EarthBound Native

What you need: A ROM of EarthBound (USA), dumped from your own cartridge.

EarthBound Native is a native port of EarthBound for Windows, macOS and Linux. It is a packaged build of BrianPugh’s C reimplementation of the game, which was written from ebsrc, a byte-perfect disassembly of the SNES ROM, and is described upstream as fully playable.

This build adds an optional Modern mode with widescreen and light visual polish next to a Classic 4:3 mode, saving anywhere from the pause menu, MSU-1 music packs, other quality-of-life settings and a built-in updater that checks for new versions from the title screen.

The first launch builds the data the game needs from your ROM, usually in under a minute. The download contains no game data. It needs EarthBound (USA), dumped from your own cartridge.

How to set it up

1. Download the zip for your system and extract it.
2. Put your ROM in the extracted folder.
3. Run earthbound-windows.exe, EarthBound.app or earthbound-linux. On macOS, allow it once under Privacy & Security; on Linux, mark it executable if needed.
4. The first launch builds a game-data pack from your ROM, usually in under a minute.