Rumorang: The "final" Smash Bros. Brawl roster (Joystiq)

[R.O.B.]

Filed under: Retro, Nintendo Wii, Fighting

Rumors of the final Smash Bros. roster (past the 25 officially announced characters) are nothing new, but with the game's Japanese release nearing, such rumors seem to be reaching a fever pitch. The latest fuel for the fire is the above picture, which purports to show a final roster of 44 characters from the Japanese version of the game. The screen has been floated on a number of sites with varying degrees of credulity -- it was even included at the beginning of a very official-looking GameTrailers video introducing moves for three of the confirmed new characters in the game.

So is this the holy grail of Brawl information? As much as we'd like to believe it so, we just can't. For one thing, the background seems to be taken directly from this official image of a much smaller select screen. Everything matches a little too perfectly, from the transparent background image to the floating cursor in the bottom left corner. For another thing, the images many of the "newly revealed" characters are 2D drawings that don't match up well with the 3D renderings for the officially revealed characters. Even for those that are renders, a closely matching source image can usually be found with a quick Google image search, suggesting an overzealous photoshopper.

Still, we'd be more than happy to be wrong on this one and to be able to play with this impressive list of Nintendo favorites come March 9. For those who want to cover their ears and hold out a shred of hope, check out a full list of the supposedly "revealed" characters below the jump.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in, whether they believed it or not]

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[coire]

If it is true... Then That means no Bonk!??!


Lets all hope it isn't true.

[SKTTR]

It's FAKE!

There's no Roy... no Pichu...
not even Mega Man and Bomberman. It's obviously fake!

And Ridley playable? Such a waste!

[Shortay]

They call Bowser "Koopa" on it!

EDIT: Just realised Bowser is "King Koopa" in Japan...

[ICEknight]

Jeez, there's at least two drawn pics pasted among all the CG portaits. That just can't be real.

EDIT: Just found this:

AGamerGuy, on January 23rd, 2008 at 4:24 pm Said:
Oh geez. It’s not only not real, it’s not even a real fake! This roster image was created by a poster on Brawl Central specifically to prove that the video footage of the supposed starting line-up could have been faked. Guess someone thought it would be funny to steal it and pretend that it was real.

So... case close, move along, nothing to see here, etc.

[Atlantis1982]

Originally Posted by SKTTR

It's FAKE!

There's no Roy... no Pichu...
not even Mega Man and Bomberman. It's obviously fake!

And Ridley playable? Such a waste!

...and Dark Samus, even bigger waste than Ridley.

[-Regii]

Just some random Artworks taken and added into this roster. D'you really think that Lucario will be playable? >_>
Ridley and Dark Samus are just as unlikely to be playable, so definitely nothing but a bad rumor.

[Spore]

Originally Posted by -Regii

D'you really think that Lucario will be playable? >_>

There was actually some controversy about that from a clip of an official Smash Bros. video showing the sticker system and how only some characters can use certain stickers. You know who can use the stickers by icons on the bottom of the screen and wouldn't you know it? There was an image of Lucario, Jigglypuff, and Ness. I think those were the characters.

[Luigi182]

NO!!! Follow the link for the OFFICIAL* final roster!:

http://ssbbnmc.ytmnd.com/

Lol! Just kidding! I wish it were, though.





*note: not really official. This is just a joke! :P

[Spore]

Because playing as the moon or giants from Majoras Mask, or Navi or Tatl the fairies, or Darthvader would work in Brawl. Heh, Darthvader. First one to reference Soul Caliber 4 wins.