Fassad was chosen for several reasons, the major underlying theme being the pun of the name itself - “facade” - representing how the character is not who they present themself to be, to the villagers of Tazmily or the player themselves. Tomato was hesitant on keeping names he perceived as sounding too “Japanese”, thus leading to this decision. Many of the liberal changes made for the MOTHER 3 Fan Translation had already been decided before Jeffman joined the project, one of them being the character name change from Yokuba (“Greedy” in Japanese) to Fassad. I was skeptical because of the drama, but they were on board with it ”. So I filled it in with Reid, to see if it’s something they’d be interested in, and to my surprise they actually were. We did have a couple of people we were cool with and not part of the drama.

We had something, not a lot, but some stuff on the hacking and translation.

I brought up the idea if they’d be interested in combining our efforts.

However, Jeffman was nonetheless determined to culminate everything he had learned in the PK Hack community to a MOTHER 3 project, and set his sights on joining Tomato’s team. People kind of lost hope, and got abandoned ”. Somewhere in the graveyard of failed fan projects lies, as lead programmer Jeffman tells: “ …W e didn’t get that far with it, and unfortunately it started to drown in a pool of drama, and just stopped. Alas, it was an option many players settled for during this time period while waiting to see how the two translation projects would progress. The accuracy of said translation was humorous, to say the least, resulting in either broken English or unrecognized text in many cases. This led a forum member named Illuminum to create an automated translation program which would generate an English translation of the game’s text from VisualBoyAdvance, the most popular Game Boy Advance emulator. However, many community members were impatient on waiting for these translation projects to be completed, desiring to experience the game as soon as possible. On the other side of the fence was, which PK Hack-enthusiast Jeffman contributed to. One involved site co-founder Clyde “Tomato” Mandelin, Zhi, and Neo Demiforce of EarthBound Zero fame. Even after leaving NoA, he hasn’t escaped the MOTHER 3 questions.Īround November 2006, two separate MOTHER 3 translation projects were formulated on the forums. The living legend himself, Reggie Fils Aime.

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