42 Character the roster number? The Select Screen seems to point to this

[Pomfrod]

But if they were just making images for a demo, why so much white space? It's not aesthetically pleasing, and it's needlessly harder to position the token on the character you want if the icon is smaller. Far better, if they were just making a screen on which to run a demo, to fill up all the screen space with the characters Sora approved for the demo.

But they didn't, which makes me think they are using the native image sizes for the character icons. And why not? If they were to blow up the images on the existing version of the game, they would be blurry and pixelated. If they wanted to reduce that effect, it would come down to going back to the original images and remaking an icon. Melee's icon sizes didn't change as you unlocked characters; neither did 64's. I understand it's just a demo, but if they didn't already have the character select screen working and finalized, i.e., if this were just a beta character select screen, they would have used bigger placeholder images.

42. I stand with Super Smash Master.

 

[sHy)(gUy]

Why would Sakurai only give us 30 when they doubled the roster of 64 in Melee? I expect them to AT LEAST do the same.

Or hes adding 12 more spots eachtime in which case brawl would have 36 characters, a reasonble number

 

[solrac_krad]

Im expecting around 36, with no clones, and that would be just awesome

 

[Pomfrod]

But if they were just making images for a demo, why so much white space? It's not aesthetically pleasing, and it's needlessly harder to position the token on the character you want if the icon is smaller. Far better, if they were just making a screen on which to run a demo, to fill up all the screen space with the characters Sora approved for the demo.

But they didn't, which makes me think they are using the native image sizes for the character icons. And why not? If they were to blow up the images on the existing version of the game, they would be blurry and pixelated. If they wanted to reduce that effect, it would come down to going back to the original images and remaking an icon. Melee's icon sizes didn't change as you unlocked characters; neither did 64's. I understand it's just a demo, but if they didn't already have the character select screen working and finalized, i.e., if this were just a beta character select screen, they would have used bigger placeholder images.

42. I stand with Super Smash Master.

...unless of course his shop at the beginning was inaccurate. Behold:

I'm getting some serious overlap kids, which looks to me like only 28 spots.

Let's pretend 28 is the new magic number. There are 22 characters right now on the Dojo. Subtracting Zero Suit Samus, since she probably won't have an icon, gives us 21. I'll assume Luigi, Capt. Falcon, and Game and Watch will come back with all certainty, giving us 24 slots.
That means that only four of the other proposed vets can come back if we have seen every new character. Ganon, Mewtwo, Jiggs, Marth, Ness, and Falco are all in this very real running.

And what about an AC rep and franchise 19's possible rep? What about another 3rd party? What about Dedede, Ridley, and Krystal, the shoo-ins? And for God's sake, what about Geno?

28 is too low, especially splitting those four available slots among all the characters in the running. With 28, there is too much omission. With 28, Metaknight shouldn't have made it.

There's always the possibility that the TV's are chopping off a little of the screen, but I can't find any evidence for this.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

People, the Demo select screen is not the official final version....

There isn't enough room for all the characters that are even confirmed right now and HELL if there are going to be characters on the side of the select thing...that's just tacky and they have better designers than that...

Look at the stage select screen...Do you honestly beleive those are all the stages because there isn't any room for more

 

[sHy)(gUy]

28? I counted 29 across the top, 30 when u take away the random icon


either the icons get smaller when u unlcock more new characters, theres a tottally different screen on the real version, or theres only 30 characters

Oh ya i just realized they could fit 3 down the bottom on each side, BAM thats 36 spots
(Would look kinda wierd, but could work) try making that picture with a single row down eachside, and no random button

 

[MisterCrowley]

They could just change the size of the character portraits ...... they can add a completely new row or two.

 

[Sinn]

They could do a LOT of things to work around that screen having enough room, assuming that the final version will have a screen that looks like that anyway.

Anyone here remember being skeptical about all the clone characters in Melee when you first saw a screen shot of them being slightly off from the reset of the selectable characters on the selection screen?

 

[Pluvia's other account]

They could do a LOT of things to work around that screen having enough room, assuming that the final version will have a screen that looks like that anyway.

I agree completely.