Super Smash Bros. for Wii U has been patched to version 1.0.9. Hooray! Does it fix the deadly Pac-Man glitch? No! So, what does it do?
At the moment, no-one seems sure - the official changelog says the following:
Adjustments have been made for a more pleasant gaming experience.
We headed on over to Smashboards hoping for enlightenment but, sadly, that community is baffled too. It's been established that no characters have been tweaked, and code-diggers have found the only change under the hood is a file called 'cross_f.rpx'. Nobody's sure what that is, which means Masahiro Sakurai and his team seem to have learnt from the mistakes of Ryu code being leaked about two months before the character's reveal.
The best bet from some is that the update tweaks infrastructure to clear the path for YouTube replay uploads and online Tourneys in a future update.
If you spot any changes to Smash Bros. on Wii U (the 3DS version hasn't been updated) then let us know.
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Why even have a changelog if it's going to be completely and utterly useless every time?
Oh, the stability...
I will try to find out if they fixed the Ryu and Pac-Man bugs.
Adjustments have been made for a more pleasant gaming experience...
a more pleasant gaming experience..
pleasant gaming experience...
Where have I seen this before?
OH yeah, the Splatoon update that provided a more pleasant gaming experience by making me DISCONNECTION FROM EVERY SECOND MATCH I PLAY
@ShaunOfNintendo
Yeah, just you.
I was wondering about this. I booted up the game last night only to have it download the update. As far as I knew I was up to date. Wish I knew what it did, but that's practically every Smash update.
Yeah noticed this when I booted it up this morning and immediately went to training mode to see if Falcon and Fox had changed, hoping it is the tournament mode which feels long overdue at this point.
Maybe it fixed this glitch?:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/06/weirdness_t-pose_result_screen_glitch_found_in_super_smash_bros_for_wii_u
And how do code diggers view data? Do they just put the disk into a PC?
@ShaunOfNintendo I hardly ever get disconnected! Maybe you have a slow connection? I have fibre optic broadband from Sky. Download speeds upto 38mbps and upload speeds upto 10mbps.
Please, please, please take that apostrophe out of tourneys in the sub headline. It makes me want to cry.
@123akis I have 200Mbps download and 20Mbps upload, I don't think that's my problem.
It happens almost all the time with my friends as well and it never happened before that. Honestly "a more pleasant gaming experience" is the single more vague update note I've ever seen.
Everyone has a different definition of a pleasant gaming experience and whatever nintendo's definition of it is I'm sure as hell not seeing it.
I still get shot and killed by people who aren't even aiming at me, that's not pleasant...
The rollers jump and splat attack still outranges a "ranged" weapon AND it oneshots, that's not pleasant...
The latency with playing with people on the complete other side of world is so damn high that anytime I kill them it takes the game 5 seconds to realize that I also got shot and I find myself randomly exploding, that's not pleasant...
Weapons that should take 4-5 shots to kill someone very often kill people faster than they should. That's. Not. Pleasant...
@jrpacman lol, I know what you mean. It makes me want to cry, cry tear's of frustration. Sorry.
SAKURAI, DO YOU EVEN PATCHNOTES?!!?
Yeah. I dislike how the patch notes are always the same, too.
I'd like to get tourney mode as soon as possible! It seems pretty fun.
@Moon unimpressed teacher stare
Still can't believe a new IP like Splatoon does get proper patch-notes, yet a well established franchise like Super Smash Brothers doesn't...
Woo, stability or something
I wonder if the patch is to counteract what some people have done with the game with Marth. They essentially "fixed" Marth's grab to make it more like Melee.
@123akis No. They dump the .iso file of the whole game.
When they are in the PC, they have their special tools designed by them to look in the filesystem of the game, as well as to extract music, graphics, etc.
I think that I figure out what the update did, the only thing is that in miiverse stage, only the top 8 post in a character miiverse will appear. This prevent inappropriate post to appear in the stage
@Gridatttack doesn't that enable them to make copies of the game and upload it onto the internet for people to download and play!?
I figured it out! It changes the game so that Bill Trinen automatically wins at EVO (yes, Bill is competing).
"More pleasant gaming experience" eh? I wonder if it has something to do with the alleged "Smash Purgatory" where players who are reported too much are sent and they are only allowed to play against other "banned" players.
I know last night when I was playing I got booted offline after a match and when I tried to reconnect I got a message saying the servers were undergoing maintenance. I've had a lot of connection issues for the past two months even though my connection with everyone else works fine, but I don't know if it was something on Nintendo's end or if I've been in the so-called Smash Purgatory.
@jrpacman @ThomasBW84 Dear oh dear
@123akis Nope/
They cant do that because there's currently no way to load .iso game files on the wii u by external means. Neither is there an emulator for them.
Because we can't get enough of those wonderful stability updates...
All I know is that they took out the ability to create names while on a for glory match or any online matches.
why can't we get updates that are a bit more descriptive? It's not like this is a system update
Is this going to disable all the replays again?
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