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Talkin’ Zines with AYBT – An Interview!

Post author By Echoes
Post date November 10, 2022
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One of the most celebrated type of community projects in the MOTHER fandom has always been fanzines. If you aren’t familiar with what they are, a fanzine is a fan produced magazine featuring art and written work from a variety of artists over a shared cultural interest. Over the last two decades, there have been several for the MOTHER series, from the EarthBound Anthology to PK Zine. Most recently, a new one called “Your Name, Please!” was announced — the first one in nearly a whole decade!

We wanted to take a closer look at how Your Name, Please! came to be, so we decided to bring the project’s leader, AYBT (previously helmed “YuGi-Oh!” fanzines “Sideline Stars” and “A Tie that Binds.”) Please check out their work, and enjoy the interview!

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An Onslaught of New MOTHER 64 Concept Art!

Post author By Echoes
Post date November 3, 2022
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Breaking news, MOTHER fanatics! For the first time in what feels like a good while, a goldmine of new MOTHER 64 media has been uncovered.

Graciously provided by a source who would like to remain anonymous, this collection of concept art from Benimaru “Ashura” Itoh comes from an October 1997 issue of 64 Dream. The hardcore legion of fans overseas had been searching for this particular issue for over a year, as an old Japanese MOTHER 3 fansite (a great resource of info that’s helped us track down magazines previously) documented descriptions of the art seen in this issue.

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MOTHER Game Book Translation, the Origin of Shimmy Zmizz, & New MOTHER 64 Report

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Post date November 2, 2022
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MOTHER: Invasion of the Unknown Translation by Nyaasu

Nyaasu Strikes Back! If you’re not already familiar, earlier this year Nyaasu Nekoban, an artist and translator published the first complete English translation of Saori Kumi‘s MOTHER novels. You can read those here, but that’s not all! On October 14th, 2022, she updated her site with the next project – a translation of the interactive “adventure game book”, MOTHER: Invasion of the Unknown by Akio Higuchi!

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Mother Forever Survey 2022

Post author By Kody NOKOLO
Post date October 30, 2022
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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! Results follow under each respective section’s heading and all results are ordered from the most common to least common answers.

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Itoi on the Radio, Eight Melodies Ball Track, & MOTHER’s Day Orchestra Aftermath

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Post date October 14, 2022
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Itoi Featured on “Nakamura Shichinosuke’s Rajisuke”!

itoi and Shichinosuke-san in the studio.

Last weekend MOTHER series creator Shigesato Itoi was invited as a guest on Nakamura Shichinosuke‘s radio talk show. If you aren’t familiar with him, Shichinosuke-san is an international star from Tokyo. He had humble beginnings playing both male and female roles in Kabuki theatre back in 1986. Overseas, you may recall seeing him in the 2003 period drama The Last Samurai as Emperor Meiji, or perhaps heard his voice in the 2013 Studio Ghibli film The Tale of the Princess Kaguya! However, within Japan Shinchinosuke is most well known for his radio show where he talks openly about his private life and hobbies. Often, they invite guests, and this time Itoi-san himself happened to be the one invited!

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Storytime with Nyaasu and the MOTHER novels – An Interview!

Post author By Echoes
Post date October 9, 2022
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As of earlier this year you may have noticed a great new addition to the site – the inclusion of fully translated MOTHER novels from Saori Kumi! First and foremost, if you’d like to read them for yourself, we have a handy page on the site right here that also goes more depth into their history.

To briefly summarize it, these novels remained a curiosity among avid fans of the MOTHER series. Myths and legends spoke of Porky’s hot Ferrari, but very few were ever educated on what details were exactly in the novel, due to its limited translation work. Previously, the biggest glimpse English-speaking audiences ever got was during the 2013 EarthBound Bash, where Lindsay Moore (Chewy) read some excerpts from the novels to the audience. That was nearly 10 years ago now!

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YOUR Favorite Character, Scan Collection, Vinyl Repress, & Protractor

Post author By Kody NOKOLO
Post date September 28, 2022
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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!

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Jammin’ with Irikachana – An Interview!

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Post date September 21, 2022
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Artists depiction by Site Artist, Snakeshroom!

Ever since MOTHER 3 released on the Game Boy Advance in 2006, fans have sought ways to lessen the soundtrack’s heavy audio compression. The earliest attempts at restoring the music date all the way back to 2012, with a user named Tanks providing basic MIDI conversions that were used in many YouTube uploads at the time. Most recently, we at Mother Forever uploaded our own rip of the soundtrack; but what the fans often seek are those lossless, studio quality versions only heard behind closed doors.

Enter Irikachana – an aspiring composer and friend to many in the MOTHER community. They’re attached to several MOTHER-related projects you might know, such as EB Recast and the most recent MOTHER 4 fan project. Over the past couple of years, they have took it upon themselves to completely reconstruct the music of MOTHER 3 as it originally sounded. You can hear one of their most recent restorations below!

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Ocarina of Time Interview, MOTHER Zine, Orchestra, & New MOTHER 64 Scans

Post author By Echoes
Post date September 19, 2022
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Interview is live!

In case you haven’t read it yet, we’ve updated our Hobonichi Interviews section to include a full translation of the site’s coverage of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. These were originally published in the months leading up to the game’s release, and were translated by GlitterBerri. You can learn a lot of interesting development tidbits, like how Link could originally breathe underwater for longer?! Man, that would’ve saved us a lot of childhood stress in navigating the Water Temple, huh?

Survey Results, Shogo Sakai Retiring, MOTHER 3 Concept Art, & Hobonichi Store Trip

Post author By Kody NOKOLO
Post date August 29, 2022
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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!