In 2003, in a Japanese commercial for the compilation game "Mother 1+2" Nintendo announced that it had restarted development of "Mother 3" for the portable Game Boy Advance console. Itoi had believed that restarting the project was impossible but changed his mind following encouragement from the "Mother" fanbase. Nintendo subsidiary Brownie Brown developed the game, with input from Itoi. While the graphics were changed from 3D to 2D, the story was not altered. "Mother 3" was about 60% complete by July 2004, and was released on April 20, 2006, in Japan.