Table of Contents (will be changed before final issue)
NOVEMBER COVER DESIGN................................................. Peteypiranha128
1.......................... Who's got a chance at Brawl? This month: Sukapon-Peteypiranha128
2.......................... Peteypiranha128 Comics Issue #1: Bad Updates- Peteypiranha128
3.......................... This Months Featured Peteypiranha128 Art-Peteypiranha128
4.......................... Heres the King!- Bumpernickel
5......................... The Potential Death of Ness...- Peteypiranha128
6........................... What did he just said?! -RudoCopyright
7.......................... Firehawk interview - Rudocopyright
8.......................... Maybe a Delay - Luigielectricity
9.......................... Bobmerman Analysist- Cyclone1993
10........................ More Fun With Meele- General Diddy
11........................ Humor Among Us- Blackpaul
12........................ Weeks in Review- Blackpaul
Who's Got a chance at Brawl? This month: SUKAPON -peteypiranha128
Sukapon? Sukapon? SUKAPOOOOOOOOOOOON? yes Sukapon. What's that? You don't know who Sukapon is? Well, its a good thing I'm here. Sukapon is from the game "Joy Mech Fight" for the NES. This was a Japan Only title, so unfortunatley, we have never seen it here... but with the addition of Import Titles on the Virtual Console, you never know! But anyway, let me tell you a little more about this game. Joy Mech Fight Featured two scientists who loved building robots. They built tons of robots, and all of them were turned Evil, accept one... Sukapon. It's up to Sukapon now to restore all the other robots to their normal selves. Sukapon is a very unique character, being composed of floating sphere like limbs. He is known for being pink, having very small eyes, and walking with his hands in the air.
Now that you know WHO sukapon is, its time to tell you a bit more about Joy Mech Fight. This is a huge milestone in Nintendo history. Joy Mech Fight marked nintendo's first EVER First party Fighting Game. So in a way, this was super smash bros for the NES. So he's first party, and he starred in a fighting game. Now to take care of you people who say "Zomgz he haz n0 m00vs"... what would possess you to say such a thing? Ice Climbers were in melee. Mr Game and Watch was in Melee. Cpt Falcon was in BOTH games, and let me tell you something... DID THEY HAVE MOVES before Sakurai put them in the game? Ice climbers could Jump, and swing hammers. Mr Game and watch ran at 1 frame per second, and Captain Falcon NEVER even made an In game appearence OUT of his ship. So honestly, if sakurai can make a moveset for these guys, then he obviously can make one for Sukapon, who has BEEN IN a fighting game.
He is mentioned in Sakurai's journal, which raises his chances even further. Not many people KNOW who he is, and barley anyone has ever played Joy Mech Fight. For those of you who HAVENT played it, I dont care HOW you get the game, and I dont care if you can't read Japanese (I cant read it), but this is A MUST PLAY for any Nintendo fan. Trust me, its amazing. With it's forever scrolling screen, and cool moves, and playable characters, Joy Mech Fight may be one of NES's greatest Titles.
I could go on for hours telling you about Sukapon, and why he should be playable, but you gotta agree, he is a great candidate. HE could have a city stage where the screen scroll's sideways, and his various robot companions could be Assist Trophies. Sukapon rocks, and if none of this has convinced you, look up some videos of the game, and watch how he walks. It will comvince you.
THATS ALL FOR THIS MONTH'S WHO'S GOT A CHANCE! See ya round! - Peteypiranha128
Peteypiranha128 Comics #1: Bad Updates (click on the comic to make it larger)
Peteypiranha128's November 2007 featured art
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Here is the King By: Bumpernickel
Sense Meta Knight was confirmed, many people have also wanted King Dedede in. The chubby penguin he is, lost his chances to be in the past Smash Bros, but finally makes an entrance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
Dedede appears to be the lightest heavy weight character, being only a head and a chest taller than Kirby. The other way to tell he's the lightest, is how high he jumps with his up B, 'Super Dedede Jump'. Bowser and DK can't jump that high. But the only thing that could prove against this, is how he causes a small shake in the ground once plummeting back down. How he can jump high and land so hard, remains a mystery.
His down B, 'Jet Hammer' seems very powerful, almost like it does double the damage of the regular hammer, considering its go fire streaming out of it and it turns into metal. Will it stay like this when he does other hammer moves? Sakurai has stated he loses the jet when he goes into his sheild, but what about other moves?
The side B, 'Waddle Dee Toss', looks like a move that noobs and novice players would spam, due to the different things that come out. A Waddle Dee can come out, and then waddle around. A Waddle Doo are another species of Waddle Dees that are rarer to appear, can come out, and then shoot magic beams from it's single eye. Dedede may also throw Gordo's, which appear less than Wadlle Doos, are spike balls that don't to much else but move their spikes in and out. Although they don't do much, it is very possible, and likely, that they do the most damage of the three.
Even when only knowing few of King Dedede's moves, he appears to be a very strong fighter, and a very good heavy weight.
The potential death of Ness.... - peteypiranha128
Why must the good die young? I don't know, but that appears to be the case of poor old Ness. Yes Ness, the young boy who played the role of Main Hero in the only game in the Mother series to be released in Japan and America. The veteran from both Smash Bros games, that we have all come to love. It looks like all the fighting has tired out poor Ness, and he probably will never appear playable in another game again. Its a sad, depressing tale, but it looks like he's dead everyone. This all started with the conformation of Lucas to be playable. Now, when the "Lucas: Special Moves" update was revealed sakurai said, and i quote "There’s a character named Ness who has appeared in the Smash Bros. series up until now..." This pretty much says that he has been playable UNTIL now. It looks like Brawl doesnt have enough room for 3 red cap wearing brawlers, and Mario and Pokemon Trainer seem to be the two that Sakurai picked. I fear my friends that we will never hear that familiar "Ohhkaaayy" anymore... Its a shame that he had to go, but what worries me even further, is the fact that If Ness won't be returning, that means that Jigglypuff may not be returning either... though it is not set in stone that Ness will leave, its a safe bet to say that he will...
Until next time, this is Peteypiranha128 saying: RIP Ness
What did he just said?! (an article by RudoCopyright)
Ok. Today, we all saw the most recent update (november 8th.) showing Lucas' special moves.
And, we have this sentence. "Disturbing sentence. There’s a character named Ness who has appeared in the Smash Bros. series up until now,
and Lucas is very similar." Does that means Ness has been axed? We still don't know. Some would jump to conclusions saying
"Ness has got the boot! Oh noes!" and some pessimists says "Meh, good for him." But we have the optimists. Like me. Ness supporters.
Call us how you want, but we will still believe that Ness is in Brawl. Maybe that, Lucas is a luigified Ness!
I, and many other stubborn people refuse to accept that Ness got axed. But! This lets
place to another debate. Is Ness is not in Brawl, this surely gives place to another Mother/Earthbound playable character.
This could be Claus? It could be an option, because we need villains. Or Poo? I don't know, he just looks funny to me ^^.
This update/revelation started many wars/debate. It gave birth to Ness War VI. To wrap this up, it would like to pass this message.
It is not because an update says something disturbing that it must be trusted. Ness' job is not finished.
All hail RudoCopyright. See you later.
An Interview By Rudocopyright
Here's the interview i had with FIREHAWK, a quite fascinating and wierd guy.
hiya^^ wussup?
Oh god, I haven't looked in awhile. I hope the sky still, and not some doomsday space llama come to destroy us all with it's doom-ray.
sure, i totally agree.
For Brawl, wich newcomer are you looking forward the most?
Definately the Pokemon Trainer. He seems so cool. I've always wondered why there wasn't a "Pokemon Trainer" like those you play as in EVERY Pokemon game.
yeah... imo, he's the most popular character in the pokemon universe after pikachu
What update on the DOJO!! surprised you the most?
I saw Sonic coming, and Snake had been revealed long ago. Diddy was a shoe-in, and I don't know anything about Fire Emblem, so Ike was neat, but not that interesting. Lucas was also a sure thing, since he was supposed to shove Ness out back in Melee. Pokemon Trainer came out of left field. I woke up, and had about 100 "Check out the update NOW" AIM messages.
i was on vacation when PKMN trainer appeared, so i saw it like, 2 weeks later -.-.
Are you connected to wifi and if yes, are you going to be active on the online brawl?
Yes, I'm connected to wifi as of today. As for online Brawling, I'm not sure. With Friends, for sure. With Anyone...not so sure. I've seen some scary players on some of those YouTube videos, and now they'll be practically sitting in my living room. I'm good, but only my friends.
same for me
What's the question no one ever asked you but you would like to get asked?
Is that my hand???!!?
Is that your hand???!!?
*sniffs*
Um, it smells like it. And I have been leaking this red stuff for the last couple days...It's making my floor sticky. > >
>.< Well, thank you for this interview!
More than welcome!
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He's quite fascinating, isn't he? Admire this interview. NOW.
Maybe a Delay by: Luigielectricity
Recently many cool updates are being made, with all these things though is there a possibilitly to be delayed again? Think if Sonic delayed it, then could all these other characters delay it soon too? Once the game is done it still has to go through testing for glitches and such. Many steps are needed to make the game available to the public. Say Megaman got in would that delay it more or not? Probably not but still think about it. Nintendo isn't exactly the most trust-worthy company. Though it probably won't be delayed there is a chance.
Bomberman Analysis by: Cyclone1993
Bomberman is a very popular video game character and has been in many video games I hope to shed some light on this video game character.
Bomberman-1987
This was the start of the Bomberman series. That was Bomberman's first look. He was a man who was in a bomb suit. This was a very popular game. His design has changed many times. This is not a very popular design.
Mega Bomberman-1993
This is another form of Bomberman and is the most popular. Of all his forms I think this one has the best chances. Mega Bomberman was another popular game and actually took place on another planet! Where most of the other games take place.
Bomberman Act Zero- 2006
This is another form of Bomberman. This is not a very popular form though. Bomberman Act Zero is considered one of the worst games ever created!
Note: This is not even close to as many games he has! He has had over 42 games!
Bomberman(White Bomber,Shiro Bomber, and Cheerful White) is considered Goofy, Cheerful, and Heroic. He is the main character of most of the games. He has been in many games and is a popular character. He can Throw Bombs, Kick Bombs, and Punch Bombs. He has even rode a motorcycle!
You may be saying he can't fight. He can blow stuff up though! He has even been in a fighting game called Dreamix TV Fighters with Snake and Simon Belmount.
He has even been in a cross over with Wario! It would be interesting to settle this age old score.
He would also look good in a Kirby form! Credit to Hextupleyoodot.
Now that I have gotten all that out of the way I will start the actual analysis.
Credit again goes to Hextupleyoodot
Weight **/*****
Power ****/*****
Speed***/*****
He would be a all around character and wouldn't weigh much but he would have lots of power since he has bombs. Now for his moveset.
B-He would lay a bomb that he could detonate when he wanted.
Side B- He runs and kicks a bomb
B Down- He would throw a bomb at his enemies. Does damage as it hits then explodes for more damage!
B Up- He explodes a bomb and launches himself into the air. Also does damage to enemies.
A-He would punch all around him.
A Up- He would throw a punch up in the air and hit people above him
A Down- Bomberman punches down between his legs.(Has the effect of Jigglypuffs rest)
Final Smash- He throws a huge bomb that blows up and hits everyone on the stage except Bomberman.
Taunt -He would hold up his hand and close one eye.
Bomberman is a wonderful character to be in Brawl he has a score to settle with Wario and Snake so don't deny him those rights!
Thanks goes to Hextupleyoodot for some of the pics.
More Fun With Meele
~~~More Fun With Melee~~~
-Written By General Diddy
This is the "More Fun With Melee" section of the magazine. This will probably be in every issue of Smash-Mag until Brawl's release. This section gives you fun ideas for things to do in Melee while waiting for Brawl to come out.
This Issues Games are...
1. Draft Mode
This is an amazingly fun thing to do with 3-5 players. All you need is all characters unlocked,enough controllers to for every player (unless you have 5 players, you only need 4), and a sheet listing every character in melee. This sheet, along with a pen, should be held by the most reliable player. You play with 1 Stock.
~The Basics~
This will be a ton easier if you've ever watched a sports draft. So basically, you determine a drafting order based on the skill order of the players, the order everybody came in last time, or any other way you can think of. You will take turns "drafting" smashers for you to use in the fights. When sombody takes a player, somebody with the sheet will mark a symbol down next to the character they drafted (initials work best, if you have players with similar/same intials, use numbers or something). Once all drafting has been finished, the fights will start. Everybody will pick a character they have (they drafted them or obtained them via trade- see trades section below) and fight. Stages should be randomly selected. The winners get to keep their character and everybody else loses their's. Whoever has the list of characters will cross out al the characters that have been knocked out of the game. When you run out of characters, you are knocked out. Proceed Until only one player has characters remaining.
~Trades~
Just like in sports. At any time before the deadline(which i will say when later in this post), you may offer somebody any amount of you characters for any amount of theirs. If both players agree on a trade, they must WILLINGLY (if you grab someone's and a force them to shake it does not count) shake eachothers hand confirming the trade. The person with the sheet will now cross off the symbols next to their names and put the symbol of their new owner next to it. Trades could be 1 smasher for 1 smasher, 2 smashers for 3 smashers-- anything. You could trade your whole roster of smashers if you really wanted to. You may also do 3, 4, or 5 way trades. Draft Picks may also be traded during the drafting process
Example of a 3 Way Trade:
Player A gives Mario to Player B
Player B gives Link to Player C
Player C gives Smaus to Player A
4 and 5 way trades work the same way. The Trade Deadline is when one person has just 2 characters remaining.
~# Of Rounds~
A round is a cycle of a draft where every team takes a pick, or at least a pick they started with (they may have traded it...). The Number of Rounds is based on how many people are playing.
3 Players: 8 Rounds
4 Players: 6 Rounds
5 Players: 5 Rounds
~Playing with 5 Players~
If you haven't noticed, I've been saying this can go up to 5 players. How? Simple. 1 Player sits out. When you win a fight, as well as keeping you character, you get to skip the next fight, enabling to keep your characters even longer. To determine who sits out first, just have the worst player or winner of the last SSBM Draft you had sit out.
Key Info/Reminders:
- The Final Fight (every player has 1 characters left) Will always occur on Final Destination
- If Somebody uses a character they do not have, the penalty is...
If they use a character they already lost or the disincluded character in a 3 or 4 man, they lose the characters that was drafted first/earliest that stil remains on their roster
If they use a character somebody else has, that person gets to pick a character to eliminate off their roster. But, they can "block" who is trying to be eliminated. This can save your best character. But, then they may pick 2 characters to remove off their roster besides the one they just attempted to block.
-Items may be set to any frequency
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2. Pokemon Battle!
This Mode is 2 Players. Items are pokeballs, very high. Each player picks mario and you fight on Pokemon Stadium, 5 Stock match. You each get on a side and throw pokeballs at eachothers side. It's very basic, but you can have some intense battles of mainly luck. Though there is not much skill involved, this can prove to be moderately fun.
The humor among us by: Blackpaul
Through all the madness that is filled with Brawl and its crazy fans, it is hard to find a way to have fun. It seems that we nsiders are always arguing over all sorts of issues. Is Nook in? What about Lip? Why are they an AT? Only place where we can get along is that we all want Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Put to give us a laugh every once in awhile Sakurai put a little line of humor in an update. It might give you a little chuckle or a wet yourself laugh, but they are always funny.
Most people probably have their own favorite phrase. The sayings could be like stating something obvious, a weird sound that he types out, or a completely off the wall statement that you just has to laugh. Anyone could make up such statements like such but there is something that Sakurai sprinkles on it to make it special. Maybe a can of Dojo dust. Who know but he does very well at making the updates entertaining.
The sheer randomness of these quotes is great. It eases the seriousness of the game. One thing that I believe that we have forgotten though is that the game was meant to be fun and funny too. Look at some of these items and players; they are to make the game funny. Sakurai has a good sense of humor and shares it to all of us. We have forgotten that and we take this game so much more seriously then it should.
What do you get from an update? Hype for the game, another argument, or a way to get useful info and have a good laugh too. I hope that all readers would choose the last one. Yes we are all enticed to see what was updated but we can have some fun too. Maybe laugh at quote or a funny picture. Why would you think that Sakurai would put those there anyway? He wants us to be hyped and he might wants to watch us argue, but the main reason is to get useful info about his game and to see a something funny. I dare you to try to find an update that doesn’t have a funny picture or caption to it. If there is one it is hidden somewhere.
We have it lucky for this game. How many other games do stuff like this for us? We get updates every weekday and yet we get angry about some of them. There should be smiles on each one of our faces because of the excitement of this game. We are also getting a joke with each update too. That should make us even happier. Sakurai is giving his time to us and we are neglecting it. We aren’t that grateful and we should because he is giving us updates and also hilarious quotes.
We of all should be grateful for the awesome quotes that Sakurai give to us. They are funny and also clever. They will make us laugh till our last breath and I leave us all with a word of the wise. "Look! Samus is evolving!"
Weeks in Review
Wow the first issue and it seems like there has been so much going on. As for updates they have been fairly good and fulfilling. So let me start off this section with a blast.
Week 1
Stage Builder
With this feature the game just got so much better. Add to the time that you will be playing this because it will be a good while till you put this game down. It is great to say the least. Customize it to your liking with music, backgrounds, and the layout of the stage itself. Also to make it so much better Sakurai added a Wi-fi feature to it. You can send your stages to your Wii friends and Nintendo. Nintendo will have a stage of the day, which will appear everyday. You can also make as many as you want because the stages can be saved to a SD card. Make what you want and I will too. because I am going to have fun with stage builder.
Classic mode
The mode we know and love form the first smash game is back. Nothing much has changed so you are pretty much familiar with it. In this mode, if you don’t know you have to go through the levels until you beat it. Not hard to understand and is easy to play through. It does however have an updated look and there is the new thing for coins. Sakurai didn’t release what the coins are used for though. All he said is that you don’t use them to shop. So what are the coins used for? When will we find out? Knowing Sakurai he will show us someday or maybe the release of the game.
The summit
This stage is to represent the ice climbers. What was stated says that this is the summit of Icicle Mountain. What happens is you fight on the summit and then it breaks off the mountain. Now it is in the stage that it is sliding down the mountain, and you are fighting while this is happening. Soon you land in the sea and the fighting continues. This is yet another stage that swimming is put to use. You better watch out because the fish from Balloon Fighter can swallow you up. Don’t know where you might go after that? I also don’t know if you will getback to the summit? So now we will just have to wait until the game comes out.
Meta Knight’s Final Smash
It is called Galaxia Darkness because it is based on Meta Knight’s sword. This is a hit or miss final smash. If you miss you target it is over. If you do hit them though, the attack is amazing. He throws his cap out and that is where the hit and miss comes to play. If you do hit them, the stage is covered in darkness. Then Meta slices through it all and your opponent is launched flying. If there is more than one enemy they both are cut by the darkness. I like this update but it seemed like something we already knew so the update was a great a it would if we didn’t know.
On-Screen Appearances
After the E for All event a lot of the game’s info was let out to the public. With the internet, all of the fans who couldn’t make it say what they could on-line. With this said some of these appearances we have all ready seen. In fact about half of them were all ready released and the other half was brand new to us. Out of the seven, there was Mario, Fox, Ice Climbers, Snake, Lucas, Pit and Ike’s appearances. Mario jumps out of a pipe for his. Fox drops from his Airwing. The ice climbers are brought to the stage from the Condor. Pit then comes riding in from a beam of light, and Lucas rides in on Mr. Saturn’s tea table. Ike comes in by warp magic and Snake optical camouflage breaks up after he appears on stage. This update was somewhat useful and the other half wasn’t needed as much.
Week 2
Fox’s Misfortune
Wow this update started the week off right. This movie was great and I think this is my favorite SSE movie yet. Diddy and Fox as a team, that will be cool. IF you haven’t watched this yet you should it is awesome. I think we might have another boss! It is about time.
Fire Emblem Theme
With music updates they are usually good. I am a huge fan of Fire Emblem and with this it made me so much more happy. It was our first music update for a while and I liked that about it. Though I don’t listen to the music that much it this was good.
Item Form Past Installments
This update wasn’t that good because most of these item we all ready knew about. These were the Home run bat, beam sword, mushroom, fire flower, freezie, and the party ball. Much about these items hasn’t changed. The only one that has is the beam sword which is now longer than it was before. Also each character has a different stance with the home run bat. Though we might of all ready knew that they would return they were still need to be updated for brawl. This update wasn’t that great but it was necessary.
Grab and Throw
Wow this is yet anoter one of those how to play updates but that is fine. It reminds us how to grab and throw. If you didn't know how to do this might be useful. The best thing we got from this update is Ike’s throw moves. The one in the picture seems to be his up one. That was a day to rest and wait for a huge update.
Grey Fox
For me this isn't big of a update. Maybe it is because I am not a Metal Gear Solid fan. Or it might be because this is the third AT who uses a Katana? Who knows? He can reflect projectiles which is nice to see. Him and Snake facing off would be a cool event match. I have my fingers crossed for that.
Lucas: Special Moves
This is an update that I have been waiting on since Lucas was released. Will he replace Ness? Saddly I think that Ness is not in but it might of happened in Meele too. His moves are similar to Ness but not completely. Lucas does have PK freeze instead. Also his smash moves are all different. Lucas does have a teather recovery which is his rope snake. Hopefully for all of the Ness users you might enjoy playing as Lucas just as much.
Nofair
This stage was revealed to us during E for All. It was a nice surpise there to see to play. As for the rest of us who didn't get to go it was updated. This place has a lot of lava. It will even hurt you. There is a safe hatch where you can get in to save yourself from a wave of lava. By doing this all of your enimies are being scolded by the hot lava. I think that this stage will be one of the most interesting one out for us to play.
Week Scores
WSF's weeks in review:
-Oct 29th to Nov 2nd 07: 9.1/10
-Nov 5th to Nov 9th: 8.6/10