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Released April 30, 2011

This is a free, unofficial fan-made translation of MOTHER 1+2 for the Game Boy Advance. In this version, MOTHER 1 has been given a complete English retranslation intended to make the game more accessible to EarthBound fans (details here), while MOTHER 2 has basic menu and name translations.

Download the translation patch - if you don't know how to use IPS patches, see here.
Before playing, read these tips and suggestions - they'll help you get more enjoyment out of the game!
Download the files, tools, and source code - these are optional; you can use these to create your own translations or text-based hacks!

Screenshots

Game Start-up:

MOTHER 1:

MOTHER 2:

Frequently Asked Questions

What's different about the MOTHER 1 translation? Why should I care?

For many (most?) Western fans, the first game in the series is really hard to get into. My goal was to create a translation of the game that tries to make the game more palatable. Some of the things I did were:
- Retranslated the script from scratch. The EarthBound Zero ROM has a good number of changes, censoring, and mistakes with plot details and dialog. The text in the EarthBound Zero ROM is also very dry due to limited NES resources. Doing a retranslation with this GBA version allowed for a lot more text, and censoring/changes weren't necessary. The result is a script that should hopefully be more engaging and natural-sounding.
- Expanded many text boxes, allowing for more dialog text at a time, making the text more natural, more presentable, and easier to read
- Expanded menus and names wherever possible, allowing for more natural-sounding text
- Improved the font for better readability
- Added a gift box with an "Easy Ring" to Ninten's room for those who don't like to grind for experience and money. This item, when equipped, greatly increases the experience and money you win from enemies while also reducing the amount of random battles. It makes the game much less of a chore, which is one of the main reasons EarthBound fans have a hard time getting into the game.
- The GBA port already included a number of extra features - for example, the L Button acts as a shortcut key now, just as it did in EarthBound
- Some of the bugs in the Japanese GBA version have been fixed
- Connections with EarthBound and MOTHER 3 have been left intact, so fans of the series will surely appreciate that. The EarthBound Zero translation had changed a lot of things, which broke many of these connections.
This WAS just a Famicom game originally, so it's not as if all of this will suddenly make it an entirely new game, but my hope is that it will at least make it easier for fans to get into and enjoy.
Why didn't you translate the MOTHER 2 part too? Can't you just stick EarthBound's translation into the ROM?

Short answer: if it were that easy, it would have already been done a long time ago.
Long answer: It's a LOT more complicated than what you can imagine. It would probably take me just as much time - if not more - than the MOTHER 3 project took. I don't think it would be worth the effort; the GBA version of MOTHER 2 has a bunch of bugs, the music and sound effects are significantly inferior, the programming is a nightmare, etc. etc.
Still, if I had a lot of free time and/or money I'd love to work on the MOTHER 2 side of the game so we could have all three GBA games fan-translated. But I don't think that'll ever happen.

For more details, I wrote up a thing about it here.
I equipped the Easy Ring in MOTHER 1. How do I take it off?

The only way to unequip items is to equip something in its place.
I want to translate this into my own language!

I've released all the files, tools, and source code I used to make this translation. I designed this project with other languages in mind, so it should be very easy for anyone to translate the MOTHER 1 part! You can download the tools here.
I found a bug and/or a typo!

First, be extra sure that you're not the one mistaken. If you're really sure it's a bug or a typo, then let me know here.

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How to Use the Translation Patch

Unzip the contents of this zip file to a folder/directory. You should find the following files:
- mother12.ips
- mother12.txt
Second, you will need to obtain a ROM of the Japanese version of MOTHER 1+2. This clearly steps into promoting piracy, so you will have to find this on your own. Search engines are useful for this sort of thing.

Once you have the ROM, make sure it is unzipped/uncompressed. The file should be 16 MB in size. Put this file in the same folder as the files from above.
Most modern emulators will automatically patch IPS patches when you load a ROM. This is known as "soft-patching". If your emulator can do this, then make sure the IPS file is called "mother12.ips" and that the ROM is called "mother12.gba". Then load the ROM in your emulator. If all goes well, the translation patch should work automatically!

If it's not working and you're sure your emulator can soft-patch IPS files, then you might have to put the IPS file in a different folder, depending on your settings and what emulator you're using. Check your settings and read the documentation that came with your emulator.
If you don't want to use soft-patching or if you can't get it to work, then you can always hard-patch it. Download Lunar IPS here. With it, you can permanently patch the ROM. Then just load your ROM in your emulator.

NOTE: If you're still having trouble getting either methods to work, then see here.

Troubleshooting

I can't get the patch to work!
Read the directions above. If you STILL can't get the patch to work, try asking on the Starmen.Net or Romhacking.net message boards.
I tried applying the patch to a ROM that already had another patch on it. Now it's weird! What do I do?
You NEED to make sure you've applied the patch to the original Japanese ROM. If you apply it to an already-modified ROM, then it's naturally going to behave in unpredictable ways.
The MOTHER 2 stuff is still in Japanese!
The MOTHER 2 side of this patch only includes translations of menus, item names, enemy names, etc.
The naming screen stuff in MOTHER 2 is mostly in Japanese still!
The naming screen programming is truly insane and would take me more time to hack than I felt was worth it.
I can't get my game to save!
This happens mostly with Mac emulators. I don't have a Mac, so I can't really troubleshoot this. If all else fails, you can use save states (I think they call them "freeze states" on the Mac emus).
I double-click on the .zip file but nothing happens!
If your computer doesn't have .zip file support (most computers in the last 10+ years have support by default), look on Google for things like 7-Zip or WinZip.
The game gets stuck at the intro screen. Help!
You can skip this normally by pressing any button. If you're using an emulator, keep in mind that you might need to set up what keyboard keys act as what GBA buttons. If you're new to emulators and you don't understand what that means, then just smoosh your face into the keyboard until it works.
The game crashes/freezes on my hardware!
This may be a hardware-specific problem. I don't know much about this stuff, so I can't really help you in this regard.
I'm trying to use a save file from the Japanese version, but the names and stuff get all messed up!
There's no way to fix this, you'll either have to start a new game or live with your wacky new names!

Support

I often get e-mails from people asking how they can donate to my projects, but I don't like to accept donations for this particular kind of stuff. If you'd still really like to help out, though, if you buy any EarthBound/MOTHER merchandise through these links, I'll get a dollar or so. This will help keep EarthBound Central up and running, not to mention many of my other projects, like Game Swag!

Credits

Hacking / Translating: Tomato
Hacking assistance: Jeffman

Thanks to:

Poe	byuu	reidman	Jonk	Plo
sarsie	HockeyMonkey	weasly64	Rhyselinn	PKDX
Buck Fever	dreraserhead	Demolitionizer	Kasumi	Ness and Sonic
PK_Fanta	linkdude20002001	climhazard	TheZunar123	sonicstar5
Skye	Triverske	Mother Bound	Blair32	PSIWolf674
Ice Sage	PK Mt. Fuji	The Great Morgil	Ness-Ninten-Lucas	LordQuadros
Ross	rotschleim	LakituAl	Kuwanger	MotherFan
Anonymous	BroBuzz	Trevor	Rathe coolguy	EBrent
Robert	KingDarian	Satsy	tapioca	curtmack
Chuggaaconroy	Roido	MarioFan3	blahmoomoo	VGMaster64
Corey	Superstarman	Halloween	Robo85	ZUUL
Crav	Priestess Paula	My Name Here	Aangie	platinatina
Petalklunk	Aviarei	Cuca	Realn

And probably a hundred or more other helpful people! Forgive me if your name should have been here, there are so many to remember that my brain is failing me now. But know that your help was appreciated and led to this patch's creation!

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