Mother 3's Fan Translation Patch Has Been Updated

I already own a physical copy of the translation on my gba, so I’m not gonna get this for mine but it’s cool they’re updating it. I really need to go back and finish it. Loved everything I’ve played so far!

Well great. I have the cart too but now it's an inferior version. That's just wonderful. Guess i can always add the patched version to my Snes Mini. Think I'll go do that.

Another cart owner here. Shame you can’t really update them as such but I’ve paid once, might just play the patched version on my 3DS!

Love my GBA cart. Not too concerned, maybe I'll update it when I have $$$ to spare.

Fans do what Ninten don't.

I've honestly been thinking about giving this game another playthrough after about 13 or 14 years. I don't want to put emulators (or any games for that matter) on my work computer.

Soooo... I guess maybe I can dust off the ole Homebrew Channel on the Wii to give it a spin?

I do want an official release, but as it's unlikely anytime soon, I may have to get an unofficially translated cart.

only took a day to notice, but hey
wish there was a way to update my old repro, as many have said

@Zeldafan79 you can get a gba to run on the mini?! I'm so gonna try that this weekend!!! <3

@garfreek
Yep! Everything from Atari 2600 on up to at least the 16-bit systems will run on it! I've even got some turbo grafx and PS1 games like mega man X4 and Rondo of blood working just fine.

Don't bother with N64 though. The mini systems just don't have the power for that.

I've been playing v1.2 copies since the dawn of man. That's great news!

@Zeldafan79 thanks for the tips! Do you just put virtual boy in the kernel and games in a different folder? Or is there something special you need to do?

@garfreek
I use a program called Hackchi on mine. It lets you install emulators and other mods to your mini. Then you just add whatever games you want. There's tons of videos about how it's done on youtube. It's really simple too. I never modded a console in my life and after watching the tutorials i had it done in 10 minutes!

I also have the cart of this, but I do have some carts with Pokémon hacks that are flashable (my ones for Mother 1+2 and Mother 3 aren't flashable), but if it came down to it, I have a cart that's made to be reflashed that has a whole 32mb of space, so I may just use that.
EDIT: For anyone wondering how I know the repros I have for the Mother GBA titles aren't flashable, I tried to put a modified version of Mother 3 onto there a couple of months back, which uses the Mato translation (which is already on the repro), but for one small part uses the voice of the official Smash voice actor for Lucas, which is pretty cool as an option, which apparently the new version does already.

I'm thinking of getting this trilogy for the WiiU. Is it really all it's cracked up to be?

Maybe someday Nintendo will remake the trilogy like they are doing for Famicom Detective.

I need to play Mother 3 again. Played it once in '08.

I love the "please buy an official translation, if one is ever released". It shows Nintendo needs to step up. They could simply pay this translator a fee and upload it to the eshop.

@Moistnado

They actually offered it to Nintendo for free: http://mother3.fobby.net/blog/2013/04/20/offer-to-nintendo/

But at the time, I remember some people saying that there might be some legal issues with Nintendo going along with that.

Really though, I think Nintendo just don't want to release it. Financially, I think they could handle the cost of an official translation (if one doesn't already exist) so they probably wouldn't need to use the fan translation anyway.

As much as I’d absolutely love an official translation of this game, I don’t ever see it happening. The Magypsies in the game would cause too much controversy (especially in the west), as they’re essentially portrayed as trans women in a comedic fashion, and they’re too integral to the plot to be rewritten or removed entirely. Nintendo doesn’t want to come under fire, and as we’ve seen with Mario 3D All Stars, they don’t like investing much effort into re-releases, meaning I doubt they’re willing to put any work into coming up with a way to make the Magypsies less controversial for a western release. As it stands, I highly doubt Mother 3 will ever officially leave Japan, which is a shame, because it’s one of the most emotionally rich and compelling games I’ve ever experienced.

i have a og japanese copy and a patched bootleg copy, both are nice

@Zeldafan79 I already got that one installed, so I'm going for it this weekend! Thanks so much!

its amazing how this place goes from "tool often used for piracy bad" to "yay, fan translation that requires tools often used for piracy" here

@roboshort Yes, definitely play Earthbound and Mother 3 - they are both incredible experiences. I wouldn't bother with the first one though (Mother 1/Earthbound Zero/Earthbound Beginnings) unless you really like the other two. Keep in mind some of the mechanics are a bit outdated by today's standards, and a copy of the guide book (available online for free) is almost essential. Still, I highly recommend you give it a go, especially if you're into old-school JRPGs - they are legitimately very special games.

@everynowandben Thank you. I do like old school RPGs. So I think I’ll download them then and give them a go.

@garfreek
No problem! Have fun.

@roboshort The first game can get a bit tedious, but the second game is just beautiful and amazing. You won't miss -too- much if you skip the first game or come back to it later (which most of us were forced to do anyway), but I definitely recommend checking out the Mother official soundtrack album.

And Mother's Day is almost here 💐

@Desrever the fans have made an awesome collection called Mother 1+2+3 on Wii. It's a very professional family collection that references Mother 1+2

@CactusMan I didn't care for that patch, I thought it changed too much. If anything, I would replay it with the "experience ring", but I grew up with NES, so I'm used to games like that. But I can see how new people might be put off by it.
And like I said, those of us who've been EarthBound fans since day one, we were all forced to play the SNES game first, so the NES one really feels like a prequel (IMO).
What's wrong with the WiiU version of the game? I was under the impression that it was the same as the original English prototype, aside from it probably having soft patches for seizure reduction stuff.