TRANSLATION PLEASE: this article claims 48 char roster

[Johnknight1]

LOL...Melee had 26 characters, though. >_> But seriously, where did this person get this from=???

 

[WeeklyJumpman]

Yeah, it indeed says that there were 25 playable characters on Melee, and there are 48 on Brawl.

That's all it says that's important. But this whole thing could be fake, you know.

It says it, but it might just be a made up article. Keep that in mind.

 

[M.K]

Technically, it had 26 characters, but to the untrained eye, it only had 25 (You would not know Sheik was playable without playing a match)

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

LOL...Melee had 26 characters, though. >_> But seriously, where did this person get this from=???

Only pros really count Sheik as a seperate character

 

[.Yoshi]

We don't know where this piece of text came from...so keep that in mind when trusting it

 

[Revven]

48 characters would be insane but at the same time, make sense due to the large amount of time his team has had. Not only that, but, it is also a NICE amount of characters.

I just hope the article isn't a fake or made up, it would really sadden me if it turns out to be fake.

 

[WeeklyJumpman]

Since they don't count Sheik for Melee, that could mean there are 50 characters on Brawl, if you DO include Sheik and ZS Samus.

I hope this is real... If not, well, we'll see...

 

[DustMidget]

It supposedly comes from Oita Godo-Shinbun, a Japanese magazine. Someone wanna look into that?

 

[Link Sharingan]

it does indeed say that DX had 25 chars, and this time, at 48 chars, it's almost 2 x as many.

well they were 26 if you counted shiek but if they dint count shiek,ZSS,and the pokemon 48 character would be awesome and 52 counting shiek,zelda and the pokemons(not counting PT)

 

[WeeklyJumpman]

It supposedly comes from Oita Godo-Shinbun, a Japanese magazine. Someone wanna look into that?

That's a real newspaper in Japan, but where the heck could I find a "true" scan of the paper?

 

[Teeb147]

48 would make sense if theres a way to like switch screens to select a character, because if you look at the size of the boxes for characters to chose from, exactly 24 can fit on the screen, so 48 would make sense if there were 2 screens

 

[NintendoWarrior]

Geez who else do they plan on adding? 48 seems like an insane amount.

 

[FSLink]

48 would make sense if theres a way to like switch screens to select a character, because if you look at the size of the boxes for characters to chose from, exactly 24 can fit on the screen, so 48 would make sense if there were 2 screens

That's the demo screen. It's most likely going to have the character boxes smaller in the real thing.

 

[Johnknight1]

Only pros really count Sheik as a seperate character

Sakurai, pros, and people who know the hold A button thingy count Sheik as the 26th character. But I felt like being sarcastic, LOL!

Geez, we're getting bombed with info and random stuff, lol! Mesa like it!

Edit: If there were 48 characters, I'd go bonkers. That would be juset insanely awsome, and destroy my 42 or 43 (or 44) character expectations that most consider extreme! I don't know who WOULDN'T be happy with that size of a roster!

 

[DMAJohnson]

48 would make sense if theres a way to like switch screens to select a character, because if you look at the size of the boxes for characters to chose from, exactly 24 can fit on the screen, so 48 would make sense if there were 2 screens

Why would they need another page? They'll just make the icons smaller, the same way they did from the first demo to the new ones. Besides, if there were two pages, there'd be no way for more than one person to pick a character at a time; especially with Smash Bros.'s (awkward) character selection interface.

 

[Teeb147]

Geez who else do they plan on adding? 48 seems like an insane amount.

I can easily think of 48 characters, but that would include most of the ones people want in. everybody would be happy.

 

[Egret]

Geez who else do they plan on adding? 48 seems like an insane amount.

Considering that in the two years between 64 and Melee, the characters were nearly doubled this doesn't seem an unrealistic increase from Melee to Brawl. As for finding that many characters to add... just look at Brawl Character Discussion and the hundreds of proposed characters.

 

[Nintandy²]

Indeed 48 is an insane amount O.O for those with small TV screens, I feel sorry for four player madness haha. It'd be difficult alone to even select the characters!

I hope this is true, I mean this exceeds my expecations - if there are little to no clones, WOW. Now the problem is in seeing whether this is indeed legit or not. There's a high chance it's fake, then again it could well be plausible. Not long to find out the truth either way, but this would help pass the time haha.

-- Andy

 

[Nobie]

I have a few issues with this newspaper leak. They might not be anything, but they bother me enough to post about it.

1) It does not say that "there are a little under two times as many characters." It says ４８名で２倍以上となった。 Translation: There are 48 characters, which is over twice as many as in Melee. Which doesn't make sense because 48/2 < 25. It could be the case if PT is counted as multilple characters, but I don't know.

2) The blurb is written horizontally, from left to right and then up to down. Japanese newspapers tend to be written from up to down and then from right to left.

3) The large amount of white space around the text. Newspapers in any country do not like to waste this much space because it's costly.

 

[Dubyah8r]

This is too good to be true. I can't believe it. Until the real roster comes out I won't believe it.

 

[FSLink]

I have a few issues with this newspaper leak. They might not be anything, but they bother me enough to post about it.

1) It does not say that "there are a little under two times as many characters." It says ４８名で２倍以上となった。 Translation: There are 48 characters, which is over twice as many as in Melee. Which doesn't make sense because 48/2 < 25. It could be the case if PT is counted as multilple characters, but I don't know.

2) The blurb is written horizontally, from left to right and then up to down. Japanese newspapers tend to be written from up to down and then from right to left.

3) The large amount of white space around the text. Newspapers in any country do not like to waste this much space because it's costly.

Good point about the 2nd and 3rd.....probably fake then. Though it wouldn't surprise me if 48 was about the amount.

 

[Yigguth]

I don't really trust any translation until I see one from SamuraiPanda. But if this IS true, then my hype just shot up a couple notches

 

[TnadeN]

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3) The large amount of white space around the text. Newspapers in any country do not like to waste this much space because it's costly.

Good point! especially since it supposedly is a Japanese magazine which generally doesn't save enough space to make the text readable (what I've seen at least )

 

[Gumshoe87]

Does anyone here live in Japan and can find an issue of this paper today?

That would be the final answer we need.

BUt wow, 48 characters..my dream rosters didn't even have 48 characters that is just insane!

 

[Zek]

I have a very hard time believing that a newspaper of all sources would leak this kind of info. And it really doesn't look like a newspaper article at all.

 

[Boofer]

I have a few issues with this newspaper leak. They might not be anything, but they bother me enough to post about it.

1) It does not say that "there are a little under two times as many characters." It says ４８名で２倍以上となった。 Translation: There are 48 characters, which is over twice as many as in Melee. Which doesn't make sense because 48/2 < 25. It could be the case if PT is counted as multilple characters, but I don't know.

2) The blurb is written horizontally, from left to right and then up to down. Japanese newspapers tend to be written from up to down and then from right to left.

3) The large amount of white space around the text. Newspapers in any country do not like to waste this much space because it's costly.

Your first point is irrelevant, as the phrase "twice as many" is almost always used as an approximation. But I'm going to keep your second and third points in mind.

 

[Chepe]

Brawlcentral's translation says that Lucas wasnt in Melee because of his delay in a GBA release... when it was supposed to be an N64 project! That pretty suspicious if you ask me, but I guess it could be an honest mistake...

 

[Nobie]

Your first point is irrelevant, as the phrase "twice as many" is almost always used as an approximation. But I'm going to keep your second and third points in mind.

If they were going to say approximately twice as many, they would have used 位(gurai) instead of 以上(ijou) I would think. That's my problem with it.

 

[WoapGang]

Your first point is irrelevant, as the phrase "twice as many" is almost always used as an approximation. But I'm going to keep your second and third points in mind.

Although what you say is true, reread what it says. "more than twice as many" are the exact words, which makes the point relevant because 48<25x2<x in which "x" stands for the amount of characters that SHOULD have been mentioned

 

[Zinfandel]

I agree that there is too much white and it reads the wrong way. If you are going to try and convince people you might want to get some of the surrounding newspaper down there or try to get some news that only appears in that day's edition along with the article.

 

[Cyberbot5000]

I hope this isnt a load of boloney(sp?) as the hype could kill our hopes for this game

 

[amost]

It supposedly comes from Oita Godo-Shinbun, a Japanese magazine. Someone wanna look into that?

http://www.oita-press.co.jp/

a search of スマブラ on that website yields no results...

 

[Zinfandel]

Baloney. Which is some Ameripervertion of bologna. I prefer gobbledygook, pish-tosh or shenanigans myself.

Is there anyway to find out whether the newspaper in question prints in the manner we see in the article?

 

[Gumshoe87]

maybe the website doesn't have the news from the publication though. It's often like that for a lot of publications, as the website is run seperately.

 

[amost]

But for the whitespace problem, it could be that the article was written directly for an online version of the newspaper, in which case, they don't really care about how much space they're using. Although still, probably bogus.

 

[Boofer]

I swear I'll never understand why people like making up stuff online. How pathetic do you have to be to enjoy people's false hope?

Edit: Or not? Here's what someone on gamefaqs said to do.

Mewtwo_Shadow wrote:
Mewtwo_Shadow
Posted 1/19/2008 4:53:17 PM
message detail You guys....

http://www.oita-press.co.jp/

Those 2nd link below the orange sub-title kanji.

Open it with Excel
Mewtwo_Shadow
Posted 1/19/2008 4:53:40 PM
message detail Oita Godo-Shinbun, a Japanese newspaper

ehh...but apparently it doesn't mention smash bros.

 

[Teeb147]

..urm nevermind.

 

[Agosta44]

I just google image searched Japanese Newspapers, and it looks like it fits some of their formats. Not all of them squeeze their articles together

 

[Johnknight1]

Maybe they consider Sheik, ZSS, and the 3 Pokémon as add on to the character? IDK, just thinking. Or maybe they don't consider Sheik and ZSS "real" characters?

Regardless, anyone who wouldn't be pleaased with 48 characters is a ******.

 

[Izaw]

Pandapower Needed :d