You upload a Mother 3 video on Mother’s Day

Seeing a beta of this game resurface is my biggest lost media wish. There's just so much going on in this game and I'd love to get my hands on it.

That fact that the original version was supposed to be localized, but the final release wasn't...

I hate how the N64DD was responsible for the cancellation of so many games.

I saw the thumbnail and I thought the game got leaked and my heart skipped a beat, you can’t do this to me bro 😭

Sadly, most of it was due to the quickly evolving hardware of the time. The 64 Drive sounded great, but with the N64 already being a year behind of launch, it did not help it's future. So many developers were actually developing games on the 64 drive, only to be told it wasn't going to be released outside of America. This caused so many games to be shelved or downgraded as a regular N64 title. Earthbound met the same fate as those developers, as the under-powered N64 could not handle the downsize of the game for regular N64 hardware.

it's definitely a MASSIVE shame this version got canceled. i hope that it'll be found one day

Happy Mother day! And of course Happy Mother day too, you beautiful franchise!

Of all the horrible mistakes Nintendo made starting from screwing around with Sony over the Virtual Boy and of course the Wii U, the 64DD story hurts especially. Nintendo knew they are bound to Cartridges with the N64. The 64DD was planned very early as an accessory for the N64 and a huge library of upcoming games was designed exclusively around the 64DD. Every planned game was either shifted over to normal Cartriedges or were cancelled. They miss-calculated to bizarrly with the 64DD it's unbelievable to this day what went wrong here.

I’ve just recently been learning more about earthbound 64 development. This video was perfect timing

The SNES version of Mother 3 was half done on SNES? I wonder if they repurposed their work for GBA 🤔

Wow I didn't know development was THAT bad. I wish they'd get to retell the story on modern systems to see the original vision and so we can get a official release here

As a mere observer of the series over the years, I find it really crazy that Nintendo ported Mother/Beginnings to Wii U as well as Earthbound, a decade after Mother 3 released for GBA. And then that was basically it for the series, despite the demand for going on two decades now? Nintendo really changed after Iwata passed away, and the Switch sold incredibly well.

Great job with this video 👍 I appreciate that you didn't use a digital voice. You also read the material well and there are lots if great visuals. Definitely a good watch 👍

So Earthbound 2 was going to be the answer to Sony's Final Fantasy series... now I get it. Great vid!

I feel like Nintendo needs to do a remaster of the whole earthbound series. Like remaster EarthBound zero and Earthbound for the SNES. Then make a brand new remaster for Earthbound 3 and release them 1 at a time. Give 3D character models and quality of life changes to all three games. They could do it on the Nintendo Switch successor.

I wonder how different or better Mother 3 would have been if it was restarted for the then new/upcoming DS instead of the GBA.

It's important to tell the stories of both successful and failed games, in my opinion it is more important to talk about the failed development of games because that is important to learn for future game developers.

I wonder if we'll ever get to the point where AI can fully code a possible version of this game based on the bits of footage

I know that Ness was spotted or at least confirmed for Earthbound 64 and according the series creator it was going to be a lot darker, not to mention based on what was teased at the end of SNES Earthbound, Ness would've gone on this massive journey to track down Porky and bring him home, I think since Mother 3 ended with an end of the world plot, I think it would be more of an end to the dimension or something much more grand and depressing, maybe a little bitter sweet. Plus it would've been hype to any sort representation from the Previous Earthbound game to show up aside from Porky, I could've seen Ness being a mentor figure for Lucas with his powers and such. It feels like it could've been the N64's answer to FF7, maybe a late hardware release if they caught up with their ambitions and scope early as was said, it could've been one of the best N64 games given but always we at least got some released version of the infamously lost game so I'm happy for that at least. I guess we'll wait and see if someone from Nintendo leaks Earthbound 64 for all to enjoy. Also Mother 3 GBA getting translated officially by Nintendo, even if it gets a Teen Rating. Either way weirder things have happened at Nintendo.

As interesting as EB 64 was, I definitely prefer the end result.

Fantastic channel mate and great work researching these obscure topics. Imagine if fans one day manage to recreate this game from lost assets the way BS Zelda ancient stone tablets has been through MSU emulation? The results would be spectacular. Who knows? Crazier stuff has happened (Conkers Hyrule Tail I'm lookin at you)

Im suprised there still isn't a recreation of Earthbound for modern systems already. Also it'd be neat if Toby Fox had a hand in the project, it just seems perfect for the guy to work on it.

Awesome video! Could you make one on dinosaur planet?

Man, I wonder what the SNES version of Mother 3 would look like with DKC graphics🤔

Oh nice video! What’s the name of tropical music at the last chapter of this video?

Some games were reworked entirely Dinosaur Planet- Star Fox Adventures Conker's Twelve Tales- Conker's Bad Fur Day Please release Twelve Tales Rare, even if it's on the Xbox.

6:18 That doesn't make sense, no one can copyright the word Chimera. That name belongs to a mythological creature that any one can use in any form of media.

I'm surprised the space world demo hasn't leaked, considering all the others that have come out over the years, maybe one day we will see it in the flesh.

Don't get me wrong. I'm very happy with the version of Mother 3 that we got in the end, but I still would kill to see what this version would have been like. Especially considering this version of Mother 3 would have been 4 chapters longer originally that what we ended up with. I pray that that a build of this game gets found someday.

I guess the reason is they didn't want to spend even more money on a sinking ship, but I'm surprised they didn't at least consider moving the game to the Gamecube. That console certainly could've used a High-profile RPG.

If you mash rewind at the beginning, you unlock the remix version

Gosh, I still hope Mother 64/EarthBound 64 leaks someday, like Dinosaur Planet did. I mean... Mother 64 was shown at several events between 1996 ~ 2000 and was even playable at some of them (1999's Spaceworld featured a playable demo with Flint and Lucas), so a cartridge containing a beta or prototype should be lost out there, right ? After the Dinosaur Planet beta (which I honestly still think the original concept for the N64 is much better than Star Fox Adventures turned out to be), Mother 64 is the beta I most hope will leak one day.

I like the Earthbound/Mother games, but seeing this is torture to me lol

If sony didn't make the PlayStation and stayed with N64, we'd have earthbound 64

The development for n64 games were harder than what being realized. No wonder why there was no Metroid 64 (the original creator died in 97) nor Fire Emblem 64 (the creator once took interest but went on controversial decision for the super Famicom game in 99)

i bet its nearly complete they might bring it out with the n64 mini

Really good video but please check your spelling. There were so many mistakes distracting from the overall message and quality of the video

hope we get this game one day

The N64DD should've bundled with the console itself at launch, double the storage from 64MGBytes to 128MGBytes, and maybe have a peripheral akinned to that of the Super Gameboy for SNES backwards compatibility!

Imagine if Nintendo decided to pick up development right where they left off to create exactly what was intended back then but now. I would love a retro n64 style rpg on modern hardware.

this wouldve been the game to dethrone oot had it come out, i'm so sure of it

Nintendo really FUMBLED by NEVER releasing that game.

I still need to beat the english translation of mother 3. I enjoyed earthbound when I beat that a long time ago

I think mother 3 is better as a GBA game. It looks amazing

I guess switching it to the GameCube was too expensive and it was too late to implement

imagine an earthbound game for the switch

i know the footage is laggy but PLEASE do not interpolate the footage, it just makes it look a million times worse'

Mother makes me sad...

I'll take "games they should finish anyway" for 100 Alex

YAAAAAAAAAAY

Come on, Nintendo! Give us Mother 3/EarthBound 2 already!

I'd like the demo to be released one day but what we got on GBA was probably miles better. I'm not a fan of the 64 designs. I understand what they were going for, being on a new 3D console they probably wanted the game to look more mature and realistic. Or what was realistic in the 90's at least. lol

Iwata 😢

Honestly Mother 3 ended up being amazing anyway, so it all worked out ❤

Too bad they couldn't just move development over to Gamecube.

I don't know about some of the info in this video. Maybe consider re checking your sources. Also, consider putting a disclaimer of the image of my models you used.

why don’t nintendo make a new earthbound

Well you can compile N64 to PC now so who knows

*disastrous :)

They did the same thing with Starfox 2, as it finished development so late in the snes's lifecycle, they never released it even though it was finished, at least until the snes mini came out, which tbh made it worth buying just for that, as it's the only way to legally play it, as i doubt nintendo will release the rom again.

im sure the released version of m3 is infinitely better than what the n64 version wouldve been but i still wanna see what itd be like so bad, it looks so interesting and i love the aesthetic that the game had. also really wanna know what the story was originally like considering itoi said it was much darker than the final version

Thank you for not being a negative turd lol.

You made a huge mistake in your video. the 64DD version of Mother 3 was NEVER going to be released or localized in the west and no official Nintendo source or announcement was EVER made of them ever having plans to do that. Earthbound 64 was a fan-made title created by magazines and fan websites and Nintendo NEVER announced the game under the Earthbound 64 or Earthbound 2 titles. Magazins speculated that they might, but did so with no sources, and websites online also only ever speculated despite there being no announcement ever made from Nintendo that they would. Only that a Japanese trade show showed footage of 64DD Mother 3 for Japan and that's all they ever did. Even the logo you presented on screen is just a fan-made hack of the title screen from the GBA version. Please make an update clarafying your inaccurate research, because you're giving people the impression that Mother 3 was going to come to America and that was NEVER the case. The last thing we need is more people being given false hope by having illegitimate misinformation spread about it that was never true.

its astounding to me how disrespectful nintendo and the creators of mother 3 can be to the biggest part of their fanbase and still be kindly praised for not localizing the game. regardless of the reason for a refusal to localize the game officially, theres simply no excuse.

Final fantasy 7 wasn't designed for the n64 disk drive you are wrong. It was designed for the snes disk drive totally wrong console generation. Thumbs down for misinformation.

I find it hilarious how everyone STILL calls this game Earthbound 64 despite the fact that title is completely wrong and was never once officially associated with the game in any way. Nintendo never called it that, Shigesato Itoi never called it that, no official source ever called it that. "Earthbound 64" was and is nothing more than a fan-invented title that showed up in early magazines not associated with Nintendo, because early talk of people online who knew of it's existence realized it was a part of the Mother series and only knew it as Earthbound, so they invented that localization of the title and slapped a 64 on the end because.... everyone did that at the time. But no, this game has always been officially titled "Mother 3" and nothing but "Mother 3". It was re-made in finished form for the GBA as Mother 3 as it exists today, but the 64DD version was only ever called Mother 3, as well. EDIT: Also I notice in the video itself, you mention some inaccurate information as well. Nintendo of America NEVER had ANY plans to release the 64DD version of Mother 3 and was NEVER going to call it Earthbound 2, either. That is completely fabricated and made-up information. From the very beginning Nintendo was never going to bring this game overseas, and never even remotely announced any plan to. I don't know where you got the idea that they were going to do this from or that Earthbound 2 title, but it's simply wrong. Even the "logo" you used for "Earthbound 2" came from a fan made title hack of the GBA game, so that wasn't even real, either.

They should,ve moved it to the gamecube instead🥲