“This is a bit much for an NES game don’t you think?”Įh. Refaithful is a great patch for the purist playthrough but it also reverts it back to the Earthbound Zero gameplay we know so we can safely patch it from there. It’ll pretty much break the game in an Unfun way. “Why don’t I just use Improvement Tweaks with 25Th Anniversary Edition by itself?” This will now feel more akin to playing Mother 1+2 with the easy ring but you get all the nice stuff from 25th Anniversary Edition!

Now you have quadruple the XP, Twice the Cash Gain and Encounter Rate slash by almost half. Patch the Refaithful rom with the Gameplay patch And BAM.

Take that Mother Refaithful Rom you got there and head over to Earthbound Zero Improvement Tweaks. “I’d rather have a lot of XP like the Easy ring” Well dude, I got just the solution. IMO this makes progression pretty organic given that this is an NES RPG, I’d compare it to like Final Fantasy 6? But in return their stats will grow normally. BUT, the encounter rate is reduced enough so you can take at least 2 steps and XP is raised 25% as well as making every character back to level 1 when you get them. Make sure you read the description but in a nutshell, it reverts a lot of the rebalancing to Earthbound Zero so it’s more of a purist experience now. Option 1 give Mother with 25th Anniverasry Edition Graphics and 'Easy Ring'įirst you need to patch a rom of 25th Anniversary Edition yourself Next you patch your newly made 25th Anniversary edition rom with Mother Re-Faithful. ~ Original ROM (Earth Bound (USA) (Proto))

Mother 25th Anniversary Edition + Easy Ring.

(Please lemme know if it was you so I can properly put you on this post) there actually is patches for 25th Anniversary edition and it makes the experience infinitely better. But after actually looking at somewhere other than PKHack, thanks to a user which I can’t find the comment for. But I just can’t in good faith recommend it due to a number of reason but the main one is the way it does leveling and it ended up ruining people’s experience.

So I constantly see people ask what version to play Mother 1 and a lot of times I see 25th anniversary edition get brought up.

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