May 11th, 2013 | MOTHER 3 | 13 Comments

I’ve been slowly updating my Legends of Localization site lately, and it’s time to get back into the swing of the MOTHER 3 translation notes too! Before I start major work on each section, I’ll probably ask fans what questions they might have for the next part of the game, that way I can be sure to cover the topics people might want to know about. I’m basically breaking t...Read More »

May 10th, 2013 | MOTHER 3, Videos | 23 Comments

Here’s a look at a MOTHER 3 song and video put together by a Japanese fan: I’ll just leave it at that! ...Read More »

May 6th, 2013 | EarthBound, Itoi, MOTHER 1, MOTHER 3 | 11 Comments

One of my favorite gaming sites is called Hardcore Gaming 101. It’s full of really detailed and interesting information, and I sometimes find myself spending too much time on there reading through all the articles they have. Well, a series of articles about the MOTHER series recently went up – it covers each of the three games in the series in great detail, plus some background inform...Read More »

May 2nd, 2013 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, MOTHER 1, MOTHER 3 | 7 Comments

A fan by the name of G reminded me that a bunch of the MOTHER series soundtracks are still available on Japanese iTunes: Mother 1 soundtrack Mother 2 soundtrack Mother 3+ soundtrack Mother 3i soundtrack Even if you don’t live in Japan, you can still buy from Japanese iTunes if you jump through a few hoops. You’ll probably need to create a new account just for Japanese iTunes. You mi...Read More »

April 29th, 2013 | MOTHER 3 | 112 Comments

A while back I posted briefly on how MOTHER 3 is viewed by Japanese fans (see here). When my MOTHER 3 offer to Nintendo got posted on a big Japanese gaming site the other day, I decided to check out the comment section to see what fans thought about it all. Some of them were interesting, so I thought I might share them here! Again, these are comments by Japanese MOTHER fans: I played 2 after 3, bo...Read More »

April 27th, 2013 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 3, Videos | 10 Comments

Last week was MOTHER 3′s 7th anniversary, so gBev made a cool video to celebrate! Hey Tomato, I recently recorded a cover of the song “Happy Town?” from Mother 3 for the game’s seventh birthday, and I thought EBC might enjoy it I really like this rendition – when I become rich and famous and have a giant skyscraper of my own I’ll have this play in the lobby or ...Read More »

April 20th, 2013 | MOTHER 3 | 53 Comments

Today marks seven years since MOTHER 3 was released… Man, I say it every year, but it’s crazy how it’s already been this long It feels like just yesterday we were all jumping up and down with excitement every time Itoi updated the MOTHER 3 preview site. I actually would’ve completely forgotten about this year’s anniversary if it hadn’t been for this Japanese tw...Read More »

April 5th, 2013 | MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 12 Comments

Back during the MOTHER 3 translation I did some hacking and recorded video of some unused rooms in the game. The video got deleted when my account got deleted years back, so I just now got around to putting it up again: Fans have found tons of other unused stuff since then, so this is pretty simple, bland stuff. But at the time it was really cool being able to walk around in unused areas! ...Read More »

March 11th, 2013 | Images, MOTHER 3 | 14 Comments

A while back someone (I forget who, sorry!) sent me a picture of a book that mentioned the MOTHER 3 fan translation. The translation happened so long ago that it feels like another lifetime to me, and it makes it even stranger whenever I see it mentioned in print media: It’s not without its mistakes, though – I did a huge portion of the reprogramming too, for example, not just the tra...Read More »

March 9th, 2013 | MOTHER 3 | 35 Comments

The other day Kotaku posted an article about the most awesome dog companions in video games. Nintendo posted about this article on its Facebook account and mentioned Mother 3 by name: You can see the Facebook post here. As you can imagine, many of the replies are from people surprised that Nintendo of America is mentioning MOTHER 3 at all: NoA, can we have more Mother 3 info, like that game itsel...Read More »