Brawl Transform Priority

[phanna]

So apparently only one player can complete a transformation at a time, and the lower port gets priority on the transition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpevUdayiNY

 

[Rawr!]

"This video is unavailable."

:/

 

[Lovage 805]

what would we do without Phanna, really

 

[ama(m/t)]

Is it a different transformation time per port or does the difference only occur when people try to transform at the same time?

 

[ama(m/t)]

Is it a different transformation time per port or does the difference only occur when people try to transform at the same time?

 

[phanna]

"This video is unavailable."

:/

It's up again, at least for now...

 

[Pyr0]

Whoa... this seems... wrong!

Try doing it between Zelda/Sheik and PT (if they affect each other then this stuff is just wrong)

 

[pirkid]

Wow.
What happens if they are within frames of each other?
If this transformation 'lag' occurs when both changes are remotely close to each other (And not only at the same time like the video showed), bad bad bad.

 

[Ruuku]

**** you Sakuraiiiii!!!

 

[DalzK]

Probably to stopslag but anyway this should only effect 1 in 10000 fights :D

 

[Lovage 805]

Phanna how are you using 1 wavebird for three ports?

 

[Wave⁂]

Syncing them...

Samus transformings?

 

[Doctor T]

Wow, thats... dumb.

I wonder why the heck they would set it up like that. And I'm a programmer. O_o

That simply doesn't make sense. Guess it won't really make a difference in serious fights though.

 

[SilintNinjya]

as much as this sucks, i dont think it will ever have an impact on a game.

 

[Jumpinjahosafa]

Interesting.

Thats all really.

 

[SSJ4Kazuki]

So two players don't get confused who's who when transforming.

The "1P, 2P" etc disappears when transforming, and all the transfromation effects look the same regardless of costume.

 

[sprials]

I doubt people would get confused, its probably just a coding oversight.

That would be hilarious if somebody's transform got delayed in midair and they fell to their death.

 

[SSJ4Kazuki]

I doubt people would get confused, its probably just a coding oversight.

That would be hilarious if somebody's transform got delayed in midair and they fell to their death.

It can't be a coding oversight, as this would actually have to be programmed to happen.
If they didn't change/add anything, they would transform at the same timings.

 

[mark.]

probably set up for the "prettyness" factor. or something relevant to that.

 

[BlackYoshi7]

Does it count Pokemon switching? Because in a PT v PT fight Pokemon switching could be somewhat important.

 

[Xtreme Starfox]

So P1 has the advantage. I MUST BE PLAYER 1!!

 

[squaminator]

how about using it as an edgeguarding option lol

sheik is recovering, wants to transform to lengthen recovery, p1 on the stage transforms at the same time, and p2 falls to death LOL!

 

[Flow Wolf]

So P1 has the advantage. I MUST BE PLAYER 1!!

10char

 

[Xtreme Starfox]

Also... Notice the icons, they all seem to wait to show up around the same time.

 

[Randofu]

It can't be a coding oversight, as this would actually have to be programmed to happen.
If they didn't change/add anything, they would transform at the same timings.

It could be a coding "oversight" (actually intentional) if the change requires loading stuff from the disc. I find it weird that it happens with 3 Zeldas though, since you'd think it would only have to load the Sheik stuff once.

 

[Ichida]

Reason enough for me not to main PT or Zelda. XD

So two players don't get confused who's who when transforming.

The "1P, 2P" etc disappears when transforming, and all the transfromation effects look the same regardless of costume.

Still, I'm sure people have an eye on their own characters before and after, not to mention the color differences. Some, though, are too subtle, I admit.

 

[Zek]

Maybe there was some weird bug with simultaneous transformations that they just took a shortcut to fix.

 

[Jellybelly]

Clever yet overall meaningless observation.

I doubt there'd ever be a way to use it strategically.

 

[AznHalfCaucasian]

hmmmmmmm...........

 

[SSJ4Kazuki]

how about using it as an edgeguarding option lol

sheik is recovering, wants to transform to lengthen recovery, p1 on the stage transforms at the same time, and p2 falls to death LOL!

You don't fall fast enough during transformation for this to be a problem.
Zelda and shiek both have good enough up specials too.

Edge snapping makes this much easier to survive too.

 

[dzlotus]

It's almost certainly due to memory issues. Consoles have very limited memory to work with, so you need to keep good track of it and be very careful.

There is probably a very specific amount of texture memory allocated to temporary things like items and swapping characters, and multiple transformations at once probably exceeds this limit... so you queue them instead of doing them in parallel.

 

[manosiosis]

What happens if multiple Zeldas want to transform into Shiek to start the match? does it give some players a head start?

 

[Nakamaru]

Interesting. Load times maybe?

 

[Corigames]

Wow, so if two people transform at the same time, one person has a noticeable window to strike the other. Thanks Brawl, though, I find it hard to believe I'll ever see this occur in a REAL match.