MOTHER 1+2 Translation Update 5

I know you can do it, Tomato!

Good luck, Mato.

Have you played Super Mario Bros. 7 yet?

You can do it! :3

Awesome job! Are you going to finish the Mother 1 part and then release an incomplete patch with just Mother 1, while working on the Mother 2 part. Or are you going to finish both parts before you release the patch?

I have an idea for the easy ring, but it would take up too much space… Basically, there would be two rings, the easy ring and the slow ring, and the slow ring would halve the number of random encounters, but that would obviously take up inventory space. (I haven’t actually used the easy ring, so I don’t know if you have to equip it or not, so my idea doesn’t work if you have to equip the easy ring. Also, my idea takes up too much inventory space if you don’t equip it…)

Anyways, great work Mato! I have to beat EarthBound Zero, then I’m gonna play this!

Good Luck Tomato, I am counting on you.

Neon Squid: My plan is to release a patch when the M1 side is 100% done, and that patch will also include a basic menu/item/names, etc. translation for the M2 side also.

Just wondering, but will the naming menu have a “Don’t Care” button for the patch?

Well, considering it starts on default names in other peoples hacks i think it might or might not, either way i don’t think it will be looked at until it’s at the tweaking stage

It’d be nice if you fixed the text when you pick a character at the hospital was changed since it looked kinda weird in EB0.

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wow. this must be some serious shit to do
if i’d known stuff like that, i’d be willing to help but that’s not the case D:

can’t wait

This is going to be awesome!

Hey Tomato, do you think that it’s possible to port the retranslated script over to an EB0 rom? I think that would be better for me because I hear the music’s not fantastic on the GBA port.

I doubt it, I don’t think there’d be enough spare room in the ROM. But the Mother 1 music in Mother 1+2 is just fine. Only the music in the Mother 2 part is not as good.

Ah ok. There’s no way to expand an NES rom?

Not easily and not all the time, depends on each individual ROM. Also, because my translation uses larger text boxes and a few hacks, the EB0 version would have to be hacked up too, and I don’t have the time for that, and it might be harder to pull off some of the hacks with the NES.

YOU CAN DO IT MATO!!!

I love you so much for this, please have my babies!

Can not wait for it.

I Can’t Wait for it, it is going to be awesome!!!! i hope that on the next update mother 1 is finished, so that would mean that mother 2/earthbound is the only one left to translate! i hope jeffman can do it good!!!
i will be patient for the next update!!!!!
MATO, YOU’RE THE BEST!!!!!!, YOU TOO JEFFMAN!!!!! earthbound forever!!!!

Keep up the great work! Ya know, my brother doesn’t like Earthbound BECAUSE it is a break from common RPGs. He aslo said I’m the worst gamer ever because I said if I can tell the diffrence between light green and dark green, the graphics are ok. Also, PM me on starmen.net or on patcheresu@gmail.com as Patcheresu, how do you get those Earthbound Central Badges?

It would be good to translate the game like it was as earthbound.
The mother 1+2 version was in my opinion changed in a bad way.
(except for the run option)

If you figure out how to prevent random encounters perhaps make it into a toggled item (if possible) or perhaps another ring to wear. Easy ring is good for pumping up your rewards from winning fights and the Breeze Ring could be used to just walk around without conflict.

Are you guys still….alive?

I’m not

Hello…………anybody?

………………hello……..?

…….Is this translation still being worked on, has it already died and been cancelled or are you busy with your lives?

I have an idea for the problem of the expanded text boxes! When you have to select a party member, the text box will contract back to the way it is in M1/EB0, and after you select one (or if you cancel), the text box will expand back out again.

Hm…for the Mother 2 translation, couldn’t you use Earthbound as a guide?

It’s the hacking, not the translating, that’s the hard part.

I think I know how you can fix this, Mato. (And I do mean “think”)

How about you use a lot of spaces when you have to select a character? Example:

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/834/example3d.png

(NOTE: This is just an example made in Paint.)