N64 Month | Nintendos Missing in Action - Part 3: Earthbound 64 (Mother 3) [news]

Very insightful. Having played Mother 2 last year for the first time, which was sublime and not what I expected, I am quite eager to try out this fan translation of Mother 3 now. Would have been interesting to see the craziness of a 64 version in the end. I really hope they do a 3D Mother some day.

I need to revisit the Mother games, definitely. I *did* play Earthbound on the SNES years ago, but I was only a young'un back then, so couldn't fully appreciate its quirkiness. Mother 3 on GBA is amazing, though, but I stopped myself playing through too far because I really want to force myself to play the series in order, especially now the NES game's fan-translated as well.

Cheers for the guest article, Martin @ Bits 'N' Bytes Gaming

I was going to ask about that: is the original Mother game translated, too? If it is, I'll have to put that on the never-ending list of must-plays in my life.

The first Mother on the NES isn't translated, but one half of Mother 1+2 on the GBA is, so if you fancy searching around for that, go crazy I'm not linking to it here, for obvious legal reasons!

I'm sure Itoi has said no more Mother...and it's not fully owned by Nintendo, so they can't just go ahead about make a new one, I believe.

Ah, good, I'll have to check it out eventually.

Didn't know it wasn't fully owned by Nintendo, either. It really is a special case of a series.

I've completed Earthbound and the Mother 3 fan translation, both fantastic games!! Huge shame they were never localised.

There really needs to be a compilation of Mother 1-3 for 3DS. There were rumours it was meant to happen on DS, so hopefully something does indeed happen in the future!