User:TempleofDreams/Prerelease:Super Smash Bros.

sites: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nalj/ http://web.archive.org/web/19990427151523/http://www.nintendo.com/n64/smashbrothers/index.html http://smashboards.com/threads/smash-development-history-updated-1-3.324410/ http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nalj/smash/Home.html#contents

Visual

 * The Bumper had a cyan outline that was recolored to dark blue, and the center had a light yellow color that was slightly darkened.
 * The small plaque that stands in the background was absent.
 * The fences in the background were brown colored, but those were recolored to gray.
 * The background had denser clouds.
 * The trees were positioned closer to the small tower.

Design

 * Most notably, the whole upper platform was absent.
 * The Bumper was much lower.
 * The moving stone platform was also absent, but curiously there were two black lines where the platform would later be added.

Visual

 * It had a different background.
 * A picture from the Super Smash Bros. Japanese site shows part of Hyrule Castle texture-less. This suggests that the picture was taken before the game was completed.
 * Hyrule Castle seems to have hugely changed during development: it was probably going to take place at dawn or sunset as evidencied by a picture of Link in the stage, from the game's opening. However, none of the other pictures show the stage like that, so it is possible that the picture was taken very early on development.

Visual

 * The Super Happy Tree and the orange and blue colored clouds were much smaller.
 * The smaller platforms were texture-less from below.

Design

 * The smaller platforms, and possibly the upper platform, were much higher.

Visual

 * The patches of tuplip-looking flowers were redesigned to be sunflower-looking.
 * The bushes with pink flowers were originally darker and had orange flowers.
 * Whispy Woods' leaves were much darker.
 * Patches of bushes in the background were changed to fences.
 * It had a different background.
 * The small bodies of water used different textures.
 * The bark in the floating wooden planks were darker, and look very similar to the textures used in two unused stages.

Visual

 * The rooftop of the main building had purple and pink colors, but they were changed to gray and thistle colors respectively.
 * The left building had a green rooftop, but it was changed to a gray color.
 * The building holding the "Got a Catch 'em All!" banner was much smaller and had a white rooftop with black windows covering the walls, but it was chnaged to a bigger, green building.
 * The "Got a Catch 'em All!" banner had pink, snow white, and pink as colors respectively, but these were changed to green, white, snow white, white and green respectively.
 * There was a building in front of the previously mentioned building that was removed.
 * The hovering platforms had textures resembling wooden planks, that were changed to metallic ones.

Character Select Screen

 * Most notably, the icons used for unlockable characters that were not unlocked had a simple design of colored blue, green, red and yellow squares with a black question mark in the middle, but have been replaced with gray silhouettes with a snow white question mark in the middle.
 * The yellow bar with the stock count or time limit of the next match had "TIMER" written in it when the match was a Time match, but it was changed to "TIME".
 * There was a counter of how many "MAN" (human controlled) and "COM" (computer controlled) players there were in the character selection screen, but the "BACK" option was added in place of this feature.
 * For some reason, Yoshi has a shadow on his snout.

Series Symbol

 * The Legend of Zelda ' s series symbol was an upside-down triangle, likely inspired by the Triforce of Courage shown in Link's hand before the battle with Ganondorf in Ocarina of Time. It was replaced with the iconic Triforce.


 * Yoshi ' s series symbol lacked the spots in the Egg, being a simple oval shape.

Dropped Ideas (change that, please)

 * Mewtwo, Bowser, King Dedede... bla bla bla.
 * Super Smash Bros.' tentative title was Smash Brothers.