Super Smash Bros. Melee/sandbox

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Super Smash Bros. Melee/sandbox
Developer(s)	HAL Laboratory
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Series	Super Smash Bros.
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	JP November 21, 2001 NA December 3, 2001 EU May 24, 2002 AUS May 31, 2002
Genre(s)	Fighting, Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (4)
Input methods	GameCube Controller
GameIDs	DUMY03 , DUMY01
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Super Smash Bros. Melee, known in Japan as Great Melee Smash Brothers Deluxe (大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズDX, Dairantō Sumasshu Burazāzu Derakkusu), often abbreviated as SSBM or simply as Melee, is a crossover fighting game released for the Nintendo GameCube shortly after its launch in 2001.

Like its predecessor, Super Smash Bros. Melee differs from traditional fighting games in that inflicting the most damage does not guarantee victory. Instead, opposing players must inflict damage to add to the opponents percentage, to make them lighter, then force their opponents beyond the boundaries of the stage. Unlike other games of the same genre, in which moves are entered by button-input combinations, most moves in Super Smash Bros. Melee can be accessed via one-button presses and a joystick direction.

In addition to highly refining the gameplay of Super Smash Bros., Melee also sports additional stages and characters, and an expanded single player mode, called "Adventure Mode". The game also introduced many of the staples of its sequel, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Melee received universal acclaim from critics, and went on to become the best selling GameCube game of all time.

Problems

There are no reported problems with this title.

Enhancements

16:9 Aspect Ratio Fix

The built-in Widescreen Hack causes clipping and reflection issues. The following Gecko codes work as a replacement, causing less issues. To avoid conflicts, make sure that Widescreen Hack is disabled while using these codes.

Note: The NTSC version of this game has 3 different revisions. You can check the revision of your ISO by going into Game Properties.

NTSC-U Super Smash Bros. Melee/sandbox [GALE01] $ 16:9 Aspect Ratio Fix (disc revision 1.00) 043412DC C3AD809C 043685F4 C02D809C 044D15BC 3FE38E39 $ 16:9 Aspect Ratio Fix (disc revision 1.01) 04341F2C C3AD809C 043697C8 C02D809C 044D2A1C 3FE38E39 $ 16:9 Aspect Ratio Fix (disc revision 1.02) C2367E74 00000009 2C1F0001 40820038 3C804400 807E004C 7C032000 40810028 3C803F40 9081002C C021002C C001001C EC010032 D001001C C0010028 EC010032 D0010028 389F0000 60000000 00000000 C23677C4 00000003 C01C0044 3C603FAB 90610004 C3610004 EC1B0032 00000000 C200E34C 00000003 C05B0044 3C803FAB 90810090 C0610090 EC4300B2 00000000 C2367BAC 00000003 C0450044 3FE03FAB 93E10090 C0610090 EC4300B2 00000000 C2367E10 00000003 3FE03FAB 93E30000 C0630000 C05E0044 EC4300B2 00000000 04302848 3B44FF96

PAL Super Smash Bros. Melee/sandbox [GALP01] $ 16:9 Aspect Ratio Fix 04342FDC C3AD809C 0436A3AC C02D809C 044C47BC 3FE38E39

Revision Patch for Netplay

Recommended revision: 1.02 (MD5: 0e63d4223b01d9aba596259dc155a174)

Download the xDelta patch for your revision from below. Then use xDelta patcher (Windows) to patch your disc image with the patch file for either revision depending on the revision of your disc image.

1.00 (MD5: 3a62f8d10fd210d4928ad37e3816e33c) - MEGA (4.4MB)
1.01 (MD5: 67136bd167b471e0ad72e98d10cf4356) - MEGA (4.4MB)

Configuration

Only configuration options for the best compatibility where they deviate from defaults are listed.

General

Configuration	Setting	GameINI [Core]	Notes
Settings > General > Enable Dual Core	Off	CPUThread = False	Show File Select menus properly

Graphics

Configuration	Setting	GameINI [Video_Hacks]	Notes
Graphics > Hacks > Store EFB Copies to Texture Only	Off	EFBToTextureEnable = False	Properly save screenshots in Camera Mode of Special Melee

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Super Smash Bros. Melee/sandbox, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

r609

3.5-78

4.0-1192

4.0-5225

4.0-5445

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5.0-21401 (current)

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2.0 (r5384)

Compatibility can be assumed to align with the indicated revisions. However, compatibility may extend to prior revisions or compatibility gaps may exist within ranges indicated as compatible due to limited testing. Please update as appropriate.

Testing

Test entries
Revision	OS	CPU	GPU	Result	Tester
r4771			Windows 7 Intel Core i7-870 @ 2.9 GHz ATI Radeon HD 5450	Perfect speed, music becomes buggy on some occasions making it repeat itself. Shader bug which makes the floor become completely black in 85% of all stages.	Dawngaward0110
r6857			Windows Vista AMD Phenom 9550 X4 @ 2.2 GHz NVIDIA GeForce 9100	Perfect
r6857			Windows XP AMD Athlon II X4 @ 3 GHz ATI Radeon HD 5450	Perfect
r7283			Windows 7 Intel Core i3-2310 @ 2.1 GHz Intel HD Graphics	almost fully playable, slow down to 4 different characters, with the same characters in every player works fast as long as not a very large area (ex. in fountain of dreams is very slow) the FPS go from 30 to 50 (In the PAL version).	Honguito98
r7408			Windows 7 Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 3.2 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275	Exceptional. Some very minor slowdown at the very start of a stage, but it comes and goes in under a second. Some sound problems.	MayImilae
r7411			Windows XP SP3 Intel Atom N270 @ 1.6 GHz Intel GMA 945	Playable. 16-17FPS approximately. Sound Off for better performance.	LORPAL
r7419			Mac OS X 10.6.7 Intel Core i7 @ 2.66 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M	Perfect. Occasional slowdowns but this is the smoothest game I've run on this emulator	FeelGoodChicken
r7422			Windows 7 Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 3.2 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275	Exceptional. Sound problems are GONE. (Edit: still there, but less often)	MayImilae
r7435			Windows 7 Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 3.2 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275	Very good. Sound problems back with a vengeance.	MayImilae
r7564			Windows 7 Intel Xeon Quad-Core @ 2.8 GHz ATI Radeon HD 5770	Audio bugs still exist. Graphical bugs: "Video/Audio Timing" and "VS Team ...".	SephirothFanatic
r7646			Windows 7 Intel Duel Core @ 3.06 GHz NVIDIA GeForce G210	Perfect, The only bug is the stage 8 classic mode glitch
r7719			Windows 7 Intel Pentium @ 2.1 GHz ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570	Slow when running other windows, but otherwise very smooth. Only bug is the Team Battle bug.	Mamid
3.0-201			Windows 7 Intel Core i5-2410 @ 2.3 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M	I haven't seen the stage 8 classic mode glitch. I will check that out. The game runs smoothly, with occasional audio bugs and glitches as seen in the Problems headline.	Doubled-revolutions
3.0-371			Slackware 13.37 Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.3 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	Perfect. Solid 60FPS. No noticeable errors.	Shonumi
3.0-415			Windows 7 AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti	Solid. Odd sound glitch and slowdown at beginning of the match.
3.0-419			Windows 7 AMD Athlon II X4 640 @ 3 GHz AMD Radeon HD 5670	Runs fine at fullspeed with a little slowdown at beginning of the match.	bruckxd
3.0-636			Windows 7 Intel Core i5-2430M NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M	Plays perfect at 60FPS. Minor slowdown at Fountain of Dreams. Stage 8 glitch also. Besides that, perfect
3.0-636			Windows 7 Intel Core i7-920 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580	Plays perfect at 60FPS. Minor slowdowns occur at the beginning of most stages, but continues fine afterward. The music sometimes has looping issues.	RayFan9876
3.0-715			Windows 7 Intel Core 2 DUO E7400 @ 3.1 GHz NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT	Plays perfect at 65FPS without Autoframe limit. Minor slowdowns occur at Winner Screen, also with 4 players on large stages, everything else is perfect. The music still has looping issues.	Dmax
3.0-766			Windows 8 Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.4 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570	So darn close. Sound glitches are non-existent so long as LLE audio is being used. Half-second pre-rendered cutscene audio lag. Stage 8 classic mode intro sprite alpha problem. Ever-so-slight stutters during certain cases. Examples include loading levels into memory, which doesn't break gameplay, and stuttering during 4-player on certain levels, which can. Fountain of Dreams is the prime case, likely due to the dynamic reflection map (quite a feat for its time on such hardware).	Miranda
3.0-776			Mac OS X 10.7.4 Intel Core i7 @ 2.2 GHz AMD Radeon HD 6750M	Plays almost perfectly, pretty stable 60FPS.	Nolendil
3.0-776			elementary OS Intel Core i3-330m NVIDIA GeForce GT 330m	Runs perfectly.	Krummer
3.5-336			Windows 7 Intel Core i7-3770K NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680	Full 60FPS everywhere with no audio bugs using LLE. Using "speed up disc transfer rate" makes all music play for 2-3 seconds and stop, but the game continues to run fine. Using any AR codes causes the game to crash after the beginning cutscene and before the "press start" screen.
3.5-367			Windows 7 Intel Core i5-2450 Intel HD Graphics 3000	60FPS almost all the time. Choppy audio during GPU intensive gameplay. AR Codes only work for certain versions of SSBM. (US Versions (GALE01) crash after the main screen, while European Versions(GALP01) work just fine.	SpectreOne
3.5-367			Windows 8 Intel Core i7-3630QM @ 3.4 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GT 645M	Runs perfectly. No sound, graphical, or general glitches in sight. Always a constant 60FPS	mcaso123
3.5-600			Windows 8 AMD FX-8120 AMD Radeon HD 6670	Perfect FPS slow game bit down like 30-55 and video:Data,Archives,How to Play is slow.	DavidBascus
3.5-1406			Windows 7 Intel Core i5-2410M @ 2.3 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M	All the sound crackles disappeared after the add of Dolphin in the "3D settings" (NVIDIA panel)!	Fox_McCloud45
3.5-1699			Windows 8 Intel Core i3-3120M Intel HD Graphics 4000	A consistent 60FPS was found during playtesting. The FPS may drop to 50-55 when playing on large stages or with multiple players. Tested on 1x Native Resolution.
4.0			Windows 8 Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2 GHz AMD Radeon HD 6600M	Runs at 100% speed highest I've tested on was 2x native resolution on Direct3D11. Kept a stead frame rate with the exception of loading the levels.
4.0			Windows 8 Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2 GHz AMD Radeon HD 6700M	Runs at 100% speed highest I've tested on was 2x native resolution on Direct3D11. Kept a stead frame rate with the exception of loading the levels.
4.0.1			Windows 7 Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.4 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460	Working 99%. Small lighting bugs in the game but do not effect gameplay at all and are hardly noticeable. "Force texture Filtering" must be on to fix multiple shadows bug.	Kilobytez95
4.0-1222			Windows 7 Intel Core i5-4670K @ 4 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760	Runs 100% speed. I get none of the issues listed above even when using NVIDIA w/ OpenGL except for the very minor lighting issues described in Termina Bay. It's possible all of the other issues were resolved with the recent graphics update.	Darxide
4.0-1818			Windows 7 AMD FX-6300 @ 3.5 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660	Some drops here and there, especially on Fountain of Dreams. 1x Native Res. Will overclock and post more info.
4.0-2879			Windows 7 Intel Celeron G1630 @ 2.8 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750	Near Perfect with minor bugs. On some levels I've had minor to moderate FPS drops. Otherwise runs at 60FPS consistently. Can run up 4X resolution with no noticeable issues at all.	drago10029
4.0-3178			Windows 7 Intel Core i3-2310M @ 2.1 GHz NVIDIA GeForce 610M	Fully playable @ 50FPS (PAL version). Some FPS drop at the very beginning of some fights for less than a 1/4 seconds.	HauruI
4.0-4163			Ubuntu 14.04 Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.3 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650	60FPS, all modes work, no framerate drop at Fountain of Dreams unless increasing internal resolution. Fully playable. Setting EFB Copies to disable causes major graphical issues with character shadows and turns floors of maps black.	Xerxes
4.0-4557			Windows 7 AMD Phenom X4 9750 @ 2.4 GHz AMD Radeon HD 5450	OpengGL 1x rendering 60FPS, framerate drop a little before battle but is fully playable. DX is 60FPS but more drops and more stuttering before start battles; 2x causes heavy slowdowns before battles, 30-60FPS in battle on both OGL/DX; The sound is Perfect	Alfresitu
4.0-5616			Windows 7 AMD FX-8350 @ 4 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750	60FPS on gameplay with some quick little frame stutters here and there. Menus and Victory screen may have frame drops but are fine otherwise. Was able to play up 4x native resolution but had to change audio to LLE recompiler. Major initial frame drop on 4x menu screen but it was fixed up after a battle.	Combatheros
4.0-5752			Windows 7 Intel Core 2 Quad NVIDIA GeForce GT 120	Perfect 60FPS, with some small hiccups when loading things (same with almost every game I play). Audio worked fine the first time I loaded it, but now the music cuts out after a few seconds, and I have no idea how to fix it.	LotadTheGreat
4.0-5942			Windows 7 Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.34 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GT 120	Perfect 60FPS still, and we still have that audio glitch. Also, whenever you start a battle, it freezes with this beeping noise, but still says it is running 60FPS. Unplayable.	LotadTheGreat
4.0-7123			Windows 10 Intel Core i5-4590T @ 3 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M	3xIR and 8x AA on both backends, perfect speed. However there is a strange popping sound in the right speaker that goes on quite rhythmically. I've just disabled sound on it for now.	shangry
4.0-7840			Windows 10 Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.5 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660	Runs perfectly.	Smartlord
4.0-8520			Windows 7 Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.8 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti	Runs 60 FPS no problem with everything maxed out. Netplay (online) works flawlessly.	JohnFromSteam
5.0-4444			Windows 10 Intel Core i7-7700K @ 5.0 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X P	Flawless emulation, always fullspeed, excellent 3D Vision experience	Anonymous
5.0-8001			Windows 11 Intel Core i7-9700K @ 5.5 GHz Intel HD Graphics	Press any key to continue . . .	Anonymous

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