By the way, I couldn't care less if this is up after BlindsideDork's post.

Anyway, there was a notice up on the DOJO stating that there will be no more updates until January the 7th. Nice to know I have nothing to look forward to. Oh well, more revision for me. I wanna sleeeeeeeep... *sob*

The first update today was:

The Dragoon


In all its colourful and Air-Ridey glory.

It's split up into 3 bits:

1. The Nosecone
2. The Hull
3. The Tail


Get them all, and the player that successfully assembles (ie collects all three bits) will mount the Dragoon…

Like so, then aim…

Always the fat one, isn't it… then…

FIRE! I can just see this being made into an "OSHI-!" icon.

The target normally then makes friends with either the background or the screen. It's considered a 1-hit KO.

Pick up a piece, and it'll show which part you have, so that you don't forget which ones you have. And, like the Battle mode on Super Mario Bros. 3, to get people to drop the pieces (if you need them) you beat them up and they'll drop it. Lovely!


As you can see here, a war will ensue for the tail piece. :B

Then came the second update, titled Share. This shows how to send and recieve photos and stages via the Interwebs. To receive data, you select Options in the Nintendo WFC Menu, then select "Accept" on Smash Service.


As seen here.

To be honest, I can't really get too far into this update as it's just the Wi-Fi data transfer stuff. It states that you can get data from Nintendo (which is labeled to show it's from the big N) and from friends, and that you can send data to multiple friends at once.

Something I saw while typing this post (and more'n likely already posted by D-Toid or a community blogger already) is a rumour concerning Brawl going gold. Look here for details. Matlock if you do so wish :)

EDIT: Of course, Blindside got the Gold up before me.

I'm not sure what the dev team over at the DOJO are on, but it's giving random results. Today, the Lottery has been binned for the Coin Launcher.


Yes, it's like those coin rolling things that are set up in school fairs. Just slightly crazy is all.

Apparently, Sakurai will have us "play every inch of this game!". At some point though, it does become slightly too much.


Anyway, this screen does the usual Menu thing; show where the game's located. It's in Vault, then Trophies and Stickers. Select Coin Launcher to start.


And the picture above this text is the game screen. Notice the Coins number? That's your ammo. And when the bar below the Coins is full, you get Rapid-Fire! This could mean coins are very easy to pick up.

Anyway, the aimer can turn left or right, and to get prizes (ie trophies and stickers) you must hit the trophy/sticker with a few coins.


Shown here is the player shooting at a Chain Chomp trophy, with the other things most likely being blockades.


And here is the player getting the trophy. It will show the total amount of trophies and stickers you have with the green number representing Trophies, and the red number representing Stickers. It will also show the last trophy or sticker you got.


Enemies that appear can be defeated for bonus points (most likely coins) and stickers.

Missiles will also appear and try and hit the launcher.

Like this.

If you don't shoot them down, you lose coins when they hit.

If this happens, be prepared to lose coins.

And it's possible to quit at any time. Press the Cancel button and…

…you're taken to the Results screen, showing you all the trophies and stickers you have earned. You can also choose to continue or leave.

The final part of the update states the various ways of earning coins, such as the Spectator Mode and other modes. And the more people that play Brawl, the more coins you will get.

Rather odd update today if you ask me. Take what you want from it.

Hope that anyone who had Christmas yesterday had a good time. To anyone else, I hope you had a good December 25th.

Anyway, today's Dojo Update is the Trophy Stand. Like the Melée game, it's possible to get trophies of your enemies, like the Fighting Wire Frames.


Or in this case, the Big Primid.

This time around though, the Brawl team have decided to make it more challenging to get such trophies. Now, to get an an enemy trophy, you must use this:

The Trophy Stand.

How it works is like a Pokéball from the Pokémon Series, to a certain extent. First weaken the enemy…

…like thus, and then, if you have a Trophy Stand (like the one in Peach's hand) and lob it at the enemy…

SHAZAM!

A trophy of whatever you hit, in this case, the Towtow.

All you have to do then is pick it up like an ordinary trophy, and it's yours to gaze and/or study.

Here is the TowTow close-up.

It's also possible to get boss trophies too, much like in Pokémon. And to show this, the Dojo team decide to show one of the more fearsome of the 3rd-Gen Ancient pokémon, Rayquaza, as an example.

Beat down that health bar, and don't use the Master Ball! What? oh, whoops, wrong game. But you get the general idea: beat up until the target's health is low enough, throw, pick up. That simple.
Plus, Sakurai has said that it will be possible to re-battle old bosses if you've cleared the game once already. By the way, I'm not sure if it was mentioned before (if it has, don't bitch, just gimme the link and I'll put it in) but there's a score system shown on-screen now. I just noticed this as typing though, so if it was mentioned before, I'll link to the page it was first posted on. It's a rather good thing though, the Trophy Stand, I think it'll add a bit of challenge to the game (ie for the collectors who'll want to save them until a certain time)

Today's DOJO! update is Wario's costumes.


Here he is, in his Wario Ware togs, ready to eat your entire head O_o

But now, like Peach and her Daisy colours in a way, you can now get...

…the Origianl Wario costume! if you've not played the Wario Ware games, this is what you've most likely seen him wearing most of the time.

And, because he's an "exaggerated" version of Mario (huge, basically), the Dojo team have decided to pick on him:

As you can tell, this is what Mario will turn into, 5 years after he retires. Or is it...?

Anyway, to get this Classic costume, you basically go through the colour select until you reach it. You go through 6 colours to reach it.

The two Warios, shown side by side.

And, if that wasn't enough, there are separate colours for the classic costume too!

eugh...

But yeah, this isn't really what we meant when we said Character Updates, damn it! We want new characters! I'm betting tomorrow will either be a new character, or just to piss us off, a new game mode.

Today brings a movie to the DOJO! page. As you can tell, it's a preview of the Adventure mode. The movie is down below as I also manage to learn how to get the effing video into the blog! Wooh!


Click the above link to go to the movie. It will open in a new window, so it may be blocked by pop-up blockers.

And, as far as the movie tells us, good old Bowser is on the Emissary's side, as it shows him shooting at Fox and Diddy. Plus, Samus can shoot Super Missiles (the green-tipped ones) from her arm cannon now instead of a blue-and-white-flamed missile. If that's been revealed, don't blam me, cause my memory is frazzled this time of the morning.

Today's DOJO update brought us the Kirby Hats. but first it shows how his standard B-Attack works:

Suck 'em in...


…and get a hat. It's Kirby Mario!

And, to whet our appetites, they've given us another 17 of them:


The Wario Hat.


Princess Peach's crown (with Toad)


Link's hat (Master Sword not included)


Dedede's hat (there's probably a name for it, but I don't know what it is)


The Diddy hat (including all the bananas you can eat)


ZZS's ponytail.


Yoshi's head (and tongue)


Zelda hat (comes with auto-sleep)


DK fur (avoid coconut shys during use)


A Squirtle Shell and tail (no Squirtles were harmed in the making of this photo)


The Pikachu head and tail (Pikachus, on the other hand...)


Samus's Helmet (comes with plaster - batteries not included)


Fox ears (with weak gun)


Bowser hair and horns (with instant heartburn cure!)


Metaknight mask and wings (awesome included)


Pit's laurel and wings (the crazy cupid :P)


Solid Kirby (boy does not look good with a beard)

Holy freaking crap that took a while! What I wanna know is why the Dedede hat lets you inhale again. I was gonna make it into a quiz, but I'm sure I'd end up as a head on a stick outside BlindsideDork's house :S