Good news for those of you who’ve waited over two years to play Mother 3 in English, despite Nintendo of America’s reluctancy to release the RPG stateside. The fan translation patch has been completed:

“The patch will be out at the end of this week. Testing’s pretty much over now. Some bugs did turn up over the last few days, but they were all minor and quickly remedied. Some really hard-to-spot typos were also found and fixed.”

What will you need to play Mother 3 once the patch comes out? Well, a backed up Japanese ROM for starters, which can be obtained either illegally online or somewhat legally with a slot-2 flashcart and certain software.

Once you’ve applied the patch to the ROM, you should be able to play it in a variety of GBA emulators for PC/Mac and other devices, including PSP and maybe iPhone. You can also load it on a GBA/DS, provided that you have a slot-2 flashcart.

And now, we wait.

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