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Nintendo might never announce a new Earthbound. It certainly seems intent on never releasing the sequel, Mother 3, in the West. But at least a fan remake of the first game in the trilogy might finally see the light of day. EarthBound Beginnings Remake is a ROM hack that recreates the first game using the 16-bit look of its SNES successor. <\/p>\n
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Released in 1989 for the NES, Mother had never officially been localized into English until it came to the Wii U virtual shop as Earthbound Beginnings. It plays very similarly to Earthbound, with some shared locations, enemies, and story beats that loosely connect the two adventures. It\u2019s also never had the vibrant pixel art or level of gameplay polish that its successor had. <\/p>\n
EarthBound Beginnings Remake is a ROM hack that attempts to remedy those shortcomings by recreating the adventure inside EarthBound. As Time Extension reports<\/a>, however, it\u2019s been a long and difficult road to get there. The project was started back in 2007 and has changed hands and gone dark several times since. But there\u2019s finally a new 2025 trailer showing off the progress fans have made, with a promise for it to be complete by sometime in 2026. <\/p>\n \u201cI have been following this project since I was in middle school,\u201d wrote one fan on YouTube. \u201cAll the time through high school, college, and what\u2019s happened since, I had been checking in on this every now and again. There were many years where I didn\u2019t believe it would be finished. I cannot wait to play the final product. Earthbound Beginnings is my favorite game in the trilogy, so to see this fills me with so much joy.\u201d<\/p>\n The new trailer was released on the original game\u2019s 36th anniversary. An entire exhibition<\/a> on the series recently opened in Tokyo as well. And Earthbound creator Shigesato Itoi recently opened a side-shop<\/a> dedicated to new merchandise for the series. Just $230<\/a> will get you this incredible set of Ness, Paula, Jeff, Poo, and Mr. Saturn figures. <\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot: Nintendo \/ Gabbi Nintendo might never announce a new Earthbound. It certainly seems intent on never releasing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[34888,34891,34893,959,15389,34890,1299,34894,34889,34895,34892,3211,74,5060,15206,3764],"class_list":["post-43817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-earthbound","tag-earthbound-beginnings","tag-jeff","tag-kotaku","tag-mother","tag-ness","tag-nintendo","tag-paula","tag-rom-hacking","tag-science-fiction-comedy","tag-shigesato-itoi","tag-single-player-video-games","tag-technology","tag-trilogy","tag-video-game-sequels","tag-video-games-developed-in-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}