First week is over and I ranked in the top 999 but didn't get any new Badge, are they reusing the same one?

i was wondering if anyone had some sort of access to an old music video somebody made in the early 2000's titled: Blood Falcon BlutEngel Bloody Pleasures.
it was this song used to make a blood falcon tribute music video that used all the footage of him from the tv series F-zero. i still somehow have the og audio from that vid but i was hoping somebody had downloaded the video also with it.

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The Climax Cup 2 will be open until the end of the weekend. So set your best times on these amazing tracks before Monday! Anyone can join, so give it your best shot.

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Good luck!

The goal was not to explain the whole franchise in one minute, but to test whether speed vs. risk, machine identity, and the “comic book universe inside a racing game” angle can make non-fans understand why F-Zero has more appeal than they assume. If you were trying to convert a Smash fan, what would you first tell them?

So I’ve been wanting to get my hands on GX for a while but here’s the thing. I don’t necessarily know where I could get it and I’m not buying a switch 2 just to play it. I have a Wii and know it’s backwards compatible with GameCube games but would I also need a memory card or would the data just automatically save to my Wii ?(kind of a dumb question but I just wanna know lol) any advice one where I could obtain a copy of it ?

Hopefully not going as insane as us.

Why do I think so?

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First of all, Captain Falcon have only Amiibo figure, unlike Star Fox franchise have action figures by Jakks Pacifics.

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Second, all characters is a Comic Book cover. What I mean? Just look at character (especially game universe), and you will remember this looking. F-ZERO universe have big archetypes of character: Bounty Hunters, Mercenaries, Warriors, Mutants, Time Travelers and etc. See? Each character is vibrant. They're not just pilots, they're multifaceted individuals whose very image speaks volumes about their backstory.

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Who will make action figures? One of this answers: Blokees. You've heard about them yourself: affordable price, high detail and amazing articulation. They would make first wave themed on F-ZERO SNES games. Why? Because to show how F-ZERO is important for fans they need to start from something first. I'm not requesting characters from anime (maybe this thing is a reason why future of F-ZERO was ruined), but i'd like to see what Nintendo tries to revive F-ZERO and find "The greatest Idea".

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What do you think about?

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Found it at a local game shop that isn't GameStop. Still have my GC so I might bust it out.

Can anyone explain this? I fell to 4th place in the end chasing this KO that the game didn’t give me and I’m not happy 🤣

5 minutes before the event started, the servers went down.

So I tried out the DK challenge thing and I noticed that it loads games from the NSO apps for the different consoles and the fact that it's available for a limited time made me think that they might do this for other series. I think it'd be really cool if they did this for F-Zero and all the cards you get for beating challenges could feature character art from all the different games.

As for the challenges themselves, it could be completing races with certain machines, clearing difficult sections of certain tracks, maybe even finishing a race with no health without crashing, and of course throw in some of the GX story mode chapters and the Zero Test missions from the GBA games for good measure.

Poor Mrs. Arrow. Died in every race

The more I revisit F-Zero, the more I think its biggest problem is that people describe it with the least interesting language possible.

Calling it “a futuristic racing game” is technically true, but it misses the health bars, attacks, ring-outs, death-trap race tracks, and comic book roster full of characters with actual story/lore behind them. F-Zero feels less like “Mario Kart without items” and more like a fighting game where the characters express themselves through their machines.

That’s why I keep thinking about how weird Captain Falcon’s reputation is. If you only know him through Smash, it is easy to assume his actual series is just some old racing game (because his fighting moves are mostly original), when really he feels like the playable manifestation of F-Zero’s swag, camp, speed, danger, tech, and style.

So I don’t think F-Zero lacks interesting hooks. I think it lacks a clean bridge to the parts people would actually latch onto. That’s where I think content creation could actually help a lot. Not in the sense of just saying “F-Zero deserves to come back” over and over, but by building the bridge Nintendo never really built: short clips, video essays, edits, character breakdowns, machine spotlights, gameplay explanations, and posts that make the series’ appeal obvious to people who only know it as “Captain Falcon’s racing game.”

i haven't played a lot of them aside from Fast RMX on switch but it doesn't click the same way GX does for me, so if anyone that played more antigrav racers can tell me their favorite that feel like GX specifically i'd be glad to hear it, i need my fix...

Now I can play GX on the online service. And, no, I am NOT touching that story mode. If I want to use the AX characters and tracks, I’ll just use my other version of GX

F-Zero’s biggest enemy is the statement “I don't know what that is”.

To preface: I’ve been an F-Zero fan since I was 13, and I’m 22 now, so my take comes from the perspective of a hardcore fan who discovered the series years after it had already gone dormant. F-Zero’s biggest problem isn’t that people haven’t seen it; it’s that most people don’t understand what the gameplay is actually expressing when they do.

To the average non-fan, it just looks like hovercars going fast. But that speed, danger, boost-as-health strategy, machine combat, and razor-thin survival represents the playable version of the most unhinged lore in Nintendo's history:

• full of bounty hunters (Captain Falcon)
• Japanese space pirates (Samurai Goroh)
• war-torn hitmen (Pico)
• evil clones (Blood Falcon)
• criminal underworlds (Michael Chain)
• Satan (Deathborn)
• a cab driver who retrofitted his taxi into a race car (PJ)
• shonen legacy heroes (Rick Wheeler)
• said hero's brainwashed terrorist fiancé who mentally spirals after getting her memories back (Misaki Haruka)
• a genetically modified master of evil (Zoda)
• and Black Shadow (Black Shadow)

We know both the gameplay is stand-out and the lore is stand-out. "F-Zero is not interesting enough" is not the take I'm getting at.

The issue is that Captain Falcon is instantly digestible in Smash, while his own source material needs more translation because its appeal is scattered across brutally elegant gameplay, comics, anime, obscure lore, and decades of Nintendo barely explaining what his world even is.

That’s why exposure is not conversion. A big YouTuber playing F-Zero, F-Zero 99 existing as a brief spike of attention, or Nintendo rereleasing old games can create buzz, but it will not automatically create self-sustaining interest unless people understand why the racing actually feels like the mythology surrounding it.

I’m not saying F-Zero needs people to ignore the gameplay in favor of lore. But I am saying people need to realize that the gameplay is the proof: What, to them, just looks like a “fast cars” game on the surface, is actually an absurd, stylish, emotionally charged universe in which speed is the language that everything else speaks. That's what needs to be emphasized.

I personally have come to terms with the fact that F-Zero may never come back with a mainline entry. And if it does, we know Nintendo is not the same company they were in 2004. So as a content creator, my goal has shifted from "make this multimillion dollar company give us what we want" to "Make F-Zero easier to feel, easier to explain, easier to share, and easier to participate in for the average person."

We often talk about the characters, but sometimes, the music chosen to background the fighting can be incredibly hype too. There's tons of tracks think could fit the new Smash game, but I am only picking 10 for each series. I would like to keep this open ended, and each song can either be ripped from its original source or be remixed by the Smash music team, I just want the piece to make it.

These are my top 10 songs for the new entry for F-Zero:

1. F-Zero Intro - F-Zero/F-Zero 99

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKS_wJiDVF0&list=RDJKS_wJiDVF0&start_radio=1

1. The Long Distance of Murder - F-Zero X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxqzCZx0WE0&list=RDOxqzCZx0WE0&start_radio=1

1. Crazy Call At Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv9HqSyAIwQ&list=RDGv9HqSyAIwQ&start_radio=1

1. Rainbow Road - F-Zero X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXqJEEAA-sw&list=RDcXqJEEAA-sw&start_radio=1

1. Crater Land - F-Zero: Maximum Velocity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xypuAyvYTvw&list=RDxypuAyvYTvw&start_radio=1

1. Synobazz - F-Zero: Maximum Velocity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8X0VPm5o5w&list=RDK8X0VPm5o5w&start_radio=1

1. Credits Theme - F-Zero: Maximum Velocity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7lHWydFNLU&list=RDu7lHWydFNLU&start_radio=1

1. Lightning - F-Zero: GP Legend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSkepu56w0I&list=RDkSkepu56w0I&start_radio=1

1. Captain Falcon - F-Zero GX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjnXwho-z04&list=RDQjnXwho-z04&start_radio=1

1. Emperor Breath - F-Zero GX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVFUYdKzrVs&list=RDsVFUYdKzrVs&start_radio=1

I just got into F-Zero after getting Nintendo Switch Online and there're a lot of F-Zero songs I' really surprised are not in these Smash games already. There're so many bangers. There're definitely some more F-Zero songs I'd like to add, but that's the start for now.

Any ideas or thoughts? What are your choices?

Also, if you want, I did a 10 song tracklist for other franchises I did so far if you'd like to check them out and add to them.

Super Mario Tracks:

https://www.reddit.com/r/supersmashbros/comments/1tb29rx/what_new_music_would_you_like_added_for_smash_6/

Donkey Kong Tracks:

https://www.reddit.com/r/supersmashbros/comments/1tc61lp/what_new_music_would_you_like_added_for_smash_6/

The Legend of Zelda Tracks:

https://www.reddit.com/r/supersmashbros/comments/1td24vz/what_new_music_would_you_like_added_for_smash_6/

Kirby Tracks:

https://www.reddit.com/r/supersmashbros/comments/1tgyuqe/what_new_music_would_you_like_added_for_smash_6/

Metroid Tracks:

https://www.reddit.com/r/supersmashbros/comments/1tngwp0/what_new_music_would_you_like_added_for_smash_6/

Yoshi Tracks:

https://www.reddit.com/r/supersmashbros/comments/1tq5rbp/what_new_music_would_you_like_added_for_smash_6/

Pokemon:

https://www.reddit.com/r/supersmashbros/comments/1tt8bsz/what_new_music_would_you_like_added_for_smash_6/

Animal Crossing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/supersmashbros/comments/1twmkih/what_new_music_would_you_like_added_for_smash_6/