Earthbound
Earthbound on Super Nintendo (SNES), playable online with save states, gamepad and mobile touch support.
Earthbound on Super Nintendo (SNES), playable online with save states, gamepad and mobile touch support.
A meteor lands on the hill above Onett, and a boy named Ness walks out of his house in a baseball cap to find out why. That premise carries a full-length role-playing game set in a version of late-twentieth-century America rather than a fantasy kingdom — you fight stray dogs, hippies, animated traffic cones and cranky taxi drivers, withdraw money from ATMs, and phone your father to save your progress.
Battles are turn-based and viewed from Ness's own eyes, with enemies on a scrolling psychedelic backdrop. Damage does not land instantly: your HP spins down like an odometer, so a character struck by a fatal blow can still act, and heal, before the number reaches zero. Ness gathers three companions — Paula, Jeff and Poo — and travels to eight Your Sanctuary locations, recording each melody into the Sound Stone before confronting Giygas.
Released in Japan as Mother 2 in 1994, this is Shigesato Itoi's second game, and its texture is unusual for a 16-bit RPG: enemies are visible on the map instead of appearing at random, anything far below your level is defeated on contact without a battle, and Ness can get homesick and start missing turns until you call his mother. Marcus Lindblom handled the English localization, and was given room to make the script as odd as the original.
You can play with keyboard, gamepad, or touch (on mobile). The default keyboard layout is below; remap any key inside the emulator settings.
Yes. EarthBound is the English release of Mother 2, which came out on the Super Famicom in 1994 and reached North America in 1995. The story and structure are the same; the script was rewritten in English and some artwork was altered for the Western version.
You save by calling Ness's father on a telephone. Home phones, hotel rooms, hospitals and payphones all work, and he answers wherever you are. There are no save crystals or menu saves, so plan around where the nearest phone is before a long dungeon.
He has become homesick, a status that makes him skip turns and act on his own instead. Ring your house and talk to his mother to clear it. It comes back if you spend too long away, so calling home periodically is worth the trip.
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Yes. The emulator supports save states — you can save the exact moment you're at and resume later from any device by signing into a free OldGames account.
Yes. The emulator includes touch controls optimised for phones and tablets. iPhone, iPad, Android — all supported.
Yes. Connect any USB or Bluetooth controller (Xbox, PlayStation, 8BitDo, Switch Pro, etc.) and it will be detected automatically.
