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J03yyz

ive never enjoyed watching pining tors die so much
i cant friggin wait

Mxyzptlk

Does this game series have some kinda huge cult following about it? I've never heard of it. Also, is it true Nintendo and Sony came out with new systems recently?

generaldane

Nintendo you fucking bastards make and locolize a mother game for the wii dammit

Milofo

I never really got into the Mother aka EarthBound series. Is there something about it that sets it appart or does everyone like it for nastalgic reasons?

JoeCamNet

I can NOT wait for this translation project to be finished.
I've had so many friends play the import with a translation guide or something, but I can't pull myself to do it.
I've always loved EarthBound, from the humor to the storyline to the gameplay and ESPECIALLY the music.
Hell, I think I'm required to love the music considering I'm the guy who put the Bound Together Project together.
God this translation cant come fast enough.

DrRockso

I thought it meant 'cunting', but that just made me scratch my head.

In other news, I think I peed myself. The translation project can't finish soon enough!

ArrestedDeveloper

I bet Linde is pissed he didn't get to report this

Im OK

"Nintendo, this is the public telling you to go c****** f*** yourselves. If you don't want to localize a game we've been clamoring for since the dawn of time in proper King's English, we'll do it for you!"

Heh, they don't do this for Nintendo. They do this despite Nintendo. They do this for the players who have been left out in the cold by Nintendo.

You know, when certain people say that Nintendo doesn't give a shit about its customers, it's little things like this that almost makes me start to believe it.

"Take that! Now you don't have to lift a finger to profit off of us! How does that feel?!"

The thing is... I predict that the vast majority of the people who utilize the translation patch almost assuredly will be playing it on an ill-gotten rom anyway, so it's not as though Nintendo will be profiting from this in some way. I'm not encouraging it (but not actively discouraging it either, mind you), I'm just saying that's likely how it's going to be. So, Nintendo will still lose out. Had they actually bothered to translate it themselves, they could have made a bit of scratch from it, but now... less than likely. And with the fan translation(s), Nintendo has even less incentive to make an official one. Why bother, when most people who care will have probably already played the fan translation, and only the truly hardcore fans would be willing to (re)buy an official translation?

Im OK

But, of course, if Nintendo had just made the goddamn thing to begin with, we wouldn't even have this issue to deal with. >_>

Yeah, I'm a bit bitter. I'm someone who considered it to be a no-brainer that Nintendo would translate it, and when they did not, it was incredibly disappointing and annoying. Stupid stupid move on Nintendo's part (from my perspective, at least). So yeah, playing a fan trans will indeed be a way to stick it to the man.

Yayoo

I was following this translation since it started now its getting so close to being complete, and yeah I'm glad Nintendo aren't getting a penny from it.

grrza

w00t! Emulators ftw! Plus romhacking:

[url]http://www.romhacking.net/[url]

I would love nothing more than to play all my favorite old games on an actual nintendo console (I mean, other than the nes and snes I still have lying around...). But, it's too bad that the virtual console turned out to be what it is. I remember the first time I heard of Revolution, and how I thought this feature was essentially a form of "complete backwards compatibility" and that you'd just have to get online to download roms of all those classics. oh well.

Aaron Linde

Pissed? Hardly. I saw this yesterday but didn't have the time to get to it (yay finals whoop whoop), but it makes me DAMN happy to finally see some progress.

J_Sensei

Wario67: He's attacking with notes of music because of the battle system. If you attack to the beat of a monster's heart (which follows the music) you get combos. In most cases, it's a steady 1,2,3,4 type beat. You just have to get the right speed. Later monsters and bosses have a syncopated heartbeat that is more like 1,2,3 and a 4, ee and a 1, 2, 3 and a 4, ee and a 1.... and so on. It's a cool system, and if you can string together 16 hits, you do about 2.5 times the damage. Luckily, there is an item in the game that lets you practice on monsters to learn their rhythms.

Dexter345

I'm against emulation and ROMs but I want to play this... what do I do?

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