p0lar_bear
May 9th, 2008, 01:53 AM
http://mother3.fobby.net/
Let me preface by saying that I've always been a fan of EarthBound for the SNES; read about it in Nintendo Power when it first came out, played it briefly as a rental, then played it in ROM form when SNES emulation was all the rage. I loved how it played out as a big satire of the RPG genre and the quirky sense of humor the game put out.
Basically, when I learned that Lucas was a playable character in Brawl, thus learning what game he came from and why his general design was similar to Ness's, I had been looking all over for information on the story and other characters of Mother 3. I bumped into Starmen.net and then this.
I've been following this for a while now, actually, and never saw it brought up on these forums. Basically, these guys are working on extensively hacking the Mother 3 Gameboy Advance ROM. This isn't a simple case of editing strings into broken-assed English scripts and item names and the like so users get a general idea; these guys are going the extra mile, making it into something that looks official, like Nintendo actually did localize the game themselves. I can't wait to see the final product and get the closing of the Mother trilogy.
On another interesting note, the lead hacker guy (Tom Ato, Mato, or Matosan, take your pick) was also working on a project before this that was essentially hacking up the SNES Earthbound ROM to essentially be like a port of Mother/EarthBound Zero from the NES onto the Mother 2/EarthBound engine. I wonder if he'll ever go back to it and finish it... http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p119/p0lar_bear/emotes/emot-aweshmm.gif
Let me preface by saying that I've always been a fan of EarthBound for the SNES; read about it in Nintendo Power when it first came out, played it briefly as a rental, then played it in ROM form when SNES emulation was all the rage. I loved how it played out as a big satire of the RPG genre and the quirky sense of humor the game put out.
Basically, when I learned that Lucas was a playable character in Brawl, thus learning what game he came from and why his general design was similar to Ness's, I had been looking all over for information on the story and other characters of Mother 3. I bumped into Starmen.net and then this.
I've been following this for a while now, actually, and never saw it brought up on these forums. Basically, these guys are working on extensively hacking the Mother 3 Gameboy Advance ROM. This isn't a simple case of editing strings into broken-assed English scripts and item names and the like so users get a general idea; these guys are going the extra mile, making it into something that looks official, like Nintendo actually did localize the game themselves. I can't wait to see the final product and get the closing of the Mother trilogy.
On another interesting note, the lead hacker guy (Tom Ato, Mato, or Matosan, take your pick) was also working on a project before this that was essentially hacking up the SNES Earthbound ROM to essentially be like a port of Mother/EarthBound Zero from the NES onto the Mother 2/EarthBound engine. I wonder if he'll ever go back to it and finish it... http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p119/p0lar_bear/emotes/emot-aweshmm.gif