Smash players are gonna need a lot support after hearing this...

No, really. If you have a widescreen television, Brawl won’t look like crap on your TV. Sakurai was kind enough to implement Wide Screen Support for Brawl as is being done with most Wii games. Let’s delve into the few specifics Sakurai left us.
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<p align="center"><strong> &lt;Widescreen&gt;</strong></p>
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<p align="center">(Maybe it is just me, but did Mario and Snake just switch spawning points?)</p>
Ok, according to Sakurai, the points in the game in which you KO are still the same, so no configurations gains or loses an advantage from this setup. It is good to see Sakurai took this into account because I can tell from personal experience that a wide screen Melee match was not pleasant to look at.

Apparently Sakurai was nice enough to also make those who don’t understand that 4:3 and 16:9 designate your screen size by making a specific picture for each ratio. You only have two to choose from so it should be pretty straight forward, pick the one that meets the shape of your TV.
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Sakurai was nice enough to also throw some music our way (<a href="http://smashboards.com/blog/podpress_trac/web/2644/0/dk.mp3">Donkey Kong</a>) and take us back in time to the days when Hirokazu Tanaka would compose some of our beloved melodies such as those from Kid Icarus and Metroid. This composer was adding onto the team without public notice. Tanaka is well known for his unique music that he brought to Nintendo. This man was so passionate about getting his music right for games that he wrote assembly programming code to help further his own composition back in the days when he composed for games on the Famicom. Tanaka, unlike his rivals at the time, got his inspirations from wanting to give the games a more atmospheric background than to cater to crowds looking for a catchy tune in the game, which incidentally, still ended up being catchy. I hope all Smashers welcome this wonderful musician into our home when Brawl goes in our Wii. Here’s to Tanaka!
<p align="center"><em>Thanks to <a href="http://smashboards.com/member.php?u=17484" title="Regenerator">Regenerator</a> for the MP3 rip. </em></p>

First Post!
This is an interesting double update. I really like the oldschool DK theme, man that brings back memories.

http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=128004

2 topics on the same topic. >_>

Anyway, anyone else notice that Snake and Mario change positions in widescreen?

EDIT: Sorry about that.

That was me at about 3 am "Hey, there's no update topic!"

Mod (who will be unnamed) "Just make one and I'll move it to the right room"

"OK"

...oh...my...god...widescreen support...is this the best they have left?
as of late have realised that they have nothing big left to announce. and to all the people who say ...daaahhh you shoould be happy your getting updates,,,cmon. cmon. what the f sort of update is this? widescreen support. yay.


donkey kongs theme is cool. but cmon...widescreen support lol

im glad they can keep pumping these out but i gotta tell u im expecting like 20 staDIUM options, custom downloads for event matches at least 12 everymonth with 4 by actual players, like 5 single player options like dramatic battle ((team all star)) only tied to one 300 hp set

and i'd hope none of that ^^^^^^^ is announced :-D

Rapid_Assassin said:

http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=128004

2 topics on the same topic. >_>

Anyway, anyone else notice that Snake and Mario change positions in widescreen?

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I'm not sure if you haven't noticed, Mic and I do the updates already through the blog here.

I was about to complain about how all I have is a Wii and a PS3, this doesn't do anything for me,

BUT- the remixed DK theme makes up for it

OK, I have a large full screen TV, so this doesn't really work for me. And the DK music was strange.

i don't really care about widescreen (i guess some people do), but i loved the dk music i'll go listen again!

courte said:

im glad they can keep pumping these out but i gotta tell u im expecting like 20 staDIUM options, custom downloads for event matches at least 12 everymonth with 4 by actual players, like 5 single player options like dramatic battle ((team all star)) only tied to one 300 hp set

and i'd hope none of that ^^^^^^^ is announced :-D

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just remember that not every non-regular brawl mode is a single player mode.
Like home-run and Subspace Emissary.

We need to come up with a better name for those.

Not too crazy about the update... Good music though.

well good but i only have a standard TV and that i dint like that DK music

Link Sharingan said:

well good but i only have a standard TV and that i dint like that DK music

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Only person in the whole house that plays on a standard TV......

~hopes for one for xmas~

i gotta tell ya, if they keep pumpin` out sweet updates like this, soon he'll run out! but that would NEVER happen.

Well I liked the widescreen option, but I don't like this Dk music at all

The DK track was a great addition!! Give us more retro mixes Tanaka - I'm counting on you to have a retro mix for every old-school game represented in Brawl!

As for widescreen support... well, that'll benefit me in the long-run - I don't have a widescreen TV in my living room either. =X

~Old Man Nintendo

Well at least he's getting the minor stuff out of the way. I just hope he brings out another AT.

F*ck my room, I'm gonna be playing Brawl on the bigass tv in my living room with widescreen.

If only crappy Wii went higher than 480p

**** near useless TV Widescreen update.

But wow, hearing that DK music made a grin appear on my face.

Wasn't enough to redeem the update after it, but it was still awesome...

This is one of the only updates I complained about... what about people with regular TVs? ****ing useless update, my downstairs TV is a widescreen, but I don't know If I'll play down there all the time.

They still haven't announced Sonic's Final Smash! That day is gonna suck so bad...

As for FS or WS, I only have a FS TV at the moment. Hopefully I can finally get some widescreen on Boxing day. As for the music, it's freaking awesome. I wonder what stage it will be with? I mean, original Donkey Kong music isn't exactly appropriate for any DK stage, is it?

*thinks back to Balloon Fighter music on Ice Climbers stage* Never mind...

Anyway, anyone else notice that Snake and Mario change positions in widescreen? [/QUOTE]

I didn't notice until u point it out

Anth0ny said:

I wonder what stage it will be with? I mean, original Donkey Kong music isn't exactly appropriate for any DK stage, is it?

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Probably rumble falls since you are climping up and there's ladders like in the original DK.

sweet, now I need a wide screen TV...

Donkey Kong music is totally rockin', though.

Lol, I'm gonna destroy my computer when we get sonic's final smash...

DK music sucked, like all the other music that's been released so far. They have no idea what they're doing.

He is the mainstay who has built Nintendo sound since the days of Game & Watch: Hirokazu Tanaka.

He wasn’t included on the list of musicians until now, but he secretly joined the fray!

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It directly says that Hirokazu Tanaka has joined Brawl. I predict that you will unlock him as a playable character after you collect all Music CDs.

The sad thing is that i've read worse dojo update - derived theories in this forum.

I did not realize they would have so many re-done songs in brawl.

I found this update unnecessary; after all, I probably could have figured it out for myself when the game was eventually released.

But whatever. Usually in these cases, the music makes up for it, but I don't know...

I didn't really like this particular track as much as I did the others.

I have 3 things to say about this update:

1. We finally get a screen with both Sonic and Snake (not that its important)

2. The Donkey Kong remix was awesome (though I was expecting it to be the song in this video.)

3. Still not a Sonic stage

This week is turning out good.

Nevermind that, you could've deducted the existence of widescreen support from nearly every piece of Brawl footage we received. I was just waiting for the confirmation to finally appear on the Dojo.

So where's the surround sound confirm?

I know people are whining (yet AGAIN) about the quality of this update, but I like it, and here's why:

Today's update could have been something "better" like, say, Zelda's final smash. But while we don't know what that will be, we do know that it will be SOMEthing. So far this week , instead of stuff like that, we've been given two updates that we didn't know for sure that we'd be getting: tap jump disabling and widescreen support. I've always said it's the little things like this that will make this game great, and I'm glad to have them. Sakurai has given just about every "little thing" that we've asked for, but when he shows us one of them, people STILL whine and complain. I don't get it.

Screw Widescreen!

The return of "Hip" Tanaka is ****ing amazing.

[QUOTE+Smash Bros Dojo!!!]He is the mainstay who has built Nintendo sound since the days of Game & Watch: Hirokazu Tanaka.

He wasn’t included on the list of musicians until now, but he secretly joined the fray!

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OMG!! Do you know what this means??!!

Newcomer:
Hirokazu Tanaka!!!

OMG...I am an idiot.... I was listening to that Donkey Kong music for a WHILE, trying to figure out what Donkey Kong Country game it was from, before I finally realized that it was from the original Donkey Kong arcade game...