Fans of the MOTHER series all rejoiced in celebration of a major milestone the other day – that being MOTHER 3‘s 15th anniversary, of course! A plethora of amazing art was published by fans of the game worldwide, with even the game’s art director Nobuhiro Imagawa joining with some lovely new sprite art for the occasion!

But what was the biggest surprise that day, you ask? Well, for most fans it would be the surprise release of version 1.3 of the MOTHER 3 Fan Translation! It had been in development for some time, and everyone was delighted to see it finally released with a great deal of improvements along with it.

The most striking technical improvement from playing the new patch is the text slowdown fix. No longer do menus lag with an overflowing amount of text, making item management more of a breeze. Thankfully, this means you won’t see graphical text bugs on the menus anymore with this fix! The naming screen also received similar treatment as well, with the game no longer lagging when loading the introductory cutscene. That bug had been infamous among the MOTHER 3 hacking community for nearly 13 years, and finally the translation transitions properly into the game. But what other sort of changes and improvements does version 1.3 have in store for players?

Arguably one of the coolest additions to this version of the patch is the inclusion of the recently found extended debug room. Lorenzooone, the man behind this new patch implemented an additional NPC that will send you into other tables of the debug room. Here, you can test out some cool new features, and even view the game’s cut attract mode sequence! This wasn’t the only cut content restored, as some other minor lines of dialogue have been re-inserted, such as an additional line from Caroline when Wess is in the party.

However, with a new patch release comes some inevitable bugs. While said bugs will be fixed in further updates, currently items with icons don’t properly display descriptions when highlighted in battle. So please, keep this in mind when you decide to play this version of the patch. So be sure to follow Lorenzooone on social media to be notified when these bug fixes are released!

If you’d like to download the MOTHER 3 Fan Translation Version 1.3 patch, please head to the official website. If you’d like to read further notes on what’s been fixed and added in this new patch, check out Tomato’s blog! We’ll be sure to report on further updates for the MOTHER 3 Fan Translation, so until then, check out and enjoy version 1.3. Tonda Gossa!