Its staff contained involvement from a number of Japanese luminaries including writer Shigesato Itoi, songwriter Keiichi Suzuki, sound designer Hirokazu Tanaka, and future Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. The game faced a lengthy development time spanning five years. EarthBound was released in Japan on August 27, 1994, and in North America on June 5, 1995.

It is the second game of the Mother series, and the only one to be released in the English language. As Ness and his party of four, the player travels the world to collect melodies en route to defeating the evil alien force Giygas. English comparison, see my 430 page Legends of Localization book about EarthBound.EarthBound, known as Mother 2 in Japan, is a 1994 Japanese role-playing video game co-developed by Ape and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. This includes unused content, rarely-seen content, and other topics of interest outside the normal game.įor a very meticulously organized, curated, and commentated Japanese vs. I’ve also included many of the screenshots I took while doing research for my big book about EarthBound’s localization. This archive contains a motherlode of screenshots and save-states for MOTHER 2 and EarthBound.

For convenient viewing, most of the images I’ve gathered can be seen on the following 3 pages. I’m sharing these resources with the public, as I’m sure others will find them useful in someway, sometime.

This page features some of the raw, uncurated data and files I’ve assembled for Legends of Localization purposes.

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