May 17th, 2012 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 3, Videos | 11 Comments

A few years ago I posted about a school orchestra performing “Oh Buta Mask” from MOTHER 3 (see here). Well, a good while ago xfis sent me an actual video of the performance, which you can see here: This was like four years ago – I wonder if any other school orchestras have done any EarthBound/MOTHER stuff like this. If you know, let me know! ...Read More »

May 14th, 2012 | Fan Games, MOTHER 1, Videos | 24 Comments

Over the years there have been many attempts at recreating MOTHER 1/EarthBound Zero in a more modern format. As far as I know, none have the projects have reached completion yet, but I was recently shown this project that looks promising: There’s not much information, but it looks like it’s being made for Macs. See for more info and some screenshots. Now if someone would just make thi...Read More »

May 7th, 2012 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound, MOTHER 3, Videos | 9 Comments

Tim sent in this video showcasing EarthBound/MOTHER series music made in WarioWare DIY: The composer, Aviarmew, has a lot of other songs too, check them all out here! ...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 29th, 2012 | MOTHER 3, Videos | 7 Comments

RyukaValis recently posted on the Starmen.Net forums a cheat code for MOTHER 3 that causes some interesting things to happen: If you enter 32004860 00:30 you’ll somehow make sprites randomly appear every time you enter a new area or go to Goods/Status/PSI, but the interesting thing is, you can find a LOT of unused sprites and items as well as dummy characters AND fully playable characters(who ha...Read More »

April 27th, 2012 | EarthBound, Videos | 14 Comments

A Mr. Saturn plush has come to life to play his own song! And while we’re at it, here’s a Mr. Saturn teleporting! What can’t Mr. Saturn do?! ...Read More »

April 21st, 2012 | EarthBound, MOTHER 3, Videos | 10 Comments

Updates have been a little slow lately due to over-busy-ness, so to make up for it, here’s a bunch of recent submissions all at once! EarthBound on Kotaku Chris says: Hey, check this out. Kotaku has a weekly column for JRPGs (a breath of fresh air, the genre is generally beaten down on every other website) and this week they focused on Earthbound: LINK Pokey is a Top Jerk Matt says: Pokey is...Read More »

April 20th, 2012 | Events, Videos | 10 Comments

I forgot about this until recently – the guys at Fangamer/Starmen.Net had a panel at PAX a few years ago, and they talk about a lot of the stuff the EarthBound fan community’s done/gone through over the years. I haven’t seen the entire thing myself, but you can check out the panel here: I’m not sure if they really meant “stigmata” or if they meant “stigma...Read More »

April 12th, 2012 | MOTHER 1, Videos | 14 Comments

At the recent PAX East, there was a thing called Retrogame Roadshow, which I guess was kind of like Antiques Roadshow except the panelists priced and discussed old and rare games. Good ol’ Roo was there with his Earth Bound NES prototype, to the surprise of many! You can check out the whole panel here, jump to 34:11 to see the Earth Bound stuff though: In case you missed it, Roo did some vi...Read More »

April 6th, 2012 | MOTHER 3, Videos | 15 Comments

Here’s a video by IamCanadian3333 showing a bunch of EarthBound references that appear in MOTHER 3: Has anyone ever made a full list of references? I realized that’s probably something I should’ve done at some point, either for the translation project or for this site, but just never did. ...Read More »