/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7016010
I love Teddy, replacing the nerd weak kid with the strong, brute jock delinquent boss was a great gist in terms of plot (and how at the end, Lloyd ends up rescuing them, and taking his place back after Teddy got seemingly fatally wounded).
Teddy was easily a favorite of mine just for how strong he is. He comes extremely handy on that last cave before Mt. Itoi.
>>PROGRESS IS ENTIRELY USELESS, YOU'RE BACK BEFORE THE CAVES AND HAVE TO DO THEM OVER AGAIN.
I think the house in Mt. Itoi serves as a teleport spot, right? You don't have to go through the caves again, although I haven't played the game in a while, I don't remember that.

>>6520087
Sort of this. I'd argue in favor of the GBA version because it has a fixed run button (it no longer makes the NPCs move faster, so it feels like a proper run button rather than a FF debug tool), and added the EVE chip item on Mt. Itoi to make it a bit more fair without making it dumb. But GBA version comes with the cropped screen and worse audio, of course.
There's also a hack that brings back the original few enemy sprites that were censored, so you could look into that if you want.
In my opinion, you're good with the original US prototype "EarthBound Zero" though.
And if you like it, you can play the original JP Famicom version to see all the uncensored stuff and the original layouts (more difficult dungeons with more dead ends and more labyrinthic).
I don't recommend the "anniversary" hack, as it removes the original graphics for no reason and replaces them with some really amateur spritework. I'd also advice to stay away from the "easy ring" hack item because rather than make the game more enjoyable, it just gives you more exp per battle, making you very OP and taking away the challenge. Mother is not really a hard or brutal game anyway, it's a standard 8bit RPG. People who complain about its difficulty or random encounters are mostly people who aren't used to famicom-era RPGs.

>>6245549
>>6245686
damn I didn't know about this, pretty nifty

>Japanese fans had to wait until 2003 to see the complete ending of Mother 1 and know that Teddy was alive
Do you think it ruined the game for some japanese fans? I mean, the original japanese Mother had a very ominous, ambiguous ending that I think was a big part playing on the "don't cry until the end" tagline.

>>5437568
based

>>5088783
>Pippi that low

>>4978379
Ana and Lloyd are smalltime compared to Teddy and Pippi.

>>4848032
All things considered, I like the 3D on the N64 proto. It kind of looks like they were trying to make them seem like the claymodels. Of course, it looks very polygonal, but there's a lot of effort put into the faces of each character.
I hope someday the prototype will surface. I used to think it was impossible but if Pokemon Gold Beta appeared, maybe one day.

>>4759027
This. Too bad I don't think it was officially released as a figure, I think that's a custom.
But yeah ghost/ancestor of starman is the coolest.

>>4680050
Pic related and one of the Mother 1+2 Mr. Saturn keychains.
Also the Mother 3 Deluxe Box.
I'd like to have the OSTs.

>>4346121
I'd like to play a Streets of Rage or FInal Fight style beat 'em up featuring Teddy as the main character.