EarthBound

EarthBound
Also known as: Mother 2: Maza Tsu Gigu no Gyakushu (JP) Developers: Ape, HAL Laboratory, Pax Softnica Publisher: Nintendo Platform: SNES Released in JP: August 27, 1994 Released in US: June 5, 1995 Released in EU: July 18, 2013 (Wii U Virtual Console) ROM map RAM map Text table Notes Tutorials TCRF

EarthBound
Name	EARTH BOUND
Company	Nintendo
Header	SWC
Bank	HiROM
Interleaved	No
SRAM	8 KiB
Type	Normal + Batt
ROM	3 MiB
Country	USA
Video	NTSC
ROM Speed	120ns (FastROM)
Revision	1.0
Checksum	Good 0x4048
CRC32	DC9BB451

Sub-pages

ROM map

RAM map

Text table

Notes

Tutorials

SRAM map

Community

• The main place for discussion of EarthBound hacking is starmen.net's PK Hack forum.
• There is also a Slack chatroom you can join, which people use as a spiritual successor to the old #pkhax IRC chat from the early 2000s.

Utilities

• CoilSnake, written in Python, is the principal EarthBound hacking utility.
  • If you're interested in getting into EarthBound hacking, the CoilSnake Wiki and the CCScript Library are invaluable resources.
  • A list of common beginner questions is also being maintained here.
• JHack, also known as PK Hack, was an old utility that was abandoned by the community after CoilSnake came out.

Hacks

• You can see a masterpost of all completed and ongoing hacks here.
  • Hallow's End and Holiday Hex are short but complete and impressive.
  • The Mother 1 Remake Hack is an ongoing recreation of the first game in EarthBound's engine.
  • Jeff's No.1 Bass Fishing is also quite good.
  • MOTHER Tensei is an ongoing hack set in the Shin Megami Tensei universe with an original cast and story.

Miscellaneous

• Two debug menus are accessible. The boot-up debug menu uses a Kirby sprite as its cursor.
• For a list of unused graphics and dialogue, check out The Cutting Room Floor.
• Check out Tomato's Legends of Localization book if you're interested in the various changes made to the game during the localization process.
• Odds and Ends - a list of discoveries and techniques

Known Dumps

• EarthBound (U) [!]
• EarthBound (U) [f1]
• EarthBound (U) [f1+C]
• EarthBound (U) [f2]
• EarthBound (U) [f3]
• EarthBound (U) [t1]
• EarthBound (U) [T+Spa091b_Tanero]
• Mother 2 (J)
• Mother 2 (J) [b1]
• Mother 2 (J) [b1+C]
• Mother 2 (J) [b2]
• Mother 2 (J) [f1]
• Mother 2 (J) [f1+C]