The Odd History of Mother 1+2 (GBA) - RetroDrew

In today's episode of Retro Drew I go over the interesting and complicated history of the GBA compilation of Mother 1 and Earthbound.
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[tails]

Fun fact. In the commercial for Mother 1+2, at the end of it, Mr. Saturn would pop on the screen and say "We're also working on Mother 3."

[EddieInzauto]

“…bootlickers in white.”

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[itsasecrettoeverybody]

I know about all the problems of the ports in this compilation, but to have the 3 games in the series on the same portable system is very appealing to me. I wish there was a full translation of 1+2 for me to enjoy it on my modded GBA.

[marcusmclean]

If you are buying a reproduction cartridge of this in English, try and make sure it's one that was recently manufactured. I bought mine in 2016 and the ROM on my cart has an incomplete English translation of Mother 2. Once you get to Twoson the text becomes gibberish for the rest of the game. Newer copies have corrected this I believe

[bankiey]

That version of twoson music with the louder percussion is kinda dope

[Mopbrothers]

This game should've been rereleased in the US. Nintendo must have been afraid of lawsuits given how much these games use pop cultural references.

[Evercade_Effect]

Great history and information. I had heard about these games but always wanted to know what the deal was, great vid.

[RomanEmpireSPQR]

Hey. I’m here 15 years later. Just started playing. Thanks no bike

[Omar_ZX]

"The best ost of the 16 bit era" Honestly I could agree if mega man x or sonic cd didn't exist

[PKMNFan]

10:59 Mother 2 in Mother 1+2 is not based on the English version. Ness is still naked in it in Magicant, which was removed in the American localization.

[xheDeviLx]

Commenting from the future of sept 2023 and F-Zero 99 is sick as hell

[sub-jec-tiv]

I love these games so much 💜 The soundtrack is sooo ahead of its time. Clearly the person who wrote the music was a VEry hip person. Everything from experimental electronica to excellent dub reggae to wild jazz. Very cool.

[volkerball]

It should be noted though that the OST difference on the GBA is not a matter of file compression but rather in the different sound processing architecture the GBA used, versus the NES or SNES. The numerous differences are too deep to go into a random YouTube comment, but they ended up resulting in some compromises being made in terms of audio quality and such being made so as to not allow sound processing to eat too much into the computational budget of the GBA and negatively impact game performance.

A lot of developers(such as Square) opted to basically re-compose or at least recompile the music for games being ported to the GBA from SNES into something that fit better into the GBA's sound architecture. In this way, they could produce a sound that was at least unique and not simply "worse."

(Apologies if any of this has been pointed out already, etc.)

[professoryeetus]

you have the most nostalgic commercial voice ever and i 110% mean this as a compliment. the editing style definitely adds to it. if only they hired you during earthbound's marketing campaign it would've done so much better 😔

[daviddraws]

I don't know why but i love both audio types, fits the gba?, it makes it feel different tbh. I love the Mother 2 Magicant theme in gba imo

[Imorajna]

Where are you playing a GBA rom that has Mother 2 translated past Onett??!

[Jim_the_guy]

Im still waiting for a oficial mother 3 port to america

[jonathanplooij]

the earthbound zero prototype does not really have a run button. It just makes the game 2 times faster.

[GhostfaceRocks]

I just got mother 1+2 and mother 3 for gba and both were modified with the fan-made translation. I find it stupid that nintendo not only left America out as we love Earthbound, but that they even acknowledged and were in the process of getting us our own translation before just stopping entirely. Now I have to figure out how to update my mother 1+2 cart because there is a nearly completed translation.

[Darkspine]

Great video 🤙; I was curious about the music issues this port has.