The Super Smash Bros. mod that did the impossible

Melee has long been an impossible game to crack... until now (minus 1 year)
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[@De_an]

Imagine if Akaneia made an experimental patch that intentionally added some Melee Jank™ to their characters, like having Charizard's Rock Smash give you temporary superarmor when you interrupt it by falling off a ledge.

[@protol5683]

You mean to tell me there’s 3 different mods based off an unused Fire Emblem Archenea stage And none of them actually made an Archenea stage?

[@fireblade696]

I love how Sonic does his Adventure Pose in beyond melee.

[@acedelta12]

Yep!

[@roboticjanitor3332]

I was expecting a taunt or a post homing attack animation but no, IT'S HIS FRIKKEN UP AIR

[@fireblade696]

@@roboticjanitor3332 Yep! Which is AWESOME!!

[@brandonwilliams6119]

In 64 Remix I love how his down air is Yoshi’s and it really fits for Sonic.

[@UltimateShadow10]

I still remember the fake image of Sonic being in regular Melee from back in the day, way before Brawl and the rest. Yea, whoever made that got me good.

[@ivansotelo4622]

Volleyball and tag should be an official mode in the series, cool innovations for casual/competitive play

[@squallleonhart9387]

Here are ton more suggestions for other fun casual modes that would make the Smash series even more casual friendly kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6PKZHutpaxmn7M

[@ivansotelo4622]

@@squallleonhart9387 these are pretty interesting and worth a deep dive for creating new engaging modes, or to keep these in, we could have a Mario party type of mode that used stuff programmed like these, hopefully multiversus goes the brawlhalla way and experiment with new modes like these and theirs(and hopefully we get an 8 player mode to play games modes like football and the like

[@solidskullz5736]

I read really incredible how they managed to replicate melee’s style that well. It’s magical to see a mod that looks good enough to be official

[@wahoo8683]

All Is missing Is Ridley, King K. Rool, and Banjo Kazooie for both Smash Remix and Melee HD.

[@SonicTheCutehog]

Needs King Dedede too

[@squallleonhart9387]

After seeing Ridley in Melee intro for so many years, he deserves it, Samurai Goroh as well.

[@joshsmith5561]

What about porting WaLuigi in Smash Remix? They already put Conker in there (another character not in any smash games) Also, maybe put Peach as well

[@dylansmith5206]

​@israelsoarescunha2965I also hope that Smash Remix and The Akenia Build will include these DK Character's- Dixie Kong (Who is decades overdue for A Smash Game) Funky Kong Cranky Kong The DK 64 Crew Stanley The Bugman From the 80's DK Arcade Games Ect.......

[@tfofgaming3413]

"What do you look for in mods" A mod that makes Bowser, Kirby, and Pichu S Tier and Fox, Falco, Marth, and anyone else at the top F Tier. Matter of fact, full-flip the tiers. "Revenge of the Fs"

[@fgfhjfhjfbhfghf5771]

I just love that the Melee scene is making up for criminal lack of Star Fox characters in Brawls scene

[@bulbasaur1534]

The fact they made the trailers for wolf and the others to how they did in vanilla melee gives me hope that a god actually exist, They're filled with so much charm.

[@mattwo7]

7:47 Super Smash Bros 2 Turbo -Championship Edition HD Online Third Strike-

[@Gamester8000]

I was really happy when I heard of Beyond Melee! I've never seen Raichu in any sort of mod, and I really wanted the entire Pika line in Smash ^^

[@mr.whimsic6902]

I'm shocked *neither* of the mods added Wario as a character.

[@squallleonhart9387]

Wario is in Smash 64 Remix, he’s been in for a while too. They also added Sonic, and check this out, Sonic’s Down Air is like Yoshi’s and it’s fits him like a glove.

[@dylansmith5206]

​@@squallleonhart9387Speaking of Wario in Smash Remix Still hope that Remix adds in Captain Syrup as a playable fighter

[@azuresaiyan9005]

Charizard mod is great but my one nitpick would be to replace Flare Blitz with a move Charizard could learn back in Gen 1/2. Flare Blitz didn’t exist during Melee.

[@functional200]

I think the recoil on Charizard's Flare blitz was removed because it could have been representing Flame Wheel instead despite not being able to learn it in Gen 2 pokemon

[@LARVAenEspanol]

*I love how Sonic does his Adventure Pose in beyond melee.*

[@SK438]

SD Remix had no nerfs, only buffs

[@christianparrish6647]

Happy 4th of July everyone!

[@Prototype_46058]

I always wanted Raichu in Melee. When I first played that game over a decade ago, the rumor going around was that Raichu was an unlockable character, but you had to beat All-Star mode on the hardest difficulty with Pichu. And I always wished that Raichu had been in the game, just with a different moveset.

[@Reesej0520]

Sonic in Melee goes as far back as 2002 when Electronic Gaming Monthly did their annual April Fools joke, when they said that Sonic is in Smash Bros Melee and all players had to do to unlock him was by getting 20 KOs in Cruel Melee. Obviously, it was a joke, but EGM later ran a contest where if players submitted videos of them getting 20 KOs in Cruel Melee, they would receive a copy of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle for the GameCube

[@laser90]

0:08 I'd kill for Earthbound 64 Lucas and Masked Man

[@Tmathh]

charizard and wolf look really good

[@brianwendt2520]

I really like Akaneia, but I feel like Beyond Melee is too much. I feel like there's a cool middle ground where the vanilla stuff is only slightly changed (fixing characters' bad hitboxes, shields, etc. or bad stage collision, namely battlefield), but still adding new characters and modes and stuff. Idk if Akaneia would consider something like that, but consider myself in favor of it.

[@Silvalfo]

beyond melee is beyond based

[@jordan-the-hound2323]

Akaneia Build: Who are you?? Beyond Melee: I'm you...but better. (I'm kidding. Both are good in their own ways.)

[@shresthasengupta8984]

As if writing this, the akaneia build version 0.9 is out, which includes new content, stages and sonic the hedgehog.

[@ToastNova]

the reason Flare Blitz doesnt do self-damage is because its most likely flame wheel, as flare blitz didnt exist when melee released although charizard can’t learn it, this doesnt stop pikachu and pichu from having Skull Bash

[@OniLink147]

I overall prefer Akaneia's philosophy, though I'd like to see some of the lower tier characters get tuned up.

[@javi994]

That’s why Beyond Melee exists

[@vulcanprincess1584]

i hope akaneia adds sonic and knuckles and an akaneia stage and anything else that was supposedly planned for melee before they were pushed to complete it in time finishing zelda and game and watch's movesets or having an option to turn character balance on or off on individual characters would be interesting too, to merge the games i still think young link deserved an ice arrow option

[@freydawg56]

The Cruel Mod you get Sonic and Tails after you get a total of 100 Cruel Melee kills.

[@brandonwilliams6119]

It would be really fun to go back in time and show our younger selves these wonderful mods from the future. Essentially our childhoods getting DLC, I would even show my young self PMEX Remix!

[@lizrdwizrd2660]

Mods that are high enough quality to where if other people wouldn’t know they’re mods or quality of life additions are the mods I go for first in literally anything

[@richiemakyura724]

Sonic is In! I wonder if James Bond will make it too see to og melee scrapped characters

[@MemeLordCthulhu]

That wolf really pisses me off bc he was in star fox assault, the best star fox game that isn't 64. Idk if it came out before melee, but the design just looks better

[@maddestmike5791]

I hope Sakurai sees these and likes them enough to put them in the next Smash Bros. After a much deserved long break, that is.

[@xvenuzx]

They should add Characters from the Assistance Thing, id love to see all the weird Assistance from Brawl as Playable characters, or the Trophies, i love that game aesthetic

[@drakebushmire227]

Imagine if Melee came out in 2003 or 4 and we had modern Mario and Luigi and Toon Link was just the standard Link because WW was the newest game

[@Aflay1]

Feels like I stepped into an alternate timeline. These characters look amazing. I remember the hype when Wolf made his melee debut. It warms my heart that melee is fleshing out the extras and fun content. Growing up with Melee, I feel like the single player content in this game was very underrated.

[@maricthehedgehog]

This is Basically : What if Super Smash Bros Brawl was Early

[@MeatSnax]

It's cool that people are finally getting involved in seriously modding Melee, but I think it'll be a while before a mod comes out that's "the one" that everybody wants to play. At the moment I could see the online scenes for these 2 mods getting fractured and both being under-populated.

[@myang12003]

If they added daisy, would they use the classic daisy design from the trophy or would they just use modern daisy from Mario party 4?

[@sonicranger5865]

4:06 ya I’m laughing

[@etrotm12thebluewolf15]

I wanna play Beyond Melee so badly. Sadly I can't because it's only playable on PC, and my PC isn't strong enough to emulate Melee (or any consoles that as powerful as the Gamecube). I hope they will find a way to make this playable on Nintendon't because these melee mods look SO SICK.

[@squallleonhart9387]

You’re not alone pal I wanna fool around with Fay, Raichu, Meta Knight and Sonic in the Melee Engine.

[@TDRR_Gamez]

It's not anymore? I played the first release on Wii without any issues at all (or well, a handful of crashes with Skull kid, otherwise good). If so, then that's a shame.

[@etrotm12thebluewolf15]

@@TDRR_Gamez If you actualy did play the first release on Wii then (I use Virtual Wii/Wii Mode on Wii U). How did you make it work? Was this whole project in a single ISO image? Or maybe it's patch? Also most importantly did you use this on Nintendon't since that's the best way to play Gamecube games on Wii Mode?

[@TDRR_Gamez]

@@etrotm12thebluewolf15 I don't remember. It was most likely a patch, but after that was done I just loaded the ISO on Nintendont and played normally. I'm not really keeping up with Melee modding anymore, but if it's a bunch of .dat files you can probably install it with DAT Texture Wizard, but I'd imagine they got a proper installer now.

[@etrotm12thebluewolf15]

@@TDRR_Gamez Well thank you for informing me where I was ignorant on. Now I know there's still hope.

[@biggie_a6466]

Anyone wanna talk ant how at 4:50 that bowser clipped wolf😂

[@seanworden3064]

Dude Charizard would've been busted in melee. But side b could be slash instead.

[@snakeywakey3893]

Hopefully they make the unplayable characters playable without game issues (similar to pmex remix) since that would be cool.

[@frannielmartinez]

Now i want an equivalent of Project + for every Smash

[@grotn_]

Raichu is such a based character pick, which he ACTUALLY becomes a character in a future smash game

[@KareemHillJr]

Ike, some Rareware characters, Mega Man and Brian from Quest 64 would be perfect for this.

[@dav2342]

they're going to be two big mods coming out soon

[@loganharris7801]

Planet Zeebs?! Planet Fucking Zeebs?! Who the fuck calls it Zeebs?!!!!

[@Raul35624]

Man this is smash remix meele edition

[@keithshockley3443]

The could’ve altered the smash melee announcer to make him say the the bonus characters like wolf, diddy kong and charizard.

[@TronApostle]

Mind boggling that they still don’t have Waluigi

[@superagaming_064]

So in melee okaneia and beyond melee wolf is fox’s echo fighter lnteresting I dont play mods but i want to say please do an origin series for beyond melee and okamia although in okameia there would only have the moded character’s costumes and final smash origins as for the beyond melee where it would have the full thing with stages and suff as well as the melee veterans costumes and final smash on top of that with the final smash origins being if the beyond melee and okameia teams added them in the mods

[@shresthasengupta8984]

10:04 That's not possible in Pokemon!

[@grantwilliams9049]

Real Talk: Volleyball looks so fucking FUN! I wish this was a mode in a official smash game... Something to break up the usual formula of bat and computer beat-em-ups...

[@josecl3487]

I would like see u make special moves origins of smash ultimate.

[@luigifan001]

They should just merge tbh

[@SMGElectricBoogaloo]

planet zeebs.

[@LunaMinuna]

Fey reminds me of Krystal from Smash crusade

[@Superemie401]

Her name is actually Fay.

[@WinterDHX]

Smash for 3ds: im joke to you?

[@javi994]

Yes 😂

[@Zetzteno]

Can't wait to see their rendition of Wario.

[@cmossmann2025]

Yes my favorite area in Metriod.... Planet ZEEEBS

[@RyuuSix]

So Akaneia is like Smash Remix and Beyond is like Project Plus?

[@iamaeggmcmuffinboi839]

Planet Zeebs?

[@Tohru3608]

I reeeeaally want and feel like we Need more Adventrue modes and online Features and Killer Instinct Reps 🎉🎈🦋🌈😊🔛🎮🎮💪🏽🎁🥰 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 🙏🏼

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

Por que no los dos? but yeah, I like both.

[@Lampaluile]

I hope they add wario or lucas next. Maybe even krystal??

[@blinkspot2667]

Am I the only one who thinks Mewtwo should be modded to be able to use Teleport when he grabs someone? I feel like it would make sense seeing as how Teleport works in the Pokemon games

[@youngemu3949]

Wait how can charizard have flare blitz if Melee is Gen 2 while the move is from Gen 4.

[@Avabees]

i dislike melee so i wouldnt play either but rly cool to see

[@modern2833]

Can you make a video showing what happens if you insert an SD Card that has Project M in it and go to the Wii Menu?

[@ALDONueve]

Well Melee was the last because...mods of the other games just always try to make that game Melee...

[@i_am_greymatter__7000]

yeah, Pichu with shine is busted....

[@Nite_Hawk95]

Can you mix these mods together?

[@Ezper-2099]

Planet Zeebs lmao

[@empoleon621]

8:15 this is a thing in smash ultimate???

[@javi994]

Yeah It’s called Squad Strike

[@Xxblade17]

Cool

[@cmbaz1140]

hey folks i am using an european version rom of the game on my wii can these mods be applied with my game data and statistics untouched? does anyone know ? please.

[@sk8ns4life]

Are you sure you know what "skill floor" means?

[@DanaTheNintendoLoverGirl2011]

Mod Pack??? :/ 😳

[@christiangarcia1498]

How to use projects M?

[@raikouija663]

ADD GENO AKINEA!!!!

[@spoopyweeb326]

I love that the new characters looked like they were from that era, especially charizard

[@pinkie723]

Yeah! The only thing that bothers me though is that Charizard has Flare Blitz, but that wasn't a move until gen 4, and Melee came out exactly a year (to the day!!) before gen 3 (I didn't realize Melee and Ruby/Sapphire came out on the same day a year apart until I looked it up just now lol)

[@canamoxproductions]

@@pinkie723 With a bit of imagination you could see It as a "Smash original" move. Some characters have attacks that were first seen in a Smash game

[@calebrobinson6406]

@@pinkie723 mewtwo fair shadow claw (or shadow scratch as melee names it) wasnt a move in second generation

[@hotel_arcadia]

Sonic didn't look anything like that in 2001 though, where are the soap shoes???

[@Johnny_Duster]

@@pinkie723is it really a big deal though 🤦‍♂️

[@KinglyRed]

I find it bizarre that the Akaneia build doesn't actually include an Akaneia stage

[@Aaronitmar]

I'm sure it's in their plans, but the logic for the characters also applies to stages. It's easier to bring back old stages to get familiar than it is to jump right in to a new stage.

[@ringo3911]

I'm kinda surprised they didn't translate it to the official English title of Archanea, but I get the appeal of using the Japanese concept name and that name wasn't adopted until 2008 when the Shadow Dragon DS remake came to the US.

[@gundum1o1]

@@Aaronitmar Where's Sector Z???

[@ultrascarlet5275]

@@gundum1o1 It's now caller Corneria, and takes place in a city instead of space.

[@Hiyo420]

@@gundum1o1 SHUT UP

[@skorie6180]

I really love mods which feels like extensions of the original game, not just in mechanics but in visual style, time period and being logical inclusions. Marvel Vs Capcom 3 is getting a similar modding boom ATM and I love that all the modders just add Marvel and Capcom characters to it, makes it feel more official

[@SebastianGMSFB]

Right :D

[@noahthenerdiest3406]

Agreed and it's fucking amazing!! We just got iceman added in and I love it

[@mguymario]

MVC mods are really good. I just wish that they add custom slots and maybe slots with nothing in it so we can play 1v1s or 2v2s if we like

[@Whienzarth]

Iceman looks so good 👌

[@Timic83tc]

The MVC3 modded characters are always too strong I feel actually.

[@JayWolf1955]

I honestly only play beyond melee a ton because it has something that the hardcore sonic fan in me loves, giving sonic a moveset that isn't just him being in ball form like the official smash games. Like giving him his boost and the dropdash as specials, while also having great references in his nair being one of the tricks in the advance series, and up air being the adventure pose as a kick. it all feels so much better than sonic's actual representation in smash

[@Protofall]

Yes, I was very disappointed playing brawl and finding out his moveset is so boring. Even his final smash felt underwhelming and weak.

[@JesusMowsMaLawn]

Even the foward air is his axe kick from Sonic Battle

[@connorwykes7561]

"Every Super Smash Brothers game has a modding scene." Smash 4 Modding scene: ...

[@bbletsplays1130]

There's a pretty decent modding scene for Wii U, and while not huge, there are some neat mods for 3ds

[@OverZeelous]

It was WAY bigger back in the day, but now it’s barren because that game got cracked WIDE open. And also because Ultimate’s here, and most modders from the Smash 4 era moved onto Ultimate.

[@connorwykes7561]

@@OverZeelous Yeah I remember the days before Ultimate when the modding scene was huge!!! There was a lot that was able to be modded, but I do wish they would've figured out something like a clone engine for new fighters. The closest I got was making echo like fighters with some of the custom specials over skins. I'd love to see people make a clone engine for Smash 4!!!

[@and...and..]

4xM

[@Matanumi]

Uhhhh.... 4xM 3DS has mods too

[@timmyb.3426]

The Akaneia build has since added Sonic and Lucas into the game. It's nice to see this project get more updates.

[@dylansmith5206]

Speaking of Lucas I still hope that the Akaneia Mod will get the idea to add more Mother/Earthbound Character's Add in these guys- Porky Minch The Masked Man (Claus) Kumatora Jeff Andonuts Poo Boney Giygas From Mother 1 Ect......

[@TechnoCookieNG]

These mods, along with Melee’s source code decompilation in the works makes me super excited to see what’s next for this game. It’s essentially my childhood getting DLC.

[@jaygiemtg7511]

FREE dlc

[@minuteworld7027]

how far is the decomp?

[@JSSMVCJR2.2]

@@jaygiemtg7511 Like in Ye Olden Days.

[@jlewis4441]

Oh snap there's a Melee Decomp project? That's gonna be _wild_ once that gets cracked. If the SM64 and OoT decomps are anything to go by, a Melee revolution is just around the corner

[@annieskywalker9290]

I want to see wario, ayumi tachibana and other characters that were cut from melee enter the game

[@ConnorRentz]

Thank you so much for covering our work on Akaneia! I also really appreciated the Melee 64 shoutout. :-)

[@Bandrik]

Assuming you're on the Akaneia team, thank YOU for all your hard work on this amazing project! :D

[@ConnorRentz]

@@Bandrik I am one of the core team members. :) I help a lot with general direction and textures. I also do all of our social media and videos. Thank you. :)

[@Bandrik]

@@ConnorRentz well then hell yeah. I have no idea how you all figured out how to make custom movesets and game modes, but you are digital gods. Or at least scions. Either way, thank you all for gracing us mortals with your generous gifts. :D

[@traverse_danikuuu]

I accidentally pressed play on the notification lol

[@TAYBR00K]

I accidentally subscribed, turned all notifications, liked, shared, saved, donated, created and commented all on this video lol I don't know what I just commented.

[@margiesandals]

Idk man, I did it intentionally

[@spooksahoy5097]

👍

[@darienb1127]

10:28 Yo, they gave Sonic his Sonic Adventure pose as part of his up air! From the brief animation I saw of Sonic in this video, I already feel like he's a bit better than normal Smash sonic when it comes to style. From the poses and the motion blur on his attacks, this feels more like Sonic to me. Brawl's version was pretty good, but he just got less and less expressive over time. Sonic got done dirty.

[@joelperez5098]

Imagine if the akaneia project become the acrtual of playing melee competitively since it’s just melee but better

[@joelperez5098]

@ravelnavarro4358 that can definitely be true but it’d still be fun

[@alexv3375]

_"And even Flare Blitz, though surprisingly, he doesn't deal any self-damage when using this move."_ So it's basically more like *Dragon Rush* (a custom variant from _SSB4,_ which is less powerful but hits multiple times, starts up faster and doesn't deal self-damage), then?

[@67kingdedede]

still only one hit

[@squallleonhart9387]

Pichu, Roy and G&W stay as the only characters who can give themselves damage.

[@Wingedlight-nn4hl]

Since the Beyond Melee build added original characters on top of preexisting ones some characters I would love to see in a Melee style are Shadow the Hedgehog, Lara Croft, and Ryu

[@seebs_keeps_talking]

you should be banned from having opinions

[@Wingedlight-nn4hl]

@@seebs_keeps_talking wdym?

[@Wingedlight-nn4hl]

@@seebs_keeps_talking it’s not so much an opinion as these characters are more so hopes and wishes for the future of the Beyond Melee build

[@squallleonhart9387]

@@seebs_keeps_talking I mean at least those characters didn’t debut after Melee, I mean look at Smash 64 Remix which has a Persona Stage, Dark Samus and not Earthbound 64 Lucas as the default. Those things feel more out of place for a mod of a game that came out in 1999.

[@nonesuchriverinc]

Shadow did technically debut before melee, but only around 5 months before melee came out.

[@ProjectLuark]

I feel like the Wii was just begging to be hacked, so it makes sense that Project M exploded on the scene and became super popular. This on the other hand is probably because of the outbreak which then forced people to play on computer ports and netplay. Ever since Slippy, melee found its spark once again and because of that, melee modding was back in play. Because of people playing on a PC port of it with great netcode, maybe it was easier to get the files of melee to then add things or retexture old things.

[@kookio4284]

I feel like if the Akaneia build and Beyond Melee combined into one giant build, it would have been possibly the perfect if not an amazing change to Melee.

[@and...and..]

They're not compatible in philosophy

[@essy531]

beyond melee has been porting their stuff to akaneia for a while now

[@tristandahn2284]

Beyond melee is still my preferred way of playing melee. Even if it's not a competitive masterpiece. Then again, Melee was never that to begin with... I think of it as a pretty good competitive experience. Beyond can at least add in some depth where there wasn't before... Can't wait to see what newer platform fighters, like Multiversus, Fraymakers, and even mods like these will add to this budding genre of fighting games in the future.

[@nickmcnugget16]

Same My favorite smash mods have always been the ones that served to make the game more insane and chaotic. Brawl minus is still probably one of my favorite examples of this personally

[@davidvkimball]

Glad Akaneia and the broader Melee modding scene is getting some love! Thanks, Aaron. Well-deserved.

[@Marchers46]

David, it’s you.

[@davidvkimball]

@@Marchers46 👋

[@Marchers46]

@@davidvkimball Thank you for replying, you’re a massive inspiration to me and I was wondering.