The "Flintstones feel" mentioned by a playtester seems to tie into the tone and art style. A lot of mid 1900s Hanna Barbara cartoons had a dirty, empty look to them because of how quickly they were rushed out. Considering that the MOTHER 3 N64 team was very inexperienced in 3D, and looking at what little public screenshots and footage there is, it seems that this is what he meant- it has a primitive look and feel due to the inexperience of the team behind it.
My pet theory is that he literally just said that because the main character's name is Flint. His mind made the subliminal connection between Flint=Flintstones and, since he wasn't really paying close attention (seriously, read Brandon Sechter's full account, he could hardly care less about being one of the few people to ever get to play EB64), that was one of the main things that stood out to him when recounting his experience all those years later.
I have a strong feeling Kumatora was supposed to die like the other Magipsies in the release game, given her unused animation. Makes more sense now how Flint would be present in the final dungeon.
Really do hope the gods shine upon us and a Earthbound 64 prototype is found so we can see it in all of its glory. Awesome video, I love hearing about this game and what could have been, also I really like your pfp lol.
@@JosuhI don't think so. Zelda 64's beta had Link in towns with big buildings because Nintendo was testing the limits of how far they could push the hardware. I assume MOTHER 64 would have more realistic expectations and have the buildings scale down.
Great vid. the mother 3 we got was still a masterpiece but man it seemed as though the n64 version was alot more ambitious in its scale what would it have been like? I find it fascinating we've never stumbled upon images of the masked man or Porky. How would things be different if this game released.
In terms of the Eagleland/New Pork City screenshots, my belief was always that rather than Leder just vaguely telling you that the people of the Nowhere Islands moved there because they couldn’t live anywhere else, you were actually at one point going to travel beyond the Nowhere Islands and see/learn in greater detail what happened to the rest of the world that caused everyone to have to move to the Nowhere Islands. That’s always been my theory though the New Pork City thing makes sense too
He still kind of did in the final version. After the Dragon seemingly destroys the world, you can move around in the END screen and talk to different characters you've met throughout the game. You wouldn't know to do that unless you started randomly pressing buttons on the END screen. Most players would probably shut the game off after seeing the END screen and assumed that was it, so the game continuing after the END screen could be Itoi's way of betraying the player.
@@AluminumFusion22Actually that was why he changed it. Original was supposed to cut to white, leaving player dumbfounded and sad. He described how it was meant to symbolize seeing morning sun after long dark night. GBA version still does end on white screen with the metal removed and earth being alive again
This game has me crazy. That french magazine stated that it would launch some day. My theory is that either it would've not been as long as the final game, or bits of the story were changed/later added on the final GBA launch. Probably the story was more lighthearted, or maybe it was just the same.
Here's an interesting observation: Notice how the new age retro hippie is shown travelling in a pig drawn wagon in one screenshot? There's unused text in the final game about a healer living in Item guy's wagon....
This was a really good and interesting video! EarthBound 64's one of those betas that really interests me tbh, and I definitely think you did a good job explaining the iceberg
It's so bizarre that Nintendo seems to have some kind of obligation to keep any info pertaining to Mother 3 64 under wraps. What's the harm in releasing some concept art at least? I feel like Nintendo has some kind of weird idea that showing any footage of a game prior to it's release would undermine the final product in some way, as there is so little development information about any of Nintendo's games that was actually released by Nintendo. What a shame, and I hope someone finds a prototype one day. I really hope a collector isn't sitting on a prototype full of EPROMs, or a N64DD disk. The lifespan of the data on those is finite, and we've seen collectors hoard prototypes thinking only about their value and giving no thought to preservation.
17:46 I feel like there’s still a prototype out there, there has to be. My guess is that maybe Itoi has it or it’s in Hal’s archives. Nintendo themselves are really good about archiving prototypes, betas, and source codes if the giga leaks was anything to go off of. I’d say our chances of seeing it depends on a potential new giga leak. If they found other lost prototypes of games we haven’t seen before, then I have no doubt in my mind that Mother 64 is in their archives.
I still dream of the day that the Earthbound/Mother 64 beta/prototype leaks, without a doubt it will be the biggest leak in gaming history, maybe even bigger than StarFox 2 and Luigi in Super Mario 64.
My theory is that the Tazmily theme was replaced by Sorrowful Tazmily/Mind of a Thief. All songs that use the Tazmily theme melody are from scenes that appeared in the eb64 trailer and screenshots like salsa's delivery service and the final battle with porky. It also appears in one of dcmc's songs, but the song is cut off in the final game. We know for a fact that dcmc was around since the beginning There may also have been a cut chapter involving flint and the boys going about their daily life in Tazmily. That would explain why the unused theme is in the jukebox.
Thank you for making this video! Earthbound 64 lives in my head rent free so coming to know information I didn't have idea was floating around is pretty cool (even wiki articles and looking on the web doesnt show you stuff like this), if we got a couple prototypes from SpaceWorld already I am expecting an Earthboung 64 demo to surface one day... Reading interviews you can tell a lot of work and love was put into E64 so I thank you for compiling all of this and explaining it!
Thank you for making this video. I've been a MOTHER 3 fan for over 10 years now and I am so happy new information is still coming out about the beta. I hope some day the beta will be leaked and we can experience Itoi's original vision for the game.
Depends on what rules apply to the time travel, since we still aren't seeing Earthbound 64, it's almost safe to assume that the timeline remains unchanged and a new one got the game 😔
Your content is underrated, I was going into this thinking this was going to be surface level information, and my god was I wrong. I didn't know any of this stuff. Thanks man this was a good time!
This is really cool. I appreciate having all this stuff compiled together as others said and there's a lot I've never seen. I love how an iceberg on an unreleased game can exist too lol.
Ever since a lot of the beta OOT assets resurfaced in 2020 or 2021 i think it was i've been really hoping something similar happens with a Mother 3 prototype, it might never happen but theres been a lot of N64 leaks fairly recently so theres always hope imo
Thanks everyone for all the support on this video, I have another EB64 discussion video in the works. For now, here’s an invite to a new EarthBound 64 discord! discord.gg/5f6cM6j6mq
As a Mother 3 fan, I find the Mother 64 info very fascinating and interesting especially on how it differed from the final GBA Mother we have now. It's unfortunate that we don't have more information and footage on the game but fingers crossed we'll one day find what we're looking for
@@Josuh an Earthbound inspired game released on 25 dec. 2020, which is a psychological horror game. while the game does have some pacing issues it is still a very good 20 hour experience
Did anyone notice Scamp's ghost in the Itoi screenshots? In mother 3, scamp is a random old man who dies during the time skip and never really serves any purpose. In the Itoi screenshots, Scamp can be seen in the background of a photo with his family (He looks different, kind of like dampe from Zelda) and later as a ghost. Edit: upon closer inspection, it's not Scamp, but Wess! Would mother 3 have ghosts like in earthbound? Or did Wess die at some point?
I think Mother 64 was just going to have party members turn into ghosts, especially since Wess is shown KOed in a battle with the Pork Trooper that came with the same batch of screenshots (Also, Wess was going to be a bigger party member)
An official MOTHER 4 still wouldn't be a thing. Itoi made the games because he was upset he couldn't see his daughter as often due to being divorced from his wife, and he said that the desire to make more MOTHER games faded away when his daughter got older.
hey, we eventually got the zelda overdump and that was already thought to not exist. so maybe someday we will have some remnants on some yet unknown dev cart
the more i hear about mother 3/earthbound 64 the more i wish we actually had it in some form ;; i yearn for someone to find whatever development they had someday, but i doubt we'll ever get it :(
What's sad is while Mother 3 on the GBA was and still is a great game it seems that the n64 version was going to be much larger in scale. The GBA version pretty much streamlined the story and content to be better condusive to a portable gaming experience. A ton of the cuts were probably on Flint's involvement and the Ending. In the GBA version Flint for example shows up out of the blue around the end while in EB64 it would have been less jarring cause he was more involved in the story.
I still would have preferred the N64 over the GBA version. The N64 has an charming aesthetic look. I don't know if the composed sounds for the EB64 were reused for the GBA version but it clearly was a masterpiece.
Ive never played any mother/ earthbound games, and dont plan on doing so anytime soon, but earthbound 64 is so cool to me. I hope it does get leaked sometime, I absolutely love lost video game media/ beta content.
very great and informative video but i have a suggestion. you should either raise the volume of your dialogue or lower the volume of the music, in some sections like at 12:00 the music is playing just a little too loudly over your speech and its somewhat hard to hear properly. i subscribed tho
That’s not necessarily true, I think what that interview meant was that while yes the general outline was the same (Flint loses his wife to the Mecha Drago, he seeks revenge, Duster goes to Osohe to get the egg, comes back with Wess & finds Kumatora, Salsa gets kidnapped by the Pigmasks & Fassad forces him to deliver the boxes, Lucas goes to find Duster in Titiboo, Lucas & party go to the Thunder Tower in disguise, The Needle Hunt, Final confrontation in New Pork) a lot of the finer details and other pieces of polish weren’t present or were changed in the gba version. I think stuff like the timeskip being longer originally is good evidence of this
I wonder what things would have been like if Mother 3 was released for the N64 and localized as Earthbound 64, even if it was after the Gamecube came out. My sister did have an N64 in its day which has been in my house for as long as I can remember, and there are some N64 games that I have fond memories of when I was very young like Yoshi's Story and Smash Bros. Perhaps "Earthbound 64" could be one of those same games that I played, and I would have nostalgia for it, or more likely just the beginning of it since I had a track record of getting stuck in easy areas in games. On a similar note, has anyone else experienced that feeling where you had this area in a game as a kid you couldn't get past for the life of you, so it just remains unfinished for years and years, until you come back to it when you are older and better at games, and finally get to experience what came after? Finally being able to see what lay beyond that one part is so surreal, like you've just discovered one of those huge mysteries in a classic game, like what was under the ice in Zora's Domain, but on an even larger scale since there's basically a whole game ahead of it.
There are so many betas and unreleased games that really need to get leaked to the public someday. Mother 3 64 and Kirby GCN come to mind first, but I'm probably forgetting many more, important ones.
I have my own theory on the whole "English localization quietly cancelled" theory, rather i think Nintendo of America were going to temporarily shelve the English release of Earthbound 64 until a definitive announcement of the game's completion was given to them (though we all know what happened to the game in the end)
I saw on the Cutting Room Floor that apparently, Porky's Spider Mech was in the N64 version. Do we have any evidence of that? I know Porky was in the N64 version, due to the fact that Itoi said that he heavily relied on Porky once.
Yeah, in a 2011 interview with the EB64’s enemy designer, he said “Since Pokey was to appear in the 64 version, too, I designed Pokey, his team, and the place he lived in. The spider mech was in the 64 version, too, but since I haven’t played the GBA version, I’m not sure if the design was the same in the end.” Beyond that, it’d make sense for the Spider Mech to have been in EB64, since it was something established back in Mother 2.
Oh yeah, I remember reading that interview. And the point of it being established in Earthbound, I mean yeah, but the Mother 3 Spider Mech looks vastly different, looking more like a hospital bed/coffin compared to the wrinkly seat on legs in EB. Though, I guess Porky could've tricked Dr. Andonuts to upgrade it, I mean, Porky basically did the same to get the Absolutely Safe Capsule... which kinda feels like the Phantom Zone from Superman now that I think about it.
Crazy how Mother 3 is one of the best games ever made and the US release is a fan-translated romhack of an N64 game that was scrapped and downgraded into a GBA game
Has anyone considered asking Itoi directly about a lot of things? I've come up with a bunch of questions I'd ask him if I had the chance. Also, has anyone followed the lead of the potential cartridge at Brownie Brown?
I can tell you, many people have considered asking Itoi directly about a lot of things, it’s just that getting answers for questions about the game is a lot more difficult than it may seem… Also, 1-Up Studios (the company formally known as Brownie Brown) may or may not have a cartridge for it. But at the end of the day, they’re not gonna release or leak an internal Nintendo thing that’s confidential, unfortunately.
@@DaEgg123 I don't think you see what I'm getting at. Itoi is the author of the game's script and a partial owner of the IP. If anyone is able to speak freely without worrying about NDAs, it would be him, right? I could be totally wrong, but there's no harm in trying. Same with the cartridge. I don't think they still have it. Someone took it home just like what happened with Dinosaur Planet. Whoever took it probably knows what happened to it next. If you find out who knows what happened to it, you can find where it is. Can't hurt to try.
@@Bobb11881 That’s exactly the thing though, I’m aware of many people who have attempted to contact Itoi about EB64 through places such as Twitter, and he’s never responded to any queries about it. It certainly doesn’t hurt to try, and I don’t mean to discourage anyone searching for more info about this game (quite the opposite actually) but sadly, it doesn’t seem that Itoi will suddenly begin opening up about this project he worked on over 20 years ago when for years prior to now, he’s hardly ever addressed it ever. As for the cartridge, it certainly would be the ideal situation that someone that wasn’t Nintendo themselves took it from Brownie Brown. Sadly, we can’t be sure on what exactly happened to any physical prototypes. I only hope we can see one resurface soon.
The "Flintstones feel" mentioned by a playtester seems to tie into the tone and art style. A lot of mid 1900s Hanna Barbara cartoons had a dirty, empty look to them because of how quickly they were rushed out. Considering that the MOTHER 3 N64 team was very inexperienced in 3D, and looking at what little public screenshots and footage there is, it seems that this is what he meant- it has a primitive look and feel due to the inexperience of the team behind it.
A lot of cartoons these days still have the same sort of aesthetic, though with uncannily clean lines
I thought they said it because you play with dinosaurs early in the game.
My pet theory is that he literally just said that because the main character's name is Flint. His mind made the subliminal connection between Flint=Flintstones and, since he wasn't really paying close attention (seriously, read Brandon Sechter's full account, he could hardly care less about being one of the few people to ever get to play EB64), that was one of the main things that stood out to him when recounting his experience all those years later.
11:37 all this time we've never known Flint's last name, but clearly it's Stone.
Considering he and Hinawa are named after guns, it does not really work
I have a strong feeling Kumatora was supposed to die like the other Magipsies in the release game, given her unused animation. Makes more sense now how Flint would be present in the final dungeon.
Could have been really cool/sad if at one point she was unknowingly Locria and not Fassad.
@@maagic2031Nah. Story was always done like that, not to mention there is heavy proof that Flint was supposed to leave the party after chapter 6
I'm so glad people are actually documenting things about this game. Information about it used to really be scatted all over the place
Same.
Hey! I just did a video on Earthbound 64 and I have to say you did a great job on this! I certainly learned a lot :)
I want earthbound 64 soo badly. I wish there was a time machine so I could go to the past and take (steal) a copy of mother 3.
We might get a leak, we never know
Why steal one when you could just download a translated rom
@@toceeno874 Dude, he is talking about the N64 version of Mother 3.
@@yavuzsahin7420 I kno I was joking
Who says you haven't? You have leaked the build in the future, you just don't know it yet
Really do hope the gods shine upon us and a Earthbound 64 prototype is found so we can see it in all of its glory. Awesome video, I love hearing about this game and what could have been, also I really like your pfp lol.
I assume it would be like the early screenshots of Zelda 64 which showed a town full of big houses
@@JosuhI don't think so. Zelda 64's beta had Link in towns with big buildings because Nintendo was testing the limits of how far they could push the hardware. I assume MOTHER 64 would have more realistic expectations and have the buildings scale down.
If the prototype for EB64 were to finally get released, I would be so happy, there’s so many unanswered questions I have on it
Great vid. the mother 3 we got was still a masterpiece but man it seemed as though the n64 version was alot more ambitious in its scale what would it have been like? I find it fascinating we've never stumbled upon images of the masked man or Porky. How would things be different if this game released.
A lot as it would be a lot more darker and depressing according to Itoi
In terms of the Eagleland/New Pork City screenshots, my belief was always that rather than Leder just vaguely telling you that the people of the Nowhere Islands moved there because they couldn’t live anywhere else, you were actually at one point going to travel beyond the Nowhere Islands and see/learn in greater detail what happened to the rest of the world that caused everyone to have to move to the Nowhere Islands. That’s always been my theory though the New Pork City thing makes sense too
Doesn't Leder say the rest of the world sank tho (I might be misremembering (or that's Windwaker))
The leak of Dinosaur Planet 64 gives me hope tha someday a Earthbound 64 rom/beta build gets leaked on the internet
We can all dream, right?
The thing I most want to know is what Itoi meant when he said that the original ending of Mother 3 would have been meant to "betray the player"
He still kind of did in the final version. After the Dragon seemingly destroys the world, you can move around in the END screen and talk to different characters you've met throughout the game. You wouldn't know to do that unless you started randomly pressing buttons on the END screen. Most players would probably shut the game off after seeing the END screen and assumed that was it, so the game continuing after the END screen could be Itoi's way of betraying the player.
@@AluminumFusion22Actually that was why he changed it. Original was supposed to cut to white, leaving player dumbfounded and sad. He described how it was meant to symbolize seeing morning sun after long dark night. GBA version still does end on white screen with the metal removed and earth being alive again
This game has me crazy. That french magazine stated that it would launch some day.
My theory is that either it would've not been as long as the final game, or bits of the story were changed/later added on the final GBA launch.
Probably the story was more lighthearted, or maybe it was just the same.
Bro. Imagine one day we get a 3D Earthbound game with improved character models and everything.
Considering Flint was suppose to be in certain scenes i believe they were planning that you can switch party members like the Final Fantasy series
They were.
Here's an interesting observation: Notice how the new age retro hippie is shown travelling in a pig drawn wagon in one screenshot? There's unused text in the final game about a healer living in Item guy's wagon....
This was a really good and interesting video! EarthBound 64's one of those betas that really interests me tbh, and I definitely think you did a good job explaining the iceberg
Till this day, I still wonder what the significance of the Crop Circle screenshot served in the plot.
It's so bizarre that Nintendo seems to have some kind of obligation to keep any info pertaining to Mother 3 64 under wraps. What's the harm in releasing some concept art at least? I feel like Nintendo has some kind of weird idea that showing any footage of a game prior to it's release would undermine the final product in some way, as there is so little development information about any of Nintendo's games that was actually released by Nintendo. What a shame, and I hope someone finds a prototype one day.
I really hope a collector isn't sitting on a prototype full of EPROMs, or a N64DD disk. The lifespan of the data on those is finite, and we've seen collectors hoard prototypes thinking only about their value and giving no thought to preservation.
@@alexanderchamberlain9285 That's not the point...
17:46 I feel like there’s still a prototype out there, there has to be. My guess is that maybe Itoi has it or it’s in Hal’s archives. Nintendo themselves are really good about archiving prototypes, betas, and source codes if the giga leaks was anything to go off of. I’d say our chances of seeing it depends on a potential new giga leak. If they found other lost prototypes of games we haven’t seen before, then I have no doubt in my mind that Mother 64 is in their archives.
I still dream of the day that the Earthbound/Mother 64 beta/prototype leaks, without a doubt it will be the biggest leak in gaming history, maybe even bigger than StarFox 2 and Luigi in Super Mario 64.
My theory is that the Tazmily theme was replaced by Sorrowful Tazmily/Mind of a Thief. All songs that use the Tazmily theme melody are from scenes that appeared in the eb64 trailer and screenshots like salsa's delivery service and the final battle with porky. It also appears in one of dcmc's songs, but the song is cut off in the final game. We know for a fact that dcmc was around since the beginning
There may also have been a cut chapter involving flint and the boys going about their daily life in Tazmily. That would explain why the unused theme is in the jukebox.
Thank you for making this video! Earthbound 64 lives in my head rent free so coming to know information I didn't have idea was floating around is pretty cool (even wiki articles and looking on the web doesnt show you stuff like this), if we got a couple prototypes from SpaceWorld already I am expecting an Earthboung 64 demo to surface one day... Reading interviews you can tell a lot of work and love was put into E64 so I thank you for compiling all of this and explaining it!
New Earthbound 64 footage: "Allow me to introduce myself..."
lol
Thank you for making this video. I've been a MOTHER 3 fan for over 10 years now and I am so happy new information is still coming out about the beta. I hope some day the beta will be leaked and we can experience Itoi's original vision for the game.
12:24 That pigmask villager screenshot is very uncanny.
when time travel becomes a thing, i hope somone gets a copy of Earthbound 64 and changes the future
Depends on what rules apply to the time travel, since we still aren't seeing Earthbound 64, it's almost safe to assume that the timeline remains unchanged and a new one got the game 😔
Your content is underrated, I was going into this thinking this was going to be surface level information, and my god was I wrong. I didn't know any of this stuff. Thanks man this was a good time!
This is really cool. I appreciate having all this stuff compiled together as others said and there's a lot I've never seen. I love how an iceberg on an unreleased game can exist too lol.
3:42 lol the two-headed kraken looks like Jar Jar Binks
Ever since a lot of the beta OOT assets resurfaced in 2020 or 2021 i think it was i've been really hoping something similar happens with a Mother 3 prototype, it might never happen but theres been a lot of N64 leaks fairly recently so theres always hope imo
Thanks everyone for all the support on this video, I have another EB64 discussion video in the works. For now, here’s an invite to a new EarthBound 64 discord! discord.gg/5f6cM6j6mq
Love the video. But the music might be a little to loud
you really should pin this
As a Mother 3 fan, I find the Mother 64 info very fascinating and interesting especially on how it differed from the final GBA Mother we have now. It's unfortunate that we don't have more information and footage on the game but fingers crossed we'll one day find what we're looking for
12:19 "We participated in a genocide, Barney."
also i love Kleen Duster
great video, good music taste.
Somebody needs to leak this game next, if anybody can dig this from the grave like Forest of Illusion did with Dinosaur Planet.
Great Video - I remember being in awe when I saw the photos in my Nintendo Power magazine back in the day.
14:48 this sounds very similar, if not completely identical to OMORI's tag mechanic
What's omori?
@@Josuh an Earthbound inspired game released on 25 dec. 2020, which is a psychological horror game. while the game does have some pacing issues it is still a very good 20 hour experience
Shid why this isnt popular? This is amazing
Underrated
I demand to see Mother 3 Itoi's cut
wow holy shit this video has less than 1k views but this is really well made. Hope it blows up soon
this was done really well!! i love learning about earthbound 64, gréât vidéo :)
Dang that was comprehensive. Thanks for making this!
Did anyone notice Scamp's ghost in the Itoi screenshots? In mother 3, scamp is a random old man who dies during the time skip and never really serves any purpose. In the Itoi screenshots, Scamp can be seen in the background of a photo with his family (He looks different, kind of like dampe from Zelda) and later as a ghost.
Edit: upon closer inspection, it's not Scamp, but Wess! Would mother 3 have ghosts like in earthbound? Or did Wess die at some point?
I think Mother 64 was just going to have party members turn into ghosts, especially since Wess is shown KOed in a battle with the Pork Trooper that came with the same batch of screenshots (Also, Wess was going to be a bigger party member)
Girl with time machine :
I am your daughter
Boy with time machine:
Just fucking release Earthbound 64 then release mother 4
An official MOTHER 4 still wouldn't be a thing. Itoi made the games because he was upset he couldn't see his daughter as often due to being divorced from his wife, and he said that the desire to make more MOTHER games faded away when his daughter got older.
As sad as it is that we lost EB64, the Mother 3 we got is more than likely better than EB64 would have been.
I'm of the same opinion. I love how ambitious EB64 is, but I'm glad for the Mother 3 we got.
Really thought provoking video. Really makes you wonder what would’ve happen if it had actually came out for 64DD
This is actually my pretty cool! You deserve more subs! This was interesting :)👍
swag video bf
hey, we eventually got the zelda overdump and that was already thought to not exist. so maybe someday we will have some remnants on some yet unknown dev cart
Is this really your first video? I really liked it, it's really well explained!
Imagine not having pirated and applied the English language patch to Mother 3 in 2021
One day I hope we see Mother 64 finally taken out of the vaults of Nintendo. That day I can die happy.
the more i hear about mother 3/earthbound 64 the more i wish we actually had it in some form ;; i yearn for someone to find whatever development they had someday, but i doubt we'll ever get it :(
What's sad is while Mother 3 on the GBA was and still is a great game it seems that the n64 version was going to be much larger in scale. The GBA version pretty much streamlined the story and content to be better condusive to a portable gaming experience. A ton of the cuts were probably on Flint's involvement and the Ending. In the GBA version Flint for example shows up out of the blue around the end while in EB64 it would have been less jarring cause he was more involved in the story.
I still would have preferred the N64 over the GBA version. The N64 has an charming aesthetic look. I don't know if the composed sounds for the EB64 were reused for the GBA version but it clearly was a masterpiece.
I honestly would love to play Mother 64. I'm pretty bad at rpg's but the graphical charm is so... charming for the lack of a better word
Ive never played any mother/ earthbound games, and dont plan on doing so anytime soon, but earthbound 64 is so cool to me. I hope it does get leaked sometime, I absolutely love lost video game media/ beta content.
very great and informative video but i have a suggestion. you should either raise the volume of your dialogue or lower the volume of the music, in some sections like at 12:00 the music is playing just a little too loudly over your speech and its somewhat hard to hear properly. i subscribed tho
We eventually got StarFox 2 and Dinosaur Planet, I have hope Mother 64 and Dragon Hopper will be found eventually
I’m pretty sure somewhere on starman.net an interview with someone said gba mother 3 is. Like just mother 3 plotwise. Not much was changed.
That’s not necessarily true, I think what that interview meant was that while yes the general outline was the same (Flint loses his wife to the Mecha Drago, he seeks revenge, Duster goes to Osohe to get the egg, comes back with Wess & finds Kumatora, Salsa gets kidnapped by the Pigmasks & Fassad forces him to deliver the boxes, Lucas goes to find Duster in Titiboo, Lucas & party go to the Thunder Tower in disguise, The Needle Hunt, Final confrontation in New Pork) a lot of the finer details and other pieces of polish weren’t present or were changed in the gba version. I think stuff like the timeskip being longer originally is good evidence of this
How much of a gamer move would it be if the next restoration is Saran Valley and it’s put directly after this in the playlist
Great video!!
I wonder what things would have been like if Mother 3 was released for the N64 and localized as Earthbound 64, even if it was after the Gamecube came out. My sister did have an N64 in its day which has been in my house for as long as I can remember, and there are some N64 games that I have fond memories of when I was very young like Yoshi's Story and Smash Bros. Perhaps "Earthbound 64" could be one of those same games that I played, and I would have nostalgia for it, or more likely just the beginning of it since I had a track record of getting stuck in easy areas in games.
On a similar note, has anyone else experienced that feeling where you had this area in a game as a kid you couldn't get past for the life of you, so it just remains unfinished for years and years, until you come back to it when you are older and better at games, and finally get to experience what came after? Finally being able to see what lay beyond that one part is so surreal, like you've just discovered one of those huge mysteries in a classic game, like what was under the ice in Zora's Domain, but on an even larger scale since there's basically a whole game ahead of it.
I think fuels mom would have sacrificed herself for a fuel with the two-headed kraken
Fuels mother tobacco went missing before the events of EB64
Great analysis and ice cube!
I just know that Mother 64 will get leaked! Eventually soon...
Hopefully.
amazing vid, taught me a ton!
I've always been hoping an early build of this game will appear online someday.
21:42
This is weird, but it looks like salsa on to robot legs
I hope one day we see a prototype of this game. I really want to see what this version of Mother 3 was like before it kicked the bucket...
One of the enemies in the old game looks like a creeper from the Minecraft game. It also looks like a slime blob.
There are so many betas and unreleased games that really need to get leaked to the public someday.
Mother 3 64 and Kirby GCN come to mind first, but I'm probably forgetting many more, important ones.
I love mother 3 GBA, But damn i wish we could've gotten N64 ver..
saludos desde el salvador y me encantan tus iceberg y me gustaria hacer tu iceberg pero en español ya que acá lo tines en ingles
fairies is most likely a final version of the tazmily village theme. it fits gba mother 3 a bit more
i told him that but he forgot to add that in the video
@@doglikedude ah i see
Every single character model is extremely uncanny.
I have my own theory on the whole "English localization quietly cancelled" theory, rather i think Nintendo of America were going to temporarily shelve the English release of Earthbound 64 until a definitive announcement of the game's completion was given to them (though we all know what happened to the game in the end)
Why does the characters looks like cursed parodies? Ok, i would have the same reflection if i was fighting any 15 seconds.
I saw on the Cutting Room Floor that apparently, Porky's Spider Mech was in the N64 version. Do we have any evidence of that? I know Porky was in the N64 version, due to the fact that Itoi said that he heavily relied on Porky once.
Yeah, in a 2011 interview with the EB64’s enemy designer, he said “Since Pokey was to appear in the 64 version, too, I designed Pokey, his team, and the place he lived in. The spider mech was in the 64 version, too, but since I haven’t played the GBA version, I’m not sure if the design was the same in the end.”
Beyond that, it’d make sense for the Spider Mech to have been in EB64, since it was something established back in Mother 2.
Oh yeah, I remember reading that interview.
And the point of it being established in Earthbound, I mean yeah, but the Mother 3 Spider Mech looks vastly different, looking more like a hospital bed/coffin compared to the wrinkly seat on legs in EB. Though, I guess Porky could've tricked Dr. Andonuts to upgrade it, I mean, Porky basically did the same to get the Absolutely Safe Capsule... which kinda feels like the Phantom Zone from Superman now that I think about it.
Bald flint looks like duster. Dang ive been playing this game for 8 years, and I still don't think I completely grasp the whole thing.
Thx that was really cool
Music is too loud sometimes 😣
Yes.
Crazy how Mother 3 is one of the best games ever made and the US release is a fan-translated romhack of an N64 game that was scrapped and downgraded into a GBA game
Lore of EarthBound 64 momentum 100
underrated video
Good video. Although, the mixing of the audio could have been better. Sometimes, the music was louder than your voice.
That’s definitely something I noticed not long after I uploaded this, rest assured my future content won’t have this issue :P
20:42 til about 20:49 is in German, now I dont need to translate it in my head. YAAAAAAY
great video! only complaint is that you didn't read out the titles of each individual point
it's a shame that Mother 3 never got to be completed for the N64.
and because of that we never got a 3d mother/earthbound game
Epic swagsauce video.
Hey what's the song that play around 13:00?
It’s named ‘Butch and the Villagers’!
@@DaEgg123 Thank you
'Claws' lol.
Is there any battle footage??
What is the song at 1:50?
‘Mind of a Thief’!
best game ever....
Very awesome video. I wish earthbound 64 existed. It sucks but at least we have the GBA version.
What is the song used for tier 2, I mean I know it, but I can't find it anywhere on the ost
If you slide the red bar, the chapters say
Has anyone considered asking Itoi directly about a lot of things? I've come up with a bunch of questions I'd ask him if I had the chance. Also, has anyone followed the lead of the potential cartridge at Brownie Brown?
I can tell you, many people have considered asking Itoi directly about a lot of things, it’s just that getting answers for questions about the game is a lot more difficult than it may seem…
Also, 1-Up Studios (the company formally known as Brownie Brown) may or may not have a cartridge for it. But at the end of the day, they’re not gonna release or leak an internal Nintendo thing that’s confidential, unfortunately.
@@DaEgg123 I don't think you see what I'm getting at. Itoi is the author of the game's script and a partial owner of the IP. If anyone is able to speak freely without worrying about NDAs, it would be him, right? I could be totally wrong, but there's no harm in trying.
Same with the cartridge. I don't think they still have it. Someone took it home just like what happened with Dinosaur Planet. Whoever took it probably knows what happened to it next. If you find out who knows what happened to it, you can find where it is. Can't hurt to try.
@@Bobb11881 That’s exactly the thing though, I’m aware of many people who have attempted to contact Itoi about EB64 through places such as Twitter, and he’s never responded to any queries about it. It certainly doesn’t hurt to try, and I don’t mean to discourage anyone searching for more info about this game (quite the opposite actually) but sadly, it doesn’t seem that Itoi will suddenly begin opening up about this project he worked on over 20 years ago when for years prior to now, he’s hardly ever addressed it ever.
As for the cartridge, it certainly would be the ideal situation that someone that wasn’t Nintendo themselves took it from Brownie Brown. Sadly, we can’t be sure on what exactly happened to any physical prototypes. I only hope we can see one resurface soon.
They took out the kraken cuz they resembled Jar Jar Binks :p