This is a collection of small hacks for EarthBound Beginnings (also known as EarthBound, EarthBound Zero, and Mother).

The highlight is the gameplay balance hack, which eliminates the game’s tedious grinding by cutting the enemy encounter rate in half, quadrupling experience points, and doubling money.

Additionally, there is a separate graphics restoration hack, which reverts the graphical changes that Nintendo made when localizing the game for American audiences, and a font hack, which replaces the game’s font with the one from the Game Boy Advance fan translation.

Also included is the Demiforce patch, which changes the unhacked EarthBound Beginnings prototype ROM to the Demiforce version. This disables the game’s copy protection, which is necessary if you want to complete it while using any of these patches. (It also changes the title screen to say “EarthBound Zero.” If you don’t like this, there’s a patch that removes this change here.)

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