Super Smash Bros. Melee speedrun

By Peter Yeh.

Author's comments:

First I'd like to thank Gigafrost and pkmvodka for tips on some of the levels, as well as Wak who started the idea of a speed run in Adventure. I always liked to play competitively in the SSBM 1P Modes. But I wasn't sure if I would be able to finish this run because the randomness of the exit room in the Underground Maze made it very frustrating. I pulled it off anyway, but not without mistakes though. Sorry about the video quality in 2 instances, one in Big Blue and another in Icicle Mountain-apparently I recorded on a bad spot. They don't really occur at significant areas though.

Here is a breakdown of each level:

30.66 Mushroom Kingdom - Mistake #1: slight mess-up in the Yoshi battle, I missed one of them and lost about half a second. I went on anyway though.
3.29 Mario & Peach - I decided not to use the 2.7 second method because I can really only do it 40% of the time, but this way I could do it about 95% of the time. It's only half a second anyway.
1.68 2 Tiny DKs - good enough, I get this almost every time
1.37 Giant DK - a bit conservative on this, I didn't want to miss him.
4.59 Underground Maze - fastest I've gotten so far
2.98 Zelda - one of the few times she actually died on the side, so I'm glad about this
1.51 Samus
16.96 Escape - big thanks to Gigafrost for the shield break trick
0.66 Kirby
10.32 Many Kirbys - Mistake #2: Lost about a second not hitting 2 and 3 together with air Up+A, but usually that one Kirby drops through instead of jumping
0.86 Giant Kirby
1.22 Fox 1
2.26 Fox 2 - reason why I don't Rest him immediately is that he'll die on the top, which is slower than doing this
11.71 Pokemon Stadium - one of the better battles but still not my best (10.5)
29.07 Big Blue - The car hits are entirely intentional.
1.21 CF - Mistake #3: not a big deal, I sent him to the left instead of the right, lost about 0.2
4.07 Onett - best time I've gotten
53.36 ICs - Mistake #4: I tried to air dodge down onto that platform with the Polar Bear, but I mistimed it and actually did an air dodge, so I couldn't go onto the platform above it on time, had to wait for the ICs to drop down more. Lost 1 second.
11.32 Wire Frames - Mistake #5: terrible battle here; they just refused to cooperate and I just kept missing my attacks...best I've gotten was 7.5 so this was about 4 seconds lost
1.16 Metal Brothers
5.01 Bowser - Mistake #6: got hit a couple times after I did AFA, but this wasn't major...lost about 1.5 seconds, I don't often kill him in 3.5 seconds without getting hit.

That's a game total of 3:15.27, with about 8 seconds worth of mistakes. Overall it was still a pretty clean run, much better than I expected, and under 7 minutes which was my goal; though I may try to do it again just because of that stupid Wire Frame battle. Optimal time would be about 6:43 / 3:06, including the 2.7 strat for Mario & Peach.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Super
• Smash
• Bros.
• Melee
• speedrun

[IamGamer41]

i take it that this was done on easy,I still think its lame to have a 1 hit totally knock someone out of the world move,but then again this was made for kids.

[123irgendwie]

jigglypuff FTW

[iamadogdemon]

Jigglypuff looks badass nowT_T that made Roy look like a joke!

[GearSaber]

Only If You Beat The Game On Normal And Up.

[MaggotF0rLife]

wow... that was fast

[c2thew]

holy shit that was fast.

[akinosama18]

pretty good man...

[Dragonslayer9]

No giga bowser?

[LeuJinx]

dude, this vid is pretty frigid.

especially the underground maze. im sure that took some serious trial-and-error.