On that date, Random Talking Bush, an administrator of and contributor to the site The VG Resource, revealed that he had successfully downloaded the 1.0.8 update of the Japanese version of SSB4 from Nintendo's servers before it was set to release; he then proceeded to datamine its contents and post links to them on his twitter account, showing the characters' ending videos, official art, costumes, and trophies, along with the rest of the planned DLC. However, the following information that was previously unknown was shown off: On October 11th, 2018, Twitter user Milk-BOSATU (currently named Team NepDon) made a tweet that claimed that the Hero from Dragon Quest series is a playable character with no female alternate costumes alongside with VR content for the Switch coming. On January 18, 2008, a promotional video for Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the official Wii website was posted; this video accidentally leaked hidden characters in the game. It was found that the first column in the table stored each character's internal development name. The discovery of these files suggested there were more stages planned for DLC beyond Dream Land. Ultimate Direct, with his model and render matching with the one in the photo. Later on in July, Ninka came forward with new information, which included Lucas, Wolf, the Ice Climbers, and Snake being cut, while Shulk, Dr. Mario, Dark Pit, Bowser Jr. in the Koopa Clown Car (with all seven Koopalings as alternate costumes), and the Duck Hunt dog being new characters. The original video is now unlisted. Additionally, many fans believed that Mewtwo's absence confirmed that it would not be playable, a belief which ultimately came true. However, while the 4chan user's assertion that Ken would be a Ryu Echo Fighter was correct, their claim that Piranha Plant used a vehicle was proven to be inaccurate, with it instead being in a pot or Warp Pipe (depending on the costume selected) and walking on its roots which extend from the bottom of its vessel, though this was more likely a misconception than deliberately false information. After the update was released, it was revealed that downloading it would enable online modes and add a Hard difficulty setting to World of Light; it is unclear if these are the modes that Noatesty was referring to. In their second post, Noatesty further described Isabelle's moveset, claiming that her forward, back, up and down aerials, which had not been shown at the time, were similar, if not identical, to their respective counterparts in Villager's moveset. Following the spread of the tweet, Sonobe's Twitter account was entirely deleted.[3].

A day later, a YouTube user by the name of "GU KingofHeart" published a video in which he claimed that he received information about display items being featured at the Super Smash Bros. section of Nintendo's then-upcoming E3 2018 booth.

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