January 28th, 2012 | EarthBound, Hacking, Uncommon Knowledge | 15 Comments

Whenever I play EarthBound, I always avoid getting Lucky Sandwiches since they’re pretty meh and I don’t like gambling with limited inventory space. But I’ve never really known how these Lucky Sandwiches actually work – all I knew was that they have random effects. A few years ago some skilled hackers dug into the ROM and found out a bunch of technical stuff, including how ...Read More »

January 23rd, 2012 | EarthBound, Hacking, Images | 13 Comments

Good ol’ H.S has done it again with some awesome map hacking for the EarthBound Zero remake hack. This time H.S tackled the swamp part of the world, which you can see here: If you’ve never played the original game or if you don’t remember it clearly, the original swamp area is here for reference: This is one of those most grueling parts of the game, and it looks like it’l...Read More »

November 18th, 2011 | EarthBound, Hacking, Images, MOTHER 1 | 16 Comments

Awesome EarthBound Hacker H.S posted some new maps for the EarthBound Zero remake hack a while ago. Here they are! Thanksgiving / Merrysville: Halloween / Spookane: Holy Loly Mountain / Mt. Itoi: As I’ve said many a time, hacking EarthBound is really tough – and hacking maps is one of THE toughest things to do. In fact, it’s the reason I stopped working on the remake hack some...Read More »

November 8th, 2011 | Hacking, MOTHER 1, Videos | 18 Comments

The final battle in EarthBound Zero works in a kind of strange way, and people often asked how it’d be possible to implement it in the EarthBound Zero remake hack. Well, H.S. and Turtles have combined their powers to get the basic framework up and running! All the graphics, text, music, background stuff, etc. is all temporary, so don’t mind that. The big thing here is that the scripti...Read More »

July 13th, 2011 | EarthBound, Hacking, Uncommon Knowledge | 35 Comments

The delivery man system in EarthBound seems pretty simple from a player’s perspective, but on the inside, it’s a completely different story. Ever notice how the delivery guy will walk around the map like a real character instead of just plowing right through walls and barriers? That’s tough stuff to program. Many years ago, the PK Hack regulars wanted to dig into the delivery sys...Read More »

July 5th, 2011 | EarthBound, Hacking, MOTHER 1 | 30 Comments

A long while ago I started working on a hack of EarthBound to recreate EarthBound Zero. I put the project in stasis, but since then a bunch of other fans have tried to pick up the pieces to continue the hack. It’s still got a loooooong way to go (if it ever gets finished), but the map editing by Food_Eater has been the highlight of the new work, by far. We’ve already seen work on the n...Read More »

April 30th, 2011 | EarthBound, Hacking, MOTHER 1+2 | 119 Comments

The question’s come up a lot since I released my MOTHER 1+2 translation the other day, so I should try to explain why it would be a lot of work to fully translate the MOTHER 2 side of the game too. (more…) ...Read More »

April 30th, 2011 | Hacking, MOTHER 1+2 | 60 Comments

If you’re playing the Mother 1+2 translation I just released and run into any bugs, post about them here, it’ll be easier for me to keep track of them all when I go to make an updated patch someday. The currently known-for-sure problems are: #buglist li { margin-bottom:20px; } Choosing the fastest text speed in battle will make it say it’s the second-fastest speed on the file-lo...Read More »

April 29th, 2011 | Hacking, MOTHER 1+2 | 196 Comments

It’s taken quite a while, but at last my MOTHER 1+2 translation patch is done and ready for downloading! Check out the page for it here: The MOTHER 1+2 Fan Translation You can download the patch there of course, and you can also download all the tools, files, and source code I used to create the patch. With these, you can create translations into other languages or create text-based hack...Read More »

March 24th, 2011 | Hacking, MOTHER 1+2 | 159 Comments

My retranslation of the MOTHER 1 side of MOTHER 1+2 is nearing completion, and when I do release the patch I want the MOTHER 2 side to at least have basic menu translations. So after a bit of work I think I’ve gotten that taken care of. If you have time, it’d help a lot if people could play through the MOTHER 2 part of the game with this beta patch. Mostly I want to see if anything...Read More »