#and they can call him Alan like in nintendo power when they used to joke that writer Alan Averill was a slime

[knittingwithhighlighters]

Putting a fan theory here for posterity’s sake, but....

...I wonder if the Switch 2 might be released next year? It’ll be about 6 years since the first one came out (as of March of 2023), and I don’t know. Nintendo has been keeping a lot under wraps--but then, that doesn’t necessarily mean anything.

What we DO know is that the new Zelda game is coming out in May, and it’s a big, expansive game that’s the sequel to Breath of the Wild. Breath of the Wild was considered a “main” Zelda title, and it looks like Tears of the Kingdom will be too..and each generation of consoles since the N64 has one “main” Zelda title on it (Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Breath of the Wild). (Sidenote, note that Wii U doesn’t have its own Zelda game like this. And while we’re on the subject of the Wii U, I hope the next console also lets you download the Netflix app too, that would be pretty cool). I don’t know. Apparently some people are theorizing that it might be released sooner than we think, and for example they were talking about how Nintendo was spending a lot more on raw materials. An article The Nikkei has said in that they won’t release a new console in the fiscal year that ends in March 2023 (although it’s not clear if the journalist was asserting that, or if Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said that himself). Either way, I can totally see them going for a November/December 2023 release. Consoles sell better in the holiday season--especially since Sony and Microsoft are definitely not releasing main consoles this winter--and this makes sense for Nintendo especially, since a lot of content is aimed at kids, who are going to want new games to play at Christmas. This is just me rambling, naturally--but I’m putting out there, in case I’m right. And if I’m right, if there IS a new Nintendo console release in winter of next year...then I would expect a new Smash game too. Especially since that would make 5 years since SSBU launched, and Nintendo has said that there will be no new DLC Smash characters, with the last one release in October of last year. I guess what I’m saying is...well, for me this is a possibility. And it’s nice to be right on fan theories, so I’m putting this out there for posterity’s sake. I guess only time well tell :)

[itskirahhh]

My fondest memories

How many days have you had in your life that you will able to have again? Spoiler:none. You could have a day that’s similar, a moment that’s quite close. Truth is, you will never ever get the same opportunity for a moment again. I am only sixteen, and i hopefully have a long long time left on earth yet, but the amount of memories you can gain in the first sixteen years of your life is crazy really. Everyone says that your school days are your best days, and you don’t believe them when you’re in school. I literally left school nine months ago and already i realise what everyone was talking about. It really, really was amazing, thinking about it. If you’re still in school, or even if you’ve left school like me really, just please try and make sure to make the most of everything you do. Spend time doing things and try and have the most fun doing whatever you’re doing because the memories you will get from even the littlest things will be worth it. Maybe i’m just really sentimental or maybe i’m right, but i recommend you do. 

These are my fondest memories:) don’t read it if you don’t want, i just wanted to reminisce lol.

I will never get back the days in reception where we danced around with our teacher Lucy to the Woohoo song.

I will never get back the days i used to spend my lunchtimes inside with my brother’s form tutor and asking her about how he was doing in school. *cringe* I will never get back that day me and my friend were sat in her room playing with our polly pockets and she had a big cruise ship that we wanted to make a sea for and ended up tipping water all over the carpet and crying to her mum that we were really sorry.  I will never get back those days it was snowing and me and my brother got sent to my mum’s work nextdoor from school and just sat eating biscuits and putting lunches in brown paper bags. I will never get back that day where me, my brother and two of my cousins were playing ‘peter pan’, i whacked my teeth with the ladder of a bunk bed and we accidentally turned on the shower whilst inside it when hiding from captain hook and smee. I will never get back the time me and my friend wrote a book about me and her finding kittens in a box and taking them to someone who definitely wasn’t our teacher - who was called mr moggy - and we ended up getting a big house together with loads of pets that we listed at the start of the book. I will never get back those days where me, my dad and my brother rode our bikes through the woods and all the way to a shop on the other side where we brought little snap pots of squash. I will never get back those times me and my brother used to pretend we were gladiators on that show on the slide in my garden. He was always the fire king and had electrical powers (because logic) and i was the ice queen, which was probably something to do with the fact we spent most of our time sat on our dining chairs at the big computer playing fireboy and watergirl or papa’s pizzeria. I will never get back those days where me and my friend played in her shed that we thought was really cool because it had two floors, or when we made up a dance to the song “Hot n’ Cold” (that honestly is so vivid in my memory that i could probably do it for you right now) to show our mums.

I will never get back those sad, sad days i used to create bedrooms on girlsgogames on ‘my new room 2′ (i didn’t like the original or number 3) or look through the argos catalog for things to put in the bedrooms for the family i created for no specific reason that i can definitely still name now, and literally exactly what they looked like.  I will never get back those times in primary school that i played games i didn’t understand with my friend and we tried to figure out what monsters lived in the grate in the playground. I will never get back those days i used to stand on the bench in my garden and talk to my nextdoor neighbour every single day after school and on weekends and we would sit upstairs in the rooms that were closest to eachother and try our hardest to get our nintendo ds’s to connect so we could pictochat.

I will never get back the summer where i turned eleven and got my first phone, a white T-mobile unity that i had a green penguin case on that was intended for a blackberry phone. I had Now that’s what i call music 82 downloaded onto it, a shedload of awful selfies when my side fringe was just starting out, and i wrote fanfictions in my notes. Cool.  I will never get back those days where me and my new high school friends used to pretend we were doing music practice at lunch and instead just ate out lunch and sang along to the only song we knew how to play the chords to on a keyboard. I will never get back those days me, my boyfriend and his annoying little follow-along friend used to get kicked out of the little outside bit by our form, and the countless times we used to stand and flirt while his friend complained about it. 

I will never get back those days i used to go out to the field with my friend and her big photography camera and take photos for a project we invented for ourselves that currently remains incomplete. It was a book about two females who were together called Madison and Annabelle who were writing to eachother after getting split up during the holocaust. Sounds like a really fun project for two thirteen year olds lol. We slept around her house, had countless chinese meals and played with her kittens.

I will never get back the days where me and my best friend made videostars. The first one we did was last night by the vamps and we had her ipod resting against her tv while one of us tapped the record button and the other one was in shot. Id go through all the songs but there is a fuckton. 

I will never get back the day when my best friend’s mum and dad got married and me and some of my best friends spent the night in cute little party dresses trying to inhale helium from the party balloons and doing ‘the jellyfish dance’ and ‘i am the music man’ on the dance floor.  I will never get back those times we had triple history on a wednesday and i was just always so excited to see my new friend and current crush and not learn anything at all. I sat behind him in lesson and in one of the first ones i stuck a glue stick to the back of his elbow and he and my lovely, lovely teacher made me promise to buy him an indian takeaway to say sorry for doing so. (Who knew that was how you get a best friend??)

I will never get back the dance/school shows we did for maybe three nights in a row each year that we spent the first half of the year practicing for, sitting upstairs - or in the really early days, sitting in the canteen - with the other dancers, actors and ‘voices’ panicking over a spare line up sheet about getting dressed and putting stage makeup on in time before we had to go on stage again. We ordered a pizza from dominoes most years. The one in this year was one of the last ones i did and a group of us, including two of the main actors who me and my best mate thought were really cool, were sat on the floor in the corridor before we went on stage playing truth or dare and asking eachother silly questions. One of the dares was for my friend to give me a piggyback but on his shoulders, and he dropped me when i was up there and i landed on like a cement floor straight on my coccyx, and then had to do two dances after that. It was then a running joke between me and him that he had ‘broke my arse’. I will never get back those last moments with my dad at christmas when we played i spy because that was all he could understand, or on new years night when i lay next to him in bed and we watched alan carr until it hit midnight, or when we were eating biscuits in the hospice and he was laughing at himself because they were “o” shaped. I will never get back that moment i had my first kiss i had with my boyfriend or those four months over the summer period with my completely new (and improved) friend group and the day we went to the park and my best friend fell in the mud, we all tried to fit on a spinny thing, and we watched tangled, the day of our friends birthday when we went to the cinema and all lay on the trampoline at his house, my birthday that year. I will never get back the first house party i went to (which is perhaps a good thing to be completely honest), or the second one, or the third one, which was also the first time i got drunk and told my best friend she couldn’t sleep because she had hiccups, drunk texted my other best friend and then attempted to help my best friend when she threw up basically a whole bottle of bright orange caribbean twist on a white carpet.  I will never get back those lunchtimes every day where we sat underneath our tree (the one inbetween the year 8 tree and the smoking weed tree) on the field or on the first and seconds benches in the maths corridor and pissed about, made our own olympics and attempted to play rugby. There are waaaaay too many memories to list about lunch and breaktimes.  I will ever get back those last few days of school where we spent every lesson with our phones out and taking photos together or signing eachothers yearbooks rather than revising, and the fact i came home from school two or three hours late every day because i spent my time revising or doing dance practice. I will never get back my prom, one of the best moments of my life, to be honest, where i just saw all the people i had grown up with looking absolutely gorgeous and all dancing together and just not having a care in the world. Honestly, i wouldn’t have chosen to grow up with any different people. It is both amazing and emotional to think about both myself, and all the other amazing people in school growing up alongside eachother and shaping into who we are today.

Here’t to 16 more years of memories ay.

[vurnett]

Sheng Long is a character once thought to appear in the original Street Fighter II game. He is regarded as the most famous character hoax not only in the history of Street Fighter, but in all of fighting games. The name “Sheng Long” was based on a mistranslation of “Shoryuken”, found in one of Ryu’s early victory quotes, “You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance”. The large amount of fans questioning the quote lead to a rumor spread by Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) that Sheng Long was actually a secret boss character fought under extreme conditions. The whole hoax would become one of the most famous hoaxes and video game legends in gaming history, spreading globally.

The name Sheng Long comes from a mistranslated portion of Ryu’s Shoryuken; “shō ryū” from Shōryūken, Ryu’s flying uppercut, is “shēng lóng” in Chinese pinyin. This was carried into one of Ryu’s quotes to defeated opponents in the English localization of the 1991 arcade game Street Fighter II, changing the Japanese quote, “If you cannot overcome the Rising Dragon Fist, you cannot win!” to “You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance.” As a result players were given the impression that Ryu was referring to an actual person instead of the physical attack itself.

The Super Nintendo (SNES) port of Street Fighter II released shortly after the April Fool prank changed the translation to “You must defeat my Dragon Punch to stand a chance.” However, the English instruction manual for the SNES Street Fighter II referred to “Master Sheng Long” as Ryu and Ken’s teacher. Instruction manuals for later ports to the SNES and Sega Mega Drive consoles replaced all references to Sheng Long by referring to Ryu and Ken as “disciples of Shotokan Karate”.

April 1992 EGM article

EGM first started the Sheng Long rumor with a hoax article (pictured), revealing the rumored method to access him. He is described to have over-the-top powers, with fireballs faster than Sagat’s Tiger Shot, and a spinning kick deadlier than Chun-Li’s Spinning Bird Kick, also with the special attack of each fighter and “mega-damage” attack. He was also said to possess an air throw and have a Shoryuken engulfed in flames.

The method described was as follows: playing only as Ryu, the player cannot take a single hit until M. Bison’s stage. Then, the player must not hit M. Bison or allow him to land a hit for ten rounds straight. Afterwards, Sheng Long would appear to throw Bison off the stage and face Ryu. When facing Sheng Long, the timer will freeze at 99, leaving a full “fight to the death”. This directly inspired Akuma’s entry sequence in Super Street Fighter II Turbo, where Akuma comes on the stage and performs the Shun Goku Satsu on M. Bison.

April 1997 EGM article

Around the release of Street Fighter III: New Generation, EGM later revived this rumor with an issue in 1997, where they actually gave him a defined appearance and design, and further explained his backstory. However, the method to get him was obscured after “Getting 6 perfects”. His fighting style included an air version of Akuma’s Shakunetsu Hadoken that knocked his opponent down, a double ground high-low Hadoken, an unblockable Denjin-Shinryuu-Ken (電刃神龍拳 Denjin Shinryūken?, “Electric Blade Divine Dragon Fist”) Super Art that would shock the opponent, an air rapid Hadoken super attack akin to Ibuki’s Kasumi Suzaku, and a third super attack intended to be a stronger version of Akuma’s Shun Goku Satsu.

Street Fighter: The Movie

Sheng Long is mentioned three times in the 1995 arcade game Street Fighter: The Movie in the endings for Ryu, Ken and Akuma. In each of the endings he is stated as Akuma’s brother and the master of Ryu and Ken, but never stated as dead. Despite the repeated mention, Sheng Long does not appear in the game. On January 30, 2007 the game’s designer, Alan Noon, appeared on Shoryuken.com’s forum and discussed aspects of the game cut during development, among them a playable Sheng Long character.

According to Noon, while shooting and digitizing the character images for the game, talk had circulated about adding extra characters that were not in the film. As the Sheng Long hoax and Akuma’s debut in Super Street Fighter II Turbo were fairly recent at the time, the designers asked for Capcom’s permission to add both characters into the game. Capcom approved the addition of Akuma, but denied the inclusion of Sheng Long.

However, during the digitization sessions for Akuma, Capcom unexpectedly approved the addition of Sheng Long; Noon stated that Capcom felt the character’s inclusion was a necessity for the game’s success. Noon designed Sheng Long’s appearance, giving him a “mandarin style” gi and one hand taking the form of a dragon’s claw, described as a result of his power being so great that he began to physically transform into a dragon. Capcom approved the design, and an artist from the development team posed as Sheng Long. However, the character was left unfinished because of time constraints.

Street Fighter IV Main article: Gouken

In an interview in the January 2008 Issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono stated “Let’s just say that [jokes] that your magazine have reported in the past might find their way into the game as fan service.” Executive editor Shane Bettenhausen took this to mean the appearance of Sheng Long in Street Fighter IV, though added that if the character did appear in the game, it would be Gouken. When asked in a later interview by 1UP.com regarding the possibility of Sheng Long’s appearance in the title, Ono replied “Are you coming to the Tokyo Game Show? How about you ask me that question again then.” Capcom later revealed Gouken as a character in Street Fighter IV, with Ono stating in an interview with Play magazine that his inclusion in the title was in response to fans requesting Sheng Long’s presence in the game. Players can also unlock the title “AKA Sheng Long” for their calling card by using Gouken.

On April 1, 2008, Capcom announced Sheng Long as a “secret, unlock-able character” in their Japanese development blog for Street Fighter IV and later posted in their official US blog accompanied with a silhouette of the character. The post took the tone of a Capcom PR representative trying to announce a character without giving away too many details, hinting that “Sheng Long is Ryu’s…” then holding back and saying to wait for an official character announcement. Similar to the original EGM joke, the post lists the method to unlock him as requiring the player to win every round as Ryu without taking any damage whatsoever and then perform his “Shoryuken” move during the final boss fight. Reception to the joke the third time was negative, and included criticism from 1UP.com. The following day, the Japanese website confirmed that it was indeed a joke, and explained the origin of Sheng Long while adding “Sheng-Long is still now and always will be, truly a character of legend.”

Street Fighter V

On March 2017, 25 years after the EGM article was published, Sheng Long was given a “joke” profile in the Shadaloo C.R.I. part of the Capcom Fighters Network website. The profile satirizes the Sheng Long rumor, stating that he became a “living legend”, he appears “if you keep getting draw games”, his moves are impossible to counterattack, and that anyone that sees him will die after 24 hours.

Keeping with tradition, the profile also lists an exaggerated moveset for him. Apart from the Hadoken, Shoryuken and Tatsumaki Senpukyaku, he can also use the Jigoku Tomoenage, a throw that instantly defeats his opponent, the Renkoin, an ability that allows him to resurrect himself indefinitely, the Daihan, which angers his opponent, and a “Critical Art”, the Rei Shirushibo, which changes his personality.

Additionally, the background is different from other profiles, and it has the word “uso” in it, meaning “lie” in Japanese. The profile is said to be the “800th” (which is actually not the case) and it is currently unlisted, stating that much like those who see him, it will disappear in 24 hours.

#Sheng Long