The scripting language is advanced – it does all the normal stuff you Seriously, try to edit the game’s text using PK Hack sometime to Other languages, some 16 years after the game’s release – it’s a huge This is mostly why there aren’t many translations of EarthBound into Here’s an older file that lists some of the control Scripting language, and even after all these years we don’t have itįully mapped out. To sound effects, to windows, to user input – it’s all just one giant Keep in mind that’s just ONE line in the game.Įverything in the game from text, to events, to cut scenes, to music, notĪvailable, I’ll have to figure it out by go back to the lab in it… Go, machine, go! Help, I can modify the machine to fly Dad, I mean Dr. Two… board, the Sky Runner will take to Dr. Here’s the problem, and it’s not The control codes parsed for your understanding: Non-programmers, so here’s a random snippet from Threed, with some of It’s not even appropriate to call it a “textįormat” – everything in EarthBound is pretty much one gigantic

It was possible with MOTHER 1 because theĮarthBound’s text format, on the other hand, is the absolute, 100% Script into the game?” For many other games, it WOULD be that easy – inįact, RPGOne did that with the MOTHER 1 side of MOTHER 1+2 shortly after What I hear a lot is, “Can’t you just copy and paste EarthBound’s Lot of work to fully translate the MOTHER 2 side of the game too. Translation the other day, so I should try to explain why it would be a The question’s come up a lot since I released my MOTHER 1+2 Interestingly, not all of these were obtained on purpose.April 30th, 2011 | EarthBound, Hacking, MOTHER 1+2

Also the finish is slightly different and the quality of the graphic in general is not up to snuff with the real ones. Obviously the presence of the Ly Rock graphic is a dead giveaway, but if that's not there the footswitch placement on the fakes is farther away from the edge of the pedal than on real ones. My assumption is that either they themselves were duped or they didn't realize people would so easily call them out on it.Īnyway, there are a few signs that one is a fake. I've seen a couple of them pop up on eBay at real KoT prices but the sellers removed the listings after I messaged them about it. Sometimes they have a little Ly Rock graphic screen printed on the front in the bottom right corner, but sometimes they don't. As in complete with the AnalogMan branding and everything. There's a company called Ly Rock that makes a straight up fake KoT.

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