/vr/ - Retro Games

thanks for not providing a link faget

>>2051487
This, post link OP it sounds great

>>2051487
>I can't use google

>>2051487
>>2051490
>>2051429
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2211/

This actually looks great. No one's talked about any bugs have they?

going to try it

The sped up battle text is a goodsend, battles go so much quicker.

>>2051612
Only "big" issue is that the flower tiles added to some scenery are solid apparently.

>In the original game, all of the flowers were inside gardens in the cities. And since players were never able to touch the flowers, the developers just left them solid. It’s weird, I know, but without a BB Hack update I won’t be able to make them passable.

The guy doing the hack had a handful of people beta test the hack for the past few weeks and it seems like he ironed out any bugs they found.

>>2051429
Cool, I might check this out next time I get a feel to play some JRPGs

The colour palette seems nice but they changed the doge too much

>>2051656
Yeah he looks like a dog now instead of standing on his hindlegs.

wait does it play for nes or gba?

>>2051813
NES

Just started it. seems ok, but I haven't encountered a single enemy outside yet, and I've been roaming Canary Village and Mother's Day.
Also this game reminded me how much ghost shit goes on. Did Gigyas have some sort of control over the ghosts?

I've been playing it for a couple hours so far, I really like it! M1 is one of my favorite NES games so it's nice to see something new like this come out

>>2051873
Yeah encounter rate seems abnormally low in the first few areas.

So is this now the definitive version rather than the GBA? Haven't played Mother 1 whatsoever.

Also, I heard someone's doing a remake of Mother with EarthBound graphics and the Tomato translation.
It's called--wait for it. "Mother Remake."
But it's still in progress.

>>2051956
It's not just Earthboung graphics, but the combat system as well. He's essentially remaking Mother 1 with Earthbound's engine.

And it's not going to be done for at least a decade.

>>2051959
Blah. Didn't know there was that much effort.
I have a Mother 3 repro on the way (yes, I know I can flash it but I'd rather spend my money on a dedicated cart), so I'd like to start the trilogy soon.
Wondering if I should play Mother from Mother 1 + 2 or this ROM hack.

>>2051973
This romhack is the same translation as the GBA one, and honestly I don't see any reason to touch the GBA port anymore. This one looks better than the GBA one with the touched up colors and sprites as well as added scenery, and the GBA port always had subpar audio compared to the NES.

>>2052024
The million dollar question though: is this viable for a first time playthrough?

>>2052060
According to the creator it is.

>>2051429

Honestly, this looks awesome as fuck and I'll probably give it a shot.

>>2052060
Why wouldn't it be? All it does is pretty up the game and stick Tomato's translation into the NES game. It doesn't make the game any harder or easier nor does it change anything mechanical. The reason the guy made it was because too many people complain about the original being "too dated" to play. So he made it more pleasing to the eye.

>>2052060
The sprites, maps, and stats are different from the original so if you want the "authentic" experience you should probably play 1+2.
Haven't played through this hack but I read he changed dialogue as well.

>>2052275
>I read he changed dialogue as well.
He changed it to the re-translation that Tomato did for 1+2. Which is what people consider the definitive script.

>>2052185
Actually it DOES make it easier; that was one of the states points of the hack. It "rebalances" EXP gain and lowers encounter rates in some areas.

That said, I kinda wish I could play with the original visuals/maps but with all of the gameplay/text enhancements. I suppose I could just do 1+2, even though the sound is shit.

Site crashes... Someone else upload?

>>2053290
>Actually it DOES make it easier; that was one of the states points of the hack. It "rebalances" EXP gain and lowers encounter rates in some areas.

Yeah it's pretty much the same as using the Easy Ring in the GBA translation. It speeds the game up a bit so you're not getting bogged down in boring fights constantly. I rather like it.

>>2051429
That's http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Community/PKHack/Mother-25th-Anniversary-Edition, right?
Wanted to try it, but the spritework was off-putting, especially with what I'm used to.

>>2051669
I always thought that was intentional.

Awesome. The NES music sounds better.

However, I've been through Mother 4 or 5 times already.

Okay, I must be doing something wrong. I've always patched my own ROMs, but when I start this one up in NEStopia I get a green screen with a glitched tune. Anyone having issues patching the ROM?

And Romhacking is down right now, of course...

This seems like a design mistake. the leveling is supposed to be easier going early on but I can't find any enemies to grind. I keep dying to zombies because those are the only things I can fight.

>>2053994
You have to patch the Earthbound Zero "prototype" rom, not a Mother (J) rom.

>>2054114
Not the guy you answered but you're talking about this then?

http://www.emuparadise.me/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_ROMs/Earthbound_(USA)_(Proto)/55375

>>2054114
Well, shit. There's my problem.

Thanks. Will do later.

>>2054114
>>2054153

Got it to work. Thanks!

>>2054127
Yeah, that's the one I used and it works beautifully.

Those trees look like shit

>general Mother/Earthbound thread
I'm on my first playthrough of the original MOTHER and I wanted to know, are the melodies needed for story progression or is it like a completionist thing?

>>2054530

They are needed for story proggression, but they don't need to be collected in a specific order (like in Earthbound, but in M1 everything feels less lineal).

The guitar man in Magicant's song gives you a hint of where every melody can be found.

by the way this hack doesn't look very good, I'll stick to the original.

>>2054531
>they don't need to be collected in a specific order
Oh, that's good to know. Thanks.

Even mother one had an aeris moment. Why doesn't anyone ever bring that up?

>>2054196
>those trees

pic related

>>2054551

Because Teddy didn't die.
He got better and actually became a successful rockstar afterwards.

yeah, it was ambiguous in the original Famicom version since it didn't have the extended ending, but to me it was evident he was just seriously injuried but not actually dead. I mean, they wouldn't let him just rest in bed if he was dead, they'd bury him or something. It was still a sad moment, especially the music that plays in the room he's in

>>2054551
Samefagging but another thing that personally grinds my gears is all the fanart for the final battle shows them as kids in earthbound. This isn't accurate.

>>2054560
I always thought they didn't bury him because they were all too young to understand that's how you do it. They might have thought death was like a deep sleep akin to a coma.

But I totally forgot about the extended ending so yeah, its almost certainly he's alive retcon or not.

>>2054567

There is an adult man in the same house though (who is supposedly taking care of Teddy), and you'd think Ninten knows how to bury people, I mean he's seen graves before, remember the flying men on magicant?
Also they aren't that young, Ninten is 12 or 13.

>>2054568
That guy is just a necrophiliac. Teddy was taking care of him, regardless if he knew it or not.

But yeah once again you bring facts and stuff to ruin my head canon.

>>2054531
I remember my 1st play through. Several times I felt after the dragon melody I had no clue where to find the other melodies for the longest time. I thought I went to Mt Itoi too early because of how hard it was.

I'm planning on doing my first playthrough O Mother/Earthbound Zero. Is it like most RPGs where there's a chance of losing something permanently so I'm obliged to use a walkthrough? (yes, I'm a completionist, fuck me).

Also, do I play the original or this Anniversary hack? I'm looking for a more balanced playthrough so I'm more inclined for the hacked one, anything else to consider on this?

>>2054531
>by the way this hack doesn't look very good, I'll stick to the original.

Gotta agree. I really wish though someone would take the Mother GBA translation and just shove it into the NES version though. The Earthbound Zero translation is really not that great, but the NES version looks and sounds so much better than the shitty GBA.

>>2051429
Great hack but those damn trees looks awful!

>>2051429
>>2054196
>>2054557
>>2057091
THOSE HORRENDOUS HIDEOUS TREES
Have the audacity to say is a improvement over the original hahaha

>>2058716

But it's not and that's the point.

>>2051429
enjoy the bugfest