Smash Information Directory

[LiteralGrill]

{Getting This Info Here For Us For Easy Access}

Since you can't hype or debate without any info. This thread is reserved for posting sources/links to various articles related to the creation/development of the Smash Bros. Series, interviews, 3rd party thoughts, polls, and of course, new SSB4 information.

Hopefully this makes it easier to find and locate information to use for other discussions and debates in the near future. It will be updated slowly over time as new information and questions come up.

Feel free to discuss or ask questions about certain articles and sources, just remember that discussion not related to any of the sources posted should go to their respective threads, as this is not a place for discussing what you would like to see in the next game such as characters and stages. Major updates and announcements (like daily Smash Dojo stuff) for the next game can be found summarized on the Update thread as provided by the Admins.



For helping get a lot of this together I'd like to give credit to the following people:


ChronoBound, Shortiecanbrawl, Starphoenix, and ToiseofChoice, as well as the members of the Wii U Backroom and Character Discussion social groups for helping get this started.

 

[LiteralGrill]

Dojos

The Original Dojo
The Original English Dojo
Melee Dojo
The Original Brawl Dojo
Brawl Dojo
Smash Wii U & 3DS Dojo


Various 64 and Melee Information

Sir Ilpalazzo's Character Essay - A well written summery of what we know about Melee's (and some of 64's) development.
Melee Poll Results
Translations of some of the fan mail from the Melee Dojo - Takamaru and Sukapon mentions
Melee Beta and Hacked Data
Sakurai on Roy in Melee
Sakurai and Charizard - Best when combined with the Melee poll and Brawl's PT

Famitsu Sakurai Interview from 2002 - Talks about 64's development, has some unproven parts (feel free to ask which), so take with some salt.
Famitsu Sakurai Interview from 2002 - Same as above, just about Melee.


Brawl Information

Characters mentioned on the original Brawl Dojo
GDC 2008 - Includes how Sakurai picks characters. Courtesy of Thinkaman
More GDC 2008 - A much more in-depth, but lengthy summary than the link above. Definitely is an article Smash fans should look at.
Brawl Beta and Hacked Data
More Info Related to Brawl Newcomers - Talks about Diddy and Dixie, Ike, Animal Crossing
Zelda Related Stuff in Brawl
Brawl Demo Video Collection - Courtesy of Johnknight
An Old Brawl Demo Thread - Mostly here for nostalgia and interesting Pre-Brawl rumors
Brawl Fanmail Translations - Courtesy of SamuraiPanda


Sakurai Interview: Brawl 1
Sakurai Interview: Brawl 2 - All Brawl stuff, makes mention of the Pokemon Company being hard to work with.
Sakurai Interview: Brawl 3
Sakurai Interview: Brawl 4 - Was done after Brawl, mostly talks about Melee though
Sakurai Interview: Brawl 5 - GDC 2008 stuff
Sakurai Interview: Brawl 6 - More GDC 2008 goodness
Sakurai Interview: Brawl 7 - Was done shortly after the original Brawl trailer
Sakurai Interview: Brawl 8 - Cut Character goodness
Sakurai Interview: Brawl 9 - More GDC 2008
Sakurai Interview: Brawl 10 - This time it's a video interview
Sakurai Interview: Brawl 11
Sakurai Interview: Brawl 12 - Famitsu stuff and Smash 4 mentions

**** Ironically this is now void due to the Villager now being in Smash 4.

[COLLAPSE="Nintendo Power Interview Scans from yours truly:"]

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Iwata Asks: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Iwata Asks: FE11 Sakurai Edition - Has some talk about Fire Emblem's role in Smash, mentions that he just missed being able to use Marth's FE11 design, Narihito notably comments on Marth and Ike's popularity.
Iwata Asks: KI Uprising - Makes mentions of Smash 4 and how to expect it to be just as high in quality.


Smash Bros Wii U and 3DS Information

Namco In My Smash?
Sakurai and Kobiyashi's Brief SSB4 Speeches
Smash is a Big Priority for Namco - Mentions the possibility of adding Tekken characters.
More Harada talking about Namco characters in Smash 4
"Tales Of" Characters in Smash
Harada on why Nintendo and Namco got together - Nothing big, mostly says experience with fighters and are good friends with Nintendo.
Sakurai on Retro Characters - Makes mention that he plans to use Smash 4 to revive older characters
Infamous Capcom and SSB4 Interview
Post-Brawl Famitsu Interview - Makes mention of what Smash 4 would entail in terms of development/roster size/no Brawl 2.0, jokes about an Animal Crossing character for Brawl
Sakurai on Brawl's Online - Talks about his disappointment with it and dislike of Taunt Parties, his team and hardware limitations, seems open to the idea of having patches
Sakurai Interview: SSB4 1
Sakurai Interview: SSB4 2 - States that Namco Bandai doesn't get any special treatment, that Mega Man was a special case for getting in. Hints at a NB getting in though.
Wii U & 3DS Developer Direct - Super Smash Bros. 3DS & Wii U


As summarized by ToiseofChoice

 

[LiteralGrill]

Info from Hacked Files from Previous Games

General Beta/Hacking Stuff

64 - Pics from hacking
64 - Unused Sounds, includes what is believed to be Final Smash voices such as PK Starstorm and Blue Falcon.
Melee - Pics of hacks, etc.
Brawl - Pics of every file in Brawl
Brawl - More Pics, mostly of unused textures, trophies, music files, etc.
Brawl - The Old Beta/Hacking thread

Extra Stuff from the Wii U Thread

Travis Touchdown and Smash Interview
Professor Layton and Smash Interview
Mega Man and Smash Interview - The one with Street Fighter's Ono
Seems that Steet Fighter's Ono has been after Sakurai...
Nobuo Uematsu on Smash 4's Music

Why sales don't matter - Curtiousy of ToiseofChoice
Japanese Support - Curtiousy of ToiseofChoice
Chronobound's Forbidden 7 Theory - Take with a grain of salt

Chronobound's Japanese's findings:



More Japanese stuff
Even More Japanese Stuff

 

[LiteralGrill]

I think this thread should be stickied (yo mods and admins, do it!). You got loads of content on here that many of the new posters/those unfamiliar with this content could use.

Specifically this could stop people from posting threads about how their favorite non-video game characters should be playable, or characters who have never appeared on Nintendo consoles should be playable. Hopefully if such threads become a menace, such information would allow the moderators and administrators to close those kinds of threads, just like they did on the pre-Brawl release Brawl Boards!

I. Brawl Demo Gameplay/Pre-Release Gameplay Stuff:​

Here is a link to the English version of the 2nd trailer, first released at Nintendo Space World in November of 2006. Note that the 1st Brawl trailer was more of a teaser (with very little gameplay shown), whereas this trailer was predominately gameplay.[COLLAPSE="Here are some things I noticed about it now and pre-Brawl/were noticed about it pre-Brawl by other people:"]-The demo gameplay basically looks like a modified version of Melee, although it is easy to tell it is a different engine (the Havok engine to be more precise).

-At 0:07-0:09, look at Mario. It appears that Mario either L-cancels his forward air, or it had less after lag. That move has quite a bit more post-lag in the final release Brawl. Perhaps this is similar to the L-cancelling that was "discovered" at E For All Demo in about a year after that (in 2007), or this was pulled off by doing that.

-From 0:34-0:36, the crowd cheers (for Link?) on Pokémon Stadium 2. Something to note. (I don't remember such cheering being in Brawl or on Pokémon Stadium 2)

-From 0:38 to 0:48 you can see :wariobrawl:. His movement is a bit different than what was in the final game. It reminded myself and many others of the movement of :gwmelee:.

-At 1:26, a tower background (behind Snake) from Shadow Moses Island is shown that was at least partially modified in the final game.
-Some similar background (that was either changed, modified, moved, or isn't viewable without hacks in Brawl) is shown at 2:02, again, behind Snake.

-At 2:05, pause. Look at Meta Knight (on the stage Haleberd). Meta Knight appears to waveland. Wavelanding is an advanced technique from Melee that was cut in Brawl's final game. Heck, wavelanding (and wavedashing) were even cut from the Brawl demos. Wavelanding (and wavedashing) in Melee are performed by pushing the air dodge button (L or R) in the air, and pushing down (right or left) on the control stick (for wavedashing, you press X or Y slightly to short hop before all this). Considering how far Meta Knight wavelanding (and that he literally wavelanding off the top platform), that would have been amongst the best wavelands in Melee.[/COLLAPSE]Also, you referenced my pre-Brawl demo videos=??? Woaw, I'm glad I had some good information. It certainly is interesting how much Brawl looked like Melee. In that E For All (November 2007) demo alone, there was actual L-cancelling, although from what it was described, it sounded weird (watch the Gimpyfish video "Brawl Talks" on that playlist). For more E For All demo information, click here (and look at the 3 linked threads on that page) for what was in/wasn't in the E For All demo. Also, I got another thread on E For All (lol at my post, aka post #6); this one is by Gimpyfish.

Here is some information from the JumpFesta Brawl demo back in December of 2007 (somewhere around Christmas time). I think only a few videos from JumpFesta exist, and if they do, they're most likely on my pre-Brawl video playlist on ---'s second post (under "Brawl Information").

II. Brawl-Related Interviews:​

Here is an interview with head Nintendo of America localize expert/translator/all around BAMF Nate Bihldorff about translating Brawl from Japanese to English from October 2007.

The Head of Nintendo of America, Perrin Kaplan, talks about the Brawl delay. Brawl went from a 2007 release to a 2008 release, which later was actually pushed back a bit (or a lot for the PAL release). The interview was with the Wired Network in October of 2007.

III. Brawl Character Leaks/Brawl Leak Information:​

Eiji Anouma kinda sorta accidentally (maybe?) confirmed Sheik (and how she had an unused model from Twilight Princess), Zelda, and Ganondorf in Brawl in August of 2007, well before either characters were confirmed on the Dojo. The interview was with Game Informer.

CoroCoro cards confirmed Sheik before the Dojo update. Note that some of those old links don't work, and that CoroCoro was given quite a few unique screenshots of Brawl, sometimes before such pictures were on the Dojo; some pictures weren't even shown on the Dojo.
[COLLAPSE="Click here for some pictures I found"]Below is Zelda's attack information

Below is Zelda's Final Smash, Light Arrow (before it was confirmed/posted on the Smash Dojo)

Below is the first picture of Sheik in Brawl

Below is a scan of the whole 2 pages of CoroCoro on Zelda. Note there was one for every confirmed character up to that point (every starter minus Olimar and Sheik I believe, plus Snake and Sonic since they were confirmed)

[/COLLAPSE]Another interesting thing I can't find is that David Hayter (the English voice actor of Solid Snake and a young Naked Snake/Big Boss) during an interview around December 2007/January 2008 kinda sorta confirmed Jigglypuff (sorta reminiscent of Shigeru Miyamoto kinda confirming Jigglypuff in Melee). I can't find the video of it, but if somebody could post the link to said video, that would be great!

A few weeks before Brawl was released in Japan, Nintendo put up videos of showing off the new content in Brawl. One of the videos showed stickers, in which two pictures of one of these videos accidentally confirmed Jigglypuff, Lucario, and Ness (on the bottom right screen) via their icons next to other previously confirmed playable characters; tbrawl:, :lucasbrawl:, and ikachubrawl:. The video was swiftly removed, but other people uploaded it or got pictures of it. Here is a link to a video for proof (again, thanks to mai smash brothah Gimpyfish). [COLLAPSE="For those of you who like pictures, here you go!"]Note Jigglypuff and Lucario's icons in the picture below

Note Ness' icon in the picture below

[/COLLAPSE]I can't seem to find the original re-uploaded video, but I'll be sure to post it here once I find it. If someone else finds it, POST IT!!!

Most of you know this, but Brawl opening actually re-confirmed Ness was in Brawl, as well as confirmed Marth was in Brawl. Here's a link to a video of Brawl's opening.

IV. Miscellaneous Information Regarding Super Smash Bros.:​

SmashBoards poll thread (by ChronoBound) from 2010 about which 1 specific cut character people would like to return for Smash 4. Not a huge sample size, but an interesting poll nonetheless. It is more data for us to have, at least. (also, I think we could use shortie's poll results Triple Dash)

Also, I think this quote from SamuraiPanda's pre-Brawl Translation Thread is required reading for everyone. This is some seriously GREAT information.[COLLAPSE="Click here to read it"][/COLLAPSE]

 

[BaPr]

Oh my, so. much. information!

 

[SmasherP82]

too.......many........words x.x

 

[BaPr]

Thanks for this. I can't imagine how much work it took.