Hey, Chaisu here, and I’m testing out these crazy Fan Submission waters! Figured the D-Man needs a break every once in a while.
For starters, the Fan Music section is filled with a few lovely tracks submitted by the talented composers known as BoundingFromEarth, Kevvviiinnn, and sacredfire059! The Kraken has been brought to some high-techno life in BoundingFromEarth’s rousing remake of the classic ‘Kraken of the Sea’ battle tune. Kevvviiinnn brought to the table a fun, festive, and retro SNES sounding Town tune that screams ‘Mother 2′. sacredfire059 created an eerie, yet lively, battle tune.
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Kraken Of The Sea Updated – By
BoundingFromEarth
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Town 4 – By Kevvviiinnn
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A town song. Check out my YouTube page if you want to see more of my work: http://www.youtube.com/user/Kevvviiinnn
Shady Guys (Battle Theme) – By sacredfire059
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This one’s by me this time, and not by Kevvviiinnn. It was intended as a battle theme and I made it 16-bit using a mix of SNES and SEGA Genesis soundfonts. Please don’t use the Garageband-made songs, … [More]
In the Artwork and Sprites section, we have a dozen works, including an amazing action shot by sorakokiri (Even if Justin Bieber was involved in its creation…), some great character portraits by MOTHER-chama, a humorous illustration of the great Error by MXXai, a visual interpretation of gamepopper’s robotic arm by Rcarr22, an awesome Super Smash Bros. Brawl Ness texture hack by Register, two more title screens and a save TV by Maskedman, a mysterious shadow enemy by Nintend0, a… pretty crazy thing by PK Mt. Fuji, and a toy soldier by siefier.
Artwork & Sprites (12)
ATTACK! – By
sorakokiri
…Is it wrong to say I painted it while listening to Justin Bieber…? Anyway, the anime version of these 3 guys. They’re attacking a walking mushroom. Floyd was hoding a gun like Jeff’s but my scann… [More]
Chase (cell-shaded) – By MOTHER-chama
Nothing too fancy, but… I figured for my first Chase fanart that it’d be interesting to draw and color him in the common anime cell-shading style. Needless to say, it was quite fun to do. I was aimi… [More]
Zack (cell-shaded) – By MOTHER-chama
Not much to say here other than that Zack’s hairdo was painful to both draw and color.
…Is it just me or does Zack’s design strongly remind me of both MOTHER 1′s Teddy and MOTHER 3′s Duster?
A boy and his ERROR – By MXXai
Okay, I seriously take these in-jokes way too far…
Robotic Arm Illustration – By Rcarr22
I saw the robotic arm stats made by gamepopper, and I was just itching to make an illustration of it. I hope he (she?) doesn’t mind. If you see this, gamepopper, I hope it was made the way you would’v… [More]
Chase… the fighter? – By Register
Is he really cut out for this kind of action…? I suppose we’ll just have to wait and see. Wonder where he got the hat from…
Texture for Super Smash Bros. Melee (GCN).
Another Mother 4 starting image – By Maskedman
I love, making these! Well use if you want to and just give credit.
ANOTHER Mother 4 starting image – By Maskedman
Yes, yes I love to make these because their really fun to make. Give credit if you use any of them (Theres so much to choose from).
TV that saves your progress – By Maskedman
Its a news man that saves your game, I wrote what he says in the image, I have his sprites, the TV has unlimited batteries so it can be anywhere without electricity and thats a rap! if used give credi… [More]
Ganger – By Nintend0
Your sh-shadow…i-it’s m-m-moving…!
Statistics key:
A=Attack D=Defence S=Speed Psi=Psi attack
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PP=Psychic Points
awesome enemy – By PK Mt. Fuji
20% of what makes the Mother games so awesome are the really crazy enemies. So here’s a crazy enemy \(^o^)/
toy army soldier – By siefier
when i saw that part of the plot was inanimate objects comeing to life i thought to myself toy soldier attack. the battle sprites were easy and got my creativity but i wanted the land sprites to be sm… [More]
(Whew! One more to go!)
Okay, for the Ideas and Suggestions box, we have a neat list of things for status ailments by MalixDexide, a… rather disturbing boss fight idea by Ocular Bleeding, a string of ideas by Pk Awesome, some conceptual workings by Rcarr, enemies and super powers by Starguy64, and one mean kid by Ziygas.
Ideas & Suggestions (8)
Immunity – By
MalixDexide
An idea for (not much of) immunities to status ailments.
Game concept idea
Echoes of Terror – By Ocular Bleeding
A very creepy optional or otherwise boss idea involving a terrible ruinous power. Includes some story setup.
Outside of battle ideas. – By Pk Awesome
Mother games always have some sort of puzzle aspect. I figured I might help come up with some way to make puzzles more interesting. Also, more out of battle ideas.
Cool Battle idea 
– By Pk Awesome
I was just trying to think of some idea that’s entirely new to Mother, but would be a really nice thing to add.
New Psi – By Pk Awesome
I was thinking of a new PSI ability, and since most PSI attacks are elemental, I wanted to switch it up a bit, so I came up with this.
Plot Concept – By Rcarr
Just a plot idea.
Enemy Ideas – By Starguy64
Just some basic enemy ideas I thought up. Includes the Crabby Old Man, the Rabbid Dentures, Evil Mr. Saturn, and the Stacked Hamburger.
More Enemy Ideas – By Starguy64
Just some more enemy ideas. This one only includes 2 enemies, Nothing and the Error. The Error of course is based off of that screwed-up sprite of Chase. If you guys want to put these in the game with… [More]
New PSI abilities – By Starguy64
New PSI/PK attacks I thought up. Includes two new abilities. Like with any of my other entries, you dont have to ask my permission to put some of this stuff in the game.
Bad-Tempered Bully – By Ziygas
An enemy I thought could serve as the “Sharks” for Flutune.
That about sums up this Fan Submission update, they were pretty cool! I apologize for not posting more often on this website. I’m just a very busy guy, with lots to do, and a plethora of places I have to go!
Nevertheless, keep them coming in; I always find time to check your stuff out!
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April 5th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Kevvviiinnn should try his hand at a Saturn Valley theme. It’s what Town 4 reminded me of at least.
April 5th, 2010 at 1:28 am
And now I really wanna make more pictures of nothing XD
Some of those were really good… I liked some of those concepts too…
Up! And there goes my memory of having ever read them… I do wonder how that happens…
April 5th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Town 4 reminds me a TON of Super Mario RPG. It has some of the same quirks in it, esp. the marimba part. I like. You did a good job on choosing the instruments to fit the Mother 2 soundtrack.
Lovely stuff here.
patch
April 5th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
As always, pure WIN. I like to see how much everyone is improving with their especialities. Kev, you’ve got something that reminds me of Kirby and Mother games so much I wold actually love to hear that as a song for a game. Kudos to all of you!
April 5th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Really great works guys!
It’sinspired me to try some works of my own!
April 6th, 2010 at 2:29 am
So, I’m gonna try and go down the list with what I like, which is quite a bit. Forgive me if I get verbose.
Music:
Kraken: I really do like this one, but it’s very short. It’s more like a riff than a full song to me… Town 4 is great, very lively; it reminds me of a carnival. Again, I like the melody and the back-up noises (handclaps, cymbals, odd whistle-thingy) are very fitting.
Shady Guys: Honestly, too repetitive. You’ve chosen a fast pace here, and when you have movement in the music, I like it, but I think it needs more than one melody line and a syncopated high-hat.
Art:
I love the cel-shaded Chase and Zack from MOTHER-Chama. I love the clean, clear look of it, gives a strong impression of their features without getting too complicated. MXXai, your Boy and his Error is cute, and I would definitely be weirded out by my Error. SoraKokiri’s Attack! is a little rough around the edges, but the characters still look dynamic. You create a lot of motion towards the right: I really want to see what they’re up against, it seems like more than just one rambling ‘shroom! I’d love to see this as a more finished work.
Ideas:
I really hope to see PK Awesome’s out-of-battle PSI techniques come out to play. Obviously there’d need to be some limitations: throwing around PK Fire and what have you in a forest is dangerous. But I think it could be good for both battle use (trying to hit an enemy before battle starts proper) and puzzle use (My ice cream is melting!!)
Starguy’s Telepathy sounds fun, and would make for some interesting plot sequences, especially stealth-based areas. I also enjoy the concept of PK Whirlwind, especially the idea of it turning enemies around.
Ocular’s battle idea is terrifying, and probably more suited to the latter part of the game: it would also be interesting to build up the character as a possible party member, but that’s just me. I really like the story though, and the ambiguity of the source is a fitting choice.
I think Malix is onto something by making certain characters more vulnerable to certain ailments. It seems pretty natural, and would be another dimension for the player to watch out for.
I hope to see recurring character enemies, like in Rcarr’s suggestion: it’s fun to see them around and think “Oh man, do I need to fight him again?” They’re such a good source of comedy… And even tragedy, as in the case of Fassad.
April 6th, 2010 at 11:05 am
I have to say, the artwork “ATTACK!” Is…incredible. You’ve really captured their personalities, as well.
Sorakokiri, I demand more art.
April 6th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Hai gais! Uh, about the last 2 comments:
Softspoken: I really did the two thing you mentioned on purpose LOL. I left the edges like that because I really like sketchy things more (gives me the feel of a more free piece), but you’re right it still looks kinda ‘dirty’. And yeah, the rambling ‘shroom, I didn’t even know if the team would put it as an enemie, so I left it kind of open for the people to imagine the enemie even though I like to think it is a rambling ‘shroom because it’s my fave enemie.
Zephys: Oh, sure I will! but I really have not more ideas by now. Maybe you could give me some easy ones.
Thanks!
April 6th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
oh yeah btw Chase, are Zack and Leo official charas for the game?
April 6th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Yes indeed!
April 7th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
How do you guys make the sprites and background with what program? I liked the “The street-smart ruffian.” Because it looks so realistic!
April 7th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
I believe Chaisu uses Photoshop for the sprites for its layering capabilities and his familiarity with it. However, there are many other programs suitable for spriting, but when it comes down to it, the skill of the artist is really all that matters. So what I’m saying is that you don’t need anything fancy to make sprites, just practice. But I digress.
If you wanted to know Chaisu’s process, well, that would be difficult for me to explain since I have no idea how he does what he does. It’s almost… magical.
April 8th, 2010 at 11:29 am
^Tsk tsk tsk!
While I do like Photoshop, I’m definitely a Paint man! Yep, all the sprites have been done in Paint.
As for my methods… well, it’s art really, you just gotta feel it, and have an acute ability to determine quality from crap really.
April 8th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Ohohoho! Shows how much I know about the spriting process haha.
April 8th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
I saw softspoken’s comment and it gave me an idea. Just submitted it.
April 8th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
guys, how do you make this? the game looks awseome and the graphics bring back memories. btw the Echoes of Terror plot idea was demented, like Giygas’s infant form. But that was a perfect plot idea. I seriously reccomend it.
April 9th, 2010 at 12:23 am
Chaisu uses MS Paint for the graphics, I use C++, SDL, openGL, and Visual C++ Express for programming. Zephys and Chaisu use their brains and Google Docs for writing, as well as good ol’ paper and pencil.
Mix that with time, effort and a love for the Mother trilogy and you get this.
April 9th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Huh? I just realized theres already a PSI Telepathy in Mother 1. Didnt know that, and I guess mine is different from it, so no big deal.
You guys have some pretty cool ideas!
April 9th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
All hail MS Paint! And Doritos! And something silly here… make it the flamingoat!
April 9th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Ok Ok i dont know how too say this but you know in mother 3 when salsa the monkey had the medal thing that ness had in earth bound wellll there should be a part were someone that was related too ness well tells nesses story or or that ness gets reborned too help them win.
April 9th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
Lol ive been wating for this for since i was 8 lol and im 13 now XD
April 9th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
^
What happened there, did you time warp?
April 9th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
Rcarr22: Yay! I’m glad my comments are helping to motivate you guys to make more submissions.
Sorakokiri: It does give it a gritty feel, but with the dust clouds and battle scene, it does contribute to the mood. And really, what’s a mother game without the walking mushrooms?
April 10th, 2010 at 10:26 am
@Chaisu-OH MY PORK! serious you use paint! I use macromedia fireworks for everything.
April 10th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
u guys use paint when i cant even draw in real life
April 10th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Paint is very simple for making sprites. Other programs are usually useful for effects and quick recoloring(for some things). And drawing in real life is a lot harder than making things…
April 11th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
@Softspoken: For some odd reason, it hasn’t been added yet. I’d give it some time, but it’s been 3 days…
April 11th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Oh yeah, sorry for double post, but…
The problem with me is that I can think of what exactly I want to draw, but I can’t transfer that image to paper. I also, strangely enough, see characters from time to time. They just pop up in my mind. I remember one, I saw a boy running, coming up to a cliff, stopping just before falling, then somebody else ran into him and… that’s all I saw.
April 12th, 2010 at 5:28 am
Hi i’m new to all of this, and I just want to try posting once.
I have a few ideas for enemy attacks and other things with in-battle effect also I might give some of the old and useless moves like “laughing hysterically”. I’m gonna wait and see what response I get.
April 12th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
I saw your idea. It was so-so, but kudos for effort.
April 13th, 2010 at 9:49 am
yea….i posted two new things, about to post one more…..i hope some of our ideas can make it into the story..THAT WOULD BE EPIC!!!!
April 13th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Thanks for the comments. I will use them to base more of my posts on. I agree with MotherPWN75 that if our stuff makes it into the story quote… THAT WOULD BE EPIC!!!
April 14th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Hi everybody. this is blue rope snake asking what every one thinks of my new ideas for pk attacks. I can take positive criticism and please don’t hold back and give me only honest opinions. This time tried even harder to get a good post.
April 15th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
I really wish porky is back-still inside the safe capsule.
April 18th, 2010 at 11:27 am
Town 4 needs to be in the game.
April 22nd, 2010 at 4:54 pm
I’m with you on the porky thing. Perhaps the villain hooks his absolutely safe capsule up with a few weapons and mobility, but he loses invincibility, and you have to fight him? I’d love to see that.
April 27th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
HEY!?!?!? WHERE’D THE RECENT SUBMISSIONS BAR GO?!?!?!
April 28th, 2010 at 11:09 am
Whoa settle down there. I’m doing an experiment with page load times. It may or may not be coming back. Instead, check the fan submissions page for a list of the ten most recent submissions.
April 28th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Ok. And why hasn’t ANYBODY commented on my seeing-characters-at-random-times thing?
P.S. I saw a white boy (as in peach-ish skin color) with brown hair, green eyes, white shirt, jeans, and red shoes the other night.
May 8th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Hello there, I’d been trying to submit a file, but it is to exceeds the file size limitations, isnt there any other way to submit?
By the way keep up the good work!
May 8th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
@Fandangox
If it’s an image try to re-size it, if it’s a text then split the file into parts.
Now if it’s sound/music then I would suggest either compressing the file into an MP3 or splitting the file into parts
Hope this helps you!
May 9th, 2010 at 2:07 am
MalixDexide’s got it right.
What type of file is it? If it’s an image, what are the dimensions as well? 3 MB should be plenty for an image, and 6 MB shouldn’t be too tight for audio.
Edit: Looking through the logs, I don’t see any failed submissions from you. I do however see some people have tried to submit wav files. We don’t accept those, only mp3s! But yeah, if you guys think there’s something wrong with the submitter/uploader, let me know so I can look into it!
Edit 2: Fandangox, nice Solid Snake sprites, however, they don’t have to do with Mother other than the fact they’re in the Mother 3 style. Perhaps they’d be better off submitted somewhere else, like a custom sprite website. We can only accept submissions related to Mother 4 in some way.
May 9th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Ah I see, I kinda though the snake sprites werent allowed, thanks for the coment though!
Its a PNG file, I havent submitted any kind of sound files.
I tried resizing it too, but its way to big, and if I change it to JPG it looks bad.
Thanks for replying.
May 9th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
You could resize it using imageshack‘s resizing options while uploading and then download the file again. The largest resolution we accept is 1280×1024 px. Seems a little roundabout to me, but it could work.
May 10th, 2010 at 10:16 am
I’ll try that. The resolution is a little bit more of twice than that.
May 28th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
i gotta ask
have you gods considerd
i mean if these becomes HUGLLY populer
a mother 5?
May 28th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Well, we’d rather move on to something else. Something original perhaps!
May 30th, 2010 at 9:54 am
I like Ocular Bleeding’s idea. Maybe it could be Porky’s hit girl or something, and the stone is charged with the remains of Giygas’ virtually unlimited power.
Who knows, maybe the Absolutely safe capsule isn’t all that absolute, and the door has rusted over time. Maybe Chase and co. could even end up fighting some sort of warped version of him!
May 31st, 2010 at 12:58 pm
What’s with all of this “bring ness back” “let Porky out of the capsule even though it’s impossible” “bring back giygas” ? We’re not looking to play Mother 1-3 again, we’re looking for a new game that continues the epic in it’s own unique way. Just wanted to get that out there.
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:29 am
To Labrynian Rebel:
I see what you mean. But every single one of us ‘Want Porky Back’ people just wanted to get another crack at him. After all, he cheated us out of the pleasure of kicking him all the way back to 199X by ducking into that capsule, really. It’s just that bit of sadist that hides in the hearts of us all.