Double the Fun

I voted because I don’t want to see Giygas in my next carbonated beverage. :<

I've heard about this, and how it brought a couple siblings closer. I haven't personally tried it, though. Maybe someday, I'll do it.

One in each hand, like a bro.

THAT’S why man was made, to play two games of EB at the same time.

I wish, but I’ve only ever played Earthbound on an emulator (It’s expensive and I’m young, I’m not made of money). If I ever do buy it I will definetly try to though.

I used to play it with my brother sometimes. Once, tried a multi-tap to play it as “4-players”, but it didn’t work… It’s still fun to play it as a “2-player game” similar to Final Fantasy 2/4 and 3/6, except it’s turn-based.

When we were kids, my sister and I would play it together. She’d control Ness+Paula, and I got Jeff+Poo.

Played it with two controllers when I first got the game… My friend Kevin and I were too young to intelligently manage all the variables of battle independently, but we were somehow intelligent enough to realize this and delegate. He got Paula+Poo and I got Ness+Jeff in battle, and we alternated adventuring and snack duty. Very very convenient, considering we didn’t have to toss around a single controller.

I never knew you could do that. Hah, time to grab my brother and make it into a drinking game

yes, but now that you’ve mentioned it i’ve got to fish out my multitap and gather my friends around.

That’s cool. Didn’t know that. I’ve always thought it would be cool to have two players controlling different people in battle.

Huh. Imagine being able to break up the group! Player 1 takes control Ness+Paula, Player 2 controls Jeff+Poo. of course though, they can’t exit the same screen. That would be cool.

Never played with 1 controller either.

Nope, didn’t even know you could do that. Thanks!

Hope hope you mean a Kool-Aid drinking game!

How old is the average EarthBound fan anyway? That should be the next poll.

I did not even know about that…I answered because I do NOT want to see Giygas in my next carbonated beverage!

@8BitWalugi
They could do it like Toejam and Earl and have the screen split when they both leave the screen.

Oooh, I could see this being an awesome hack! There could be dual-team dungeons and stuff. One group would have to hit a switch or something to open a door on the other group’s side… or something. But it would be awesome!

Wow, I never played with two controllers since I didn’t know it was even possible, I always just assumed it would only work with one controller since it was listed as a one player game.

Hey, I my local game store just brought in a couple of those, I should get one and try it out.
…That is, after some Lost Vikings of course.

I’d not heard of this. Sounds interesting… I’ll have to try it when I go to visit my brother (he has the EB cartridge in the family).

*purposefully doesn’t vote*

I had heard about this, but I didn’t know it actually worked.

*Edit*
By ‘those’, I meant SNES Multi-Taps.

Huh? How would that work? You know, that would actually be pretty cool during battles as each player makes their own decision on what to do.

Oh my goodness! I want to try this out now. How exactly does this work?

I want to see Giygas in my next carbonated beverage.

Dude.
I NEED TO TRY THAT.

I’ve got it on GBA, so I can’t… It sounds groovy, though.

The first and only time I ever played EarthBound was on a SNES at my cousin’s house for about 2 hours. Sadly we didn’t know about this awesome little addition to the game. Now I’m dying to try it!

I’ve never played it like that but would love to. Too bad you wouldn’t eat a pizza when playing it at the same time though.

I would try it with my sister, but I have it on ZSNES, so I can’t really do it…

It’s too freaking annoying, I’ve tried it with people before and ended up ripping their controller out.

All that happens is that the second controller does exactly the same thing as the first controller. No group split ups on the game field. The only real difference I could find is that pushing opposite directions on the same controller still make Ness and co. move while opposite directions on different controllers cancel out.

How do you hit opposite directions with the D-pad on an SNES controller?

thanks mato! My dream is true, a second player earthbound game!

Wil, I became a earthbound fan at 8 and now I’m 12.

One memory I’ll always have is the time when I was playing with my friend and accidentally hitting the L button on my controller the moment he entered a door, causing the game to say “No problem here.” upon seeing a bunch of zombies.

A multiplayer turn-based rpg…

Interesting.

“Huh? How would that work? You know, that would actually be pretty cool during battles as each player makes their own decision on what to do.”

By passing the controller around?

I knew it worked, i never used it for two player though, but i noticed it when things got selected for some weird reason, and then i noticed that it was my other classic controller having the L button pressed in, or when i was trying to wind the other classic controller cord up.

Seeing as i never owned a SNES, playing EB with the classic controller on the Wii is the closest thing i’ve got to the real deal (although, i live in a PAL region anyway, so owning a SNES wouldn’t have made any difference)

One of my friends used to have a U.S SNES a few years back, but didn’t want to give it to me, haven’t seen it since

Phew, I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one here who plays it on my Wii. Here’s hoping we can one day get it officially on the console.

It’ll be interesting to see if this feature gets carried onto the hopeful VC release. Hmm, has anyone tried this on Mother 2 in the Japanese SSBB?

I knew about it~ My brother and I played it together in that fashion.

Weeks ago, I completed EarthBound with my brother.

I wonder if Chrono trigger also got that feature…

Wow, Smaman… thats a great idea! If you do a hack like that, Please post the link here.

I wont answer….*opens can of dr. pepper* Wit, whats that?…… HOLY CRAP!! *answer’s yes*

Nope, Chrono Trigger is one controller only.

Heh, PAL only got Chrono Trigger for DS, so i wouldn’t know, if only it was the same for Mother2……(hint hint Nintendo, release Mother for PAL already)

Eh, our censorship’s through the roof here, we don’t even have an R rating, it’s just banned instead. I’ll use my Phase Distorter to play the game officially if i have to!

(yes, i own a Phase Distorter 2.0)

It is quite easy to do it on ZSNES, just map some buttons to the second player controller, under input. But playing with two controllers sounds more fun.

I tried mapping my 360 controller to ZSNES, but it didn’t work.

no, but i’ve done that with zelda 3 before

@PKSTARMAN
Certainly don’t get your hopes up… I’m a total PK Hack noob and the most I’ve done few niche hacks. (Like giving the Lucky Sandwich a one in five chance of killing you, lol) But that is sort of how I made up Sma Man… dang now I feel like digging that up and finishing that hack!

I would pick giygas he is a cool guy

I was in a band in the 60s called the Beatles,but i played it with my brother

I wish I would have know this. My brothers and I would have had so much fun messing with each other.

Ha ha, I tried this on my copy of MOTHER 2 last night, and it worked!

Yes, it does ruin the game a bit when you have someone using the other controller to interfere with your game. I never tried using two controllers simultaneously by myself, though. However, I have tried both the left and right controller slots individually.

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I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and turn
and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Well will you won’t you want me to make you
I’m coming down fast but don’t let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain’t no dancer

Look out
Helter skelter
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She’s coming down fast
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now do you hate me

Well…if Giygas wasin my cola, i wouldn’t even notice, I’d just drink my cola Giygas or not.

i never even PLAYED earthbound! (because i dont have a snes)

I’ve played Earthbound with two controllers, but that’s only because if you play it on the Wii, all controllers connected will work at once no matter what game it is.

When I had the game I remember my brother trying to annoy me by moving the second controller in the opposite direction that I was going.

How is it possible to play w/ 2 controllers? How does it work?

awww man i voted and now i dont get to see giygas in my next carbonated beverage! waaahhh!!!!:(

I didn’t know it was possible to play with 2 controllers. I guess I should’ve tried it out long before now, but whatever. I’ll have to get my brother to play with me sometime…

I could imagine somebody taking control of one character and somebody else playing as the others.

i didn’t vote becuz i want to see giygas in my next carbonated beverage

just beat earthbound. I changed my mind. 0_o