Drawing the line in Smash... with PictoChat!

Today’s update has brought about a stage of peculiarity which really has me and probably some wondering if Masahiro hasn’t been using some psychoactives lately. The Dojo showed us a new “nonsense” stage called PictoChat, which is based off the program integrated into the Nintendo DS.

<p align="center"> <strong>A drawing appears…
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<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/stage15_071022a-l.jpg" alt="First Drawing" align="middle" border="0" height="329" width="400" />

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<p align="center"><strong>Sometimes the stage is erased clean.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/stage15_071022b-l.jpg" alt="Clean Slate." align="middle" border="0" height="329" width="400" /></p>
<p align="center"><strong> The drawings that appear in these stages can actually be climbed upon and used as a platform.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/stage15_071022c-l.jpg" alt="A cloud, maybe?" align="middle" border="0" height="329" width="400" /></p>
<p align="center"><strong> Some drawings have environmental effects like the wind trying to blow you off the stage.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/stage15_071022d-l.jpg" alt="This stage blows... really!" align="middle" border="0" height="329" width="400" /></p>
<p align="center"><strong>The stage adapts to many different drawings with, what appears be, a fully interactive background.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/stage15_071022e-l.jpg" alt="Roller Coaster, woo, woo, woo!" align="middle" border="0" height="329" width="400" /></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Some of the drawings though start to become lethal and can prove to be useful toward a Smasher’s strategy.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/stage15_071022f-l.jpg" alt="Burn, baby burn!" align="middle" border="0" height="329" width="400" /></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Some parts of the stage, despite the odd shape to them are climbable platforms to work from.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/stage15_071022g-l.jpg" alt="It's flat, yet solid..." align="middle" border="0" height="329" width="400" /></p>
<p align="center">According to Sakurai, the doodles come and go, but doesn’t mention if any pattern is set for it. It is also interesting to note the bottom part of the stage which says when a character is entering. This could be a result of someone being knocked off the stage and re-”enter”ing the stage.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/stage15_071022h-l.jpg" alt="Save the whales!" align="middle" border="0" height="329" width="400" /></p>
<p align="center">Also, Sakurai has informed us that the selection of music for this stage will allow for some very “unique” music such as the Will Shop Channel music and the Mii Channel music. Oh, boy, I can only imagine how exciting that will be.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/stage15_071022i-l.jpg" alt="Wow, such selection, I've always wanted to battle to the music of the... Wii Shop Channel?" align="middle" border="0" height="329" width="400" /></p>
<p align="center"><strong>I’m so stoked, I’m gonna be pumped for battle with… Wii Shop Channel?</strong></p>

Really weird, but does this eat one of the available franchise icon slots?

lol brain age music FTW =D xD...what does the Now entering mean?...

No its icon number 21.

I do know that this update is made out of pwn and win. Again.

Take this AC icon theory



So according to that theory, a walking DS will be the next combatanent in brawl.

And I had a dream that I'd be fighting to Wii shop music... epic!

Wow! A whale!

blayde_axel said:

And I had a dream that I'd be fighting to Wii shop music... epic!

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Wii shop music.....It's all evil nintendo Propoganda!

Good stuff in this here update!

Curse you, caps filter.

coolio!!

i like the idea of this stage!! its very creative!! and it will be loads of fun, but that means if ur playin wit 4 people, someone is gonna have to stop playin to draw somwething new!! but hey its still gonna be fun!!

coolio!!

i think its a great idea!! its gonna be really fun!! each player can take turns making somethin new!! but do u gotta pause the game to draw will it be easier that way, or does someone gotta stop playin to take the time out to draw!! dont know, but cant wait for the game to drop!!

Dang, when I first saw this, I thought you could connect your DS to the Wii and draw your own stages.

But now looking at it again I think its just predrawn pictures that randomly appear.

banned from tourneys or not?

seems like pokemon stadium and pokefloats mixed.

holly s***, this goes to tell you how amazingly unpredictable sakurai is o.O lets not forget random.

EDIT: for the people who think if u use ur ds to draw the stuff on screen, your wron, the CPU does it automatically

At first I thought you would draw your own stages with the Wiimote then play them but this still looks good :D

It would of been cool if the person can actually draw something up there, that way we actually draw nothing and get a totally tournament legal stage...

Though, drawing up something could somewhat be fun, though person who draws will probably be a jerk and just put walls between combatants...

I think this may confirm a Mii as a character

But uh, yeah, great looking stage!

2 days after I buy my DS and THIS stage gets confirmed.

And may I say it's more odd than Wario and his home turf combined.

oooh looks cool. kinda reminds me of flatzone with the white background and black things coming out and doing weird things, although they look to act more like pokefloats like some else mentioned.

this makes me wonder just whose stage this is for, since each stage usually is for a certain character, minus FD and battlefield.

w0w wh@l3z!






Wow! A whale!

It's Flatworld fused with Poke Floats, I don't like the fixed camera type look, but it looks interesting otherwise.

Oh Misto, you and Mic are just as bad as one another with these crazy thread titles.

Weird update, though. Should be quite cool to play on!

Oh man, I love it.

Homelessvagrant said:

So according to that theory, a walking DS will be the next combatanent in brawl.

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Actually, I wouldn't rule it out.

Tsukuyomi said:

It would of been cool if the person can actually draw something up there, that way we actually draw nothing and get a totally tournament legal stage...

Though, drawing up something could somewhat be fun, though person who draws will probably be a jerk and just put walls between combatants...

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why do people insist that solely stages without any obstacles will be tournament legal?

miis for brawl

UGH, I was SOOOOOO excited, I thought you could draw stages in real-time with someone sitting there with a DS. Then I was like, "Wait, how do they recognize if you want to draw wind? How do they know you want that to move?"


Predrawn stage = :'(

This is a craitive stage plus it has a icon so MII FOR BRAWL

awsome............. i love the wii shop channel music!

Awwww man...a Mario Paint stage would've been much cooler.

Well, it's not yet deconfirmed that your own stages can be drawn...
Think of it this way. There are two line thicknesses in pictochat, thin and thick. You can use thich to draw solid platforms, and thin to draw environments. Stick a thin dot in the middle of a circle and it becomes a wheel. Draw an arrow next to a gust and it becomes wind blowing in said direction. Complicated, but cool.

Ok, I thought no stage could get weirder and more unique than warioware stage. But this took the cake. But what I want to know is why does it have it's own icon. This icon is number 21 on the list. Better report to the icon discovery thread.

DS conecting to WII

i hear that scince the ds connects to the wii, you can draw your own levels..... i heard it from...... me

Well, it's not yet deconfirmed that your own stages can be drawn...
Think of it this way. There are two line thicknesses in pictochat, thin and thick. You can use thich to draw solid platforms, and thin to draw environments. Stick a thin dot in the middle of a circle and it becomes a wheel. Draw an arrow next to a gust and it becomes wind blowing in said direction. Complicated, but cool.

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he would have mentioned something as cool as that, pictochat... hrm

I'm undecided. It's WAY better than flatzone.

I wonder if he'll add in the most drawn thing on the DS's Pictochat; The Wang

Eaode said:

UGH, I was SOOOOOO excited, I thought you could draw stages in real-time with someone sitting there with a DS. Then I was like, "Wait, how do they recognize if you want to draw wind? How do they know you want that to move?"


Predrawn stage = :'(

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It's still possible that you can draw your own stages, like in Pac-pix where the game recognizes arrows and bombs.
Still this btage looks great and I can't wait to try it out.

This level is not faithful to real pictochat. Not enough *****.

edit: Wow, it censored a legitimate name for the male sex organ. Talk about taking taboos to an extreme. >_>

Homelessvagrant said:

Take this AC icon theory

So according to that theory, a walking DS will be the next combatanent in brawl.

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Yea, that icon proves that every icon doesnt have to have a playable character.