Mother 3 Easter Eggs and Glitches (GameBoy Advance)

Mother 3 is a role-playing video game developed by HAL Laboratory and Brownie Brown, and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console. It was released in Japan on April 20, 2006. It is the third and final video game in the Mother trilogy of video games, known as EarthBound outside of Japan. Details of its development were kept secret since it was announced in June 2003 during a Mother 1 + 2 television commercial in Japan. Mother 3 starts out very differently from the first two Mother games.

The game is set up into eight different chapters, much like Dragon Quest IV. Instead of focusing on a group of children, it chronicles the story and adventures of Lucas and his family, and the story switches perspective during each chapter. (For example, the first half of the game is played as Flint, Duster and Salsa, but the rest of the game is played as Lucas.) Nowhere Island also changes dramatically due to the influence of the Pig Army, transforming from a simple low-tech rural society to a more modern 21st Century infrastructure that's similar to the first two Mother games. The game also features a more traditional top-down RPG perspective, instead of the oblique projection used in the first two games.

Easter Eggs

Mother 3's Bonus Ending
After the rather unusual manner in which Mother 3's creators opted to end the game, the bemused player is left with nothing more than a blank screen with text reading "End?". Wish as one might, this black screen will last until the power is cut.

Fortunately, there is still a bit more to do: Using the control pad, you can actually move the "End?" text around (note that the controls are reversed, so up is down and down is up) and press the "A Button" to initiate conversations. Continue to move around and "talk" until the game's credits begin (and "yes", it will take a LOT of talking).

Glitches

NEW GAME +
If you beat the game in File 1 with all PSI, copy it to File 2. Now, start a new game and save over File 2. Lucas and Kumatora will have every PSI to start with. Lucas won't be able to use it until he gets the ability to, but then it will work.

Check out the game's intro in the video below and see some gameplay footage: