Artwork credits
Sources for the local character sprites and Nintendo artwork.
The original SNES adventure: Mother 2 in Japan (1994), released as EarthBound in North America in 1995. This guide uses English-version names.
Character sprites
EarthBound sprites archived by EarthBoundGame.com, an unofficial fan reference. Original game artwork © Nintendo / APE / HAL Laboratory.
Main artwork
EarthBound artwork from Nintendo’s official game page.
Item tables
Item data from the EarthBound Fandom guide, licensed CC BY-SA.
Source record
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In-game screenshots and sprites
The SNES screenshots on the guide pages and the overworld sprites in the Characters table come from the EarthBound Fandom wiki (WikiBound) file pages below. Player’s Guide crops are from Nintendo’s official EarthBound guide. Game content © Nintendo / APE / HAL Laboratory.
Screenshots (30)
- Key to the shack screenshot.png
- EarthBound Ness mom screenshot.png
- Escargo Express screenshot.jpg
- Onett location.png
- Drugstore EB.png
- Burger Shop EB inside.png
- PK Thunder screenshot.png
- Onett invasion battle screenshot.png
- PSI Shield screenshot EB.png
- PK Freeze screenshot EB.png
- Cold screenshot.png
- Mushroomized screenshot.png
- Starman battle screenshot.png
- PSI Rockin screenshot.png
- Camera Man photo screenshot.png
- Deep Darkness location.png
- Peaceful Rest Valley location.png
- Happy Happy Village location.png
- Saturn Valley location EB.png
- Dusty Dunes Desert screenshot.png
- Moonside location.png
- Tenda Village location.png
- Magicant location EB.png
- The Cave of the Past location.png
- Lost Underworld location.png
- Everdred introduction.png
- Grapefruit Falls location.png
- Giant Step.png
- Giygas phase 1.png
- Runaway Five show screenshot.png
Sprites, PSI frames and maps
The cast sprites on the Characters page, the PSI frames, battle window and swirls on Combat & PSI, and the area maps on Locations and Sanctuaries come from the EarthBound sheets on The Spriters Resource. Sprites are cropped from the sheets with the background removed; the maps are shown as ripped. Thanks to the rippers named below. Game content © Nintendo / APE / HAL Laboratory.
Source sheets (55)
- PSI Fire Omega (Effects)
- PSI Freeze Omega (Effects)
- PSI Rockin Alpha (Effects)
- PSI Starstorm Alpha (Effects)
- PSI Thunder Gamma (Mid) (Effects)
- Shield Killer (Jeff) (Effects)
- Belch's Factory (Maps · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- Brick Road's Maze (Maps)
- Dalaam (Exterior) (Maps)
- Dalaam (Interior) (Maps)
- Deep Darkness (Maps)
- Dungeon Man (Maps)
- Dusty Dunes Desert (Maps)
- Fourside (Exterior) (Maps)
- Fourside Sewers (Maps)
- Giant Step (Maps)
- Grapefruit Falls (Maps)
- Happy Happy Village (Exterior, Occupied) (Maps)
- Lilliput Steps (Maps)
- Lost Underworld (Maps)
- Lumine Hall (Maps)
- Magicant (Maps)
- Moonside (Maps)
- Onett (Exterior) (Maps)
- Onett (Interior) (Maps)
- Peaceful Rest Valley (Maps)
- Saturn Valley & Milky Well (Maps)
- Scaraba (Exterior) (Maps)
- Sea of Eden (Maps)
- Summers (Exterior) (Maps)
- Tenda Village (Maps)
- The Cave of the Past / The Devil's Machine (Maps)
- The Cliff that Time Forgot (Maps)
- Threed (Exterior, Invasion) (Maps)
- Twoson (Exterior) (Maps)
- Twoson (Interior) (Maps)
- Winters (Exterior) (Maps)
- Winters (Interior) (Maps)
- Battle HUD (Miscellaneous · Menderman)
- Encounter Swirls (Miscellaneous · Super Piter)
- Aloysius & Lardna Minch (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- Arms Dealer (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- Brick Road & Dungeon Man (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- Bubble Monkey (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- Escargo Express Delivery Man (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- Everdred (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- Frank Fly & The Frankystein Mark II (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- Gonzales (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- Hint Man (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- Tendas (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- The Runaway Five (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- The Slot Machine Brothers (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- The Star Master (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- Tony (Non-Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Random Talking Bush)
- Ness (Playable Characters · Mister Ton, Depressed Mario, Matheus123, M. Bison)
Battle sprites and map animations
The boss cards and the battle sprites and animated map figures in All enemies by area on the Enemies page, and the animated map sprites of the heroes and cast on the home and Characters pages, are graphics extracted from the US Super Nintendo release of EarthBound, each enemy shown with the palette the game assigns to it. The map animations play each sprite’s two walking frames facing each direction in turn. Areas follow the enemy list on WikiBound. Game content © Nintendo / APE / HAL Laboratory.
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