I want translation. Why should we suffer because Nintendo is too freaking selfish to do what so many people want.

I think this it's great the fans are taking the initiative here. The problem is that I doubt Nintendo is going to let it happen. Yeah the site wants people to import the game. That's great but the reality is that most people would probably just steal the ROM.

It sucks because in my mind if a company is just sitting on something they own with no interest in releasing it as a product then I think fans should be allowed to take things in their own hands provided that no one else makes a profit off it. In a case like this there's no competing product people aren't going to buy because a pirated version is available. I had no problem with people releasing pirated versions of the original Star Wars cut, prior to the official release's annoucement, for the same reason. If people want to buy something and you refuse to make that available in stores don't get all pissed off when they jump over your head and get what they want without you.

Funny thing is that I was JUST thinking about Ocarina Of Time 2D a couple days ago, apparently out of the blue.

Cult classic games like Kid Icarus and EarthBound, if you could really call them "cult" classics, seem to have pretty big followings despite few games in their franchises. Kid Icarus seems slated for a Virtual Console release (as in that other topic where the ESRB has rated it), but I don't recall EarthBound being in the Virtual Console queue. If not, it should be too, it may even be the case that there are more EarthBound fans than Kid Icarus fans. Hard to say, but why the heck not?

If twenty billion people download EarthBound (and Kid Icarus and other somewhat obscure games), then how could they NOT bring possible sequels over? And supposedly Shigesato Itoi didn't want to make any more Mother games, but that shouldn't mean that they can't do an official translation of Mother and Mother 3 and bring them North American-side.

"And supposedly Shigesato Itoi didn't want to make any more Mother games, but that shouldn't mean that they can't do an official translation of Mother and Mother 3 and bring them North American-side."

Mother was translated for North American release. All they have to do is throw the ROM on the VC and TEH MONIES come rolling in. The work for it is already done.

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I think this it's great the fans are taking the initiative here. The problem is that I doubt Nintendo is going to let it happen. Yeah the site wants people to import the game. That's great but the reality is that most people would probably just steal the ROM.

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Nintendo can't technically stop them from translating the game, just the part about rom hacking and all that Nintendo can bitch about. But seeing as they have no plans to translate and make it available to the majority of the world, I think they should just eat it and shut up.

It can hardly be called piracy if the product isn't even available for purchase.

Yet another example of NoA incompetence.

I can understand why nintendo are not sure about the american release, after all the last one flopped, in a era were all its games sold pretty well

I think they should just release it and hope for the best, much like drill dozen

Whoever posted the news story is wrong, even if you import the game you can't have a ROM of the game since that is still illegal.

What pisses me off is that Atlus asked if they could publish the game in North America (like they did with Polarium Advance) and Nintendo said no. So not only will Nintendo not release it here, but they won't let anyone else release it either.

I'm surprised I haven't seen Bill jump in on this...

Sometimes, it takes the fans to get things started. I remember Final Fantasy V was fan-translated years before Square brought it stateside. Maybe it was just coincidence though.

I'd be careful messing with nintendo though. They've been victims of piracy from the NES all the way to GBA. If they're lucky, they'll just get a cease and desist order. The big N would go for the death penalty if it was possible.

But yeah, if the fans want it, give it to them.

I'd still abandon all hope for a local release

If Nintendo takes any action against this it'll really show that they don't give one bit of a damn about the EB fan community. If the community's so puny and insignificant, and the game so unappealing to anyone who isn't a fan, that they don't think it's worthwhile to localize the game, then how much damage do they think will be done if a fan translation is made?

Next thing you know, there will be reports saying Ness is nowhere to be seen in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

"Whoever posted the news story is wrong, even if you import the game you can't have a ROM of the game since that is still illegal."

No cart games roms are legal, remember there is a site that legally hires roms due to the fact they own the orginals... nintendo tried to sue them and lost

Hey I didn't know Nintendo had tried to sue them. I knew about the site though.

Personally, I don't even care if people illegally obtain this game. I'm against piracy - when the product is readily available to the consumer. Mother 3 is definitely not readily available to consumers outside of Japan, so I say go ahead. I'm not a big fan of copyright and protecting big business's "rights". I am a big fan of doing the right thing, though, and I think the right thing is to buy a game when it's available to you instead of "stealing" it through emulation.

I say bravo to these guys! You know most of them would buy the official Nintendo translation anyway if Nintendo decided to do one later on.

OOT2D wasn't shut down by Nintendo. That was actually in one of last year's mailbags.

Downloading a rom is illegal, since you don't have the copyright owner's permission to transfer it that way. Nintendo's not about to grant that permission, either (outside of the Virtual Console, of course). Making a rom (ie dumping the game yourself) is legal.

Not that I have anything against downloading roms. Especially roms of games that were never released in the US.