Super Smash Bros Brawl Released in Japan today

spidah · Post by **spidah** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:45 pm

has this been ripped yet? i'm interested to see if the JAP import will play on my system which is modded w/ a wiikey. the US release date is still a month away.

Sigma · Post by **Sigma** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:51 pm

There's no scene release yet and there's nothing on Usenet. At least you US folks have got a release date though. We haven't here in the UK.

Vlad Analogue · Post by **Vlad Analogue** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:53 pm

Major Smash Bros. Shortages Ahead For Japan
By Chris Kohler EmailJanuary 29, 2008 | 2:35:12 PMCategories: Console Games

SmashboxjapanLooks like this week's release of the Wii fighting game Super Smash Bros. Brawl in Japan is more of a paper launch. Retailers are reporting that Nintendo is only shipping enough games to fill a tiny fraction of retail orders on January 31.

"Our Japanese and Hong Kong suppliers have notified us that Nintendo will only ship 25% of the game this week due to a production shortage," writes New York-based import games retailer National Console Support.

NCS says this means, for example, that vendors who ordered 100 copies of the game will only receive 25.

This isn't simply restricted to retailers outside of Japan. It's the country's domestic distributors that are having their allocations cut, meaning that it's likely that many consumers will be turned away disappointed this Thursday, when the game hits retail shelves in Japan.

"Nintendo has badly cut preorders placed by all distributors and is only shipping very limited quantities into the market this week," writes Hong Kong importer Play-Asia, where Game|Life has an outstanding order for the game.

It said that it only received enough copies of Smash Bros. to cover 15% of its preorders.

Adding insult to injury, Play-Asia noted that since the Chinese New Year holidays coming up next week, they expect that they won't be able to fill remaining preorders until the second half of February at the earliest.

Gamers worldwide are positively wracked with anticipation of 2008's first blockbuster Wii title, a fighting game featuring a panoply of Nintendo mascot characters. The previous game in the series, Super Smash Bros. Melee, was the Nintendo GameCube's biggest-selling title by a wide margin.

Smash Bros. fans were initially confused when Nintendo announced that the U.S. version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl would be delayed into March, about five weeks longer than Japan would have to wait.

With today's developments, the disproportionate delay now makes sense: Nintendo planned to just squeeze out enough copies into Japan to get the game on shelves this month and technically hit their announced release date... but not nearly enough to fill demand.

This wouldn't fly in the U.S., so we get to wait (and wait and wait) until they've manufactured enough copies.

In the meantime, we've got a preorder open that's not going to be filled until mid-February, so don't expect any Smash Bros. coverage on Game|Life unless a miracle happens.

shazzb0t · Post by **shazzb0t** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:44 am

i just got back from the jpn yesterday.. this game was popping off every where.. it was on the news for fucks sake..

its big time shit..

if you have a modded wii any scene release should work just fine as far as i know.

Stunna7516 · Post by **Stunna7516** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:35 am

I cannot fucking WAIT for this game.

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:48 pm

I FUCKING LOVE THIS ARTICLE......... "Nintendo is only shipping out 25% due to a shortage...That means, for example, retailers who ordered 100 will get 25..."

THANKS FOR THE EXAMPLE NOT SURE I COULD HAVE FIGURED THAT MATH OUT ON MY OWN>>

shazzb0t · Post by **shazzb0t** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:59 pm

Trademark wrote:I FUCKING LOVE THIS ARTICLE......... "Nintendo is only shipping out 25% due to a shortage...That means, for example, retailers who ordered 100 will get 25..."

THANKS FOR THE EXAMPLE NOT SURE I COULD HAVE FIGURED THAT MATH OUT ON MY OWN>>

haha seriously..

thats :retard:

action

spidah · Post by **spidah** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:19 pm

shazzb0t wrote:i just got back from the jpn yesterday.. this game was popping off every where.. it was on the news for fucks sake..

its big time shit..

if you have a modded wii any scene release should work just fine as far as i know.

do you travel back and forth for business?

i've been scouring google and my torrent sites like a fiend looking for a rip of this game..nothing yet. but there is an obviously fake torrent from a month ago called Smash Bros Brawl

shazzb0t · Post by **shazzb0t** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:12 am

spidah wrote:
shazzb0t wrote:i just got back from the jpn yesterday.. this game was popping off every where.. it was on the news for fucks sake..

its big time shit..

if you have a modded wii any scene release should work just fine as far as i know.
do you travel back and forth for business?

i've been scouring google and my torrent sites like a fiend looking for a rip of this game..nothing yet. but there is an obviously fake torrent from a month ago called Smash Bros Brawl

naw, i went there to see my lady. i'm about to move there in the next couple of months.

you probably won't get a rip of the game for awhile because to rip it motherfuckers have to first buy it and that doesn't look like its going to be happening anytime soon.

spidah · Post by **spidah** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:49 pm

shazzb0t wrote:
spidah wrote:
shazzb0t wrote:i just got back from the jpn yesterday.. this game was popping off every where.. it was on the news for fucks sake..

its big time shit..

if you have a modded wii any scene release should work just fine as far as i know.
do you travel back and forth for business?

i've been scouring google and my torrent sites like a fiend looking for a rip of this game..nothing yet. but there is an obviously fake torrent from a month ago called Smash Bros Brawl
naw, i went there to see my lady. i'm about to move there in the next couple of months.

you probably won't get a rip of the game for awhile because to rip it motherfuckers have to first buy it and that doesn't look like its going to be happening anytime soon.

it's now friday. has anyone seen this game posted online anywhere? ridic

wheels · Post by **wheels** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:18 pm

I've gotten a hold of a couple dead links that supposedly worked at one time.

I know that's not helpful

Give it a week, imo

Sigma · Post by **Sigma** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:11 pm

it's now friday. has anyone seen this game posted online anywhere?

Yep, it's on Usenet.

Dairantou_Smash_Brothers_X_INTERNAL_JAP_WII-TMD

Works with CycloWiz, but not WiiKey.

**EDIT**

I'm not sure that this rip is the complete game. Smash Bros. is the first dual layer game on the Wii, yet this fits on a DVD5.

SuperFeen · Post by **SuperFeen** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:54 am

i'm just wanna see a straight up review of this, if it still has the same
"easy to learn, lifetime to master" style gameplay i'm already hooked

spidah · Post by **spidah** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:39 am

Sigma wrote:
it's now friday. has anyone seen this game posted online anywhere?
Yep, it's on Usenet.

Dairantou_Smash_Brothers_X_INTERNAL_JAP_WII-TMD

Works with CycloWiz, but not WiiKey.

**EDIT**

I'm not sure that this rip is the complete game. Smash Bros. is the first dual layer game on the Wii, yet this fits on a DVD5.

grabbed this off mininova.. i read something about this on another forum, i hope the wiikey kids figure a patch or something out soon

Sigma · Post by **Sigma** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:00 pm

The DVD5 version does actually work with a WiiKey. It's the DVD9 (the full version of the game) that doesn't, and that includes the original, not just a copy.

Personally, I would wait for a proper DVD9 rip of the game, and for the WiiKey team to issue a fix. They're working on it. It seems a shame to play a butchered and buggy version of such an anticipated game.

spidah · Post by **spidah** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:53 pm

Sigma, i agree with you.. i'm gonna wait another couple days and see if this gets figured out so i can play the whole game.

here's the link to the DVD5 copy if anyone needs it

http_//thepiratebay.org/tor/4009243/Dairantou_Smash_Brothers_X_INTERNAL_JAP_WII-TMD

Sigma · Post by **Sigma** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:28 am

The full DVD9 version of the game has been ripped.

Dairantou_Smash_Brothers_X_READNFO_JPN_Wii-Caravan

Works with all mod chips too. You may get duplicate News and Weather Channels if you don't do the disc swap trick though (you do on PAL, not sure about NTSC-U), but you can use the DVD5 version for that. You'll need the new version of WiiBrickBlocker available from Rockman's site, as it has DVD9 support.

NZB (includes PARs): -

Code: Select all

http://www.zshare.net/download/72436888a7fd5a/

spidah · Post by **spidah** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:13 pm

Sigma wrote:The full DVD9 version of the game has been ripped.

Dairantou_Smash_Brothers_X_READNFO_JPN_Wii-Caravan

Works with all mod chips too. You may get duplicate News and Weather Channels if you don't do the disc swap trick though (you do on PAL, not sure about NTSC-U), but you can use the DVD5 version for that. You'll need the new version of WiiBrickBlocker available from Rockman's site, as it has DVD9 support.

NZB (includes PARs): -
Code: Select all
http://www.zshare.net/download/72436888a7fd5a/

good looks. this game is fucking awesome.. though it seems i'll have to buy a legit copy to get online. def worth it tho

TheEnglishProfessorGuy · Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:08 pm

Whoops didnt see this thread