Big fan of the “Mother” series that brought us Earthbound on the SNES? So are the folks at Earthbound Central, who we blatantly borrowed this news item from:  8cm tall MOTHER figures are on their way to Japan later this year, recreating desktop sized characters from the unreleased in the US “Mother” for the Nintendo Entertainment System, as well as Earthbound on the Super Nintendo.  The first release is set for Late August 2010, with the rest to arrive over the next few weeks.  Want more detailed info and weekly updates on the Earthbound series? Check out Earthbound Central.

Recently during my gaming exploits I heard some talk about a Mother 3 game for Garry’s Mod. For those of you who don’t know Garry’s mod is a game on steam that runs off the source engine where people can create their own applications or games using the source engine in conjunction with their own code built in Lua.

Yet, what is truly amazing about this Mother 3 game mod, called Chimera Hunt, is that it features fully rendered characters and a stage from the game.

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After a bit of a break the Weekly Sweet Power Up is back with Kim’s Cakes delicious tribute to Earthbound’s hero. Sent in by our very own Will Thompson. PK Fondant!

Since he hadn’t played the tune before, Tom takes it at a slow tempo all the way through the first time, rather than speeding up throughout the tune as I indicate on the sheet music, then plays it faster all the way through the second time around to make up for it. He has a bit of difficulty with the second section, so we’ll have to take another crack at making a video of this to get a flawless performance in. He liked the tune, though, and wondered if the Raspberry Jam Band might like this as much as they do “K.K. Ragtime”…

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While visiting around the Mother 3 fan translation website I noticed that they actually updated their blog with some new information. apparently they have updated their translation patch to fix a few bugs and glitches…

The new patch fixes all known typos and most (though not all) of the bugs encountered in version 1.0. Save files from the 1.0 translation ARE compatible with the new patch, so no worries there. Save states from version 1.0 should probably work with version 1.1 most of the time, but there’s always a very slight possibility that one might go crazy. Regular saves are the way to go.

It’s nice to see that even after the release they are still working hard on perfecting their translation.

[via Mother3 Blog | patch here]
[There also is a free web version of the Mother 3 handbook here]