! Let’s celebrate with a birthday party at my EB-a-Thon Ustream page. I’ll provide the birthday song and even a cake on the audio-and-video streaming thingy.
Must… stop… sudden and erratic… heart palpitations… Also, thanks Mato and all that are putting forth time and effort to test the patch! You guys are heroes!
:3
that is all.
I’m willing to test the patched game once it’s out on my supercard mini SD, I’ll probably play it anyway so it’s not like a favor or something 🙂
Oh, jeebus. I am excited.
Yay.
Getting closer 😛
man… practically 100 posts in 4 hours.
Not entirely sure Mednafen will work guys, my terminal shows this with the Japanese rom open:
SRAM emulation disabled by write to: 0e005555 000000aa
Oh hey, if this game is done by my birthday, October 16th, which according to Mato sounds completely plausible at this point, it looks like I really have to keep my end of the bargain and send some birthday cake mix over.
Really though, thanks a bunch for doing this. And singlehandedly taking on a project of such magnitude. And of course, thanks to everyone else involved in the hack, if it weren’t for them the project would’ve been stifled ages ago.
In any case, truthfully Mato, thanks alot. I appreciate it.
Awesome. I can’t wait for this…man, I just beat Earthbound a week ago, now this is going to be out soon…
This, is the best news I’ve heard all day. And I’ve had a really awesome day, even before I heard this news. I can’t wait, and great job!
oh, seems to save perfectly fine!
Dude…I cant wait for this and I cant wait for punch out!! wii and I cant wait for Battlefield heroes and I cant wait for mario and luigi rpg 3. Thats 4 things I cant wait for. Also, the dsi is going to suck because there is no gba slot and there are 2 cameras. Is 1 camera just not enough to satisfy your camera needs?
“ste said 13 minutes ago:
Not entirely sure Mednafen will work guys, my terminal shows this with the Japanese rom open:
SRAM emulation disabled by write to: 0e005555 000000aa”
Saving does work, though. I know – I’ve done it 😛
100th!
VBA GX 1.0.2 (for Wii) has just released, with the core updated to VBA-M:
http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9182
HOT HOT HOT!
I also vote that the patch release topic title be:
Welcome to th 😐
I’ve been watching this sucker from back when the project first merged. It’s wild to think that it’s almost done. Winding down as it is, I figured now is as good a time as any to post my appreciation for the amount of time and effort that has been put into this. I am becoming exceedingly eager, and will easily spend many hours playing the first day. To continued success, Mato, Jeffman, and the rest of the crew.
I. Cannot. Believe. It.
The thing that really got me exited was the last sentence.
Will those “tiny, tiny” issues be fixed at some point in a patch when you have the time or something? If they aren’t really noticeable it’s all fine, but it’d be nice to have a totally, totally complete project by the time you completely stop on the project. No hurries though, I’m already happy enough you guys have gotten this far.
By the way, have you considered maybe making a deal with Nintendo and giving them a finished version for them to sell right away or something, in exchange for some monies or even nothing if you feel like being generous? If I was Nintendo, I wouldn’t see why not.
Once the translation’s done, everyone should spam out the message. Think of how fast we could flood the internet…
Plus it would help to have more people play the Mother games.
@ GODLY
“4.??????”
PLAY GAME!
I’m expecting the VC release, given they listen to us, to be released within a few months. When it comes out, I will buy about 30 copies and gift them to other Wii friends. I just have cash to burn. =P
*obligatory have my man babies post*
Now that that’s out of the way, OH YEAH
Sure thing, MikeDCray, but… what’s the password to get into the stream? xP
“Once the translation’s done, everyone should spam out the message. Think of how fast we could flood the internet…
Plus it would help to have more people play the Mother games.”
NO
Disregard that last message, I checked my USTREAM box. 😀
At this rate, it feels like we’re heading towards a Halloween launch. Make sure to have zombie paper ready! 🙂
This… This… This is amazing. I couldn’t have done better myself. The DSi will have downloadable games. I’m offering you and your team $100,000 USD if you allow us to release this translation on the DSi’s downloadable game service.
All right! Way to go Mato! I can’t WAIT to play Mother 3 in english. It shall me the most incredible gaming experience of my life. *shot*
Goof, “me” should be “be”
I am not even a female, and I want Mato to father my babies. DO IT.
What about tool-assisted testing? Have you done that yet?
SQUEEEEEEE! If I had any money left after buying my stuff to play the translation I would pay you! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!
GRACIASGRACIASGRACIASGRACIAS!!!
I think this candidate is best suited to fix the problems we’re having in the U.S.
http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=370743&altf=Uif&altl=Hbnf1Nbtufs
Hope the link works.
You’ve tortured me with waiting so much I’m becoming Giygas.
Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato, Mato
It feels.. good
Yes.
I’m mildly faint. And I have finished the game thrice over and I’m STILL hyped.
Yesss.
“No, because its HIS translation on top of NINTENDO’S property”
There’s also the fact that the ROM is 32MB in size. A patch, which is much smaller, takes less time to download.
Sooner than you thought eh? So much for finishing Mega Man 9 before the patch came out…eh, I dunno why I said that. :\
GBA emulators on Mac suck simply because GBA emulators on Mac suck. The demand for it isn’t that high. I remember trying to run Fire Emblem 6 on a G3 back in 2004 using the crappy Mac port of Visual Boy Advance… NOT FUN. I’m so, SO glad I have a new computer that isn’t a Mac.
Mato is such a winrar, he’s some fancy pro edition you have to pay for. That’s right, he’s got that many awesome features.
Alright. Time to test Mother 3 on my PSP just to make sure…
Does anyone know if he mentioned in the past what the “tiny, tiny issues” he is talking about are? I’m kinda curious.
Oh god oh geez oh god Oh god oh geez oh god Oh god oh geez oh god Oh god oh geez oh god OH GEEZ OH GOOOD OH GEEEZ OH GOOOD OH GEEEZ
OH GOD OH GEEZ
Starman Jr.: Things he doesn’t like. This may possibly include bugs present in the non hacked up version of the game. I don’t remember when he mentioned that though.
Also I’m probably wrong altogether.
testing is magic cake, eh? awesome… i prefer magic pudding myself, but whatever gets us there 🙂
Thank you! You’ve done a great thing.
I’m just happy this’ll be out before the LHC collisions start and potentially wipe out all of human history, culture, etc. for the sake of testing some largely irrelevant hypothesis.
Good job Mato, hope the testing isn’t getting too boring! A countdown would be cool, but as you said, risky.
I would actually prefer not being told the translation is coming. For two reasons really: 1. Can you imagine if you just look on here one day and there is the translation…wow what a rush! 2. What if Nintendips are watching this and they are waiting for you guys to announce the translation is done before they make an announcement of their own? Anyway…my two cents!!! Just surprise us man!
MATO are you throwing a party to celebrate after the patch is released?
Testing is Moonside
Ooh, found a tiny bug of my own, in one of the battle text lines I had typed [31 FF] (which is the pause code) instead of [11 FF] (the subject name code). Easy enough to fix. Also fixed the translation for that line since I had never seen that line before.
rogueofmv, I think it’s safe to come back now. Willah uber-banned the hacker.
Any idea on a date? Estimation??
Mato: what is your favorite video game of all time? if it is a non-mother game, what is your favorite mother game? if it is a mother game, what is your favorite non-mother game?
@Trimalchio: I’m pretty sure he’s been doing tool-assisted testing just about the whole time. After all, he keeps tons of savestates on the emulator so that he can go to particular parts of the game to test things without having to replay everything every time 🙂
Anyhow, good luck to Mato in catching all those evil bugs/typos!
Sweet! I f this is done by the end of the week I get to start Mother 3….OVER FALL BREAK!!!!!!!! YYEEAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!
Your speedy work never stops amazing me. Nice Job.
It’s me again. Mr. Itoi here. Have you decided on whether or not you want this to be downloadable on the DSi? I’ve raised it to $500,000.
Either way, this has inspired me to create a MOTHER 4. Check your local video game store in the year 2013. 😉
Shigesato Itoi: Say wha?
You know what’s great, Mato?
This translation has been done so fast, that all the Mother jokes about how awesome you are, like, gaining a level and s***, are all only moderately annoying.
They haven’t even reached “Freakin’ aggravating’ yet 😀
Back off, Itoi. I’m the man.
Hey Mato I know this probably wont help much but I did try and play the menu patch version a while back and since i usually don’t like to use guides and just play the game like any other human being by talkin to people to figure out where to go i gave up since i can’t read or speak japanese. But i did run into a small issue with gpsp when loadin a save state during the part where its raining kinda close to the beginning when the forest was on fire only thing you can see is the rain and no map until you move to a different part like going thru a door or entering a different part of the map that must be loaded altho minor i thought i should mention that.
emu = psp
ver = 0.9
fw = 4.01 m33 update 2
Way to go Mato! You must be the most praised person on the internet.
I think I have the most babies ever. Now to sell them on the black market. My true plan is complete!
Guess it’s about time to bring out the ol NeoMax and see if it still works. :S
G-giant step to magic cake? It seems everything is progressing along very quickly! I-I can’t wait ;v;
Both of you back off! I’m in charge now! You will all bow down to my almighty DSi! No more GBA, no more Mother series! From now on an endless supply of Mario Party sequels, sports games, and “casual gamer” games marketed to insecure teenage girl!
How ’bout $20 a baby?
Just wanted to say that I am a huge fan of Mother 2(Earthbound) and have been following the progress on this site for awhile. Mato, you are great! I can’t wait to play it is going to be a major MILP(Mother I would like to play!)
No Reggie, for gods sake NO MORE MARIO PARTY!!!!! I CAN’T HANDLE ANY MORE!!!!!!!!!!
Are you gonna throw a release party, or possibly even a release gala??
You’re really awesome for doing this, Mato. I really admire that you’re treating this like a professional and making sure everything is perfect upon release rather than update after update. I can’t wait to see the final product.
Looks like I’m going to have to beat Earthbound a lot sooner than I though. I bought and played the game when it first came out but never beat it. I got stuck on the last boss! Ahh why didn’t somebody tell me to use pray, haha.
Wonderful to see the progress. You guys are so, so close.
The Game Master said 6 hours ago:
When you said “Magic cake” I thought “Demi in the far east” for some reason.
@ruok: I already asked for one and Mato said it would be almost impossible, since it has sloppy programming, and Earthbound was flexible enough for that stuff. EB2 isn’t. But I think there will be a text editor.
@Err1112: He’s not hacking EB0 to have earthbound graphics, that’s impossible on an 8-bit system. He’s hacking Earthbound so it will have EB0’s story, characters, settings, etc. And he said he stopped work on it and probably won’t get back any time soon.
Man Mato I didn’t think you would survive long enough to see this.
thats wut i ment to say LOL
also mato U KICK ASS
@ jjs:
I would not be suprised if there is an insane number of people in the starmen.net irc when it releases, but I don’t know about a party per se.. considering that this is all still on shaky ground.
I dunno if I would even show up anyways, considering what I will be busy playing~
Let’s just hope that the patcher is done in time.
I came.
Ohhh yeah this is getting good.
-n00b
Hmm? Black market of babies? No thank you, I think I’ll just buy the gene-pool.
Anyways I suppose while maybe this might conflict with your “No countdown” is there a raw rounded off estimate to how much testing you’ve done?
Thank you.
Gracias.
Muchísimas gracias!!!
Thank you very much! You´re heroes!
Omg, the translation is really coming, arghh.ehh…I must…do…something. NOW!
*bites Mato’s butt*
*squeals* It was so….YUM!
Well i’m relieved now. I can’t believe that preety soon I’ll be able to play this game.
Keep going Mato! And I won’t bite you anymore, promise.
For those that payed attention to what I said before about the forthcoming GBA emulator for OSX that I’m working on. I just checked SRAM stuff with the JP version of the rom, and it worked like a charm 😀 So for anyone who has problems, this one should work like a charm.
Now…this is the first time i ever opened this ROM, and let me just say, I’m more excited now than ever.
Three cheers for mato!
Hey… I just saw that in the To-Do list, the “tool-assisted testing” just disappeared. That means…
IT’S CLOSER THAN EVER NOW GUYS
SO CLOSE 8D
I haven’t been following all the comments as religiously as I once did, so maybe I missed this, but:
What happened with the 3rd revision of the script? Is it done already/everything go smoothly? I don’t remember hearing anything about it!
I believed Mato scrapped it because Demi is currently running his own company and didn’t have too much time for this, and the second script was already great looking, so Mato went with it.
you are my new heroes
w00t! Let’s throw an eparty when this is done. I’ll bring the ebratwursts!
my psp desperately awaits the release of this patch like a cat in heat.
“No, there won’t be a countdown or anything like that, that’s lame and then what if something happens and we can’t release it when the countdown hits 0? We’ll have made MANY people pissed, all because we were trying to be dramatic
We’ll probably announce the release date only a couple days in advance, once we know it’s going to be ready for sure.”
Obvious solution is to set a countdown for April 1st and then at T minus 5 to replace the front page with “This Account Has Been Suspended”.
I am most displeased with this project and, more generally, the deterioration of the great NINTENDO empire since my departure — despite the fact that I have become unspeakably rich beyond human comprehension. I order this project to cease immediately. It will bring terrible shame to my legacy.
Do you not remember my wise words of yesteryear? You are all depressed gamers who like to sit alone in your dark rooms and play slow games! Never have these words been more true than today. Turn from your downfallen state before your babies become mine forever.
Such a pity…
how pissed off would you be if you had just announced that the patch was gonna be released in 2 days then NoA demands that you don’t release it…also it would prove that NoA hates all things MOTHER related..
The cake is a lie
Do you also take donations in mouth?
I would never let Mato have my children, he would prolly make a sweatshop of Mother hackers… oh… wait… maybe that aint a bad idea ^^
Forgot what i was going to ask but anyway, Merry Christmas!
crescent fresh maaan
I know it’s probably far too late for this (and I don’t want to sound like I’m telling you how to do your job,) but in the translation of Okami, for the long strange Japanese names, instead of changing them completely they just made them shorter: Okikurmi became Oki, Ushiwaka became Waka, and Izanami became Nami. If you’re not happy with some of the unpronounceable-in-English names or can’t think of a good English cognate, you could try that.
Or, in the likelihood that you already knew all this, this is directed at everyone else: Wasn’t that interesting?
Im pretty sure that VBA has an OSX version.
Mato, your refusal of money for all of this work speak volumes about the direction of the development community. Real inspiration to do something like this is not motivated by money. Game developers should follow suit. Something so easy to copy should not be so expensive. Is it piracy to paint an exact copy of the Mona Lisa? Isn’t it piracy to take a photo of a painting?
mato dominating the world with babies for sale? goodness, you’re more of a genius that I thought.
@Faux: “Is it piracy to paint an exact copy of the Mona Lisa?”
No, because the Mona Lisa is old enough to have fallen into public domain. Besides, copyrights didn’t exist back then… Mother 3’s copyrights still have a lifetime to go before they expire 😛
copyrights disappear 100 years after the authors death…. so yeah you can’t copy this game. maybe your great grandchildren will be able to lol.
Has anybody tested the translation on the GBA emulator for Wii yet? That’s how I’m hoping to get to play it – even if it’s not on its intended system, at least it’ll still be on an official Nintendo console.
@Inzoum: Faux knew the answer to this, he was stating it to make his point.
# MikeDCray said 15 hours ago:
Chris Highwind said 3 hours ago:
Sweet! I haven’t found a full Mother 3 ROM yet (the one in Emuparadise is only about 14-some MB, which isn’t the entire ROM), but I hope to find one soon and check this out when it comes out!
Interesting theory Chris. I got the one from EmuParadise and it’s 32 MB. Check your computers internet connection. Maybe it died before the download was done. Sorry if I sould like an @$$, I’m just trying to help. The Rom at EmuParadise IS the full game, like all other GBA Roms I’ve gotten from there.
Actually, it was the full game, and it was 14 mb packed, but for some odd reason, Winrar saw an unexpected end to the archive and wouldn’t extract it. I got the M3 Rom from another site, and it worked fine.
Anywho, I have a Mother 3 ROM just waiting for the patch!
VBA GX 1.0.2 for Wii still doesn’t run Mother 3 very well unfortunately. The frameskipping problem makes doing combos in battle almost impossible. If you can get through the game without combos then it’s mostly fine otherwise.
Oh well, I fail at combos so no big lose.
Guys you shouldn’t talk about where to find ROMS, Mato will smite you.
Vagn said 53 minutes ago:
Guys you shouldn’t talk about where to find ROMS, Mato will smite you.
Whoops, good point.
wE’LL BE ABLE TO PLAY BEFORE THE END OF OCTOBER !!
YEAH!!
It would be nice if we could get it before the end of October. My mom’s birthday is Halloween and I’d love to be able to hook her up with this patch. I got her hooked on EarthBound and now she’s very interested in playing Mother 3.
But hey, no rush or anything. Take your time to find all the bugs and squish them. Thorough beta testing makes for a better game, you know?
Sorry, Mato. I understand that the mac thing is out of your hands. I do appreciate all the work that has gone in. I have checked this site regularly and I cannot wait to play it. Thanks for actually responding to the comments. Laters.
Faux said 7 hours ago:
“Something so easy to copy should not be so expensive.”
I don’t get the connection.
Games aren’t expensive because they’re difficult to reproduce; they cost a lot because it takes a lot of time, effort, and money to create them–the content itself, that is, and not just the physical media. If games cost significantly less than they do now, it’d be much more difficult or impossible to create them for a living, and we’d have fewer great games like MOTHER 3 to play. Surely this isn’t what you’d want?
And yes, as other have already said, copying the Mona Lisa would be piracy if it was under copyright as is MOTHER 3.
@ Carl:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Mona+Lisa&gbv=2
I think that speaks for itself!
@ Mato: Ah, but what if one of your babies turns out to be the reincarnation of Giygas? You could’ve had an alien’s reincarnation, and for selling it, he’ll come and destroy you for revenge!!!
Thanks for the latest word, Mato. 🙂
Quickly, to the Matomobile!
(I always wanted to say that! 🙂 )
Jigga Brown touches the soundstone to his head.
He sees a picture of tomatoes majestically dancing around a translated Mother 3.
…but only for a second.
*Jigga Brown recorded the melody of the Tomato Translator*
Beta testing is like Mato’s magicant
This wouldn’t happen to be the magic cake I gave you, would it?
Don’t let the bugs bite, if they bite, squeeze them tight and post here about it so we can all go ‘yay’.
I think we should make a chart detailing the number of times “babies” is mentioned in each news post. Would be an interesting collection of data.
For now, here’s a ranking of threads based on that number from Google, but it doesn’t display a number: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&as_q=babies&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=20&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fmother3.fobby.net%2F&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=off
Next up: Testing isn’t right… isn’t right… friends…
Just looked at the To-Do List, only one thing left.
So close!
You cannot grasp the true form of Mato’s attack!
10 million sales of mortal damage to Nintendo!
I don’t know if I’ll even be able to play this patch because I can’t find a ROM anywhere. Everything ends up being links to porn.
With the way Mato is power spawning babies, one would think he was on Power Thirst.
If the government decides to look at a profile of Mato, they’ll find:
Real Name: Tom Ato
Married: ???
Chidren: 394122
“I don’t know if I’ll even be able to play this patch because I can’t find a ROM anywhere. Everything ends up being links to porn.”
I don’t think so. ROMs are EVERYWHERE. I can think of 5 sites right now that have GBA ROMs, but I can’t tell you because of the rules! 🙁
i won’t tell you what rom site to go to, but searching for dash and roms in google might yield some great results.
I have to admit, it was a bit more difficult than I expected…quite odd…
Whoever doesn’t have a Mother 3 ROM, message me on AIM. I WON’T hook you up with it. 😉
my AIM is omfglolhi
You’re a super star. 😀
Mato can I have one of your children?
Wow, I completely forgot about this when I got Disgaea. I gotta get my priorities straight. I mean, come on dood, this is Mother 3 we’re talking about!
Which Disgaea? I want to play 3 so bad but I need a PS3 and I need free time. I’m afraid that if I started to play it (or another one in the series) I’ll disappear for months :O
He probably means Disgaea DS.
I’d guess the US release of the DS version of 1, since it just came out recently and the US release of Disgaea 3 isn’t out till the end of the month.
i know where you can find a rom but you should know spanish
I know you don’t want anything from this translation Mato, but let us get you a PS3 with Disgaea 3!
“i know where you can find a rom but you should know spanish”
Funny how you say that on a translation blog…
It’s cool that people want to give me free things (especially expensive things like PS3s, heh) but 1. I don’t feel comfortable accepting stuff, just feels… creepy and 2. even if it’s not money, there’s probably some legal thing somewhere that would put us in more trouble if we accepted stuff and then got taken to court.
Wow, this has come a long way. I don’t post much, but I’ve been watching this project more-or-less since it started.
Thanks to everyone who has put forth the effort to make this work.
A couple hisses and a *****slap to all the nay-sayers out there.
I’m glad to see it so near completion. I’ve been waiting for this as long as anyone (I played EarthBound when I was ten, right when it came out). You have no idea how much this makes other stresses in my life just disappear.
For those of you who don’t have the ROM, keep looking, I know it took me forever to find one (at a website that I can’t reveal here).
Hey Mato I bet you go through a weird withdrawal stage when this project is over. Its like when people are in school and all they want is for summer to come. But when summer comes eventually people start to miss school. When that happens just think of sprite text morphing and it should stop 🙂
Mato… but there’s a way to donate to you, that people will no doubt find… no? but with even that there would be legal issues right?…..
I forget who mentioned this, but I agree. It may be better not to give a heads up of when the patch is coming out, as it could put pressure on Nintendo to take action preventing its release. I think the patch has a better chance of seeing the light of day if there is no announcement of its release ahead of time. Just surprise us with it. There is less chance of it being stopped that way, and it would be an awesome surprise for many fans.
Basically, there are a few things you can do:
1. Buy official merchandise, support the series, who knows, maybe good can come from it
2. When the patch comes out, don’t rush through it super-fast, take time to savor it, since it HAS been almost 14 years in the making. Go out of your way and explore and have fun.
M. Uhh, donate blood or money to charities or something in our names, I dunno.
1… 2… M?
1.
2.
M.other 3?
😛
Maybe?
Can I sacrifice a goat in your name?
M is the new 3.
@Mato:
1, 2, M… Sounds like a song or something. Are you about to reveal some song you wrote to remember the hardships of translating this game?
so it’s official… M is the new 3 🙂 (except when writing Mother 3)
Ooh, ooh, is testing going to be gutsy bat next?
Mini update
I haven’t had much time in the last day to do much testing, but no new issues have come up, I’ve been trying to get as much rare battle text to show up as possible, too. Nothing new from the testing team either, they’re even testing it at different text speeds and trying all kinds of stuff.
demi’s super busy so I’m probably going to make some videos of key lines so he can help make them better. After that and my current playthrough (two chapters left), I’ll see where we stand, and if all is well (I predict it will be), patch time will be upon us. I got a good deal of work the next few days though, so who knows how long this will all take.
Mato: Eeeeeeeeeeeee.
Hmm, I think I am starting to see mato’s true plan:
1. Translate Mother 3
2. Obtain lots of babies.
3. (or M.) ???
4. Profit!
I can’t wait to put off completing my thesis!
I swear if I see anyone else use any 4CHAN.ORG lingo I will rage so hard. STOP! GO BACK TO /b/!!!
october 13th… :3
also, mother 3 = 33
It won’t be out by then, that’s definitely for sure.
also also,
@sean,
south park
I hate to join in the general…creepy weirdness that’s been going around here lately, but: It’s at the point where I’m staring longingly at my Japanese Mother3 box and softly saying, “Soon, my dear…soon…”
by the end of the month or by the first days of nov, we will be seeing/playing/licking/…(or else) mother 3!!!
& as 4 me, at nov the 7 , i ll be unconscious by the feets of ….THE MARS VOLTA; #$&#$& YEAH!!! n_n
I will not change my underwear until this patch is released!
Oh yeah?! Well I won’t eat until the patch is out. Yeah, that’s right Mato, lives are on the line now. The clocks of my internal organs are ticking and only you hold the key to end their suffering. Good luck.
P.S. I DON’T WANT TO DIE!
@mato:
;_;
Normally, we’d have sued you by now, but this is too damned amazing… I will personally allow you to release this patch.
To all the EarthBound fans out there, I’m sorry for removing EarthBound from the American version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. We at Nintendo may or may not release MOTHER 3 on DSWare. If we do, perhaps we could use this patch. I’m ready to offer you and your team 1/4 of the profits made from MOTHER 3 for DSWare if you let Nintendo use this patch. Think about it. 😉
The joke was funny a while ago, but it’s kind of old now.
hey if this is really reggie, i wanna know who leaked this site to you, and why arnt hardcore games arent comming out as frequently and why there is no super smash bros for ds
It takes a skilled man to make his name Reggie Fils-Aime on this
I wish that was really Reggie 🙁
@sean
What’s wrong with 4chan lingo?
Mato, you really need to treat yourself to Disgaea 3 at some point. It’s a great game. The writing is top notch, the humour never fails to give a chuckle, and if you just want to go ape with grinding, the Disgaea way is always available. You should let some creepy psychopath send you a PS3 just so you can enjoy it. Really.
I was funny a while ago, but I’m kind of old now.
leaked? lol
its called “google”
Loooong time reader, first time poster. Earthbound was one of my first games I bought for the Super Nintendo, and I still have the box with the game and the guide (the stickers still smell!). Just wanted to say THANK YOU for all of the hard work, and I can’t wait to feel like I am 14 again playing Mother 3.
Thanks again, Mato!!
Ohgodohgodohhhgod.
I’ve been pretty much lurking for a good while now, unsure why I never posted. Maybe the sheer awesomeness of this left me speechless. Still am, really. I’ve been waiting for a damn while now, and hell, I’ll wait ’til I’m 60 let it be said. But if the patch is going to be released soon, awesome. Less agony for me :3 And Mato, you really have no clue how fun it is to tell people of your awesomesauce project, and have them say in confusion “Mato?” They said “is that someone working for Nintendo?” XD Boy, those never get old.
But enough of that then. ::Goes to set up my computer for MOTHER 3::
( I still need to finish 2… .w.;;; )
( And about the above comment, I’m not around 60 hardly. I’m a teen still >w>;;; I was just saying I’ll wait forever.)
Mato, could we get a brief update on how the patcher is coming when you get a chance?
If not, then I will just be patient. :3
patcher, patching program, whathaveyou*
And yes, I am aware that you are not making that yourself.
I gave byuu a basic list of what the patcher should look like/do, but he’s a busy guy so for now we play hungry hungry hippos.
so what are we talking? days? weeks?
Mato, How will you name your children????
Wait, they made Disgaea 3? I thought they—hold on.
…
The PS3…just fabulous.
jesus, I can’t believe it got leaked this late in the project.
Holy crap… It’s so soon. I’m so excited.
Hungry Hungry Hippos? Because The Waiting Game is boring perhaps?
Wow.
This is my first comment on this blog for the entire project. I just wanted to say, that I’ve waited so long for this translation.
Right now, i’m playing through Star Ocean on the SNES, done by the Dejap team. Little did i know, that Tomato is one of the translators for that script.
The quality of the translation is fantastic, and i know this one will be too. I can’t wait.
Please not until after october 14th.
…
……
The new world of warcraft patch comes out that day!
Breaking News!
Mato ’08!
Electoral Projections now have Mato winning in a landslide vote! Democrats and Republicans are completely confused having never heard of the “Mato Party” nor having any idea that Mato was even running for President.
We all look forward to the first US President ever to keep all his campaign promises. While it’s true that Mato only made one promise–to create an English translation patch for Mother 3–this accomplishment makes him stand tall, far above the other candidates, even if questions remain as to whether Premier Election Systems (AKA Diebold) voting machines in key electoral districts may have been tampered with.
The final popular vote tally was:
Mato: 4883974982374982374
Obama: 1
McCain: -12
^^^^
release it then.
just for the lolz.
It’s almost done, hooray!,
We’ve been watching this for ‘at least 100 years’.
hehe
*crosses fingers in hopes that next blog is “Testing is the Devil’s Machine”*
Thanks, Mato.
@ Reanzet:
As Mato says, no concrete date set, so I say that even the release was a few days away, assume that it will be sometime in the next month or so. If you want to be optimistic, think a few weeks, but things can always come up. This way, you will most likely not be disappointed, and perhaps even surprised. 😀
Reggie Fils-aime! TIME BATTLE!!!
The wait rapidly becomes unbearable now that it’s so incredibly close. I just like to think of it as a Christmas present – if it comes out before then, incredible, if it comes out after, well that’s okay too!
OMG! It’s so close!
I hope I’m not at the college when I read “it’s done” in the blog or I’ll start running around and jumping like crazy kicking all the other students insanely…
Well… It looks like fun!
…
No, it’s better no…
Dude: “Mato, How will you name your children????”
He will have to use arrays.
# noco said 10 hours ago:
october 13th… :3
also, mother 3 = 33
# Mato said 10 hours ago:
It won’t be out by then, that’s definitely for sure.
As long as it’s out sometime this month, I’m good. Or at least next month. This patch and the patcher would be great anniversary gifts for my girlfriend 🙂
I CAN’T WAIT TO BOMB SOME MUTTSHROOMS!
I’m gonna be be “sick” from school to play this. C’MON MATOOOO!!!! Oooh when I get home from school there’ll probably be an update!!! Can’t wait!! Don’t be late!! It’s Mato we appreciate!! Soon he’ll have a clean slate!! I do not understate!!
I will have a “very important project” to do that will keep me from doing anything else at work when this comes out.
Kinda reminds me of that weird Japanese law or whatever that Dragon Quest games can’t come out on weekdays or something 😛
They should have just renamed they series dragon warrior like it was here in NA to avoid that whole issue, at least temporarily
Mato, if you’re over the age of 35, a natural-born US citizen, and been living in the US for over 14 years, you might end up with some votes for president.
They might take the name Tom Ato as a joke, though….
Tomato was born from an egg in a small Microasian island in 2004. Sorry, Auri.
Poop.
What do you plan to do about the tools for translation into other languages? What happened to tool-assisted editing? Have you made a read-me yet? Which hippo is your favorite? How long do you expect byuu to take? Who is chewy? How big is the patch, approximately?
Sorry, my bag of questions ripped open and spilled them all at once.
@Trimalchio
Sense Mother3 is a 32MB game, I’d assume the patch is going to be at least 16MB, if not more, considering all the fixes, and the fact they maxed it out.
Remember, GBA game has to stay exactly 32 MB, lol
Actually, Mato, for the sanity of the people here, it WOULD be kind of you to release the patch on a Friday evening… 🙂
Actually, I think patches are really small compared to the ROM. I’m guessing 1MB max… But then again, I know nothing about hacking.
The patch file, when zipped up, will be about 1 MB. But I don’t know how the applier program will work, so it may be bigger than that when you figure that in.
The ROM can’t be over 32 MB, which is the size it already is, so we’ve had to do reshuffling, compression-ish stuff, and blank-space hunting to make stuff fit.
😀 This is but a generic can’t wait post. Or is it…
Don’t have my babies, you have too many. Plus the species thing. Instead, I might take some of them off your hands if no-one buys. I need food too ya know *mauled by baby lovers* Wow… Lucky Flint was here 😀
i know im gonna sound wierd here but dudes i would pay you money cause this means alot i mean u did this in spare time and this is like with ur working lives and stuff u guys rock out loud ! thank u the sooner it released the better #sniffle#
How many playthroughs will each tester do? You’ve already mentioned that some are already finished and have started over again. Will they play through again when this second playthrough is done?
whats mother 3?
where can i use it?
I hope that was irony. I REALLY do.
A warning to all you people who keep saying that Nintendo/NOA/ESA will crackdown on this, and thsoe who impersonate respected Nintendo staff members and the like: do not, I repeat, DO NOT jinx it. I know many, many friends who are good with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and if something does in fact go wrong, we will hurt you. A lot.
But that aside, I honestly cannot wait. From the sounds of things, the patch could be out fairly soon. If it were possible, Mato, I would send you and your team some peanut butter cookies in support (yes, I know how to make peanut butter cookes, what of it?). Best of luck in finishing off this grueling endeavor.
Nah listen. If anything they’ll crackdown the moment I say they won’t crackdown on this.
That’ll be someone (me) jinxing it.
Moo hoo ha ha ha.
I hereby decree this translation project a holy relic.
*oooh hoooo aaaaaaaaaaaaah hooooooooo*
Nintendo, crack down on the MOTHER 3 fan translation? Don’t make me laugh! How could that POSSIBLY happen?
Still very hard finding time, but I did find a typo just now, which is good. We may have also found a bug that switches your text speed from Slow to Medium without your knowing, but it’s too early to say if that’s the translation’s fault or the original game’s.
Guys, seriously. That is going to upset a lot of people, so please stop.
We all hope it was irony for the sake of the free world.
I think I will skip making the blood offering in the name of the mother 3 translation team because demons have already tricked me into it before and I wont get fooled again, so I will show my appreciation in a different way.
lets just keep on the positive side.
Who uses slow anyway? Come on…
Slow text does make the game more challenging, due to rolling HP 😉
If we can’t figure out how to recreate the bug 100% of the time though, it might not be fixable anyway, so it’s not too big of a deal. That’s pretty insanely minor.
Jesus, who is the idiot who makes the whole “I’m a nintendo employee” game. It seriously was funny for about, 3 times. Now it is pushing it.
Angryness aside. YAY!!!
awesome
adjective
inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; “New York is an amazing city”; “the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight”; “the awesome complexity of the universe”; “this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath”- Melville; “Westminster Hall’s awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent”
you, my friend, are awesome.
-loren
Ok, we need a new joke, since the Reggie, Shigesato Itoi, babies, the Flints, Boob Wizards, and welcome to th:| have gotten old.
Any suggestions? Or better yet, why do I deteriorate my life on this blog?
Everytime someone makes a comment, eat a pixie stick. That should make things go faster.
Holy shiza, Mato.
What about just a piece of candy corn or something? 8D”;…
Candy corn vampiiiirrreeee
Mato, Ever since you started this translation i have noticed you stopped playing with me.
I remember the good ol days when you would make me four feet tall and knock me over. “Rawr rawr” you would scream… :'(
I miss the good ol days, Please come back soon.
– Lincon Logs
or do cocaine
I have two things to say right now, one of which is as per average response time, and the other one of which is delayed almost a full day.
@Mato (not so delayed response):
Wouldn’t the extra sugar make us more hyper, meaning our minds are more active, meaning that time seems longer?
@Mato (very delayed response):
DS. Just the very fact that you suggest that I may have a PS3 hurts me deeply. It almost makes me want to crawl up into an OmelletteHome Ru and cry.
I kid my friends the PS3 owners! Or do I? MWUHUHUHUHAH-[is shot]
where’s ok when you need him 🙁
Go Mato, go!
P.s. Testing is bearing children
It’s time for change in the gaming world.
Mato is that change.
Mato ’08
Thanks as always. I finally got my EZ Flash 4(well, my brother’s, but I’ll use it, too). Although I can always take apart my EZ Flash 3in1 to make it work on the Gamecube.
Anyway, things are looking/sounding awesome.
Do Want.
If I may ask, what was that typo?
Lincon log’s comment = win, despite the terrible typo. It’s Lincoln logs – like the president?
I picked up an EZ 3in1 Expansion Pack for my slot 1 flashcart, eagerly awaiting the end of testing!
It was “Can I can find some blah blah blah I forget the rest of the line”.
have the others finished their testing periods yet?
I now must replay Earthbound.
I have also noticed that the ‘tool assisted testing’ item in the to-do list is gone, have you guys decided to cut testing short?
There aren’t “testing periods” and there isn’t a set # of playthroughs. We’re mostly playing it by ear and when things seem acceptably tested, we’ll stop the testing and release the patch.
Tool-assisted testing is basically part of the main testing anyway, it was kind of dumb of me to separate it like that. I’ve done some of the stuff manually already anyway.
I ordered an ez flash V+ a few days ago. Along with my 3-in-1, I hope it works well and doesn’t glitch and stuff.
lcolcolcolcolcome to Moonsi nsi nsi nsi nsi
I tried saving my game with the japanese version, but i cannot read Japanese, but I don’t think it worked: what does this say??
……………………..
Sorry, it wouldn’t let me embed the pic, so here’s a link:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y272/darthangel310/2377-Mother3J02.png
Adam P: It didn’t work. I know, because I ran the Japanese M3 ROM on VBALink (I use it because it doesn’t have such massive slowdown as VBA does) and when I saved it, some file info popped up in the file I saved in.
Mato we should have lunch again some time soon…
Hello people. I have used my time machine to see when the patch will be released. It will be released on Friday, October 17th at 5:31 eastern time. That is a little more than a week from now. Hopefully this will answer the burning question we all have in the back of our heads.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I am off to four years in the future when Mother 4 in 3D is released.
…of 2009
Adam: Your picture says something about the save not returning? O_o Perhaps it means it was unable to load, or retrieve the saved file. I’m not quite sure.
mother 4 in 3d of 2009?
Edit: I’m sorry, that wouldn’t be it, since the background has two empty save slots already. I suppose it’s just a problem with the emulator.
Yeah, it’s a prob with the emulator, however, i found that if you use the freeze and defrost features it works also. at least to an extent. idk if it’ll save if you quit the emulator and return to it later. I really should have a windows computer as well >.<
October 17th of 2009
I realized that looked weird after I posted it, but we can’t exactly edit posts.
Anyways, back to my playthrough of EB~
I would recommend save states. I don’t [or, at least, I try not to] abuse save states (I don’t reload when I get a Game Over)… just simply every time I save in the game (in the case of M3, whenever I talk to a frog), I save to slot 10.
Huh, I wonder if that’s what you mean by freeze and defrost? I know save states can also be called freeze frames (and snapshots and image states, both of which make them sound like pictures), but I’ve never heard the term “defrost” used for them…
Okay, let that post (and this one) be a reminder that too many (or just 4) parenthetical things make a document (or post) annoying to read.
Okay, I’ll stop now. (or not)
Exp HP: “Freeze State” and “Defrost State” are some terms that mean the same thing as “Save State” and “Load State.” It makes it COOLER (OMG PUN!!!!)!
but Freeze state is an official term too.
Hey (look) I am (very) retarded, (very).
(bay) bees
The Game Master: Why is it “official?” What makes it “official?”
First of all, nice job, Mato. Second, I have a couple of questions. How do you plan to handle the server load when the patch is released? There’s going to be thousands of people downloading the patch when it comes out, so it might cause problems. And you said there were some tiny issues you had the urge to fix. Could you say what those issues are?
Adam P:
It says “Couldn’t save.”
Not that that’s news to you.
Hey guys, I needed to add this due to some concerns
My homebrewed wii will play the japanese version, but not the hacked menu version. You might want to check that and try to make the thing compatible for that too…
GBA is kind oldz. Like the Grafix are kinda wEiRd too? sooo lyke Is this game any GOod?
Wow, almost done. Not too many chances left to get FIRSTIES
I did the pixie stick thing, now I have diabetes.
I have a feeling this is gonna be what makes me fail exams…
Schrix:
That’s the emu’s fault, not Mato’s. It sounds like it doesn’t play ROMs that have failing checksums, and there is nothing Mato can do about that.
joke.
i eat pants
Schrix:
The menu patched M3 works on the wii vba. Though for me, I’m not able to save. Save states still work though.
Did you check to see if it works on a PC emulator first? You might have made a mistake during patching. Or you might be using an old version of the wii vba.
Psh, why would anyone care about saving? Just finish it in one sitting!
Just joking, don’t ever do that, especially with Mother games.
Always play Mother games standing up.
I only found out about this two days ago and I must say that I found this at a fortunate time.
I had given up hope of ever seeing this game being made. Quite honestly I had given up on ever seeing another Mother game after I hear of the the canceling of Earthbound 64.
I stopped watching and stopped waiting. I didn’t even know they had made a Japanese GBA game (I almost feel silly but maybe someone can sympathise with me).
The main point I would like to make is, to thank everyone that had a hand in forming what i’m sure is, a masterpiece of gaming.
But still, this close to the end and have waited so long for something that I thought was never going to be, makes me want it all the more. If for nothing else give this fan, and developer of games himself, as much gaming love you can. ó_ò
Super great job! Only wish I knew how to mess with that stuff myself.
@Adam P:
Oh, and the other parts say “DATA ga arimasen” which means “NO DATA” if you’re wondering. Which is pretty obvious given that they’re blank save slots.
So yeah, you weren’t able to save your game.
Okay. I’m gonna go to school. And when I come back, there MUST be an update. I LUBB YOO!!!
I see wut yoo did thur…
YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can’t wait till “Testing is Phase Distorter 3” 😛
I named my ship in Spore the Phase Distorter 3. Tis a good name.
Disgaea DS is worth playing again, if only for the Prinny Commentary. It’s like having Mystery Science Theater 3000 built into the game. ^_^
(Though, since it and a couple of other features are only available after you’ve cleared the game once, I heartily recommend losing to Mid-Boss in Chapter 1 to get his “ending”. It counts as beating the game.)
I know how we’ll count the downloads…
How long the site is down the day it’s released 😀
There will be Torrent downloads of the patch and applier right? This sites bandwidth is going to be veeeerrrryyyyyy low on the day of release.
Even if there aren’t official torrents, it’s not like it won’t be posted on torrent sites within 90 seconds of being released.
Rince said x ago:
Even if there aren’t official torrents, it’s not like it won’t be posted on torrent sites within 90 seconds of being released.
True, but if they are posted on other sites, it’ll be really hard to count the exact number of downloads of the patch.
Even though it’ll probably slow down the site so much that very few of us will even be able to get on here, I think a torrent will be the way to go. Just get a few people to seed the file, and if anyone else has extra bandwidth that they are willing to share for awhile, they can seed it as well.
A torrent wouldn’t slow down the site at all.
If anyone makes a torrent for this, it needs to be posted in several locations. In fact, a torrent would probably be the very best way to distribute this.
We’ve already been hard at work on the distribution side of things for a while now, so no need to worry. Yes, there will also be a torrent for those you prefer torrents.
Very good news! you guys are awesome, and thanks again for all your hard work.
And a cheer for torrents, that’ll take some strain off of the actual link to the file.
Cheers
I will seed this thing until Next October.
Yes, there will also be a torrent for those you prefer torrents.
I’m hoping the grammar wont be this bad in the translation. lol
Oh come on now, I pulled an all-nighter and barely slept the night before. It’s a shock I even remember my name at this point 😉
Tomato, my Spore version of you isn’t doing so well. His gigantic Charm modifier does not make up for the lack of legs. How do you do it?
@Adam P: One of my two messages got eaten last night. I did translate the other part, too, and it said “Unable to save” or maybe “Was unable to save” (it was in the past tense).
@Mato: Given how hard you’ve been working and how little you’ve found, does that mean we can hope for a release somewhat soonish? Without giving any exact dates, you might be able to say that it’s “probably close” or “we need significant testing first” or something like that 🙂
I was eating a tomato yesterday and I remembered you, Mato. Think of the impact you’ve had (and will have) in our lives. You will be remembered forever!
Long live Mato!
A Fan: I’ve barely had time all week to test the game. It’s definitely close though. Close enough to lick.
Same here Handsom Hobo. Think of all the thousands of people who will rejoice over this patch. I bet there will be many youtube videos about it too. Thank You Mato.
…I want to lick it.
HURRY EVERYONE STICK OUT YOUR TOUNGUES!!
I would LOVE to lick this, but it’s data. Intangible. So I’ll have to use my imagination. Or PSI. But that’s just pointless. I don’t wanna waste PP 😛
Omg. You know what would be cool, if Thanksgiving would come out, and the blog would come out for mato going like this.
“Since you all gave me thanks for me translating the game, i would give you the patch now” or something like this.
I’d use PSI to lick it, but I don’t have any PP left. I wasted it all trying to learn Teleport α. It should only take 15 more years.
It’d be sweet if Mato was tricking us and he released the patch TODAY.
Also, it would SUCK if he was tricking us and the patch turned out to be fake…
@Handsome Hobo
Yeah, I could just imagine it: “HAHA suckers, there’s no patch”
Then an image saying “you smell” and about 400 comments with angry people.
close enough to lick? well, a yoshi can lick pretty far…
@Mato: Its so close we can taste it cant we? I’m just hoping it comes out sometime before october is up. I’m thinking along the lines of October 25-28th seems likely. Also I’d like to thank you for making this. I’m not as excited as I was because about a month ago I gave in and beat Mother 3, taking out alot of it. Still I’m prepared to go through the game and take as much time as I possibly can to look at every single piece of text available. (In 1 playthrough.) By the way, I wonder what Mother 3 tastes like? I guess it tastes like heaven pie but then again it might be better.
@EmpoleMew: I’ll give you a Brain Food Lunch and 6 Salt Packets if you want. Just make sure to fight some random insect while eating to get the most out of it ;D
The whole reason I bought a PSP last year while the LUMINES EXPLOIT allowed it to be reverted to 1.5 firmware was for MOTHER 3~ I am so excited!
Have you guys been able to fix all the bugs found during testing so far?
“Testing is on the way home” for second-to-last update, plz.
Mato, Have you guys been able to fix all the bugs found during testing so far?
If I had a mic, I’d do a Let’s Play on YouTube when the patch comes out.
I’m sorry for double posting, I tried press the stop button in the browser because I needed to specify something, my bad, please delete this comment and the first one
Why not submit it for the funfest? *shot*
Althugh, really? Close enough to lick? I better finish the menu patch version. I’m almost done with CH. 7, but the purple things are annoying.
They say everyone on Earth has a shred of Genghis Khan’s DNA in their genes.
Mato, you may be the next one to have that honor.
But after this, it has to stop!
No more inbred Genghismatopixel babies!
LET ME LEEK THE PATCH, MATO. I MUST HAVE EET.
Ok, this is bordering on murderous…
Mother 3 Tastes like omeletts.
The patch tastes like tomatoes.
I love ketchup on my omeletts.
omelettes*
omeletts homeru?
Omelette du fromage!
*yawns* Mato, I foresee the day of the Patch release.
00:00:01
The Patch is released.
00:01:25
The site is overloaded and crashes.
03:17:23
Site is fixed, but still runs slow.
06:14:46
The site returns to normal, as nearly everyone that wants the patch, has the patch.
Then Three days of silence on the site, as everyone and their dog plays MOTHER 3, many for the first time.
Working though the night Tomato translated The Mother 3. The Mother 3 became Earthbound 2.
Th-thump. Th-thump.
Or, for you Super Star Ultra players:
*heartbeat noises*
EmpoleMew said 1 hour, 57 minutes ago:
I’d use PSI to lick it, but I don’t have any PP left. I wasted it all trying to learn Teleport α. It should only take 15 more years
I tried PSI teleport α once. I ran right into the wall. I got a bruise 🙂
PSI LICK!!!!
I will seed the patch until the end of time
@Arashi: Learn PSI teleport β. It’s much easier to manage.
Sorry for double post.
I was re-watching the Plo ‘interview’ with Reggie, and I noticed that in the part where it showed the Nintendo press conference, it showed MOTHER 3 on screen, in what seemed to be English text, does that mean that nintendo has indeed tried to tranlate the game?
But many people who used Teleport β ended up going home sick right after, because they couldn’t handle the dizziness. Also, α costs 6 less PP. Should be fine, as long as you’re not trying to teleport out of a jail cell.
I’d be equally happy with wings. 😀
Zeldarocks: The stuff on those screens was fake.
Can you provide any proof?
wait.. do you mean that plo edited that video cut as well?
He’s Mato. His word is proof enough.
Besides, if they were making it, I’d assume he’d be well aware of the situation.
one more thing, Have you guys been able to fix all the bugs found during testing so far?
I also tried PK Fire on the barbecue, and it worked! It might’ve been the matches and lighter fluid, though…
Please to puts your face on the Internets so I cans make a grood videos for you abouts you.
Quick question Mato. I noticed that the ones who dumped Mother into ROM form changed the image title into Earthbound Zero. Will you do something similar for Mother 3 once things are about finished?
Mato said: Oh come on now, I pulled an all-nighter and barely slept the night before. It’s a shock I even remember my name at this point.
Don’t worry, it’s gonna be the same for all of us when the patch is released, so you can have your revenge and sleep well at this time. ^_^
^ I think we’ll all know the answer when the patch is released.
Sorry. That message was a response to Shadow’s.
they’re not going to change it to earthbound 2 if that’s what you’re asking
Man… I keep updating this site every hour or two in hopes of an update o___O. Unhealthy, perhaps… but I’m stoked. I haven’t played the menu patch, so it’s going to be an entirely new experience for me (I played Earthbound to death, mind you ;D )
Too many good games this fall, what with this, Fallout 3 (pre-ordered the special edition, hoo-ya), Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, the new DS Castlevania (can’t remember the name 😡 ), Mirror’s Edge, Gears of War 2, Far Cry 2… *GASP FOR BREATH*
… SERIOUSLY.
Whoa.
I’ve been following this patch since the 2nd draft, and have been amazed at the progress you’ve made. And now it’s so close! All I have to say is THANKS!!
All of you working on the translation have never ceased to amaze me. Seriously, you guys are insane. But in a good way.
I seriously may have to enter an asylum if something happens. O_o
Oh yeah, and given it’s my first time posting, want to extend my sincerest thanks to the folks that made this translation possible. Truly, you are Kings amongst mere mortals.
It takes a lot to put so much into something, simply for the reward of making thousands of people happy. More people should learn from that example.
Good show! 😀
I’ve been around since back during the stupid riddle thing at Mother3.org, before the combining of the two groups.
<.<
MAT-O! IT’S SHOOOOOOWTIME!
Update already. I just cant stand it. Mother 3 is soooo sick, thats why I favourited this site till the patch comes out.
Yeah Mato! Even if you’re not gonna release the Patch Of Glory today or tommorow, we still want an update!
Dudes, chill out, he just gave us a mini-update like 2 days ago.
yeah dudes, we all want updates NOW NOW NOWWW!! —- But!!! let’s not annoy Mato okay? 🙂 He’ll update when there’s stuff to update about, its really that simple… really!
Shadowed State of Mind said:
“I noticed that the ones who dumped Mother into ROM form changed the image title into Earthbound Zero.”
That’s not exactly true. In translating the game into English, Nintendo changed the title to “EARTH BOUND.” The folks who dumped the ROM image only added the “ZERO.” They also released a version of the ROM without the “ZERO.”
I think I just found something even scarier and nightmare-inducing than Giygas. And its from Kirby Super Star Ultra.
Listen to how Marx screams when you beat him. Not to mention his appearance, and his demonic laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bgo-SVrhO8
We really need to keep this association of random fans together after the patch it released. Perhaps in the Starmen.net Forums?
I will miss the updates and the fun of commenting on them, as well as Mato posting in them~
lol
I’ll miss the baby talk. ._.
thats funny nekoaitsu i was thinking the same thing. what i am going to do between classes when this is all done. i love going ot the student center and hopping on a computer hoping to see a new update. dont get me wrong ill still check starment.net every day but what else is there to look forward too.
Zeldarocks, did you seriously think the Mother 3 footage on those screens was real?
Wow.
> A Fan: I’ve barely had time all week to test the game. It’s definitely close though. Close enough to lick.
Aww, and here I thought that the all-nighter you mentioned was on Mother 3, rather than trying desperately to finish your RL work so that you don’t become homeless & destitute due to the sacrifices made in translating Mother 3 🙂
Anyhow, I’m sure we’ll all be waiting for each Friday & Saturday with even more anticipation, assuming you want to release it on a weekend so as not to tempt all the M3 fans out there into missing school or work 🙂
SOOOOOOOOO CLOOOOOOOOOOSE!!!!!!!!!!!
Ive been checking this project everyday since before the merge. I was watching mother3.org when it first started. I cant believe is almost done! FINALLY!!! I remember when mother3.org posted this:
“…the work done on this project will be combined with Starmen.Net’s so that, ultimately, everyone can enjoy an English translation quicker. No more drama, no more broken promises, no more tension. ”
That was over a year ago. I guess they had no idea how truly insane this project was gonna be
Question about the script: I know you changed some things from the Japanese context so we’d understand the humor in it, but was there anything or things that had to be completely changed or left unchanged because it just wasn’t salvageable?
I thing the site froze.
“Please don’t go all emo on us like Gemini.”
You’re forgetting that Gemini had (and still has) a *reason* to delay the patch.
Tell me I’m not the only one who understands his reasoning.
…To prevent another translation blog trainwreck, I’m just going to say “YES AWESOME WHOOHOO WE’RE SO CLOSE”.
All that sleep deprivation is terrible for you, Mato.
I know, I can’t wait until this thing is released 😯
Don’t you stay up late for your job on a regular basis?
You really can’t do that forever.
I’m hoping it’s just procrastination from working on this patch, and that it isn’t a normal routine.
Mato. They have this stuff they advertise called 5 hour energy…so I figure you should drink six of ’em straight and see what happens. They claim no side effects or crashes…on one. So, six times the chance of nothing bad happening! >D
Those things have 8000% of b12 in them.
I really wouldn’t recommend it.
that’s like a years worth of b12…
# Arsenis said 47 minutes ago:
Those things have 8000% of b12 in them.
I really wouldn’t recommend it.
that’s like a years worth of b12…
Or like 80 days worth?
actually the niacin in them would probably really screw you up. more than 3 of them and you’ll be running a temp. if you take way too much niacin you can get brain damage from overheating.
Today feels like a good day for a patch.
Son, be patient. When Mr. Tom Ato decides to post his patch, he will post it. Now GrandDaddy Dole can’t have Bob Dole being impatient.
Wow that sounds like something I’d say…oh and Mato, the other day I tried to equip Nut Bread. On my head. Things got fun.
I should try equipping Nut Bread sometime.
Handsome Hobo said 17 hours ago:
It’d be sweet if Mato was tricking us and he released the patch TODAY.
Also, it would SUCK if he was tricking us and the patch turned out to be fake…
If the patch was fake, then why would there be translated pictures and videos on this site and Youtube?
I can just imagine the nostalgia now… After the patch i know i will still find myself logging on here to see if anyone says anything…
“We really need to keep this association of random fans together after the patch it released. Perhaps in the Starmen.net Forums?”
We need to start petitioning for the forum right now.
Way to Go MATO!
i can almost lick it… just wait till mondayyyy 🙂
saw this picture in an email
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v421/Eclisse/?action=view¤t=food015.jpg
Chris Highwind:
I mean, obviously it’s NOT fake. But a video like that wouldn’t be hard to create. Ever seen the NintendoON video? Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzZI9xeSaeE
That video was made by one guy. He made it before the Wii was shown, and lots of people thought it was real. A Mother 3 video like the one Mato showed would be a piece of cake compared to this.
But yeah, I’m sure the Mother 3 translation is NOT fake.
For my post above:
Follow this link instead, it’s got a better description: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX2smM87r14
Just a reminder to the people not sleeping and hitting update over and over again.
Mato did state that he would be warning us a few days before the patch came out. Well, no warning has come, which means it isn’t coming today.
Please, get some sleep, Mother 3, even for those of us who have been waiting since we played Earthbound as kids (Geez, i’m 24, how old was I when i got Earthbound?), is not going to be made better by hospital rooms or hallucinations brought on by lack of sleep.
Yes, people will know when it’s coming, so there’s no need for conjecture/wishing. It’s not coming today, it’s not coming Monday. But I will let people know once a release date is set.
Will we get an e-mail when the release date is set? That is, if we signed up for that?
No, there’s only going to be one e-mail, and it’ll be sent when the patch is out. Don’t worry though, I’ll probably have a release date in a few days.
To Shuri: Of course. Mato doesn’t guess your e-mails.
Um, a few days from when?
From today.
Mato 3 days ago:
“We’ll probably announce the release date only a couple days in advance, once we know it’s going to be ready for sure.”
Mato today:
“Don’t worry though, I’ll probably have a release date in a few days.”
a few days + a couple days = not that many days…
I just barfed a little (happy barf not the other kind.)
Maybe by release date, Mato actually is referring to the release date of the patch’s release date. Or maybe it really is not that many days away.
It really is unbelieveable. And time is passing by so fast. I will miss this site though. It was always fun checking for updates. And now only a few days to go. Somehow I’m feeling old now… Anyways, on to the last days!!
can’t wait to the release of the release date…… babies!!!!
yeah i think we’re on the same page Matt_S. it sounds like he’s announcing the release date in a few days and it sounds like the announcement will only precede the release date by a couple days. altogether, it’s close.
I’m a google chrome user, and this blog is creeping up in my top visited sites page…
You’ll have a release date in a few days? Totally, absolutely, inconcievably awesome.
dorkus: Yes, it’s exactly as you say. I still have one chapter of testing left to do, which is why I can’t say anything for sure right now.
I can’t believe it… I always thought it was going to take forever to finish this. A year passed, and oh wow, it’s almost over!
This is the finish line =D I’m so happy.
woot, good news
I know people are impatient but it’s pretty rude to keep stealth-asking about a release date :p
Oh man! I can hardly wait! Me and my Biggest and littlest bro are dying to play this game!
Can’t wait to play this on my Wii and PSP. Gonna be so awesome.
I wanted to play this so bad last year and I sitll want to, but now I have a life so I want to play it to a much lesser extent.
Goodness gracious me, I am excited as all get out for this!!
oh so close I LOVE YOU!!!!
… sorry it just kind of slipped out
A few days? If I didn’t go 30 minutes earlier, I would have peed myself.
Mato, Jeffman
I just want to say thank you so much for your time and effort that you put into making this a reality 😀 I haven’t gone more than four days without checking on this site ever since it started. Hell, I’ve been here since the ole mother3.org days and I’m sure I’m not the only one out there either. Anyways you all have done a great thing in the Mother/Earthbound community and I thank you.
Can’t wait to play it… so close
I just realized. After this blog is gone and i’ve beaten Motehr 3 a bajillion times, I won’t have a life anymore 😮
I can imagine how awesome it’d feel to be Mato after the patch is out and just be strolling and hear someone say “Hey, did you hear? The M3 fan translation is out” or something, and think, ” oh, yeaaah”
Meh. post didn’t show up. Wouldn’t mind if it didn’t happen EVERY time the post was kinda long.
I’ll need to find a life once this blog is gone
will the next update be the game release update?
Mato, as homosexual as this sounds.. i feel like you’re breaking up with me
(what with this blog approaching it’s shutdown)
who really cares, he has his own blog
It’s like…..
I don’t want it to end.
(weeps bitterly)
Woo! Release in a couple of days! That’s like… umm… *counts on his fingers*… a couple of days! This is awesome. I can give my mom a cart with a translated Mother 3 on it for her birthday. Woot!
Mato, please do have a countdown of sort.
… If you want the site to crash, or something.
Why shut down this blog ? It’s still usefull and … Had an archaeological taste. =p
Hey Mato, regarding the email thing, I’d prefer the “Hey, the patch is ready, it’ll be released tomorrow, be ready” kinda thing.
Good luck with the final parts of the testing, and SCREW YOU BLOCK 0!
So close. I shall begin stockpiling Red Bull and Pudding Pops.
block 0 was already fixed.
Blog’s great, and I’m hoping Mother 3 is better. Afterall, so much effort and time was put into this game, and we’ve been waiting years to play the sequel to Earthbound. 😛
I don’t expect Mother 3 to disappoint, and it’s really going to feel good playing it, especially with how much fan dedication is in the translation itself.
So yeah, awesome.
ASDF, this anticipation is making me antsy. And I don’t get antsy.
Yes there is a patch.
No you can’t have it.
No there is a patch.
Yes you can’t have it.
Mooncome to Wellside noyes patchcantit
don’t announce a release date, that way nintendo won’t see it coming.
Will there be mirror sites for the download? Maybe starmen.net could host it as well? If someone already knows this, please answer. I’m sure Mato’s already thought of this.
No, release date set in couple of days 😉
REALLY, TOTALLY AWESOME!!!
This is better than when I was waiting for the last Star Wars movie. Hopefully and game is better
Im going to record my reaction the day its released!
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP GUMSHOOOOOOOOOOEEEEE I almost want to play M3 again just out of anticipation…but doing it all over again in full English would be so much sweeter.
Speaking of sweeter, I sure hope nobody’s tried eating a pixy stick per comment. If a vampire bit you, he’d have diabetes. I don’t even know how that would work. Just imagine a vampire going to bite you, then saying “oh wait I need to check my blood sugar first.”
Mother 3 fans: giving vampires diabetes since 2008.
I’m so excited!
Mato, you ever get Demi to look at those few lines you wanted touched up? Or has he been too busy still?
Mother 3 fans: giving vampires diabetes since 2008
Sounds like a t-shirt to me.
Anyway, I’m crazy happy that this long wait is almost over. I just beat EB for the first time 5 days ago (I was always stuck at the blasted gold/diamond mine in the desert.) Thank you, Mato, Jeffman, and the rest of the crew responsible for this translation. Your dedication is truly unparalleled in the video game translation world.
this is great. but I don’t think you should have told us. now we’re going nuts waiting for it. better hurry and release it.
will the release date really be announced in a few days?
*sigh* Yes…
QQing about everything wont make it go any faster!
Remember, Tomatoes need their slumber, so don’t overwork your Tomato-self. 😀
Oh man. All my friends are eagerly anticipating this~
Will there be a mass playthrough like with EBFGP?
Thank you very much, Tomato and team. This project is really important to a lot of ‘day 1’ fans, who have been following EarthBound from it’s release. Remembering the drama around EarthBound 64, and then years later the ‘blue disk’ saga, and then the Japan only release of Mother 3, it’s still hard to believe it’s finally right here. Only days away. It’s awesome to see a team of people so addicted to that feeling EarthBound has had on players, and so dedicated to getting Mother 3 into their hands. It feels like I’ve been waiting 13 years for this…
Thank you, all of you involved, very, very much.
I started giggling madly at that mini-announcement. I finally got Windows installed using Boot Camp, so now I can save on my Emu >=D
THE PUMPEDNESS IS COMING BACK~
To all of the people who think no one wants the patch more badly then them you’ve been waiting 13 years blah blah:
Mato has been waiting 12 normal years and one no-life sleep deprived year. He wins. 😛
Squadala! We are HERE!
If this is out by October 18, I will do no homework next weekend.
At all.
Whatsoever.
My math teacher reads this blog, so it might not hurt me that much.
537 comments!?!?!
Oh, and Mato said to play the game at a leisurely pace… that means take your time, and don’t play the game all at once. That would probably make the game seem longer, more fun, and better. Or just play until your brain melts out of your brain socket.
Woot! then your Brain Goo could hang out with Master Belch and eat fly honey. LOL!!!
Brain Goo won’t hang out of my ears if I equip Nut Bread.
you guys are joking right? the release date will REALLY be announced in just a few days?!
If you would release it this weekend, I could play it over my sad one day fall break. Yeah. 1 day is what they call a break. Oh well.
I know it won’t be out this weekend, just my anticipation speaking for me.
Will this post be read?
you all are nubs >:[
It’ll be “The war against translating is over.”
Ahaha Giygas puns *tear*
Anyway. I can’t wait. Ordered the M3 thing. I think I ordered the GBA Expansion pack or whatever. So hopefully i’ll be playing Mother 3 like a McDonalds meal – To Go. =] Good luck on the testing on the oh-so-frivolous whatevers.
If you don’t mind me asking, what is there left to be tested? Like could you be more precise on what system you’re testing on? PSP? Wii? Mac? :S I’d really like to be up-to-date with this emotional countdown.
I Can’t wait. Mother 3 is too amazing, even though I’m dissapointed for the fact that it strays away from the Earthboundesque style and excludes the glorified Starmen :'[ Ah well.. A Mechanical Caribou and some Snake Cows are perfect bosses and enemies.. right?
@reaver: Shutup.
I can’t wait!!! zomg!!!
*p**ses self in pure happiness*
Jorge said x ago:
If you would release it this weekend, I could play it over my sad one day fall break. Yeah. 1 day is what they call a break. Oh well.
-I’m also on fall break. I’ve only got two days. That makes a 4 day weekend for me and a 3 day weekend for you. Hey, it’s better than nothing, right?
An estimated release date, huh? That usually just gives people something to complain about when it gets pushed back, but this is looking to be so polished, delays probably won’t happen. Best case scenario, the patch gets released earlier than expected.
I just had a thought. When the patch hits, not only will it be a massive amount of traffic on this site, but I would imagine the Starmen.net main page will also suffer as a result.
If I told I was excited, it would be an understatement 🙂 I for one, am excited.
hey mato you should probably post an update sometime soon,
mysql databases can only get so big 😀
Suffer perhaps with bandwidth issues, but think of it.. so many people looking at and talking about, and playing Mother 3.. there will be hundreds of comments about it in personal blogs, and probably even a few references to it by game sites and/or magazines. The end result will hopefully be Mother 3 having at least part of the recognition it deserves here in the US, and other English speaking countries. (Not to mention further translations into other languages)
Pretty valid point Nekoaitsu. Maybe you guys should distribute this patch via torrent so your site doesn’t crash (or get your rates jacked up) from too many users downloading the patch. It’d be simple, community driven, and most importantly, free.
torrents are gay, downloads all the way.
Anyways, make other sites like your blog or Jeff’s blog have the patch up for Download.
ur moms gay lol
im gay. owned.
You are indeed, and so is that joke Shigeru.
i actually lol’d.
Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I.
Insects don’t have politics. They’re very brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can’t trust the insect. I’d like to become the first insect politician.
Torrents can be better and faster than direct downloads if properly supported by the community.
The patch isn’t THAT big. You’re looking at around a 2MB torrent file. Either way would work, even if you were on dial-up. No big deal.
I remember I got to the part with the magic cake in the game. After that, the game just seemed to breeze by. I’m hoping that’s true with this too. Looking forward to it.
Here’s my best attempt to say something without sounding like a creepy stalker:
After all of this, looking at this project almost at its end, I’m glad that Tomato is the one who picked up the gauntlet. Seeing as this game is obviously Japanese, I always feared in the days after its release that if an English translation ever came, we’d have to settle for some overzealous Japanophile gerry-rigged translation, with needless crap thrown in anywhere. But after watching this blog since the beginning, I am SO glad that we had a guy like Mato to step up and do this thing. I am far from a translation/localization expert, but I’m sure that coming at it from a professional point of view has made all the difference. Just from the way posts on the blog have been handled all the way to the responses to all of the idiocy that has run rampant on this thing. I know there’s no money in it for you (well, DIRECT money anyway, it’s always a good resume booster to localize an entire game for no compensation I’m sure), but here’s a collective thanks for doing this thing the right way. The translation of Mother 3 was not a necessary thing by any means. But you’ve done a really cool thing here. I’m still waiting for that address for some free beer/liquor…
– Josh
I love you guys….
I’ve actually had a hard time sleeping since I found this translation. That would explain the 2 AM posting.
Thanks for the work guys, can’t wait for the finished product,
Bugless is good so game released sooner.
I find it funny that some people have been waiting 13 years for this. I AM 13 lol.
this is too good!
Keep it up mato!
Final stretch! *Insert old joke here* Also, babies! OM NOM NOM VIETNAM NOM NOM NOM
i can’t go 4 days without a post, not at a time like this
Cool, the patch is nearly finished. Can’t wait 🙂
…whoa. I just tried to get the scoop on flash carts and whatnot, but I’m thoroughly overwhelmed. X_X
I think I’ll just keep my M3 on my PC. Anyone else got this vibe?
At any rate, I’m über excited. I can’t pick up my laptop without reading this blog. I watched my brother play Earthbound countless times and would dance to the funky battle music…we’re both big fans! Kudos, Mato, for making every EB fan’s dreams come true!