Attention Earthbound fans!

[Soul Dew]

MOTHER 3(Earthbound 2) has a Japanese release date for April 20th 2006. Now lets hope it'll get localized.

 

[Auraninja]

Is this going to be the same game with the comboy guy?

I want another of Ness's adventures; I want Earthbound 1.

Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait and see.

 

[Quackerdrill]

Alright! Yeah- it better be localized or Nintendo's gonna be under fire from a ton of rabid fans. It's too bad that we don't know any other info besides this release date. But YES! Goodness knows how long it took for this to even be announced...

EDIT: I think that if Nintendo knows what they're doing, then they'd release a state-side version of Mother 1+2 before they localize this new one. There's probably no way that 3 would get here without that. It's still a wonder to me why 1+2 never came here... I wonder if it has to do with the rights confusion about the first title. That was never released... and possibly, Nintendo may have never officially liscenced it for the US, right? That may be it. But just ignoring the opportunity of making thousands of fanboys happy would be an extremely bad decision on Nintendo's side.

 

[ShiningClefairy]

Mind telling us what system?

 

[P-fan]

It going to be on the gba.

 

[MidnightScott]

Well then there will be a [spoil]ROM[/spoil] available for it. I wonder if they will release it in the US...

The GBA doesnt have many more games coming to it - so we might not get this one...

~Scott;229;

 

[Chris]

Correction, you mean "Attention Mother fans!"

The chances of this being localized are looking slim. Did they even localize the first and second Mother games on the GBA?

 

[WinterSnowblind]

Correction, you mean "Attention Mother fans!"

The chances of this being localized are looking slim. Did they even localize the first and second Mother games on the GBA?

Have to completely agree here. They didn't bother releasing the first to, so why would the go and do the sequel? It would be a pretty stupid thing to do.. It's nice the game is finall getting a sequel, but the chances of us ever seeing it in English are very low.

Now if they decide to release Earthbound 1 & 2 in the U.S.. then we'll have something to get excited about.

 

[Auraninja]

Have to completely agree here. They didn't bother releasing the first to, so why would the go and do the sequel? It would be a pretty stupid thing to do.. It's nice the game is finall getting a sequel, but the chances of us ever seeing it in English are very low.

Now if they decide to release Earthbound 1 & 2 in the U.S.. then we'll have something to get excited about.

I have to be third to agree with this.

They did make Mother 1 & 2 in Japan that was for the GBA and never released in the USA. Earthbound is one of the top 10 most inspirational games. I would love to see that game for GBA. Remember that this is the predessor of Pokemon, when Gamefreak was called Ape Inc.

The top 10 was IMO.

 

[Puffs]

They really should release the Mother/Earthbound series in the US. I had no clue what I was looking at when I unlocked Ness in SSB.

 

[GoGoTenda]

Um...Earthbound (Mother 2) was released in the US. It's just that Mother (or Earthbound Zero, as the ROM is known) was never released and the Mother 1+2 GBA game was likewise never released. Of course, a lot of people didn't know who Ness was before SSB, but Earthbound has quite the cult following in the US.

I'm glad Mother 3 has a release date. Now lets hope that it doesn't get cancelled. Again.

 

[WinterSnowblind]

Um...Earthbound (Mother 2) was released in the US. It's just that Mother (or Earthbound Zero, as the ROM is known) was never released and the Mother 1+2 GBA game was likewise never released. Of course, a lot of people didn't know who Ness was before SSB, but Earthbound has quite the cult following in the US.

I'm glad Mother 3 has a release date. Now lets hope that it doesn't get cancelled. Again.

Yeah, that was the point. It was never released in the U.S. on the GBA when it was ported over in Japan a few years ago, so there's very, very little chance of them doing the sequel. It was released on the SNES back in the day, but how many people will still remember it? How many people actually played it for that matter? (not counting roms..)

Basically, why would they translate a sequel to a game they never bothered translating?

 

[Tommo_Volbeat]

Thats like asking why Sonic Adventure 2 Battle came out before Sonic Adventure DX did.

 

[Tendo128]

Maybe bringing back EB on the Revolution could give NOA enough of an excuse to bring it overseas. In fact, they could even put the original Mother on the Revolution while they're at it

 

[MugenKeiji]

Well I believe that while Mother 1 + 2 might not get a localization (although Tales of Phantasia GBA, a released in Japan the same year is being brought stateside) I'm a firm believer that BOTH games will see a release in the Nintendo Revolution's Virtual Console.

Note, I BELIEVE not confirm, let's not confuse me with those anarchist Revolution bloggers.

It would be a little more safe, like releasing Electroplankton exclusively online.

Even if Mother 3 is nearing release, and I'm just as excited as you are, I have to say I REALLY wished that the game that was intended for N64 with Benimaru Itoh's Pilotwings-esque character designs was completed.

I mean after watching my big bro go through Dragon Quest VIII I wonder if that game would have the same appeal with 2D graphics... Maybe since it's Dragon Quest but would certain scenes work in the same gravity with an overhead view.

There I go repeating myself again. Just try to enjoy Mother 3 for what it is and hopefully that Keiichi Suzuki makes his return as composer.

Itoi, you better not disappoint us...

 

[MugenKeiji]

Also, something to note for Mother 1. Its translation was an official NOA translation.

The credits say "Phil Sandhop" in localization, I recognize his name from the credits in "Super Punch Out!!". I doubt some Romhacker would refer himself to by full name, or would have the name of Phil Sandhop

...Not that I emulate games or anything, that's wrong...

*plays "Dracula X: Rondo of Blood" on Hu-Go with his Super SmartJoy*

 

[indigestible_wad]

Well then there will be a [spoil]ROM[/spoil] available for it. I wonder if they will release it in the US...

The GBA doesnt have many more games coming to it - so we might not get this one...

~Scott;229;

Whadaya mean that we shoudn't get this one just because it's coming out on the gba? Your logic just fails to comply with anything rational. Unless you aren't going to get it. Personally I think that since there are going to be less games for the gba that would mean more of a reason to buy it. Basically making it better.

Besides ROMs are overrated and cheap imo. You can get it for the keyboard but the true gamers would rather see it on it's real platform.

Personally I can't wait for this. Ever since I got to know ness on SSBM, I've been waiting for a chance to play earthbound with a passion.

 

[MugenKeiji]

Besides ROMs are overrated and cheap imo. You can get it for the keyboard but the true gamers would rather see it on it's real platform.

Well, I have a 3GHz P4 with 1 Gig of RAM, an ATi Radeon 9800 and a Super SmartJoy (I love to brag about my system). I mean seriously if you're able to get an emulator running at full-speed with a decent Joypad the whole keyboard defense doesn't hold much water.

However the hardware emulation is still up to the programmers and how many systems they're willing to break to make progress. I mean SNES and NES are at the point where emulation has been peaked, other systems such as the CD add-ons to the PC-Engine/TurboGrafx 16 and Sega Genesis, as well as the 32-bit and 64-bit systems of 1994/1996. Generally it's still better to have the actual game and hardware however, for Japanese only games that will fetch $80-200 on E-Bay and out of print games like Gunners Heaven and Dracula X that won't fetch any money for their developers at this point being secondhand and all, I would go out my mind and break the law enough to say it's a good way to try good but possibly short games (though not worth more than 30 or 40 bucks) that you have to pay out the nose for.

What's funny is the for emulating TurboGrafx CD is that you DO have to pay money for the best results. MagicEngine is the best emulator (Hu-Go's decent but it crashes quite a bit) but you have to pay for it and most ROM sites that carry ISOs and BINs (the ROM from the CD) you have to pay $30 or so to access them (bandwidth thing I suppose).

However, I will HEAVILY and FORCEFULLY discourage emulation of current generation systems and Mother 3 is no exception.

 

[WinterSnowblind]

Thats like asking why Sonic Adventure 2 Battle came out before Sonic Adventure DX did.

There difference there is that Earthbound is actually a good game.

The Sonic Adventure's we're pretty sup-par platformers, even when they were released years ago on the Dreamcast. They sold due to the fact it's Sonic, nobody cared if it was actually good. Also, it was easier for them to do Sonic Adventure 2 first because it needed a lot less work - I don't think it had even been a year after it came out on the Dreamcast, where as the first SA was an almost 4 year old game by that point.

When we're talking about 2D RPG's on the GBA/DS, these things don't matter so much, even if the game is more than 8 years old.

 

[Soul Dew]

Well guys there is some new info out. On Itoi's website you can download the theme song.

Here it is.
http://www.1101.com/MOTHER3/index.html

It's in the second present.