Mother 3 – Earthbound 64 [N64 - Cancelled]
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Mother 3 was originally announced in 1996 for the Nintendo 64. Development soon moved to the Nintendo 64DD, where it was to be a launch title. Developer Benimaru Itoh remarked at E3’s 1997 convention that the game would probably utilize the Rumble Pak in battle sequences, but worried that the controller would become too cumbersome for players given the time-consuming nature of role-playing games. Itoi also aimed to allow players to pick several character faces or create new visages with Mario Artist. Shigesato Itoi’s team ran into some trouble while developing this game, due to their inexperience with 3D games and the difficulty of developing for Nintendo 64 hardware. The Nintendo 64DD became a commercial failure, and on August 21, 2000, Itoi officially confirmed the game’s cancellation. The project was revived in 2003 on the Game Boy Advance, and it was eventually released on April 20, 2006. [Infos from Wikipedia]
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14 Responses to Mother 3 – Earthbound 64 [N64 - Cancelled]
Terra
January 1st, 2009 at 2:29 am
Mother 3 for N64 would’ve been kick butt awesome!
64
January 16th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
this would have been a great game
SMASH MASTER 9000
February 17th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHY WASN’T IT REALEASED? WHY WHY WHY?!!!!!!! !!!!!!
GMoD1001
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:15 pm
read the description to find out WHY? WHY? WHY?.. dipshit
c45
April 5th, 2009 at 11:31 am
wasnt released because the dev team sucked balls, and the game was shitty.
XGamer
June 14th, 2009 at 4:06 am
This game was not shitty!
Masterge77
June 29th, 2009 at 1:36 am
Also, the GBA version never saw the light of day in the US because of its prequel earthbounds ad campain, which made it fail big time, EARTHBOUND IS THE BEST GAME EVER MADE AND NINTENDO BASHES ON IT FOR A STUPID ELECTRIC RODENT!!!!!
mariofan
July 8th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
i want the demo cartridge
Biolizard13
August 27th, 2009 at 2:02 am
O_O Holy shite…..is it good that it wasn’t released for 64?
My favorite characters, Fassad, Duster, Kuma, and Lucas…
look like crap……
Mattman
November 5th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
mother 3 was a great game and it should have been released in the US
fatface
November 7th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Hey, why does the fan translation call YOKUBA “Fassad”? I don’t fucking get where that stupid name even came from. Yokuba is a much better name.
Anyway, the graphics are super sweet for an N64 game, I gotta say. In this version and in an early version of the GBA version, there were a total of 12 chapters. I wonder what got cut? It’d be awesome to see…
Skinnybody
December 8th, 2009 at 4:21 am
“Yokuba” is a fucking horrible name
CaptHayfever
December 24th, 2009 at 7:43 am
“Fassad” is based on a couple different things: It sounds like “facade” and it looks like it fits his costume.
…besidestechnicallyweshouldcallhimlocriaanyway. ;)
Pigmask
January 12th, 2010 at 8:57 am
*SPOILERS AHEAD!*
Wow, they really had everything in mind back then, If they were more experienced, then what a great game would that be!
As I’ve read, there was supposed to be twelves chapters and we were supposed to have the choice of the occuring events, in the end, I guess it’s would bring up a random team of hero to beat Porky out since the “Masked Man” wasn’t though up
…We can also see Ness and his Hometown being destroyed, so I guess It’s Porky who destroyed the world, creating the white ship event, and eventually brought Ness to the island so he can laught at him
It’s a real damn shame they didn’t finish the game through, the graphics are good for the N64, just look at Final Fantasy 7! …Not only that, but twelve chapters already 3/4 of them made, and supposely as they said, the events that occur can be changed and/or random, now that’s something I’d love to see!
They also kept alot of characters in the game, eventually, when Mother 3 was revived to get on the gba, I bet they finally came up with Fassad/Yokuba being as Locria just by looking at his character art XD
But I’d love to see what else they though up, I’ve read there’s a part were you can play as a Baby O.o
Then again, To Itoi, the game was only complete by 30% and Myamato said 60%
At least, we got Mother 3 perfectly Fan-Translated with more stuff, and not to forget the memories of Earthbound changed so It’s can’t be Unchanged XD
As for Fassad, Yokuba means Greedy in Japanese, Fassad is an indirect name for “Facade”, now which one do you prefers? Yokuba seem to stand out, but since Fassad is “Facade”, his cloths are fitting, so you can’t get to see his red hair XD
…Then again, I can already Imagine how he got Yokuba as his name XD
Now…If only someone out there is willing to steal that piece of art and bring it to the world of emulation…
…Now, to end It in a Sparrow way…Chirp! Chirp! …Wait, wrong job…Oik! Oik! *raise right arm*
*SPOILER END*