Using an Exit Mouse to Leave the Past

Note that this only works in MOTHER 1+2. It doesn't work with MOTHER 2 or EarthBound.

When the programmers ported the game to the GBA, they made a few little slip-ups. They made sure that you can't use the Ext Mouse in the Cave of the Past, but they forgot to make it so that you can't use it when you're in the intestine-like Giygas area at the very end. So you can use the Exit Mouse to leave!

Once you leave, you'll see that all of the places that are shown during the prayer cut scenes are already set up to play the prayer music and have the various sprites in place. For example, the Runaway Five are in Summers, though it only says "No problem here." when you try to talk to them.

This whole "leaving the past" thing was a rumor for many years, so I wanted to finally show that it IS true.

For the sake of understandy-ness, I used a menu patch in this video. It translates item text and misc. menu text. See here for details: http://earthboundcentral.com/2009/02/existing-mother-12-patches/

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• earthbound
• giygas
• trick
• exit
• mouse

[genowhril809]

Ness' Mom Prayed for the safety of Ness and his Friends

Ness:Hi Mom!

[VorpalStorm]

It's a little known fact that exit mice are masters of spacetime.

[chuggaavsme]

dam, I thought it only works in Mother 2 and it didn't work and it doesn't work in Mother 1+2

and so i didn't even bother trying that in Mother 1+2

[JasonZX12R]

@Kazlic The original was all in kana. I believe it was done to give the effect of someone telling a story. The only parts in Kanji were the narrative parts where the story overlay scrolled by.

[Kazlic]

Nice! With regards to the menu translation...is that why everything is in kana and not kangi?

[CrypticKamek]

How do they manage to screw that up when it's a RE-release? :P

Ah, some things I will never understand... I did try this on the SNES version just now, for kicks. Didn't work.

[Yusef1992]

Is nobody concerned that a bunch of ridiculously high leveled robots are roaming around Ness' house in place of the usual spiteful crows and runaway dogs?

[Hidraga]

omg!!!11ONE It's a pime taradox!!!

[davidhunt9]

@soyo1000 Its because the mouse is the son of chuck norris

[KilermonstauYa]

@PYC128 They had to go to the past and to do thhat they had to put there spirits into robots :P

[PYC128]

wait i dont understand why they're all robots wth