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Stuff you never knew about EarthBound.

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    So I’m catching up on GPPs and getting through Carpainter’s church when I accidentally try to talk to a present.

    “There’s no response.”

    Wait, what? Normally I get a “Who are you talking to?”. So I tried talking to nothing, and sure enough, you can talk to anything in the room and get “no response”.

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    Watching the GPP today, I learned that the beach in Summers is called Carillon Beach.

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    Huh, cool. I guess that’s so all of the unresponsive cultists don’t need their own response.

    Last year I equated Hassan’s Shop to “Hassan Chop” from Ali Baba Bunny… or at least I think that’s the intent anyways.

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      There’s a spot in Happy Happy Village between a fence and a tree where a tile of the fence overlaps Ness’s sprite. It looks like there was a horrible accident!
      I actually think I found this last year, but I just didn’t post about it.

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      TIL that the PSI Thunder Alpha does a decent amount of damage… when it actually hits something. I’ve never been fond of attacks that aren’t 100% effective, so I’ve never really used PSI Thunder.

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      Having missed Mondo Mole with about ten consecutive shots of it without a single hit, I’m inclined to agree.

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      I wanted to fight hippies, but I couldn’t find them and when I finally found one, I was already overleveled and I couldn’t hear their awesome song.

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      Apparently, if you help out the Runaway Five and then ditch their tour bus ride to Threed, enemies stop showing up until you get on the bus. I went though Onett, Peaceful Rest Valley and the Lilliput Steps cave with no altercations, minus Mondo Mole.

      It was kind of disapointing.

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      I found it was possible to beat Mondo Mole and not have Paula die on you in the first round…or at all. Something I’ve been wondering about for a long time, is every playthrough’s stat levels the same, or do they go up randomly?

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      I sold a protractor for $1. Defeating the Boogie Tent is worth $407. The Hint Man makes his living through his Hint service.

      I often neglect the fact there is special text from shop owners when you decline on a deal.

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      Something I’ve been wondering about for a long time, is every playthrough’s stat levels the same, or do they go up randomly?

      They’re pseudorandom, but the formula basis for them means they tend to stay pretty standard through any given run.

      Baseball sure is a funny game.

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      Thanks SB, something else funny I found was if you’re receiving a delivery from Apple Kid and Ness’s inventory is full, The Mach Pizza guy will say something to the effect of “Hmm, well the delivery is to be made to someone named Ness. O.k., I’ve got it. Your name is now Ness, here you go. Delivery made.” and hands the item to Jeff or Paula.

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      TIL that when you fight the Boogie Tent that the battle background is supposed to be the tent part of the monster. For some reason it didn’t hit me until today and I thought I was fighting this floating scary face thing the whole time.

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      I didn’t know that the secret hideout in Onett actually existed until I saw the first GPP.

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      The guy who runs the Punk-Sure bike shop can’t actually ride a bike. (Say “no” when he asks if you’d like to buy one.)

      Baseball sure is a funny game.

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      I learned that you can talk to Venus’s mom in Twoson. She thinks her daughter’s stage name is Vein something

      I also learned that there is a kid in Twoson who says his parents left to bring back some happy from Happy Happy Village. You can actually talk to them there and once you have Paula and come back, his parents actually do return home.

      My Conquest is the Sea of Stars

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      Try going back and talking to Venus’s mom again after you’ve finished Magnet Hill, too.

      Baseball sure is a funny game.

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      I had Jeff mashroomized and used the HP Sucker, he tried to suck his own HP. Regardless, no HP was lost or gained. What a lamer. Will he successfully drain allies, though?

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      Oh yeah, probably, I had Jeff Mushroomized and he used a Defense Spray on a Ranboob

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      For some reason, I didn’t know that the Game Over theme was more than that little drum beat thing at the beginning.

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      I learned a new word today: GPP.
      Now I just have to figure out what that means.

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      ^ It means GamePlay Point.

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      I got the expensive foods in the Summers restaurant. I never use the help function, so I was pleasantly surprised by those stories.

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      I learned that you could paralyze Mondo Mole :V

      probably should have learned that a looooong time ago, but I’ve never been desperate enough to try until recently, when he used lifeup like, six times in a row.

      they call him…the universe crimbus

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      I don’t usually read signs more than once.

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      I just now learned that when the Photo Man shows up while you have an unconscious party member, they’ll come back long enough to pose and then go back to the angel sprite.

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      ^ It means GamePlay Point.

      What’s that?

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      In this case it’s being used to highlight certain points featured within the game. GPP1, for instance, being Onett, and certain elements prominent about that particular area of the game.

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      Oh. That’s something else I learned now.

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      I learned today, while catching up, that you can go backstage and talk to Venus after the Runaway Five’s final concert, at which point she’ll tell you that she won’t give you an autograph right now.

      To right the countless wrongs of our day, we shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise. What a wonderful world such would be…

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      Today (not exactly) I learned…

      …that by having Jeff use spy on himself while on mushrooms, you can find out he’s weak to PSI Freeze.

      …the point where Pokey/Porky did his business on Scaraba.

      I melted away one warm winter day. But I’ll always remain in your memory.

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      Today I learned that I share the same birthday with Katon. That’s very unsettling , especially considering that I am a big fan of his Radio PSI shows.

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      Today I learned that the song that plays when you get your head handed to you is the Flying Man’s theme slowed down.

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      I found that after you save Threed you can talk to the zombies in the cage in the tent and in the cages outside south of town. It’s a little tricky and you have to be at the exact angle, and one of the zombies south of town I couldn’t get to talk to me… pressing the L button doesn’t work as well as using the “Talk To” feature from the menu, because when you use “Talk To” it seems to be able to grab the attention of NPC’s at a wider area. The zombies only repeat their old lines, though.

      What else… after mani mani gets to fourside, you can see Carpainter hanging out with the now-white-again-cow by the ranch in happy happy village. He actually gives a very wise and thoughtful word of advice. That surprised me.

      While shopping in Saturn Valley you can get Mr. Saturn to say some funny stuff when you cancel buying an item, or don’t have enough room for an item (he says something like “Ness is KOOKIE full!”), or give an equippable item to the wrong person. In fact most vendors have weird little variations of things like this that can sometimes be either completely bizarre, funny, or whatever (the most popular/common one being that lady who says “You’re just here to say ‘hi’? What a loser!”).

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      I just got the whole reason behind why water restores your PP.

      Water restores your peepee – Please tell me this was intentional?

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      O_O
      It now makes so much sense…

      I learned something new today…again…
      I learned that in the world of Mother 3, hitting your mom=getting bread.

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      I just got the whole reason behind why water restores your PP.

      Water restores your peepee – Please tell me this was intentional?

      THERE IS NO GOD

      I melted away one warm winter day. But I’ll always remain in your memory.

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      TIL that mini-ghosts are HUGE! I realized right after beating Carbon/Diamond Dog that I forgot to get the Sea Pendant so I went out to get it. Ness was possessed on my way in, so this ended up happening.

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      hahahaha, wow, that’s pretty neat

      I realised teddy bears magically turn into people when you crash and burn from failing to teleport correctly. I assume other followers do too.

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      Today I f0und out that you can ride the bike at the end of the game, after everyone leaves your party.
      It also plays the bicycle music instead of the peaceful music.
      You can get rid of the peaceful music by leaving Saturn Valley and going into the area near Grapefruit Falls. It plays some waterfall and bird noises, but no background music.

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      I think Peaceful Rest Valley has the same affect. They couldn’t program in water sounds to the peaceful music because it just won’t fit, I think.

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      I learned that there’s no hiding from Dad

      No matter what

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      Dad likes to call just as you save, too. THAT WACKY DAD.

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      ya that happened to me just at the end of the game, when picky showed me the letter.
      JUST AT THE END OF THE GAME.

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      That you can fight 2 chompasaurs at once

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      Today I learned that a bunch of people in Happy Happy Village at the end of the game just say “Thanks, in the future” or something to that effect.

      I also learned that you can go into that Mr. Saturn’s crib in Happy Happy Village. It’s a darn slamin’ crib.

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      Today I learned that you don’t have to take Paula home at the end.

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      I learned a lot of things today! After you beat Giygas there are so many people who say different things, and it’s a lot of fun to find them all. A few gems I found:
      In Magicant, when you get the level ups: Ness was filled with the Power of the Lumine Hole!
      You can teleport while in the hot spring.
      A lady in Summers says: “That Kung Fu-like hairstyle! You look so cool! I may fall in love with you. Do you think I’m too forward?”
      A guy in the Scaraba Cultural Museum: “It’s nice to see you in good shape. I wonder what porky Pokey’s doing. Yeah, that’s the guy I met before.”
      A guy in Fourside: " In the future, you will build cities and even create a country… I’m counting on you."
      And Orange Kid says: "Well, you never invested in my genius, did you? You had no idea what I could do… chortle You sorry loser.

      I suddenly don’t like Orange Kid anymore…

      You know that one person on DeviantArt, Saturn-In-Sky ? Yeah, that’s me.

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      You can see the shack freaks from the hill in the beginning of the game.

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      Somebody told me that if you invest in the Orange Kid, after you beat Gigyas he fills up your wallet or pays off your debt to the Minches or something.

      I was lied to.

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