EarthBound Beginnings is finally released! The Year is 198X. As Ninten, a young boy from Podunk with psychic powers, you must locate the eight melodies to aid the Queen of Magicant. Armed with your trusty baseball bat, youll fight crazed hippies, zombies and the occasional Magic Snail?

This is a title screen patch for This also changes the map to say Earth Bound as well.Since Nintendo decided to release their originally unreleased localization of Mother as Earth Bound Beginnings on the Wii U, there was disappointment that they didn’t attempt to clean up their game and give it a proper title screen. Before that, did and excellent hack known as He cleaned up the graphics AND the translation as well. Then improved on that by making the game simply say Mother, and to rename things to better match Earthbound (Mother 2) such as naming Giegue to Giygas. Well, this patch is for those who want the the game to have the title that Nintendo has decided to release the game as and enjoy the improvements made. ROM / ISO Information.

John Lennon's cries of his painful mama issues made Shigesato Itoi cry, and that made him create an equally-painful game full of Americana, Pollyanna, and grinding. Because he wanted to make other people cry too. That game is MOTHER..

..which became EarthBound Beginnings for the Wii U Virtual Console overseas in 2015, based on an unpublished English localization that had been done in 1990.

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Unused Enemies

Two unused enemies remain in the final game: Pippi, and a possessed pillow, both with intact stats. Due to the way the game reads enemies when a battle starts, they do not have intact palettes (the palette settings are stored in the encounter group, not the enemy itself). The two enemies share name pointers with the used enemies Gang Zombie and Doll, due to appearing next to them in the game's code.

Stat-wise, the Pillow's stats are identical to the Lamp enemy fought at the beginning of the game, except for its HP, which is two points lower. It is functionally complete in comparison, just not named.

Pippi's stats, however, may simply be garbage data. All of her stats are exceedingly low, aside from her PP stat, placing her at a point in the game directly after Ninten would leave his home (perhaps she was intended to be encountered when Ninten would open the coffin she was trapped in). She also has an absurd amount of PP points, when at that point in the game none of the enemies use PSI techniques.

Their AI in battle consists solely of regular attacks.

Unused Graphics

This graphic is loaded with the factory tileset.

Text

Version Identifier

The following version numbers are found in the ROM at 3FFF0.

Doll Text

The text string below is found in both versions.

B.B. Boss description

Reign of kings server hosting. During this battle, you can only Fight; the Check option is unreachable. If you could, the description would be:

Unused trapped person

Near the end of the game, there are two people trapped in pods that you can speak to. The game has text for a third person not actually present anywhere in the game:

Items

In all versions, modifying RAM address $29 will modify the items in your inventory.

StoneOrigin

Functions like the spell.

PoisnNeedle

Functions like the spell.

IC-Chip

This item cannot be thrown away. In the GBA release Mother 1+2, there was an added item called 'Memory Chip'.

Debug

(72-7F) The version at 7F has a unique description of '....'; in the Japanese version, this item is called ざひょう (Coordinates) and its usage pointer seems to point to code that is no longer there, often leading to random effects/crashes. The English prototype fixes this bug with a unique message of 'Nothing happened.'

TimeMachine

This item is used in an event in EarthBound Beginnings at Twinkle Elementary School, but it was never intended to be in the player's inventory. By looking at it, the text 'System Error!!!' is displayed.

Unused Areas

The EarthBound Beginnings world map is huge and a significant amount of it cannot be seen during normal gameplay. Due to its size, view it here. (Note that the ripped map does not display any objects or NPCs, only the layout of the world.)

Noticeably, the entire game takes place inside one giant map. Several areas are spaced out with grey filler consisting of random overworld tiles.

Exploring these areas is possible using the bread crumbs glitch in the Japanese version, or by using the walk through walls Game Genie code (AEOTEOAP) in Beginnings. Use bread crumbs to refresh the screen once you are in the desired location, or the area will appear to endlessly loop.

Anti-Piracy

An anti-piracy measure was added to EarthBound Beginnings that checks whether the ROM's checksum has been altered. If so, the game may fade to the screen pictured at certain points:

• Reaching the title screen.
• Teleporting to Magicant.
• Checking the XX Stone.
• Before the 'All That I Needed Was You' performance in the Live House.
• Before the 'Fallin' Love' dance scene in Mt. Itoi's cabin.

The consequence of this screen is less severe than it states, simply impeding your progress. Pirated copies are flagged in RAM at $0006, activating if its value is not zero.

Historically, back when Demiforce acquired the prototype ROM in 1998, NESticle, a popular NES emulator at the time, had an issue where the game would freeze whenever textboxes were drawn. Demiforce made a one-byte edit to the ROM to resolve this and added 'ZERO' in white text to the title screen to distinguish the game from its sequel, which inadvertently triggered the anti-piracy screen. Later modifications to the ROM disabled the anti-piracy checks, distinguishable by a two-toned blue and white 'ZERO' on the title screen.

Modern emulators function properly with the original, unmodified ROM.

Virtual Console Changes

Like the other games in the EarthBound series, a few changes were made to this game when released on the Japanese Virtual Console.

Enemies

Three enemies were altered to use their sprites from EarthBound Beginnings, seemingly to avoid a higher age rating, though similar features among other enemies remain unchanged.

Crow

The Crow enemy's cigarette was erased, as in the localized version and Mother 1+2. Strangely, the B.B. Gang members were allowed to keep their cigarettes.

Gang Zombie

The blood on the Gang Zombies was replaced with a tie, matching Beginnings and Mother 1+2. The bit of blood on Dr. Distorto's lab coat was not removed.

Shroudley

Just like Beginnings and Mother 1+2, the dripping blood was removed from Shroudley's hands and feet.

Text

In the Japanese version, a kid in Twinkle Elementary asks you if you've played Dragon Quest IV yet, and admits that he hasn't because he's still stuck on the third game. This text was rewritten to avoid any specific references. This same change was previously done in the Mother 1+2 version of the game.