Quote Originally Posted by Jack_Burton_BYOAC View Post
Okay. Buy Mother 2 from the VC, then play Earthbound via the homebrew channel. You can even inject the Earthbound ROM in place of M2 and use Nintendo's official emulator.

Clear conscience imo.
If you have access to the Homebrew Channel, you can just skip the "buy Mother 2" part like the rest of the internet has done and just use ZSNES Wii Version (or whatever the popular SNES emulator is these days).