Earthbound localization source files found/recovered. Some interesting stuff in them:
the files themselves on archivedotorg:
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The article doesn’t pick up on it but a bunch of the character names hidden in the script are taken from the women of Twin Peaks.
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Just don’t use it near a shop that serves pencil.
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I don’t have full context on this but it looks like some games can…interface with…dos…through a serial port WHATEVEr i don’t know technical things but look
Mario Kart has a basic track editor built into it
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Yeah, I got a kick out of that! I also noticed:
Is this a reference to One Eyed Jack’s? He’s wearing the same shade of red as the employees there.
Always fun to hear about the apparently widespread and fervent Twin Peaks fandom at Nintendo in the 90’s.
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Yeap! I was wondering about that one too!
With NoA being in Washington and Japanese tourism to the filming locations being a big deal (sup @doolittle , I’m almost over being afraid of standing in a line at the tiny post office), I bet some dillies over to the diner got folded into business trips…
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It’s okay, I still don’t own a laserdisc player 
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I feel like I owe you one at this point!
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Wow! This is really interesting. It’s a fully polished Gorillas or non-turn-based Worms kind of game, but with total Y2K Sega aesthetics. The music is great, and I noticed in the credits that its ending theme is a truly wild performance of Ave Maria by Miharu Koshi, from her excellent and singular synthpop/classical album Boy Soprano, produced by forum favorite Haruomi Hosono.
Apparently this would have been the second in a series of online multiplayer games. The first in the series? Chu Chu Rocket.
Wild to think this never came out. I think it would have been remembered fondly.
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It’s high time I got a DC ODE so I can load .GDIs on to play stuff like this and the Atomiswave ports.
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I’m honestly astounded that Miharu Koshi isn’t considered a forum favorite herself!
I’ve been spamming this track around sb for years now
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yeah she’s fuckin’ great
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amazing thread of mortal kombat style capture from some kind of unmade early 90s online world called CYBER PARK
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This might be known, but I’d never seen it before. Unused boss in the files for Alien Soldier.
and a second one that is less fleshed out
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a cut cutscene (seen in magazine previews) was apparently fully implemented:
the game’s probably better for cutting out all the interstitial dialogue and such, but man this scene is striking
the tcrf article appears to be quite robust at this point: Alien Soldier - The Cutting Room Floor
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Holy shit.
Also the opening credit song for this is great.
