Earlier this month there was a great deal of excitement around the arrival of Mewtwo in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, at least for Club Nintendo members. Unfortunately some ran into trouble, however, when a glitch started to prevent players getting online after playing as Mewtwo. Some single-player modes prompted a problem with the Global Smash Power rating, falsely interpreting players as attempting to cheat and preventing them from joining in with online matches.
Nintendo did apologise and promise a quick fix, and the result of that is available now. Both versions of the game have an update waiting, which is mandatory before playing online. A browse on forums such as Smash Boards affirms that this is allowing those affected by the Mewtwo glitch to play online once again, while it's also shut down some workarounds with custom moves that some were manipulating for humorous YouTube videos.
It's good news that Mewtwo is now fully available, and just in time for the public sale of the character.
Were you affected by this, and are you planning to smash some foes online with Mewtwo? Let us know.
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Gonna need another glitch fix for the other Mewtwo bug now...
To be fair, this whole thing, as stupid as it was, basically showed that they actually care about a cheater free online enviroment.
Better be too carefull then too careless, as long as issues like that are resolved quickly.
I just need to be able to purchase Mewtwo first ;-;
I completed classic 9.0 on solo and 2-player, allstar solo and 2-player, as Mewtwo without getting banned. I didn't hear about the bug 'till after, I guess I just got lucky.
@SnackBox Other bug?
I have Mewthree...lol
Didn't experience this glitch, but I'm glad to know it's been fixed.
Thanks for the update! I've had this since the glitch happened so I'm glad to hear it is now fixed. I've been mainly working on my challenges while I waited for it. Only have 12 left now!
Cool, I just didn't play online and started beating classic with everyone. I had forgotten how fun SP Smash can be.
Good. Now I'm safe to buy him and online will have a decent mewtwo population to fight against again.
@ReshiramZekrom Same here. Anyone know when he's available to us?
@Moldemort The bug was for Multi-Man Melee so if you never completed these with him, you wouldn't have got banned.
Weird...this bug never happened to me.
Where are his Custom Moves? Will we have to purchase them too? Gosh, this is such an half assed job. I hope Lucas has his custom moves included on the DLC pack.
Glad to hear. Doesn't affect me much, either way. I think I've only tried playing online once since November, anyway. I would much rather play with people in the same room locally. It's much, much smoother that way.
Guess I can download the rascal now.
That custom moves glitch was so much fun though.
It's too bad this game isn't NEARLY as stable as my 3DS.
What was the custom moves glitch?
@Scizor711 You need to learn to be grateful. So freaking unappreciative. Unbelievable
I clicked because of online bans. Oh well, fell for it.
Hey guys that got the code from Club Nintendo, how does it feel to be beta testers? HAHA But seriously now, it was a nice incentive for free to some. Won't be getting him in the near future tho...
^ Was alright actually. I didn't have any problems with Mewtwo glitching so my entire experience with him has been nothing but positive.
@LawRulesALL It feels great. I have had no problems with Mewtwo and have been using him offline and online since he came out.
I haven't played him exclusively, but considering I partnered with someone who only had the Wii U version, and I only had the 3DS version, getting Mewtwo for free was nice. Wish there was a deal like that for Lucas.
my game didn't auto update untill i exited and restarted. weird
@LawRulesALL I guess we really were beta testers, huh. I didn't experience any issues, but I guess I got lucky for a change. I'm glad they were able to test it on a small group and resolve the major issues before this went out to everyone.
@SwaveSays @Rhydas @Knuckles Well, nice it was good and free to some of you. I hope Nintendo do more things like that in the future. Since my country does not have a club nintendo I couldn't get him Could've made an american one just for this but it would be too much of a stretch. I'll get him someday after he launches to everyone, along with Lucas probably. Played with him some on Melee, looking foward to play with him again.
@LawRulesALL Well, that sucks. I think he's available to everyone on the 28th. I prefer him on SSB4 over Melee, but I also prefer the whole game over Melee. Everything feels more fluid and responsive.
Glad I can finally go online. Wasn't so much missing the ability to play with others, but really wanted to check out the downloadable custom stages etc.
When's Lucas come out to download?
Good news! Will download the updates soon.
@Moldemort You could bug Mewtwo into having custom specials and pretty much win anything in offline play
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