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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

"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"

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.

_"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?

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

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.

I accidentally pressed play on the notification lol

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

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

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.

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

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 ^^

Love u bro keep up the amazing content 😩 ❤️

Sector Z is the only 64 stage that didn't return in The Akaneia Build, but Corneria serves a similar purpose.

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

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.

Happy 4th of July everyone!

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

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

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.

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.

Very well made and informative video, thank you

Whoever made these mods big props

Always love seeing Melee content pop off, commenting for algorithm

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

I would love to see what the akaino build will be in the next few years as that build could be the next project plus but for melee.

Yeah I think I was looking for this video

I love how simple this mod is and all the models are fire

they could prolly commission the guy who narrated since he does interact with the community alot

of course the biggest chunk of Melee modding was to mod the fun out of it, so happy to see creative modders finally get their hands on the game & give us the fun stuff

pretty cool. Makes me wanna get back into playing melee. I still have the game and a gamecube

This video is really cool. Because of this I might finally play Melee for the first time

10:40 they gave pichu a WHAT

I have never played Melee, but this is still impressive to see. Mods and ROM hacks are always fun to look at.

The Akaneia build seems really interesting. I really like the little mini games. It's so cool that people are modding melee. I need to pay more attention to the modding scene for smash

Fay's still kind of a weird pull if you ask me, I'm guessing they didn't want to put in Krystal without a dedicated Staff moveset? _Atleast shes not decked out in slave leia fetish gear._

Imagine going back in time and using modded footage to convince people certain characters were in the game

They gotta add Sonic in the next build

beyond melee is beyond based

These mods look really simple but cool. Nothing too crazy like Brawl and U mods but still really cool nonetheless

10:19 "...and lastly we have both *_Meta Knight_* and Sonic. These two are probably *_the closest to their official Smash appearances"_* *_FEAR._*

Beyond melee looks pretty cool

Raichu looks dope!

great video

Wolf has a melee model seen in the opening trailers

MODS THAT ALSO DESERVE YOUR ATTENTION Melee 1.03 - Try this. This build is competitively focused and provides new controller fixes and (maybe most impressively) a LATENCY REDUCTION toggle for making almost ANY LCD run as fast as a CRT! There is a CRT mode, LCD, and FAST, which is experimental/for the worst of TVs only.(Otherwise it's too fast) Also Slippi compatible!! 20XX - This was the crown standard for all Melee mods for a long time, and implemented the UCF that's universally accepted today. There's a newer version out now, 5.0!! UnclePunch's Training Mode - This was in the video, but I'm not sure if the name was mentioned. Happy Melee everybody.

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!

If we get an impressive mod like this for Ultimate, that’d be amazing.

If there’s another Meta Knight mod for Melee, I kinda hope that the mod Dees could go to a step ahead and call in Eric Stuart into the role. It was during the era KIRBY Right Back At Ya was released.

someone finally made this

The video ended too soon. May I have more please?

I would love to see a Rivals video like this

that time frame when everyone was playing volleyball was really fun my pikachu was getting nasty

So cool.

Ill keep an eye on that archanea build. a mod that doesnt just add different layouts of battlefields for stages and even adds in silly new modes is something worth checking.

I was expecting Banana Peels to simply damage you and bounce back, like how they were handled in the Wii fighter Twinkle Queen.

Very cool stuff.

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.

I love the Smash community when it comes to these mods

I noticed something -Kirby, Meta Knight and Bandana Dee in SSF2 -Kirby, Meta Knight and Gooey in Crusade -Kirby and Meta Knight in the other Melee modpack *Dedede always gets shafted*

Kinda weird to se a Charizard using Flare Blitz on a Melee mod that's meant to reflect characters as they were back in the day, as Melee came out when Pokémon's Gen II was around, and Flare Blitz wasn't a thing until Gen IV

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.

SD Remix had no nerfs, only buffs

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

Good Video

Facts

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

Since Flare Blitz didn’t exist in Gen 2, I’d say that side B is much more of a unique take on Fire Spin, especially since that’s Charizard’s final move learned through level up in Crystal.

Amazing.

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

Cool!

Looking goodb

Sweet!

5:42 Charizard: Mmmmm PokePuff Also Charizard: AAH BIG SCARY MONSTER!!

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

Tag and volleyball look sooo fun I’m surprised actual smash doesn’t have stuff like that

Shadow mewtwo having pokken’s synergy gauge is awesome ngl

"Planet Zeebs" Also surprised you did not mention Melee 20XX. Especially 20XX Tournament edition. It has TONS of costumes, music, past/future/custom stages, alt custom new abilities, and competitive tweaks in debug, as well as customizing map textures with toggle packs, and custom minigame modes. You can even play as the polygons, Giga Bowser, and both Hands. It's a really old mod too

6:25 Awwww it looks like diddy is hugging donkey kong

Melee is an newcomer characters are splendid.

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

charizard and wolf look really good

This was interesting at first I was like meh but then the volleyball and extra stuff looked fun.

Yo these mods look godlike

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

Will you do another vid now Akaneia has added Sonic in their new build?

Right next to this video on my recomendation, there's a video titled " helicopter falls on teen who saves pilot", with a thumbnail showing firey wreckage burning in the forest. I'm like "Nah, this is more interesting."