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|image=Mother 3 box.png
|image=Mother 3 box.png
|caption=Mother 3 boxart
|caption=The original Mother 3 boxart
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|system=Game Boy Advance
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|other boxart caption=Boxart of Mother 3 that was packaged with the Deluxe Box
|system=[[Game Boy Advance]]<br>[[Nintendo DS]]{{tt|*|Original and lite models}}<br>[[Wii U]] ([[Virtual Console]])
|genre=RPG
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|developer=[[Brownie Brown]]<br />[[HAL Laboratory]]
|developer=[[Brownie Brown]]<br />[[HAL Laboratory]]
|jprelease=yes
|jprelease=yes
|jpreleasedate=April 20, 2006 December 17, 2015 (Wii U [[Virtual Console]])
|jpreleasedate=April 20, 2006<br>December 17, 2015 (Wii U [[Virtual Console]])
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|ftreleasedate=October 17, 2008
|ftreleasedate=October 17, 2008
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===Antagonists===
===Antagonists===
*[[Pigmasks]] and the [[Pigmask Army]] - The main threat in [[Tazmily Village]], the Pigmask Army does various things such as [[Chimera|reconstructing wild animals]], hypnotizing people with [[Happy Box]]es and set[[Sunshine Forest]] on fire, and other evil tasks.
*[[Pigmasks]] and the [[Pigmask Army]] - The main threat in [[Tazmily Village]], the Pigmask Army does various things such as [[Chimera|reconstructing wild animals]], hypnotizing people with [[Happy Box]]es and set [[Sunshine Forest]] on fire, and other evil tasks.
*[[Porky]] - The leader of the Pigmask Army, his tasks are fueled by a simple desire to destroy everything.
*[[Porky]] - The leader of the Pigmask Army, his tasks are fueled by a simple desire to destroy everything.
*[[Masked Man]] - The commander of the Pigmask Army, a cyborg controlled by Porky as a fighting machine and to also pull the [[Seven Needles]].
*[[Masked Man]] - The commander of the Pigmask Army, a cyborg controlled by Porky as a fighting machine and to also pull the [[Seven Needles]].


==Fan Translation==
==Release==
Mother 3 was released on April 20th, 2006 for the Game Boy Advance, however it was also playable on older Nintendo DS models released at the time. The game was only released in Japan and to this day has not had an official English release.
 
At the time of the release, a limited time [http://starmen.net/merchandise/misc/m3dlx.php Deluxe Box] was also released only in Japan that sold for 18,000 yen. Packaged inside was the game itself in a white box (as opposed to the regular red box), a [[Franklin Badge]] pin, and a Mother 3 themed [[Game Boy Advance|Game Boy Micro]].
 
On December 17th 2015, the game was released on the Wii U's Virtual Console exclusively in Japan.
 
===Fan Translation===
{{main|Mother 3 fan translation}}
{{main|Mother 3 fan translation}}
A team from the fansite Starmen.net created a fan translation of ''Mother 3'' in 2008. It can be found at mother3.fobby.net
A team from the fansite Starmen.net created a fan translation of ''Mother 3'' in 2008. It can be found at mother3.fobby.net