Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31981697-20170722123329/@comment-27136653-20171027161837

Except you said that the dog does not represent Toby, while in fact, everything seems to be pointing out to the fact that it does. So you did change something. I'm sorry but this is an established fact, and nothing can disprove it by this point except Toby himself explicitly stating that the Annoying Dog does not represent him, but some other developer, who did everything the same way Toby did (so that everything would still apply the same way, eg. the Annoying Dog absorbing the trophy, etc.), but was not Toby.

And when you make a hack, you don't make a full game. Only after applying it to the full game you have a full game. Unless Toby made a full stand-alone game, in which case, I am surprised the creator of EarthBound didn't sue him.