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Smash Bros Brawl Dojo Official Update Thread: Goodbye, Cherry-don

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I'm gonna post my roster before the real one is leaked. In italics, I'll have characters that might make it in but I think they won't, and bold are characters that I don't think have a chance.

Mario:

Mario
Princess Peach
King Bowser
Luigi
Bowser Jr./Shadow Mario
Geno
Paper Mario
Toad
Dr. Mario

Pokémon:

Pikachu
Pokémon Trainer
Jigglypuff
Mewtwo
Lucario
Pichu

The Legend of Zelda:

Link
Princess Zelda/Sheik
Ganondorf/Ganon
Young Link
Midna
Vaati
Tingle

Donkey Kong:

Donkey Kong
Diddy Kong
King K. Rool
Dixie Kong

Kirby:

Kirby
Meta Knight
King Dedede

Metroid:

Samus Aran/Zero Suit Samus
Ridley
Dark Samus

Star Fox:

Fox McCloud
Krystal [Sorry, but that's what's likely]
Falco Lombardi
Wolf O' Donnell

Fire Emblem:

Marth
Ike
Eliwood
Micaiah
Black Knight

Animal Crossing:

Animal Crosser
Tom Nook

Wario:

Wario
Mona [or] Jimmy T.
Ashley
Captain Syrup

Yoshi:

Yoshi
Kamek

F-Zero:

Captain Falcon
Black Shadow

Mother:

Lucas
Ness
Claus
Kumatora

Kid Icarus:

Pit
Eggplant Wizard

Ice Climber:

Ice Climber

Game & Watch:

Mr. Game & Watch

DS:

Professor Layton
Professor Kawashima

Others:

Captain Olimar [Pikmin]
Mike Jones [StarTropics]
Lolo & Lala [Adventures of Lolo]
Ray [Custom Robo]
Lip [Puzzle League]
Takamaru [Nazo no Murasame-jo]
Muddy Mole [Mole Mania]
Will [Advance Wars]
Balloon Fighter

Third party:

Solid Snake
Sonic the Hedgehog
Bomberman
He who should not be named

I'll start out with 50/100. Each character that's right, I get one point. Each one I get wrong, I lose one point.

EDIT: Sorry, I sinned. :x
 
farnham said:
My point exactly

I want Emphraim as a speer user, Lyn as a Myrmidon type (obviously its not possible), Hector as the Berserker, Axe user type and maybe some bow user that also uses other weapons (oh man thats actually Lyn.. so much wasted potential)

God yes, I have been championing the need for lesser known Nintendo characters, particularly Hector and other FE characters in order to bring more diversity to the SSB roster. The game, in my mind, sorely lacks female characters and as a whole weapons diversity.

To me the SSB franchise has gone beyond the realm of just Nintendo super stars, it doesnt need to, nor should it hide behind big name characters, its a legitimate figther and as such should be free to take from the massive pool of characters in order to provide a diverse and balanced roster. I mean especially now that they are bringing in 3rd party characters, however limited that might be.
 
Enduin said:
God yes, I have been championing the need for lesser known Nintendo characters, particularly Hector and other FE characters in order to bring more diversity to the SSB roster. The game, in my mind, sorely lacks female characters and as a whole weapons diversity.

To me the SSB franchise has gone beyond the realm of just Nintendo super stars, it doesnt need to, nor should it hide behind big name characters, its a legitimate figther and as such should be free to take from the massive pool of characters in order to provide a diverse and balanced roster. I mean especially now that they are bringing in 3rd party characters, however limited that might be.


to be fair

Hector or Lyn are better known then Ike..

FE GBA sold much more then the GC one and Wii one combined

Enduin said:
To me the SSB franchise has gone beyond the realm of just Nintendo super stars, it doesnt need to, nor should it hide behind big name characters, its a legitimate figther and as such should be free to take from the massive pool of characters in order to provide a diverse and balanced roster. I mean especially now that they are bringing in 3rd party characters, however limited that might be.

NO... Definately not.. SSBs prime charm is its characters.. Its not like the game is bad or anything.. its just that the character roaster it provides is so incredible that it overshadows any other good thing about this series..

Imagine SSBM without all this fanservice.. it would be a legitimate powerstone, VF, Tekken competitor.. But definately not the multimillion selling juggernaut it has become
 
Tim-E said:
http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3165209

Don't think it's worth making a new thread for (yet), and I don't think anyone has posted about it yet, but the EGM that comes out on the 15th will have "everything (seriously) you ever need to know" about Brawl and they have 12 special edition covers for the magazine.

6xzwd2r.jpg


:D

wait is that this EGM issue that GAF already discussed, or the next issue?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=224304&highlight=rumors
 
Tonight, we're gonna get Ness' comeback, with an entirely new moveset, completely different from Lucas'. That and a new tune from Mother 2 redone by Yasunori Mitsuda. And then Sakurai's gonna reveal downloadable updates and give us all candy.

:lol

(Ok, first 2 things are my prediction)
 
Fireblend said:
Tonight, we're gonna get Ness' comeback, with an entirely new moveset, completely different from Lucas'. That and a new tune from Mother 2 redone by Yasunori Mitsuda. And then Sakurai's gonna reveal downloadable updates and give us all candy.

:lol

(Ok, first 2 things are my prediction)
Downloadable candy please.
 
ggnoobIGN said:
Same one.

But I don't understand why EGM would put it on the cover if they didn't have new info. Is the OP sure? That's not like EGM...

probably becuase they are attracting people who don't use the internet and thus haven't seen the Dojo. I don't expect Sakurai to let an American magazine leak the full roster before the game is released in Japan. "everything (seriously) you ever need to know" is simply marketing
 
[Edit: Alberto's version is more streamlined. I went ahead and took out already-revealed characters as well. :D]

My honest predictions for a roster:

underline = I think we already know the full roster for this series

Animal Crossing: Generic villager
Donkey Kong
F-Zero: Captain Falcon
Fire Emblem: Marth
Game & Watch: Mr. Game & Watch
Ice Climber
Kid Icarus
Kirby
Legend of Zelda: Ganondorf, Sheik, Young Link (as WW/PH Link)
Mario: Luigi
Metroid
Mother: Ness
Nintendo DS: Something that nobody will see coming. Nobody. Not one person. It's not a playable DS, it's not the Ouendan team, it's not Kawashima. (And it's definitely not a "draw your own" character, because I think we all know what would happen.) It might even be something entirely original, created just for Smash Bros.
Pokemon: Jigglypuff, Lucario
Star Fox: Falco
Wario: Mona
Yoshi
Others: Lip, [wild card slot #1], [wild card slot #2]
Third-party: Bomberman, DQIX Hero

42-character roster with the 23 already-confirmed characters added in. I'm putting stock in the guy who knew about Dragoon being right that Lucario ousted Mewtwo, but also assuming that "Wolf is in" meant he was somewhere in the game as a non-playable character.

The wild card slots are for someone I'm not sure of. Daisy, Micaiah, Ashley, Bowser Jr., Black Shadow, and a fifth third-party character are the characters I think of as slightly likely but none of them probable, so I'll just conservatively say that two of them make it in and the others don't. They all have at least one thing going for them--Daisy and Bowser Jr. just to say they expanded the Mario roster, Micaiah has her ties to Ike, Ashley has her song and would make for a really fun moveset both for the developers to create and for gamers to play, Black Shadow could inherit Melee Ganondorf's moveset, and a third-party character helps Nintendo's relations there--but ultimately they're kind of minor in the scheme of things.
 
farnham said:
to be fair

Hector or Lyn are better known then Ike..

FE GBA sold much more then the GC one and Wii one combined

True true, all the more reason for his and other FE GBA lords to be options. But I think its the very fact that they were on a handheld and not a console that keeps them back.


farnham said:
NO... Definately not.. SSBs prime charm is its characters.. Its not like the game is bad or anything.. its just that the character roaster it provides is so incredible that it overshadows any other good thing about this series..

Imagine SSBM without all this fanservice.. it would be a legitimate powerstone, VF, Tekken competitor.. But definately not the multimillion selling juggernaut it has become

Ohh no, dont get me wrong I know thats vital for the series, it wouldnt have succeeded without it, but now I dont think it hinges upon that. I would never want them to remove characters, fanservice or just make up character, but I dont think they should completely limit themselves to just the star Nintendo characters and games for their roster.
 
I'd love for Sakurai to pull an anti-update.
Just a list of things that won't be in.


"Sorry - no Ness/Falco/Game & Watch"

<Pic of each character sad, depressed, and lonely>

"Oh, we forgot about Sheik, too"

<Pic of Zelda looking confused>

"I didn't like Final Destination, so I decided not to include it"

<Pic of smashboards with a sad face drawn on it>

"And there's one more thing we left out, but I don't want to get banned."
 
I'm just going to guess characters that haven't been seen or revealed by series.

Mario: Bowser Jr., Luigi
F-Zero: Captain Falcon, possibly Black Shadow
Donkey Kong: No more
Star Fox: Krystal
Zelda: Ganondorf, Young Link
Ice Climber: Uh...no more
Fire Emblem: Marth
Pokemon: Lucario, Jigglypuff
Kirby: No more
Earthbound: ...this could go either way, I'm saying Ness is in
Wario: Mona
Kid Icarus: No more
Game & Watch: No more
Metroid: Ridley
Sonic: No more
Metal Gear: No more
Animal Crossing: Villager
Yoshi: No more
DS: Ouendan/EBA

Uber-hidden character: Takamaru
 
SexConker said:
I'd love for Sakurai to pull an anti-update.
Just a list of things that won't be in.


"Sorry - no Ness/Falco/Game & Watch"

<Pic of each character sad, depressed, and lonely>

"Oh, we forgot about Sheik, too"

<Pic of Zelda looking confused>

"I didn't like Final Destination, so I decided not to include it"

<Pic of smashboards with a sad face drawn on it>

"And there's one more thing we left out, but I don't want to get banned."

There'd be a small happy smiley over Regional Forum representing me in the BC Thread.
 
vertopci said:
Am I the only one who wants Sothe in Brawl? Daggers are so much better than spears and axes.
He's an assist trophy, and even if he wasn't, Sakurai didn't want to use daggers because apparently they carry some stigma in some places. (Assist trophy Sothe just does a somersault kick.)
 
Tim-E said:
http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3165209

Don't think it's worth making a new thread for (yet), and I don't think anyone has posted about it yet, but the EGM that comes out on the 15th will have "everything (seriously) you ever need to know" about Brawl and they have 12 special edition covers for the magazine.

6xzwd2r.jpg


:D
If you look at the different covers, they fudged the bowser cover.
It's not even the same model.:lol

edit: I think they messed up the Donkey Kong cover too.
 
Since im bored here, roster prediction:

Mario series: Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Bowser Jr
Pokemon series: Pokemon Trainer, Pikachu, Lucario, Mewtwo, Jigglypuff *
Fire Emblem series: Ike, Marth (dont know much about FE series)
Mother series: Ness Lucas
Donkey Kong: Donkey Kong, Diddy, King K. Rool
Kirby series: Kirby, Metaknight, Dedede
Starfox series: Fox, Falco, Krystal
Metroid series: Samus (ZSS)
Zelda series: Zelda, Link, Ganondorf (Sheik and Wolf Link)
Warioware series: Wario
F-zero series: Captain Falcon
Yoshi series: Yoshi
Ice Climber series: Ice Climber
Animal Crossing series: Animal Crossing villager
Kid Icarus: Pit
DS series (uh): This is hard, my main money is on Kawashima, but can't see him fighting at all. In fact, i start to believe that this icon is to fool us all and a playable character isn't coming from here..

Others:
Game and Watch series: G&W
Pikmin series: Olimar
Third Party: Snake, Sonic, KOS-MOS, Rayman, Viewtiful Joe

Thats right, 5 third party characters :D. But knowing Sakurai and what happened in SSBM, there will be off the ball characters (i.e. Dr. Mario, Pichu, Young Link in SSBM)
*, too many Pokemon reprsentatives.. if anything, i want Mewtwo to stay in but also want a late generation pokemon to be in as well.. Damn Pokemon Trainer having 3 pokemon!!
 
Tim-E said:
http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3165209

Don't think it's worth making a new thread for (yet), and I don't think anyone has posted about it yet, but the EGM that comes out on the 15th will have "everything (seriously) you ever need to know" about Brawl and they have 12 special edition covers for the magazine.

6xzwd2r.jpg


:D
I just got my copy today (with Yoshi on the cover, ironically) and I'm flipping through it now

6wpubrq.jpg
 
Jiggy37 said:
He's an assist trophy, and even if he wasn't, Sakurai didn't want to use daggers because apparently they carry some stigma in some places. (Assist trophy Sothe just does a somersault kick.)

Oh. :lol

I must've missed that update.
 
Yeah, they didn't use the SSBB art for Bowser, DK, Yoshi, Sonic, and maybe Kirby, but Kirby has looked the same for the past 5 years or so.
 
Stuneseht said:
If you look at the different covers, they fudged the bowser cover.
It's not even the same model.:lol

edit: I think they messed up the Donkey Kong cover too.
The Donkey Kong artwork is from Jungle Beat. Bowser's from Galaxy. I haven't seen that Yoshi or Sonic artwork before, so they might be from something else.
 
Cosmonaut X said:
Anything new, or just a compilation of Dojo info?
Dojo photos, a background of the game itself, barely scant a new tidbit.

Interview with Nate:

regarding SubSpace Emissary "You're basically playing with everybody, and they're all joining up on your team as you go along. You're going to be forced to play with a bunch of characters that you don't know, or maybe don't like. A lot of people are going to find characters they love that they otherwise wouldn't have touched. So you're too big a man to like Pokemon, but you're going to have to go through this section with Pikachu. And you may find out that he's a killing machine."

"You can trace it all back to Sakurai-san, this sort of energizer bunny over there [in Japan]. The amount of content he's crammed into this thing is unbelievable."

Kohler gets quoted in the article.

The article as a whole is more or less just rubbing one out for Nintendo and ignoring the game itself except for the photos and captions of things we already know
 
Eh, what the hell, here's my roster:

Mario series:
Mario
Luigi
Peach
Bowser
Jr

PKMN series:
PokeTra
Pikachu
Purin/Jigglypuff
Mewtwo
Lucario

Yoshi
Yoshi

Fire Emblem
Ike
Marth
Sheeda

Kirby
Kirby
Dedede
MetaKnight

F-Zero
Falcon
Zoda
Jody Summers

Star Fox
Fox
Falco
Krystal (....)

Metroid
Samus
Ridley

Donkey Kong
DK
Diddy
Dixie

Legend of Zelda
Link
Zelda
Ganondorf
WW-style Link

Kid Icarus
Pit

WarioWare
Wario
Ashley

Ice Climbers
Seal Clubbers (:lol)

Mother
Ness
Lucas
Claus...as Masked Boy

Others
G&W
Sukapon
Takamaru

3rd party
Snake
Sonic
Bomberman
...uhhh...he's also called a bomber...but I already got Bomberman, didn't I...? :D
 
KevinCow said:
Isn't that pretty much what Smash Bros. is about?
The article goes out of its way to raise the flag for fanservice and ignore the actual game on the cover.

There's a picture collage with a bunch of different mario games and an overly campy caption at the bottom reading "That loving feeling: No matter the genre--from fighting to racing to gravity-defying action--Nintendo games just have that certain something."

Its dripping with PR, and devoid of discussing actual content in the game.
 
KevinCow said:
The Donkey Kong artwork is from Jungle Beat. Bowser's from Galaxy. I haven't seen that Yoshi or Sonic artwork before, so they might be from something else.

The Sonic render is new.
 
KevinCow said:
Isn't that pretty much what Smash Bros. is about?

The fanservice is like the icing on a triple fudge chocolate ice cream cake. It's nice, but it's not what the game is about. Well, I didn't expect much different in a preview.

I am so tempted to collect every cover :( Hope the one I get is Sonic, Samus, or Link. No Meta Knight or Ice Climbers cover and I dislike the Kirby model they used.
 
I'm expecting a 35 character roster, myself. Anything more than that would be fantastic, and anything less... well, the Ice Climbers have already been revealed, so I guess as long as they fit Olimar in I'll be pretty happy regardless. Other noteworthy additions that I'd be pleased to see include Ridley, anyone from Animal Crossing, and returning favourites Ness, Captain Falcon, Luigi, Jigglypuff, and Mr. Game and Watch. I'd also like to see Pyoro (the little bird from WarioWare!) make it in as an AT, although a trophy would be fine I guess. I love those games. :p

And while I don't really trust that french site that posted the complete Brawl roster, I will point out that just because some characters or other things seem totally ridiculous, that's exactly how a lot of people (myself included) felt initially about the leaked Melee roster before it was found to be legit. I mean: Ice Climbers? Mr. Game and Watch? I will be disappointed if there aren't a few wildcards in Brawl's roster as well, though with all the speculation and roster theories out there it may be difficult for a character to be completely unexpected.
 
My roster prediction:

Likely to be added or returning:
Luigi
Jigglypuff
Ness
Captain Falcon
Marth
Roy
Falco
Mewtwo
Ganondorf
Mr. Game and Watch
Cat-eyed Young Link
Geno
Ridley
Mii

Characters I'd like to see, but aren't very likely:
Kamek
Soren
Eliwood
Dixie Kong
King K. Rool
Black Knight
Gengar
Ashley
Sora
 
Oh, I'm very well expecting to see at least 1-2 WTF characters on this roster (Sukapon and Takamaru FTW! :D).

But seriously, I suppose all we can do is just be patient for a lil while longer...
 
Just a small thing, but the JP smash site has been updated with the official box art. Nice and high-res(ish).


package.jpg


EDIT: I just noticed that there are clouds in the background of the montage. Cloud Strife confirmed! OMG megaton!
 
I'm pretty much certain there are no newcomers to be announced. Maybe I'm being a little pessimistic, but seriously, I don't understand why everyone (specially at smashboards) think there's no way the roster will consist of less than 40 characters.

Other than the ones that have been announced I'd say that those who have chances are maybe the original secret 4 characters, and I don't really see Ness having much of a chance. As awesome as it would be to get Geno, Tails, Ridley or [insert heavily debated character here]*, I'm pretty sure they're not getting in.

*
Don't even think about Krystal
 
Fireblend said:
I'm pretty much certain there are no newcomers to be announced. Maybe I'm being a little pessimistic, but seriously, I don't understand why everyone (specially at smashboards) think there's no way the roster will consist of less than 40 characters.

Other than the ones that have been announced I'd say that those who have chances are maybe the original secret 4 characters, and I don't really see Ness having much of a chance. As awesome as it would be to get Geno, Tails, Ridley or [insert heavily debated character here]*, I'm pretty sure they're not getting in.

*
Don't even think about Krystal
You really think every character that will be in the game has already been announced? Really?
 
If Olimar is not playable, or at LEAST an AT, I will be extremely surprised. Pikmin seems like Nintendo's latest and greatest franchise, and it would frankly shock me if they did nothing with it
 
Fireblend said:
I'm pretty much certain there are no newcomers to be announced. Maybe I'm being a little pessimistic, but seriously, I don't understand why everyone (specially at smashboards) think there's no way the roster will consist of less than 40 characters.

Other than the ones that have been announced I'd say that those who have chances are maybe the original secret 4 characters, and I don't really see Ness having much of a chance. As awesome as it would be to get Geno, Tails, Ridley or [insert heavily debated character here]*, I'm pretty sure they're not getting in.

*
Don't even think about Krystal

Yup, I agree. I hope I'm proven wrong, but I really think we've got the final roster.
 
ShockingAlberto said:
You really think every character that will be in the game has already been announced? Really?

Gotta agree with Alberto here. After all the polls, Sakurai dropping hints and such, I won't be surprised if this game basically taps out around 50 chars.

After all, this game's primary focus is not to be a tourney-fighter, so I doubt that Sakurai and crew are THAT concerned about making this game balanced for competitive play (or at least, not in the traditional aspect of making it balanced, so much that he's more interested in making EVERY character awesome to some degree).
 
Fireblend said:
I'm pretty much certain there are no newcomers to be announced. Maybe I'm being a little pessimistic, but seriously, I don't understand why everyone (specially at smashboards) think there's no way the roster will consist of less than 40 characters.

Other than the ones that have been announced I'd say that those who have chances are maybe the original secret 4 characters, and I don't really see Ness having much of a chance.
You are being really pessimistic. :P Here are the things that would have to be true for your argument to hold up:


-No characters out of Ganondorf, Falco, Sheik, Young Link, Mewtwo, Mr. Game & Watch, and Marth are returning.
-There's no Animal Crossing character.
-Symbol #19 and the DS symbol are just there for decoration.
-There are only two third-party characters after all.
-Every third-party character in Brawl has more appeal in the West than in Japan.
-The Melee site isn't a precedent--in other words, even though 9 out of Melee's 14 newcomers weren't revealed until after Melee was released, the Dojo has given out all of Brawl's newcomers already.
-Brawl will only have 26 characters (the 23 confirmed ones plus three of the original four unlockables, since you said you don't think Ness is back). Since Melee had 26, this also means that Sakurai and company would be happy with no roster increase over the previous game even though they more than doubled the roster size last time around.


Seems pretty bold to me.
 
Fireblend said:
I'm pretty much certain there are no newcomers to be announced. Maybe I'm being a little pessimistic, but seriously, I don't understand why everyone (specially at smashboards) think there's no way the roster will consist of less than 40 characters.

Other than the ones that have been announced I'd say that those who have chances are maybe the original secret 4 characters, and I don't really see Ness having much of a chance. As awesome as it would be to get Geno, Tails, Ridley or [insert heavily debated character here]*, I'm pretty sure they're not getting in.

*
Don't even think about Krystal
If all the characters have been revealed except for three of the original four unlockables, then, not counting Sheik, ZSS, or the Pokemon Trainer's Pokemon as separate characters, that leaves us with 26 characters. Following the same rules, we had 25 characters in Melee.

This would also mean that there are only three secret characters, which is very disproportionate to the number of secret characters in Melee and SSB64. It would also mean that #13 and #19 are left unrepresented

I don't know who else is gonna make it into the game. Could be Krystal or Ridley or Olimar or someone I haven't even thought of. But I know for certain that we haven't seen all the newcomers.


EDIT: Well dammit, Jiggy beat me. He probably has all of these numbers and shit on a bunch of Excel spreadsheets that never close, whereas I actually had to go check my facts on the Dojo.
 
Fireblend said:
I'm pretty much certain there are no newcomers to be announced. Maybe I'm being a little pessimistic, but seriously, I don't understand why everyone (specially at smashboards) think there's no way the roster will consist of less than 40 characters.

Well, for starters, someone could tell us if there's any sort of precedence supporting your opinion. Have past Smash games featured unannounced characters? If so, I don't see why there's reason to doubt this one will be different.

Edit: It seems this thread moves too quickly for me. I'm glad to be able read Jiggy37's answers to my question before I finish typing it!
 
Oooh, roster prediction, fun, fun, I'll help! Just those who haven't been revealed yet. Italics means I think their chances are small, but non-zero. Underline are already completed series.

Mario: Luigi, Bowser Jr. (They'll need 5 characters to match Pokemon's contribution, and Daisy has much less chance)

Pokemon: Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Lucario (I don't think Mewtwo's out, unique moveset, blahblahblah)

Yoshi

Wario: Mona (I think she'll ge the nod over Ashley)

Fire Emblem: Marth, Micaiah

Kirby

F-Zero: Captain Falcon, Black Shadow, Jody Summer

Star Fox: Krystal, Falco Lombardi

Metroid: Ridley

Donkey Kong: Dixie Kong, King K. Rool (I think one or the other will get in, but not both)

Legend of Zleda: Ganondorf, Sheik (Yeah, I think Young Link probably bit the bullet :( )

Kid Icarus

Ice Climbers

Mother: Ness, Flint

Animal Crossing: Tom Nook (will win out over Villager, what with having an actual name)

Pikmin: Olimar

Other: Mr. Game & Watch, Sukapon (Think he'll get the nod over Takamaru)

3rd Party: Mog, He Who Shall Not Be Named
 
Tonjevic said:
Just a small thing, but the JP smash site has been updated with the official box art. Nice and high-res(ish).


package.jpg


EDIT: I just noticed that there are clouds in the background of the montage. Cloud Strife confirmed! OMG megaton!
I don't get it, why no Sonic or Snake?

They don't want to spoil it? In that case i'm thinking this whole Dojo thing was a trap. I didn't want to be spoiled as well :(
 
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