January 31st, 2010 | Weekly Round-Up | 19 Comments

Another week gone by already This past week had some pretty interesting updates. Wish I had time to do more detailed articles, reports, translations, and such. But it’s still cool that there’s so much EarthBound stuff out there to report on even a year after this site started. Okay, here’s what other EarthBound-related stuff has happened this past week on the webitubes. Communit...Read More »

January 31st, 2010 | EarthBound, Images | 16 Comments

Darius sent this in the other day: My sister made me a custom EarthBound poster as a gift. It is AMAZING. She designed and drew the whole thing! link click for big It does look pretty cool. Good gift idea on her part ...Read More »

January 30th, 2010 | EarthBound, Itoi, MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 51 Comments

I often see a lot of misconceptions and false info about EarthBound-related stuff going around, so from time to time I think I’ll cover a few of them. Giygas There’s a lot of incorrect info out there about Giygas, much of it stemming from part of an interview with Shigesato Itoi (see here). In it, Itoi uses similes to explain his inspiration for Giygas, but Western fans seem to take th...Read More »

January 29th, 2010 | EarthBound 64, MOTHER 1, MOTHER 1+2, Polls | 86 Comments

In the history of the MOTHER series, there’ve been several released games and a few cancelled projects. But out of those, only one game made it out of Japan: EarthBound. By now we all know the story and history of the series (if you don’t, see here), so I won’t go into that. But we can still play the “what if” game So today’s poll question is this: What if Ear...Read More »

January 28th, 2010 | EarthBound, Hacking, Videos | 26 Comments

Many years ago, I created a simple patch for EarthBound that added a “New Game Plus” type feature to it, similar to what Chrono Trigger has. Michael Cayer then improved the patch further. With this patch, when you beat the game, you’ll then be able to start the game over from the start with all your items, stats, and skills that you had when you finished the game. It gives a neat...Read More »

January 27th, 2010 | Images, MOTHER 1 | 26 Comments

I think this is from an issue of EGM from many years ago. I don’t have the exact issue info, so if anyone knows that, lemme know. Anyway, this looks like it was from a feature about games that didn’t get released outside of Japan. We all know the story about EarthBound Zero by now, but here’s a tiny article about it: I guess the suggestion at the end wasn’t effective enoug...Read More »

January 26th, 2010 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 16 Comments

It’s probably somewhat common knowledge now, but there’s a spot in an area outside Threed where enemies appear but are impossible to reach via normal means. Usually this enemy is a hippie, but sometimes it will be a cranky lady or an old party man. A while back I documented some other interesting/rare enemy locations, which you can find here. If you need a new challenge for this old g...Read More »

January 25th, 2010 | Food, Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge | 21 Comments

This isn’t very well-known outside of Japan, but one day, while on a fishing trip, Shigesato Itoi visited a small curry shop near Mt. Fuji and was wowed by the curry they had there. His praise made the curry famous across the country, and thus “Itoriki Curry” was born, and an entire business built up around it apparently. Apparently this Itoriki Curry uses Japanese saké to get...Read More »

January 24th, 2010 | Weekly Round-Up | 15 Comments

Not much time today, so this week’s weekly round-up shall be quick. Last week the site passed the three million pageviews mark and the 250,000 unique visitors mark. Woo! Okay, here’s what happened this past week elsewhere on the information superhighway. Community News PK Bloggin: This Article Stinks Critical Compilation: EarthBound – analysis of EarthBound via opinions/info gat...Read More »

January 24th, 2010 | Merchandise, MOTHER 3 | 3 Comments

Sophie Dragoon sent this in the other day: When I was going through my messages, I saw shirt designs made by Petere Caelum, I asked if she was selling them….. They’re 20$ per shirt Here’s a link to her Profile if you want one. http://blacklilly5150.deviantart.com/ ...Read More »