Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190820122909/@comment-32182236-20191226200509

I know where the Hack is (https://earthboundcentral.com/2009/10/earthbound-halloween-hack/)-And I looked at the TVTropes page to see it mention that past the enemies is just a wall.

This doesn't rule out a Good Ending as I thought, though. Instead, someone should datamine the game to see if the portal could ever be used. If there's a way to do it, then we play it out and see what happens. If it can't, then there's no Good Ending, and Ferret's hypothesis is debunked.

I still have the three official Mother games to analyze before I really get into the analysis of the Halloween Hack, though. With Discussions coming in April (or January if Fandom thinks we're not forum-heavy.. I'd say we are, but I'm not Fandom), I'm probably going to need somewhere to put my rebuttal to it.

It takes a lot of clicks just to get to the first replies on Discussions. So my standard procedure of putting all the links as the first reply won't work.

I might just need to make a thread just for the rebuttal project when April (or January) comes, and put the whole thing somewhere. Maybe even add it to my list of projects. This is not just rebutting Ferret's hypothesis, this is telling us the story of the Mother games!

I'll still be able to recover the links, since I can just click 30+ times once, but the rebuttals will be hard to read-You can't have colored text in Discussions. (Or maybe there's a way to sneak it in. I hope there is.) Meaning my neatly-structed system with Ferret's text in green and my reply in white will turn into a giant mess of all white text. Not sure how to fix that.