Super Smash Bros. Melee: Difference between revisions

Characters in ''italics'' are newcomers.

===Default characters===

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|[[Fireball]]

|[[Cape]]

|[[Super Jump Punch]]

|[[Mario Tornado]]

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|[[Fire Breath]]

|[[Koopa Klaw]]

|[[Whirling Fortress]]

|[[Bowser Bomb (move)|Bowser Bomb]]

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|[[Toad (move)|Toad]]

|[[Peach Bomber]]

|[[Peach Parasol (move)|Peach Parasol]]

|[[Vegetable (move)|Vegetable]]

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|[[Egg Lay]]

|[[Egg Roll (move)|Egg Roll]]

|[[Egg Throw]]

|[[Yoshi Bomb]]

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|[[Giant Punch]]

|[[Headbutt]]

|[[Spinning Kong]]

|[[Hand Slap]]

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===Unlockable characters===

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*Clear Classic or Adventure mode with any character

*Play 50 Melee matches

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*Clear Classic or Adventure mode with Mario without continuing

*Play 100 Melee matches

|[[Capsule|Megavitamin]]s

|[[Super Sheet]]

|[[Super Jump Punch]]

|[[Dr. Tornado]]

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*Complete Event #37--Legendary Pokémon

*Play 200 Melee matches

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*Clear 100-Man Melee

*Play 300 Melee matches

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*Use the fourteen default characters in either Classic or Adventure modes, or Vs. Melee matches.

*Play 400 Melee matches

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*Clear Classic or Adventure mode with ten characters, including Link and Zelda/Sheik

*Play 500 Melee matches

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*Complete Event #29--Triforce Gathering

*Play 600 Melee matches

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*Play a combined total of 20 hours of Melee matches

*Play 700 Melee matches

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*Finish the first stage of Adventure mode with ##:#2:## on the timer

*Play 800 Melee matches

|[[Green Fireball|Fireball]]

|[[Green Missile]]

|[[Super Jump Punch]]

|[[Luigi Cyclone]]

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*Complete Classic or Adventure mode with Marth without continuing

*Play 900 Melee matches

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*Clear Classic, Adventure or Target Smash with every other character

*Play 1,000 Melee matches

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==Stages==

===Default stages===

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!width=17%|Stage

!width=83%|Description

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|[[File:Princess Peach's Castle Melee.png|100px]]<br>[[Princess Peach's Castle (Super Smash Bros. Melee)|Mushroom Kingdom:<br>Princess Peach's Castle]]

|align=left|The Kongo Jungle stage is set on logs over a waterfall. A small platform also appears to the right, and sometimes logs are falling down the waterfall, creating temporary platforms. Below the stage is a [[Barrel Cannon]] which shoots out characters in a random direction when they fall into it.

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|align=left|The Great Bay stage, based on ''[[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'', has two platforms which stand fixed in the water, and a swimming stone. Sometimes, a turtle rises from the water, creating additional platforms. [[Tingle]] is also seen on the stage with a giant balloon, and is forming another platform.

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|align=left|Yoshi's Story features elements of the game ''[[Yoshi's Story]]''. In the center is [[Yoshi's Island (location)|Yoshi's Island]], and three smaller platforms are hovering above it. It also has a cloud moving below it to catch falling characters. [[Fly Guy]]s fly by occasionally, carrying Food.

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|align=left|On the Fountain of Dreams stage from the [[:Category:Kirby series|''Kirby'' series]], the fountain itself forms a big platform in the middle with three smaller hovering platforms above it, whose height varies.

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|align=left|In the Corneria stage from the [[:Category:Star Fox series|''Star Fox'' series]], the battle is held on the Great Fox, a spaceship. From time to time, Arwings fly by and shoot at the combatants.

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|align=left|The Jungle Japes stage from the [[Donkey Kong (series)|''Donkey Kong'' series]] is set on a river, with three ledges made of wood with a house and a toilet house found on them. The players fight on these platforms. Occasionally, [[Klaptrap]]s jump out of the water, trying to drag characters downwards into the water.

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|align=left|The Temple is the biggest stage of the game, designed after several games from the [[:Category:The Legend of Zelda series|''Legend of Zelda'' series]]. It features many different platforms and a tunnel system. Despite its size, it does not have any side effects.

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|align=left|The Yoshi's Island stage is set in a scene from ''[[Super Mario World]]''. The area is enclosed by a slope on the one side and a [[Warp Pipe]] on the other. In the middle, there is a hole with [[Rotating Block]]s above it. There are also two groups of Rotating Blocks floating on the stage serving as additional platforms.

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|align=left|Green Greens from the ''Kirby'' series is consisting of three separated grass platforms. The huge tree, [[Whispy Woods]], blows the characters away. Sometimes, [[apple]]s fall from him. Also, blocks and bomb blocks fall from the sky in between the platforms.

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|align=left|Much like Corneria, Venom is featuring the Great Fox flying over the surface. But unlike Corneria, the battle is fought on the Great Fox's four wings, and the ship is seen from the front. [[Arwing]]s also appear and shoot at the players.

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|align=left|Brinstar from ''[[:Category:Metroid series|Metroid]]'' is consisting of several platforms which are held together by organic material or other objects. These connections can be destroyed, causing some of the platforms to hover in the air. Sometimes, acid rises from below burning the characters, but also restoring broken connections.

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|[[File:Melee Onett.jpg|100px]]<br>[[Onett|Eagleland:<br>Onett]]

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|align=left|Mute City takes place on a large F-Zero race track with a small platform hovering in the middle of it. Occasionally, this platform will go down, exposing the road. F-Zero gliders will sometimes race into the players, but can also be destroyed.

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|align=left|The Pokémon Stadium looks like a simple stage with two floating platforms, but every once in a while the stage will change into one of four different terrains: Water, Fire, Rock, and Grass, which all have different featured obstacles.

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===Unlockable stages===

!width=17%|Stage

!width=50%|Description

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|[[File:FlatZone-Melee.png|100px]]

|Clear Classic, Adventure, or All-Star with Mr. Game & Watch.

|align=left|The Flat Zone modeled after a [[Game & Watch]] system. From time to time, wrenches, buckets, and other tools fall from the top. Oil can also be spilled over the ground, making it hard for the players to move. Some platforms vanish and appear at different places.

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|[[File:Brinstar Depths Melee.png|100px]]

|Play 50 Melee matches

|align=left|Unlike Brinstar, this ''Metroid'' stage features a large round rock platform found inside a spherical cage covered in embedded spikes. There are few floating rocks, which players can jump onto at any time. From time to time, Kraid slashes the large platform which causes it to rotate in any direction, exposing a different side of it.

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|[[File:Ssbmstagesfourside.jpg|100px]]

|Play 100 Melee matches

|align=left|This ''EarthBound'' stage is set high on the skyscrapers of Fourside. Players have to be careful not to fall into the gaps between the buildings. It has a giant [[UFO]] that occasionally shows up on the screen and can be used as a platform.

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|[[File:Ssbmstagesbigblue.jpg|100px]]

|Play 150 Melee matches

|align=left|Big Blue is side-scrolling, and the fight takes place on top of the F-Zero gliders. Players have to be cautious not to hit the track, as they would stay behind and, because of the high speed of the gliders, would hit the barrier at the left end of the stage, knocking them out.

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|[[File:Melee Poke Floats.jpg|100px]]

|Play 200 Melee matches

|align=left|Poké Floats takes place in the skies of Kanto, where giant floating Pokémon balloons are found. Throughout this stage, the player must jump onto one balloon by the time the others vanish.

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|[[File:Battlefield-Melee.png|100px]]

|Clear All-Star for the first time

|align=left|Battlefield is a floating stage in space consisting of a big platform in the middle and three smaller platforms hovering above it. The stage does not have any side effects, which allows players to solely concentrate on the fight.

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|[[File:Final Destination Melee.png|100px]]

|Clear Event 51: The Showdown

|align=left|Final Destination has absolutely no features, so the combatants are not bothered by the stage in any way.

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|[[File:SSB Dream Land.png|100px]]

|Clear Target Test with every character

|align=left|The Dream Land is a stage returning from ''Super Smash Bros.'' The only feature is [[Whispy Woods]] who occasionally blows a harsh wind in a random direction.

==Items==

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![[File:Trophy94.png|75px]]

|''Super Smash Bros.''

|The Beam Sword can be used to hit other characters. It is powerful, but the hits are rather slow.

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![[File:Trophy117.png|75px]]

|''Super Smash Bros.''

|The Capsule contains a single random item that is small. It can be easily thrown and sometimes explodes when hitting the wall or a character.

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![[File:Trophy112.png|75px]]

|''Perfect Dark''

|The Cloaking Device makes the player invisible. The player still takes damage regardless of being invisible and harder to hit, but their damage percentage will not increase while invisible.

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![[File:Trophy96.png|75px]]

|''Super Smash Bros.''

|The Fan is used to smack other characters. It is difficult to escape the Fan's fast hits, though they do not do much damage per hit.

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![[File:Trophy100.png|75px]]

|''Balloon Fight''

|When thrown, the Flipper stops hovering in the air, creating an obstacle for players. It can also repel projectiles.

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![[File:Trophy87.png|75px]]

|''The Legend of Zelda''

|The Heart Container reduces the player's damage meter by 100%.

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![[File:Trophy95.png|75px]]

|''Super Smash Bros.''

|When a smash attack is performed with a Home-Run Bat, the hit character is knocked out instantly. It is also featured in the [[Home-Run Contest]].

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![[File:Trophy92.png|75px]]

|''Panel de Pon''

|The character hit by Lip's Stick gets a flower on their head, which is doing continuous little damage. The more often a character is hit, the bigger the flower grows, and the more damage it will do.

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![[File:Trophy86.png|75px]]

|''Kirby''

|The player's damage meter is reduced by 50% when picked up.

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![[File:Trophy110.png|75px]]

|''Super Mario''

|Hitting the Metal Box makes the player metal. They weigh a lot and cannot be thrown off the stage easily; but if they are thrown off, they cannot jump easily and it is harder to survive for them.

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![[File:SSBM Motionsensorbomb.png|75px]]

|''GoldenEye 007'' / ''Perfect Dark''

|When placed on the ground, the ceiling, or the side of a ledge, the Motion-Sensor Bomb stays on the ground and explodes when someone touches it.

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![[File:Trophy102.png|75px]]

|''EarthBound''

|They are used to throw it at other characters. When they are caught by the player again, they do not vanish, and can hit the other character many times.

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![[File:Trophy108.png|75px]]

|''Kirby''

|The Parasol can be used to hit other characters. When falling, the character holding the parasol glides down slowly.

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![[File:Trophy114.png|75px]]

|''Super Smash Bros.''

|When the Party Ball opens, items appear at random. There is a high chance that the items will be Food or Bob-ombs.

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![[File:Trophy120.png|75px]]

|''Pokémon''

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![[File:Trophy89.png|75px]]

|''Super Smash Bros.''

|The Ray Gun can shoot out laser beams. It has 14 beams before it runs out.

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![[File:Trophy109.png|75px]]

|''Metroid''

|As long as a character is holding the Screw Attack in their hand, their jump is in the form of Samus's [[Screw Attack (move)|Screw Attack move]]. When another character is hit by it, they also do that jump and take damage.

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![[File:Trophy93.png|75px]]

|''Kirby''

|When the Star Rod is used, stars come flying out of it, hitting other characters. The Star Rod has limited use and when all stars have run out, the Star Rod cannot shoot stars anymore.

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![[File:Trophy88.png|75px]]

|''Kirby''

|The character who picks the Warp Star up flies up into the air, and then crashes right back down, causing an explosion that damages other players. By tilting the {{button|gcn|Stick}} while in the air, the player can take influence on the landing point.

When the players run out of stock lives during the mode's progress, they can use a continue to gain all lives again, but they lose points for that, and at any setting except for Very Easy, they will have to pay coins for the Continue. Those coins are won in any regular battle by performing smash attacks, or in the Bonus Stages of the Classic Mode. They can also be used to pay for the Continue in the Adventure and All-Star mode and in the Trophy Lottery mode.

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!width=15%|Stage 1

!Stage 11

|The player has to fight [[Master Hand]] on the Final Destination stage. Unlike the player, the Master Hand has hit points instead of percentage of damage. The number of hit points varies between the difficulty settings, anywhere from 150 to 360. Additionally, when the player is fighting on the normal or a higher difficulty setting and has finished the other stages of the Classic Mode without using any Continues, [[Crazy Hand]] will appear when Master Hand's HP hits its half. Then the player has to fight both hands at the same time. Crazy Hand starts with the same number of HP as Master Hand did.

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The players' scores are saved after every stage. They get awarded points for the time remaining when a battle ends, as well as for the damage they dealt. They also get Bonus Points, just as in the Bonus mode. In the Bonus Stages, the players get points for how many targets they hit, or how far they made it in Race to the Finish!. Special Bonus points are awarded in the end for hitting all targets in the Break the Targets! stage, collecting all trophies in the Collect the Trophies! stage, beating Crazy Hand, beating the mode on the Very Hard setting, or beating the mode without losing a life. The scores are saved separately for each character, and there is also a total score for all characters combined.

The first two stages pertain to the ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong (franchise)|Donkey Kong]]'' franchises respectively, and [[Bowser#Size|Giant Bowser]] is featured as the final boss. In harder difficulty settings, Giant Bowser is fought first, followed by [[Giga Bowser]], an alternate form exclusive to the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series.

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!Part 2

|When players have completed the side-scrolling stage, they get to Princess Peach's Castle. There, they have to fight Mario and Peach, who are in a team. If players have completed the first part of the Mushroom Kingdom stage with a 2 in the seconds place (XX:X2:XX) on their time counter, Luigi will kick Mario off the castle before the battle begins. Then, players have to fight Luigi and Peach instead. When players complete the rest of the Adventure mode, they can unlock Luigi in the end.

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!Part 1

|After defeating the mini DKs, players will fight [[Giant Donkey Kong|Giant DK]] in the Jungle Japes stage.

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!Part 2

|When players have completed the Dungeon, they will be at Hyrule Temple, where Princess Zelda is fought.

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!Part 1

|Players then get to a small vertically-scrolling level, where they have to jump to the top platform to evacuate the exploding planet. When they fail to do it in time, one life is lost, but gets to continue on.

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!Part 1

|If players have defeated the Kirby team within 30 seconds, Giant Kirby will appear and also fight. Defeating Giant Kirby gives players the bonus Giant Kirby KO, which gives 10,000 points.

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!Part 1

Fox or Falco appears with a red palette swap, but if the player uses the red palette swap of either Fox or Falco, the CPU uses the regular palette costume of the characters and vice versa.

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!Part 1

|After completing the race, players have to fight Captain Falcon at Mute City.

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|colspan=2 style|Players have to fight three Nesses at the Onett stage. The only item found here is Mr. Saturn, making this stage an easy way to get the many Mr. Saturn-related bonuses (such as Saturn Ringer).

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|colspan=2 style|Icicle Mountain is a scrolling stage, similar to the regular version. In the beginning, players have to reach a certain height of the level. On the way are a lot of [[Topi]]s, [[Polar Bear]]s, and Freezies. If almost a minute on the timer has expired, two pairs of Ice Climbers will appear, while the enemies and any possible trophies will disappear.

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!Part 1

|When players have defeated the Wire Frames, they get to fight [[Metal Mario]]. If Luigi is unlocked, they have to fight [[Metal Mario#Super Smash Bros. Melee|Metal Luigi]] at the same time as well. Defeating the Metal Bros. will award players with 8,000 points.

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!Part 1

|If players play on a difficulty setting of Normal or higher, while completing the past stages of the Adventure mode in less than 18 minutes without using a continue and defeating Bowser in less than one minute, they will have to fight [[Giga Bowser]] as well. Unlike with Crazy Hand, players can use a continue against Giga Bowser and still be able to fight him again. Players earn 100000 points for KOing Giga Bowser, and receive the Giga Bowser trophy as well.

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Players' scores are saved after every stage. They get awarded points for the time remaining when a battle ends, as well as for the damage they have dealt. Bonus Points can also be received, just as in the Bonus mode. Special Bonus points are awarded for collecting a trophy that randomly appears on a stage, defeating Luigi, all five Links, Giant Kirby, the Metal Bros., or Giga Bowser, beating the mode on Very Hard, beating the mode without losing a life, etc. The scores are saved separately for each character. There is also a total score for all characters combined. Also, the hardest difficulty the character has played is viewed on the character select screen, represented by the color of the smash logo next to the point count.

====Unique non-''Super Mario'' stages====

=====Underground Maze=====

The stage that is used is depended on what character plays as player 2. The stages go as follows:

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|Roy||Final Destination

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===Event Match===

{{redirect|Girl Power|the [[Play Nintendo]] gallery also called "Girl power"|[[Nintendo Female Characters List]]}}

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|1||'''Trouble King'''||Mario||Battlefield||The player has to fight Bowser in a simple stock match, each starting with two lives. Bowser's handicap is set to a weak level, making it easy for the player to KO him quickly.

|13||'''Yoshi's Egg'''||Yoshi||Rainbow Cruise||The player has to protect the [[Yoshi Egg]], a special item that can take damage, from the opponent's Pikachu, Fox, and DK for a time of 55 seconds.

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|15||'''Girl Power'''||Selectable||Fountain of Dreams||The player has to fight Peach, Zelda, and Samus, who are all bigger than the player's own character, with each having two lives.

|25||'''Gargantuans'''||Giant Bowser||Fourside||The player has to fight Giant DK, however, the player has one life, while DK has two. Additionally, a tiny Mario and tiny Peach will appear on the stage (both having only 1 life). However, they are usually defeated by Giant DK seconds after the Event Match begins. KOing tiny Mario and tiny Peach is optional.

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|27||'''Cold Armor'''||Samus||Brinstar Depths||The player has to fight three Metal Samuses, with the player only having one life, while the opponents have two lives.

|46||'''Fire Emblem Pride'''||Selectable||Temple||The player has to fight Marth and Roy, who are in a team, in a stock match, with each combatant having three lives.

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|48||'''Pikachu and Pichu'''||Selectable||Dream Land (Past Stage)||The player, starting with two lives, has to defeat the two Pichus. They are defended by a Pikachu which respawns when defeated. The Pichus are handicapped so that they are difficult to KO.

|51||'''The Showdown'''||Selectable||Final Destination||The player has to fight [[Giga Bowser]], [[Ganondorf]], and [[Mewtwo]] in a stock match, with each combatant having three lives. Giga Bowser is easier to KO in this match, compared to in Adventure mode. Upon winning the event match, the player unlocks Final Destination as a selectable stage for the VS mode, as well as the Final Destination trophy. A message is also awarded if the player clears this Event Match without losing any lives.

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To unlock more event matches, the player has to win a certain number of the previous ones, and unlock additional characters.

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!Events #

|30||Winning at least 27 of the event matches #1 - 29

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|51||Winning all event matches #1 - 50

===Stadium===

In the Stadium, special minigames are available. Each minigame opens the way to unlock one of the Past Stages from the original ''Super Smash Bros.''

===Training===

The player can practice here. There are no rules such as Stock or Time, and the opponent can be controlled either by the Training menu, and set to actions such as walking and standing, or by a human player. Items can be created to practice with them specially. When the player performs standard combos here, the maximum number of combos is saved for each playable character, and the player can unlock several Trophies when getting a high number of them.

==VS. Mode==

===Melee===

[[File:MarioJump-SSBMelee.png|thumb|[[Mario]] in midjump]]

===Tournament Melee===

'''Tournament''': In this mode, played as a single-elimination tournament, the winner of a battle passes on to the next round CPU-only matches can be skipped. The number of combatants per battle ranges from 2 to 4. The number of entrants is selected and can be up to 64. It is selected how many humans are among the competing players. The stage selection mode is selected; "Single Random" chooses a stage at random on that every match of the tournament is played, "Always Different" chooses a new random stage for each battle, "Choose First" lets the player select the stage for the tournament in the beginning and "Choose All" lets the player choose a new stage for each match of the tournament. The level of additional computer opponents can be set from 1 to 9, applied to all, or to a random value applied to each CPU player. The rules settings for the battles have the same choices as the VS mode. Each player chooses their character and the tournament begins.

===Special Melee===

This mode offers a couple of different rules settings for the Melee mode. Any records (such as amount of KOs) are not counted.

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|Camera Mode||In this mode, the players can take screenshots. These screenshots are saved on the memory card. The number of blocks a screenshot takes is defined by how many objects are visible on it.

==Unlockable features==

When unlocking any of the secret characters, the player first has to beat them in a stock battle with one life each. When the player loses, several characters will appear again after the player has played the next VS match. Other characters require the player to achieve the task again. In addition to their special method of unlocking, all characters can alternately be unlocked by playing a certain number of matches in the VS mode.

!Character

!First unlock method

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|Jigglypuff

There is only one method to unlock the stages, and the player does not have to unlock them by an additional battle like the characters.

!Stage

!How to unlock

===Voice actors===

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|Mario, Luigi, Dr. Mario