

That's why there's a rip of that version, the second revision of the hack with the blue and white text fixing the copy protection does seem to be missing. Also the reason for the hack was that the emulators at the time couldn't run the game properly. Someone found the prototype and hacked in Zero into its title, until Nintendo's official release on the Wii U this is what the people called the game for a long time. Originally it was just going to be called Earth Bound but the NES game was unreleased due to unable to market the game, it wasn't the only NES game that they cancelled with Sim City being the other (the SNES games were released). While Nintendo have done this (the first Fire Emblem, one of the versions of Donkey Kong to add the pie factory), it is rare for them to do any modifications outside of screen flashes (even then that is probably an emulator thing) or copyright issues. They could have changed the title however they didn't touch the game from its final state to my knowledge. Anyone curious about the names, EarthBound Beginnings is the current name that Nintendo uses for the game to prevent confusion with the SNES sequel also called EarthBound.
