Fascinating history, thanks. The one who translated M3... that would be Tomato, right? I found out he had the same assembly language professor I did (Lance), albeit several years apart.
I know :) I spent quite a while waiting for M3 to be translated after having so many fond memories of Earthbound. He had a blog of his progress going, detailing all the issues he was having with the hack and we chatted there in the comments quite a bit.
