History Trivia / MOTHER3

* {{Fanon}}: It is common for fanartists to depict the Masked Man as having asymetrical eye colors, with one red and the other being whatever eye color the fanartists decides it to be, which is usually green.

** An unused menu called "Memos" exists in the data of the Japanese version of the game, and from the text found would have contained gameplay tips and background information on various characters and items.
** Judging by the text of some of these memos, nuts were going to be used as pre-timeskip money, while post-timeskip it would come in the form of "Porkyupons" dropped by enemies.

* FanTranslation: [[http://mother3.fobby.net/ These awesome guys]]! The [[http://mother3.fobby.net/or/ online readme]], about halfway down the page, starts a very, ''very'' long list of every hack that had to be programmed in order to make the translation work. Buried in there is this gem:

* NoExportForYou: '''''Very''''' unfortunately so. Lucas and other elements of the game appeared in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series, but his home game still has never seen a release outside of Japan. As stated by Reggie in E3 2015, they are very well aware of the love for ''Mother 3'' and the demands for it to come to America, but the main thing they want to make sure about is whether or not the game will sell enough to justify translating it into English after all these years, especially in the wake of ''[=EarthBound's=]'' disastrous American ad campaign touting that the game had GrossOutHumor and nothing more. Whether it would or not, as of more recent news will probably not be found out, after supposed reevaluation, Nintendo deemed the game to potentially be too controversial.[[note]]In particular, most sources cite the [[ValuesDissonance Magypsies]] as a primary culprit for why there's no western release, as their depictions could be seen as incredibly offensive to the LGBTQ+ community.[[/note]]

* NoExportForYou: '''''Very''''' unfortunately so. Lucas and other elements of the game appeared in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series, but his home game still has never seen a release outside of Japan. As stated by Reggie in E3 2015, they are very well aware of the love for ''Mother 3'' and the demands for it to come to America, but the main thing they want to make sure about is whether or not the game will sell enough to justify translating it into English after all these years. Whether it would or not, as of more recent news will probably not be found out, after supposed reevaluation, Nintendo deemed the game to potentially be too controversial.[[note]]In particular, most sources cite the [[ValuesDissonance Magypsies]] as a primary culprit for why there's no western release, as their depictions could be seen as incredibly offensive to the LGBTQ+ community.[[/note]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBhnImy4Jw Some footage of a SpaceWorld demo highlight]] revealed a few more tidbits about what didn't make the cut in the jump to the GBA. By far the most notable, however, has to be that at one point ''[[https://i.imgur.com/xyEEiiv.png Ness]]'' was intended to be a playable character.

** Flint is so badass, some people also like to call him [[Creator/ChuckNorris Flint Norris]].

* NoExportForYou: '''''Very''''' unfortunately so. Lucas and other elements of the game appeared in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series, but his home game still has never seen a release outside of Japan. As stated by Reggie in E3 2015, they are very well aware of the love for ''Mother 3'' and the demands for it to come to America, but the main thing they want to make sure about is whether or not the game will sell enough to justify translating it into English after all these years. Whether it would or not, as of more recent news will probably not be found out, after supposed reevaluation, Nintendo deemed the game to potentially be too controversial.[[note]]In particular, most sources site the [[ValuesDissonance Magypsies]] as a primary culprit for why there's no western release, as their depictions could be seen as incredibly offensive to the LGBTQ+ community.[[/note]]

* NoExportForYou: '''''Very''''' unfortunately so. Lucas and other elements of the game appeared in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series, but his home game still has never seen a release outside of Japan. As stated by Reggie in E3 2015, they are very well aware of the love for ''Mother 3'' and the demands for it to come to America, but the main thing they want to make sure about is whether or not the game will sell enough to justify translating it into English after all these years. Whether it would or not, as of more recent news will probably not be found out, after supposed reevaluation, Nintendo deemed the game to potentially be too controversial.[[note]]In particular, most sources site the [[ValuesDisonnence Magypsies]] as a primary culprit for why there's no western release, as their depictions could be seen as incredibly offensive to the LGBTQ+ community.[[/note]]

* NoExportForYou: '''''Very''''' unfortunately so. Lucas and other elements of the game appeared in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series, but his home game still has never seen a release outside of Japan. As stated by Reggie in E3 2015, they are very well aware of the love for ''Mother 3'' and the demands for it to come to America, but the main thing they want to make sure about is whether or not the game will sell enough to justify translating it into English after all these years. Whether it would or not, as of more recent news will probably not be found out, after supposed reevaluation, Nintendo deemed the game to potentially be too controversial.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: Using the silver dragonfly item against Negative Man is said to yield an extremely rare and valuable item. For those wondering, Negative Man does actually have a 2% chance of dropping a [[VendorTrash meteorite]] which is worth 2500$, but this is unrelated to whether or not you use the silver dragonfly.

--->''The game only had enough memory for 40 letters of battle text on the screen at once. Fixing this was assumed impossible, but a fix was figured out anyway, allowing for infinite text per line.''

** Early video of ''Earthbound 64'' depict a Ness-looking character, implying that Lucas was supposed to be a Ninten {{expy}} like Ness was. ''Earthbound 64'' itself uses different designs for Lucas and Claus than the final GBA product does.

* NoExportForYou: '''''Very''''' unfortunately so. Lucas and other elements of the game appeared in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series, but his home game still has never seen a release outside of Japan. As stated by Reggie in E3 2015, they are very well aware of the love for ''Mother 3'' and the demands for it to come to America, but the main thing they want to make sure about is whether or not the game will sell enough to justify translating it into English after all these years.

* {{Defictionalization}}: Someone [[http://lvl1-chef.tumblr.com/post/127527399563/pork-chips-hp-50 actually made pork chips in real life]]. It's [[NutritionalNightmare about as healthy as you'd expect.]] On a lesser note, the blog itself does this for a lot of ''MOTHER'' series foods, but that's besides the point.

* NoExportForYou: '''''Damn''''' ''it'', Nintendo.
** To put it into perspective, Lucas is the only playable character in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' that hasn't been in at least one game released outside of Japan. In ''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS[=/=]Wii U'', Lucas and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Roy]] were eventually made playable once again; while the latter's own game has not been officially translated, he was playable in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''.
** Brownie Brown has stated that if this game ever gets a rerelease, they will attempt to avert this trope. However, it isn't looking too good, with it being announced to be rereleased on UsefulNotes/WiiU Virtual Console... ''in Japan only'', with its segment specifically being cut from international versions of the November 2015 Nintendo Direct. It's possible that a Miiverse movement will turn this around as with ''VideoGame/EarthBound'''s rerelease, however.
** At E3 2015 when being asked about ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'', Reggie stated that they are very well aware of the love for ''Mother 3'' and the demands for it to come to America. The main thing they want to make sure about is whether or not the game will sell enough to justify translating it into English after all these years. [[note]]While [[BigNameFan Tomato]] has stated he's more than willing to allow them to use his FanTranslation for free to get it over in the states, the way Reggie phrased it seems to make it sound like they're considering [[RemadeForTheExport remaking it for the export]] rather than retranslating the GBA original, which would give better justification why they're so hesitant with stating anything on that, since that would require more funds in that regard, not to mention said FanTranslation has a few swear words on Kumatora's part, a thing that ([[GettingCrapPastTheRadar generally]]) goes against Nintendo's policy for translations. The only reason ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' got released overseas is because it already had a prototype English translation planned for back in the day that didn't get released, which served as the basis for the official English for its Wii U rerelease, which didn't cost that much to do.[[/note]] While he says he has nothing to announce for now, he did say they'll see what happens on that front in the future. While the game currently is still in export limbo, at least it's better than the previous year's E3, which had a skit of him setting ''Mother 3'' fans on fire with laser eyes for constantly asking him about it...
** The 3DS [=eShop=] has a special category devoted to Virtual Console releases called "As Featured in ''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo [=3DS=]''". Its preview banner features Lucas, of all characters, as the promotional star. Nintendo certainly likes to tease its fanbase.
** Ahead of a January 12, 2017 UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch event, rumors abounded that a Western localization of ''Mother 3'' would finally be announced. A tweet from a well-known source of Nintendo leaks and Shigesato Itoi himself being scheduled at the event had fans' hopes high, but alas, no such announcement occurred.

* MovedToTheNextConsole: It's a rare case of an example that involves a major style change. It moved from the Nintendo 64 to the Game Boy Advance, going from a fully-3D title to a sprite-based one. It technically began development on the ''SNES''.

** This game is sometimes called ''[=EarthBound=] 2'' or ''[=EarthBound=].

** This game is sometimes called ''[=EarthBound=] 2''.

* FanTranslation: [[http://mother3.fobby.net/ These awesome guys]]! The [[http://mother3.fobby.net/or/ online readme]], about halfway down the page, starts a very, ''very'' long list of every hack that had to made in order to make the translation work. Buried in there is this gem:

** Ahead of a January 12, 2017 UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch event, rumors abounded that a Western localization of Mother 3 would finally be announced. A tweet from a well-known source of Nintendo leaks and Shigesato Itoi himself being scheduled at the event had fans' hopes high, but alas, no such announcement occurred.

** A partially unused stat called "Kindness" can be found in the data of the game. Unused text suggests it could have influenced story events depending on how high it was. The stat still exists in the final game, but is not used in any meaningful capacity.

** Ahead of a January 12, 2017 UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch event, rumors abounded that a Western localization of Mother 3 would finally be announced. A tweet from a well-known source of Nintendo leaks and Shigesato Itoi himself being scheduled at the event have fans' hopes high, but the truth remains to be seen.

* FanNickname: This game is sometimes called ''[=EarthBound=] 2''.

** Ahead of a January 12, 2017 Nintendo Switch event, rumors abounded that a Western localization of Mother 3 would finally be announced. A tweet from a well-known source of Nintendo leaks and Shigesato Itoi himself being scheduled at the event have fans' hopes high, but the truth remains to be seen.