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  |developer = Brownie Brown<br />HAL Laboratory
  |developer = Brownie Brown<br />HAL Laboratory
  |publisher = Nintendo
  |publisher = Nintendo
  |platforms = Game Boy Advance
  |platforms = {{plat-gba}} • {{plat-vc}} (Wii U) • {{plat-switch}} (Online + Expansion Pack)
  |date = 20 April, 2006
  |date = 20 April, 2006
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  |wikipedia = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_3
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  |mobygames = https://www.mobygames.com/game/29870/mother-3/
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  |tcrf = https://tcrf.net/Mother_3
  |related = [[Mother]]<br>[[EarthBound]]
  |related = [[Mother]]<br>[[EarthBound]]}}
 
'''Mother 3''' is a 2006 role-playing game and the third and final entry in the ''Mother'' series. In development for over a decade, it was announced and cancelled for several platforms before eventually being released for the Game Boy Advance. Though an English version, ''EarthBound 64'', was advertised at one point in development, and a celebrated 2008 English fan translation made it accessible to Western audiences, the game has never been officially released outside Japan.
 
== Super Nintendo Entertainment System ==
 
According to Satoru Iwata, ''Mother 3'' was originally in development for the Super Famicom. <ref>https://www.1101.com/nintendo/nin13/nin13_2.htm</ref> Very little information about this version exists, as SFC development was cancelled before any announcement.
 
== Nintendo 64/64DD ==
 
Development shifted to Nintendo's next-generation platform, with the large, ambitious game being targetted for the 64DD disk drive peripheral, then retargetted at a standard N64 cartridge. Around this time, a Western release — as ''EarthBound 64'' — was announced.
 
The game's development process was so protracted that in 2000, when Nintendo's resources had begun shifting to the GameCube platform, the Nintendo 64 version of the game was cancelled outright, development having outlasted the platform HAL was working on. All development ceased for several years; the project was dead.
 
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'''Mother 3''' is a role-playing game and the third and final entry in the ''Mother'' series. In development for over a decade, it was announced and cancelled for several platforms before eventually being released for the Game Boy Advance. To date, all official releases were limited to Japan, though a well-regarded 2008 English fan translation made it accessible to Western audiences.
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== Super Nintendo Entertainment System ==
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== Game Boy Advance ==
== Game Boy Advance ==


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== Fan translation ==
== Fan translation ==
== Links ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Mother_3 Development of Mother 3] on Wikipedia
* https://mother4ever.net/ — Fansite with history and media for both cancelled N64 version and released GBA version
* [https://legendsoflocalization.com/mother3-timeline/ Mother 3's Timeline of Hope] by fan translator Clyde 'Tomato' Mandelin
* [https://legendsoflocalization.com/?s=mother+3 Mother 3 posts] on Clyde's ''Legends of Localization'' blog
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 06:50, 8 September 2024

Mother 3 is a 2006 role-playing game and the third and final entry in the Mother series. In development for over a decade, it was announced and cancelled for several platforms before eventually being released for the Game Boy Advance. Though an English version, EarthBound 64, was advertised at one point in development, and a celebrated 2008 English fan translation made it accessible to Western audiences, the game has never been officially released outside Japan.

Super Nintendo Entertainment System[edit]

According to Satoru Iwata, Mother 3 was originally in development for the Super Famicom. [1] Very little information about this version exists, as SFC development was cancelled before any announcement.

Nintendo 64/64DD[edit]

Development shifted to Nintendo's next-generation platform, with the large, ambitious game being targetted for the 64DD disk drive peripheral, then retargetted at a standard N64 cartridge. Around this time, a Western release — as EarthBound 64 — was announced.

The game's development process was so protracted that in 2000, when Nintendo's resources had begun shifting to the GameCube platform, the Nintendo 64 version of the game was cancelled outright, development having outlasted the platform HAL was working on. All development ceased for several years; the project was dead.

1997 64 Magazine (UK) 2 - p78,79 (8ae4f673).pdf
64 Magazine
🇬🇧 May 1997
  Download PDF
1997-05 Dengeki Nintendo 64 (JP) 12 - p62,63 (09516590).pdf
Dengeki Nintendo 64
🇯🇵 May 1997
  Download PDF
1997-10 64 Extreme (UK) 7 - p72,73.pdf
64 Extreme
🇬🇧 Oct/Nov 1997
  Download PDF
1998-02 The 64Dream (JP) - p28,29 (1444f2ff).pdf
The 64Dream
🇯🇵 February 1998
  Download PDF
1999-10 Edge (UK) 77 - p64 (c7f0b25f).jpg
Edge
🇬🇧 October 1999
  Download File

Game Boy Advance[edit]

2006-04 Nintendo The Official Magazine (UK) 2 - p12 (c0b947fb).jpg
Official Nintendo Magazine
🇬🇧 April 2006
  Download File
2006-06 Edge (UK) 163 - p40 (6d80628f).pdf
Edge
🇬🇧 June 2006
  Download PDF
2006-06 NGC (UK) 120 - p36,37 (fe44c923).pdf
NGC
🇬🇧 June 2006
  Download PDF
2006-08 Play (US) 56 - p80 (8894970b).pdf
Play
🇺🇸 August 2006
  Download PDF
2006-09 GamesTM (UK) 47 - p126,127 (eddb381b).pdf
Games™
🇬🇧 September 2006
  Download PDF
2006-10 Hyper (AU) 156 - p75 (62894f83).pdf
Hyper
🇦🇺 October 2006
  Download PDF


Fan translation[edit]

Links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ https://www.1101.com/nintendo/nin13/nin13_2.htm


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