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  • It's sad that most of the game is just a prolouge. No one gets far in EB in 5 minutes.

  • Think about it. NoA has no choice but to try to pretend the games don't exist. Why? Because they don't want to see the masterpiece get ripped apart like SOPA would do to the internet. They want to keep people from trying to get the game as the legal issues and such would be too much. It's still a stupid idea, I'd rather have the game here changed than not have it at all, but this is just nonsense. NoA should just release the games on the e-shop and get it over with.

  • Does NOA realize that if they release MOTHER 3 that they won't be so hated by MOTHER fans!? They should release it on the 3DS virtual console! They will be getting shitloads of money since that's all they care about...

  • I knew one of nintendo's lawyers. Then he took an arrow to the knee

  • I had a vision, of a world without earthbound. microsoft grounded out a little profit, and sony tried to shut them down one game system at time. and it was so... boring. i don't wan't mr fil's-aime to spoil everything but why should i have all the fun? let's give someone else a chance. if reggie fils-aime dosen't release the mother series on virtual consle, then i blow up a wii u proto type! Quote based on ( fill in the blank) s threat

  • ohhhhhhhhh fuck them

  • There is so much shit that could cause copyright issues in EB that instead of changing everything and ruining the game they're not gonna bother with releasing it.

  • We should all get together at Nintendo's hq and demand the release of this game on other systems.

  • That there is the closest thing that will happen to EB on VC...unfortunately...

  • i hate reggie as much as he hates earthbound

  • NOW THIS WAS BULLLLLLLSHHHHHHIIIIITTTT!!! We should of gotten this atleast!!

  • Isnt this earthbound? I have this game

  • GWARRGH......NINTENDO!!!!!!!

  • Nintendo is from Japan guys. Talk about hometown advantage... >.>

  • Earthbound, Mario RPG and FF7 are my favorite RPGs, don't care about which is best, they are all great games!

  • the kid is called 'Nes'? Isn't that a slap in the face for non-Japanese who want the game!

  • i just want to say this i freakin love Earthbound, Final Fantasy games 8-14 suck balls, and finally graphics don't make the fuckin games good story, characters, and gameplay does.

  • @666StrifeCloud Ugh, I had a more intelligent reply planned out but once I saw your name I understood why you think everything after VII sucks. On the contrary, VIII and IX are great games. Especially IX. X is good too.

  • WHY? We want EARTHBOUND too!!

  • To all you FF Fans who hate Mother, name a turn based game where you can fight hippies, zombies, aliens, cops and old ladies. Name a TBG that can capture something so sad and emotional and make you still think about it years after. Name a TBG series that hasn't turned into cash-in bullcrap over the years. Name a TBG series that has all these things and I will never look at earthbound again.

  • people from starmen.net and fangamer.com say that the legal issues with its popculture refresences pull the game back so the changes of the game will be too bad of a game causing Mother fans mad at the realease

  • @LegoVidMation

    I wouldn't care, I just want some sort of Earhbound! D:

  • WHY THE HELL COULDN'T THEY PUT A DEMO OF EB IN SSBB?! THEY'RE SO F***ING LAZY!!!

  • @themangOMEGA pussy legal issues or some stupid shit.

  • if you haul ass you can ffight one enemy,,,, fail

  • If this replaced the ice climbers demo, millions of people would buy brawl

  • @toonlink49 just saying, millions of people already did

  • Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!!????

    No fair!

    

  • Woah, i felt guilty playing it on a emulator (and i live in europe) searched my ass off for an copy somewhere close. I think i was one of the luckiest persons in the world finding a cartridge only for like 100 euros. Again i live in holland, so it has never been released here. How the guy managed to get hold off a copy i dont know, but i know it was worth every damn penny..

    I never expected that after my childhood a new favorite game could exist for me..

    but Earthbound realy changed that!

  • @mirrorpiece

    I hear you and i HAD to play in on a emulator because i live in australia and all the game from europe come here.

    It also became my favorite game.

  • @mirrorpiece I dunno, mabye he bought it when he was a kid?

  • all of you who are yelling mother rules ff sux

    and complaining that they are crazy. you are just as crazy.

    mother and FF are both good. closing yourself off to either of them is just being stuborn.

    i'm disgusted to be a fan of the same games as those people

  • Could you change your Wii's language to Japanese and then get this?

  • god bless the homebrew channel and emulators...

  • so.. they made a demo but never released it... C'MON NINTENDO! YOUR TEASING US!!

  • Fuck you, Reggie.

  • *Holds up Reggie Fils-Aime by neck*

    Give...America....frickin'....­Earthbound....NOW!

  • 4 words, REMOVE THE DAILS CLOCK! and the music issue, If they based it off of real songs, who cares?! television shows do it all the time!!!!!

  • how wired this game is not on the JP Virtual Console

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  • @boogiebot125 6 WORDS FUCK YOU NINTENDO OF AMERICA

  • @Morbidcrab That's 5 words, but FUCK YOU NINTENDO OF JAPAN TOO!

  • @boogiebot125 "EarthBound" is one word.

  • @boogiebot125 6 words: nintendo OF AMERICA hates earth bound

  • Actually Nintendo really does want to release earthbound on VC here in America, but they're afraid to do so because of legal reasons, mainly because of copyright reasons where they took/based some songs in the game off real songs that were currently "new" and "popular" back in the time this game was released, other than those however they have a good feeling that this game would sell good unlike originally, if only we could just get around those copyright stuff...

  • @Popple947 oh it dosent make sense to me why its not like that in japan

  • I'm not really sure, I really don't quite understand copyright stuff too much, but if you look up how Mother 2 and earthbound were different you'd see all kinds of stuff they actually changed from the original Japanese to America, like on hospitals, the Red cross stands for like medical help and such, in Mother 2, the hospitals and other places had the red cross, but they couldn't do that here in America, so almost every red cross was removed, due to copyright, there's a lot of others stuff too.

  • also the Dail's Clock enemy. but my question is why doesn't nintendo do what sega did? change that stuuf around so they'll have no more legal problems like sega did with revenge of shinobi?

  • Well, its true, they could go ahead and just replace some things, however some of these "things" are very important to the hardcore fans of the Mother series, and just fans in general, some of the songs used are based off real songs at that time of the game release, such as the sky runner theme, or the drug store theme, of course yeah the dail's clock enemy as well, there were more also, I think it would just upset the fans, but I'm pretty sure they would still buy it, but it takes away from it.

  • @Popple947 that wouldn't matter as long as it's not the acutal song playing. if they did something to it they're good. It's beacuse of that damn dail clock enemy.

  • *is jelaous of Japan*

  • Wow... Really? This sucks... That would have been an awesome demo to have

  • This is not fair...

  • I...I never got to play Earthbound/Mother 2 ... But... I've been learning about it online... and I think that it's unfair that it's not coming out on VC... :(

    Everyone should dress up as heavily armed Pokey, surround Nintendo of America's headquarters, and yell "SPANKETY SPANKETY SPANKETY" until they listen to you! :D Or something along those lines. NoA can't ignore THAT many costumes.

  • @BizzarreProductions Well actually, I asked a guy at Nintendo, and he said that they might be coming out with it for the VC

  • I HOPE IF Nintendo lies again.....0-0 ;-;

  • At Billzob:

    What did you do, just play the first five minutes of the game and then shut it off?

    That would be like play Super Mario Brothers and shutting it off after making it to the first pipe.

  • I don't even know what I said anymore, to be honest

  • Wrong place to say this dude.

  • @BizzarreProductions same here EARTHBOUND EFFING PWNZ!! BOING!!!

  • I am so fucking pissed at Nintendo of Japan I am so pissed!!!!

  • I hate this FF Fans sometimes -.- They are always saying:

    "FF is 1000 times better than EB" or

    "EB Sucks, FF FTW"

    "The graphics in FF are also better"

    And comments like this.

    I really hate these comments, they are annoying and stupid.

    I love Earthbund and i WILL never play Final Fantasy because FF is overrated.

    Yes, i know, some FF Fans will give me thumps down but i don't care.

    EARTHBOUND/ MOTHER RULEZ!!!

  • Earthbound being better than Final Fantasy I agree on 1000%. But the part I have a problem is "I will never play Final Fantasy because it is overrated." That's just stupid. Overrated does not mean it's bad. I would definately play FF. They're incredible games, just not quite as incredible as Earthbound.

  • I never played Earthbound, I really need to play it, like the other rpgs I need to pick up and play.

  • @MetallYobby your my hero!

  • @MetallYobby the reason i might play ff is cause to try it

  • @MetallYobby hell yeah!

  • @MetallYobby dude, I LOVE FF and im NOT like that!

  • @MetallYobby i like both, so comments saying one or the other is better pisses me off, ur merely being hypocritical, both mother and final fantasy are amazing games, and i have fun playing both of them, both mother obsessors AND final fantasy obsessors need to get over themselves, its retarded to argue about this, its opinion NOTHING MORE

  • @MetallYobby You are being just as bad as them you know. Earthbound is superior, but FF still is good. Got dumb at 10. At least give the respect that game deserves.

  • @MetallYobby

    I think they are saying that because of earthbounds cartoony graphics.

    but they shouldent say that.

    giving earthbound realistic graphics will destroy the experience of it completely

  • @MetallYobby How can you say final fantasy is overrated if you haven't played it? Try it, and I bet you'll enjoy it. Not saying that what those FF fans are saying is OK or anything, but everybody just needs to chill and enjoy these games for what they are, amazing and fun.

  • @MetallYobby You say you hate those comments, yet you're doing the same exact thing. Oh, the irony here is almost painful.

  • @MetallYobby I would dissagree and hope that you would atleast play the great SNES Final Fantasy games. That said Earthbound is highly under valued and underrated in general.... It is a heartfelt warm comical experience one cannot understand unless they have played it. Any Final Fantasy fan who hasnt played Earthbound and is critical of it without doing so, should shut their face immediately.

  • @Aeriscloud99 Agreed on all points

  • @MetallYobby I love Final Fantasy as much as the next fan, but I'm not a nazi fanboy about it. Mother/EarthBound are amazing games, just as good as Final Fantasy. (or better, depending on which FF you're talking about)

  • @MetallYobby Who cares?

  • @MetallYobby I dislike Final Fantasy too but saying you hate a series you've never even played is fucking stupid. At least I tried FF before I decided it wasn't for me.

  • @MetallYobby While some of the Final Fantasy series is overrated, there truly are gems in the series. I would never try to compare the two to each other, but I love both the Earthbound series and the FF series. It doesn't come down to which game is better for me. It's about how good the games themselves separately are. That's like saying, "I'll never play Chrono Trigger, because a lot of people love the game and it may be a little overrated."

  • @MetallYobby FF 1,2,3,4,5, and 6, are good. 7 and up are overrated.

  • @corgals2nd No, the first five are mediocre at best. It's from VI, up too and including X that are the best. It's ridiculous how many insecure fans will bullshit the other way around just to make themselves feel "special."

  • @gatchAttk 10 good? Are you fucking joking? 8 was trash. But 9 and 7 were decent. Also 5 was the best in the siries.

  • @corgals2nd LOL no...not at all. Noob

  • @gatchAttk Fag.

  • @corgals2nd Good one.

  • @gatchAttk I can tell sarcasm. Also, my speculations say that you can't even come up with a good insult. Aren't I correct?

  • @corgals2nd A good insult? What are you, two?

  • @MetallYobby im a huge final fantasy fan and i love earthbound too!

  • @MetallYobby There are good FF games... Actually many of them are good.

    Play them before judging, please.

    Anyways, FF is still overrated.

  • Haha try playing Earthbound in five minutes, won't get very far....XD

  • *Holds up Reggie Fils-Aime by neck*

    Japanese.....get.........EVERY­THING!!!!!!!

  • Seriously. I used to be a big Nintendo fan until I realized how little we get over in the USA. I want to learn Japanese just to get all the japanese exclusives.

    Although, there are translation patches Mother 1 + 2 (Earthbound 0 and 1) and Mother 3 (Earthbound 2) on the internet. I play all three games on my original Xbox. Anybody need some help on this, send me a message.

  • Your right. And we need the demo more than the Japanese because Mother is VERY popular in Japan whereas here its not known very well.

    If they didn't cut out the EarthBound demo in the NTSC and PAL versions, ALOT of people would know where Ness came from and who he is. And make EarthBound alot more well known.

  • @hokageninja9090

    *strangle, strangle*

  • i heared that egm said that nintendo will release all 3 mother games on DS!! maybe for us

  • It's a rumor, but keep those fingers crossed.

    ITOI, MAKE MOTHER 4!

  • he's not making another one. the man said it himself. BUT!!! what he did say was that he wanted to be the PLAYER this time. SOMEONE WILL pick up this franchise and make a game, let's hope its a promising company...

  • ok...these are supposed to be VC demos...but theres no earthbound on thr VC...nintendo is hiding sumthin frum us

  • Japanese are so xenophobically selfish with everything... From what they release overseas to if you properly speak their language... They get so offended!

    Weabs, don't be mesmerized so easily.

  • WTF! First of all, it was a complete waste of time for nintendo to delete it from the others and second of all they had no reason to! Its just weird.

  • They had a reason-erase all earthbound trace from USA

  • It is a Demo.

    I want one.

  • im surpriesed that they didn't try to get rid of the earthbound characters in brawl since they hate earthbound so much

  • JAPAN gets everything good... ;_; *Whirr*

  • You didn't even get to hear the sound effect when the guy beats the kids.

  • Even though the first five minutes of EarthBound are really boring (I'm a huge fan of the series and even I can admit that), there was still no reason for NoA to take it out. They probably just did that to be douchebags towards the EarthBound fans outside of Japan, seeing as how NoA hates us :(

  • well the bad thing is that japan got mother 2 in brawl and the rest of the world didn't, but the good news is that they can't even enjoy it because the first 5 minutes of the game is mostly dialouge and 1 battle, is this a win win?

  • wtf, the first five minutes are the worst!

    how cruel

  • :O WHY!?!?

  • No kidding you can't get far in 5 minutes! They didn't even get to see Onett, let alone hear any of the music!

  • You know... If so many companies are remaking old skool games... WHY DON'T THEY AT LEAST REMAKE EARTHBOUND?!?

  • I tell you why: they would go to popular and can't withstand that popularity and kill themselves :p

  • Apparently...

  • just d-load znes and the earthbound rom and you got the whole game 4 free

  • I did then my computer crashed. NOW WHAT?!

  • Now you go get your computer fixed.

  • XD okay!

  • Dude, its not the same.

  • But, heres the problem: Most people would like to play it legitimately, whereas roms are questionable in terms of legality.

  • Well since EB is never coming to Virtual Console and they don't sell the SNES or earthbound anymore, I think a Rom is fine.

  • Oh. THAT is just unfair.

  • WTF?! Okay simply putting M2 on the SSBB masterpieces demos thing and REMOVING it once they translate it simply shows... that Nintendo hates us.

    Howcome in Mother 2 when you win a battle it says "You Win" but in other translations it says "You Won"? I just don't understand

  • Well... the masterpieces showed games, you can download from the virtual cosole.

    Since Mother 2, aka Earthbound, wasn't on the american and european VC it was simply removed.

    Or at least it's what Nintendo wants us to believe. :/

    I mean, I really hope, that this games will find its way to the VC in america. Chances are, that it will come soon after to europe as well.

  • ...I hope Nintendo has something BIG to make up for making us so mad...

  • earthbound should be for virtaul console

  • You are not alone, but they used copyrighted materials when they made the game, and laws have changed since then.

  • Maybe hackers could make WAD files.

    But that's Naughty.

  • they can and they do

  • The copyright thing was just more bullshit so Nintendo doesn't have to localize it. It may be true, but they could easily edit out the offending material. They've always censored and edited games to death anyways. It won't be any problem.

  • like the dali's clock enemy

  • yeah. he's strange

  • PokeFan06,

    If you Really want to play Earthbound (Legitimately, of course,) then you're going to have to find it on the SNES (Which could cost a pretty penny) or just Import Mother 2 from Japan. The latter means you have to atleast require a vague understanding of Japanese, but its well worth it.

  • Y ;( yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

  • not...fair.....damn you NOA!

  • dammit noa eb is a great game for the snes so why not keep it in smash bros and pkcrossing that would be kind of funny :D

  • NoA can't release EarthBound or Mother 3 in America (I think).

    Way too much references =P

    Mother 3 had DCMC = ACDC

    Don't know all of them, though

  • Earthbound is a jewel!!!! an epic game, stupid NoA

  • Should have been 15 minutes for Earthbound.

  • eith the infinitve VC ocarina code people could play the whole game.

  • We should all dress up as the item guy from Mother 3 pushing around carts around Nintendo of America HQ throwing Fobbies and demanding Mother 3 on the DSi Virtual Console in English.

  • @pkcrossing89 Or we could dress up as Pig Masks and zap the Nintendo employees

  • @Zombieguy441 Can I be masked man I made a perfect Suit *Puts on best masked man suit evah) And I got a sword that shoots real lightning *Shoots lightning somewhere random*

    Random guy: MAH CAR!

  • Unfortunately, in america people tend to think that good graphics = good game. Therefore, American sales of EB were low. This sent Reggie Fils-amine to believe that EB would do no good for America, and left us all unhappy.

  • To xNess13x:

    Dang it people, how many times do we STARMEN have to tell you? *Whirr*

    Graphics (Following me?) don't, matter, to, make, a, good, game, all, there, is, is GAMEPLAY! *Click*

  • another reason why i still play the original megaman games

  • Ha, how much do I hate that sound that stops the demo.

  • Wow that is a really bad advert. Rubbish starman.

  • Wait, I just realized this. The demos in SSBB feature games on the VC that you can download. Doesn't that mean that EB will be on the VC?

  • maybe only in japan.

    but i hope not.

  • That's really messed up! I thought something was fishy when there was no Earthbound demo. Exactly what the hell is Nintendo trying to tell us anyway? They allowed Lucas and many spoilers about Mother 3 reach the general public, and that was japanese only! But Earthbound got diddly squat except for Onett ( Why they left out foarside, I'll never know! )

  • It's because they can't have two Melee stages coming from the same game. I know that there are about 3 different Mario games, but apparently Yoshi and DK games are soooooooooooooo different from Mario games, so let's just forget the fact that they're FUCKING MARIO CHARACTERS (I really hate it when Nintendo favors a game that's gotten extreamely stale and is getting pretty damn boring every new game and that's the definition of Mario)!!! Sorry, I kind of lost it. Damn Nintendo...

  • The Yoshi one I can't get over. He's always been in the Mario games. and so what, he got 3 games of his own? 4 if you count Yoshi Cookie, but that had mario in it too.

    As fir DK, I only consider him different on the grounds that Rare made his games cool and unique, but I guess with them gone, Nintendo can't do shit with the ape no more except stick him in some fucking spin off party/sports/racing game, huh? >_>

  • I agree 100%. But about the whole DK thing, I really don't give a shit if he was in a few games by himself, he was in the first Mario game to begin with!

  • True, but I'm only counting the games that had no mario references at all. Nintendo supported the idea for DK's own games, but it was Rare who went to work on it. Much like it was Rare who worked on the starfox games.

  • I rather want super smash bros brawl in japanese than in english.

  • Today my retard friend told me he played Mother 3 masterpiece on brawl. I called him a dumbass and he called me a fanboy and talked about how gay it was when he played it. He has never played any Mother game and neither have I and yet he calls me a fanboy and calls mother gay.

  • jeez what a retard. My friend played EB once, didn't like the "slow gameplay", and then starts ranting about everything, like the "LSD induced backgrounds" and calling Shigesato Itoi a retard for naming the series after a song.

    What retarded friends we have :(

  • You're not only..

  • You too? My friend didnt like the idea that you play as children. Like that even matters...

  • My friend also hate RPG's in general (because he tried EarthBound :( ). He only likes Super Mario RPG, because its "Timed Hit" system is fun. Although it is, most RPG's (like MOTHER 3, which he refuses to try because "it'll be gay") have timed hit systems. Its only because Frickin Super Mario's in it. So my friend is the most retarded out of yours and anyone elses who commented here. Ha...?

  • Guess we all have friends who don't know a good game when they see one.

  • My friends dont like this game because of the lower graphics and because its an RPG. I showed him the game and he started laughing because he thought I was joking. He really needs to start playing the actual game.

  • If you don't care about it, then don't complain! Stop making dumb posts.

  • FFFFFFF....

    I really hate nintendo when it comes to Mother.

  • Welcome to the club.