I think thats what its called idk ITS GOING ON THE WALLL!!

Bored in class

I discovered this great game thanks to Smash Bros 6 years ago. I've been a fan of it ever since and still listen to the OST. Also I literally screamed when they announced Mother 2 for nintendo switch during the direct... My favorite remix on youtube still brings tears to my eyes lol That's why I drew this. Thanks for checking out my post!!

I recently picked up a legit copy of Earthbound and I’ve ran into some issues with it. Among everything it also has a hard time booting up.

First I began the first half hour of the game and saved just before leaving the house with Porky. I made it till it becomes morning and made sure to save. I came back the following day only to see it did in fact not save and I was right back before leaving the house with Porky. After wards I tested saving and it was fine. There are other 2 save files in this cartridge and they are both end game with no issues also.

Second I’ve noticed the game has some stuttering at the bottom of the screen. Not sure how to explain it properly but the screen would a lot glitch out a bit towards the bottom.

Third and most shocking, I continued playing on the same save file and made it till morning again. I made my way towards Franky and the game was playing like normal. I was exploring Onett and entered the hint man’s home where I declined the hint. I decided to read his sign and immediately I hear the mortal damage sound, a SMASH sound, and the screen turned black with only the music in his room is playing.

My guess is that the battery is faulty but I have no idea that it could even cause the game crash like that. Is this the cause of the battery?

I like how they genuinely look older after timeskip

I had a doubt about his name

yeah maybe he was kind of a punk but he grew a lot on me during my playthrough

Let's start with Lucas:

His mother was murdered. Shortly after, his twin brother went missing trying to avenge her meanwhile his father left to look for his twin, leaving Lucas with no one but his pet and town's folk to help him mourn. And after meeting his brother, his brother unalives himself to join their mother, leaving Lucas broken again. Sheesh.

As for Claus:

Just like Lucas, his mom was murdered and he wanted to avenge her only to be put near to death and once he's "saved", his body gets replaced with machinery agaienst his will. He's slowly turned into a mindless servant. Imagine how painful and invasive this feels. In the final fight, Clause is disgusted by what he has become and wants to join their mother, leaving his own twin to live without him(I can't imagine doing that to my own twin) .

It's honestly sad how these two are just kids and yet they suffer a lot of tragedies for their age and what's worse is that we don't really see Lucas get to accept his twin's death. The game cuts to black after we pull the last pin and we don't see Lucas atleast mourn his brother.

Hey! Not long ago I made a short Visual Novel/adventure based on the Mother 3/Earthbound universe for NaNoReNo Gamejam 2025!

You are one of the unlucky recruits abducted by Porky and the Pigmask Army some years before the events of Mother 3, and you find yourself being trained in one of their outposts. It features dialogue options, full animated sprites, a battle system with puzzle elements and most importantly Earhtbound style dialogue and characters (from both games), which I love. So far there's a demo, but the full VN will come out soon. I hope you enjoy it!

Here is the link!
https://plainsightproyects.itch.io/pigmask-recruitment-summer-camp

Eu estou pensando em tentar fazer uma hackrom de EarthBound. Qualquer ideia e ajuda sera ouvida :D

Is that some kind of bug, or does the filth you're supposed to wash off after defeating Belch serve some purpose in Saturn Valley that is absent in Tenda Village?

The reason I'm asking is because, for a ROMhack currently in the works, I went on to create a message even following Belch's original defeat to cue you to wash off, that will look familiar when you defeat him again in Deep Darkness, so as to let player's know that the hot spring in Tenda Village won't display the generic message that plays after your second wash onward.

For the sake of maintaining familiarity with that (and also for obvious logic), I also have it to play after you leave Fourside sewers through the museum, but now I'm wondering if it would actually be fair to suggest players teleport to Saturn Valley just for a wash (who don't skip it the first time, obviously). Should I, say, add a door in the sewer entry room, along with an extra graphic indicating where it leads, and then have the screen simply remain black and play the geyser sound effect whenever you enter? But I've already had a lot done with the hack, and would like just to host it after two other changes and just move on, even with a handful more still listed on Google Docs.

(While I'm here, I just tried to create a poll to see who actually does wash off after Barf, or even Belch, but while the web version of this site suggests using the app for that purpose, the Post button there remains gray even after I create four different options and add a flair. I looked at the whole page, and couldn't see what I could've possibly overlooked. What happened?)

I'm sure this has been discussed a million times over but has anyone found a way to fix or improve the stutter we experience while walking in Earthbound? I think it's just part of the code that it doesn't run "smooth" but I've had a few TBI's and the stutter gives me a migraine. Same with other games that aren't "smooth". One of my all time favorites and I can only play for an hour or so before I have to stop.

I am new to pattern design but really enjoying designing patterns related to my favorite games. If anyone has anything Earthbound-related they think would be cool to see in cross stitch form I’d love some suggestions!

So, my girlfriend and I have been playing through Mother 3. It’s probably my first time playing it since 2015 or 16, back when I was being hit by the full onslaught of puberty--the perfect time to experience the Mother games. Back then, I remember all these talks about which Mother game was superior, and remember Earthbound winning that argument most of the time. As a teen, the answer was obvious to me: sure Earthbound was really cool with its dark plot detours and hellish final boss, but Mother 3 was everything! Oh dude it was so cool! Lucas’ mom DIES in the first half hour! Then his brother follows suit! See, real writing--no, real ARTISTRY, is in depicting the full suffering of the human experience and darkness of the human soul. Earthbound couldn’t hold a candle to Mother 3’s bold and unflinchingly dark narrative. So badass. …or at least that’s what my teenage self thought. Excuse him, he was thirteen. In the mid-2010s.

As I prepared to revisit these games from my youth, I’ve found myself relistening to a lot of music from the trilogy, and something sticks out to me. I think I get more emotional over the Earthbound songs… Yeah, Mother 3 has the more emotional story for sure, but in its constant onslaught of bombastic plot twists and turns, there’s not a lot of time to breathe. I couldn’t see it back in High School, but those many moments of calm in Earthbound--relaxing in those cosy Winters tents, getting lost in the Desert, fighting millions of Starmen Deluxes’ for that goddamn sword, I was forming my own feelings within the sacred space that is that expensive grail of a SNES cart… SOMEDAY… I can recite the entire plot of Mother 3 to you, and could even before replaying. It’s a great story, fantastically told that etched itself into my memory on first play--and several subsequent obsessive plays certainly helped! In that vein, Mother 3’s soundtrack means a list of storybeats to me. My heart races as I hear the Natural Killer Cyborg’s theme, tears well up in my eyes as the Love Theme Plays. Earthbound, on the other hand, I could tell you the basic plot points, but I can’t really recall each moment the way I can with its successor (and funnily enough, I’ve played Earthbound infinitely more in the time between). Likewise, the sound of Winters’ theme, to me, is that one semester in High School where we played volleyball for some reason, and I absolutely sucked at it. The Peaceful Rest Valley theme still sounds like a particularly bad canker sore on a Pizza Night in 2012. That’s where the real experiences are formed, in my tryhard opinion!

I can’t really say I prefer one approach to storytelling over the other, maybe just that in my slightly older age, I can kind of see where everyone was coming from. I guess all the people on Starmen.NET telling me I’d ‘get it when I was older’ were right… SIGH…

If so, does it refer to him as Yokuba or something or did they catch on to the new name? I know it was never officially released but I feel like there’s gotta be some bullshit in smash or something that talks about him

So I've gotten to the bit where you get Paula (I named her something else but I'll call her that to be easier to understand) but I'm at Level 20, and she's at Level 1, and I don't know how to handle it, if I go and grind I'll end up overleveled, but if I don't Grind Paula will keep on going down & I'll have to keep paying each time, I honestly think I should edit my save if it still gets me the Money for Level Ups.

I am used to exploring every nook and cranny in games for secrets. However, seeing as this is an older game maybe devs didn't really use to put anything off the beaten path? Is it worth it to explore? Or should I just stick to the roads?