Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to Have Day One Patch for Replays

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will have a first day patch for instant replays.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will include a patch to be used immediately, fixing a bug previous versions of Smash have had with saving replays.

If you want authentic video proof of the first time you K.O. one of your friends on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, you are in luck. A patch that will be released with the game allows players to record and save any gameplay moment they choose.

Masahiro Sakurai, the director of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate,  told Famitsu that players who buy the physical copy of the game will need to install an update that will be made available on the same day Ultimate is available, December 7th.

This is only an issue for those who purchase a physical copy of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, according to Sakurai, “Players who purchased the digital version don’t need to worry, but players who purchased the physical version should apply this day-one patch before you play. This will also prevent your replays from going off-track.”

In Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS, saving replays worked differently. Instead of the game recording video of actual gameplay, the game recreated what happened using game mechanics. Any updates to characters’ abilities would change the replays.

According to Sakurai, “If you save your replays as videos, you can keep them forever, but note that they take up a lot of space!” Super Smash Bros. Ultimate already takes up quite a bit of space—the file for the initial game is 13.6GB, and the patch is bound to add to that number. Players will have to decide how just many replays they want to save, though many might just use the feature to save videos long enough to upload them to YouTube.

Players will need to wait until after the game is released, however, as Nintendo and YouTube have been cracking down on piracy of the upcoming game. Crunchii and Dystifizer, two popular YouTube channels, were suspended for sharing leaked music from Ultimate,and they even face possible deletion. Crunchii tweeted that he had 21 copywrite strikes against him. The two channels had a combined 140,000 subscribers.

Aside from the upcoming release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, fans of the franchise can look forward to a new project related to the game involving Ninja. The popular Fortnite player posted a teaser for an upcoming project for the new title on his social media that had the entire community interested in what the Twitch streamer has planned. However, what exactly he is referring to remains to be seen. 

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be available on Nintendo Switch on December 7th.