May 20th, 2012 | EarthBound, Hacking, Videos | 7 Comments

Recently I decided to start learning the C# programming language since I’m way behind the times and only program in C anymore. So to kick off my foray into the language, I started by doing some EarthBound hacking with it! What I’ve done is “reshuffle” lots of stuff in the game and introduced a lot of random changes too, with stats, actions, and more. A few days ago I showed...Read More »

May 19th, 2012 | Hacking, MOTHER 1 | 12 Comments

H.S has put together another map for the EarthBound Zero remake hack, this time it’s the area north of Reindeer, which includes the house with the old man’s dentures nearby. Here’s a look at what H.S has: Because EarthBound maps have to be much smaller than EarthBound Zero maps, some simplifying and streamlining is always necessary. For reference, here’s the same area in t...Read More »

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 »

April 10th, 2012 | EarthBound, Fan Games | 8 Comments

The other day Starmen.Net held a Shigesato Itoi’s No. 1 Bass Fishing petition for April Fool’s Day. Part of the joke was that fans could submit fan art, fanfics, etc. about the game. So EarthBound ROM hacker Reg went and made a fishing game hack out of EarthBound called “Jeff’s No-1 Bass Fishing”! You can download the IPS patch here, if you don’t know how to...Read More »

April 7th, 2012 | MOTHER 3 | 24 Comments

Jeffman recently released a new program that lets you edit and view various stuff in the MOTHER 3 ROM! Check out his post here! Because it’s an early release and because the MOTHER 3 ROM is crazy complicated and unexpandable, it’s not as robust as PK Hack is for EarthBound. But if you’ve ever wanted to dig around in the ROM and see stuff or make difficulty hacks or anything like...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 »

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 28th, 2012 | EarthBound, Hacking, Uncommon Knowledge | 17 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 »

October 1st, 2011 | EarthBound, Fan Games | 23 Comments

A fan by the name of The Author has created a new EarthBound hack called “The Rat Race”. Here’s a snippet of the description: This game, which you might think of as EarthBound for girls, is a project that took several years and a lot of work with JHack and Hex Workshop to complete. Most of what I’ve changed is character names and the text, although I’ve also thrown in a few...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 »