Speed Demos Archive - Super Smash Bros. Melee

Released in December 2001, Super Smash Bros. Melee features 25 classic Nintendo characters. While it is a game primarily meant for 2-4 player versus battling action, there are many single player aspects to the game, including several mini games that are all about getting low time records!

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.

Character	Time	Date	Player
Doctor Mario	0:00:13.40	2003-03-01	achieved by many
Mario	0:00:08.35	2005-03-30	'SIGN'
Luigi	0:00:03.99	2004-04-25	'Senju'
Bowser	0:00:08.35	2005-09-23	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Peach	0:00:10.16	2004-09-29	'Senju'
Yoshi	0:00:07.65	2005-11-17	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Donkey Kong	0:00:08.57	2005-11-28	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Captain Falcon	0:00:07.52	2006-02-01	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Ganondorf	0:00:05.05	2004-01-28	'Senju'
Falco	0:00:05.55	2005-10-28	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Fox	0:00:06.93	2005-08-03	'Doraki'
Ness	0:00:13.28	2005-05-08	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Ice Climbers	0:00:11.57	2006-02-17	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Kirby	0:00:11.80	2006-01-23	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Samus	0:00:07.99	2005-12-16	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Zelda/Sheik	0:00:06.33	2004-11-30	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Link	0:00:03.55	2004-10-03	'TAKA'
Young Link	0:00:05.06	2004-08-07	'Senju'
Pichu	0:00:05.63	2004-10-21	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Pikachu	0:00:07.30	2004-08-17	'Senju'
Jigglypuff	0:00:07.85	2005-12-01	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Mewtwo	0:00:04.87	2005-07-22	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Mr. Game & Watch	0:00:02.97	2006-02-04	Tom 'marth1' Radovich
Marth	0:00:08.95	2004-04-25	'Senju'
Roy	0:00:06.10	2004-01-28	'Senju'

Individual-levels run of 10 Man Melee in 0:02:58.76, 100 Man Melee in 0:47:30.20:

	10 Man Melee			100 Man Melee
Character	Time	Date	Player	Time	Date	Player
Doctor Mario	0:00:06.63	2004-07-06	'Ravenyte'	0:01:47.78	2005-01-29	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Mario	0:00:06.70	2004-02-08	'Ravenyte'	0:01:47.77	2004-12-11	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Luigi	0:00:07.41	2004-07-18	'Ravenyte'	0:01:56.80	2005-10-11	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Bowser	0:00:07.40	2004-06-13	'Ravenyte'	0:01:57.58	2005-11-05	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Peach	0:00:06.97	2004-02-25	'Ravenyte'	0:01:54.72	2004-08-10	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Yoshi	0:00:07.25	2004-06-17	'Ravenyte'	0:01:52.60	2005-10-13	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Donkey Kong	0:00:07.45	2004-02-20	'Ravenyte'	0:01:54.13	2004-07-28	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Captain Falcon	0:00:07.46	2004-10-25	'Taka'	0:01:55.18	2004-08-12	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Ganondorf	0:00:07.36	2004-07-15	'Ravenyte'	0:01:54.99	2005-11-23	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Falco	0:00:07.15	2004-03-09	'Ravenyte'	0:01:57.43	2004-07-25	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Fox	0:00:07.18	2004-06-16	'Ravenyte'	0:01:56.23	2005-01-08	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Ness	0:00:07.52	2004-10-25	'Ravenyte'	0:01:58.97	2005-10-20	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Ice Climbers	0:00:07.53	2004-07-22	'Ravenyte'	0:01:58.60	2005-10-21	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Kirby	0:00:07.52	2004-03-21	'Ravenyte'	0:01:58.08	2004-12-18	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Samus	0:00:06.63	2004-06-24	'Ravenyte'	0:01:56.67	2004-08-09	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Zelda/Sheik	0:00:07.25	2004-10-25	'Ravenyte'	0:01:58.13	2005-10-10	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Link	0:00:06.92	2004-07-11	'Ravenyte'	0:01:51.11	2005-10-22	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Young Link	0:00:06.82	2004-10-25	'Ravenyte'	0:01:52.90	2004-12-12	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Pichu	0:00:06.75	2004-07-01	'Ravenyte'	0:01:46.11	2004-12-11	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Pikachu	0:00:06.83	2004-03-26	'Ravenyte'	0:01:44.77	2004-07-25	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Jigglypuff	0:00:07.57	2004-03-26	'Ravenyte'	0:01:56.43	2004-07-25	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Mewtwo	0:00:07.43	2004-07-25	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh	0:01:53.26	2005-11-22	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Mr. Game & Watch	0:00:07.15	2004-03-27	'Ravenyte'	0:01:55.15	2005-10-13	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Marth	0:00:07.33	2004-07-13	'Ravenyte'	0:01:53.13	2004-12-19	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh
Roy	0:00:06.55	2004-06-18	'Ravenyte'	0:01:51.68	2004-08-10	Peter 'pyh189' Yeh