When is it?
I'll post these in this thread too, just incase they are helpful for anyone.
COUNTDOWNS
Since the times are simultaneous worldwide. I used the UTC times and made some GMT countdowns clocks over at secondapps.
UTC Times
Code:UTC - Friday 24th March 2017 19:00:00 ~ 19:59:00 UTC - Saturday 25th March 2017 03:00:00 ~ 03:59:00 UTC - Saturday 25th March 2017 11:00:00 ~ 11:59:00 UTC - Saturday 25th March 2017 19:00:00 ~ 19:59:00 UTC - Sunday 26th March 2017 03:00:00 ~ 03:59:00 UTC - Sunday 26th March 2017 11:00:00 ~ 11:59:00
1st - "Splatoon 2" Global Testfire time period Countdown
2nd - "Splatoon 2" Global Testfire time period Countdown
3rd - "Splatoon 2" Global Testfire time period Countdown
4th - "Splatoon 2" Global Testfire time period Countdown
5th - "Splatoon 2" Global Testfire time period Countdown
6th - "Splatoon 2" Global Testfire time period Countdown
For the Americas
For Europe (from Nintendo of Europe's website)
The Controls
As far as it is known, button remapping is not available for the testfire but there are new sensitivity settings for the gyro, a̶n̶d̶ ̶Y̶-̶a̶x̶i̶s̶!̶ EDIT: NVM y-axis is stuck to the x-axis again I'm sorry.
Available Stages
Available Weapons
Note: The sub weapon on Dualies and Splat Roller have been switched.
The weapons in action
https://youtu.be/_TbtjEzMu20
https://twitter.com/SplatoonJP/status/844843612093394946
https://twitter.com/SplatoonJP/status/844844025697861632
https://twitter.com/SplatoonJP/status/844852242242924544
https://twitter.com/SplatoonJP/status/844851667543609345
Additional Resources
SplatoonJP Twitter
https://twitter.com/SplatoonJP
SplatoonUS Tumblr - a.k.a ”Live from the Squid Research Lab"
https://splatoonus.tumblr.com/
Discord Server
Come join the SplatGAF Discord sever! (QUOTE TO SEE):
Credits
Credit to DaBoss and SplatGAF for the Weapon Information Image
Credit to Toadsili T providing the OT Banner, consolidating resources for the OT, and for the Map images.
Credit to Rebel1 for the title.