May 20th, 2012 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 5 Comments

There are sentry robots in the Monotoli Building in EarthBound, and usually there are some you can’t avoid getting into battle with. It turns out that if you use Skip Sandwiches and time things just right, you CAN get past them! The video above was done using some hackery to jump straight to that portion of the game without having to play through everything, that’s why Jeff isn’...Read More »

May 15th, 2012 | MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 11 Comments

Many years ago, well before MOTHER 3′s release, Brownie Brown (the game’s developer) posted a mysterious Flash animation on its website. With the help of a fellow forumgoer, I translated the text into English. If you’ve never seen the animation, check it out here: View Brownie Brown’s “Project B” There had been no news about MOTHER 3 in years, so the fan resp...Read More »

May 9th, 2012 | Merchandise, MOTHER 1, Uncommon Knowledge | 10 Comments

MOTHER Famicom cartridges are entirely red, but every so often you’ll come across one with a white label. When I first saw one myself, I was like, “Whoa, awesome, they must’ve released a special version of MOTHER back in the day!” But nope, the white labels are just really faded normal labels – there’s no difference between them and all-red cartridges. Still, t...Read More »

May 1st, 2012 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 13 Comments

There’s a trick in MOTHER 2 (and probably EarthBound, but I haven’t tested it) that allows Ness to go through most of the game still in his pajamas! Here’s a Japanese video of it in action: (click to view video) Basically, the trick works like this: You’ll need to prepare two save files. One at the very start of the game where Ness is still in his pajamas and one at a poi...Read More »

April 11th, 2012 | Images, Uncommon Knowledge | 27 Comments

About three years ago a mystery screenshot appeared in a Japanese magazine that looked like it was possibly from a new MOTHER game. It turned out it was a screenshot for an unrelated Ni no Kuni game for a Japanese platform called ROID. After recently remembering about it, I decided to see how this game turned out. Here are the screenshots I dug up – as you can see, it definitely has a strong...Read More »

March 30th, 2012 | MOTHER 1, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 10 Comments

A good while ago, BB Gang Zombie informed me that there are two entries in EarthBound Zero’s enemy data that are unused – one for what we now know is Pippi (thanks to the recent, official figures) and one that is a pillow or something. Due to how EarthBound Zero’s enemy data and enemy group data works, some stuff will remain a mystery, like what these enemies’ names were, w...Read More »

March 27th, 2012 | MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 10 Comments

I thought I had posted about this before, but I guess not! A fellow named John reminded me that Nintendo and a bunch of other people applied for a patent many years ago for the music battle system used in MOTHER 3. You can see more pics and info in the entire patent file right here: Patent (English, PDF) I think we first discovered this in 2004, around the time MOTHER 1+2 was first announced: P...Read More »

March 17th, 2012 | EarthBound, Images, Merchandise, Uncommon Knowledge | 47 Comments

A few weeks ago, segaboy/Corey posted on the forums about an EarthBound cart he bought that seemed odd: Hi all, I’ve recently got a Earthbound cart for my birthday back in November. I went to open the cartridge to clean it, like i do all my snes games but this cart just wont open, the screws seem to be extremely striped. Now i do use a security bit to open my games and this is the only one I...Read More »

March 13th, 2012 | EarthBound 64, Images, Uncommon Knowledge | 30 Comments

The other day good ol’ pk_stan scanned in some old Famitsu magazines with interviews about EarthBound 64 in it – interviews that we’ve never actually *seen* before. I’ll post them one of these days, for now I wanted to highlight some stuff about enemies in the game. If you followed EarthBound 64′s rise and fall back in the day, then you’ve probably seen the foll...Read More »

March 4th, 2012 | EarthBound, Events, Itoi, Uncommon Knowledge | 8 Comments

Just before MOTHER 2′s release in Japan in 1994, a special celebratory event was held for all of the staff members who worked on the game. Chewy’s translated an article about it and included lots of scans of pictures from the event, check it all out here! The event hall The official figures were displayed My favorite quote is probably this part of Miyamoto’s speech: “These fi...Read More »

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