Earthbound Halloween Hack
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| Developer(s) | Toby Fox |
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| Composer(s) | Toby Fox |
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| Engine | Earthbound |
| Platform(s) | Super Nintendo Entertainment System |
| Release | Super Nintendo Entertainment System
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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Earthbound Halloween Hack or Radiation's Halloween Hack, also sometimes known as Press the B Button, Stupid! is a romhack of EarthBound made by Toby Fox and released in 2008 for starmen.net's Halloween Funfest. It was inspired by the Brandish series, where the hack's protagonist, Varik comes from. It is much shorter than the original EarthBound.
Story[edit]
The hack takes place in an alternate timeline of EarthBound, where the chosen four didn't return. Varik is tasked with killing a monster who killed a young girl's mother. The hack starts in Twoson, then continues through the dark Sewers, Winters the "land of doom".
At this point, Varik has to make a choice whether or not kill Dr. Andonuts. The only apparent choice is "yes", since choosing the other, blank choice makes the narrator say it's not a choice and return to the selection screen. Choosing yes makes Varik kill Dr. Andonuts and makes the game end early. If the player presses the B button, like the game's alternative title encourages, Varik gets into Dr Andonuts's mind, Magicant. From there, Varik finds Dr. Andonuts's lost courage, fighting 3 bosses and gaining the 3 partners from EarthBound and proceeds to the Sea of Eve.
From there, Varik reaches an area that uses Twoson's tileset and enters Dr. Andonuts's brain. He meets Dr. Andonuts, whose appearance is now horrible. Varik defeats Andonuts's Id, which doesn't use any attacks. Dr. Andonuts transforms to a new form, having blue glow around him and using powerful attacks, as Megalovania plays. Varik and his party eventually defeat him, making the narrator mention that he didn't really have to kill him (which is not true - killing Dr. Andonuts is the only way to reach the end of the hack). The hack ends with a ghost pooting on Varik's face to provide an anticlimax and Toby Fox thanking the player for playing the hack.
Gameplay[edit]
The overall gameplay is the same as in the original EarthBound, with the text or battle systems being unchanged. The hack is however, much more difficult than the original.
Development[edit]
Toby Fox's brief description of development was: "ROM Hacking is a challenge. Even when you KNOW how everything works. Beyond this, the ROM world is a place of limits, caused by the heavy constraints placed on the original game creators by the format they worked with: In this case, the heavily compressed cartridge format. For example, each image in a Super Nintendo game has a limit of 16 colors; this set of colors, or palette, is shared with many other images to save space. Additionally, many images share not only colors, but parts, meaning in the economical world of ROM Hacking, editing the shape of one ice cream cone may change the shape of them all."
Music[edit]
Toby Fox composed a custom soundtrack for the hack, even through hacking EarthBound's music was really hard, according to the "making of" HTML page. Most of it is based on EarthBound's original songs, with 2 songs being ported from other games and 3 songs being completely original.
Reception[edit]
The hack's initial reception was very good, althrough after Undertale's release, most new people who discovered the hack throught it was, as Toby Fox said himself in a tweet, just a "bad rom hack with swears".
See also[edit]
References[edit]
https://archive.is/67gZR#selection-373.1-377.542 http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheHalloweenHack
External links[edit]
https://earthboundcentral.com/2009/10/earthbound-halloween-hack/ - Home of the hack
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