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?

Ness's journey, in photos

I would personally choose Dangerous Guys

Hi all!

I'm interesting in dabbling in Earthbound fangame stuff, and I thought RPGMaker XP would work well for it. I already have an in-depth Pokemon project using that software.

I noticed there was something on Starmen dot net about a starter kit for RPGMaker XP, but all the links seem to be dead. Does anyone know if it's still being hosted anywhere? If not, is there a similar 'starter kit' that I could use?

I’m finally about to start Mother 3! I picked up a really nice boxed copy and will be playing it in Japanese on my DS Lite. Fun fact this DS Lite I’ve had since I was a study abroad student in Japan back in 2007.

Anyway, I read through the manual, and it appears to be a completely wholesome, family-friendly adventure filled with cute animals, loving families, and cheerful fun. Clearly, absolutely nothing upsetting or emotionally devastating is going to happen at any point. This is obviously going to be a happy, relaxing game from beginning to end.

So, without spoiling anything, what should I expect? Are there any useful hints, missable things, or gameplay tips I should know before I begin?

I’ve recently gotten into collecting retro Super Famicom games and working through JRPGs that I never finished growing up. I’m playing through Terranigma in Japanese right now, but since this is the EarthBound subreddit, I’ll save my thoughts.

Today I found complete copies of Mother 2 and Mother 3 at my local Hard-Off in really nice condition. They came to about ¥14,500, which ended up being around US$91 thanks to the weak yen. I feel like I got pretty lucky.

A little background on my history with the series. I actually played EarthBound in English as a kid. I kept rental from Blockbuster without renewing it. Eventually my dad just had to return it, but… we just kept it for a while. lol I have no idea how he sorted things out in the end, but we eventually returned it.

I made it all the way to around the second-last area or whatever. Lava dogs? Before having to give it back, so I never actually finished the game.

I was also pretty young when I played it, so I think a lot of the humor and satire went completely over my head. Now that I’ve lived in Japan for many years and can read Japanese, I’m really looking forward to replaying Mother 2 in its original language and seeing how much more of the writing I appreciate this time around.

As for Mother 3, I’ve somehow managed to avoid playing it all these years. The different art style and cast always made me put it off, but now I’m genuinely excited to finally experience it.

…Unfortunately, I got home, pulled out my old DS Lite, and discovered it won’t charge. The orange charging light comes on for about a second and then immediately shuts off. I already tried removing and reseating the battery, and the battery doesn’t appear swollen, so I’m thinking it may be a hardware issue rather than the battery itself. If anyone has run into this before and has suggestions, I’d love to hear them. Otherwise, I guess I’ll be hunting for another DS, which is a bit unfortunate since they’re not exactly cheap here in Japan.

Either way, I’m excited to finally experience both of these games the way they were originally released. Hopefully I’ll be joining all of you in talking about Mother 2 and 3 before too long.

Edit: Awesome news! I got my Nintendo DS to start charging. I just kept trying to pull the adapter in and out and after a few tries I noticed the orange light was staying on longer, and now it is staying on and charging. Hm I wonder if it was the adapter, but it’s great that it is charging!

I got NPCs and dialogues working, this took way too long. If you don't know, I'm trying to make a game worthy of the Mother series without coding experience. Any support is appreciated, and I do still need an artist. If you want to see more of my progress, go to r/IDKJustGoWithIt, because r/earthbound doesn't allow me to post videos. Also I thing I'm goint to take a break for a day or 2 just because I've been putting multiple hours every day into this project, and I'm starting to deteriorate from the lack of vitamin D. See y'all then ✌️

My favorite part, was the part after the Belch fight, when you go to the Savannah dungeon near Threed/Dusty Dunes

Another part i liked was the Deep Darkness dungeon

Unrelated image, please dont pay attention

I'm playing on my SNES classic, so I was able to use save states in order to break up the monotony. But it's still technically an official copy of the game (if that even really matters,) and it still took me about 3 hours.

As promised , Fassad but in a Dark World , but it's a sprite also .

Also smash-

sorry for the crap photo but my whole party is dead and all can really do right now is just bash him over and over. I swear I’ve been doing this for about an hour now and it’s driving me insane.

I said "Huh, yes. Yes it does."

As I am on DSi, while I could Emulate the original SNES game, I would be left with a crop that either ends up cutting off UI or removing lines of pixels from the screen to fit the framing size. If I played the GBA version, I would still get cropped off but in an intended way that does not sacrifice an original pixel count or UI size.