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Holding down the L button when selecting the Boxing Ring stage will change the design of the ring from Punch Out oriented to Super Smash Bros. oriented.
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Having specific character pairs fight each other in a normal 1v1 Smash fight results in personalized victory screens:
• Fox beats Falco:"Better luck next time, Falco."
• Falco beats Fox: "You're off your game, Fox."
• Male Robin beats Lucina: "Lucina, I hope I didn't hurt you."
• Female Robin beats Lucina: "How can you protect Chrom if you can't protect yourself?"
• Lucina beats Marth: "This is the Hero-King?"
• Lucina beats Ike: "And they call you the Radiant Hero?"
• Palutena beats Pit:"Oh, so sorry about that, Pit."
• Palutena beats Dark Pit: "Poor little Pittoo."
• Dark Pit beats Pit: "Where's your goddess now?"
• Fox beats Falco:"Better luck next time, Falco."
• Falco beats Fox: "You're off your game, Fox."
• Male Robin beats Lucina: "Lucina, I hope I didn't hurt you."
• Female Robin beats Lucina: "How can you protect Chrom if you can't protect yourself?"
• Lucina beats Marth: "This is the Hero-King?"
• Lucina beats Ike: "And they call you the Radiant Hero?"
• Palutena beats Pit:"Oh, so sorry about that, Pit."
• Palutena beats Dark Pit: "Poor little Pittoo."
• Dark Pit beats Pit: "Where's your goddess now?"
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Leaked screenshots show that there was originally a trophy for Tharja from Fire Emblem: Awakening, but it was removed from the final game. Some speculate this was because of her suggestive clothing that would have likely given the game a more mature rating from the ESRB. There has been no confirmation that this trophy was ever set to appear.
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Holding down L before selecting the Dream Land stage in the 3DS version will cause the stage colors to change to black and white, instead of the usual black and green.
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The Pokemon Trainer trophy makes reference to the first opening theme music from the English dub of the Pokémon anime.
"Pop quiz! What do Misty, Brock, Cynthia, Iris, and Ash all have in common? That's right"”they're all Pokémon Trainers! This Pokémon Master in the making is the same. Back in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, he fought to be the very best"”like no one ever was. To smash them was his real test"”to launch them was his cause!"
"Pop quiz! What do Misty, Brock, Cynthia, Iris, and Ash all have in common? That's right"”they're all Pokémon Trainers! This Pokémon Master in the making is the same. Back in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, he fought to be the very best"”like no one ever was. To smash them was his real test"”to launch them was his cause!"
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The song that plays on the results screen after a fight is the character select theme from the first Super Smash Bros.
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Sometimes when Luigi uses the green missile and he hits a wall, he will stick to the wall.
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According to Masahiro Sakurai, the reason the Ice Climbers were cut from the roster is because of 3DS hardware limitations. He also states that he didn't want to add them exclusively to the Wii U roster to avoid there being considerable differences between the two versions.
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According to the director of the Super Smash Bros. series, Masahiro Sakurai, Lucina was originally considered to be an alternate costume for Marth, but was eventually changed to be her own separate character with slight differences from Marth.
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All of the characters in the game were chosen at the start of development. This means Geninja was chosen before Pokemon X & Y was released, and that its inclusion was not because of its popularity.
There was an open slot for a new Pokémon character, and the team began discussing who to put in it, eventually settling on Greninja. All the reference material they had for Greninja were simply drawings at that point. Sakurai went home the same day he received the Greninja reference material and stayed up until midnight to do the motion capture for the character.
There was an open slot for a new Pokémon character, and the team began discussing who to put in it, eventually settling on Greninja. All the reference material they had for Greninja were simply drawings at that point. Sakurai went home the same day he received the Greninja reference material and stayed up until midnight to do the motion capture for the character.
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The Smash Run mode was influenced by the City Trial mode in Kirby Air Ride.
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The Japanese trailer introducing Mega Man in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Wii U has "Clash Man" (the original Japanese name) instead of "Crash Man" (the English name) in the Japanese commercial, despite being changed to Crash Man in Japan.
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As an early April Fools' joke, the fan-run Facebook/Blogspot group Operation: Power Up made a fake Super Smash Bros. website character page based on the ones used in the official website to "reveal" Nester, the mascot of Nintendo Power magazine, as a playable character. While the page itself is notably accurate to the source material, the screenshots shown at the bottom are of very low quality: not only is Nester's model poorly made, he's only ever shown alone in the pics and is clearly pasted on in some of them.
April Fools joke:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140330214132/https://www.smashbros.us/us/characters/nester.html
Archived smashbros.us page linking to Operation: Power Up's Blogspot page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160110171420/http://smashbros.us/
Article about the joke:
https://www.destructoid.com/site-tries-to-reveal-nester-for-smash-bros-nobody-falls-for-it/
https://web.archive.org/web/20140330214132/https://www.smashbros.us/us/characters/nester.html
Archived smashbros.us page linking to Operation: Power Up's Blogspot page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160110171420/http://smashbros.us/
Article about the joke:
https://www.destructoid.com/site-tries-to-reveal-nester-for-smash-bros-nobody-falls-for-it/
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On August 18th and 19th, 2014, several weeks before Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS launched in Japan, one of the most influential leaks in the series occurred. Footage of the gameplay and the roster (including fighters who were not announced by Nintendo at the time) were uploaded to 4chan, and then YouTube. The legitimacy of the leaks were brought into question by fans (such as the consistency of the rosters compared to the one that was shown at E3 that year), with some speculating that the leaks originated from an employee connected to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), leading fans to refer to the leak as the ESRB leak. It was not until Nintendo took down the YouTube videos very shortly after they were uploaded when they were confirmed to be legitimate. Days later, Shulk would be revealed for the game in a Japanese Nintendo Direct, confirming the rest of the game's unannounced roster.
In 2023, it was discovered that the leaker was a child of a Nintendo of America employee. According to a DidYouKnowGaming? video researching the history of various video game leaks, the employee recorded footage of the game in action, which would be sent to the ESRB for review. The child gained access to it and shared the footage with his friends, before spreading out of control. Nintendo of America fired the employee shortly after word got out.
In 2023, it was discovered that the leaker was a child of a Nintendo of America employee. According to a DidYouKnowGaming? video researching the history of various video game leaks, the employee recorded footage of the game in action, which would be sent to the ESRB for review. The child gained access to it and shared the footage with his friends, before spreading out of control. Nintendo of America fired the employee shortly after word got out.
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