Smash Bros. Brawl dated for Europe ... at a 'later date'

The thing I found interesting is the last part of the update where he talks about unlocked characters.
After reading that I think that all beginning characters have been shown and to see the rest of the cast you have to wait until the game comes out.
Thats just what I think.

Here are some improvements Nintendo could make on the online gaming of SSBB:

Rival system: You can add people you've played with online to a rival list, so you can play with them again some time. However, communication is limited to preset messages.

Communication: preset messages (taunts) in With Anyone mode.

Personal rankings: Kinda like in Phantom Hourglass, you should get some points every time you win a match (and lose some if you lose a match), and play against progressively harder enemies as you gain ranks. This would have two effects: protect the noobs from uberhardcore wavedashing crouchcancelling nerds, and give people some incentive to play online.

Voice chat: limited to With Friends

This would all make the game nicer to play online, and still keep the children safe from pedophiles or verbal abuse or whatever.

Slahziman...

Can I send your post about the online gaming to Nintendo?

lol, of course

If find gaming with strangers pointless anyways, I rather have a person I know on the other side. In that I am lucky that most of my friends have Wii's and 360's...if only the 360 had 4 person private chat then I would be good to go once Smash gets here.

Slazi, I think you're misinterpreting what he's saying. The CPU only takes over if your opponent drops midmatch, so you won't even know, and the guy on the other end won't have the satisfaction of knowing you know, that he dropped out just before losing.

I support his solution to the disconnecters/game droppers, my only concern is what the CPU level will be set to. 4/5 would be nice, as they aren't total pushovers at that level, but aren't a strain either

The important thing is that it will insure a smooth, continuous fight for those of us with the integrity to not quit. No penalties for the quitters, but those who stay get a full match whatever happens

Slahzi, you forgot to mention gamer profiles, that is, an online card that not only shows your name and motto, but your winning streaks and loses as well, along with your most used character and your runner-up, and posibly the character you least use.

Plus, you can either show it to friends and random people online, limit your profile to friends only, or simply make it private. Kind of like XBLA.

But to be honest, the only thing that matters for me is that at least get to play with people around the world, and the online does not lag. It's frustrating when a lag comes in the middle of a game.

Crono, I know what he said, it just put me to think, if you don't even know the CPU is kicking in when some guy drops out, it made me realize that the With Anyone option is like fighting the CPU... but smarter. It was just a realization triggered by this update, and I actually like the dropout solution.

BlaBlaBla

Yeah but I was trying to keep the paranoic attitude of Nintendo... if you had a gamer profile and motto you could put all sorts of nasty things in it... oh noes teh childrenz!! :(

Most online Nintendo games either don't have or have serious problems with any kind of "public" online play. That's why we have forums and other communities where people can share friendcodes. Just go on Smashboards, and I'm sure anyone there would be happy to exchange friend codes.

Jimii, I'm a member there. It is a nice Smash-oriented community if you ask me, and by far, the largest one on the Internet.

It sort of does need to be changed...

NTSC vs PAL

http://www.terrascope.org/NTSCvsPAL.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL#Technical_details

Being produced in Japan, the native video is NTSC. They must then take the time to make it PAL compatible. That's the main roadblock behind region-free consoles, etc.

The holy grail is a device that converts either medium to either output without any quality loss. It may exist, but for the time being, consoles adhere to regional video standards.

'It sort of does need to be changed...

NTSC vs PAL'

except most PAL TVs already existing and all new ones nowadays can do NTSC anyways, and its only really an issue on really old sets.

So do they release DVDs and games in NTSC, and do they have players and consoles that are only NTSC like in the states?

Can your PAL console play NTSC games?

I'm not being a dick, I'm seriously curious. I know that a PAL game is almost useless in the US, so I was wondering if the opposite is true in Europe.

Translation, mostly. For Europe, it has to be released in multitudes of languages.

With the Wii cases and manuals, Nintendo already skirts that issue with those in English, Spanish and French printed on and in.

What can suck sometimes is the fact that the game can actually change in the PAL version. I know Melee for PAL is difference; HAL seems to have taken the liberty of "rebalancing" the game for the European players. The game isn't drastically different (besides removing chain grabbing and some slight alterations with priority and weight), but it can cause problems with world-competition when different continents play different versions of the game.

They implemented the whole friendlist system to keep the Pedobear down!

Hinder my child-molestation, will you?