The solution to "how big REALLY is that stage?"

[Hank McCoy]

Ok, so i was thinking about how nearly everything in smash has been quantisized and researched, but one thing has yet to be measured. STAGE SIZES!!!

but then, how do we measure the stage size? ft.? thats impossible cuz you cant use a ruler or anything its a video game and the camera changes.

THE SOLUTION:

Use # of bowsers it takes to get to the other side of the stage!!!!!!!!!

for example: fd is 20 bowsers long (made up #).

how it is done. get you and a friend both as bowser. both of you have to be REALLY technical in order to do this, i suggest at least ONE of you be gimpyfish. one of you rolls to the edge of the stage. the other gets as close to that person as they can without moving them. thats 2 bowsers length. then the person near the edge jumps over the other person and repeats the same thing, until you reach the other side of the stage. if a full bowser wont fit at the end approximate the best you can.

good luck!!!

 

[Blackshadow]

Could you tell me why you would want to measure the stage?

 

[Impp]

Measuring ceilings and things could slightly help for counterpicks. Even vague terms would help, such as high, medium, or low.

 

[phanna]

Nobody really cares how wide the platform of a level is, but if you want to measure it, you should just use something like stars (drop a bunch in training mode, let them seperate, and measure). What would be far more useful is ceiling height off the level, which you could measure with fox and captain falcon. Just laser falcon up to whatever %, and see if he dies from a c-stick upsmash (not charged). Using this method, you could get some %age for every level which would give a standard of comparison. I don't think that if one level were twice as high in terms of % needed to die, that it would be twice as "tall", however. Camera widths off the sides would also be useful, in terms of where the kill line is from the level.

Really, the best way to approach this would be taking the 'largest' level, which for tournaments is probably Dreamland 64, DK64, or Jungle Japes, and with AR find out how far back you need to zoom the camera, then turn on the camera and kill boundaries, and take screenshots of every level from this distance, and they could be easily visually compared. I might do this sometime, if nobody else does or wants to.

 

[pdk]

would be useful if you actually measured the blast zones

 

[Reese]

rofl I love the idea. eg. That smash shouldn't of killed me because I was five bowsers away from edge lol.

 

[Overswarm]

M2K has already measured stage sizes, to a degree, for at least some of the neutral stages.

 

[blaargh198]

lol. Funny seeing as how the following thread was the first from smashboards I ever bookmarked:
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=58834&page=1&pp=15
darkshadow's Stage Statistics thread. Used character length to measure a stage in feet, etc.
Although I think what I'd like to see would be the apparent length versus actual length (ceilings and such)

 

[Hank McCoy]

i dont think you people get it. we have to measure in bowsers. its the most accurate form of measurement. the only problem i see is that no one is as technical as gimpyfish with bowser so there could be a wider margin of error.

 

[Gimpyfish62]

he iz rite u no.

 

[Earthbound360]

Measure how wide Bowser is and use M2Ks measurements. Just do the math.
It's much easier than leap-bowser.

 

[Gimpyfish62]

how do you measure how wide bowser is? you put him on a platform or under a platform and have pichu's hop over eachother to see how many pichu's wide he is, then you can measure the stage by how many bowsers after that

 

[blaargh198]

But how do you measure how wide pichu is?????
o.0

 

[Gimpyfish62]

mini bowsers of course, use AR to get the bowsers small enough to measure.

 

[Reese]

<3 gimpy hahahahah use mini-bowsers to measure pichu to measure bowser to measure the stage !

omg we have to use mini pichus to measure mini-bowser now hahahaha

 

[Hank McCoy]

GUYS making too complicated.

1. only use bowser
2. measure stage

DONE

oh and if you want us to believe your results you need a vid of you measuring the stage.

 

[petre]

until eventually we find that 1 bowser= approximately 14,536 micro-pichus...

 

[Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr.]

bUT THEN WE CANT USE GIMPYFISH!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[XZalla]

rofl I love the idea. eg. That smash shouldn't of killed me because I was five bowsers away from edge lol.

omg LOL

 

[Wave⁂]

a better measurement of heigt could be firefox's. everybody knows how far it goes, and with AR, you can figure out how many firefoxes high something is.

also, with AR, go to HRC and find out how many feet or meters long it is.

...

i believe tthis is covered somewhere in the huge post by M2K, i forget what it is called, but it is somewhere in the "Official Everything" post.

 

[ChronoSquare]

The only downside to measuring the stage with bowsers is just that: They can only measure the stage. What about the air around the stage? Dream Land 64 might be roughly the same size as Battlefield, but it's most definitely larger because of how far away the horizontal death wall is.

How you going to measure that, by jumping out there and seeing if you can fortress spin into the death edge and see how much into the fortress you are before you kill yourself? (For that I think Jigglypuff would be better suited for the task; get a Jiggly master like King or ChozenOne to measure the distance out by the # of rising pounds it takes to kill Jiggly, of course keeping Jiggly in the same horizontal throughout it all...)

 

[Sky2042]

how do you measure how wide bowser is? you put him on a platform or under a platform and have pichu's hop over eachother to see how many pichu's wide he is, then you can measure the stage by how many bowsers after that

This thread took a turn for the better with this post.

 

[Wilhelmsan]

FD is 2 firefoxes long, FoD is like 1.3

 

[Wave⁂]

yeah, if you use straight firefox's, which is prety confeinient. you can make it less than that if you increase the lenghth, and there is a way.

 

[Hank McCoy]

um, these ideas fail. needs more bowser.

 

[MrMojoRisin]

Measuring a stage width wouldn't be to hard. You just start up a new game and see how much distance u get from walking from the middle to one end. Mutiply by 2 to get your answer.

 

[Wave⁂]

^^^^^ wow. that was educated.

try that with FD, the most common stage.