IF I am correct, Earthbound is the first game in the Mother series. I've been wanting to play it for years now, and after playing Toby Fox's Undertale, I'm even more determined to play it. So does anyone know how to obtain this game? Probably ROMs, but knowing the best would help. If the game's in English, that'd be great.

Thanks,

fivehead

Downloading a ROM would be illegal.
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp

Which platform would you prefer? From what I can see it's available on Wii U.

fivehead wrote:

IF I am correct, Earthbound is the first game in the Mother series. I've been wanting to play it for years now, and after playing Toby Fox's Undertale, I'm even more determined to play it. So does anyone know how to obtain this game? Probably ROMs, but knowing the best would help. If the game's in English, that'd be great.

Thanks,

fivehead

If ya have an SNES or a RetroDuo, you can get it in cartridge form at a local GameStop. They sell retro games now, I think Earthbound is available..

According to Wikipedia it's also available on Gameboy Advance.

Well great, the only one I have is a GBA. And I've heard they're not easy to find. I know ROMs are illegal but meehhhhh…

The legality of ROMs and emulation vary fairly considerably. One could argue that using them is more a matter of personal ethics given how little actual enforcement there is.

fivehead wrote:

Well great, the only one I have is a GBA. And I've heard they're not easy to find. I know ROMs are illegal but meehhhhh…

Just emulate. It's free and you won't go to prison. Also it's better than Undertale.

It's ten dollars on the Wii U eshop.
Emulation, eh..
Do what you can afford.

fivehead wrote:

IF I am correct, Earthbound is the first game in the Mother series. I've been wanting to play it for years now, and after playing Toby Fox's Undertale, I'm even more determined to play it. So does anyone know how to obtain this game? Probably ROMs, but knowing the best would help. If the game's in English, that'd be great.

Thanks,

fivehead

Wait, EarthBound Beginnings/Zero?
Just like the second game, it got a Wii U Virtual Console. The VC version is in English.

MSPA wrote:

fivehead wrote:

IF I am correct, Earthbound is the first game in the Mother series. I've been wanting to play it for years now, and after playing Toby Fox's Undertale, I'm even more determined to play it. So does anyone know how to obtain this game? Probably ROMs, but knowing the best would help. If the game's in English, that'd be great.

Thanks,

fivehead

Wait, EarthBound Beginnings/Zero?
Just like the second game, it got a Wii U Virtual Console. The VC version is in English.

The problem is I don't have a Wii U and won't be getting one anytime soon…

http://www.emuparadise.me/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_ROMs/Earthbound_(USA)_(Proto)__(~EarthBound_-_Easy)/55374

Here's a link to the english ROM with some improvements to lessen grinding to make your experience easier and more fun! don't click on the link just copy and go to the page.

If you emulate it, won't you get the anti-piracy version of the game?

chasethestickman wrote:

http://www.emuparadise.me/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_ROMs/Earthbound_(USA)_(Proto)__(~EarthBound_-_Easy)/55374

Here's a link to the english ROM with some improvements to lessen grinding to make your experience easier and more fun! don't click on the link just copy and go to the page.

hmm, that link is giving me a 404…

chasethestickman wrote:

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Here's a link to the english ROM with some improvements to lessen grinding to make your experience easier and more fun! don't click on the link just copy and go to the page.

I'd really recommend not linking, as it is technically piracy, and while the Internet Police probably won't care about someone downloading it, actively promoting piracy might get you on their bad list.

Earthbound Beginnings (Mother 1) and Earthbound (Mother 2) are both on the virtual console and Mother 3 (or as some start calling it, Earthbound 2) is a Japanese only game on the GBA.
I actually have the Japanese Mother 3 instead of the English translation. I don't read Japanese, but I still could somehow understand what was going on. And after I was done, I looked up all the names of the characters in English. But I think it would be better, if you're thinking about playing Mother 3, just wait for an English release. There's actually an English translation that i've heard about, but I haven't checked it out yet. So, for now, just wait for an English release or find that translation (Nintendo knows about it, and the creator of the translation said that it will stop the translation's production once Mother 3 gets a proper English release, so i'm pretty sure it's legal).

Earthbound Beginnings was origionally made for the NES, so if you think the visuals were “bad” unlike what you've seen, it's probably because the visuals you saw that were technically better were from it's sequel, Mother 2, or known in the USA Earthbound.

fivehead wrote:

chasethestickman wrote:

http://www.emuparadise.me/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_ROMs/Earthbound_(USA)_(Proto)__(~EarthBound_-_Easy)/55374

Here's a link to the english ROM with some improvements to lessen grinding to make your experience easier and more fun! don't click on the link just copy and go to the page.

hmm, that link is giving me a 404…

The forum's automatic URL parsing is struggling with it due to the square brackets. Copy and paste the address to make it work.

MrFlash67 wrote:

I'd really recommend not linking, as it is technically piracy, and while the Internet Police probably won't care about someone downloading it, actively promoting piracy might get you on their bad list.

Technically it depends on where you are in the world. I'm assuming the “internet police” thing is a joke though as of course that's not a real thing.