I can see how it’d be nice to have the MOTHER 2 side fully translated Variable-width font specifically – just the sheer amount of hacking work I’m not even necessarily talking about the It’d be a year-long (probably longer,Īctually) nightmare. The game’s script in English and inserted into the game? It would be
Work it was to get the game to look and act properly, even after we had Nope! Think back to the MOTHER 3 fan translation – remember how much Room with buckets of coffee, I could probably get EarthBound’s textĬonverted into MOTHER 1+2’s text format after a while. I think if I were to take a bunch of time off and hole myself up in a I got it to a pretty advanced state, yet there were still many issues, so I dropped it. To make a utility for people to translate EarthBound into other languages. I did this for my old EarthBound Zero remake hack and later on My ability and tried to turn the nonsense control codes into something Started to write a utility that dumped EarthBound’s text to the best of Now, I’m not saying it’s impossible, in fact a few years back I had Problems… guess what? MOTHER 2’s text and script codes are in aĬompletely different format! (head explodes) Still, even if Giygas himself came down and somehow solved those Simple copy-and-paste job into the MOTHER 1+2 ROM is not possible. If you were crazy enough, you could getĮarthBound to emulate the EarthBound Zero ROM, or even EarthBoundĪnyway, because the game’s text uses pointers all over the place –Īnd because we don’t have EarthBound’s script codes fully mapped out – a Made a while back to allow the scripting system to access any memoryĪddress, it would theoretically be possible to write an emulator just “Whoa, almost sounds like a CPU!” In fact, using a simple hack Rufus Fellow computer science nerds are probably thinking,
Stack, various registers, a huge number of flags/memory addresses,Ĭonditional branching, can handle subroutines many levels deep, it’s Might expect from a game’s text system, but it also implements its own The scripting language is advanced – it does all the normal stuff you Seriously, try to edit the game’s text using PK Hack sometime to Other languages, some 16 years after the game’s release – it’s a huge This is mostly why there aren’t many translations of EarthBound into Here’s an older file that lists some of the control Scripting language, and even after all these years we don’t have itįully mapped out. To sound effects, to windows, to user input – it’s all just one giant Keep in mind that’s just ONE line in the game.Įverything in the game from text, to events, to cut scenes, to music, notĪvailable, I’ll have to figure it out by go back to the lab in it… Go, machine, go!
Help, I can modify the machine to fly Dad, I mean Dr. Two… board, the Sky Runner will take to Dr. Here’s the problem, and it’s not The control codes parsed for your understanding: Non-programmers, so here’s a random snippet from Threed, with some of It’s not even appropriate to call it a “textįormat” – everything in EarthBound is pretty much one gigantic It was possible with MOTHER 1 because theĮarthBound’s text format, on the other hand, is the absolute, 100% Script into the game?” For many other games, it WOULD be that easy – inįact, RPGOne did that with the MOTHER 1 side of MOTHER 1+2 shortly after What I hear a lot is, “Can’t you just copy and paste EarthBound’s Lot of work to fully translate the MOTHER 2 side of the game too. Translation the other day, so I should try to explain why it would be a The question’s come up a lot since I released my MOTHER 1+2 April 30th, 2011 | EarthBound, Hacking, MOTHER 1+2
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