It was designed and directed by Shigesato Itoi and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, with music by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka. It was developed by Ape Inc., Nintendo Tokyo R&D Products, and Pax Softnica, and was published by Nintendo for the Famicom on July 27, 1989.įor its Japanese release, the game was known by the title, 'Mother '. This is a dump of the NA prototype cart, so it's Earthbound.Famicom Controller, Wii U Gamepad, Wii U Controller Pro, Wii Remote, Wii Classic Controller, Switch Joycons, Switch Pro ControllerĮarthBound Beginnings (Japanese: マザー Mother) is the first installment in the Mother series. ZombiePossessor: No one cares, Mother is the Japanese name. (Also, how do I find out a NES rom's CRC? Google doesn't seem to want to help me.)

So it normally should be fine to use the clean dump. I doubt the clean dump would need any AP fix, since the AP screen occured only because the game data had been tampered with (the modified titlescreen and textbox fix) The reason why Demiforce hacked it in the first place is because it froze on Nesticle whenever textboxes appeared. Oh, and for those interested, the original untouched prototype rom works just fine on nesDS.

Since the rom had beed edited, the checksum wasn't correct anymore, which made the game display it's anti-piracy text.ĭemiforce then hacked it again to solve the anti-piracy problems and changed the Zero from White to Blue to differentiate the AP hacked version from the other one. It was easy to do, they just had to edit one single byte for it to work.īut then, another problem arose. However, this didn't work on Nesticle, the emulator used at the time, so Demiforce hacked it to make it work again and added Zero to the titlescreen to differentiate it from Earthbound on the SNES. After some reading on, the (Prototype) is the clean rom straight from the cart.

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