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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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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!
I think the main problem is that the original wasn't a big success, so they're reluctant to give it another try.
Welcome to the world on this side.
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Don't quote me on it though.
Not quite as niche as Fire Emblem. Looked what happened there.
http://starmen.net - Instructions are right in the front.
Fire Emblem has an American fanbase?
The main issue is that we're talking about a GBA game. Even back when it came out in Japan, translating an RPG isn't a fast job and by the time they could have released it for the states it would have been very late in the GBA's life cycle. Now it's pretty much out of the question.
If anything comes out of this, the most likely would be a trilogy compilation or something for the DS.
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I'd donate to a mother 3 campaign.
EDIT: I see a spoke too soon. Time to print out a post card.
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/weep.
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I'm going to try to resist making an Apple Kid and Orange Kid joke.
In any case, not really. Both involve trying to convince a corporation to produce/release some content you want under the promise of it being a profitable venture.
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While I'm sure the various translation projects of Mother 3 are going to be good there is nothing quite like playing a professionally translated game.
I've played a lot of games that are fan translated and watched a ton of fansubbed anime, and usually when I play/see the localized efforts they are usually just better. Cleaner, less errors, and usually a hell of a lot less literal. I can only think of maybe one game out of dozens where I preferred the fan translation.
In other words, while I respect anyone taking the time to translate the game, I think that this other method of convincing Nintendo will probably be more successful in the long run.
Plus, if nintendo puts it out, and it does rather well, they may see the point in making even more mother/earthbound games.
Also, if they took the chance on Elite Beat agents, why not this?
I'm assuming because the GBA is being phased out. I actually emailed Atlus about the subject of Mother 3 and the response was more or less that Nintendo wouldn't appreciate them touching their stuff, but even if they could, the GBA's decline is another factor.
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You need a funny purple controller with sticks to play GC games on your wii.
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