
February 6th, 2009 | MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge
Back while I was working on the MOTHER 3 translation, I frequented Japanese sites a lot and one thing I noticed in a few places was a report of a strange bug. Apparently, if you save with the frog in the playroom area of Thunder Tower and then quit, there’s a chance you might get stuck if you load your game. I tried to make it happen a few times but without any success.

It’s this frog and it happens around here I think
Even so, after we released the translation patch, I started to get reports of this happening to people. I’d like to know more about this, so if anyone has more detailed info, please let me know. Apparently what happens is that you wind up in a spot between the wall and the frog, and the frog won’t move out of the way, so you’re pretty much screwed. I can’t tell what exact spot this happens at though, but given all the reports from Japanese and non-Japanese players, I don’t doubt this is real.
I’d like to know more about it so I can possibly fix it in a future patch, or at least give a warning and tell people how to specifically keep it from happening.
UPDATE: Oh, I found a video of it in action!
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37 Comments to The Evil Thunder Tower Save Frog
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| Mato said on Feb. 6, 2009 |
Aww, that’s no good, I spent all that time on it and you rushed through it that fast? And semi-cheated?
Hopefully you’re replaying it sometimes at least?
Don’t feel bad, Mato. I played through EB0 in one sitting; sometimes when you start playing a Mother game, you just can’t stop.
Don’t worry mato. Not everyone rushed through the game. It took me a few months to finish it the first time. Mainly because every now and then, I’d get stuck on an annoying boss (most notably the Steel Mechorilla and the Barrier Trio GRRRRR!!!) and stop playing for few weeks. I’m already on a second play through and I’m hoping to catch all the lines and things that I may of missed the first time around. (Like some of the stuff on the part where you get hopped up on mushrooms. I talked to all of the characters but I only opened one trash can and only looked in one mailbox) I really loved the Mother 3 translation and I’d also love to see how the Mother 1 + 2 translation would turn out if you and Jeffman ever decide to finish that up.
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| rayefrenzy said on Feb. 7, 2009 |
Yeah, I flew through Mother 3, but not with save states or speed buttons. I just took off work (NO LIE) and stayed up for 5 days straight. (okay, I slept maybe 4 hours each night)
Worth it. So, so worth it.
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| Darien said on Feb. 7, 2009 |
Oh yeah, the Barrier Trio can bite me.
I took a few weeks getting through Mother 3, I believe. I used the speed button, but only very occasionally — basically I used it to speed through the oxygen machine animation after I’d already seen it about a jillion times. It was funny at first, but, man, it does get old. And it’s long.
I took a few (4) days from my vaccation time to play through it when it first came out (the Fan Translation). I’m glad I’m not the only one who did that (rayfrenzy)
It took about 27 hours for me, so I played a LOT in those 4 days.
I wouldn’t consider that to be rushing though. I explored and didn’t use the speed button.
For the patch, it took me about three days. I used this particular frog but never had any problems.
I replayed it twice after that. :3 It was spectacular.
Yeah, I made sure I didn’t even accidentally hit the turbo button. I died a couple times and never used save-states… I savored every hour that I spent on this wonderful game… I want to hug you Mato… You are a great man.
I used this frog a couple times as well… I remember being annoyed by the Porky’s robot girl. I think I did use the speed button on the oxygen part, so weird and long…
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| Tork_110 said on Feb. 15, 2009 |
Thanks for the link to my video.
This glitch ticked me off so badly that I don’t think I played again for a couple weeks. I have since beaten the game, but I was very careful when I returned to this room and used both save slots carefully.
lol. Theres always a glitch in a mother game that they dont care about. Curse you itoi! lol jk
Mato, it took about a week. Some scenes were very, very touching. Some were way creepy. But you did a very good job. I spent well over 40 hours! My parents thought I had died, since I would stay up all night playing.
YES. I mean, in my M3 copy I was trapped. I had to re-play everything. It was cool actually!
Is there a walk throuh walls code for Mother 3, and would it help in this situation?
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| Mato said on May. 12, 2009 |
As far as I know, there aren’t any known walk-through-stuff codes right now
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| Shamu said on May. 27, 2009 |
Something EVEN MORE WEIRDER happened to me.
I believe I was fighting, pressing the space bar the WHOLE TIME (that’ll speed up the game and all), and when I lost and continued, I ended up in Leder’s house, but not only that, I WAS ON THE WALL.
I couldn’t do anything about it, so I gave up.
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| Mato said on Aug. 7, 2009 |
No, there’s no real way to fix it that I can think of – even if we moved the frog somehow it might still get you stuck somewhere else :/
A funny idea would be to change the frog’s text to something like “*hop* I am an evil frog, don’t let me save your game or I might stick you in the wall..” Of course, a more clever message since I’m not very funny…
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| Yoshimad123 said on Feb. 14, 2010 |
@Shamu
That happened to me too!
It was weird.
Well, i’ve completed it one time in it’s original un-translated version with save-states,one time with the translation and save_states and one time with the translation without anything that isn’t included in the game, so original save.Too good…I’ve restarted the game many times at that point to beat the robot that guards the friend’s yoyo,and i never had that glitch.
Haha, sliding in place.
oh yeah, and about the game. I haven’t really started on it yet, but when i do, I’ll try to fill the battle memory.
do you need something?
YES I NEED SOMETHING I NEED YOU TO GET THE HECK OUT OF MY WAY YOU AMPHIBIOUS DEMON
Sometimes, that looked wrong, BUT, that’s NOT a frog, it’s a rabid tiny green mutant pig without ears or nose flying on a balloon
That kinda’ happened to me. What I did was some how slipped myself in that spot and then I couldn’t get out. (It’s ok ’cause I didn’t save)
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| Mobile Iwata kicks you know what (hard to login mobily) said on Jan. 23, 2011 |
Just wondering, but can you play gba games on ds emulators?
Damn… Damn it! He did it! He finally did it!…
He broke my Mother 3 ROM… Not really, I did save with him but I didn’t turn off so I didn’t get this glitch. But wow. thats a huge glitch
wow i better tell my freind about that when he gets there!¡ hes only at chapter 1 and this is the only game that he has liked in a year hes probly playing it now
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that Lucas should be yelling:
“DO THE STUCK IN THE WALL DANCE!”
I dunno. Looks like they’re dancing
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Never happened to me.
Then again, I played through in one-sitting with the speed button and save-states :p