EarthBound: Giygas Strikes Back!
MOTHER 2 ギーグの逆襲 · Mother 2: Gīgu no Gyakushū
A companion patch to the EarthBound Beginnings Remake that brings the remake's quality-of-life features and fixes back to the original EarthBound.
What it is
The team behind the EarthBound Beginnings Remake, which rebuilt the first Mother on EarthBound's engine, added a lot of conveniences to that engine along the way. Giygas Strikes Back! is the other half of their release: a patch for the unmodified EarthBound that carries those conveniences over to the 1995 game itself.
What changes
- quality-of-life features from the remake, such as running with a dash button and buying several copies of an item at once;
- fixes for bugs in the original game;
- light script touch-ups that stay close to the original English localization.
The story, maps and balance remain EarthBound as you know it, so the patch works as a vanilla-plus way to replay the game.
Playing it
The team's download page patches your own copy of the North American cartridge (revision 1) directly in the browser, and also offers the patch files for use with any patching tool. It checks that the game you supply is a clean, unmodified copy.
Credit: the EarthBound Beginnings Remake team.