I might play the fan-translated GBA version. I played the NES prototype for the sake of it and at the end decided I was never gonna do it again. Oftentimes I liken EB0 to a college project with EarthBound being the same thing plus funding.
Tomato has offered Nintendo take and use the MOTHER 3 translation for nothing, and man, do I ever hope they either actually do it, or use it and pay the translation team anyway. It's
so good, really professional. I get the feeling it might be harder for Nintendo's people to localize than it probably sounds like... not as hard as the fan translation was, where they didn't have the source code, no. But this is not a short game, or even a long game with necessary dialogue only. So maybe they really think it's more trouble than it's worth to do themselves.
There are a couple of bug fixes set to be in v1.2, at least two that fix things that were broken in the original Japanese version of the game... but as of a month ago, it's still an "if there's ever a v1.2". I would bet if Nintendo took Mato up on the offer, they'd do it... and hope so, one of the
bug fixes makes
Duster's other attack combo sounds work. Besides those things, all I think it needs is a title change.