Could y'all please call the Nintendo hotline and ask if they'll release MOTHER 3 (sequel to Earthbound)?

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Seriously I think about Mother 3 every day. These guys have a call-in request drive thing going on. The thought to call them didn't even occur to me. Could you guys please do it?

It's 1-800-255-7300, then hit 0 to talk to a representative. The guy I talked to was really nice; we had a pleasant conversation about how we both want it to happen & he said he was glad I called and that it does make a difference.

Abbott, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Toll free...though I dialed a wrong number at first (like I do any time I use the phone) and got a sex hotline. :(

Abbott, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

omg thank you for this

Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

6 a.m.-9 p.m. are the hours in the U.S.

Abbott, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.flyingomelette.com/reviews/snes/screens/ebsequel.gif

Abbott, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

can we also tell them to release Earthbound on the wii virtual console plz

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I asked the guy to do that too. He said he'd be much more surprised if it DIDN'T happen than if it did. But maybe they are programmed to say these things in a way that makes me phone flirt.

Abbott, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Do that=tell the heads or whoever, not to release it himself, which might be an unreasonable request.

Abbott, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Seriously, I need some 2d rpg grinding

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link

WHO DOESN'T?????

Abbott, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link

ness is probably the 3rd best character in super smash bros for the n64

max, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

LET'S GRIND :-*

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 03:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I shoudl find out if Nick's company would ever do a Wii port of it, they seem to do Wii ports of a lot of things lately.

Trayce, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link

no no no no more wii ports!!! ORIGIALN COTNENT PLZ

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link

BUT STAR WARS DUDE.

Whoops I dont know if I was meant to say that oh well.

Trayce, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a link to the current translation project over on the ILG thread. Not sure what the progress is.

kingfish, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Slow. And the translation of Mother 1 that I'm playing is really lackluster. So I don't have hell of faith in the Mother 3 one. :(

Abbott, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Nintendo's best localization team is still probably working on the Wii installment of Fire Emblem due this November

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link

this is a song from an album that was packaged w/the original Mother for Famicom in Japan: http://www.ngeb.net/mothersound/pollyanna.mp3

Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

^^the 8-bit version of that that plays in the Mother 1 overworld is awesome

Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm kind of sad that the music for Mother 3 (that I've heard) doesn't sound like the awesome IDM/sampler noise shit from Earthbound, that was one of the things that totally makes the game a classic. (Moonside music samples Ric Ocasek!!!!)

Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Can I also ask them to translate the GBA Mother 1+2 cart or is that overkill?

Will M., Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

And ask them to get Squaresoft to stop dicking around and make a decent Mana game.

caek, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Do it for your country dueds!

Abbott, Friday, 21 September 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, last weekend I was drunk and couldn't get my SNES to work so I called the number on the back. Totally shocked that it still works.

Jordan, Friday, 21 September 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

this week nintendo released two previously japan-only games on the north american wii store (some shit where you shoot dragons in 3d and super mario bros lost levels) so knock on wood fingers crossed etc. whatever floats yr boat

El Tomboto, Thursday, 4 October 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Lost Levels came out on an SNES cartridge. However, v, exciting!

Abbott, Thursday, 4 October 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1211/1478210433_431d4f0db5_o.jpg

El Tomboto, Friday, 26 October 2007 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link

wau

sleep, Friday, 26 October 2007 07:26 (seventeen years ago) link

You guys are on point.

Super Nintendo hold me down like WHOA.

Colin_C., Friday, 26 October 2007 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link

OKAY I JUST SAW THAT SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW I CAN PURCHASE THAT SHARKS SHIRT AND WHAT COMPANY MAKES IT!

Colin_C., Friday, 26 October 2007 07:31 (seventeen years ago) link

nevermindz i googled

Colin_C., Friday, 26 October 2007 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Itoi is my main hoemboy. If you buy the house outside Onette (or Twoson, I forget), there's a haunting little story by him and Murakami in the drawer!

Abbott, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Mother 3 translation project one year in. By the kids. you know.

Abbott, Sunday, 25 November 2007 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Pisses me off that MOther 3 main kid is gonna be in Smash Bros. Brawl but slim fucking chance we'll get MOther 3 here. I mean, like anyone knew who Ness was in Meleé but at least his game was extant in the U.S>

Abbott, Sunday, 25 November 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

OK I think IT CAN BE DONE again. I srsly have a brain on six-eight week timer that says, "Abbott, you do your civic duty and CALL that hotlibne."

Abbott, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link

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THEY SHOULDVE RELEASED THIS SHIT IN

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Itoi is my main hoemboy. If you buy the house outside Onette (or Twoson, I forget), there's a haunting little story by him and Murakami in the drawer!

Haruki Murakami?!

nickalicious, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link

The protagonist of this game has the same name as my son AND kinda looks like him.

nickalicious, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Why not just download a translated ROM?

Stevie D, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link

oops stupid me nvm

Stevie D, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, nicka, Haruki. It is short and crepey. You can find it on the online but it is way satisfying in the context of the game, which has those occasional weird and sad moments. The story is one of them.

Abbott, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link

"occasional!" the whole game is weird and sad

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link

I can't remember; does the game just have one or is it multiple tea breaks?

kingfish, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Anybody know what % of the translation rom is complete? I'm too lazy to dig for it.

kingfish, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link

It has two tea breaks, one with the Me. Saturns and one w/the Tengas.

Tombot you are right but there are a few REALLY weird/sad parts: the cave that displays Ness's thoughts, how you defeat Gigyas in the end, that story, Moonside, etc etc etc. But it is really fucking (weird and) funny sometimes: the dinosaur museum guys, the Tengas, Dungeon Man, the whole Stonehenge thing...and some of the music is weird/sad and some is weird/funny.

This game, it was messing with my dreams for a long time.

Abbott, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 03:22 (sixteen years ago) link

snes Earthbound should be on the Wii VC sometime this year, says the rumor mill

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link

I need to play Earthbound again, I only remember like 1/8th of it. For a game that started out seemingly so cutesy and silly it turned out kind of epic/gargantuan.

nickalicious, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Never played! Feels like i'm missing out.

forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link

Dude download an SNES emulator (SNES 9x) and a rom and clear some free time bcz it is addictive.

Abbott, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link

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Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Earthbound has been rated by ESRB - usually this means that there is a VC release soon
http://www.vooks.net/modules.php?module=article&id=12834

zappi, Friday, 2 May 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link

i wish they would do a DS version.

Jordan, Friday, 2 May 2008 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link

song form mother 3 used in the best way humanly possible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiARsQSlzDc

Will M., Monday, 5 May 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link

I've heard rumors of Treehouse working on a Mother 3 translation for the DS. I guess E3 will be here soon enough ...

Mr. Goodman, Monday, 5 May 2008 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link

Dear godb am I ever impatient.

Abbott, Monday, 5 May 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/3845/nesssssssxj3.gif

kingfish, Thursday, 12 June 2008 08:22 (sixteen years ago) link

four months pass...

for those who don't read ILG : end of the week!
http://mother3.fobby.net/2008/10/14/testing-finishes-patch-this-week/#more-842

zappi, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link

And...it's out.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/3528/hiphopee1.png

the RHETERIC (kingfish), Sunday, 19 October 2008 05:01 (sixteen years ago) link

!!!!!!!!!

Steve (Not Stevie) (Stevie D), Sunday, 19 October 2008 05:05 (sixteen years ago) link

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/1479/wrgm3patchedmz9.png

the RHETERIC (kingfish), Sunday, 19 October 2008 06:34 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah. still sad as shit.

Fetchboy, Monday, 20 October 2008 00:13 (sixteen years ago) link

If you haven't been convinced to try this game yet, your character saves by talking to frogs.

FROGS, people!

the RHETERIC (kingfish), Monday, 20 October 2008 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link

YES

╓abies, Monday, 20 October 2008 08:16 (sixteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

Earthbound is one of the most annoying RPGs I've ever played!! Fuck that kid!!!

― TOMBOT, Thursday, May 5, 2005 7:14 PM (4 years ago)

can we also tell them to release Earthbound on the wii virtual console plz

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:12 AM (1 year ago)

god bless this -ation (Abbott), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link

how did this dynamic dude CHANGE over three years????

god bless this -ation (Abbott), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link

did not know this until reading the comments on an AV Club article:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096283/

Shigesato Itoi voices the dad in "My Neighbor Totoro"

kingfish, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link

Seriously I think about Mother 3 every day.

Moka Pwnly (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link

three years pass...
six months pass...

Earthbound finally out today, all 10 WiiU owners are said to be ecstatic

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 18 July 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link

hah. but also sad, mother 3 was great. can't believe they skipped the entire Wii cycle in putting Earthbound on VC.

Nhex, Thursday, 18 July 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link

yeah, I remember people speculating that this was because nintendo never cleared samples of big name stuff like the beatles and the who for the original release... but I'm not sure how big a concern this ever actually was.

original bgm, Thursday, 18 July 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link

curious if anything's been altered for this release. I'm sure obsessive mother fans are already on the case.

original bgm, Thursday, 18 July 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link

can't believe they skipped the entire Wii cycle in putting Earthbound on VC.

especially since being able to get perfect copies of these kinds of games for a reasonable price was precisely the appeal of VC in the first place!

frogbs, Thursday, 18 July 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link

tbf they do deserve some props for bringing certain games over that hadn't got a release here like Castlevania X: Rondo of Blood and the N64 Sin and Punishment, but Earthbound was just so obvious.

i think NoA still has scars from the failure of the original release

Nhex, Thursday, 18 July 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link

Soft-modded PSPs are perfect for playing this game, tho tbf I set the game down halfway thru and haven't gone back

Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Thursday, 18 July 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link

hmmm, Nintendo have created a mod only community on their Miiverse service as an "official source for the latest EarthBound news and information". which would seem to imply they have further stuff to announce.
Itoi wrote something for the Earthbound rerelease, well worth reading http://earthbound.nintendo.com/message/

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 29 July 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link


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