Mother (Japan) ROM

Mother(Japan) is the first game of the Earthbound series. You play as Ninten, defeating enemies, protecting the lands, saving people from monsters, ghosts, zombies, moving lamps, Starmans, hippies, and so on, and getting money to use to pay for after defeating enemies. There are many things to do in this game.

Mother(known in USA as Earthbound) tells the story of a young boy who journeys around the world to save the planet from an evil race of mind-controlling aliens. Along the way he is joined by several friends, and meets many unusual characters and visits strange settings before ultimately confronting the leader of the aliens. The game was a smash hit in Japan, where players appreciated its unorthodox and refreshing take on the often formulaic RPG genre. Nintendo of America translated and planned to release the first Mother game in North America under the title Earthbound. Although the game's localization and translation was finished a year earlier, the game was ultimately deemed unprofitable for a fall 1991 North American release, and the planned release was canceled after the game had already been translated and all packaging and advertising was ready. It was confirmed by former Nintendo employee Phil Sandhop that Nintendo chose not to release Earthbound in North America because the Super Nintendo was to be released at the same time, and Nintendo thought that customers would be less likely to notice a new NES game in light of the release of the new Super NES console and its games. Furthermore, the cost of releasing the game with the extensive manual and hint book planned would have not been economical without significant sales. All of Sandhop's changes to Mother appear in the Game Boy Advance games Mother 1+2, such as the B Button run command. The reason for these changes appearing, according to Sandhop, is that "with games produced by NCL, the development teams continued to work and tweak their projects that they knew would be localized and produced in other territories. Often they would address their own desires that were not completed due to time constraints or not completed to their satisfaction and also address issues raised by Japanese consumers as that release hits the street." Eventually, a copy of the unreleased NES Earthbound cartridge was auctioned and the game code was extracted from it and circulated for download on the Internet. To avoid confusion, the game was dubbed EarthBound Zero by fan translation group Neo Demiforce, as Nintendo had since released the SNES sequel in the United States under the title EarthBound. Initially, some believed the unreleased cartridge to be a forgery, simply an English fan translation with a few changes. However, since all of the modifications made to the original in Earthbound later appeared in Mother 1+2, this theory has effectively been disproved.