From earthboundcentral.com comes an interesting find. While playing the game for fun, a member of Fangamer.net happened to stumble across a new debug mode in Earthbound. The mode seems to have been activated by a bump to the Fangamer SNES, but it's actual in-game trigger has not yet been found. Since its discovery, a patch making the menu accessible through a rom of the game has been created, and can be found at the link I mentioned above.
To me, this is pretty phenomenal, though. To think the folks at Starmen.net never found this in all their years is outstanding. Even more outstanding? A fellow at Fangamer, Starmen.net's for-profit retro gaming merch and event site was playing through Earthbound casually while eating some McDonalds. I have to wonder how many times he's beaten the game, and when the last time he played it was. I'm more just shocked because it means the guys over there live up to their reputation. Congrats on the find!
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