Super Smash Bros.

Everyone gets a punch in the gut this week, apparently.

I would've picked Cress, myself- Then again, with Ryu around, who knows, maybe Namco and Sega have one extra character each incoming.

Hopefully a Soul series character and Tails, respectively, but I'm not getting my hopes up too high...

The former because Link was in SC 2, and it's about time to return the favor. The latter because he was part of the EGM hoax that made people demand Sonic be in in the first place.

edited 30th Jul '15 7:47:21 AM by BaffleBlend

Someone modded the game to give Marth a Chrom skin. It seems to work pretty well, aside from the whole leg issue and the absurd hitbox on his attacks.

Ran into a laser-spamming Rob in For Glory today, I can see why everyone gets annoyed with him now. Seemed like he could hit me from anywhere one (or off) the screen! Still won

Pleasantly surprised Lloyd got a costume, I honestly didn't think ANYTHING from the Tales series would show up in Smash.

Sweet, Wii U modding is finally getting somewhere.

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but I wonder how modding will affect amiibo and Global Smash Power.

Nintendo will probably delete any modders' NNIDs as soon as they're spotted.

That's the disadvantage to it being such an internet-heavy console generation.

This isn't the first time Wii U modding's shown up. None of it has ever effected multiplayer though. The most that's happened to any of them is the Splatoon guy had his Miiverse banned, presumably for showing what he was doing on there.

Also, a few people have already been able to spoof amiibos. They can only imitate an initial scan, nothing else.

And I'm guessing the only reason that mod was possible was because Chrom already had a model coded in-game.

Still, as little as that helps Smash, it means the key-and-lock amiibo stuff can be cracked.

There's already counterfeit amiibo out there that have no NFC chips in them as well as a Powersaves amiibo reader/writer.

Every single contribution to Wii U hacking so far is a significant one, no matter how small it seems to be. Until recently, there wasn't any in the first place.

Of course, much of it could get wiped out in a system update.

Not so much a system update as a game update. A system update would make it more difficult to access whatever was used to hack the game, but if it's an exploit a la Smash Stack for Brawl, only a game update would make it inaccessible — and even then, update data isn't written to discs, but rather to the system and can be removed.

Speaking of updates a new one just came out.

containing?

Samus and Black Knight costumes. Balance changes. Peach's Castle + Hyrule Castle.

Oh my god Greninja fires the shurikens faster now

Greninja buffs hype!

How to kill a meme in two simple patches by Masahiro Sakurai.

As if people didn't have reason enough to spam that move.

Smash online is undergoing maintenance in about half an hour.

Now to wait for people to data-mine this update and spoil anything else that may have been "hidden" this update.

At least for me the most useful thing about spamming shuriken is for annoying people. I don't do that often

Any idea how long maintenance will last?

BRB, making Colette Lloyd and Bayonetta Samus Mii fighters.