Article Archive 2022
by: Kody on 12/16/2022
Every article posted to Mother Forever in 2022 can be found below!
“The 2022 MOTHER 3 Music Package” by Kody NOKOLO and ArnoldKMTR – 2/2/2022
After the sad news of YouTube music uploader GilvaSunner’s MOTHER 3 playlist being blocked by Nintendo along with most of GilvaSunner’s other uploads, we finished finalizing our own complete, high-quality MOTHER 3 rips of all the game’s music and sound effects!
Staff member ArnoldKMTR ripped the entirety of MOTHER 3’s music and sounds in FLAC format not too long ago, and Kody NOKOLO contributed by figuring out the naming scheme for and categorizing the rips.
“MOTHER on Nintendo Switch Online & New 1995 Interview?!” by Kody NOKOLO – 2/10/2022
Nintendo’s 2.9.2022 Nintendo Direct featured the announcement of not just one, but two MOTHER games releasing on the Nintendo Switch! Now MOTHER, EarthBound Beginnings, MOTHER 2, and EarthBound are all playable through Nintendo Switch Online. And, before the Direct, Hard4Games released a new 1995 interview with Shigesato Itoi!
“Famicom 4koma MOTHER Manga Scans” by Kody NOKOLO – 4/6/2022
“Game Geniuses Book Scans” by Kody NOKOLO – 4/13/2022
“MOTHER 64 One Year Later – Interview with Shigesato Itoi & Satoru Iwata, June 1997” by Kody NOKOLO – 4/20/2022
“MOTHER 3 Concept Art Discovered & 16th Anniversary Art” by Kody NOKOLO – 4/27/2022
A few days ago, community member PineappleCarl discovered concept art posted over a year ago or more by MOTHER 3 Event and Battle Designer Akiyuki Suzuki on their Twitter page! There were even a couple development notes in their previous posts that Kody translated below.
In addition to those awesome finds, MOTHER 3 Artist Nobuhiro Imagawa posted more drawings of the characters to celebrate the game’s 16th anniversary!
“Brownie Brown’s MOTHER 3 Concepts & Itoi Release Interview” by Kody NOKOLO – 5/5/2022
“MOTHER 64 in Famimaga 1998 & 64 Dream 1999-2000” by Kody NOKOLO – 5/11/2022
“Cabbage (Itoi’s Other N64DD Game) & MOTHER 1 on Game Boy Interviews” by Kody NOKOLO – 5/18/2022
“MOTHER 1 Guide, M2 Times, M64 Articles, & M3 Enemy Concepts” by Kody NOKOLO – 5/25/2022
Kody showcases scans of a guide to MOTHER published in the July 28, 1989 issue of Famicom, promotional articles called the MOTHER 2 Times, new scans from 1997 issues of Game Shounen and Famimaga about MOTHER 3 on the N64, and new enemy concept designs uploaded on Twitter by MOTHER 3 Event and Battle Designer Akiyuki Suzuki!
“Mother Direct Soon & Let’s Meet in a Dream Translations?!” by Kody NOKOLO – 6/8/2022
To celebrate this Direct, Kody posted some translations they made a few years ago from a book by Shigesato Itoi that inspired them to start translating back then. Ever heard of Let’s Meet in a Dream? The book was best described by Starmen.net veteran and translator extraordinaire Lindsay Moore on Yomuka! as “a collection of short-short stories (or perhaps short-short-short stories) by Haruki Murakami and Shigesato Itoi, originally published in 1981. The stories range from one to five pages long, although according to Murakami, these are not quite ‘stories.’ Rather, the book is just a collection of random, aimless pieces of light-hearted writing that Murakami and Itoi clearly enjoyed making.”
“Mother Direct is Here! Highest Quality MOTHER 64 Cast Scan & Toby Fox Interview” by Kody NOKOLO – 6/12/2022
“MOTHER 2 Concept Art, MOTHER 3 Sound Hack, & 1+2 Scans” by Kody NOKOLO – 6/16/2022
“Itoi’s Penguinism Album & Mystery of MOTHER 2 Opening Solved” by Kody NOKOLO – 7/5/2022
Did you know Shigesato Itoi collaborated with Keiichi Suzuki and a bunch of other musical artists on more than just MOTHER and MOTHER 2? Introducing Penguinism, an album written by Itoi, and I managed to scan all parts of the album in high quality for the first time! And, following up from new MOTHER 2 concept art discovered a few weeks ago in Nintendo Dream Vol. 89, a caption with an image from page 18 seems to solve the mystery of the location depicted in the “War on Giygas” part of MOTHER 2’s opening.
“Survey Results, Shogo Sakai Retiring, MOTHER 3 Concept Art, & Hobonichi Store Trip” by Kody NOKOLO – 8/29/2022
“YOUR Favorite Character, Scan Collection, Vinyl Repress, & Protractor” by Kody NOKOLO – 9/28/2022
“Mother Forever Survey 2022” by Kody NOKOLO – 10/31/2022
During the summer of 2022, Mother Forever conducted a survey in the MOTHER community that totaled 784 participants to gather data on what kinds of trends exist in the community (or at least as much of the community as we could reach). We asked questions about each person’s background and about their experiences with each MOTHER game!
“New Nintendo Dream Scans, Early EarthBound Logo, & More MOTHER 3 Concept Art” by Kody NOKOLO – 12/31/2022