EARTHBOUND: The Mysterious Mine Bouncin' Back Edition

This is the author's Earthbound hack that they have worked on since 2006. This hack is a graphics, story, gameplay change hack. Read the readme for more information.

Storyline
The year is 2006 and a young boy named Trae (the hero is the author of this hack) has been sent to do a late night errand for his mother. However, things are not right. Strange humans are located around town. When Trae encounters one of the higher strange fighters he is sent to the mysterious mine. What exactly will happen to our hero? Play to find out.

Patch requires a deinterleaved headered rom.

This hack has been updated. Many things have been changed such as...
-MAJORITY of the battle sprites
-Some new items have been added (some item name changes)
-Some magic skill name changes
-New “Don’t Care” names
-New battle swirls
-New game over screen
-Other minor fixes

Many things have been changed as of March 11th, 2024. This includes graphic changes, palette change on the third hero, various enemy stat changes (to make things easier for 1/128 hunts) and various bug fixes as well. There also includes a new boss that can be found in Natsume Valley. Please let me know if you encounter any glitches/bugs in this version and enjoy.

The Mysterious Mine (Bouncin' Back Edition)
by FobbyGuy88 2006-2008,2010-2011,2021-2022
EarthBound is originally made by Nintendo Shigesato Itoi


NOTE:Use an IPS patch such as Lunar IPS to patch an EarthBound ROM.
Also, name the XML Document to the ROM that you're using (use the XML document if you're using a bsnes emulator).
This hack seems to only work with ZSNES (Title screen doesn't display right), bsnes-plus-073.3a or Snes9x 1.60

This hack is made for entertainment and NOT for profit!!!

Many of the graphics of each enemy has been changed. There has also been some minor item adjustments and some attack changes as well. If you do encounter any bugs/glitches, please let me know.

Special Thanks
STARMEN.NET (for creating the PKHack community)
JHack (older versions)
CoilSnake
PK Hack Discord
And people who have support me for making this hack.


I will not tell any spoilers but if you want to know how to find the 1/128 items in this game, please check the Enemy Drop list within the .zip file.

Order in which you should go (once you get to the mine)
Northern Cave
First Eastern Cave (when you get your first orb)
Up the ladder (when you get second orb)
*NEW* There will be a transporter that will transport you to a new area before you get to the Far Eastern cave
Far Eastern Cave(once you get the last Transport Orb which is the shiny object in the Octavian Mines (in the room as Lumine Hall).

There is a new magic skill, HustleBoost. This raises the "rush" of allies during battle. HustleBoost replaces Depressor which was basically Def.Down.

A list of when users learn magic skills have been provided.

As of 11/18/2022, the second main character has a NEW magic skill, GaiaStrike. This is an earthquake magic that can damage all enemies. However, the damage will be changed if the target has a barrier/super barrier used. Refer to the Magic Learned text file provided in the .zip file for more info.

Credits (since the credit screen is garbled up)

Story and Idea by
FobbyGuy88

Many BattleSprites by
FobbyGuy88

CUSTOM MOTHER BATTLE SPRITES by
FrankFly

Overworld Metool sprite by
BBLIR on spritersresource.com

Thanks to Maedaez (aka felix.rodent) for custom sprite for game over screen as well as a Overworld sprite group for an enemy.

Thanks to Cooprocks123e with the title screen creation

Made with
PKHACK 5.14(older versions)
CoilSnake 3.0

EBExpand is not made by me

Some characters are property of their rightful owners

EARTHBOUND ORIGINALLY MADE BY
Shigesato Itoi

BETA TESTERS
olivers2000
kevindubrow
messianic

Well, enjoy! Who knows, I might make a sequel...

NOTE: Once you exit the Mysterious Mine, back to the real world after the second coffee scene. You might experience freezing once you go into battle, don't worry. Your game will be saved after you regroup on the hill. Just reset the game and you'll be saved on top of the hill. Also, just open the menu and you shouldn't experience this problem. You might encounter a little freezing after resting at Jack's House, just press B and the game will resume when going down the stairs.

TIPS
There are secret items you can purchase in NYC, they are called ITEM 1 and ITEM 2. The shop that you can purchase ITEM 1/ITEM 2 can be found behind the cafe in NYC. Before using this, you should create a save state. ITEM 1 will let you use the original ending for The Mysterious Mine, while ITEM 2 will let you view a scene made for fun. When you finish viewing the cutscene, just load your previous save state.

Earthbound (U) [!].smc - GOODSNES 2.04
CRC32: B0FF3B35
MD5: 644617EACDFC9E4FD5C39F39A206671E
SHA-1: 697764088DF9BC0264A5F61E4BBB0BA7BD46E0ED
SHA-256: E6B1B92D578F9A7587E38E39CA010DAFADC7647648BF8DF29A16958A65408608