> But I did check only the English version, I'll do this for the japaneese one to understand it.

Umm, "Mother" is not English. "Earthbound" is English. "Mother" is Japanese. This is why I referred to ASCII vs kana.

"Earthbound" does not use mid-scanline CHR switching in the menus, because it did not need to.
"Mother" most definitely DOES use mid-scanline CHR switching, because it needed to.

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