I’ve been messing around with this since last year, but I started working on it again last week, and now it’s finally finished!
Screenshots:
This is EarthBound’s hidden in-game debug menu. It was what the original programmers used, before the English translation even began, to test the inventory system, see how the game would react in unexpected situations, and generally look around to see if anything needed fine-tuning. Previously, the only way to experiment with it was through cheat codes or other shenanigans, and it was all in untranslated Japanese, as seen here – https://youtu.be/suRcjE2ACXo?t=5m35s
Its features include:
- Make weird combinations of party members
- Summon items out of thin air
- Warp through time and space (AKA test certain cutscenes)
- Read the Hint Guy’s secret diary of wisdom (AKA test certain strings of text)
- Make sure all the Teleport animations work properly (Spoiler: they do)
- And more!
I’ve tweaked a few things, but most of this was originally all there, just sitting unused in the ROM.
Have fun!
Download link: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2644
