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 »

January 30th, 2010 | EarthBound, Itoi, MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 54 Comments

I often see a lot of misconceptions and false info about EarthBound-related stuff going around, so from time to time I think I’ll cover a few of them. Giygas There’s a lot of incorrect info out there about Giygas, much of it stemming from part of an interview with Shigesato Itoi (see here). In it, Itoi uses similes to explain his inspiration for Giygas, but Western fans seem to take th...Read More »

November 7th, 2009 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 27 Comments

Probably most people here know about this by now, but I thought I’d make a video out of it since that seems to be more easily shared. Basically, there’s a whole load of unused text in EarthBound. Some of it is just loose scraps that isn’t fully implemented into the game anymore, but there are some lines of text that work perfectly except for simple programming bugs that prevent t...Read More »

July 13th, 2009 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 16 Comments

The other day, master programmer Rufus decided to take a look at how the EarthBound intro stuff was programmed. He found a lot of useful info for people who are wanting to hack the game, but he also found two parts of the intro animation that went left unused. So I made a video showing the final animation + the two unused ones: The reason the party walks through a character and walks into a fence...Read More »

June 19th, 2009 | EarthBound, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos | 28 Comments

If you’ve ever used a program to look through the sprite graphics in EarthBound, you probably came across these strange sprites of King, Ness’s dog: These are clearly King going up and down a ladder or rope or something. But since there are no ropes or ladders in the part of the game where King is part of your party, we never get to see these sprites in action. But you CAN see them i...Read More »

April 8th, 2009 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, MOTHER 1+2, Uncommon Knowledge | 55 Comments

In EarthBound Zero/MOTHER 1, this song plays in almost all the caves or dungeon-like places. If you’ve played through the game before, you’ve probably heard this a lot. It even plays in Ninten’s basement I think: Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in yo...Read More »

February 25th, 2009 | EarthBound, Images, Uncommon Knowledge | 49 Comments

In 2007, KingDarian and I ponied up a ton of money to get our hands on a whole bunch of really old Japanese game magazines that had to do with the MOTHER games. On some occasions we hit the jackpot, like with this Nov. 1992 issue of Super Famicom Magazine. This is one of the earliest looks we have of MOTHER 2. It was shortly after this that the game was reprogrammed from scratch with the help of H...Read More »

February 7th, 2008 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 50 Comments

The other day I decided to see if there were any missing music tracks in MOTHER 3, as there was one (or maybe more?) missing/hidden in EarthBound. More info on what I did here, but here are some of the cooler results. Trainish – This sounds like another song in the game, but it’s somewhat different. I like the way this sounds though. Barren – This isn’t lost or missing, it...Read More »

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