Smash Bros. DOJO!! updates

In 2007 up to the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. Dojo!!, the website dedicated to information about the game and hosted by the game's chief developer Masahiro Sakurai, underwent a redesign and proceeded to show pieces of new information about the game at a rate of once every weekday. Each update provided by Sakurai to the site is reworded and reposted here.

List of updates

This list of updates covers all updates posted from October 15 to the present; for updates posted from May 22 to October 12, see Smash Bros. DOJO!! updates (archive).

• October 15: "New Pork City" [1]: The EarthBound/Mother universe stage is revealed as a location in Mother 3 which Lucas goes to: New Pork City. It is purportedly one of the largest Smash stages ever, about the scale of Melee's Temple, but in structure the foreground looks more like Rainbow Cruise (minus the moving screen). The background is an impressive city miniature, and a stage character named Ultimate Chimera will appear and sport a bite attack powerful enough to emulate the Home-Run Bat.

• October 16: "STADIUM: Home-Run Contest" [2]: The Home-Run Contest from Melee returns in Brawl with the essential concept intact, but with four differences: 1. There is a forcefield surrounding the platform so the Sandbag doesn't fly off when hit with anything less strong than the Home Run Bat. 2. An available two-player cooperative mode allows two players to pile on the damage faster. 3. An available two-player competitive mode has the players taking turns seeing who can smash Sandbag the farthest. 4. Both these two-player modes can be played with Nintendo WFC.

• October 17: "Meowth" [3]: Meowth is revealed to return in Brawl as a Poke Ball Pokemon, but while it appears to use the same attack as its first appearance "Pay Day", its fashion of throwing out the coins appears different; Meowth seems landlocked as it hurls coins in front of it.
• October 17: "How to use the Wii Remote" [4]: A lengthy update that gives full coverage of how the actions and button comboes are mapped onto the Wii Remote when it's used to play and held sideways without the Nunchuk. The update also reveals that when a character is charged up for a Final Smash, one just presses the button for a special move to unleash it. The Oct 18 E for All in Los Angeles that showcases a playable version of Brawl will have this Wii Remote-based controller setup provided.

• October 18: "Little Mac" [5]: Little Mac, midget-sized boxing protagonist from the NES game Punch-Out!!, is now confirmed as an assist trophy. He dashes forward, jabs at a target twice, and uppercuts him.

• October 19: "Peach: Final Smash" [6]: Peach's Final Smash is called the Peach Blossom. In a bizarre series of effects, the current battle screen is "revealed" to be surrounded by giant 2D images of Peach and pink leaves. It causes all opponents around her to be put to sleep (how close they are to Peach measures how long they will sleep), and a bunch of health-replenishing peaches appears on the stage for Peach to consume at will. One of a few Final Smashes that aren't actual offensive measures but supportive to the character itself.

• October 22: "PictoChat" [7]: In perhaps the most original stage revealed for a Smash Bros. game, a stage thematically based on the PictoChat feature on all Nintendo DS systems is covered in detail. It is a blank stage where "platforms" and "obstacles" take on the form of stylus-drawn brush strokes that disappear after a while, and the main stage platform itself is a black text box showing character names. Music for this stage is revealed to be the music built into the Wii system itself (the various "channels", in other words).

• October 23: "Donkey Kong Makes His Stand" [8]: A video about Donkey Kong and his role in the single-player Adventure mode is posted.

• October 24: "STADIUM: Target Smash!" [9]: Showcases the return of the Target test feature of previous games, but with major differences; only five stages actually exist. Any character can play and score at each of these five stages, which are all visually revamped to resemble outdoors areas, and items are found throughout to help you. The update also makes an unrelated announcement: the ability to save, view, and transmit replay data of matches.