Tonda Gossa! This is Kody NOKOLO back with another Mother Forever Almost Monthly News for February! This month was packed! Watch it in video form or read it below.

First, did you know our website hosts a game now? I managed to get MOTHER: Cognitive Dissonance running a web-based version of the program EasyRPG, and thanks to the help and permission of the game’s director, Otherhand, I made it playable online right now! Play it now on your computer or phone at mothercogdis.com, and check out our page for the game to learn more about it!

And speaking of our website, I’ve been making some updates there too.

For one, our main font has changed to use ArtsyOmni’s game-accurate Motherish font which was released recently. Check it out if you haven’t!

And I’ve added a lot of new pages. First, the MOTHER 3i music album page, which includes machine translations of Shogo Sakai’s original liner notes and a link to the album on iTunes Japan. Although the rest is machine translated unfortunately due to lack of time for me to work on it personally, I did accurately translate the track titles, which haven’t all been correct in the community for a while. Our page has the most accurate titles now.

I also added a small history page for our site. If you want to learn about how myself and the other co-founders started the site and got it to where it is today, read about it there.

And finally, I published the first pages in our Smash Bros. section! We have an “About” page that details how the series relates to MOTHER and an important page for MOTHER amiibo! If you ever wondered where the Ness or Lucas amiibo have unique game effects tied to them, check it out. I also have plans for pages that detail MOTHER stages, stickers, spirits, trophies, items, and of course Ness and Lucas.

Next, have you seen all the new scans and info about MOTHER 64? PineappleCarl found scans from 1997 to 2001 from the 64Dream. And you can find them all in our updated scan package that contains almost every MOTHER-related publication of MOTHER 64, 1+2, 3, and anything else that came afterward. Within these new scans, there was also a new piece of MOTHER 64 merchandise discovered: a prepaid telephone card that features a 3D render of Mr. Saturn!

Download for 1996 to Present Package – Last updated 2/2023

And did you see the new scans of guides from the first MOTHER? Biozilla kindly provided our site with high quality art scans from the books, which are all now available on archive.org.

Now for our feature for this month: Mother Forever at PAX East!
Yep, I’ll be at PAX East in Boston with the Mother To Earth team to show their full documentary at our panel on Saturday, March 25 at 8PM in the Bobcat Theatre! As long as you have a PAX ticket for Saturday, it’s free to see! You can also watch the whole movie now on Vimeo if you can’t make it, but if you’re able to stop by and watch, then you can participate in a Q&A with me and the team afterward to ask about the documentary, ask about Mother Forever, or meet other fans! I’ll even be bringing some official and fan MOTHER history for anyone to come see in person!

Hope you’ll stop by the panel to see the movie and all that cool stuff. I’ll record and post a video of the panel so you can see the Q&A and the fan meetup after we play the movie.

Designer Akiyuki Suzuki posted another new concept from MOTHER 3, this time of an unused floor in the Empire Porky Building. I translated what Suzuki said about it and he said it’s a “Gravity-Defying Dungeon” where he “wanted to seamlessly walk between the floors and ceilings in 2D. Someone upright can rotate to the ceiling and dangle downward.” It’s great that these concepts are still being shared about the game after such a long silence on it.

Finally, though there wasn’t any news for Hobonichi aside from merchandise restocks that happened earlier this month, there was a new interview with Shigesato Itoi that reveals a book that inspired him during the development of the first MOTHER! Apparently, The Talisman by Peter Straub and Stephen King was a big influence, and a character from the book named “Wolf” inspired the Flying Men in MOTHER.