EarthBound (EarthBound Companion)

Game: EarthBound → (SNES / Super Famicom, 1994)

EarthBound Companion: a native Windows port of the US release, with preview builds for Linux, macOS, and Android. It has no engine of its own: it uses BrianPugh/earthbound’s C recreation of the game’s code, derived from the ebsrc disassembly, through seanstaggsQU’s fork, and adds its own patches and a launcher. It has two editions with separate saves: the original EarthBound and a native adaptation of the MaternalBound Redux hack, with its restored text and graphics and its gameplay changes. It offers 720p to 4K and 3440×1440 output, a wider view at 4:3, 16:9, and 21:9, smooth scrolling, image filters and CRT effects, MSU-1 music, remappable keyboard and controller, sprinting, 2x–16x fast-forward, experience and money multipliers, quick saves in five slots, save backups, 46 offline achievements, and Story Shuffle, its own randomizer. The author finished the Redux edition through the credits, and players report finishing both. Version 1.0.0 (October 13) completed the feature set, and the latest, 1.0.12, came out on October 20. Its author states it was made with help from OpenAI Codex. For the Redux edition, setup downloads the source of ShadowOne333’s MaternalBound Redux hack, pinned to one revision of its repository, and builds it on top of your ROM. If you leave it checked, it also downloads from archive.org the 164 tracks of ShadowOne333’s EarthBound MSU-1 music pack; it’s optional, and without it the original music plays.

You needYour own unmodified US EarthBound ROM (3 MiB, with or without the 512-byte header); other revisions and modified ROMs are rejected. Plus x64 Windows, or, for the preview builds, x64 Linux with glibc 2.38 or later, macOS 12 or later, or Android 8.0 or later. Setup needs an internet connection.

How it gets to PC

Port of a decompilation

Console

Super Nintendo / Super Famicom

Original studio

Ape / HAL Laboratory

Year

1995

Author

Carl Prewitt Jr.

Stars

40

Last activity

2026-10-29 · 2 days ago

Latest version

v1.0.14 · 2026-10-29

Language

Python

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