You guys already know the score -- when there's movin' and shakin' in the way of EarthBound or Mother news, I'm usually the nerd on call to give you the skinny. And since almost every ounce of movin' and/or shakin' these days comes by way of Starmen.net, their appearance in the latest Nintendo Power should come as no surprise.
In Seattle for the 6th annual Starmen.net convention, site admin Reidman and his crew made tracks to Nintendo of America's Redmond headquarters to dump a metric ton of EarthBound- and Mother-related envelope artwork, a pretty swank Final Starman figurine and a load of copies of the EarthBound Anthology onto unsuspecting employees. The editors at Nintendo Power were pretty pleased and, plied with unique memorabilia and an outpouring of geek love, took Starmen to lunch at the headquarters' Cafe Mario and talked about -- what else -- EarthBound. The result of all this bribery? A nice spot in the latest issue of NP. Good on you, lads. You deserve the ink.
There's more, though: over lunch the discussion turned to EarthBound's forthcoming appearance on the Virtual Console. Some phrases and words were exchanged, and while Reid won't print exactly what was said, he states directly that the editors at Nintendo Power conceded the following: should EarthBound sell very well on the Virtual Console, chances of an official Mother 3 localization will increase.
Sure, it's by no means guaranteed, and this might just be the latest in a series of circumstances in which Nintendo of America has screwed with the piled-on hopes and dreams of Starmen.net and its devoted audience. But if EarthBound's VC sales truly have an impact on the company's stance on further localization of the brilliant RPG series, it certainly couldn't hurt. Plus, you were already planning on buying EarthBound on the VC -- right? Yes, yes you were.
[Via Starmen.net; thanks Wheeliedude!]
Contest:
7:55 PM on 08.20.2007
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Though I have it here, right in front of me. It's saying "play me, play me", and I reply "STFU Bitch I'll get to you soon enough" and then it cries.
And for the record, I liked the scratch and sniff stickers. I assume Rev's were the same ones that came in the Players Guide that came with the game. The Hot Dog smelled ok at least. And the monkey smelled like bananas.
Smelling Ness was just weird though.
There IS a reason this game still sells for sixty bucks on e-bay.
It's funny that the Starmen guys would go to Nintendo like that. It takes all of five sconds on the Starmen site that they are producing their own translation patch of Mother 3. Wouldn't that potentially piss Nintendo off a little bit?
I'll buy it for random people on the street.
If there is one game I love above all others, it is Earthbound. I would murder each and every one of you in this thread if it meant getting Mother 3 translated and over to North America.
@Wedge: The S&S cards were full of awesome and win! I have no idea what the secret one was supposed to smell like, other than just plain awful.
Look at this icon for god's sake!
.......still...I'll end up buying Earthbound on the VC since I was never able to obtain a copy on my SNES back in the day.
When they (starmen.net) when to NOA they were asking about how the translation was going and that they where excited. its in the starmen.net's article.
How's that Fan Translation coming?
Really good actually, they're all doing an awesome job! You can check out updates here: http://mother3.fobby.net/
I have done this every day.
Every day.
That's all I'm going to say about it.