Here's this week's mailbag, with co-answer person Aquas!

I tried to get the sword of kings once. I stayed up all night. And then the men in white coats came and took me away to the funny farm, HO HO HE HE HA HA!

Meaning of letter: I have never found a 1/128 item. Looking for them makes me UN-cheery.

~Mysterious Submitter1



You've never found a 1/128 item? Never Ever? I don't think it's legal to call yourself an EarthBound fan if you haven't found at least the Sword of Kings. I'll check with reidman, but in the meantime you'd better contact your lawters.

~diospadre



You just need patience and surprise attacks on the starmen 24/7, there's a trick to get it all the time in the Mother 2 tricks section. I can't explain the men in white coats, maybe they were the mental hospital people coming to take you away from EarthBound.

~Aquas

You know what foos, I once tried for 3 COMPLETE HOURS to get the sword of kings from Starman Super. SS after SS, I tried, I search, I beat, I conquered, I healed, I fought, I tried again and again and again and again, after a count of 258 Starman Supers KILLED, I had still not gotten the Sword of Kings, with only the Experience of Fools! And it was in a lightening storm...and right when I tried my last one I had a feeling that it would be there. I tried...and the power went off before I saw the answer. I have been haunted with that image since then...actually I didn't think of it till I read the topic.... Have a nice day!

~ROBJPUB



Ooh, you actually counted, good for you. I had that "It's gonna be this one" feeling when searching for stuff a lot, but it was never true. I always seemed to get the item I was looking for when I least expected it.

~diospadre



Ohhh it takes more then 3 hours bud, I personally think it's fun fighting the Starmen Super's. There gold gleem dazzles as me as I kick their butt!

~Aquas

I doubt this will go threw, but is there any spots left in the sm.net staff? if so , how could i become a staff person, i have a site so im pretty useta making sites and stuff like that..i need to know!

~Mad_Ness



Sorry, no spots for now. You just missed your chance, as Tomato's hire-and-fire-athon just seems to have ended. Make sure you pay close attention to Starmen>net at all times, though, because it will be announced when we are looking for a new staffer.

~diospadre



Take the oppurtunities you get, when Tomato was lookin' for staff like a month or so back I sent a letter, and look at me now! HA HA HA. Maybe since EarthBoundAholic left us, there might be a position, go ask the big red guy yourself.

~Aquas

About this 1-128 item thingy... To tell you the truth I've tried to get this sword of kings for 3 weeks.(really) When I finally got this sword of kings I crapped myself (not really, just got really really happy and started dancing). I did make a chart of it( really) and it took 137 starman super.

1 more thing, I went to Napster to look for EB songs and they have loads of everything!!! IT's INCREDIBLE!!! IT"S AMAZING!!! IT's EARTHBOUND!!!

~jason



I'm glad you were merely kidding about soiling yourself. As for the EB songs, good for you. You must have hit a good server. For those of you who don't know, Napster is made up of many server's, so if you don't get any results when searching for EarthBound music (or anything else) just disconnect and reconnect.

~diospadre



Heh.. want even more EarthBound tunes.. well every single EarthBound tune on the net? Check out my FTP, I'm not allowed to advertise it alot. wat3r.dhs.org mp3/mp3 port:21. If ya got any questions email me. I'm an EarthBound music fan as much as I'm a fan of water! and that's some major friggen fan happiness.

~Aquas

Two questions:

1)How many "letters" do you get a week/month/however often you update? I know you don't post every one, because you didn't post my last letter...

2)How do you pronounce Andonuts? I've always pronounced it "AN-do-nuts", though I see how it could be pronounced another way...

~Kefka2727



I post ten letters a week. I usually get around 18, but the problem is that often many of them consist of stuff that even I can't decode, so a bunch of them are cut.

~diospadre



For your first question, see dios above. For your other question yeah I pronounce it the same you do, it just makes sense that way since he offers Ness a donut when you meet him the first time and all.

~Aquas

First of all, I would like to comment you allon the great work done on this site. It is agreat site with a lot of great features.

I have been coming here for almost 3 years, and this is the first time I have ever written. All I really need to say is that you should add a couple new digitized tunes. Like Dungeon Man's song, that wouldbe awesome, and maybe even a couple others. Secondly, An MP3 page, featuring Earthbound music, of course, would be twice as nice! If I had the technology, I would work on them myself, but I dont, so that is why I am asking you guys. Thank you all very much for your time, and it very much tight if you took my letter into concideration. Thanks a bunch you guys!

~Matt Montez



Thanks! We like praise. Lots. Send more? As for your question on Digitized music, it's still a little shady as to whether our host would allow us to have such files, but I'll look into it. Stay tuned!

~diospadre



Heh, hasn't LousySpy made enough digitilized EB tunes? and about the Mp3 rage.. oh wait you said page, never mind.

~Aquas

There is absolutely NO chance of Earthbound 64 being released on GameCube. However, there IS the possibility that they'll release a sequel to Earthbound for the GameCube. (Why would they call it EB64 if it's on a system that has little or no relation to the number 64 whatsoever?)

~LousySpy



Yeah I would doubt that they would use anything other than the story for EBGC (EBGC TM and C diospadre 2001). Even the possibilities of that are pretty slim, so let's all hope that they axe Flint, Boney, and whoever those kids were in favor of Ness and Co.

~diospadre



It's also called Mother 3, hehe. Have faith man.

~Aquas

I heard on earthbound.net that it will come out on the game cube. But I wasn't convinced, so I went on the starmen.net forum a while back and I put a topic up asking if about that because I didn't think that mani mani was telling it correctly. I got quite a few answers from some kids and one of them said that the mani mani didn't say explain it correcly. But mani mani Did say that he sent in a letter into Nintendo Power Magizine. and from the help of my friend, he told me that mani mani DID ask if it was coming out on game cube because he just bought an N64 and was hoping he didn't waste his money. they said that EB64 MIGHT come out on game cube, so this so called LIE by others might be just a theorie.

~Chimera





~diospadre



Whaaat, which mani mani are you talking about?

~Aquas

I keep asking questions here under different alias's and I never get replies to my letter. What do I have to do? I must know or I will finally fall of the cliff of misery and be stabbed by the spears of anger at the bottom!(That would be bad.)

~Billy Bob



What do you have to do? Submit a good, informative question! Like this one. You've done well young one...

~diospadre



Well your letter got here didn't it? and I'm replying to it, aren't I?

~Aquas

Whatever happened to the radio?

~Starman True



Look! It's Aquas!!!

~diospadre



Well as you may know our friend EBounding was broadcasting it back in the day, I loved it so much. But right now, I (Aquas) run the radio hehe, it was always a dream of mine. It's going to be publicized way more in the next week or so, so watch out! see here for a little more info.

~Aquas