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August 5th, 2009 | Hacking, MOTHER 3
Back when MOTHER 3 was released in Japan people really wanted to play the game in English. With a translation patch quite a ways off, people resorted to translation walkthroughs and guides and stuff like that, but I think one of the coolest things was when forumgoer Illuminum created a program that basically read the text off of your emulator’s screen, ran it through a computer translator, and then printed the results in English. Here’s a pic of it in action:
If you want some more info on it, see here. I don’t think I have a copy of the program, so if someone does, send it my way and I’ll host it here.
I also think it’d be hilarious to play through the entire game with this thing – someone should do a full run of the game and make screenshots of the especially weird and wacky machine translations that show up. I’d love to make an article for EarthBound Central out of it 
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33 Comments to Automatic MOTHER 3 Translator
 | Poe said on Aug. 5, 2009 |
Oh man, I’d love to play an Engrish version of M3
 | Spitball Sparky said on Aug. 5, 2009 |
I was seriously just thinking about this yesterday. I was looking all around for it way back when out of desperation. I figured if nothing else it would give a general idea of what was going on.
Never did find it…
 | Anonymous said on Aug. 5, 2009 |
Wow that thing is awesome! I would love to play through Mother 3 with that thing! Cool. Engrish forever!
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| Rockin'Ness said on Aug. 5, 2009 |
Crap, that post above was me…..
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| Omnitarian said on Aug. 5, 2009 |
Seems like people were having problems getting it to work, but it’d still be great to dig it up and have a playthrough with it.
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| Z-Master said on Aug. 5, 2009 |
That was done with… Multimedia Fusion ? NOW that’s awesome !
 | SamWibatt said on Aug. 5, 2009 |
That is amazingly clever. I was content to wait for Mato’s translation patch, but that is really cool. Kudos to Illuminum!
 | santiagoff said on Aug. 5, 2009 |
That… looks incredibly engrish.
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| GoldenEevee said on Aug. 5, 2009 |
cool, but why need this when we have a brilliant translation right now…….
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| ??? said on Aug. 5, 2009 |
GoldenEevee: Engrish is as funny as hell!
 | Jeeves said on Aug. 5, 2009 |
What on Earth is even going on in the game in that screenshot…?
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| santiagoff said on Aug. 5, 2009 |
@Jeeves: Seriously, I have no idea o_o
 | EmpoleMew said on Aug. 5, 2009 |
Someone needs to make a program like that for Mother 2.
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| Anonymous said on Aug. 6, 2009 |
Mr. Flint says before regardless of me.
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| Big A2 said on Aug. 6, 2009 |
Perhaps someone could try and contact the member who made the program.
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| Dave said on Aug. 6, 2009 |
Wait, what’s going on in the screenshot? Is it using changed sprites?
“! ..It is.. Lucas! a” – The second one is great too.
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| Spitball Sparky said on Aug. 6, 2009 |
@Dave
That screenshot is from Chapter 1 after Duster makes the Wall Staple ladder. Bateau tries to climb up the later but has a fear of heights and freezes, basically just a way to block Flint from going down the ladder to force him to go fight the Reconstructed Caribou.
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| Wil said on Aug. 6, 2009 |
Haha! Reminds me of when I try to read Hello! Project blog translations w/ Google’s translator.
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| conn3r said on Aug. 6, 2009 |
why not just use this on mother 1+2? lol
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| Pyroguy42 said on Aug. 6, 2009 |
In a pic 2. A wild Lucas appeared
 | Pishi said on Aug. 6, 2009 |
I wonder if it also welcomes us to th 
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| Anonymoose said on Aug. 6, 2009 |
This reminds me: did anyone save those rockin’ drawings of the Greedier Mouse saying “and let me dance”? I remember those from the days of the M3 progress blog, but can’t find them again…
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| Mother 3 in Engrish said on Aug. 7, 2009 |
[...] 3 in Engrish Under earthbound By john EarthBoundCentral recently posted about an automatic Mother 3 translator pieced together by Starmen.net forum member Illuminum when the game was released in Japan. The [...]
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| diablow2000 said on Aug. 8, 2009 |
Does anyone have a working link to this application?
Also there were similar mod to some SNES emulator, where it took text lines from game memory and feeded them to auto translator.
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| Anonymous said on Aug. 8, 2009 |
I wish I knew about this 3 years ago instead of now!
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| Matoking said on Aug. 16, 2009 |
All the download links are dead. D:
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| Mr. Saturn said on Jan. 2, 2010 |
I once had this program. I could swear when I got to the Mechadrago fight it said this:
You Mechadrago fight!
Tooth Mechadrago used!
Bite used Mechadrago!
Need I go on?
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| Gabo said on Apr. 3, 2010 |
It’s Nice, BUT WHEN THE HELL ARE THEY GOING TO DO THIS FOR MOTHER 1+2!!!
 | neonix said on Apr. 3, 2010 |
@Gabo: Assuming you want to run this program on a computer, since that is what it’s for, you’d have to be emulating the game, in which case, you could just be emulating the EarthBound and EarthBound Zero roms in full english…
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| Bigjake52 said on Jan. 11, 2011 |
any one have the porgram? I want engerish mother3
 | BigDream said on Jul. 30, 2011 |
It’s gone…
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I’ll try to find the tool and make a playthrough. I just need to know how to take screenshots.