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                         |     Mother12 v0.5 GBA      |
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                             http://www.rpgone.net

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Table of Contents
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I.   About the Game
II.  What's New
III. Patch Credits
IV.  Application instructions
V.   Known Issues/Bugs
VI.  Disclaimer

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I. About the Game
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 Mother 1 and 2 is a Re-release of the first 2 games in the Mother series.
Mother 1 was for the NES, and Mother 2 for the SFC. Mother 2 was localized as
Earthbound for the SNES in North America.  Both games are turn-based RPG's that
deal with the impact of an alien threat with kids that live in a small town.  The
second game even has Ness from Super Smash Bros. in it who is a boy genious with
psychic powers.  After a meteorite landed near his home he sets out to save the
world.  The GBA version has the complete games with no censorship of text or
graphics, and makes for a very unique RPG game experience.

 Right now we are using texts from the NES and SNES versions to show the game can
be done and to attract a translator and technical help.  If you are interested,
please go to the forum and send XeroBourne or ChrisRPG a Private Message. 

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II. What's New
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v 0.5 - First release (28 February 2005)

 Please report any bugs or errors to www.RPGOne.net forums.

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III. Patch Credits
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XeroBourne - Project Leader, ROMhacker
ChrisRPG - ROMhacker

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IV. Application instructions
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 You will need to apply this patch onto a ROM image of Mother 1+2.  Please do not
ask us where to obtain this image, it can be done with a search of the Internet.
However, it is required that this patch be applied to the ORIGINAL,
unmodified ROM.

To apply the image, you will need an IPS patching program.  The easiest one to
use would be IPSWin.  You can get this and other programs from www.emuxhaven.net. 
Open this IPS program and apply the patch in this zip file (m12.ips) to the
original Mother 1+2 ROM. After you patch the ROM, just start up your emulator,
load up the ROM, and start playing! or you can use the auto-patch features of
some GBA emulators. Please read the emulator's instructions on how to do that.

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V. Known Issues/Bugs
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- Part 2 only has some of the menus and names done.  It is only to show it
 possible to do a nice translation for this game.
- We are looking for some help to get a variable width font in part 2.
- Part 2 also has some problems with images getting cut off at the bottom of the
screen; fortunately, this does not include text.

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VI. Disclaimer
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The Mother 1+2 videogame is Copyright (c) Nintendo 

RPGOne is in no way or form affiliated with any Nintendo corporations or any
other video game companies.  It shall not be held liable for any damages of any
type arising out of or in any way connected with your use of the patches and
utilities it releases.

This patch is FREEWARE.  You may NOT distribute this patch with a ROM image or 
applied to a ROM image. 

We do not endorse game piracy. If you like the game, please support Nintendo and
buy the game.

Visit RPGOne's webpage at http://www.rpgone.net/ for more information on the game
and on our other projects.  We hope you enjoy this translation!