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Earthbound Coming to Wii U Virtual Console in NA / Europe

I like how this thread is split between people who are crying tears of joy and people who are apathetic. Hopefully that will change next time around when they bring over Mother 3. :P
 
I'm absolutely shocked at this announcement. I never thought it would happen.

I'll be buying this the moment it hits the eShop.
 
TrickRoom said:
I like how this thread is split between people who are crying tears of joy and people who are apathetic. Hopefully that will change next time around when they bring over Mother 3. :P
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Not likely. :/ Sadly, you'll see the same people going, "Hurrrr MEH, fan translation was released yurrrrrs ago. Try harder, N."

For myself, I'm psyched. :)
 
DimmuBurgerKing said:
Not likely. :/ Sadly, you'll see the same people going, "Hurrrr MEH, fan translation was released yurrrrrs ago. Try harder, N."

For myself, I'm psyched. :)
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I was actually talking about the people who have no idea what Earthbound was about and why it's been so hyped. I can only imagine that some people among here will be pulled in from that apathy and end up rallying behind support for Mother 3.
 
Schnozberry said:
I haven't read every last post in the thread, so pre-emptive apologies if this has already been beaten to death, but Gamepad Earthbound on the shitter is going to be fantastic.
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I never thought about it but the toilet is totally the most appropriate place to play this game.

Can't wait.
 
Great news and about time Nintendo. I wonder if the sales for Earthbound will effect the likelyhood for Mother 3 to come out in USA/EU. If that is the case, everybody buy 2 copies each!!
 
Sexually Aggressive Uncle said:
Recognition? It's the same damn game you played 20 years ago. Congrats. You are win.
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I bet you're one of those guys who rebought all of the God of War and/or Metal Gear Solid HD collections when you actually had all these games on PS2 and PSP already, right?
WHY BUY THEM THEY'RE THE SAME GAMES YOU PLAYED EIGHT YEARS AGO, AMIRITE?!

EDIT: Also Earthbound bombed HARD back in the day, which makes your stupid wrong post even more stupid and wrong.

MisterHero said:
Probably.

Please don't rename Pokey to Porkey.
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But they should, actually. It would only confuse less people who only played Smash Bros. and never played Earthbound.
As long as they don't rename Giygas to Giyig oder something
 
As happy as I am to finally see this get a release, I'm probably not going to be buying a Wii-U any time soon. I wonder if this might lead to inklings of a mother 3 official localization and release (although the fan-translated one is pretty good from what little I tried). I would be so over that, if that were true.
 
Would be pretty cool if this came out on regular Wii somehow, I've had 800 points sitting there forever. Also if Nintendo's gauging sales for interest, they should put it on the platform with an actual userbase ha (even if it's currently dead).

Excited I'll eventually get a way to play this finally after passing back in the day though. If I can get a good Wii U bundle for $200 this holiday it might even be a system seller in the same way that Gunstar Heroes was my Wii system seller heh.
 
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I will not rest until translated Mother 1 and Mother 3 ports are on the 3DS Virtual Console. You think you've appeased us Nintendo? HAH.
 
It's pretty cool news. I just recently replayed EarthBound last month and fell in love with it all over again. I sure hope all of the newcomers enjoy it as much as everyone else who played it has.
 
Bjoern the Smexy said:
But they should, actually. It would only confuse less people who only played Smash Bros. and never played Earthbound.
As long as they don't rename Giygas to Giyig oder something
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It makes sense given his fate in Mother 3, but Porkey is just unimaginative. Lol his name is Porkey and he's fat.
 
GG-Duo said:
So are Starmen folks going to buy Wii U just to support this?
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I doubt it unless they're really hardcore with their Earthbound fandom. You don't just drop $300+ for the ability to support an $8 game.

That said, by the time EB releases on the Wii U VC in NA/EU, the Wii U will be slightly more worth owning, since it'll have all of the Summer releases and whatever else.

Nintendo said "by the end of the year" so I'm thinking it'll be the Fall before we actually get Earthbound.
 
nubbe said:
Lets hope Nintendo fucks up every hardware launch in the future
Panic mode Nintendo is the best
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It really is.

Labombadog said:
Great news and about time Nintendo. I wonder if the sales for Earthbound will effect the likelyhood for Mother 3 to come out in USA/EU. If that is the case, everybody buy 2 copies each!!
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How does that work on eShop?

Also, if this one does well, isn't more likely we'll see the first game before the third?
 
so happy more folks get to finally play the magic...cannot wait!

still gonna buy a repro cart for mother 3 english translation, wish we knew there was some kinda shot at that but it doesnt seem likely
 
Forget Earthbound for a second

Did you see how heavily they featured Miiverse in that announcement? From now on it should be clear that the social aspect is one side of the Miiverse - but on the other hand it seems like a neat analyze tool for Nintendo

Miiverse isn't just there for cool drawings - it's for you and Nintendo; they seem to listen and it's exciting to watch how far customer influence can go
 
Rash said:
I doubt it unless they're really hardcore with their Earthbound fandom. You don't just drop $300+ for the ability to support an $8 game.

That said, by the time EB releases on the Wii U VC in NA/EU, the Wii U will be slightly more worth owning, since it'll have all of the Summer releases and whatever else.

Nintendo said "by the end of the year" so I'm thinking it'll be the Fall before we actually get Earthbound.
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Isn't the system $200 at Costco?

gumby_trucker said:
It really is.

How does that work on eShop?

Also, if this one does well, isn't more likely we'll see the first game before the third?
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I guess, since the official localization has been done already.

In a perfect world, Nintendo would just use Tomato & co.'s Mother 3 localization and compensate them... how nice that would be...
 
Just watched the Nintendo Direct and ended up dropping my iPod Touch at the first mention of Earthbound. I am so fucking happy right now. :)
 
After spamming the Japanese Mother 2 Miiverse, muthafuckas better buy the shit out of this. I don't need to buy a Wii U for this since I still have my original SNES game, but if it leads to a new Mother game or an official localization of Mother 3, then I'll pick up whatever system gets it.
 
Miiverse is a nice way for players to interact with each other and to interact with Nintendo.

Combine the existence of Miiverse and Club Nintendo and you have a couple of services that give voices to the customers. We should embrace them and use them. Obviously making obnoxious demands isn't always the way to go, but actual feedback is useful on all sides.
 
Looking back at the old Earthbound Central legal posts, time certainly does fly.

Wonderful to see it finally re-released, hopefully it'll hit the 3DS as well. <3
 
I...wut...holy shit...i don't know what to say. As a long time fan of the Mother series with a dead EB cart, I never believed this would happen. I kinda still don't believe it
 
Myriadis said:
That's really awesome, especially since the OG cartrigde costs somewhere about 200 bucks.
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as an owner of said cart & book since its first week of release: id be good with the price plummeting, it (and other SNES carts) are way too high right now and i want more people experiencing that game, not just collectors
 
Nibel said:
Forget Earthbound for a second

Did you see how heavily they featured Miiverse in that announcement? From now on it should be clear that the social aspect is one side of the Miiverse - but on the other hand it seems like a neat analyze tool for Nintendo

Miiverse isn't just there for cool drawings - it's for you and Nintendo; they seem to listen and it's exciting to watch how far customer influence can go
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I honestly didn't think all of the clamor for it on Miiverse would have helped at all, but I'm really glad to be proven wrong there.
 
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