![]() It's a game made by a storyteller, one who's chosen to use the vocabulary and tropes of the JRPG to bring his tale to an audience. It's also something they simply had to get right if they were to do this, of all games, justice, because Mother 3 is a game that fits the term 'interactive story' more comfortably than most. The process of translating a JRPG is time-consuming, a labour that's all too often handled poorly by the professionals, so the fact that a group of fans should produce a script of such wit and vim is startling. Of course, motives alone don't maketh the translation. At start-up a message urges players to support Mother 3 by importing official merchandise and, should the game ever receive a Western release, purchasing a legitimate copy at that time. The release occupies a grey legal area, dipping its toes into murky litigious water, but the fan localisers' motives are transparently pure. Finally, on 17th October, over two years after the group began its work, a fully translated patch was released onto the Internet, freely available for anyone with a digital copy of the game to play via emulator. Extracting the text files from the Japanese GBA game, the team began the painstaking work of translating the game's thousands of lines of dialogue before reinserting them using the Earthbound English language font. So when Nintendo's localisation producer Nate Bihldorff confirmed in an interview that the publisher had no plans to take Mother 3 outside of Japan, it was no surprise that a group of fan translators sprang into action. "Really solid" is understatement when it comes to Mother's followers, whose dedication often beggars belief. Earthbound fans are really solid.'" Hobbyist translators brought Final Fantasy V to the west for the first time and Secret of Mana 3, Bahamut Lagoon and Front Mission: Gun Hazard are only playable in English thanks to dedicated amateur groups. You might not know this, but there was a 'Please Make Mother 3' petition, which received 30,000 signatures! After that, we thought, 'Wow. Shigeru Miyamoto himself said of the game: "We had high hopes for Earthbound in the US, but it didn't do well. Despite Earthbound's status as a sacred cow amongst gaming's cognoscenti, it sold poorly, a performance that scuppered this sequel's chances for a Western release. Numerous false starts and broken promises later, lead designer Shigesato Itoi finally announced its imminent Japanese release for the Game Boy Advance on his blog in 2005.Īs the latest instalment in one of Japan's most beloved RPG series, Mother 3 raced to the top of the pre-order charts before enjoying considerable success at retail, a feat that still failed to secure it a Western release. The follow-up to Super Nintendo classic Earthbound, a game that won a dedicated following for its cute and funny modern-world styling of the Japanese RPG, was first announced twelve years ago. Good luck either way, because this game is definitely pretty great.Few pregnancies have been as painful and protracted as Mother 3's. Just a thought that I have been toying around with myself, and your post made me think of the YouTube video. My life in gaming actually did a video on it, and it actually seems much easier than I probably made it sound. If you plan on diving in to the library of Japanese rpgs/strategy rpgs, or any Japanese game with an English fan translation patch available, this might be a decent option for you. Like you said the Japanese cartridges are usually much cheaper than buying an English reproduction cart, or a good flash cart for that matter. Essentially it's a ROM dumper that you could than use to dump the ROM of the Japanese game and apply an English patch to it, and than use that to play it in english off of your Japanese cart. If you like physical cartridges instead of using a flash cart with the English patched ROM, or just getting a reproduction cartridge in english, you could try using the Super UFO Pro 8.
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