Super Smash Bros. Melee: Adventure Mode (Normal) with Mario in HD
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Published 2022-03-10
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Since another video is in the works, I decided to use the footage I'm capturing for it and make this. I have the Melee HD textures enabled (from assets.melee.tv/), widescreen gecko code, and an internal resolution upscale of 1920x1584 for full 1080p capture. I also enabled 8x SSAA anti-aliasing, 16x anisotropic filtering, texture filtering, per-pixel lighting, and scaled EFB copy to make it as pretty as possible.
I did cheat a little bit in editing, so that RNG was on my side. List of things I changed:
- Swapped out the Mario Bros. cutscene with one that doesn't use any recolor costumes (happens when you pick Mario or Luigi)
- Replaced the Star Fox segment to ensure an encounter with Falco
- Replaced the Kirby section to ensure an encounter with Giant Kirby
- Replaced the Ending "Congratulations" segment with my own HD version
I also went out of my way to engage each of the Link battles in Underground Maze, and also waited for Zelda to transform into Sheik before I KO'd her. Yes, it was a little extra, but I wanted to show as much off as I could.
Unfortunately there are some odd quirks with the widescreen gecko code that haven't been fixed yet, mostly obvious in the text alignment and UI issues that show up during the stage clear screens or during the Star Fox cutscenes.
This is the Widescreen code I'm using for Melee 1.02:
$Widescreen 16:9 [Dan Salvato, mirrorbender, Achilles1515, UnclePunch]
043BB05C 3EB00000
C236A4A8 00000006
C03F0034 4800001D
7C6802A6 C0430000
C0630004 EC2100B2
EC211824 48000010
4E800021 43A00000
435B0000 00000000
044DDB58 3E4CCCCD
04086B24 60000000
04030C7C 38000064
04030C88 3800021C
044DDB30 3F666666
044DDB34 BF666666
044DDB2C C3660000
044DDB28 43660000
044DDB4C 3D916873
C22FCFC4 00000004
48000011 7C6802A6
C0030000 4800000C
4E800021 40DC7AE1
60000000 00000000
044DDB84 3E89FEFA
If anyone knows of a widescreen code that fixes these issues, please let me know. :)
The other issue is, when having all of those visual settings cranked up super high, there are some serious performance issues during the stage clear screens. I replaced the audio with smoother versions so it doesn't sound choppy, but the video visibly drops frames during those parts. Sorry about that.
I hope you enjoy! I'll continue to tease bits of my next videos on Patreon: patreon.com/davidvkimball
00:00 - Menus
00:14 - Stage 1: Mushroom Kingdom
03:18 - Stage 2: Kongo Jungle
04:42 - Stage 3: Underground Maze
09:13 - Stage 4: Brinstar
11:08 - Stage 5: Green Greens
13:18 - Stage 6: Corneria
15:12 - Stage 7: Pokémon Stadium
16:42 - Stage 8: F-Zero Grand Prix
18:11 - Stage 9: Onett
19:19 - Stage 10: Icicle Mountain
20:54 - Stage 11: Battlefield
22:43 - Stage 12: Final Destination
25:19 - Ending and Credits
26:56 - Congratulations!
Outro Music Credit: "Resting Place" by Garrett Williamson • Resting Place
All Comments (21)
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I hope you enjoy this casual playthrough of Adventure Mode! I wanted to include every bit of it, so I did some video editing to combine segments together, which is why you might notice some weirdness in the score totals.
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Those 2 punches were perfectly in sync with the music 1:41
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Proof that you don't need high poly models to have a good looking game
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I remember playing Melee's adventure mode to death as a kid. It was such a cool concept for a mode and wish they brought this back
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Dude this literally sparked the memory of my first time playing melee. I got it for a birthday and had no clue wtf smash bros was. I just saw Mario, pikachu, link, and bowser on the cover and shrugged because if I like those characters I should like the game, right? Well the first part of adventure mode took me like 5-10 tries because I kept dying to the winged koopas and Yoshi gauntlet. I remember crossing over that line being so proud, only to get demolished by peach and Luigi lol. Countless hours were spent lost in the temple, fighting all those links and falling down the main chamber. And then the first time I ever encountered Samus was in Brinstar. Getting burning by the stage, SD’ing a hundred times, and being forced to fight some alien being in a space suit will be burned into my brain forever. And then the escape challenged my early platforming skills, so it probably took me 10-20 tries to pass the first time. I could go on forever man, this is such a nostalgic video for me bro thanks haha. My original melee disc is cracked in half, so I’ll probably never experience this first hand again lol
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21:40 will always be the coolest scene
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9:03 (Sheik screaming)
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9:23 Planet Zebes: Brinstar Dephts theme
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Melee’s adventure was my favorite. Simple side scrolling action. I wish it was in Ultimate
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Playing as Mario on Mar10 Day made it perfect!
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0:26 If Super Mario Bros. was made in 2001:
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23:25 As a kid, THIS is the image that made Super Mario as a badass in my mind.
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This is probably the coolest concept for the single player you could ask for. If they make a new Smash after ultimate, I want an expanded form of this with the new characters. Maybe instead of big CG cutscenes, they do in-game cutscenes with a few unique ones based on which characters you pick for each of the sections. Kinda like a mix of the new classic mode and the cutscenes from Melee
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Even tho The World of Light is good for what it is in Ultimate, I still miss this version of adventure mode where you actually GO to other gaming worlds as an actual ADVENTURE. Imagine Minecraft Steve traveling through the world of Tekken, Luigi going to Dracula’s Castle, Donkey Kong going through an F-Zero like track, Kirby traveling through Mementos from Persona 5 and SO MUCH MORE! Hopefully in a future Smash title (if there is one in the future), they’ll bring back an adventure mode similar to this one.
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Nostalgia but now in High Definition😮...Wonderful David!! 😃
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Great video, really made me feel the nostalgic vibes of when I discovered Melee and this amazing game mode!
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"Melee HD" Directed by David V. Kimball Never stop posting Melee videos !
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Melee will always be the best. Doesn't matter what anyone says.
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