Quote Originally Posted by Jorpho View Post
I don't know what you're talking about. No one ever "completed" a translation, and certainly not Tomato: the only translation that has existed up until now was the one contained in the leaked EBZ NES prototype from Nintendo, which apparently wasn't very accurate and lacked some of the nuance of the original script. Some years ago someone did make a patch that inserted the text from the prototype into the GBA game, but as per the above, it renders the final boss battle unplayable.
If I'm correct, the Tomato patch just made leveling up easier, but you still had to grind. The only translation that I remember was from Demiforce and the fact that the original Mother was an FDS made it difficult at the time to translate it, since that was when the translation scene was just starting to gain some legs.

I remember when the prototype was discovered and they scrambled to get donations just to borrow it, I was in 9th grade at the time and I wasn't able to donate being as I had no money. Man those were the days, people would wait months, sometimes year for a project to finally finish and then there was the drama that surrounded it all.

Man talking about Earthbound Zero always makes me nostalgic.