January 13th, 2012 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 1, Videos | 9 Comments

I can’t remember if I’ve posted about this or not before, but just in case I haven’t, check out this great piano medley by the famous Prof. Sakamoto: What’s cool about this is that he’s become famous enough in Japan that he’s even done stuff with Shigesato Itoi’s company. Here’s a page about a live recital he did for Itoi’s site and here’...Read More »

January 11th, 2012 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge | 24 Comments

Back in my old post about EarthBound and its Virtual Console issues I asked people more knowledgeable about copyright law to chime in on the subject. I recently got an e-mail from a fellow named Brandon who did just that. Here’s what he has to say: (more…) ...Read More »

January 5th, 2012 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound | 16 Comments

A bunch of skilled musicians who are fans of EarthBound recently got together to make an album inspired by EarthBound. Here’s a better description: To celebrate the music of the Mother series several artists have banded together to create the most nostalgic tribute to these games they could muster. Their music uses takes you on a journey beyond the end of Mother 2/EarthBound, meeting new cha...Read More »

December 31st, 2011 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 1 | 11 Comments

Evan sent this in the other day: Greetings, Mato! A local band a few towns over from me called Lost Woods just released their debut EP. They do rock covers of video game tunes, and I’ve been following them for a while. I suggested they cover some EarthBound tunes, and as luck would have it, they covered Snowman and Mother Earth from the MOTHER series, and they’re awesome! One can down...Read More »

December 22nd, 2011 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 3, Videos | 14 Comments

Here’s a Christmas light performance, courtesy of AwesomeHouseLights! The music is 16 Melodies, from the end of MOTHER 3: Thanks to Major Glory for the tip! ...Read More »

December 18th, 2011 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound | 34 Comments

Keno sent this in the other day: I was playing EarthBound yesterday and I thought it’d be cool to have an EB-related ringtone. So I recorded the audio of the game when Ness uses PSI Rockin beta (my favorite attack, sound-wise) to defeat an enemy and made it an mp3! Maybe you could share it with others here on EBCentral; I’d hate to be the only person with such a cool ringtone. (The sou...Read More »

December 15th, 2011 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, MOTHER 1, MOTHER 3 | 13 Comments

Master Chicken recently sent me news about an album of MOTHER remixes he put together, called “The EB EP”. It’s full of electric guitar goodness, here are some sample tracks for your listening pleasure: Log-O-Type: Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in...Read More »

December 2nd, 2011 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound | 11 Comments

Juanito says: You have to listen to this! It’s an excellent, polished jazz rendition of the EarthBound theme and Fourside. It was made by a professional jazz musician and it shows. It’s leagues above the usual fan-made stuff. It’s from the album Retro Remix Revue. Despite its excellence, it’s incredibly obscure. So here you go: Indeed, it’s some very excellent stuff!...Read More »

November 29th, 2011 | Audio Stuff, Smash Bros., Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 24 Comments

Juanito sent me a couple videos taken back in 2001. I had forgotten about these, they’re pretty cool. First, here’s the opening video being shown to the public for the first time. You can hear people getting especially excited about Ness: Next is this other video that has a drastically different version of Bein’ Friends during the Onett stage: I gotta say, I think I like this o...Read More »

November 16th, 2011 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 71 Comments

For a long time now people have been telling me that various stuff from Pokemon seems very MOTHER-ish and especially MOTHER 3-ish. Here’s a song that especially gets cited: I can hear similarities, but are they really on purpose? I haven’t played any Pokemon games since Red/Blue (get off my lawn ya kids there’s only 151 pokemon as far as i’m concerned *shakes double canes*...Read More »