
・But you’re just a kid, so this should be no sweat! Get ready!Īfter defeating the character: Original Japanese textīut losing again and again is how people grow.Īt this point, you’d be given a key item. You wanna pick a fight with ME, the Weakest Man in All of Twoson? When first meeting the character: Original Japanese text Note that none of this text was translated into English – the translations below are mine. For now, here’s all of the relevant unused text from the developer files. None of this is in the final game at all, so it’s not clear how it fit into the game. You’d have to fight him, and if you won, you’d receive a ticket to the nearby Chaos Theater. It sounds like you’d still have to fight him, but much of the scene would happen elsewhere in the police station and involve the secretary in some way.Īt some point in the game’s development, there was there was a character who called himself “the Weakest Man in All of Twoson”. Even if you’re not a big EarthBound fan, I think you’ll find some of the stuff below interesting!Īfter you won the battle, the officer would’ve said: Japanese textĪccording to the development files, the encounter with the police captain afterward would’ve progressed slightly differently too. These files are a genuinely fascinating piece of video game history. So, for now, I thought I’d share a few of my favorite discoveries in this article, which covers maybe 15% of what I found. The files contain so much new information and so many answers to old questions that I wasn’t really sure what to do with it all.
Earthbound coffee break text code#
The info in this article isn’t based on this pre-release ROM, but there might be similarities/connections.įor more details about EarthBound’s source code findings, and to see the files for yourself, see the Video Game History Foundation’s page here.

In 2020, a pre-release version of EarthBound was dumped and documented here.
