everyone should read this.
http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Scary+Womanizing+Pig+Mask/the-hidden-themes-of-the-end-of-earthbound-as-recommenced-by-chad-concelmo--79495.phtml
i'ma go play earthbound on my ds now.
― Creeztophair, Thursday, 3 April 2008 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
The music that plays in the cliff only lasts about two octaves before repeating but it extremely memorable and haunting.
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 3 April 2008 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
god i need to play through that game :/
― Will M., Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
earthbound is on ds???
― Jordan, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
there are SNES emulators. and if you can do japanese, there's earthbound on the GBA (mother 1+2 was released on one cart around the same time mother 3 came out iirc)
― Will M., Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
ah, ok. i've never played earthbound, and i really want to!
― Jordan, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
i wish i could just play on snes, 'cause i hate playing games on my pc, but shit is expensive on ebay.
― Jordan, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
earthbound runs really well on the snes emulator for DS; I stayed up till 3am one morning playing it, but haven't gone back since
: /
― czn, Thursday, 3 April 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
ds homebrew looks complicated!
― Jordan, Thursday, 3 April 2008 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
it... is. a wee bit. you just need the right kit, some time, concentration, and a heart that's true.
― czn, Thursday, 3 April 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
it's actually extremely easy once you learn how to patch things with dldi.
there's also a translated nes rom of mother floating around called earthbound zero.
― Creeztophair, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Living things will be destroyed in the time traveling process, thus making it impossible to send a person back in time. There is a way around this though. He can take Ness’ and his friend’s souls and transfer them into robots, however they may never be able to return to their bodies of things go poorly.
― Z S, Friday, 4 April 2008 04:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.vc-reviews.com/news/2008/05/esrb_update_earthbound_finally_coming_to_virtual_console !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
i bet this isn't going to happen, and there will be even more online petitions.
http://www.thegamergene.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/wiiprintsmoney_vjenc-00.gif
(i don't know what that has to do with the topic. i just really like that gif.)
― Creeztophair, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I started playing the translated Mother 3 ROM mentioned in the other thread, and enjoyed the first hour so much that I decided it would be better to first go back and play Earthbound first. Somehow I've never played it. I'm only 3 hours in but I'm having a grand ol' time!
― z "R" s (Z S), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Earthbound finally getting a WiiU VC release in both US & EU later this yearfunny that an Earthbound cart almost costs the same as a WiiU these days - maybe the cart costs will start falling finally?
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 18 April 2013 00:14 (ten years ago) link
is that the first EU release?
― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Thursday, 18 April 2013 00:52 (ten years ago) link
yes, it is. i don't know why i asked, i don't actually care v much
― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Thursday, 18 April 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
This is maybe the most delightful video game of all time.
― hoda nkotb (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 18 April 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
I've spent a lot of time trying to find other games that have this sort of quirky wacky cheeky legit-funny tone/vibe/whatever and have found nothing else.
Mother 3!!
― I wish every slot machine had EAT THE RICH printed on it (Crabbits), Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
"Psychonauts" comes close at times.
― one way street, Thursday, 18 April 2013 04:41 (ten years ago) link
Mother 3 gets really intense toward the end.
― crüt, Thursday, 18 April 2013 05:07 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn.idigitaltimes.com/data/images/full/2013/03/26/6597.jpg
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 18 April 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
It was delayed because it contains music samples that weren't cleared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_oc9Ypcb2Q
― abanana, Thursday, 18 April 2013 06:56 (ten years ago) link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.georgewhiteside.android.abstractart
― (o), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 09:49 (nine years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VRchGqn.jpg
― Wes Brodicus, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
this game = my life right now
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
nearly completed it. it's weird how easy this game is at points. like sometimes it's TOO easy. it just keeps giving you loads of items, more than you can carry, with places to rest and tool-up every few minutes. then next minute it'll become stupidly difficult. i imagine this is all very deliberate. i'm getting fed up of the photographer rocking up all the time.
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 11 January 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
I’m stuck. :(
I have the Wad of Bills but the band disappeared. SOMEONE TAKE MY MONEY.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 11 January 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link
give it to the manager of the theater (talk to him behind his desk)
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Thursday, 11 January 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
it just keeps giving you loads of items, more than you can carry, with places to rest and tool-up every few minutes. then next minute it'll become stupidly difficult.
Tbf Magicant / Sea of Eden is about a nightmare, so of course that part would be nightmarishly difficult.
― Wes Brodicus, Thursday, 11 January 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
fucking gutsy bat
― clouds, Friday, 12 January 2018 04:42 (six years ago) link
Dungeon Man cracked me up! The dungeon is stupidly easy - you can't really go wrong. My only regret is walking straight to the palm trees as soon as he joined my team so I didn't get a chance to use him in a fight
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Friday, 12 January 2018 10:02 (six years ago) link
The good news is, you're only about 2/3rds through the game. The bad news is, you have the Stongehenge base full of teleporting, backstabbing Starmen ahead of you.
― Wes Brodicus, Friday, 12 January 2018 10:46 (six years ago) link
(-g)
― Wes Brodicus, Friday, 12 January 2018 10:47 (six years ago) link
yeah I'm on the Starmen bit right now and it's proving incredibly difficult. Even though I feel like I'm HP-d and PP-d up to the gills, they're total assholes. I got in a right f--ing up with a Starman/Robot combo who just kept reviving themselves just as I was about to kill them off.
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Friday, 12 January 2018 12:09 (six years ago) link
so now apparently I took a trip inside my own mind and now i'm a robotic replicant of myself. this game...
― Badgers (dog latin), Monday, 15 January 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
got a feeling Giygas is nearby. I'm looking forward to getting my life back soon
― Badgers (dog latin), Monday, 15 January 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
When all else fails, pray.
― Wes Brodicus, Monday, 15 January 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
I completed it! Little bit annoyed I didn't explore a bit more of the 'completed world' before going home and finishing the game off properly, but hey never mind
― Badgers (dog latin), Thursday, 18 January 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
the first time i beat giygas i went back and talked to every npc just to see if they said something new
― clouds, Thursday, 18 January 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
You can buy the empty house in Onett, to no effect.
― Wes Brodicus, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
Yeah I did that. I was basically a billionaire by the time I completed it.
― Badgers (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2018 02:27 (six years ago) link
If you're interested, dog latin, Mother 3 (a translated rom of which can be found fairly easily) is possibly even better, although it's a much sadder and darker game.
― one way street, Friday, 19 January 2018 02:43 (six years ago) link
100% agreed on that
― Nhex, Friday, 19 January 2018 07:10 (six years ago) link
Oooh, I didn't know there was a translation. I might look into cracking my SNES mini and loading it on. So is Mother 3 an indie / open source translation then?
― Badgers (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2018 08:53 (six years ago) link
I also take it, it's not a SNES game?
― Badgers (dog latin), Friday, 19 January 2018 08:54 (six years ago) link
'twas for GBA but that might be emulatableback when i played it though, it was an endless source of frustration that the hardware couldn't be emulated perfectly enough on PC to make the rhythm combat work right - that said I still loved the game so that should tell you something
― Nhex, Friday, 19 January 2018 09:05 (six years ago) link
The combat system works fine on a tablet with the My Boy emulator and an 8bitdo SNES controller.
My only gripe is that the music in Mother 3 is nowhere as good/iconic as Earthbound's; do not play if you hate saxophones.
― Wes Brodicus, Friday, 19 January 2018 09:17 (six years ago) link
Mother 3! The sequel to Earthbound!
― Wes Brodicus, Friday, 19 January 2018 09:18 (six years ago) link
I finally received the SNES Classic and stumbled upon Earthbound which I didn't know about until 36 hours ago. It got addicting very quickly.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 14 July 2018 06:42 (five years ago) link
you won't want to do much else for a couple of weeks
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Saturday, 14 July 2018 09:09 (five years ago) link
oh wow read as little as possible and just experience it with new eyes and update us itt frequently plz
― challops trap house (Will M.), Monday, 16 July 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
yeah. I only completed it a few months ago but there's so much I'd happily relive
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 16 July 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
https://www.etsy.com/listing/177625491/capitalism-earthbound-dialog-box
― crüt, Friday, 16 November 2018 00:00 (five years ago) link
pretty affordable!
― Nhex, Friday, 16 November 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
I miss earthbound.
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Friday, 16 November 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
Have you tried the other mothers or any of the popular hacks?
― Evan, Friday, 16 November 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
not yet. I should see if I can get mother 3 to play on the Nintendo mini
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Saturday, 17 November 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
can they do GBA emulation?
― Nhex, Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
ah... i take it no one's done a SNES ROM..
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Sunday, 18 November 2018 10:31 (five years ago) link