Release: Dairantou Smash Brothers DX Jitsuen-you Demo (DL-DOL-DALJ-DIS)
This disc has also been sitting on the old backlog for a while. As the name indicates, this is a Japanese retail kiosk demo disc for Super Smash Bros. Melee. Content-wise, you get two different demos: a 10-minute one for the Adventure Mode (although it ends after the Zebes escape sequence if you’re fast enough) and a two-minute standard multiplayer demo with the default set of characters and (I believe) stages, albeit without the ability to tweak fight settings. This basically looks and plays like the final game, so I wouldn’t expect anything drastically different at all, but given the relative rarity of Japanese GameCube demo discs online, hey, more is better than less, right?
Beyond those two demos, there’s also a demo for Pikmin, which is a little different from the retail game and has previously appeared on a separate demo disc that I’ve dumped here. There are also some videos for both games to watch, as well as a montage video hyping the GameCube launch window. All told, not the fullest demo disc, even by GameCube standards, but not without its merits, either.
Enjoy!
-Pepsi
