By: Kody NOKOLO on 6/13/2021. A Mother Direct is an annual presentation hosted by Mother Forever and filled with all kinds of projects related to and derived from the MOTHER series in a presentation format! A Direct involves both fan-related projects based directly off of MOTHER (like videos, ROM hacks, or translations). Released for Nintendo's Famicom in 1989, MOTHER's novel setting—a Japanese conception of modern America, not a Japanese conception of medieval Europe—wasn't all that set it apart. Its creator and author, Shigesato Itoi, was an industry outsider, a famous copywriter and professional dilettante. “Mother” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Cheol Kyu. It is a remake of a 2010 Japanese drama by the same title. Sign up to enjoy Asian TV shows and movies, and continue where you left off. Mother is a single-player, role-playing video game set in a 'slightly offbeat', late 20th-century United States as interpreted by Japanese author Shigesato Itoi. The game eschews traits of its Japanese role-playing game contemporaries: it is not set within the fantasy genre and only enters science fiction for its final sequence.
Mother: 25th Anniversary Edition aims to make Mother much more enjoyable for both Earthbound fans and those playing it for the first time.
All enemy graphics, NPC sprites and tiles are be redrawn from scratch to be more faithful to the clay models. The goofy enemies are goofier and the creepy enemies are creepier. A shiny new font and title screen was added, too!
The overworld has been tweaked to be much less bleak and repetitive, so it’s harder to get lost. There is more scenery, areas are more colorful and confusing areas like Duncan’s factory have been simplified. On the other hand, tiny areas like the Cemetery or Snowman have been expanded.
There are also a lot of changes under the hood. Enemies will yield slightly more exp and the encounter rate has been readjusted. The “Dangerous Foe” battle theme is used less often and party members will be met at a higher level. DragonDePlatino’s goal in creating this hack was to make Mother less challenging, but still quite difficult.
And last but not least, this hack uses Tomato’s official Mother 1 + 2 translation, adapted for the NES. Over 1400 lines of text have been altered to create connections with the rest of the series, improve clarity and shorten reading time. This hack will also feature much quicker battle text courtesy of vince94. Battles progress almost twice as quickly!
BIG UPDATE!
I will be leaving for vacation tomorrow, so I’m releasing my progress so far of the Podunk demo (a demo of my progress which will be all of Podunk).
It would be great if people could download it and test it out to see if there’s any glitches and stuff. By the way, I know that most items act like bread when you use them. That’s just until I get all the item usage scripts working.
Here’s the major that’s missing from this Podunk demo:
– Random battles
– Mouse house
– Hospital
– Return lady
– Phones
– Everything in Ninten’s house
– Pippi’s mom
– A working hotel
– Correct music looping and room transitions
Feedback would be very appreciated!