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If the New Donk City Hall stage loops three times, or a music track from the game Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is playing, Captain Toad will cameo on the stage. This references Super Mario Odyssey where Captain Toad will occasionally appear.
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One of the few tracks included from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze within the soundtrack for both Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is "Swinger Flinger". However, actually listening to the track reveals it to instead be the theme for the Bopopolis stage.
This error is not presented in the Japanese versions of these games, where the "Swinger Flinger" track is properly referred to by its Japanese name equivalent to Bopopolis, ふみふみラビリンス (Fumifumi Rabirinsu), or Stomping Labyrinth. In comparison, the actual Swinger Flinger track and stage in the Japanese version of Tropical Freeze is called バインラビリンス (Bain Rabirinsu), or Vine Labyrinth.
This error is not presented in the Japanese versions of these games, where the "Swinger Flinger" track is properly referred to by its Japanese name equivalent to Bopopolis, ふみふみラビリンス (Fumifumi Rabirinsu), or Stomping Labyrinth. In comparison, the actual Swinger Flinger track and stage in the Japanese version of Tropical Freeze is called バインラビリンス (Bain Rabirinsu), or Vine Labyrinth.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Swinger Flinger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L99owHdoU-A
"Swinger Flinger" aka Bopopolis/Stomping Labyrinth from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwba4WwyGuA
Mario Wiki articles:
https://www.mariowiki.com/Swinger_Flinger
https://www.mariowiki.com/Bopopolis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L99owHdoU-A
"Swinger Flinger" aka Bopopolis/Stomping Labyrinth from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwba4WwyGuA
Mario Wiki articles:
https://www.mariowiki.com/Swinger_Flinger
https://www.mariowiki.com/Bopopolis
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Before his career took off as an indie developer, Toby Fox used to play Super Smash Bros. Melee competitively under the old username 'Radiation'.
He is currently the only known competitive Super Smash Bros. player to have a character he has created represented in the series. Alongside the release of Banjo & Kazooie as a fighter, a Mii costume based on Sans from his game Undertale as well as an original remix of the song "Megalovania" were both added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on September 4th.
He is currently the only known competitive Super Smash Bros. player to have a character he has created represented in the series. Alongside the release of Banjo & Kazooie as a fighter, a Mii costume based on Sans from his game Undertale as well as an original remix of the song "Megalovania" were both added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on September 4th.
There's not much info about Toby Fox playing competitive Melee as he doesn't talk about it publicly too often, the VoD provided is the only publicly-known footage of him playing a set to my knowledge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzh3NUO4szE
According to people, he was known as a bit of a local celebrity due to his work on the webcomic Homestuck, though that is more hear-say than anything definitive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzh3NUO4szE
According to people, he was known as a bit of a local celebrity due to his work on the webcomic Homestuck, though that is more hear-say than anything definitive.
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Three of the character origin tips for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ignore lesser known Nintendo-branded games released by third parties in the 1990s. Two of these tips outright lie: one related to Mario's first utterance of the phrase "Mamma Mia!" (which it falsely attributes to Super Mario 64 and not Mario's Game Gallery) and another claiming that there are only 5 Zelda series games with Link's name in the title (ignoring Link: The Faces of Evil). The third tip on the other hand is worded in an awkward manner, and refers to Luigi's Mansion as "Luigi's first big break as a main protagonist", ignoring the true holder of the title, Mario is Missing! without technically lying.
It's not known if those first two instances were an honest error, or an intentional attempt to hide the games given that they are generally seen as low quality and are considered to have negatively affected Nintendo's reputation at their time of release.
It's not known if those first two instances were an honest error, or an intentional attempt to hide the games given that they are generally seen as low quality and are considered to have negatively affected Nintendo's reputation at their time of release.
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If a fighter tries to footstool Piranha Plant while the plant is crouching, the footstooler will be met with a biting attack that takes 4% damage. This happens automatically every time even when the Piranha Plant player presses nothing during the footstool. This highly situational attack however can be easily dodged and countered by the attacked player making it useless in high-level play.
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Smash Bros. (Franchise)
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There are 17 stages in the Super Smash Bros. series that (intentionally) contain the full title of a video game in their English name: Balloon Fight, Duck Hunt, Find Mii, Luigi's Mansion, Mario Bros., Minecraft World, Pac-Land, Paper Mario, Pokémon Stadium, Pokémon Stadium 2, Super Mario Maker, Tomodachi Life, Wii Fit Studio, Wrecking Crew, both stages titled Yoshi's Island, and Yoshi's Story.
Additionally there are Miiverse and the Pictochat stages but their source material’s status as "video games" are debatable.
Additionally there are Miiverse and the Pictochat stages but their source material’s status as "video games" are debatable.
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's spirit list comes incredibly close to serving as a comprehensive list of all Nintendo IPs as of 2018, but is mostly lacking content from three specific categories:
• Games that did not receive Japanese releases, such as Tin Star, Magnetic Soccer, and StarTropics (it should be noted that characters introduced in localized versions of Japanese releases, such as Rusty Slugger from Rusty's Real Deal Baseball and the Elite Beat Agents, are featured).
• Arcade games that did not receive ports to Nintendo consoles, such as Monkey Magic, Arm Wrestling, and Sky Skipper. The only exception is Sheriff, likely due to his role as an Assist Trophy.
• Games released exclusively through the WiiWare service. Although there is a spirit from the Fluidity series (which originally released as a WiiWare title), the character in question depicted is Eddy, the main protagonist of the Nintendo 3DS sequel, Fluidity: Spin Cycle.
• Games that did not receive Japanese releases, such as Tin Star, Magnetic Soccer, and StarTropics (it should be noted that characters introduced in localized versions of Japanese releases, such as Rusty Slugger from Rusty's Real Deal Baseball and the Elite Beat Agents, are featured).
• Arcade games that did not receive ports to Nintendo consoles, such as Monkey Magic, Arm Wrestling, and Sky Skipper. The only exception is Sheriff, likely due to his role as an Assist Trophy.
• Games released exclusively through the WiiWare service. Although there is a spirit from the Fluidity series (which originally released as a WiiWare title), the character in question depicted is Eddy, the main protagonist of the Nintendo 3DS sequel, Fluidity: Spin Cycle.
Wikipedia article with list of Nintendo products:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_products
All spirits in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as of March 2024:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajX0kfsZv8E
https://www.ssbwiki.com/List_of_spirits_(complete_list)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_products
All spirits in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as of March 2024:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajX0kfsZv8E
https://www.ssbwiki.com/List_of_spirits_(complete_list)
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Ganondorf's design in Super Smash Bros. Melee is based on his appearance in the Spaceworld 2000 tech demo which showcased a fight with Link and himself where he wields a large sword. This large sword only ever appeared in that tech demo and in one of his win animations in Melee. This specific sword would not be used in Ganondorf's moveset until the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in 2018, where his design is based on that same Spaceworld 2000 tech demo as well as elements from his appearance in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
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Steve's win animation after a match was him eating a steak and holding it at waist level, but in a subsequent update after his initial release, the animation was changed to remove the meat after he ate it. Some speculate that this change was made because the way he held the meat after eating made it look like a phallic object.
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Tetsuya Nomura, one of the creators of Kingdom Hearts and the series' recurring director and lead writer, admitted in an interview with Game Informer that it was actually him, not Disney, that was almost hesitant for his character Sora to get into Super Smash Bros.:
"Obviously, I was very happy that we were able to have Sora make an appearance in Smash Bros. Ultimate. Most of the feedback when Sora was [announced] for Smash Bros. Ultimate was, ‘I can’t believe Disney okayed for him to be in this game.’ Behind the scenes, I was actually the one being very picky about his appearance in Smash Bros. Disney was the one that was like, ‘Go ahead! This is a great opportunity.’ I thought it would be tough to pull off because it might clash with the established lore in Kingdom Hearts and the Disney worlds, so it was an opportunity I had to consider very carefully. After seeing how happy everybody was in welcoming Sora to Smash Bros., I feel like the end result was really great."
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When Spring Stadium was first added to the game, the electronic billboard featuring various ARMS fighters erroneously displayed Springtron's logo alongside Spring Man. This was fixed in a subsequent update.
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate marked the 100th credited time that Charles Martinet voiced Mario in a video game. This voice credit would earn Martinet the Guinness World Record for the most video game voiceover performances as the same character, which currently stands at 104 credits as of August 14, 2019.
Polygon article:
https://www.polygon.com/nintendo/2018/12/15/18142347/charles-martinet-voice-of-mario-guinness-book-of-world-records-super-smash-bros-ultimate
Guinness World Record listing:
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/539489-most-videogame-voiceover-performances-as-the-same-character
https://www.polygon.com/nintendo/2018/12/15/18142347/charles-martinet-voice-of-mario-guinness-book-of-world-records-super-smash-bros-ultimate
Guinness World Record listing:
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/539489-most-videogame-voiceover-performances-as-the-same-character
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Sephiroth's inclusion as a DLC fighter was apparently so top secret that even certain members of Square Enix had not known that the villain was going to be included in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate until the corresponding show-stealing announcement at The Game Awards 2020 was made. Even Square Enix employee and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi was quite shocked and stated:
"[...] it was actually extremely confidential that he was even going to be in it, [...] So, none of the dev team knew, including myself. So it was more like when the whole world knew it, and that's when we knew it like, 'Oh, I had no idea!'"
subdirectory_arrow_right Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (Game)
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When it was announced that Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl's paid DLC characters were due to be revealed, it was with a tweet reading "Back to the lab again". Some theorized this was a tease for either Jimmy Neutron or Jenny Wakeman, both highly-requested characters with a technology theme. However, this seems to actually be a reference to a livestream by Super Smash Bros. Ultimate YouTuber GimR from two days earlier. GimR advertised the livestream for days prior, promising a new technique that would change the game's competitive scene, only to fail to actually start the stream due to technical issues. During the time he was live, he played a looping intermission animation depicting him as Dexter from the Cartoon Network series Dexter's Laboratory and playing the song "Back to the Lab" by Prince Paul and Wordsworth for over an hour. This mistake would become a meme within the Super Smash Bros. community for a short while afterwards. Ultimately, Jenny, Rocko and Hugh Neutron, the latter two not being related to technology, were revealed, and GimR would separately reveal the promised new technique, the "Slingshot", two days after the failed livestream.
The tweet:
https://twitter.com/NickBrawlGame/status/1522599567966892032
The stream being referenced:
https://www.knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gimr-tech
https://twitter.com/NickBrawlGame/status/1522599567966892032
The stream being referenced:
https://www.knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gimr-tech
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Official Japanese Nintendo website page for Banjo-Kazooie controls:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nbkj/action/page03.html
The Cutting Room Floor article:
https://tcrf.net/Banjo-Kazooie#Animation_Filenames
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nbkj/action/page03.html
The Cutting Room Floor article:
https://tcrf.net/Banjo-Kazooie#Animation_Filenames
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The Breegull Bash move in the Japanese versions of Banjo-Tooie and as well as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is called ハリセンカズーイ(Harisen Kazui), which literally translated into English is "Slapping Fan Kazooie". A harisen is a giant paper fan that is typically used as part of a manzai act, where the straight man smacks the funny man in response to their jokes or foolishness. The "Fan" item that appeared in Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl is actually a harisen, and it's even called as such (はりせん) in the Japanese version of those games as well.
It's worth pointing out that in general, the Japanese localizations for the Banjo-Kazooie games seem to exclude any mention of the word "Breegull", the name of Kazooie's species. This is something Masahiro Sakurai made note of when showcasing Banjo & Kazooie's moveset in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
It's worth pointing out that in general, the Japanese localizations for the Banjo-Kazooie games seem to exclude any mention of the word "Breegull", the name of Kazooie's species. This is something Masahiro Sakurai made note of when showcasing Banjo & Kazooie's moveset in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Mr. Sakurai Presents "Banjo & Kazooie":
https://youtu.be/DPh3HM6ofWU?t=294
SSBWiki article on the Fan item:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/Fan
Article on the harisen:
https://handwiki.org/wiki/Engineering:Harisen
Japanese article on BK's moveset in Smash:
http://imobatake.net/archives/363
https://youtu.be/DPh3HM6ofWU?t=294
SSBWiki article on the Fan item:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/Fan
Article on the harisen:
https://handwiki.org/wiki/Engineering:Harisen
Japanese article on BK's moveset in Smash:
http://imobatake.net/archives/363
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Smash Bros. Melee (Game)
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Joker from Persona 5 was announced as the first Fighter's Pass DLC character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at The Game Awards 2018 on December 6th, 2018. This means that while he was technically the only Fighter's Pass DLC character to be announced before the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, it was only a few hours before December 7th when the game was released.
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Reddit thread looking into harrassment claims:
https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/8uqmfl/was_sakurai_actually_harrased_over_not_adding/
Haru tic-tac-toe users blocked by Sakurai:
https://twitter.com/SymboliNegative/status/1240683276706000898
https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/8uqmfl/was_sakurai_actually_harrased_over_not_adding/
Haru tic-tac-toe users blocked by Sakurai:
https://twitter.com/SymboliNegative/status/1240683276706000898
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The first Aparoid boss of Star Fox: Assault is a giant butterfly looking creature that appears at the end of the Fortuna mission. This particular Aparoid would reappear as a trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and also a spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, in both cases being dubbed simply as just "Aparoid".
The official Japanese Star Fox: Assault guidebook reveals this type of Aparoid to have a proper name: ゼグダリア (Zegudaria), or Zegdahlia as it's called by the provided English text.
The official Japanese Star Fox: Assault guidebook reveals this type of Aparoid to have a proper name: ゼグダリア (Zegudaria), or Zegdahlia as it's called by the provided English text.
Star Fox: Assault - Fortuna: First Aparoid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu0GDMzLwg8
User's English translation of official Japanese Star Fox: Assault guidebook:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/10m82rq/for_all_you_star_fox_assault_fans_some_pictures/
Wiki list of Super Smash Bros. 4 Star Fox trophies:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/List_of_SSB4_trophies_(Star_Fox_series)
Wiki list of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Star Fox spirits:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/List_of_spirits_(Star_Fox_series)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu0GDMzLwg8
User's English translation of official Japanese Star Fox: Assault guidebook:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/10m82rq/for_all_you_star_fox_assault_fans_some_pictures/
Wiki list of Super Smash Bros. 4 Star Fox trophies:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/List_of_SSB4_trophies_(Star_Fox_series)
Wiki list of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Star Fox spirits:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/List_of_spirits_(Star_Fox_series)
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