Mother 3

Justifier! · Post by **Justifier!** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:28 am

Hey Tomato, Thanks for the Mother 3 Translation BTW

I've been waiting for ages to play EarthBound 2

But anyone thinks that, hack the title screen and change the title of Mother 3 to EarthBound 2?

Tomato · Post by **Tomato** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:13 pm

You're free to hack it yourself, but note that you'll also have to hack the full-screen title animation after the prologue, the text right after the naming screen, AND the ending screen.

ZH/Franky · Post by **ZH/Franky** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:25 pm

I suppose most people know what Earthbound is Mother 2, so there's not much point in hacking the title to show "Earthbound 2".

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:37 pm

Aside from being more faithful, calling it MOTHER 3 is also a nice protection against eBay scammers. I've seen lots of "Secret of Mana 2" carts, but no "English Seiken Densetsu / Legend of the Holy Sword 3" carts. At least, not personally.

To know the Japanese title, you have to be a pretty serious gamer; much more likely to not be fooled by these scammers.

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:52 pm

Mother 3 (J) [T+Eng1.0].gba coming to a goodset near you!

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:55 pm

gllt wrote:Mother 3 (J) [T+Eng1.0].gba coming to a goodset near you!

Heh, damn. I should've used my random data append trick for the M3 patcher. Then we could have Mother 3 (J) [T+Eng1.0] [h22617c].gba :(

Tomato · Post by **Tomato** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:55 pm

You can still do it for v1.1 or whatever whenever it comes out

I actually haven't put your new patcher version up either, so we could do it now if you wanted. I think some of the data at the end is actually used though.

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:03 pm

Well ... it would also mess with unpatching. And I'm 99% sure Cowering will just list the standard UPS version (eg patch with Tsukuyomi.)

The whole thing was a joke, back when he said he only indexed the patches because "people keep sending unique CRC files to (him) to index." So I always make sure my patches have ~4 billion possible CRCs now ;)
Makes his tool rather worthless when users patch their own games instead of downloading GoodSets off TPB.

It's hypocritical anyway. I'm sure the game companies don't want their work indexed by Cowering, either. No sense in us expecting special treatment, sadly.

ZH/Franky · Post by **ZH/Franky** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:23 pm

byuu wrote:Aside from being more faithful, calling it MOTHER 3 is also a nice protection against eBay scammers. I've seen lots of "Secret of Mana 2" carts, but no "English Seiken Densetsu / Legend of the Holy Sword 3" carts. At least, not personally.

To know the Japanese title, you have to be a pretty serious gamer; much more likely to not be fooled by these scammers.

If I'm not mistaken, Seiken Densetsu 3 was not called "SoM 2". The hackers that translated the game still called it "Seiken Densetsu 3", so I'm pretty sure if scammers want to sell Mother 3 on ebay or something, they'll still label it "Earthbound 2", regardless. Afterall, I'm not wrong that those "SoM 2" carts they sell on ebay still show "Seiken Densetsu 3" on the title screen when the poor souls who fall for the scam insert it into their snes, right?

Post by **grinvader** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:28 pm

Franky wrote:
byuu wrote:Aside from being more faithful, calling it MOTHER 3 is also a nice protection against eBay scammers. I've seen lots of "Secret of Mana 2" carts, but no "English Seiken Densetsu / Legend of the Holy Sword 3" carts. At least, not personally.

To know the Japanese title, you have to be a pretty serious gamer; much more likely to not be fooled by these scammers.
If I'm not mistaken, Seiken Densetsu 3 was not called "SoM 2". The hackers that translated the game still called it "Seiken Densetsu 3", so I'm pretty sure if scammers want to sell Mother 3 on ebay or something, they'll still label it "Earthbound 2", regardless. Afterall, I'm not wrong that those "SoM 2" carts they sell on ebay still show "Seiken Densetsu 3" on the title screen when the poor souls who fall for the scam insert it into their snes, right?

No, the german patch (the first one to make it back into a real cart to be sold as is, iirc) has the title translated to SoM2. I THINK.

Justifier! · Post by **Justifier!** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:53 am

Tomato wrote:You're free to hack it yourself, but note that you'll also have to hack the full-screen title animation after the prologue, the text right after the naming screen, AND the ending screen.

Sorry but, I can't hack but anyway the Mother 3 title is quite okay.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:25 am

I AM PLAYING I AM PLAYING I AM PLAYING.

ZH/Franky · Post by **ZH/Franky** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:00 am

grinvader wrote:No, the german patch (the first one to make it back into a real cart to be sold as is, iirc) has the title translated to SoM2. I THINK.

I was talking about the English translation.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:23 am

and he's giving an example of where it was SoM2.

......and that's it

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:43 pm

byuu wrote:downloading GoodSets off TPB.

did you mean: emuparadise bt

DancemasterGlenn · Post by **DancemasterGlenn** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:33 pm

Everyone shut up about the translated title now.

Post by **odditude** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:16 pm

interview on ars!

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:40 am

Ok guys, I'm about 19 hours in the game..

I must say it's pretty cool, but not as good as Earthbound, what I liked about Earthbound was that it was quite strange in a real world setting, and as you kept playing the game started getting more bizarre.

With Mother 3, the game starts as plain weird and strange, not saying that it's a bad thing, just diferent, and I prefered Earthound's pace better I guess.

Is the game supposed to be short? I feel like I'm close to the ending.

Other than that, great game, and thanks to everyone involved in the translation.

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:44 am

Plays well on Wii <3

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:46 am

oh SNAP

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:31 am

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3 ... ro_on_.php

Gamasutra interviews Tomato.

Neo Kaiser · Post by **Neo Kaiser** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:47 pm

Will it affect Tomato in any way that his identity is revealed? I hope that nothing bad happens.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:12 am

I assume he would have withheld his name if that were the case...

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:55 am

I lost my Mother 3 save in my recent reformatting.

Dang... I was near the end of the game, too!

Post by **grinvader** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:21 pm

Neo Kaiser wrote:Will it affect Tomato in any way that his identity is revealed? I hope that nothing bad happens.

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