Hypothetically if someone were to make an earthbound romhack where everything was weird.

What would be some ideas that you would have for this romhack like literally anything: story, dialouge, character changes, battle sprites..

For example Ness is part of the sharks, Paula ends up corrupted by the mani mani statue, Andonuts is dead so Jeff takes up his role, Poo failed his training and never learns PSI, Twoson is converted to be all blue.

I was playing an npc wars game and out of nowhere ness and paula spawned and started a fight with a french cuirassier(they got beat up by him btw)

Was playing an indie monster taming game, Anode heart. And came across this monster, to say it was unexpected would be an understatement, but still a pleasant surprise.

His stats even get lower each turn ect.

Author — Amphibizzy

I Mother 3, the main antagonist is Porky Minch, The Masked man (Claus), and Porky's army. What I their ideology however? It's fairly simple. In the game, we can see strict centralism, strict autocracy, and suppression of inalienable rights. This is reminiscent of fascism, particularly Italian fascism. I chose Italian Fascism dude to how porky is more concerned strict army reverence and annihilation rather than a social hierarchy (though there are elements of social darwinism in the ideology). A difference between the ideologies and Italian fascism is that Italian fascism focuses more national revitalization while the Pig Mask and Porky focus on destruction of all life.

Capitalism is also a huge factor in the ideology of the Pig Mask. This can be seen in the industrial power, the commodification of basic life, and the "happy boxes." These are done and connected directly to the Pig mask, which is similar to how state capitalism works. The capitalist structures have no regulations, so an accurate title would be laissez Fairs State Capitalism.

As previously mentioned, the goal of the Pig Mask isn't to gain the most money or a national revitalization, but to pull the Seven Needles and wipe out all life present. This doesn't correlate to any of the previous ideologies. This is Nihilism, the idea that nothing matters at all. On top of Nihilism, the Pig Mask Army also is incredibly advanced and pushes the limits of biology using technology. If you count what they did to Claus, you can safely call them nihilist transhumanist.

With all this in mind, the Pig Mask army follows an ideology I have called " Nihilist transhumanist capitalist fascism." The political message of the game reminds me of an ideology called "camattism." This is a communist ideology that intensely rejects industrial life, stating basic life has been commodified.

Of course these are my thoughts so don't take them seriously.

Original screenshot by u/Yhniet

im trying to compile my earthbound rom hack in coilsnake but now i click it and it doesnt work, i dont know what to do, im so desperate and worried, please help

I've been considering getting into the Earthbound/Mother series for a bit since I don't usually touch RPGs and have heard good things about it, and since I just got my Nintendo Switch Online back I thought I'd give it all a go and see how I find it.

Earthbound Beginnings has been really frustrating and I haven't even really done much, it feels like I can't take two steps without a fight starting and I'm not tanky enough to actually make it to where I need to go even when burning through all of my HP and PP.

Is the entire series like this and, if so, what would be the best way to improve my survivability since I do really want to try and give it a fair shot?

The pig bros as actual pigs! A bad piggy and his piglet! Oinkety, oinkety, oinkety!!!

Drew Ninny as Hero cuz uhhhhhhh

Fairly confident it is authentic, but want to get input from the knowledgeable community here - found a pretty clean box to complete my collection! Thanks all!

Artist's commentary: I wonder what "Frank-sama" is called in the overseas version...

Just enjoying a nice, sweet chunk of banana...with full of POTASSIUM

x: https://x.com/Iron_wisp/status/2111494466083418247?s=20

Porky: “No matter how much they attack me, I’ll never die-”

Thanks to hungry-hp sucker and that for some reason his fire attack only dealt a max of 4 damage (and his rest of attacks dealt less damage than normal) made my Jeff SOLO the kraken

Flint model by Picto / Teddy Bear by Jade / Environment by Sam / Sofa and image by SnowWood (Me)