Going back to the original theme of this thread. I beat the Saccubus once... using PAR codes on it years later on an emulator .
Really, I just did it to see what it would do. Though I've long forgotten which games do it, there were a BUNCH of RPGs on the GB, Gen and SNES that did the same thing. I guess it was kind of a safety measure, like they couldn't program infinite HP into an enemy on the system at the time so they gave it an obscene amount of the stuff and gave it 1 xp so it wasn't a null value or something.

Yeah, i don't really recommend the GBA version of the game, mostly because I'm not a fan of the GBA (nothing to do with the games, I just don't like the sound quality on the thing. I'd recommend the Wii virtual store version, as it would be the cheapest overall to acquire, or get the aforementioned genesis collection on x360/ps3. I don't think it's on the Nintendo 3/DS eShop, but i could be wrong. I'd love it if it were, though.

In fact, now that i think about it, last time i checked, "Earthbound Beginnings" still isn't on the 3DS, either. I don't have a Wii U (or Wii for that matter), so it'd be lovely if Nintendo ported it over to the handheld as well. Why? Look at my username. If you can't put 2 and 2 together, I'll have to poke you with a fuzzy pickle unto you do.