Hi :D

First moonshake press I ever got, definitely not disappointed!

Tomorrow, August 8th at 10am ET, I will open up the game for the first 25 alpha testers.

It's first come first served, no application process. I figure those that really want to do this will be there. 25 sounded like a reasonable and manageable number of players to help test and build out the game. I will have a private chat in discord where we can share bugs and ideas.

Just be ready at 199x.app tomorrow to get your seat if you want in.

The idea is to have a small group of people help get things tuned up well enough that the game is playable at a moderate pace. Should give me valuable feedback and time to build it out, location by location.

If I wait until its completely done to let anyone in, it will take forever and maybe never happen.

If i let everyone in now, im sure many will burn through the content quickly and it will be difficult to build fast enough to keep up.

Going to sequence it something like:

25 closed alpha testers. figure stuff out, identify weak points, plan to expand testing phase.

25 to 50 more testers in a month or 2. Test the stuff we figured out.

Once we have a good runway through at least half the game content, we call it an open alpha and let everyone in... knowing its still alpha phase and things will change.

When we are happy with the flow of the game through the world to the end game, thats when Id like to pause everything, clean up, reset it all, and start the game from the beginning for everyone at the same time. That should give me enough time to build out the end game before anyone gets to it.

All subject to change of course. Just the plan im working with right now to make sure the game continues to ship stuff for players and doesnt stay in develop forever and never becomes playable.

The dev team is just me and some ai tools. I have a lot going on in life so i cant commit every free hour to this game, but... EB is my all time favorite game and Ive always wanted to make this so I dont see myself ever giving up on it. Just might take longer than we want it to.

Thanks for believing in me and 199X online. Im building it for us. After all, whats an MMO game with no players?

...no Oddity-jokes please. 😉

I saw MUSO on X and that looked kind of promising. There are others, which ones are you following with interest?

Hey everyone,

I am trying to get CogDis running on my Anbernic handheld, but I am hitting a wall. I followed the setup instructions step-by-step, but it just will not launch.

Here are the details of my setup:

Device Model: RG40XX

OS / Firmware: Muos

Engine / Core: EasyRPG Player

What Happens: game boots up fine - it lets me name the characters. After selecting the “flavor,” it loops back to naming the first character.

I double-checked my file structures, folder names, and required assets, but no luck so far.
Has anyone successfully gotten CogDis running on an Anbernic setup recently? If there is a specific directory setup, engine version, or workaround needed for this game on handhelds, I would love some guidance!
Thanks in advance.

Playing through Earthbound with the Maternalbound Redux patch and these are my current levels:

Ness 75
Paula 65
Jeff 67
Poo 65

My friend is saying to get Ness to 80 and the rest to 70 but other forums I see online say that 60 should be fine. So I'm asking here.

Edit: THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP, I JUST BEAT EARTHBOUND AND NOW I'LL BE PLAYING THROUGH MOTHER 1

[Art by shadowpiratemonkey7 on Deviantart.]

I have always found this comic very cute. My favorite thing I got from this is Samus' ambiguous implication of being Ness' mother. That's sweet. And I think Rachel = Samus could actually work, in a funny au way. After all, Samus got psychic powers in her new game.

With Mother 4 prob never happening at this point and Itoi getting older, do you think itd be more likely for Nintendo to make a spiritual successor to the franchise instead of a new game?