There’s a one character that seemed like your favorite during our survey, you can download a bunch of the scans I made for this site in one place now, the MOTHER 2 vinyl is being repressed, and Hobonichi made a MOTHER 2 protractor!
Author: Kody NOKOLO
Shogo Sakai mentions his retirement, new MOTHER 3 concept art was posted by a developer on Twitter, and see what I got at the Hobonichi Tobichi store in this Almost Monthly News for August 2022! Watch it in video form or read it below!
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.
Hot off the heels of our Mother Direct last weekend, there’s been new MOTHER 2 concept art discovered in an older Nintendo Dream and a new high quality sound hack for MOTHER 3! I also wanted to show some Famitsu scans related to MOTHER 1+2 sent to me a while back by my friend PushDustIn!
After months of work, Mother Direct 2022 is live! Watch it right now below!! If you’re interested in any of the projects you see there, learn more about them at www.mother.direct!
In the Direct, I subtly showed something that I managed to get just last week: a scan of the MOTHER 3 N64 cast as showcased in the last volume of the “MOTHER 3 Times” from the October 1999 release of Dengeki Nintendo 64. The lower quality scan I made a couple years ago was because Japan’s National Diet Library (where I find most of the scans on this site) sent me lower quality scans. Thankfully, I managed to get the original magazine so I could archive it in the highest quality!
The Direct also featured an announcement of my interview with the creator of UNDERTALE and DELTARUNE, Toby Fox (who incidentally gives his thoughts on MOTHER 3 N64 in the interview). That interview is the first in a line of Motherlike indie developer interviews I’ll be posting, including interviews with the creators of Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass, Lisa: The Painful, and Citizens of Earth!
Just four more days until the 2022 Mother Direct! I’ve been working hard for the past few months to get this done and so have all the projects that are a part of it this year. It’s premiering on June 12 at 12PM PT / 3PM ET / 7PM GMT / 9PM CET! Check out the trailer for a taste of what’s in store. Remember to subscribe to our YouTube Channel so you can watch it live, too! Once it ends, you can view all the featured projects on our Mother Direct page through this convenient URL: www.mother.direct
To celebrate this Direct, I wanted to post some translations I made a few years ago from a book by Shigesato Itoi that inspired me 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.”
There’s a new scan for every MOTHER here today! There must be something cool happening this week, huh? More about that at the end!
For today’s scan release, I have one excerpt of an interview with Itoi from May 2000. In this part of the interview, he discusses two things: Cabbage (his second N64DD project) and a port of the first MOTHER to the Game Boy.
I have tons of scans to share today about the Nintendo 64 version of MOTHER 3! First, I have my own scans of the February 1998 issue of Famimaga 64. Second, community members of the EarthBound 64 Discord discovered tons of complete magazine scans of the 64 Dream from 1999 to 2000 courtesy of MyCom on archive.org. You can view all of their complete, high quality scans as PDF files that even have optical character recognition on archive.org! And third, I have one scan of a small mention of MOTHER 3 in the March 2000 issue of the 64 Dream.
Today, I have scans of two interviews to share! First, an interview with Itoi from the summer of MOTHER 3‘s release year that digs into spoilers about the game. This interview was already translated by Clyde Mandelin, but now we have full scans of it all! Find those on our page for that interview. Second, an interview with Brownie Brown from 2013 about their company legacy with a focus on Fantasy Life, and it even includes an image of their rough-draft GBA redesigns for Lucas, Claus, what may be Tazmily with a few character sprites, and more! I had time to translate a few notable moments from their interview.
