Description

As you should know, this is the Japanese version of EarthBound.

When used with Nintendo Power Memory carts, this game takes up 6 blocks for the game and 4 for the save file. The Nintendo Power cost is 1000 yen.

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Credits / Staff List / スタッフ

Produced and Directed by
Shigesato Itoi

Written by
Shigesato Itoi

Music by
Keiichi Suzuki
Hirokazu Tanaka

Game Designer
Akihiko Miura

Art Director
Kouichi Ooyama

Sound Director
Hirokazu Tanaka

Program Director
Satoru Iwata

Second Director
Kouji Malta

Programmers
Satoru Iwata
Satoshi Mitsuhara
Bou Nakajima
Seika Abe
Yoshiki Suzuki
Jun Yamazaki
Toshiyuki Ueno
Takashi Sasaki
Takashi Sakuma
Kazuo Sato
Kouji Malta

Sound Programmer
Hirokazu Tanaka

System Engineering
Makoto Kanai
Takashi Sakuma

Graphics Artists
Kouichi Ooyama
Hiroyuki Sakiyama
Kouichi Yamada
Makio Kataoka
Tetsuya Notoya
Yasunori Yanagisawa

Special Effects Artist
Tsunekaz Ishihara

Font Designers
Yasuo Futatsugi
Hiroyuki Sakiyama

Dosei Font Designed by
Shigesato Itoi

Graphic Data Supervisor
Yasunori Yanagisawa

Message Data Supervisor
Masayuki Miura

Additional Music Composed by
Hiroshi Kanazu
Toshiyuki Ueno

Sound Staff
Toshiyuki Ueno
Kozue Ishikawa

Assistant Programmers
Support-Tools Program
Ikuho Hagiya
Katsuyoshi Irie

Assistant Game Designers
Kouichi Ooyama
Takehiko Masuda
Chiaki Yoshizawa
Masayuki Miura
Akihito Toda
Hitoshi Matsui
Katsuyoshi Irie

Assistant Scenario Writers
Masayuki Miura
Akihito Toda
Hiroyuki Jinnai

Chief Debugger
Takumi Akabane
Hitoshi Matsui

Ape Debugging Team
Takahiro Nagai
Hiroshi Nagumo
Takanori Kuwana
Hironobu Sawada
Hiroyuki Abe
Junichi Akama
Kenichi Ohmori
Mitsunori Suzuki
Shouta Fukushima
Yasutsuna Sasaki

Hal Debugging Team
Satoshi Ishida
Chieko Obikane

Nintendo Debugging Team
Shigeki Yamashiro
Tatsuya Hishida
Kenji Saiki
Tooru Hashimoto
Toshiharu Izuno
Yasuhiro Togai
Atsushi Miyake
Akihiro Kawamura
Mao Hamamoto
Atsushi Idoguchi
Mayumi Tada
Tokuhiro Hiraki
Makoto Kedouin
Hiroshi Habuchi
Kimiko Tsuchida
and Osaka Debuggers

Map Checkers
Mapper Kojima
Katsuyoshi Irie

Text Checker
Atsuko Kawahara

Sampling Voices
Shigesato Ok? Itoi
Yukari Kuchibue Saito
Hirokazu Geppu Koyano
Etsuko Venus Kawano
Takashi Mu Watanabe

Opening Rock Guitar
M. D. Seeger

Hardware Support
Hironobu Kakui
Shigeki Yamashiro

Logotype Designed by
Masaharu Takata

Package Designed by
Masaharu Takata
Shirohide Azuma

Production Managers
Takashi Kawaguchi
Keizo Kato
Ikuo Hyakuta
Yukari Saito

Coordinators
Takashi Watanabe
Ryo Kagawa
Hiroyuki Jinnai
Etsuko Kawano
Kazuyuki Yamamoto

Sound Producers
Akio Ohmori
Ritsuo Kamimura

Special Thanks to
Kenji Ando
Miyuki Kure
Takayuki Onodera
Fukashi Omorita
Yukio Takahashi
Kazuhiko Amemiya
Yasuhiro Kumagai
Yoshio Hongo
Naoko Kanazawa
Benimaru Itoh
Motohiro Ishii
Hirokazu Koyano
Masao Tottori
Nobuyasu Makino
Hiromi Tamagawa
and Many Others

The Producers Wish to Thank
Ishel Artvision
Moonriders Office
Sedic Inc.
Seta Co.,Ltd.
Lucky Nice
Okubo Design Stusio
on Associates
Sai Koubou
Ashura Office
Shogakukan
Shincho Sha

Line Producer
Tsunekaz Ishihara

Coproducer
Satoru Iwata
Mike Fukuda

Supervisor
Shigeru Miyamoto
Minoru Arakawa

Executive Producer
Hiroshi Yamauchi

Presented by
Nintendo

In Association With
Ape Inc.
and
Hal Laboratory, Inc.

Translation Directors
Marcus Lindblom
Masayuki Miura

U.S. Conversion Director
Kouji Malta

Translators
Keiko Tamura
Yuka Makata

English Text Writers
Marcus Lindblom
Dan Owsen

References

• Nintendo Power 公式遊び方 Book Vol. 0, pages 70-71
• Nintendo Power 公式遊び方 Book Vol. 1, pages 114-115
• ファミコン通信 No. 541 (1999-04-30), page 178 (Top 10: #4)

ROM Information

Country USA
Internal CRC 4048
CRC32 DC9BB451
MD5 A864B2E5C141D2DEC1C4CBED75A42A85
SHA-1 D67A8EF36EF616BC39306AA1B486E1BD3047815A
SHA-256 A8FE2226728002786D68C27DDDDF0B90A894DB52E4DFE268FDF72A68CAE5F02E
ROM Speed 120ns (FastROM)
ROM Size 24 Mb
ROM Bank HiROM
ROM Type Normal + Battery
SRAM Size 64 Kb
Internal Title EARTH BOUND          
Common Filenames
Earthbound (U).sfc (GoodSNES v0.999.5)
EarthBound (USA).sfc (No-Intro 2011-12-24)
EarthBound (NTSC)(Eng)(1.0).sfc (Zapatabase 2011-01-30)

Country Japan
Internal CRC A2C3
CRC32 2019FABE
MD5 A086F6648288C2858329B1C9C6E49D82
SHA-1 8738CFF9E38A8B86AE30BFE0E5FBCB2828C2B16E
SHA-256 1F8CFD13177D86B0EB2C8ADCF9E1A4F0EC8966FA1583072B65A1B1C0E7961A5D
ROM Speed 120ns (FastROM)
ROM Size 24 Mb
ROM Bank HiROM
ROM Type Normal + Battery
SRAM Size 64 Kb
Internal Title MOTHER-2             
Common Filenames
Mother 2 (J).sfc (GoodSNES v0.999.5)
Mother 2 - Gyiyg no Gyakushuu (Japan).sfc (No-Intro 2011-12-24)
Mother 2 - Gyiyg no Gyakushuu (NTSC)(Jap)(1.0).sfc (Zapatabase 2011-01-30)