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!

Most recently, Alayna “Play Lost Kingdoms” Taptroupe scanned and uploaded images from a MOTHER 1+2 feature in Nintendo Dream Vol. 89 that even showcased some unseen MOTHER 2 concept art by Kouichi Ooyama! Alayna had previously sent me scans of Vol. 90 that continues that 1+2 feature. Both volumes can be found in the galleries below! One concept image seems to be an early Master Belch with arms (seen in the first picture below) and another picture is a table full of the many enemy figurines made for MOTHER 2 (seen in the second picture).

At the very end of last month, a new hack was posted by Summer Dragonfly that allows for high-quality sound mixing in MOTHER 3. According to the hack’s page, it “can mix every individual channel at 16-bit audio before downsampling everything to 8-bit audio, as opposed to the default m4a mixer which mixes every channel at 8-bit audio.” It’s able to do this by “greatly reducing the number of quantization/rounding errors that pop up during the mixing process, making the classic GBA “background hiss” much quieter while making Shogo Sakai’s music sound crispier than ever! Results seem even better when played back on actual hardware.” Absolutely check it out here on romhacking.net!

A while ago, well-known translator and my friend PushDustIn sent me MOTHER 1+2 scans of Famitsu from around the time of 1+2’s release, but I never got around to posting them! Click here to see the PDF full of them. There’s not any new information as far as I can tell, but it’s important to keep the advertisements and the feature itself documented, so thank you to PushDustIn for those!

Nintendo Dream Vol. 89

Nintendo Dream Vol. 90