Mother 3 fan translators offer their patch to Nintendo

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Nintendo recently announced that they’re releasing EarthBound on the Wii U virtual console in the U.S. and Europe. Then they debunked the theories that it hadn’t been previously re-released because the music sounded too much like various pop songs. That theory never made any sense to me anyway. The pop song legal army didn’t stop the game’s initial launch on the SNES from happening, and besides, if every song that ripped off another song was stopped from release due to legal concerns, we’d lose about 90% of the world’s pop music. 

My guess has always been that EarthBound wasn’t re-released before because Nintendo figured everyone who might value the game already has it in one form or another, and that everyone else in the world just wouldn’t get it. I imagine that they’d feel the same way about Mother 3EarthBound‘s highly ambitious, emotionally charged sequel. After the fan patch rocketed to stardom a few years back, I’d guessed Nintendo felt that ship had sailed. 

It seems that Wii U Miiverse integration has Nintendo feeling confident that community involvement will make EarthBound more marketable to both past and future fans alike. I hope they feel the same way about Mother 3, which has a free translation up for grabs should Nintendo choose to use it. It wouldn’t be the first time a fan translation was later used in a retail product, so don’t go poo-pooing the whole notion, you poo poo lovers. 

While you’re at it Nintendo, there is a pretty cool fan translation of Fatal Frame 4 that would work for a mighty fine Wii U digital exclusive release. 

Offer to Nintendo [Mother3 Fan Translation Site]


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Destructoid Contributor - Jonathan Holmes has been a media star since the Road Rules days, and spends his time covering oddities and indies for Destructoid, with over a decade of industry experience "Where do dreams end and reality begin? Videogames, I suppose."- Gainax, FLCL Vol. 1 "The beach, the trees, even the clouds in the sky... everything is build from little tiny pieces of stuff. Just like in a Gameboy game... a nice tight little world... and all its inhabitants... made out of little building blocks... Why can't these little pixels be the building blocks for love..? For loss... for understanding"- James Kochalka, Reinventing Everything part 1 "I wonder if James Kolchalka has played Mother 3 yet?" Jonathan Holmes