May 4th, 2012 | Hacking, MOTHER 3 | 16 Comments

A lot of gamers might not realize this, but especially well-designed video games can often be played by sound alone. For example, PoeTrader met a blind kid who was an expert at Pokemon – the sound each Pokemon makes helps a lot in knowing what’s going on in the game. There’s also this famous blind player: Anyway, a few years ago, a blind MOTHER fan by the name of stirlock posted...Read More »

February 19th, 2012 | MOTHER 1 | 25 Comments

Yesterday I got an e-mail from H.S (the awesome guy doing a lot of EarthBound Zero remake hack stuff): I had a question about something. In this page on Earthbound Central, you had a map of the Magicant caves from the Famicom version of Mother 1. I was wondering if you knew where to get some other maps from Mother 1, that were changed in EarthBoung Zero and the Mother 1+2 port. Specifically, I...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 »

January 2nd, 2012 | EarthBound, Images | 10 Comments

Armand K. has completed a really cool project – making a neat little journal from the perspective of Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo as they go on their adventures. Specifically, it’s kind of like a scrapbook / journal mostly from Paula and Jeff’s points of view, but with some Ness and Poo stuff too. You can check out more info and download the entire thing here! It’s great st...Read More »

December 18th, 2011 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound | 35 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 »

November 12th, 2011 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, MOTHER 1+2 | 31 Comments

A long while back I posted a GSF archive that included all the music from MOTHER 1+2. Courtesy of MaxOfS2D, here’s an MP3 archive of all the music from the MOTHER 2 portion of MOTHER 1+2: MOTHER 2 GBA MP3 archive (159 MB) Honestly, there’s no real point in downloading this – I highly recommend getting the Super NES EarthBound MP3 archive off of Starmen.Net here instead. The GBA...Read More »

October 24th, 2011 | EarthBound, Fan Games, Videos | 24 Comments

Last year, an EarthBound hacker by the name of H.S. released a high-quality Halloween-themed EarthBound hack called Hallow’s End. You might know H.S. from some of the recent work on the EarthBound Zero remake revival hack, so you know it’s some quality stuff! Besides the usual stuff like enemies and items, this hack features completely new text, scenarios, characters, and even new maps...Read More »

October 12th, 2011 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound | 7 Comments

The other day I posted an archive of MIDIs based on the official MOTHER 2 piano book, courtesy of Adam. Shortly after, he sent MP3 versions of all the MIDIs – if you’re interested you can get them here: MOTHER 2 Piano Book MIDIs in MP3 format (~89 MB) Many thanks again, Adam! You know, now that I think about it, I seem to recall the official piano book might’ve also come with a...Read More »

October 7th, 2011 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound | 13 Comments

Many years ago an official MOTHER 2 piano book was released. I remember us old-timers finding out about it in 1999 and being really excited about it. But then it sort of faded from memory as time went on. Those were dial-up days, so game MP3s were still a bit troublesome to get – MIDIs were usually the preferred alternative. I think part of why we were so excited by the piano book was that ...Read More »

August 18th, 2011 | EarthBound, Manga | 9 Comments

After my recent post with some translated MOTHER 2 manga, superfan Satsy started up a site where she posts scans of MOTHER 2 manga, in the hopes that other translators might want to translate them too sometime. You can check the site out here, and even if you can’t/don’t want to translate, you can still look at the pretty pictures A long while ago I also posted a full raw set of one...Read More »