New World Record as Earthbound Completed in a PK Flash

Huzzah for being that guy we'll forget about tomorrow!! Jk

Woah. That's crazy fast for an RPG. Wonder how he grinded that fast. o_O

Earthbound is thankfully a game that doesn't require almost any grinding. I imagine a lot of the time cut was from outside of battle. Wish we knew what tricks or glitches he used. Those first two pages of his notes are nice but not very revealing.

Hey, great... now hurry up with the Virtual Console release, man!

(Once again, I do not believe Starman's claims.)

but where is the fun?!?!?! cries

Whats a Earthbound?

Surely you jest, JumpMad?
Yes, yes, you must be..... right......?

JumpMad doesn't know what Earthbound is?! It's the hallmark of Nintendo's Super Nintendo Entertainment System Library! And yet.. Nintendo doesn't bother with a sequel or the original game being ported to VC.

This game is on the Virtual Console, right?

@WolfRamHeart: No, but it will be. If Nintendo can get away with a rendition of Winter Wonderland for Kirby's Epic Yarn, they can get away with whatever is claimed wrongly against EarthBound.

@Iabrat7 There was a sequel.. Just only Japan got it... ;_;

...or maybe, just maybe, they got permission to use the song. Winter Wonderland is actually actively copyright protected, and it illegal instances of it are often deleted online and sued offline. We won't know until the game comes out. It might be removed by then, or we might see the copyright information in the credits.

Yeah Snipes...

Man, I don't wanna turn this into a boo-hoo thread, but I thought SURE since Earthbound 2 (Excuse me, Mother 3 came out) we would get SOMETHING... No EB/Mother 2 for VC, No Mother 3, Europe hasn't played this awesome game... I just don't understand Nintendo's hang up with the phenomenon (that is now a controversy) that is Earthbound/Mother. Anyone have any info?

Pff, he totally used the bonus player's guide

The popular theory, Melo, is that there are copyright issues due to large portions of the soundtrack either blatantly stealing from popular music (especially the Beatles, but not only them) or having too significant similarities.

Obviously not everyone buys this, but no one else has offered a better explanation, and anyone with an ear for music will tell you that the game would be trouble in this day and age where copyright is much more strictly enforced.

Nintendo, however, has not once commented on any supposed reason for continuing to neglect the series, so this remains a theory only. See Earthbound Central for more detailed information and judge for yourself.

@pixel... Exactly!

@Jumpmad Earth-bound??

Once I got to see what all the fuss was about when they released Chrono Trigger in Europe 13 years too late, I got curious about this game as well.

Perhaps a Hanabi festival title someday. They did release the Super Mario RPG for VC as well.

It certainly wouldn't be as good, but couldn't they change the music in order to get some form of it on VC like they did with the TMNT arcade games to include them in the TMNT GameCube games?

They certainly could, Bulbasaurus, but the theory is that Nintendo of Japan and/or the game's creator (Shigesato Itoi) refuse to do so.

In fact, I read on Earthbound Central that a fan created what they called (and I paraphrase, because I forget) a "VC version," which was an edit of the game to represent how they thought Nintendo would have to release it if they did put it on VC. It took out music that could potentially lead to law suits and replaced it with other tracks from the game, and I think made some graphics changes, too. Not sure about that last part, and the music is really the big issue anyway.

I sure hope Nintendo reconsiders this someday if this is in fact the case.

This person takes his Earthbound seriously! With a time like that, he makes playing like "Poo" sound like a complement!

I want my Mother.

For all you who are hoping for a VC release, think about this: there's no VC version in Japan of both Mother 1 and 2

I wonder how much time he spent finding the fastest way through the game; time he could have spent getting lai- married and having children?

Nah, just kidding. I envy speed-runners.

Nice!

I know on Speed Demos Archive they did it in 42 segments and through being able to use more risky strategies managed a time of two hours faster:
http://speeddemosarchive.com/EarthBound.html

But comparisons should stop at the game name as the nature of the runs is very different (I'm sure the twin galaxies is a single segment as in start to finish in one sitting). A start-to-finish you're on the stop watch is rather different from being able to hit reset when you make a mistake (in single segment you've got to decide weather its worth saving your time and letting the mistake slip through).

MOTHER thats Quick! Sorry bad punn

Even to this day this game is so popular, I sometimes think Nintendo intentionally don't want to remake and gives excuses to do so to keep it's popularity up.

PK Flash f***ed up some of the most difficult bosses, I remember.