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Mother 2: Gyiyg no Gyakushuu

Mother 2

Mother 2: Giygas Strikes Back

マザー2

MOTHER2 ギーグの逆襲

어스바운드

EarthBound

A turn-based JRPG and sequel to then-Japan-only Earthbound Beginnings (1989) in which Ness, a young boy living in a land based on the USA, leaves home to go on an adventure through strange locations, get to know quirky characters and defeat an unknowable alien threat called Giygas while facing up to the realities of growing up and becoming familiar with the real world.

Mother 3

A turn-based JRPG and sequel to EarthBound (1994) in which a tragedy surrounding a family in the primitive yet joyful village of Tazmily incites the coming-of-age story of Lucas, the family's younger son, who goes on perilous adventures along with his friends in order to find his missing brother and stop a group of masked men from bringing about the end of the world.

EarthBound Beginnings

EarthBound Beginnings is the first installment in the EarthBound / Mother series. It was developed by Ape Inc., Nintendo Tokyo R&D Products, and Pax Softnica, and was published by Nintendo for the Famicom on July 27, 1989.

Though officially translated into English under the name EarthBound in 1990 complete with a variety of updates and new content, the planned release of the North American localization was ultimately cancelled due to Nintendo of America ending support for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Despite this, the updates made to the game for the English localization was included in the Japanese Mother 1+2 rerelease for Game Boy Advance in 2003. The English version was finally released on the Wii U Virtual Console on June 14th, 2015, 25 years after its intended release date.

EarthBound 64

The Nintendo 64 version, cancelled in 2000, of the Game Boy Advance game MOTHER 3, released in 2006.

Mother

When included in the Mother 1+2 bundle, Mother (Earthbound Beginnings in the West) received an exclusive equippable item, the Easy Ring, available from the start, which makes the game more balanced (therefore easier than the original version).

The original Japanese version of EarthBound Beginnings, released only in Japan for the Famicom, had some gameplay, story and level layout differences from the later Western port. This original version was never released outside of Japan.

Earthbound Halloween Hack

EarthBound Halloween Hack, or Radiation's Halloween Hack, also sometimes known as Press the B Button, Stupid! is a romhack of EarthBound made by Toby Fox and released in 2008 for starmen.net's Halloween Funfest. It was inspired by the Brandish series, where the hack's protagonist, Varik comes from. It is much shorter than the original EarthBound.

Arn's Winter Quest

In the words of its creator, “Arn’s Winter Quest has been a labor of love for me for two months, and rivals those hacks such as Hat Quest and EarthBound 2.5: Electric Boogaloo Joint Jive. It has a lot of fun inside jokes, an incoherent story, and all new battle graphics. This hack is basically linear Dragon Warrior with a bunch of humor thrown in, so if you like fighting and you like funny and you like very hard viewtiful fun time hacks, then don’t play this hack because it’ll satisfy your cravings and your head will probably explode.”

Mother: Photographic Beginnings

Jeff's No. 1 Bass Fishing

Jeff’s No.1 Bass Fishing was a response to the Shigesato Itoi #1 Bass Fishing Localization project, an April Fools event back in 2012. Started and completed in a mere 10 hours, Jeff’s No.1 Bass Fishing was a runaway international success and its influences on society and world culture can even be seen in your own household today.

MaternalBound Redux

The Mysterious Mine Bouncin' Back Edition

This is the author’s Earthbound hack that they have worked on since 2006. This hack is a graphics, story, gameplay change hack.

Hallow's End

Hallow’s End is a Halloween-themed ROM hack of EarthBound. This full length hack contains new areas, sprites, enemies, items, and music.

Holiday Hex

Holiday Hex is a fun little hack where you play as Tina and Kyle, two kids who find themselves trapped in a time loop similar to that movie “Groundhog Day” , Christmas Eve is repeating itself over and over, and at this rate the kids will never get their presents! Now, it’s up to Tina and Kyle to save Christmas.

EightBound Regal

EightBound Regal is an ‘remaster’ of the original Final Fantasy / EarthBound crossover hack by Poliynm and Mareeta. Regal was created in response to complaints about the game being ‘too difficult’.

EightBound was a hack that brought Final Fantasy characters, abilities, conventions, and challenges to the world of EarthBound.

Mother 2 Deluxe

Mother 2 Deluxe is a hack by Messianic that modifies parts of the original EarthBound with the aim of a more refined experience.

Hyperbound

HyperBound is a game hack project that follows the trials and tribulations of an unnamed amnesiac, who is thrust into a world that is completely unknown to him. Playing with the affordances of the Super Nintendo game EarthBound, HyperBound explores ideas associated with videogames such as non-linear narratives and spacial storytelling.

The hack’s core game-play mechanic is the use of glitches as a metaphor for the deterioration of memory, with one of the central trials of the game’s story takes place inside the protagonist’s mind.

Its first public exhibition took place at the 2007 Axis New Media Festival (from September 7th to September 16th)

Mother 2: Perfect Edition

Mother 2: Perfect Edition borrows a handful of stuff from ShadowOne333’s very popular MaternalBound hack, but with great help from Tomato’s Legend of Localization website, this uncensored re-localization brings to you a more smoothed out and refined script than the MaternalBound one, and gets as close as possible to the original Japanese script without sacrificing flow or alienating American players by keeping in references that don’t make sense outside of Japan, as well as many graphical changes to make the game even more in line with its Japanese original.

Leaving personal taste out of the equation, this hack was created with the mindset of a professional editor, and with the hope that anyone, whether you’ve never played before or you’ve played dozens of times, can patch their ROM and feel comfortable knowing that they’re getting a definitive MOTHER 2 experience, just in English.

EarthBound Beginnings Remake

A rom hack by Gabbi that remakes EarthBound Beginnings within the original EarthBound, mimicking what the actual developers would have done if it was remade on the SNES.

Earthbound Mod Menu

EarthBound Mod Menu is a mod for the Super Nintendo RPG "EarthBound."
Play EarthBound YOUR way!

This mod collects several quality of life enhancements, some made by myself, some made by the PK Hack community.
It's open source, so anyone can use parts of it for their own mods, or create their own derivatives.

MaternalBound: An EarthBound & Mother 2 Bond!

Mother Tensei

Rootbound

Mother: Rebound

Mother: Rebound is a ROM hack for Ape Inc. and HAL Laboratory's game EarthBound (Mother 2 in Japan), with a new story set 3 years after the original! I know what you're thinking: "A complete EarthBound hack released in 2023? That's too good to be true!" But your thoughts are wrong!

Unearthed

Project EBHack

Earthbound: Randomizer

a Generator that change the entire Earthbound Gameplay.

Bound to The Dark World

A ROM hack of EarthBound that recreates Deltarune Chapter 1 in its entirety. Experience Deltarune as if it had been made in the 90's.

Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros. is a crossover fighting video game between several different Nintendo franchises, and the first installment in the Super Smash Bros. series. Players must defeat their opponents multiple times in a fighting frenzy of items and power-ups. Super Smash Bros. is a departure from the general genre of fighting games: instead of depleting an opponent's life bar, the players seek to knock opposing characters off a stage. Each player has a damage total, represented by a percentage, which rises as the damage is taken.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Super Smash Bros. Melee is the second installment in the Super Smash Bros. series and the follow-up to the Nintendo 64 title. It includes all playable characters from the first game, and also adds characters from franchises such as Fire Emblem, of which no games had been released outside Japan at the time. Super Smash Bros. Melee builds on the first game by adding new gameplay features and playable characters: it's major focus is the multiplayer mode, while still offering a number of single-player modes.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. series and the follow-up to Super Smash Bros. Melee. This edition introduces super attacks referred to as final smashes, as well as a brand-new adventure mode in The Subspace Emissary which is a side-scrolling adventure in the style of a platformer. It retains all basic mechanics of the Super Smash Bros. series, such as a damage meter, stocks, and Smash-style attacks.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is the fourth console-based entry in the popular Super Smash Bros. series of fighting games. With an even larger roster of fighters than its predecessors and the introduction eight player battles, Smash for Wii U continues to add to the formula that gamers have loved since 1999.

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS is the first portable entry in the renowned series, in which game worlds collide. Up to four players battle each other locally or online using some of Nintendo’s most well-known and iconic characters across beautifully designed stages inspired by classic portable Nintendo games. It’s a genuine, massive Super Smash Bros. experience that’s available to play on the go, anytime, anywhere.

Earthbound

Mother 2 ギーグの逆襲

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Creatures Inc.

HAL Laboratory is a Japanese game developer partnered with Nintendo. It was founded by a small group of friends who shared the desire to create games, and among said group was Satoru Iwata. The group developed games for numerous platforms at first before developing exclusively for Nintendo. The name HAL originates from the fictional computer HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as each letter being one letter before IBM. HAL Laboratory is most notable for developing the Kirby series created by ex-employee Masahiro Sakurai, they are also responsible for the Super Smash Bros. and the EarthBound series.

HAL Laboratory

Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it first produced handmade hanafuda cards and also tried several small niche businesses such as a cab company and a love hotel. Nintendo developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most valuable listed company. The name Nintendo translated from Japanese to English means "Leave luck to Heaven".

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fan translation - english

fan translation - polish

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