Oh god oh god the 3DS is region locked isn't it. AAAAAAAAA. I keep forgetting that. >_>
I wouldn't give up hope for M3 being released here for the 3DS or something, Brownie Brown said something about if they re-released M3 in Japan, they'd try to get it internationally as well. M1/2, though... yeah that's never happening.

Mother 1 had a pretty weird control scheme in M1+2, too. Holding R for running, and B was the status screen. O_o Select was the status screen as well, so I didn't really see the point of that.... which is weird, because B was the running button in EB0. At least they added the L = "quick talk/check", though. Thankful for that.