Download EarthBound: MSU-1 Hip Hop Journey ROM Hack

Don’t think this is gonna be a 100% Gold Remake, it’ll have its differences. Extra battles (some’ll be optionals, tough but rewarding), Hoenn Pokemon (in every area, and hard to find) New areas, Remapped some dungeons (so your old guides wont work) , Extra recurring characters (some’ll hate you, some’ll help you)

Note that the hack is incomplete but feel free to enjoy the hack as-is.

____________ \ | \ /\ / __ | | __ __ / \ / / / \ | | | | / \ / / | | |_________/ | | / \/ / _|_ --|-- | \ ___ | | /\ ___ | | | | / \| | | / \ \ | ____ / \ | | | | | o | | | / \ \ | (____ | o | | | __|_________/ \___/| _|_ _|_ \ \_| ____) \___/ _|_ \__/ \ | / \ | / / \__/ / / \ / \/ \/ __________ ================================(Industries)================================ ~~Proudly making rom hacks about once every 20 years~~ EarthBound: MSU-1 Hip Hop Journey Version 1.0 (08-14-2019) by Ballz This rom hack adds CD-quality audio and some other features to the 1995 game "EarthBound" for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. When used with my custom-made PCM music pack (downloaded separately) the original soundtrack is replaced with all-new music sourced from (mostly) rap and hip hop beats. ~~==INSTALLATION==~~ Apply this patch using your favorite IPS patching tool onto a clean EarthBound US rom that does *NOT* have a header. Put this newly patched rom into the same folder where you extracted the PCM music files, which can be downloaded here: https://mega.nz/#F!thAkyYxJ!huyyjwS5Djpyk25Ci-iWsA Make sure the rom's file name matches the PCM files. It should be "eb_msu1.sfc" Also make sure you have "eb_msu1.msu" which is included in the download with the PCM files. This game is compatible with the sd2snes flash drive and with the most recent versions of Snes9x (1.55 and up), bsnes, and higan. ~~==NEW FEATURES==~~ - Full MSU-1 soundtrack implemented (thanks Conn for original MSU-1 IPS patch and ShadowOne333 for the CCS script conversion which I tweaked a bit) - Press "Y" to run (thanks ShadowOne333) - Music player hidden somewhere in the game. It's not that hard to find, so you should stumble on it by accident sooner or later (big thanks to Phoenixbound for fixing a major game crash issue with it) - Greek alphabet has been redrawn and some letters have accents, sourced from MaternalBound ~~==TYPO CORRECTIONS==~~ Too many spelling/typo changes to fully list, but some highlights: - "unverse" to "universe" - Paula now "prays from [the] bottom of her heart" - "Mashroomized" now "Mushroomized" - "bologne" is now "bologna" - "cappuccino" spelled correctly - The "Club Stoic" graphic on the building in Summers now reads "Stoic Club," matching the in-game dialogue. - Using the protractor now gives a gender-neutral response (avoiding pronoun misuse if Paula uses it) - A lot of names are now consistent throughout the game. Some examples: -- Brick Road (no more Brickroad) -- Master Barf (no more Master Puke) -- Lumine Hall (no more Lumine Hole) -- Lilliput Steps (no more Liliput Step) - Not a typo per se, but Pokey is now Porky, his canonical name. At least I'm pretty sure it's canonical... ~~==SCRIPT CHANGES==~~ So I actually wanted to leave the original Marcus Lindblom translation alone as much as possible. Because it's actually a pretty darned good for its time and has held up well these past 25+ years. I also figured if you wanted a more thorough relocalization, there are already projects out there for that (MaternalBound, among others). Having said that, there are a handful of occasions where I tweaked or reworded something to make it clearer. For example, the Tessie watcher who talks about UFO's originally made it sound like Tessie itself abducted a kid and then flew to Stonehenge. That's been fixed. Another example was with the bellboy reading the newspaper in Scaraba. His line after reading the newspaper has been reworked to make it clear the newspaper gets its info from rumors. Overall it's pretty minor stuff like that, which I would only expect the most eagle-eyed player to ever notice. ~~==BUG FIXES==~~ - The song order for Milky Well/Rainy Circle melodies has been fixed. They were originally out of order. - Two NPCs originally missing from Threed are now restored and in their proper place (thanks ShadowOne333 and TragicManner). This bug was present in both Japanese and English releases. - The music in the Monotoli Building elevator ends abruptly shortly after the elevator comes to a complete stop. I now have it properly looping (MSU-1 only). - Two cops in Onett had their dialogue swapped from Mother 2. This really doesn't change anything in-game, but now they're in line with the original Japanese version. - Lucky coin and Charm coin are now the same thing (I went with the "Lucky coin" for both). In Mother 2 they are the same item, just one was meant to be ridiculously overpriced in Summers. They have the exact same stats otherwise. - An old lady in Twoson gives some different dialogue options, depending on who is in your party. It kind of got messed up in the original game, but has been fixed here (thanks ShadowOne333) ~~==ITEM NAME CHANGES==~~ Some items have been renamed to avoid grammatical errors like "Ness found a Insecticide spray." The full list of changed items is below, in case you're using a guide or something and need to know what it was originally called. ORIGINAL NAME NEW NAME Insecticide spray Can of bug spray Xterminator spray Super bug spray Insignificant item Worthless item HP-sucker Modest HP-sucker IQ capsule Genius capsule Charm coin Lucky coin ~~==FURTHER DISCUSSION==~~ Hopefully at whatever point in time in the future that you're reading this readme file, at least one of the following places will still exist and theoretically will have the latest version of this rom hack and music files linked somewhere on them: PK Hack Forum: https://secure.fangamer.com/forum/Community/PKHack Zeldix.net Forum: https://www.zeldix.net/t1931-earthbound-msu-1 Romhacking.net: https://www.romhacking.net ~~==SPECIAL THANKS==~~ - My wife, Patton, for humoring me and giving encouragement all these months. - Conn for the original EarthBound MSU-1 patch that jump-started my project in fall of 2018. - The PK Hack Slack crew, but Phoenixbound and ShadowOne333 especially for helping me with numerous little things (and a few big things) here and there. - Yatsuha for finding me the perfect Fat Jon song for the game's opening scene, which probably is what officially turned this from "futzing around to kill some boredom" into a full-blown rom hacking project. - Tomato. His Legends of Localization EarthBound book was invaluable in finding text oddities. - byuu for creating MSU-1 and Ikari for implementing it in sd2snes. This project literally would not exist without you guys. - The makers of Coilsnake. You know what you did.