An interesting rumour has popped up courtesy of Reddit which suggests that Roy from the Fire Emblem franchise and Ryu from Street Fighter could be included in the next batch of downloadable content for Super Smash Bros. The news was uncovered by Shinyquagsire23, who is best known as being part of the Nintendo 3DS hacking and custom firmware scene. He delved deep into the latest update data and found the following:
Ok, so I just got the latest update decrypted, and I think I have some news which might be rather interesting.
First things first, new sounds. In /romfs/sound/bgm we have a slew of new sounds (and some old ones from prior updates since each update overwrites the other). The list is:
•snd_bgm_F27_AIR_MoriStage_3DS.nus3bank
•snd_bgm_H12_BW_Sentou_Zekrom_Reshiram_3DS.nus3bank
•snd_bgm_SF01_SF2_Ryu_3DS.nus3bank
•snd_bgm_T09_SDX_PupupuLand_3DS.nus3bank
•snd_bgm_V01_PAC_PacMan_3DS.nus3bank
•snd_bgm_Z80_F_Mewtwo_3DS.nus3bank
•snd_bgm_Z81_F_Ryu_3DS.nus3bank
•snd_bgm_Z82_F_Lucas_3DS.nus3bank
•snd_bgm_Z83_F_Roy_3DS.nus3bank
Now obviously the biggest sticklers are Ryu, Mewtwo, Roy, and Lucas. Not sure who Ryu is (although if anyone does know, please tell),. However, Roy most intrigued me. Did they update the koopa kid’s sound for some reason? Or is there more?
So I converted the 4 sounds which most stuck out to me:
•snd_bgm_SF01_SF2_Ryu_3DS
•snd_bgm_Z81_F_Ryu_3DS
•snd_bgm_Z82_F_Lucas_3DS
•snd_bgm_Z83_F_Roy_3DS
Most of these are victory screens, all but the first Ryu sound file which seems to be a new stage. Now here’s the kicker: Roy’s victory theme is the Fire Emblem victory theme.
Yes, we’re getting Roy back guys!
I’ll continue exploring around if I can, it’s a bit late here unfortunately and I might not be back for a while though.
EDIT: I just looked into it, apparently Ryu is from Street Fighter
EDIT 2: Went ahead and ran a file listing on every updated file (although, granted, this also includes every update from before 1.06), txt file is here. Nothing too special, wouldn’t run to any conclusions from just a file list.
EDIT 3: Just to clarify, this is from a 3DS decryption, not Wii U. No idea what’s in the Wii U files, and I don’t have a Wii U to verify that.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
Um yay but I am a bit skeptical…..idk why but ryu just doesn’t seem right
could be someone else
This! Every japan developer atleast have one character named Ryu lol
Even if that’s true, very few of them are iconic enough to be put in smash. So, Ryu from street fighter seems likely. Then again there’s Ryu from ninja gaiden but he seems like a worse fit for this game.
There’s also Ryu from Breath of fire
good point, but I’m not sure how iconic he is. I’m pretty sure more people know about ryu frome street fighter and ryu from ninja gaiden more than ryu from breath of fire.
Ryu Hayabusa from Team Ninja, the guys and girls that made Hyrule Warrirors
Yep, and he’s Capcom. I want him: turning into a dragon is awesome!
And to be fair, Shulk was a more obscure character prior to smash, I’ve heard many people ask “who’s Shulk?”
This guy is BSing y’all. Why would the voting for characters even be online if the dlc has already been decided? And there is no way that ryu sounds would be added to the game this early. Sakurai has stated takes a year to make a character. They just finished mewtwo.
The sound files from the dump are most certainly Ryu’s Theme from SF2. Not to mention one of the files has SF2 in it. I completely trust the person who discovered this, but at the same time this seems like too big an announcement to be discovered so easily like this, especially since these people have been dumping ingame files from day one. Nintendo should be well aware they would do this.
Pretty easy to do if you have the right equipment, actually.
People had discovered how to keep their 3DS’s firmware on an older version of it while side-loading the latest firmware onto it just so that they could have direct access to the 3DS’s hardware. Heck, I even know of at least one person who attempted to modify his 3DS on the hardware level for exactly this reason.
Considering who’s helping make it….. maybe it’s Ryu from Ninja Gaiden?
I mean his name’s Ryu as well.
Those sound files are specifically the “Win” theme and “Ryu’s Theme” from Street Fighter 2, so it IS that Ryu.
“I don’t have a Wii U to verify that.”
Sickr doesn’t have a Wii U, and he runs this Nintendo site? That’s some sick shit either there. No wonder he loves posting negative Nintendo news. He can’t afford a Wii U!
He quoted the original poster from the reddit thread.
There’s nothing Sickr than that.
(Pun intended, I know it was bad)
No, the guy who made this article just copied and pasted what the original reddit post. The guy who posted it on reddit doesn’t have a Wii U.
What are you talking about Oscar? Ryu fits in this game more than Goku, Shrek, Spongebob and every other freaking character being pimped by these third parties (minus Banjo).
Probably Ryu from ninja Gaiden
if this is true this is by far the best news i saw on this site
If this is true, it’s gonna be the best thing ever. Can’t wait to see how well helicopter kick spam does in Smash.
Spam is one of the worst foods ever made, and the worst fighting technique ever used. :)
>>>Spammers are only civilians that cannot win by laming nor skills, waste of time, specially mine>>>
This kid online is trying to say I’M the spammer when he literally spammed every match. I think he even sent me videos, trying to prove it. It’s pretty sad cause we played like a month ago and he brought it up a few days ago, it’s like I’ve been on his mind the last month. He clearly has no life, which is what you would expect from someone who actually enjoys pressing B over and over for projectiles and such.
>>>Not even humans with IQ 3 finds it fun>>>
Yea it’s seriously mind-numbing lol might as well get a third party controller and put B on Turbo mode and walk away lol.
If you can’t counter a single move, then you’re an even worse player than the spammer.
>>>And did I say anywhere that I can’t?>>>
Spammers are the easiest garbage to counter because of their idiotic predictability and still a waste of my time when I could be battling someone with enough skills at least>>>
we need to get new characters not melee characters
Specially not another Marth clone…
roy wasn’t a marth clone he had a great moveset
I’m ok with getting Roy because it would be one step closer to having the entire melee roster. Get them all out of the way and continue from there. So any smash fighter that’s ever been will eventually be in and new ones. That’s of course if they decide to add wolf, ice climbers, snake, pichu, young link, and pokemon trainer. If they DON’T add these fighters, I won’t be upset, especially over pichu or young link.
“Get them out of the way.”
You’re forgetting that the most likely scenario would be that we would receive the Melee characters and probably wouldn’t get any other characters after them. They could very well be the end of the DLC characters, which would be disappointing. I would rather have NEW characters.
That wouldn’t be the case I’m sure. They know people want other characters, so I see the old ones just being a bonus.
I don’t think so.The time they spend making older characters playable is time that could go to making brand new characters. Even though it would be a shorter timespan than a brand new character, it still would take a LONG time to balance, test, etc.
Nobody cares about pichu
Dont have a wii u for that? Did you get rid of it? I havent played mine in a while.
Roy and ryu? That’s a strange way of spelling banjo-kazooie.
Actually, i’ll be fine with Roy so long as Eliwood is an alternate costume for him. If not, then yeah banjo all the way.
Fake……. Ryu doesn’t make sense and roy fans are just butthurt…..
Butthurt? My friend prays to Roy
Ryu is from a fighting game, a very popular character, Capcom is already represented in this game, people voted for who they wanted. Why is it hard to understand? And if it’s fake then why is it in the files
hell yeah shots fired!
Please let Wolf come back from Brawl. He’s stuck in that Wii dimension.
Yass
no more returning characters dammit. I want to see new fighters.
I just want fucking Ice climbers.
Same it’s complete bs that The WiiU version can’t get Ice Climbing cause the 3ds is too weak. 3DS not holding back the wiiu version my ass
It would take significantly longer for them to create a new fighter than to simply port them so no. Returning fighters is GOOD.
give me a balrog skin for little mac but fuck ryu.
**butt fuck ryu** – Fixed it for ya :)
Hell yeah!
King Boo is in da Mansion!
‘Sees this info is from Reddit’ Gonna need a truckload of salt for this one.
Sickr you don’t know who’s Ryu?!
No the person who posted his findings didn’t. Sickr merely copy and pasted the hackers findings.
Sf ain’t been good since the fuckin 90s.
What if… Ryu Hayabusa? (Ninja Gaiden) I’d f*cking faint.
I don’t get why someone above said Ryu Hayabusa wouldn’t fit in… It would do it really nice! With his shadows and all… But also, we already have our ninja, and I think we only have space for one
Nope not buying it.
King K. Rool 4 Smash
Ryu would be horrible in smash do not put him in there Nintendo!!!
I don’t get why people put their feelings for a company in front of the character
Couldn’t this just be strider Ryu from Strider? That would make more sense honestly…
His name last name is Hiryu, not Ryu.
Fair point…. Still, could be Ryu from ninja Gaiden
what if it about ryu from breath of fire?
>>>Really? Ruy? When they skipped the Wii U with the latest game?>>>
>>>*Ryu>>>
I honestl
The mobile version of this blog is killing me, lmao.
What I was trying to say is, I honestly don’t think it would be too bad if Ryu made it into the game. He is a very iconic video game character (waaay more iconic than a big part of other suggested characters) with quite recognizable moves, such as the Hadouken, many people are familiar with. Besides, Ryu joined Nintendo in the early days, which makes him even more suited for the roster. And while it’s true that “his” latest game skipped Nintendo platforms, he still has some kind of history with them, and many people came in contact with him for the first time on a Nintendo system, such as myself.
I’d actually really like to see him join SSB, he’d definitely deserve it, imo.
>>>I’d rather see him as an assist trophy if I had to choose, there are several characters that deserve to take his spot like King K Rool, Black Shadow and Sylux>>>
Yea, it’s true that there are a couple of other characters that might fit in better, but I still think Ryu is a really good option too. I’d definitely take him over the billion (indie) characters developers asked us to vote for, that’s for sure. King K. Rool would be my first choice I think, and Ryu would honestly be in my top 5, if not top 3 even. But perhaps that’s because of my personal nostalgia feels for Street Fighter II, who knows, lmao.
Me and my brother played Street Fighter 2 on the Wii back then and it was SO FUN except we sucked and we were just spamming buttons XD
I used to play it a lot on the SNES when I was little, also with my brother. :) Just like you, I was mainly spamming buttons, but it was still so much fun. Absolutely loved the bonus stage where you had to destroy the car. Also, awesome soundtracks. Good times. :)
>>>Nostalgia sometimes is far too strong, but in some cases it’s justified like the Sonic games>>>
Medusa and Bayonetta
>>>I have foreseen one possible future when our empire is divided into 2 new factions, us in opposite direction>>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nZFn6w2H4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUvWSOeD7Yk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRuOOcXht7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zbwychAJps
>>>But of course, I win in the end and capture you>>>
I dont go down that easily. I’d fucking kill myself.
I’m sorry but none of those characters are as popular or as well known as ryu, the only one of the characters you listed that has slight recognition is king k rool
>>>Popularity has nothing to do with it, Nintendo characters are always priority 1 but if Sakurai Sir decides that Ryu will be on it then I cannot argue against his orders>>>
Let’s not forget the 3ds version of super street fighter 4… that looked really good on the 3ds, even though the backgrounds were frozen…
Here’s the thing, I would like to see “Steve” from Minecraft be in Smash. Unlikely I know seen as MC isn’t even on Nintendo platforms but you can’t deny that a sh*t ton of people would recognise him right away and imagine his move set, bow, sword, pickaxe, spade, maybe throws blocks at people or build around them (similar to Villagers) for a final smash.
He is a modern day classic with potential that I fear will go unrecognised.
Hell no. That lame ass character doesn’t deserve to be in.
How is he lame?
Found you. :^)
You can just leave the link here! I don’t think many people will check back on this article, hah.
Oh haha you found me too. Ok, here’s the link again https://discord.gg/aQ6eezf
To old idiots saying Ryu doesn’t makes sence wii fit trainer and everyone else says hi!
>>>Wii Fit = Nintendo, Ryu = Not Nintendo, end of story>>>
You= moron
End of story
>>>Don’t start something you’ll never finish no matter how many lives you get>>>
You tell him girl.
Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden? Most likely not Street Fighter…
Or ryu from another 200 games character.
No roy please… We already got back mewtwo and Dr. mario, the least we need is a Marth/Ike Hybrid. Besides, we already have lucina who is a complete copy
Ike is completey different from Marth…what the heck you are rambling about?
I wouldn’t mind Roy. Fans have been begging for him to come back since Melee.
1.) I said ike/Marth Hybrid. 2.) I didn’t say Ike and Marth are alike. Do you know what a Hybrid is? If marth and ike could have children, roy, would be the result. Roy is pretty much Marth on fire. Even his moves are variants of each. Marth recovery = Roy recovery + fire. Ike B special = Roy B special except horizontal slice. Roy side special = Marth side special. Roy down special = both marth and ike’s counter. It makes you wonder what the hell his final smash is (sarcasm/) Sure they can change his moveset, but with mewtwo, Dr. mario, and the rest who miraculously returned having the same moves, do you really think that’s gonna happen? Probably not.
Roy is the Ganondorf of smash bros fire emblem. does that answer your question?
Roy doesn’t really have any similarities from Ike.
We have Marth AND Lucina already who are clones. Seeing as Roy was a clone of Marth in melee and that characters who previously appeared in Smash Bros games and returned have returned with their same movesets (Lucas… Mewtwo), albeit a bit changed, Roy would just be ANOTHER clone of Marth. No thanks!!!
We also have a very large cast of Fire Emblem characters as it is anyway. We need NO more reps from Fire Emblem.
Ryu is interesting and something I wouldn’t expect..
He’ll no. NINTENDO shouldn’t put anymore of Capcom characters on Smash since Resident Evil didn’t come out for 3Ds and Wii U Revelation 2.
Let me guess: you’re trying to make this into a Solid Snake in SSB4 outcry, aren’t you?
These Nintendo fanboys don’t care about character uniquenes, all they do is whine about a game not coming.
Plus, why Capcom over Bandai Namco and Sega? Shouldn’t all three of them get a second rep?
>>>We need more VILLAINS!>>>
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Glad my boy Roy is coming back. Now that it is not necessary to vote for him, I just have to wait.
ISSAC NEEDS TO MAKE IT IN BEFORE ANYONE ELSE!!! IF HE DOESN’T THEN I’LL KILL EVERYONE ON THIS SITE
If you’re talking about Golden Sun Isaac and not Binding of Isaac then I agree with you.
Yeah I’m talking about Golden Sun Issac :)
No SF please. Tell those fuckers at Crapcom to make SF5 Wii U port IN FULL instead.
The snake syndrome, they are going to advertise play station games once more, unless cap com release street fighter v 3d but i doubt it.
Snake was a good character so there is no problem with that.
It’s funny, Snake’s inclusion in Brawl is what made me get the Metal Gear Solid games for my PS1 and PS2, which led me to get a PS3 for Metal Gear Solid 4. Good job advertising you opponents, Nintendo!
Just bought GTA V on PC. Comes with 7 discs! XD lol It’s nice that we get the $1m bonus too!
ryu hyabusa
I think Ryu from Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden makes more sense. Sorry if this has been guessed. Didn’t feel like reading through
I hope not… neither of those characters appeal to me in the slightest.. plus we already have a Marth clone..
PLUS, I’m not too fond of Lucas either so that would be 3 uninteresting DLC characters for me. THAT would be highly disappointing.
Roy’s already in the game, though.
Maybe the files are his?
I don’t want all of these boring comeback characters, I’d rather see some new stuff like Rayman, King K Cool, and Bayonetta. But Rayman for sure!
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Ryu sounds cool, even though I really don’t like Street Fighter.
I nearly forgot just how salty the MyNintendoNews comment section can be.
For anyone that thinks these characters are the result of the vote for chsracters, I am pretty sure these are characters they had previuosly in the works. Two weeks does not seem like a lot of time to pick who they will make and developing place holder data for these characters. Think how long it took them to develop Mewtwo.
ROY’s OUR BOY!!! So excited for this! :)
Ryu is in a leak? Hahahahahahaha…. no!
Let’s be real here, would Crapcom honestly let Sakurai use a Street Fighter character when barely any of the games been on a Nintendo console these days? It’s just seems too baloney to be true to begin with.
There’s been more video game characters named Ryu than just him. For example, there’s Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden. The leaker just assumed it was the one from Street Fighter and there’s not really any evidence that points to a particular Ryu.
As much as I like Roy, I wouldn’t want another Marth clone. Unless they differentiate his moveset vastly.
We don’t need any more Fire Emblem characters in Smash. But Ryu is one of the characters I was considering voting for, even though I’m no longer a fan of Street Fighter.
I don’t know why people call Roy a clone of Marth when they both came out in the Smash series at the same time. You could say that Marth is the clone. I personally enjoyed playing as Roy, and didn’t mind him and Marth being so similar since they were also different in some ways (Roy had the most powerful move in the game… although if you got caught by that your skills are weak). All that being said, as much as I would like Roy back, he is not my vote to get in. King K. Rool is my choice. I would also love Shadow the Hedgehog to get in. Ryu (Street Fighter), as much as I loved him, he doesn’t fit for me much like Snake didn’t fit. Their games are mature, and you are kind of forced to lower their M for mature level to fit them in. Same would go for Ninja Gaiden’s Ryu. I know Brawl was rated T for Teen, but obviously not for the type of material you would find in Street Fighter, and definitely not Metal Gear Solid or Ninja Gaiden. Link and Samus are mature characters, but there’s no blood and guts and all that in their games. And no, I don’t think Wii Fit Trainer fits. That disgrace doesn’t even deserve to exist.
The crappiest lord in FE history is back…yay?
But he had the sword that was one of the strongest(if not THE strongest) weapons in Fire Emblem history.
HE COULD EVEN HEAL HIMSELF WITH IT!!
FREAKING HEAL YOURSELF WITH YOUR SWORD!!!
(Sadly we didn’t get that in Melee)
Ryu!? Seems so stupid, As well as Roy as the Fire Emblem scene in Smash is already too full. This Smash DLC is bad and overpriced, I’ve only liked the return of Lucas.
Getting Roy back at this point would be really dumb. We already have a lot of Fire Emblem characters, not to mention we have Lucina, who is a Marth clone. We don’t need two clones.
If it’s true, consider me excited. If it’s not, well, we’ll already be getting more characters as DLC anyway, so it won’t bother me too much.
Roy seems believable, but Ryu was a surprise. I wonder if it will be Ryu off SSF.
Correct me if in wrong here, but didnt Sakurai say that all the characters on Smash would all be characters not featured in fighting games? or am I thinking of someone else?
Ok, um, crazy thought though:
Is there a Nintendo character who is name Ryu in Japan but something else in America?
Well……..its says there SF2 as in street fighter 2, following that rule, theres BW-black and white with sentou zekrom reshiram……………………so yeah, most likely it’s gonna be ryu
HADOUKEN?
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