The Home Run Contest is back!

It's also been made that you can't fall off the side of Sandbag's platform. Besides all that, there's also a two-player mode.

In two player cooperativemode, it appears that you can both fight at once in order to make Sandbag take much more damage then normal and thus fly farther. There is also two player alternative mode, meaning two people fight back to back to see who can get the highest score.

Both of these two player modes will be available via Wi-Fi.

What is the Home-Run Contest? It’s a competition to see who can hit Sandbag the farthest in just ten seconds!

At the start, it’s just you and Sandbag.

Then you just beat Sandbag silly, filling up his damage meter.

There’s only a 10-second time limit!

Before time runs out, grab the Home-Run Bat on the ground and do a smash attack with it!

Compete for longest distance.

Flight distances are recorded for each character. Go! Break the record! Set your own!!

But this time... there are four differences!

1: The stadium platform is protected by a shield.

If you don’t put some force into it, you won’t break through the shield, so you can pummel Sandbag to your heart’s content. Surely this will allow you to string together new combos.

2: Two players can play together.

As a tag team, you can challenge yourselves to set even greater records. You’ll have to work perfectly together, though.

3: Two-player alternating play.

Ah, competition—that’s what the Stadium is all about. Players compete to see who can hit the farthest.

4: Online competitions.

This option can be found under With Friends. And it supports both the two-player cooperative and two-player alternating modes.

This is some rather rich functionality. You’ll be able to play just this mode quite a bit. Amazing, isn’t it?
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    xegaldis Oct 16, 07
    Well, well.. back to the old Home Run Contest. This was always quite fun, but frustrating if you couldn't pick up the bat or whatever. Ah well, it's time to get my Yoshi skills up to scratch and disbatch the sandbag ;D
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    Gogetenks Oct 16, 07
    Haha, yes, Yoshi's up-b, if I'm not mistaken, was a killer move for the home run contest.

    The two player mode is interesting, and so is Wi-Fi play. It's nice to be able to choose either the cooperative or competitive mode when playing online, as well. It was quite annoying when the sandbag fell off of the platform, so it's good to see that the issue was taken care of.

    I'm quite impressed. They've really made the home run contest quite a bit better. It used to be rather dull, but this sounds like fun.
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    W00tbeer1 Oct 16, 07
    I wasn't expecting a home run contest in this kind of game, I was expecting it in like MLB or some other game like that. I don't think it will work very well over WiFi because there seems to be a lot of hackers for games that you play for free for. Unless they have some kind of hacking-prevention thing, I totally disagree on this thing.
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      Glotnot Oct 16, 07
      The Homerun Contest was also in Super Smash Brother's Melee.... It's not new. As for Wi-Fi, I'm pretty sure you can't hack the Wii.

      Have you even used Wi-Fi, or played SSBM? Do you even have a Wii?
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      Gregory2590 Oct 16, 07
      Hackers can't and will not exist in Wii's wifi.
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    Vendetta Oct 17, 07
    Glad to hear the Home Run Contest was implemented. As Gogetenks said, it used to be quite dull, but that has changed with the addition of Wi-Fi. Can't wait to try it out.
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    MJ12 L0rD Oct 17, 07
    W00t. HRC is back. That makes me happy. I loved fooling around with Yoshi all the time.
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    Hell Fire Oct 17, 07
    This thing was annoying in my opinion. I did well enough to unlock the prize, but I was never really good at it. Hopefully the Wiimote will make it more interesting.
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    Xenctuary Oct 17, 07
    Poor Sandbag, he's strangely cute!

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