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Mother 3: It's never coming out in America, cry more.
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Mother 3, and to a lesser extent, the Mother 1+2 compilation have been sore spots on the western gamer for a number of years now. Back in the halycon days when Mother 3 was a glint in the N64 Disk Drive's eye, Nintendo Power covered the shit out of it. As it slowly slipped platform, it's western coverage slipped to. Then the very vocal Earthbound/Mother fanbase started complaining. Letter writing, internet petitions, you name it. Now, it has become a bit more serious.
From ye olde Silconera
http://www.siliconera.com/2007/06/28/earthbound-fans-don’t-quit-they-demand-mother-3/
I have always believed that Mother 3 was in our future. I think that if this really takes off Nintendo will finally relent. Still, good for the fanbase to try something a bit more conventional.
From ye olde Silconera
http://www.siliconera.com/2007/06/28/earthbound-fans-don’t-quit-they-demand-mother-3/
Silconera wrote:The collective community of Mother/Earthbound fans at Starmen.net banded together to launch a campaign to bring Mother 3 outside of Japan. For the past few weeks members have been mailing envelopes to Nintendo with Earthbound fan art, circulating Earthbound propaganda posters on the internet and organized a flood of phone calls to Nintendo requesting a new Mother game. I admire the amount of passion the fans over at Starmen have for the Earthbound series and their clever timing. They started the campaign on May 13, 2007… Mothers Day!
This isn’t slacktivism with an online petition that no one will care about, it’s activism. Will Nintendo hear their cries and see an open market for a Nintendo DS port of Mother 3? For all the fervent Earthbound fans out there, I sure hope so!
I have always believed that Mother 3 was in our future. I think that if this really takes off Nintendo will finally relent. Still, good for the fanbase to try something a bit more conventional.
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I don't mean to be a jerk but... well, we're asking for a miracle here as it is.
What, just for Earthbound? It'll come to US VC eventually, that's for sure. All I'm asking is that they give it a wider release.
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but for fecks sake people....and Im saying this as a unverisal.
WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERY DAMN RE-RELEASED RPG COME OUT FOR A FREAKING HANDHELD.
Seriously. I dont own a DS, I dont have time to play in the car. I dont like to play on a mini screen. I want to play a 50 hour rpg ON A DAMN TELEVISION with freaking surround sound so good my house shakes just from me pressing "Load Saved Game"
I dont understand why they keep putting Final Fantasy on the DS. Just release the damn game for PS2 or Xbox 360 or the Wii for christs sake. I'll buy the lousy old style controller just to play them.
::fume::
More as it develops (it won't)
Has nobody told you? Handhelds are the new consoles.
I mean, protesting is cool and all, but in order to really get a corporation's attention you gotta hit 'em in the wallet.
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I know one of the Starmen.net dudes, and I know someone that donated, and they both say it is really rad what they've got in store.
I think it's mostly because the low resolution and simple sprites, combined with the simple control scheme make them work well on a handheld. Don't get me wrong I'd love to play them all on my big screen tv again but I think that bringing them to handhelds first was a logical choice.
Back on topic, I don't think we'll ever see any official Mother 3 but if these guys are going to keep trying, more power to them. Shine on you crazy diamonds, shine on.
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
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I am pisssssed it didn't come out in the US, but eh, I'll check back in a year and see how the fan translations turned out.
I would be sooo happy if it hit as Wii-ware, though I know how assy it'd look blown up, case in point GC GBA player.
It's not like Nintendo has a hell of a lot of RPGs.
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Ah well, we'll all be able to play Mother 3 so long as Cease&Desist orders don't start flying around.
The GBA isn't completely dead yet, and the game has only been out for a year or so.
A cult doesn't know when to say die? That's a first.
Anyway, wish Nintendo would just cut these guys a break, already. They've released worse, I'm sure. Wario: Master of Disguise didn't even rank well in Nintendo Power, for example...
It is rad.
Do us all a favor and buy Earthbound for the Virtual Console when it comes out. A little birdy told me that this is our very last chance. (There were other chances, but you wouldn't believe them if I told you.)
But do buy EB on VC. I can't blindly parrot it enough.
I mean, even IF buying does nothing to help the chances of Mother 3 getting localized, you've still got Earthbound on the VC.
Seriously. It's a win/not-quite-AS-win-but-still-win situation.
I will if Nintendo will let me...
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And by funny I mean fucked up and sad.
But stop talking smack about Tingle's game. It will be an awesome adventure in capitalism.
But frankly, I think they should release the games on the DS. It's a Nintendo made game on the DS so it's not gonna fail. and it'll give the fans what they want.
I've seen it myself, or at least part of their grand plan. What I've seen will only appeal to die hards. But I could just be not looking hard enough. I dunno.
Can't really infringe on something that isn't even on the market.
I just want an answer, honestly. A "Yes, it's gonna happen" ideally, but I'll accept a, "No, it won't". Regardless, our anxiety will be put to an end.
I called Nintendo. They asked my information, and kindly told me that they would be forwarding my statement over to the department that handles those types of things. The guy I talked with didn't seem to knowledgeable about the series, but did remark that they've gotten a fuck ton of correspondence about the game.
People in the upper part of the hierarchy at Nintendo have also noted how much stuff they get from fans of Earthbound.
With that said, how can I help?
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They said they were localizing it before and then just dropped it forever and refused to do anything with it at all. They must know it would also print money but they just don't seem to care.
I never asked for this!
I think it's unlikely that Nintendo will localize it at this point. Selling to the entire Earthbound fanbase probably isn't enough to justify the expenses of translating a GBA game at this point. It really is extremely niche.
Sounds like a bad Kenan and Kel sketch.
They could make tons of money if they were smart about it.
Package Earthbound in with it, add touch screen controls to both games, and sell it on the DS for like 40$. You can't tell me that an earthbound 1/2 package would not sell gobs.
I never asked for this!