Super Smash Bros Brawl [Wii - Beta]

Super Smash Bros. Brawl was developed by Sora and published by Nintendo for the Wii in 2008. Development of the game began in October 2005, when Nintendo opened a new office in Tokyo just for its production. Nintendo enlisted outside help from various developer studios, including Game Arts, whose developing team spent excessive amounts of time playing Super Smash Bros. Melee. They were also given access to all the original material and tools from the development of Melee, courtesy of HAL Laboratory. In addition, several Smash Bros. staff members that reside in the area of the new office joined the project’s development. [Info from Wikipedia]

The design of the mines that Snake can use was changed in the final version. In the beta, some of the “character emblems” had the original/melee styles. Other things that never made the cut were:

• Fox’s animation had him holding a gun, instead of moving his hands as if he was drinking something like tea.
• Shadow Moses Island had an outside part of it, too- it had a great view of the mountains and some white platforms.
• Ridley was an Assist Trophy, not a boss.
• Songs such as Sonic- You Can Do Anything and Forest Maze were originally in the game.
• The developers intended on making Snake a bit more muscular.
• Rosalina was once an AT
• Green Hill Zone’s old name was Emerald Hill
• Link’s hair was longer in the beta
• During Brawl’s development, the graphics were going to be a little better than they are in the final (More polygons)
• During the time, Mario used his Super Mario Sunshine voices before the new recordings with Link using voices directly from Twilight Princess (No, SSBB and TP’s Voice Recordings Are Different)
• All Characters, Including more, were done by E3 2006 (Said in Iwata Asks)

More infos: Smash Bros Brawl removed characters

Thanks to Randy355, Shade3c, Adriel & DRMARIOX for the contributions!

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Videos:

1. Super SMASH Bros Melee [GC - Beta]
2. Dexter’s Laboratory Robot Rumble [XBOX/PS2/GC - Cancelled]
3. Clay Fighter 2 [SNES - Beta]
4. Street Fighter Alpha 2 [SNES - Beta?]