Wait, what's this? Editing tools for Mother 3 and Mother 1? You can't be serious! Well mysterious disembodied voice, yes, we are completely 100% serious about 50% of the time, and you can bet that this time we are 100% serious. Although editing of Mother/Earthbound Zero is fairly limited due to lack of interest, and Mother 3 editing is severely limited by just how dense and tightly-woven the ROM is, it's entirely possible to get your editing on with these fabulous tools:
BBHack
version 1.0 • 84 KB compressed • .zip
Author:
uyuyuy99 •
Official Forum Topic
The brainchild of forum user uyuyuy99, BBHack is the PK Hack community's second attempt at creating a PK Hack program for EarthBound Zero. As of right now, it only serves as a map and tile editor, but uyuyuy99 eventually plans on expanding into other realms, such as graphics editing and text editing. In order to run BBHack, you will need the latest version of Java and an EarthBound Zero ROM.
MOTHER 3 Funland
version 0.0.1.2 • 247 KB • .exe
Author:
JeffMan •
Official Forum Topic
MOTHER 3 Funland can best be described as "PK Hack for MOTHER 3." This handy tool allows you to edit the essentials of MOTHER 3: level up experience, items, shops, enemies, PSI, battle backgrounds, battleswirls, town maps, and character names. Sadly, due to the structure of the MOTHER 3 ROM, maps, enemy sprites, the script, and descriptions of items, enemies, and skills cannot be edited, and likely never will be in the near future. You can, however, view maps and text using this tool. Overworld sprite editing must be done using the standalone sprite editor below.
MOTHER 3 Sprite Editor
version 0.1α • 145 KB • .exe
Author:
JeffMan •
Official Forum Topic
This was the first-ever MOTHER 3 hacking tool released to the public. This tool allows you to edit every single overworld sprite in the game, allowing you to create entirely new characters and insert them into the game.
MOTHER 1+2 Tools
259 KB compressed • .zip
Author:
Tomato •
Official Website (hosted by EarthBound Central)
This nifty little package was released around the same time when Tomato released his translation patch for the MOTHER 1 portion of MOTHER 1+2. These tools, when used in conjunction with the MOTHER 1+2 translation, will allow you to edit the text of the MOTHER 1 half of the game, allowing you to create your own text hacks!
PK Hack Zero
version 0.2 • 72 KB • .exe
Author:
JeffMan
A hidden gem of the PK Hack community's infancy, this program allows you to edit various details in the Earthbound Zero ROM. However, it is severely limited in its capacity. Still, if you're interested in looking at random numbers and data, then this is the tool for you. Don't bother JeffMan about it though. He hasn't updated it in EIGHT years! :O
Earthbound Zero Text Editor
9 KB compressed • .zip
Author:
n42
A long-lost gem created by n42, this little program allows you to edit the text of the Earthbound Zero ROM, if for whatever reason you prefer not to use Tomato's Mother 1+2 Tools. The text editor operates in a similar manner to PK Hack's text editor.
Earthbound Zero Pointer Calculator
Author:
vince94
A program to calculate EarthBound Zero pointers, making text editing a lot easier.
