naznatips on 07 February 2008
| wfz said: So did you guys hear about the news regarding the characters that are programmed into the game but missing a bit of information? Mewtwo, Dr. Mario, Plusle & Minun, and Toon Zelda/Sheik are all of them. Apparently people are suspecting that Nintendo could give us a really small update down the road that would complete the data for the characters, and we could then play as them. Games have been known to do this on the xbox 360 apparently. I believe it's most likely just scrapped characters they ended up deciding to not bring in the game, but if they're made whole down the road...that'd be awesome! |
It wouldn't take just a "really small update" to finish those characters. All that's in the disc data is the character models. None of the moves, movement, jumps, etc. are programmed in. The amount of data to complete each character would be about the size of an N64 game, which would basically kill all your Wii's system memory.
The fact that all that's in the disc is the character models strongly suggests that these were just the residual data of early designs that they never bothered to take out because the models themselves take almost no disc space. Residual data is comon in games. For a recent example, Bioshock had some residual PS3 data, despite no PS3 version produced.
