Purchase Advice: Battle Stadium D.O.N. gamecube or ps2

[Jord]

I'm really curious to see how you like the game so keep us posted.

[dbboxkaifan]

The problem with this game is its replayability isn't a lot, it feels like an inferior Super Smash Bros. Melee but there's not a lot to hold the player to play the game for a long time to come as he/she would with any Super Smash Bros. (64, Melee, Brawl) game out there.

Plus the announcer's voice is pretty annoying and if you disable it then you'll also lose out on hearing the characters' voices.

[Kakarot88]

April 26--May 8th is when it should be here, so long as eBay doesn't pull some shenanigans

[dbboxkaifan]

You've ever played Melee, Kakkarot88? Then chances are you know what's wavedashing and it's also in this game which is a ton of fun to use it all the time.

Unfortunately on Smash 4 seems like Sakurai won't be making use of wavedashing.. again.

[Kakarot88]

You've ever played Melee, Kakkarot88? Then chances are you know what's wavedashing and it's also in this game which is a ton of fun to use it all the time.

Unfortunately on Smash 4 seems like Sakurai won't be making use of wavedashing.. again.

I thought I knew Melee lol... but what is wave dashing!? sounds sick!

Yeah I'm a die hard smash fan, I'm gonna end up buying a wii U just for that lol and prob never play anything else on it except for Zelda.

[dbboxkaifan]

It's a method to quickly move from left to right or vice-versa and then attack your opponents some gamers call this an "exploit".

I'd love to play Battle Stadium D.O.N online so it'd last more than 5-15 mins but Namco Bandai would have to re-release it on the current gen consoles and they've not said a word about it since it came out.

[Kakarot88]

It's a method to quickly move from left to right or vice-versa and then attack your opponents some gamers call this an "exploit".

I'd love to play Battle Stadium D.O.N online so it'd last more than 5-15 mins but Namco Bandai would have to re-release it on the current gen consoles and they've not said a word about it since it came out.

Oh, yeah I didn't realize that was a "thing" lol me and my buds just try and kill each other, I thought it was part of a strategy for like a move set. The more ya know, learn something new everyday.

[BlazingFiddlesticks]

It's a method to quickly move from left to right or vice-versa and then attack your opponents some gamers call this an "exploit".

I'd love to play Battle Stadium D.O.N online so it'd last more than 5-15 mins but Namco Bandai would have to re-release it on the current gen consoles and they've not said a word about it since it came out.

Washdashing is an exploit, using a phenomenon in the game that the developer did not expect to have any actual use as... a standard technique. It's probably a posterboy for the concept.

[Kakarot88]

It's a method to quickly move from left to right or vice-versa and then attack your opponents some gamers call this an "exploit".

I'd love to play Battle Stadium D.O.N online so it'd last more than 5-15 mins but Namco Bandai would have to re-release it on the current gen consoles and they've not said a word about it since it came out.

Washdashing is an exploit, using a phenomenon in the game that the developer did not expect to have any actual use as... a standard technique. It's probably a posterboy for the concept.

Sooo does that mean in online play that's something one shouldn't do? I'm not the biggest gamer and have never played strangers online so I was wondering what the etiquette on that was. Personally, my friends and I just play and that kind of stuff given the frenzy of our fights never really has that big of a role, unless one of my buds is using Sheik and juggling, then it's like well might as well get comfortable as I get mauled. I've never thought it was cheap because you need to (1) be semi skilled to do it (2) thought it was just like dodging (3) your opponent should dodge it if they are skilled.

Can't wait to play some DBZ smash bros style!

[dbboxkaifan]

Just because some gamers feel annoyed for losing due to better opponent it doesn't mean it shouldn't be used, actually, go for it and show who's the boss.

Maybe if Battle Stadium D.O.N had an international release we'd have tournaments like they do with Super Smash Bros. Melee although with licensing issues and all that probably wasn't an option for Namco Bandai.

[Kakarot88]

Do I need a Japanese gamecube card to save this game's data on my wii or will a US one work or an SD card?

[Jord]

I believe you CAN use a American card but it shouldn't contain any other save data. For some reason you can't store save data from multiple regions on the same memory card.

[dbboxkaifan]

This is how it works.

NGC = To save its games you always need a memory card whether that's "American", "European", "Asian" or whatever. Just as long as it works it's good to go. You'll need to also have an NGC controller connected to that port to play GameCube games.

Wii = It makes its saves of the games on the digital storage device of the Wii itself.

The hackers/developers who worked on Wii hacking never accomplished to make the Wii Home Menu work with the NGC controller, allow NGC game saves on an SD Card or other useful methods but they still done a superb job with everything they went through.

[Kakarot88]

This is how it works.

NGC = To save its games you always need a memory card whether that's "American", "European", "Asian" or whatever. Just as long as it works it's good to go. You'll need to also have an NGC controller connected to that port to play GameCube games.

Wii = It makes its saves of the games on the digital storage device of the Wii itself.

The hackers/developers who worked on Wii hacking never accomplished to make the Wii Home Menu work with the NGC controller, allow NGC game saves on an SD Card or other useful methods but they still done a superb job with everything they went through.

so if I have enough memory on my console the game will save to the wii console?

[dbboxkaifan]

For the NGC games you need a physical GameCube memory card and controller it's just how it works, but on the plus side both are pretty cheap from third parties.

[BlazingFiddlesticks]

Sooo does that mean in online play that's something one shouldn't do? I'm not the biggest gamer and have never played strangers online so I was wondering what the etiquette on that was.

You really can't do it online; the mechanic was removed from Brawl, and is currently only possible in an elaborate modded version of the game that only go online with other friends running it. To your point, the general Smash population has either never heard of it or refers to it as a glitch (It's not, just something that the player wasn't supposed to do anything with), but if you can use it your advantage I see no reason why not. All online fighting scenes are contentious to begin with simply because the best percentage of players utterly stomp the rest. Wavedashing alone does not win you a game, anyway.

Sheik is one of Melee's best characters, so if someone's a cut above the rest of the play group as her that's going to be felt.

A mod does exist to make the Wiimote read the Cube controller as a classic, and it's actually an old one, but I have no idea how to work it. There are new adapters (intended for the Wii U) that do the same without any other tricks, though, so its moot.

[Kakarot88]

For the NGC games you need a physical GameCube memory card and controller it's just how it works, but on the plus side both are pretty cheap from third parties.

I got the controllers and a memory card that isn't full so I think I'm set, once it shows up I'm gonna need to find a reliable walkthrough seeing as how I can read roughly 0 Japanese (except for a few random words that I just recognize from stuff I've read lol)

[dbboxkaifan]

The menus are pretty self-explanatory but on the game mode(s) they tend to have challenges which requires the player to know Japanese or what it's supposed to do.

By the way, if you're a fan of the name Friеza name then there's another thing to like about it.

[VegettoEX]

Yeah, the game menus are mostly in Japanese (with some of the options in English), but they're pretty self-explanatory and easy to navigate. The announcer is also clearly a native-English-speaker, so that helps.

Like dbboxkaifan said, the only super-Japanese-y stuff you'll run up against are the mission mode explanations. These used to be a really good image someone put together that displayed what it looked like alongside an explanation of what to do. I thought it was on GameFAQs, but apparently not. Here's one version that's out there which should be helpful.

[Travis Touchdown]

I have Battle Stadium DON on Gamecube and it's a lot of fun, it really is, but my biggest frustration is unlocking new characters. From what I gather in order to unlock them you have to play story mode. During story mode, you'll get missions. Seeing as to how I cannot read Japanese, I wind up just guessing what I'm supposed to do. Sometimes I guess right, sometimes not. After successfully completing a mission, you get a token. That token is used for a chance to unlock someone at the end of the game. If you line up 3 special icons, then you go to another slot machine and you have to line up a character's head 3 times to unlock them. I've owned the game for 3 years and I've yet to unlock a single character. I have a couple of saves for DON that I've downloaded from gamefaqs, but neither the Gameshark, nor this unknown 3rd party device is working properly.