

Non-playable characters hoaxesīeing able to play as characters such as Metal Mario, Giant Donkey Kong, Master Hand, or a Fighting Polygon was the main source of rumors during the game's era. A minor hoax, for instance, claimed to feature the character Agnès from Bravely Default as a playable character, but the faked images improperly spelt her name as "Agn és", and her character portrait was different between the two images given. Furthermore, hoaxers have sometimes made various oversights while producing such images. For example, in the image to the right, Luigi's image is a mirrored version of his official artwork from Super Mario 64 DS adding to this, the hoaxed image features both three-dimensional models (such as for the aforementioned Luigi and the F-Zero character Black Shadow) and two-dimensional illustrations (such as for Marth and Fire Emblem character Micaiah).
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Particularly low-quality rosters will often use art from various other sources, violating the trend in the series where all art is original to the games. While extremely common, fake character rosters are relatively easy to debunk. The inability to easily customize the character roster for the original game has prevented fake rosters from appearing, as there are no empty spaces, and the game was released before the Internet was widespread. Some of these fake rosters, however, were merely made as jokes, including a particularly famous image featuring over 108 characters and eight player slots. Many character selection screens for Melee also made the rounds, though these screens were less credible due to the ability to quickly distribute images on the Internet being unfeasible during Melee's release by then, all the unlockables had been well-known. Shortly before and after the release of the game in Japan, these images had become more and more common, though the use of video streaming sites such as YouTube quickly disproved most of these rumors as more gameplay footage of the game became public. Box art and character selection screens for Brawl were particularly common, though images of characters in the game also appeared. series has had various works of fan art being passed off as supposedly leaked screenshots. Note that Toon Link is named as Young Link.Īs with any game, the Smash Bros.

6.4.6 Crash Bandicoot voice actor rumorĪn example rumored leak of Brawl's selection screen.6.4.4 Activision 5 Year Crash Bandicoot Plan rumor.6.4.2 Ubisoft Club Sam Rayman fighter rumor.6.3.5 Doom/ Super Mario RPG Mii Costume rumor.6.3.4 PapaGenos/Sabi Crash Bandicoot Rumor.6.3.3 IAmShifty/Brew Elfen Ryu Hayabusa Rumor.4.1 Lucas replacing Ness in Brawl rumor.While rumors about the Smash series are made in the thousands on a daily basis, this article documents several particularly notable rumors, whether for being well known and widely spread, proven correct, leaked by a notable source, or other reasons worth mentioning. Rumors can be proven true or false on arrival via fact-checking or by waiting for relevant information from official sources, though a majority are proven false some rumors, however, can contain true information, or even fabricated information that coincidentally becomes true in a later reveal or game. Most of the time, rumors claimed to contain information concerning playable characters, though rumors concerning other aspects of gameplay, such as development scheduling, can also appear. series has had various rumors spread about it, usually through the Internet, and sometimes magazines. Like many other games, the Super Smash Bros. A supposed image of Mewtwo appearing in Brawl's Subspace Emissary faked images such as these are commonly made to spread rumors about the development of the game.
