Town map

The Town map (Called Map in Mother) is an optional key item in both the original mother and EarthBound. It can be obtained from Ninten's basement and the librarian in the Onett Library respectively, and is used by either pressing the X button or selecting it in the inventory.
== EarthBound Beginnings ==
In EarthBound Beginnings and Mother 1 + 2 the map is replaced by Bread in the gift box and simply becomes a default feature the player can access at any time. Since it only exists in the original Famicom version it has no description to go off of in-game. It cannot be used indoors or in special locations such as Magicant or Mt. Itoi. Attempting to use it in such places will say "This place is not on the map.".
== EarthBound ==
While it is called the Town map in EarthBound, it actually has information on six distinct locations: Onett, Twoson, Threed, Fourside, Summers (including Toto), and Scaraba. If it is used elsewhere, a message appears saying "This town is not shown on the map" (if the player presses the X button in a town that isn't visible on the Town map, the map will simply not be pulled up). Each town is shown with flashing indicators showing points of interest, such as the location of Hotels and Hospitals.
The librarian who gives the party the map states that kids are only allowed to borrow maps at the town library, and also notes that "a man without a map isn't popular with the girls." if the map is refused. She will constantly repeat the response if saying no to her, forcing Ness to receive the map if he talks to her. She also says that he should come back in the year 2001 to return it. However, as the console has no internal clock, returning the map is impossible; this means if the player doesn't want it in the inventory, they have to deposit it into the Escargo Express.
== Mother 3 ==
In Mother 3, there is no one map item and are instead multiple that each map out their own respective areas. Gift boxes containing maps usually have a blue ribbon. These include:
# Tazmily Map (Given by Mapson in Chapter 1: Night of the Funeral)
# Osohe Sketch (Kitchen, Second Floor Osohe Castle)
# Underground Map (Start of Candrum Underpass)
# Railway Map (Given by the man who stops and lectures Lucas just before he enters the railway in Chapter 4: Club Titiboo)
# Factory Sketch (Given by Pigmask employer)
# Area Map (Near ropeway to Club Titiboo)
# Attic Guide (Club Titiboo Attic, second room north next to Item Guy)
# Highway Map (Tunnel above crashed Pork Bean, intersection north of Factory)
# Tower Sketch (Left, beginning of Thunder Tower)
# Chimera Lab Map (Second floor, room after theater)
# Cricket Hole Map (Given by eastern Mole Cricket at the start of Mole Cricket Hole)
# Saturn Valley Map (Given by Mr. Saturn)
# Sea Floor Map (Early southeast path in Sea Floor Dungeon)
# Cave Map (Right of the start of Outland Dungeon [Cave] in Argilla Pass)
# City Map (Automatically given by the Chauffeur upon leaving the Limousine in New Pork City)
== EarthBound Beginnings Maps ==
== EarthBound Maps ==
 Onett Map.gif | Onett
 Twoson Map.gif | Twoson
 Threed Map.gif | Threed
 Fourside Map.gif | Fourside
 Summers Map.gif | Summers and Toto
 Scaraba Map.gif | Scaraba
== Mother 3 Maps ==
== Trivia ==
* During the process of rereleasing EarthBound on the Wii U Virtual Console, series creator Shigesato Itoi considered changing the return year of the map from 2001 to sometime more believable. Itoi also considered it when EarthBound was being emulated for the New 3DS and Super Nintendo Classic.
* In MOTHER 2, the librarian who lends Ness the Town map tells him to "press the blue button" to open the map. However, the original SNES controller in North America has no blue buttons, so in order to avoid confusion, the localizers simply renamed it to "the X button".
* In the companion guide, it is called "Map" (ちず) in Mother and the item does not exist in other versions of EarthBound Beginnings.
** Its description reads, "In the basement at home. Nearly all the places you'll be venturing to are on here. Like they say: get lost, check the map. Keep track of where you are as you venture forth!".
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