A number of new characters were confirmed for Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash this week. Players will be able to control Waluigi, Rosalina, and more. But there were some additional characters that Nintendo hadn’t officially announced. In new footage from the game, we’re able to determine who the mystery roster additions are.
We’ll be putting the information after the break!
This week’s Wii U eShop charts are as follows:
Software
1. Super Mario Maker
2. Yoshi’s Woolly World
3. Super Mario World
4. Zelda: Ocarina of Time
5. Super Mario 64
6. Super Mario Bros. 3
7. Super Mario Bros.
8. Splatoon
9. Freedom Planet
10. Paper Mario
11. Shovel Knight
12. Zelda: A Link to the Past
13. Donkey Kong 64
14. Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
15. EarthBound
16. Donkey Kong Country
17. The Legend of Zelda
18. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
19. Mario Kart 8
20. Runbow
Videos
1. Yoshi’s Woolly World PAX Prime 2015 Video
2. Yoshi’s Woolly World E3 2015 Trailer
3. Play Nintendo Introduction Video
4. Nintendo Minute – Super Mario Maker SUP-tember Fav Levels 1
5. Nintendo Treehouse: Live @ E3 2014 – Yoshi’s Woolly World
6. Freedom Planet – E3 Trailer
7. Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash E3 2015 Trailer
8. New Super Mario Bros. U Video
9. Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water Super Spoopy Trailer
10. New Super Luigi U Trailer 6/11/13
11. Splatoon Big Splats Trailer
12. Year Walk Reveal Trailer
13. Great Games to Buy with eShop Cards
14. Nintendo Minute – Super Mario Maker SUP-tember Fav levels 2
15. Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water – E3 2015 Trailer
16. LEGO Dimensions – World Features Trailer
17. Yoshi’s Woolly World E3 2014 Trailer
18. Introducing amiibo
19. Whispering Willows Trailer
20. Splatoon Squid Strats Trailer
Source: Wii U eShop
In 1996, Virgin Interactive Entertainment revealed Freak Boy for the N64. The game would have featured “three-dimensional graphics, addicting play mechanics and cutting-edge technology that uses morphing special effects,” according to the original announcement.
Freak Boy never actually made it to market. It did appear at E3 1996, but the game ended up seeing cancellation soon after. Virgin Interactive Entertainment intended to have Freak Boy ready for early 1997.
Freak Boy is back in the news roughly two decades later, as an Unseen64 reader found and purchased an early prototype of the project from a flea market. You can find several clips below.
Thanks to GameSpot, we have brand new footage of Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash. Check out some doubles gameplay below.
We’ll be seeing Octodad: Dadliest Catch on the Wii U eShop next week. To download the game, you’ll need 2.1GB of free space. That amount may change a bit once actually installed.
A few days ago, Nintendo of America presented fans with a series of possible questions on Twitter that could be submitted to the developers of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes. The first response has now come in, which deals with the game’s placement in the series timeline. Take a look at the image above for the official response.
aPriori Digital put out a new Aperion Cyberstorm trailer today showing another mode in the Wii U eShop title. View the video below for a look at Onslaught mode.
Bandai Namco brought out Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden in North America earlier this week. You can check out 14 minutes of footage below.
As Dennis touched upon in his review, Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water is a heavy download. To get the first couple of chapters, you’ll need around 6.35GB, which turns into 6.2GB when installed. The second part of the download is 8.2GB, and 8GB when installed. The total amount should end up being a little over 14GB.
One fan is building on the success of Super Mario Maker with a similar project for PC. The Legend of Zelda Maker, which is currently in alpha, can be downloaded from Dropbox here or Mediafire here.
Creator Dream Mix wrote in the game’s YouTube description:
“Zelda Maker (Temp) is a non-official project started by myself, which will allow players to create and share Legend of Zelda worlds of their own. Nintendo will cease and desist a project like this, so in time, when I’ve got the ability to change the sprites, I will do so, and I will also add things that Zelda games don’t have to make it a somewhat unique experience. Regardless, I won’t be acting like this isn’t going to be a Zelda (Maker?) clone, through and through. I’d just like to add some things that I think official Zelda games could use. This is a very early build of the game, and it does not represent what the final game will look like.”
You know how these sorts of things tend to go. Fan projects like these don’t usually sit well with Nintendo, so the Big N might be looking to pull the plug on this pretty soon.
