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What is exactly “MaternalBound”?
What does it include? Does it come with Fly Honey?
Not exactly, though I would like to take a taste out of it just for the kicks.
This is an EarthBound hack which takes as ultimate goal to make it as close to Mother 2 as possible, along with taking care of most of the uncensoring that NoA made during the localization of MOTHER 2, including even the Gas and Title Screen modified to match that of MOTHER 2!
Why another uncensored patch of this game when we already have 2 or more?!
Well… I am really nit-picky. I decided to start going through a lot of EarthBound’s censored tiles/sprites/text and start to change it to that of MOTHER 2 according to Tomato’s comparison now that it is complete.
But it isn’t just that… There are some parts of the game in which I decide to combine both parts of the game’s text (MOTHER 2 and EarthBound) to create a much more satisfying result which doesn’t go too far from the real meaning.
Some of the references that Shigesato Itoi himself intended (or are part of his past experiences) are included, and I also took some references from Tomato’s translations to what he thinks would be the better meaning/phrase/word for a certain text.
Hence: MaternalBound, which comes from a play of words to make this hack some sort of a love-letter to both Itoi (the mother of the series
Take into consideration that it is an UNCENSORING project, not an un-localization one. So I would NOT be including weird Japanese names nor references since they won’t fit with the english terms, this also includes NO SWEARING so the game still holds a kid’s charm to it without falling into the obscene or rude (rated T like the official Wii U VC release), and no weird octopus statues or things like that.
Although, if you still want, there are several optional patches that can accommodate to you. like the “Faithful” patches; which restores some original references like the octopus statues, the “Mother 2 1:1 Literal" patches; which converts the whole game into MOTHER 2, literally! With all the text changed according to Tomato’s comparison, and the “Rated M” patches, which restore the foul language found in some sentences in the original MOTHER 2 text.
- What is this hack’s ultimate goal?
As I explained just some lines above, the ultimate goal that I am trying to achieve with this hack is to create the best experience possible, combining an uncensored version of Earthbound made from scratch by me, and also adequate a Mother 2 title screen and references, this ROM will no longer be named EarthBound, but rather a proper Mother 2 american version of the game, like it was supposed to be and leaving the main game intact (without modifying any core-gameplay mechanics I mean).
- Patching info:
- Earthbound (U)[!].smc : 3,073 kB (with Header).
- MD5: ABE493B665F7467000BCF8C373B323FD
- SHA-1: E44B6A73359694C25DD4ECC768128D40EC9B6DD1
- SHA-256: D3D73EE3FB5AB9F69F4B0C852323C53D65AB9EE1EFB7B4180AA045063F888503
- EarthBound (U)[!].smc : 3,072 kB (Without Header / Header removed)
- MD5: A864B2E5C141D2DEC1C4CBED75A42A85
- SHA-1: D67A8EF36EF616BC39306AA1B486E1BD3047815A
- SHA-256: A8FE2226728002786D68C27DDDDF0B90A894DB52E4DFE268FDF72A68CAE5F02E
