MOTHER 3 Petition

Wait...the original game has a Bestiary/Practice tool. I imported the game, and it's there and perfectly accessible at all times.

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Oh, well, my point isn't very good then.

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Hate to say this, but the exporting Mother 3 ship has sailed. There's pretty much no chance for it now.

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My lawyer advised me not to download it... At least I'll always have my $90 caterage of Earth Bound.

"USE YOUR WORDS NOT THE FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE" ''memyselfand I 2"

...Wait. You think you'll be sued by downloading something that Nintendo themselves have already given the thumbs-up to? I mean, even if they suddenly did send a Cease-and-Desist, it wouldn't effect the countless hundred-thousands who download it. In the worst case scenario, which would be very unfortunate and highly unlikely, Tomato(The main developer of the Fan Translation) would be the one to be sued.

I'm a ghost, you didn't see me.

^ Countless hundreds of thousands? Overestimation much?

^x3 Pick up a legit copy and self-dump the ROM if you don't feel comfortable downloading it. That's what I did. Of course I also got lucky and happened to find a retro gaming shop during a trip to Asia...

edited 30th Jan '11 7:22:27 PM by TracerBullet

Hard Boiled Detective Since 1985

I was kind of debating on whether to say thousands or hundred thousands. Sorry for choosing the larger one out of the two....

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I say, go ahead and download the fan translation.

If Hell freezes over and Nintendo releases Mother 3 stateside, delete it and buy the real thing.

Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova Scotian

^^ Even thousands I'd hesitate to say. I'd put it in the hundreds.

^ Revise your guess up by a factor of a couple hundred and you've got the number of Week 1 downloads of the patch.  ^*

There's a reason why everyone talks about that fan translation.

Hard Boiled Detective Since 1985

^He has no reason to do so. His place in the natural order of this forum is to moderate any enthusiasm regarding Nintendo's releases or aspects thereof.

Keep in mind that not everyone who downloads it will buy it. In fact, since it's been available on the internet for so long some people who would have bought it now won't because they've already played it. Only a certain fraction of people who play the game are going to be devoted and loyal fans, and only devoted and loyal fans will spend money to play something they've already played.

And even of that, how many would pay full retail price (you don't honestly think they'd bring it over just to give it a budget price, do you?) for a game that would be two generations out of date by the time it releases?

Considering how I actually own a physical copy of MOTHER 3, and the fact that any theoretical stateside distribution at this point would be digital (because everyone knows that those $10 price points on the VC are total ripoffs), I can heartily say yes, yes I would.

Oh and judging by the fact that Earthbound and MOTHER 3 currently occupy spots in the Top 3 for most demanded VC releases, I'm fairly confident that I wouldn't be alone.

Are you always this negative about Nintendo games, BTW?

Hard Boiled Detective Since 1985

I'm always amused when people think that petitions work. I'm even more amused in this case, since it's about a game for the GBA. I'm pretty certain that no GBA game will be released anymore.

People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.

Lat time I checked, online petition =/= petition.

Well just because they want Mother 3 dosen't mean they expect it on it's native consle.

It's still not going to happen, though.

edited 31st Jan '11 1:04:23 PM by DrStarky

Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova Scotian

There are no legal repercussions. It would be financially impossible to devote legal resources to prosecuting people for downloading games unless they were also circulating them.

What he said. You won't get in any trouble. Unless Mother 3 is still in production, Nintendo won't even loose any money. They don't get anything from secondhand sales.

If you really don't feel confortable loading this, than I'm not going to presure you. But the legal consequences are virtually non-existant and, considering Nintendo actually recomended the fan translation, I don't see any moral issues you can have.

edited 31st Jan '11 5:01:10 PM by DrStarky

Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova Scotian

Wait what? They did?

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If they did, I would love to see that. It would clear my consience about downloading the game.

"USE YOUR WORDS NOT THE FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE" ''memyselfand I 2"

Admitley, I only heard that they recomended the fan translation.

But someone mentioned it in this thread.

Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova Scotian

Did a quick Google search. Wikipedia says;

Dang, I was about to paste that exact line.

Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova Scotian