My daughter made a new friend at school recently. Her new friend's nickname is Ninten. When she told me about it, I said "oh, that's the name of the first Earthbound's hero!" My kiddo said "yeah, I know. Ninten is CRAZY about everything Earthbound! She told me that she discovered it because of Smash and she went looking online for them because she couldn't buy them. That's how she learned about emulators and stuff like that." These girls are 16. The fandom is far from dead. :3
I'm very into retro gaming and have raised my kids fully immersed. Like, when potty training my now-teenagers, I said "okay, every time you go potty, you can have one hour with any video game we have in the house!" One chose Megaman X, the other chose Final Fantasy III. @@innocentzbat
i think that us mother fans want official recognition of the game because it would most certainly allow for a new generation of kids to experience the game for the first time
I mean, if one spams enough about mother 3 in nintendo directs some new people might get interested, tho it's annoying, fun fact about that tho, kit and krista (I think that was the names of those people) who worked with nintendo of course, said that the people there didn't know if the mother 3 translation thing was a meme or not, like if it was serious and people wanted it or it was all jokes
It's a difficult case with Mother 3, it seems like the game's OST would likely cause a myriad of lawsuits from various musicians and record labels against Nintendo over here in the US. Earthbound may have done the same thing with its OST but they got incredibly lucky because of various factors. Moon Channel, an attorney, does a deep dive into this perspective, a lawyers perspective on law is far more interesting than a common man's perspective.
Great vid! Totally agree with all the points made. Also, fun fact, the news of mother 3 getting another release in Japan made me realize how many games I’m missing out on due to the language barrier (ones without fan translations), thus inspiring me to restart my Japanese lessons!
As a kid, I was always so bummed that I couldn't play Mother 3 officially, but that's because I didn't have a computer I could use to play the fan translation. When I got a phone, I tried to play it on there, but it never felt right. Then, one day, I got a tablet with Smartview and I played the game with a pair of Joy-con connected to my tablet connected to a smart TV. It took nearly six years, but I finally managed to find a way to enjoy the game in full on the TV like I played the other games. And thus it became one of my favorite games of all time.
I really didn’t expect things to hit the fan when I showed the news to you, I just thought it was great that it finally made it to the Switch in some way. ESPECIALLY with how easy it is to get the Japanese apps, all it takes is a language/region change and boom! It’s how I got to play the Super Famicom version of Kirby’s Star Stacker until they finally put it on US NSO. Thank you Switch for being region-free. Excellent video as always
Oh hey Duke, funny seeing you on my recommended! Nice video I only got big into the Mother series recently and while I'm a bit disappointed we're probably never going to see an official translation. I'm glad the community cared enough to make one, not every community is lucky to have such collaborative effort and I'm very excited to play it when I finish the other two games. One thing I am ecstatic about is Hobonichi announcing worldwide shipping!!! I was very worried when they were first announced, that I'd be jumping through some crazy hoops to get those plushies :P
I recall hearing someone who worked on the fan translation actually say that they did get a cease and desist while they were working on it, which the team just ignored as they couldn't confirm it was legitimate. We can't say for sure with that they never did anything, they may have just not seen it as worthwhile to go through with the threat (if it was even actually them)
Honestly, I didn’t really mind that it was in Japanese. I just looked up an English version of the game’s script which also served as a guide throughout the game. That’s how I’m already on chapter 7. Edit: I beat the game lol
@@emberavenge7162there is a website called GameFAQ where you can look up information, guides, and other cool stuff for a ton of games. I personally use it because it has information to some more game stuff you might not regularly find on RUclips. In this case, I looked up the English script for mother 3 on GameFAQ. Not only did it translate the game, but it also served as a guide on what to do. I highly suggest using this website because it is very useful.
@@Kdekalcio it was fun. it was also sad. pretty good game, probably best one in this series. battle mechanics were fun. I would probably give it an 9.4/10
@@JimmyDogfishTheSecond oh I thought you were a newcomer to the series, heh. Either way I'm glad that you enjoyed it. I have pretty much the same thoughts as you, heh, I think my only complaint may be that the Seven Needles got introduced too late in the story, but it's still pretty good. ^_^
Honestly, I’m just happy the game is on the switch. It’s impressive that Mother 3 has a great fan translation in the first place as (not as an insult to other fan translations) others aren’t on the same level as Mother 3’s. I’m hopeful Mother 3 will have a western official localization in the future (by sheer hope, by the looks of it, seems like all of the chances are void). I honestly don’t mind if Mother 3 doesn’t get a official localization by the time the earth ends since we have the Fan translation in the meantime.
I think this is a great video. I believe you've expressed some important ideas. However, if there's anything I've learned from the Mother series, it's that hope isn't something we should let go of. You can call me Pollyanna, I believe.
What's interesting but also disappointing is at one point it seems Nintendo was going to attempt to release an officially localized mother 3 I think way back around the Wii days... but couldn't because of one small issue. You see at the time for no apparent reason at all, almost the complete soundtrack for mother 3 was released on music streaming platforms (along with a short official arrangements album if I remember correctly) only for both to disappear about a year later. Why were they taken down? Well it turns out that the soundtrack has WAY too many musical homages to many well known songs, and most copyright systems are very unkind to such tributes. In Japan they can get away with this no problem because Japan's court system is... weird, to say the least, which is also why the albums remain on the streaming platforms in Japan only. It's possible Nintendo may have been testing to see if they could get away with putting out the music without any issues, but they got hit with strikes. Basically what this means is Nintendo either has to get permission to use all the tribute melodies or have new compositions made to replace them, which they are never going to do unless they think it is absolutely without a doubt worth the headache.
Itoi does not legally prevent Nintendo from independently issuing takedowns. The IP is co-ownership not solely Itoi's. Co-owners do not require the involvement of other co-owners to issue takedowns. Nintendo chooses not to target them.
honestly i think if mother 3 ever got a official translation it may end up being worse then the fan one plus it would make it a lot harder to find the fan one with nintendo being nintendo i need to one day go back and beat mother 3 as i stopped during the final chapter i did not want the game to end its pretty great
I wonder if an official Translation would bother fixing Duster's sfx bug. Or what they would do for the font. The fan translation is truly a marvel and a complete labor of love; I honestly believe Nintendo offcial would only be worse
I don't understand why the NES game would get translated as Earthbound Beginnings and not the most demanded entry. That's what doesn't make any sense to me.
Yeah that would be confusing if that is what they did. In actuality though, Mother 1 had already been fully translated all the way back during the NES days, but because of factors such as the upcoming release of the SNES NoA ultimately never ended up releasing the game. So tl;dr: Earthbound Beginnings as an English Translation has just been sitting in a vault at Nintendo for years, and then they for some reason suddenly decided to release it on the eshop. It did feel like an easy first step to gauge interest in the series that could lead into a M3 Translation, especially with the attention given to it during E3 around that time, but ultimately nothing came to pass. I suspect they might have had something more planned but for one reason or another M3 has once again been wrought through development hell
My dad got EarthBound when he was a kid, and he got me into EarthBound when I was a kid. I eventually played the whole trilogy, and I still think Ninten looks like Charlie Brown. MOTHER 3 not being for US folks is something I've grown used to up to this point, mainly because it felt normal up to this point, especially considering that it was made in 2006 for a console that was rendered obsolete by the Wii and DS at the time
Literally how? It's the most accessible it could ever be. I get not everyone has a laptop, but phones have emulators too, and it runs great on them too.
@@batdogduke it keeps the franchise from becoming more popular. When you talk to a friend and tell them Mother 3 is your favorite game, they’re gonna ask how they can play it. If you tell them it’s Japan only and that they need to download a rom and patch it they're far less likely to play it. If it was localized however you can just tell them to play it on switch.
@@pablo8524 Idk that's a pretty easy process. Compare it to fire emblem, where 5 entries have no official english release. I've seen people straight up forget that fire emblem binding blade (roy's game) never got an official release because people have been playing it on their computers along with the other game boy entries for so long.
@@pablo8524 bro can't do a process that you can easily do by searching how to download a ROM and learning how to applying the translation patch on the youtube. If you doesn't want to do this, then that's the easiest way to say that you doesn't really want to play....
I feel sad that Nintendo has essentially confirmed that they will never translate the game to English I’m sad because an English translation, despite being worse than the current fan translation, would make it more accessible to western audiences At the moment if someone is interested in playing the game that Lucas originated from then they either have to 1. Make a Japanese account and learn to read Japanese 2. Have a computer, be informed that there is a fan translation and find the fan translation download But an official translation would not only simplify the process to “buy Nintendo Online, download and open Gameboy emulator” but the advertising would allow people to discover Mother 3 or even spot Mother 3 on the Gameboy emulator as they are about to play a different emulator game like Minish Cap So in short, I’m sad for no official translation because an official translation would allow more people to discover and play mother 3, and some of those people might even become fans
@@BigAlvideos101 well confirming such a thing is just bad PR, “hey, we are officially announcing that there will never be a localisation of Mother 3”. Such an announcement would probably also have people pestering Shigesato Itoi to “change Nintendo’s mind” which I am sure those at Nintendo do not want to happen. In short the Switch era was Mother 3’s best opportunity to get a translation, we had gotten an English translation for a fire emblem game that had never gotten a translation before, Nintendo Online is the easiest way to shadow drop old games, there is no more region locks so people are able to play the Japanese version of Mother 3, and there is a fan translation that the team behind the translation gave Nintendo permission to use their translation (and I assume has taken every legal opportunity to let Nintendo know that they can have the translation) so no resources needs to be spent on Nintendo’s side. But despite everything going in Mother 3’s favour Nintendo still decide not to localise the game so I extremely doubt they would localise the game when the conditions aren’t as favourable as they are/were with the switch
When I heard about this, I honestly didn't feeling anything. We've seen Japan exclusive time n time again and we all know MOTHER 3's localization story, so I didn't expect any more or less. Atleast we got profile icons for NSO 🤩🤩🤩🤩
I downloaded mGBA and the rom for mother 3 with the translation hack and was playing it within ten minutes. MGBA does all the work for you, all you have to do is download it ^^
What many do not seem to know is that Itoi co-owns the rights to the Mother franchise (It’s why he is the only person credited by name in the copyright section in the Smash Bros. series). So him basically saying that he can’t make that decision and to ask Nintendo not him for an official translation, seems not entirely truthful here.
Yeah yeah, it's easy to be content with the Fan Translation as an existing fan. But it's not for us. It's because we cannot get our more casual friends to play it, because "You have to download an emulator" and "Install a ROM Patch" sounds like too much work. If only they knew what they were missing out on. That is what is frustrating about the situation. Instead, they sit on the fence without giving any official clarification on it's status.
As much as I like the Earthbound series, Nintendo fumbled any chance of me getting a Nintendo Switch when they decided to charge for online play, as such I don't see myself ever playing an official translation even if they fix joycon drift. Unless they start selling their games on Steam and GOG, I'll just stick to working with an imported Japanese cartridge as my base.
I've already played Mother 3 through the gan translation and therefore have no real need for an official english version, but having one would likely cause many more people to pick up the game who otherwise wouldn't, which I think would be a good thing. More people to join the community! But if anything, I'm more bummed that it being on nso means we likely won't get a full blown remake either, at least not until nintnedo makes a system that isn't backwards compatible with the switch, which I don't see happening for a long time... If anyone here hasn't played Mother 3, go do it! It's a great game... and the only mother game I've actually finished lol (Preferably on something with very little input lag like a 3ds because of the rhythm thing in battles)
_"it being on nso means we likely won't get a full blown remake either"_ I wouldn't be so sure of that, at least generally speaking. There's a remake for Links Awakening on the Switch but they had no problem releasing the original (DX) version on NSO too. They also released the 1st 3 Mario Partys on NSO, despite Superstars acting as a remake/compilation of them.
In my mind the Mother 3 Localization ship sailed when the game came out on the Wii U in Japan but not America. We finally got the first two games in series and it was practically celebrated, Mother 3? Nothing. I'm not surprised that it's still Japan Only but one thing I found interesting while playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, If you look at Lucas' "In his series" tab it refers to his hometown as "Tazmily" NOT "Tazumilli" like it does in his trophy description in Brawl. TAZMILY. Just like the fan translation.
I think so? I don’t have the expansion pack but I changed my NSO account to Japan which has allowed me to access the mother 3 icons. If you change your existing account to Japan you should be able to access it
yes, exactly! I find it kind of annoying, when people keep begging for an official translation, because they just dismiss the fan translation, which has so much love and free work put into it.
Not true. Many can be aware of it but just may not have the means or ability to get the translation playable. Or they could just have moral/security issues with downloading stuff like this and just want an official release so they can buy and play it like anything else without the extra hassle.
To be honest, I rather not have a localization of Mother 3 as there is already a fan translation available and plus, I don't trust the NoA localization team trying to push their nonsense politics into a perfectly good game.
one thing that I think holds nintendo back from bringing Mother 3 over to the west is the Magypsies, We Mother/Earthbound fans have no problem with them for the most part but I honest to god could see a huge uproar in the LGBTBBQ community about their portrayal
That is misinformation. Reggie said that the content wasn't an issue, it didn't make sense from a business perspective. Makes sense, a lot of copyright infringement could be targeted and Nintendo doesn't want to waste their time on something if the reward isn't worth it. The magypsies were never a problem
This is backwards. There’s nothing wrong with their portrayal. With recent politics, LGBTQ issues, specifically trans issues, Americans have been especially violent over their opinions on gender. The problem is not fellow LGBTQ people, it’s transphobes who would be upset over the existence of canonically non binary characters in, in what their uneducated minds, is a “kids game”.
This is backwards. Why would fellow LGBTQ people have a problem with canonically non binary characters? The issue is with Americans, and it’s similar to why they cut so much from the other mother games in their localizations. Americans get offended over little things like smoking and blood. With politics the way they are in the US, anti LGBTQ and especially anti trans sentiment is very high. These are the people who would be mad at a group of canonically non binary characters. Any real mother fan would recognize the characters for who and what they are, lol.
My daughter made a new friend at school recently. Her new friend's nickname is Ninten. When she told me about it, I said "oh, that's the name of the first Earthbound's hero!"
My kiddo said "yeah, I know. Ninten is CRAZY about everything Earthbound! She told me that she discovered it because of Smash and she went looking online for them because she couldn't buy them. That's how she learned about emulators and stuff like that."
These girls are 16. The fandom is far from dead. :3
Aaaaaaaaaa!!! That's so cute oh my God
Yeah, I'm going to share your video with them. I know it'll make them happy
Aww that’s great
I'd be the proudest darn mother if my kids were fans.. Bless you and your daughter's heart💜💜😭😭
I'm very into retro gaming and have raised my kids fully immersed. Like, when potty training my now-teenagers, I said "okay, every time you go potty, you can have one hour with any video game we have in the house!" One chose Megaman X, the other chose Final Fantasy III. @@innocentzbat
i think that us mother fans want official recognition of the game because it would most certainly allow for a new generation of kids to experience the game for the first time
I mean, if one spams enough about mother 3 in nintendo directs some new people might get interested, tho it's annoying, fun fact about that tho, kit and krista (I think that was the names of those people) who worked with nintendo of course, said that the people there didn't know if the mother 3 translation thing was a meme or not, like if it was serious and people wanted it or it was all jokes
It's a difficult case with Mother 3, it seems like the game's OST would likely cause a myriad of lawsuits from various musicians and record labels against Nintendo over here in the US. Earthbound may have done the same thing with its OST but they got incredibly lucky because of various factors.
Moon Channel, an attorney, does a deep dive into this perspective, a lawyers perspective on law is far more interesting than a common man's perspective.
Great vid! Totally agree with all the points made. Also, fun fact, the news of mother 3 getting another release in Japan made me realize how many games I’m missing out on due to the language barrier (ones without fan translations), thus inspiring me to restart my Japanese lessons!
You should try the yokai watch series. The first 3 are in English but the fourth one never got localized
I've actually played the first three and am working on playing the fourth!
As a kid, I was always so bummed that I couldn't play Mother 3 officially, but that's because I didn't have a computer I could use to play the fan translation. When I got a phone, I tried to play it on there, but it never felt right. Then, one day, I got a tablet with Smartview and I played the game with a pair of Joy-con connected to my tablet connected to a smart TV. It took nearly six years, but I finally managed to find a way to enjoy the game in full on the TV like I played the other games. And thus it became one of my favorite games of all time.
that google-translated tweet by itoi is actually more kind & sincere than it made it sound lol
If you had to rephrase it to have the proper tone, how would you make it sound?
Everyone wants this game to be translated. I want a damn remake!
Both sounds good xd
Or de-make and release earthbound 64 lmao
I really didn’t expect things to hit the fan when I showed the news to you, I just thought it was great that it finally made it to the Switch in some way. ESPECIALLY with how easy it is to get the Japanese apps, all it takes is a language/region change and boom! It’s how I got to play the Super Famicom version of Kirby’s Star Stacker until they finally put it on US NSO.
Thank you Switch for being region-free.
Excellent video as always
Good video, been excited to see you make something about it since Mother 3 came on to switch online in Japan.
Everything you said in the begining portion of this video is exactly how important the Mother series is to me as well.
Oh hey Duke, funny seeing you on my recommended! Nice video
I only got big into the Mother series recently and while I'm a bit disappointed we're probably never going to see an official translation. I'm glad the community cared enough to make one, not every community is lucky to have such collaborative effort and I'm very excited to play it when I finish the other two games.
One thing I am ecstatic about is Hobonichi announcing worldwide shipping!!! I was very worried when they were first announced, that I'd be jumping through some crazy hoops to get those plushies :P
This video is amazing! I honestly am hopeful for the future of the series but your commentary and editing were stellar. Keep up the creative work!
I recall hearing someone who worked on the fan translation actually say that they did get a cease and desist while they were working on it, which the team just ignored as they couldn't confirm it was legitimate. We can't say for sure with that they never did anything, they may have just not seen it as worthwhile to go through with the threat (if it was even actually them)
Honestly, I didn’t really mind that it was in Japanese. I just looked up an English version of the game’s script which also served as a guide throughout the game. That’s how I’m already on chapter 7.
Edit: I beat the game lol
I'm interested. Can you please go more into detail how you accomplished that?
@@emberavenge7162there is a website called GameFAQ where you can look up information, guides, and other cool stuff for a ton of games. I personally use it because it has information to some more game stuff you might not regularly find on RUclips. In this case, I looked up the English script for mother 3 on GameFAQ. Not only did it translate the game, but it also served as a guide on what to do. I highly suggest using this website because it is very useful.
So, what did you think?
@@Kdekalcio it was fun. it was also sad. pretty good game, probably best one in this series. battle mechanics were fun. I would probably give it an 9.4/10
@@JimmyDogfishTheSecond oh I thought you were a newcomer to the series, heh. Either way I'm glad that you enjoyed it. I have pretty much the same thoughts as you, heh, I think my only complaint may be that the Seven Needles got introduced too late in the story, but it's still pretty good. ^_^
Even if Nintendo made an official translation, the fan translation would still be the best way to play it in English.
yeah probably lol
Still worth a shot though. To each their own regardless.
Honestly, I’m just happy the game is on the switch. It’s impressive that Mother 3 has a great fan translation in the first place as (not as an insult to other fan translations) others aren’t on the same level as Mother 3’s. I’m hopeful Mother 3 will have a western official localization in the future (by sheer hope, by the looks of it, seems like all of the chances are void). I honestly don’t mind if Mother 3 doesn’t get a official localization by the time the earth ends since we have the Fan translation in the meantime.
I think this is a great video. I believe you've expressed some important ideas. However, if there's anything I've learned from the Mother series, it's that hope isn't something we should let go of. You can call me Pollyanna, I believe.
What's interesting but also disappointing is at one point it seems Nintendo was going to attempt to release an officially localized mother 3 I think way back around the Wii days... but couldn't because of one small issue. You see at the time for no apparent reason at all, almost the complete soundtrack for mother 3 was released on music streaming platforms (along with a short official arrangements album if I remember correctly) only for both to disappear about a year later. Why were they taken down? Well it turns out that the soundtrack has WAY too many musical homages to many well known songs, and most copyright systems are very unkind to such tributes. In Japan they can get away with this no problem because Japan's court system is... weird, to say the least, which is also why the albums remain on the streaming platforms in Japan only. It's possible Nintendo may have been testing to see if they could get away with putting out the music without any issues, but they got hit with strikes. Basically what this means is Nintendo either has to get permission to use all the tribute melodies or have new compositions made to replace them, which they are never going to do unless they think it is absolutely without a doubt worth the headache.
I suppose one should recall and take solace in, itoi san is the sole reason nintendo hasn’t ever been able to nor allowed take the fan patch offline
The man's a legend indeed
Itoi does not legally prevent Nintendo from independently issuing takedowns. The IP is co-ownership not solely Itoi's. Co-owners do not require the involvement of other co-owners to issue takedowns. Nintendo chooses not to target them.
honestly i think if mother 3 ever got a official translation it may end up being worse then the fan one plus it would make it a lot harder to find the fan one with nintendo being nintendo i need to one day go back and beat mother 3 as i stopped during the final chapter i did not want the game to end its pretty great
I wonder if an official Translation would bother fixing Duster's sfx bug.
Or what they would do for the font.
The fan translation is truly a marvel and a complete labor of love; I honestly believe Nintendo offcial would only be worse
i can't add anything upon your words
i agree
Thank god I am not the only one who isn't bothered about the Japanese release on the Switch
Oh trust me, I was, but I got over it after a day of deep thought, lol
When i think about nintendo i think greed tbh not The games first
I don't understand why the NES game would get translated as Earthbound Beginnings and not the most demanded entry. That's what doesn't make any sense to me.
Yeah that would be confusing if that is what they did.
In actuality though, Mother 1 had already been fully translated all the way back during the NES days, but because of factors such as the upcoming release of the SNES NoA ultimately never ended up releasing the game.
So tl;dr: Earthbound Beginnings as an English Translation has just been sitting in a vault at Nintendo for years, and then they for some reason suddenly decided to release it on the eshop.
It did feel like an easy first step to gauge interest in the series that could lead into a M3 Translation, especially with the attention given to it during E3 around that time, but ultimately nothing came to pass.
I suspect they might have had something more planned but for one reason or another M3 has once again been wrought through development hell
@@spazerdazer8421 oh I didn't know that. Thanks for the info! So it's similar to the Star Fox 2 situation.
I've finished this game in JP already that's how fond I am with the game
Bro's hate us Americans 💀
The games are literally about Americans.
i hear "ashy" here on YT may be either standing in for irikachana's MOTHER 3 remasters/restorations or completely taking that over
My dad got EarthBound when he was a kid, and he got me into EarthBound when I was a kid.
I eventually played the whole trilogy, and I still think Ninten looks like Charlie Brown.
MOTHER 3 not being for US folks is something I've grown used to up to this point, mainly because it felt normal up to this point, especially considering that it was made in 2006 for a console that was rendered obsolete by the Wii and DS at the time
I don’t like the “just play fan translation” argument it just keeps the franchise more and more inaccessible
Literally how? It's the most accessible it could ever be. I get not everyone has a laptop, but phones have emulators too, and it runs great on them too.
@@batdogduke it keeps the franchise from becoming more popular. When you talk to a friend and tell them Mother 3 is your favorite game, they’re gonna ask how they can play it. If you tell them it’s Japan only and that they need to download a rom and patch it they're far less likely to play it. If it was localized however you can just tell them to play it on switch.
@@pablo8524 You can play Mother 3 on your browser, so I just send them the link to that if they ever ask how to play it.
@@pablo8524 Idk that's a pretty easy process. Compare it to fire emblem, where 5 entries have no official english release. I've seen people straight up forget that fire emblem binding blade (roy's game) never got an official release because people have been playing it on their computers along with the other game boy entries for so long.
@@pablo8524 bro can't do a process that you can easily do by searching how to download a ROM and learning how to applying the translation patch on the youtube. If you doesn't want to do this, then that's the easiest way to say that you doesn't really want to play....
Literally i wish nintendo would just pay the guy who translated mother 3 and produce his translation
They offered the translation to them freely and they were still turned down.
@@ians_parks still he put so much hard work into it he deserves it
then there is the F zero fans, oh the F zero fans...
That's me, I'm also F-Zero fans 🫠
@@batdogduke Your are THE F zero fans? like ALL OF THEM?
I feel sad that Nintendo has essentially confirmed that they will never translate the game to English
I’m sad because an English translation, despite being worse than the current fan translation, would make it more accessible to western audiences
At the moment if someone is interested in playing the game that Lucas originated from then they either have to
1. Make a Japanese account and learn to read Japanese
2. Have a computer, be informed that there is a fan translation and find the fan translation download
But an official translation would not only simplify the process to “buy Nintendo Online, download and open Gameboy emulator” but the advertising would allow people to discover Mother 3 or even spot Mother 3 on the Gameboy emulator as they are about to play a different emulator game like Minish Cap
So in short, I’m sad for no official translation because an official translation would allow more people to discover and play mother 3, and some of those people might even become fans
They've never confirmed such a thing though.
@@BigAlvideos101 well confirming such a thing is just bad PR, “hey, we are officially announcing that there will never be a localisation of Mother 3”. Such an announcement would probably also have people pestering Shigesato Itoi to “change Nintendo’s mind” which I am sure those at Nintendo do not want to happen.
In short the Switch era was Mother 3’s best opportunity to get a translation, we had gotten an English translation for a fire emblem game that had never gotten a translation before, Nintendo Online is the easiest way to shadow drop old games, there is no more region locks so people are able to play the Japanese version of Mother 3, and there is a fan translation that the team behind the translation gave Nintendo permission to use their translation (and I assume has taken every legal opportunity to let Nintendo know that they can have the translation) so no resources needs to be spent on Nintendo’s side. But despite everything going in Mother 3’s favour Nintendo still decide not to localise the game so I extremely doubt they would localise the game when the conditions aren’t as favourable as they are/were with the switch
@@typemasters2871 An official localization was already confirmed a couple of years ago, and only hasn't happened due to COVID.
following orders because this video is good
So this ain't a remaster or remake announcement..
Welp, back to the drawing board
In some other magical universe, they are still asking for this same game to be localized over into the US. Glad I wasn't born in that universe.
When I heard about this, I honestly didn't feeling anything. We've seen Japan exclusive time n time again and we all know MOTHER 3's localization story, so I didn't expect any more or less. Atleast we got profile icons for NSO 🤩🤩🤩🤩
TRUE but I'm terrified Nintendo's gonna pull a Nintendo and region lock the Mother3 ones
It would be hilarious but heartbreaking
We want a translation so more people will be introduced to the series, and I also can’t set up an emulator for the life of me.
I downloaded mGBA and the rom for mother 3 with the translation hack and was playing it within ten minutes. MGBA does all the work for you, all you have to do is download it ^^
What many do not seem to know is that Itoi co-owns the rights to the Mother franchise (It’s why he is the only person credited by name in the copyright section in the Smash Bros. series). So him basically saying that he can’t make that decision and to ask Nintendo not him for an official translation, seems not entirely truthful here.
Co-owners would need to be in agreement before moving forward on new projects. Itoi is on board with a localization, Nintendo isn't.
Yeah yeah, it's easy to be content with the Fan Translation as an existing fan. But it's not for us. It's because we cannot get our more casual friends to play it, because "You have to download an emulator" and "Install a ROM Patch" sounds like too much work. If only they knew what they were missing out on. That is what is frustrating about the situation. Instead, they sit on the fence without giving any official clarification on it's status.
paper mario ttyd is my favorite and my first, and i am happy it get a remake
As much as I like the Earthbound series, Nintendo fumbled any chance of me getting a Nintendo Switch when they decided to charge for online play, as such I don't see myself ever playing an official translation even if they fix joycon drift. Unless they start selling their games on Steam and GOG, I'll just stick to working with an imported Japanese cartridge as my base.
I've already played Mother 3 through the gan translation and therefore have no real need for an official english version, but having one would likely cause many more people to pick up the game who otherwise wouldn't, which I think would be a good thing. More people to join the community! But if anything, I'm more bummed that it being on nso means we likely won't get a full blown remake either, at least not until nintnedo makes a system that isn't backwards compatible with the switch, which I don't see happening for a long time...
If anyone here hasn't played Mother 3, go do it! It's a great game... and the only mother game I've actually finished lol (Preferably on something with very little input lag like a 3ds because of the rhythm thing in battles)
I believe it would be wiser for Nintendo to just localize the game. Things won't end up well if they remain stingy.
_"it being on nso means we likely won't get a full blown remake either"_
I wouldn't be so sure of that, at least generally speaking.
There's a remake for Links Awakening on the Switch but they had no problem
releasing the original (DX) version on NSO too.
They also released the 1st 3 Mario Partys on NSO,
despite Superstars acting as a remake/compilation of them.
@@King_Luigi Exactly. Nothing risked, nothing gained. At this point, I don't care what the haters think if Mother 3 were to be localized.
Just play the emulated fan translation for 18 years running. Embarrassing Nintendo that this fan translation is 18 years old
The fan translation isn’t as old as the game itself, which turns 18
In my mind the Mother 3 Localization ship sailed when the game came out on the Wii U in Japan but not America. We finally got the first two games in series and it was practically celebrated, Mother 3? Nothing. I'm not surprised that it's still Japan Only but one thing I found interesting while playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, If you look at Lucas' "In his series" tab it refers to his hometown as "Tazmily" NOT "Tazumilli" like it does in his trophy description in Brawl. TAZMILY. Just like the fan translation.
if you wanna play mother 3 on Japanese so bad just use an emulator on your 100 dollar school Chromebook
they would never rerelease it in the US w an english translation. if anything we might get chibi remake of earthbound and then back 2 nothing lol
3:19 Not really true. Itoi still owns the IP, but Nintendo still owns the games
Can you play other’s region nso games with one local subscription?
I think so? I don’t have the expansion pack but I changed my NSO account to Japan which has allowed me to access the mother 3 icons. If you change your existing account to Japan you should be able to access it
The Switch is region free so I just use my Japanese Switch account
I have been playing Mother 3 since Nintendo released it on the Switch
yes, exactly!
I find it kind of annoying, when people keep begging for an official translation, because they just dismiss the fan translation, which has so much love and free work put into it.
Not true. Many can be aware of it but just may not have the means or ability to get the translation playable.
Or they could just have moral/security issues with downloading stuff like this and just want
an official release so they can buy and play it like anything else without the extra hassle.
Well, might as well learn Japanese...ゲームボーイアドバンスをします Or whatever...
To be honest, I rather not have a localization of Mother 3 as there is already a fan translation available and plus, I don't trust the NoA localization team trying to push their nonsense politics into a perfectly good game.
Such as?
In other words just learn Japanese
Or, y'know, get the fan translation.
Or just look up an English script
How condescending of you
one thing that I think holds nintendo back from bringing Mother 3 over to the west is the Magypsies, We Mother/Earthbound fans have no problem with them for the most part but I honest to god could see a huge uproar in the LGBTBBQ community about their portrayal
That is misinformation. Reggie said that the content wasn't an issue, it didn't make sense from a business perspective. Makes sense, a lot of copyright infringement could be targeted and Nintendo doesn't want to waste their time on something if the reward isn't worth it. The magypsies were never a problem
Replace Magypsies with Music and it'll be legitimately more understandable. There's too much copyright infringement for Nintendo to deal with.
Nothing risked, nothing gained. If people get offended over the Magypsies, then that's their problem.
This is backwards. There’s nothing wrong with their portrayal. With recent politics, LGBTQ issues, specifically trans issues, Americans have been especially violent over their opinions on gender. The problem is not fellow LGBTQ people, it’s transphobes who would be upset over the existence of canonically non binary characters in, in what their uneducated minds, is a “kids game”.
This is backwards. Why would fellow LGBTQ people have a problem with canonically non binary characters? The issue is with Americans, and it’s similar to why they cut so much from the other mother games in their localizations. Americans get offended over little things like smoking and blood. With politics the way they are in the US, anti LGBTQ and especially anti trans sentiment is very high. These are the people who would be mad at a group of canonically non binary characters.
Any real mother fan would recognize the characters for who and what they are, lol.