Wavedashing, a well-known Smash Bros. technique, hasn’t been seen since Melee. However, players are now starting to explore some “bidou” moves in the series’ latest entry that is reminiscent of it in some ways.
To execute these techniques, a Wii U Pro Controller is preferred, and most buttons need to be remapped. For the most part, it relies on pressing and holding the special move button.
Kotaku explains the benefits of bidou in a new post today:
Bidou opens up the possibility to make perfect pivots easier, pull off crouching perfect pivots, sliding spot dodges, standing dash attacks, and achieve frame accuracy on wall jump attacks. It also makes dash dancing much easier and opens up a brand new tech called “quick step,” which is an even smaller movement than the perfect pivot. What that means in short: reduced lag, better momentum control, and being able to get moves out when you need them.
Here’s a look at bidou from My Smash Corner:
A big question here is how useful bidou will be in the end. Will it be patched in the future?
Update: And here’s a look at Donkey Kong Country 2 (Europe only thus far):
Donkey Kong Country is now available on the New 3DS as a Virtual Console download. Watch some off-screen footage below.
More Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 footage has emerged from Denjin Getcha’s most recent episode. Check out the video below.
Update 6: Fire Emblem Fates Special Edition is now out of stock again.
Update 5 (3/24): Fire Emblem Fates Special Edition back up on Amazon France
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Update 4: Bumped to the top. In related Fire Emblem news, the Fire Emblem Fates New 3DS cover plates are up on Amazon France
and Amazon Germany
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Update 3: Star Fox Zero Limited Edition also appears to be gone.
Update 2: Fire Emblem Fates Special Edition gone – only lasted a few minutes. The other two items should still be up.
Update: You can also pre-order the Fire Emblem Fates New 3DS XL
from Amazon France as well. Same goes for the Star Fox Zero Limited Edition
. If either shows out of stock, refresh!
Original (3/16): Amazon France has started taking pre-orders for the Fire Emblem Fates Special Edition. Get yours here
We know what the stock situation was like in North America, so this might end up being tough to find in Europe as well!
More footage of Star Fox 64 on the Wii U Virtual Console is now available. Check out the latest gameplay below.
Wreck-It Ralph 2 hasn’t been officially announced, but the original film’s director has once again hinted that it will happen.
IGN asked Rich Moore if a sequel is still in the cards. In response, Moore laughed and said “maybe, maybe” before mouthing the word “yes.”
He also mentioned:
“I think the world of that first film is so big and the characters are very rich and I just think that they have more stories in them. The end of the movie felt like a launching point. It felt like it wouldn’t be straining to tell another story in that world as some films are. To me, I feel like I can definitely see where it would go, and I think the audience kind of felt that way too.”
As for including Mario in a potential sequel, Moore added: “In the first one we didn’t have Mario in that movie, so it would be great to have the great Mario in a second one if we did it.” Thanks to a “good relationship with Nintendo,” this might be possible.
Update (3/24): Bumped to the top. This My Melody theme is also available starting today:
Original (3/22): A few new 3DS themes are out now in Japan. Here’s the full lineup:
Osomatsu-san (x3) – 250 yen each
Finding Ojipockle + – 100 yen
Reminder: the Fire Emblem 3DS themes that we posted about last week are out now in Japan as well. As a reminder, here’s what those look like:
Nintendo brought Star Fox 64 to the European Wii U Virtual Console today. Take a look at a few minutes of footage below.
Update: WiiU/3DS tonight – Nintendo shop maintenance, Wii U and 3DS maintenance set for Monday
Update (3/24): In addition to the maintenance below, Wii U and 3DS maintenance is also taking place tonight for 90 minutes. Here are the times:
– 10 PM PT (Thursday) – 11:30 PM PT (Thursday)
– 1 AM ET (Friday) – 2:30 AM ET (Friday)
– 5 AM in the UK (Friday) – 6:30 AM in the UK (Friday)
– 6 AM in Europe (Friday) – 7:30 AM in Europe (Friday)
Original (3/23): Nintendo maintenance will be picking back up early next week. Shop maintenance is scheduled for Monday, as well as downtime for Wii U and 3DS which impacts online elements.
Here’s the complete maintenance roundup:
Wii U / 3DS eShops / Wii Shopping Channel / DSi Shop
– 1 PM PT (March 28) – 3 PM PT (March 28)
– 4 PM ET (March 28) – 6 PM ET (March 28)
– 9 PM in the UK (March 28) – 11 PM in the UK (March 28)
– 10 PM in Europe (March 28) – 12 PM in Europe (March 29)
Wii U / 3DS (online play, rankings, etc.)
– 4 PM PT (March 28) – 7 PM PT (March 28)
– 7 PM ET (March 28) – 10 PM ET (March 28)
– 12 PM in the UK (March 29) – 3 AM in the UK (March 29)
– 1 AM in Europe (March 29) – 4 AM in Europe (March 29)
