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This is a Super play of Super Smash Bros. Melee, completing All Star mode using Fox, and aims for entertainment value only.
So, because it's based on entertainment, what I try to do is impress, show unlikely things to happen, perform 200% damage in a single combo (or the opposite, only attack the character once to kill it [or not even once?]). Of course, I don't take a single damage during the entire run.
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The encoder will probably need to contact me. There are MANY chances the replay file will desynch for many reasons, one being the dumping of frames. Yes, dumping frames of the replay file makes it desynch.
  • Dolphin revision used: r7323. (I started this project before v3.0 was released, and to be honest, r7323 works better with Melee).
  • Uses a memory card with 100% unlocked on it, in order to unlock All-Star Mode. Memory card files are available on GameFaqs.com
General Configurations:
-Enable Dual Core (speedup)
-Enable Idle Skipping (speedup)
-Skip GC BIOS / checked to JIT Recompiler (Recommended)
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Glitches and / or advanced techniques used in the video:
Super Smash Bros. Melee has a lot of advanced techniques. If you’re an advanced player who dedicated some time on the game, you are already aware of them. However, if you are NOT ease with the game, maybe you will ask how the hell I can be so fast. Deeper information is available in a single video called the Advanced How to Play, made by myself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n4s5yB7ZkE
But ... Here is a more brief explanation of the techniques:
-L-cancelling. When you do an aerial attack in the air and land, you usually have a delay before to move again. However, if you press L before to land, the delay will be much shorter than usual.
-Wavedashing. It consists of air dodging close to the ground in order to slide on it. You can do it after pressing the jump button, so that you don’t jump in the air, rather slide on the ground. The technique is used to travel in an odd fashion on the ground.
-Edge cancelling. It’s Used to cancel the delay before to move again, after a wavedash of an L-cancel.
-Directional Influence. When you get hit, you can influence the direction you are sent simply by pressing a direction. But since I don’t get hit once, I’m talking about the computers here, because they do DI a lot, and they’re doing it in a way no human can really imitate. Computers actually DI upward all the time. So much that against Fox, Falco and Roy, they DI upward enough that I can shine-combo them, which would normally not be possible. But there is a bad side of their weird DI. Because of it, it becomes “hard” to combo them, they can escape easily after my attacks. Therefore, there is a lot of DI and luck manipulation in the video.
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Here's a brief summary of all the battles:
Battle 1: VS Pichu. Already on the first level appears the lightest character in the game, with a good recovery. It means that I had to kill him without having to edgeguard him, but I had very, very few options for the combo because of how light is Pichu. Therefore, I decided to do a Dair combo, with addition to up B combo until higher %, so that I can combo Pichu to the second platform using a simple Jab, then proceed to kill him.
Battle 2: VS Ness. The technical beginning was reproduced from Dark’s Perfect Dark combo video, for being impressive. Yes, he’s impressive enough to be reproduced in an actual TAS video according to me, and it’s a sort of “homage” to him. After doing so, I proceeded to shine-combo Ness, with the help of the car at some point. This match is the only one long enough to actually use an item. They only appear after +15 seconds, which is very often too long for TASed Fox. However, I manipulated the item to be a bunny hood, and proceeded to perform the farthest combo in history... from the middle of the map to its extreme up-left corner.
Battle 3: VS Samus. I think I completely redid this battle 4 or 5 times. With various people’s opinions, I could manage to get this match more entertaining. My main problem was the map’s design that doesn’t really fit to Fox’s movements, mixed with a lightweight / hard-to-combo character. But in the end, I’m satisfied with it. I was surprised the shine-upair combo worked, thanks to the opponent’s awfully upward DI.
Battle 4: VS Mewtwo. This character probably was the worst to combo, using shines. Actually, I could shine him only once with success, so I went for a 0-death combo, using only one shine. Also, because of the character’s recovery abilities that are one of the best in the game, I had to kill him after the combo, without having to edgeguard, which is what I did.
Battle 5: VS DK and Yoshi. At the beginning with the walljumps, Fox seems like he used more than a single mid-air jump, but he didn’t. What happened is, after grabbing the ledge, I released it and walljumped. Then walljumped again, THEN used my only mid-air jump to come back and grab the ledge again. Ever heard of Phantom Hits? Well you’ll see plenty of them in this battle. Phantom hits occur when an attack hits in an exact distance from the opponent... and this distance has a really, really thin window, meaning that I need a perfect distance in for it to happen. Actually, as of August 2011, I’m the only SSBM TASer who can perform Phantom hits at will. It’s really hard right now, especially for the reason that we are not working with any plugins, such as knowing character’s position, which would help a lot. Anyway, I managed to perform a good couple of Phantom hits, but it seemed harder and harder with time.. I don’t know. I heard Yoshi was known for being the god of happiness, how ironic that he commits suicide here.
Battle 6: VS Fox and Pikachu. I restarted the battle twice, and redid Pikachu 3 times, again, for entertainment value. Thanks to Brasterd who became an expert in Fox vs Fox with tool-assistance, I’ve been able to 0-death combo Fox with shine-combos. Also thanks to Mugg who kept telling me to restart for more entertainment!
Battle 7: VS Jigglypuff and Ganondorf. Jigglypuff is the least combo-able character in the game period. I was lucky she appeared to be very close to the ceiling at the beginning of the match! Ganondorf is a whole another story. He’s very easy to get combo’d, so I went for a 200% combo, with the help of a wall. I went for a flashy ending, using an upsmash to kill Ganondorf to the left.
Battle 8: VS Marth and Bowser. Marth and Bowser are quite easy to combo, but the level is quite bad. It is small and the platforms are low, which prevents me from doing flashy ground-to-platform combos like you’ve seen in previous matches. I went for a shiny edgeguard. Fox was shining at every 8 frames, using edge cancels, for a surprising 7,5 attacks every second. This is the fastest known possible way to attack in the game.
Battle 9: VS Falco, Luigi and Zelda. Because Falco is heavyweight, Zelda is mid-weight and Luigi is lightweight, I had to take them apart. Falco react the same as fox when shined, so I went for a 0-death combo. I used the Down throw glitch on Luigi, and he didn’t complain about it apparently... He didn’t try hard to come back on the stage. All was left is Zelda in the cave of invincibility, so I also 0-death combo’d her. And yes, the last hit was a combo.
Battle 10: VS Mario, Peach and Captain Falcon. Against 3 characters in such a small stage, I decided to go for shines only, and low% kills to the left instead of the right. When TASing this, I realised Fox could combo Captain Falcon with shines sending him to the right, then to the left, and so on. Captain Falcon takes so long to recover that it’s an actual combo. Beside that, nothing much to say on this match, it was quick and painless for everyone.
Battle 11: VS Dr. Mario, Roy and Link. I wanted to start with a double walljump on the left side of Final Destination, also manipulated Doc to come and try to hit me out of the field of battle, what he did. After the kill, I tried different things on Link... and he must be the easiest character to get combo’d by Fox, because he really would get hit by anything. Roy apparently reacts the same as Fox and Falco, so I took advantage of it. Because I didn’t edgeguard much during the video, I went for a double edgeguard on them. Hope you enjoyed.
Battle 12: VS Kirby, Ice Climbers and Young Link. Here I tried to walljump in a very unsafe place, and well, it worked! I let you the surprise of how the battle goes. Hint: I heavily manipulated the computer.
Battle 13: VS Game and Watch. For the last fight I went for a fight as fast as possible. I manipulated the GWs to get together, and then kill them all with shines.
I ended the movie at the first possible frame, as requested by the rules of TASvideos.org.
Conclusion. Conclusion? Well, Dolphin is not the best emulator to date. I had a lot of problems doing this video, but I finally managed to finish it. And to be honest, I’m very glad of the result. Special thanks to Mugg1991, he’s the one who took the time to explain me how to get Dolphin, and begin with TASes. I owe all my TASing experience to him. Big thanks to Dark and Brasterd for your inspiring videos. My work would have been much less good without you. Also, thanks to all my subscribers on Youtube. You are the reason why I keep on doing videos. Without anyone to enjoy my work, I would never work on TASing =).
Also, Thanks for watching.

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That was super boring. It looked like I was watching someone who didn't know how to play the game playing superhumanly fast. There were no interesting combos. It just looked like the same basic attack over and over again.
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Hell, Hell, Hell, More FOX hell! That was a really FAST run :) Yes vote!
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This is something I've been awaiting; a GameCube TAS. I liked ReneBalow's TAS on the game, and I'd love to see how you progressed through the game. (EDIT 9/3/2011 13:13 CST) After watching some of this and reading the posts, I'm kind of iffy about this, so "Meh" vote.
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I decided to go with No... my central gripe remains the credits being untouched, but I think other people have raised good points about the run being inconsistent, i.e. sometimes going for entertainment, sometimes going for speed, or at least, so it seems. EDIT: I LOVE Mitjitsu's idea of doing a 4p match, I think one that goes purely for entertainment could be positively epic & hilarious, especially if executed in a sort of "comedy show" style. =)
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I voted no, despite the superfast looking movements its really just the same thing repeated over and over. Not shooting the credits was unforgivable, the best option for this game would be to do an Adventure Mode and a 4p match TAS.
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I voted yes for three reasons: 1. This game is awesome, I played it for years and I can appreciate the beatdowns dealt here. 2. It's quite entertaining. 3. It's a first. I do have to say, not shooting the credits made me doubt, but in the end its one of many improvements that can/will be done once people realize (thanks to this run) that GC runs are possible.
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So this is what happens when Fox has a hyperactive sugar rush. Extremely entertaining, the way you blasted through All-Star Mode. My only real complaint is not playing through the credits. ^.~ Obvious Yes vote.
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Hardly understandable, yet strangely entertaining to me. Weird alchemy, anyway, I voted yes, but it lacks shooting the credits.
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DK/yoshi battle was the highlight, imo
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This topic seems to have a trend. We have a bunch of Yes votes, then a bunch of mehs, yeses, mehs, yeses, etc. with a couple of nos mixed in. Just though I'd point that out. ;)
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As there seems to be sufficient demand, I suggest resubmitting this having shot the credits, as this seems to be the part easiest to fix/implement in this submission, and it would also deal with one of the biggest gripes about it. How about it?
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moozooh: In his post on the previous page, he wrote that he would start it tonight so that everybody is happy. If you mean resubmit it to reset the votes for the Mehs that wanted dead credits... I'm sorry for misinterpreting your post ;)
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Oh, I've missed that part; I apologize. Will be waiting for the credits then! In any case this should be resubmitted because this is a potentially vote-swaying change.
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I waited for the video and i'm impressed and pleased to see this.Nice job !
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TASVideos Grue wrote:
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i knew it
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Actually, I cancelled the submission. I am happy with my work, even if it received very bad comments, it have been well received over Youtube and other TASing smashers. The replay file has the main problem of not being stable at all, so I will work on it, to create more stable files. If you liked the submission, you still can subscribe to my Youtube Channel, Wakssbm, it's dedicated to TASing SSBM! For the credits being shot, here's how it looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_liRXwwqYA#t=9m48s Thank you all for watching.
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Wak017 wrote:
Actually, I cancelled the submission.
ahh! ok^^ this is very controversial... we will see;)
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Wak017, like moozooh said, a re-submission w/ the credits being shot would probably fare much better. I for one would change my vote to yes. Are you planning to submit another version?
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Someone should do an All Stars run with Jigglypuff. :p Or another suboptimal character, but not Fox, plz.
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
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I would just like to see the Switzerland bonus. At least that's what I read it was called.
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Axel Ryman wrote:
I would just like to see the Switzerland bonus. At least that's what I read it was called.
Yeah, you have to play a match in which you never attacked anyone and nobody ever attacked you.
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There is such a bonus, and it's pretty easily achievable on two levels: against Donkey Kong in Classic (he tends to commit suicide if you just stand in place), and on the F-Zero race in Adventure, if you just don't get hit and avoid using your third jump.
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I get Switzerland all the time on Giant DK in Adventure. Standing in the right place causes him to forward-air of down-air directly into the water. BTW, why is it called Switzerland? Is there some joke I'm not getting?
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RedGreenSonic wrote:
I get Switzerland all the time on Giant DK in Adventure. Standing in the right place causes him to forward-air of down-air directly into the water. BTW, why is it called Switzerland? Is there some joke I'm not getting?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_during_the_World_Wars
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