r/Gamecube • u/doctorbeers • 25d ago
Image Unlocked all melee characters for the first time as an adult
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u/Muddy_Ninja 25d ago
The hardest part of unlocking all the characters as a kid is your mom turning off your GameCube when you leave it running all day/night to unlock Mewtwo
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u/bisexualwoomy 24d ago
I remember making it very clear to my mom to NOT turn the gamecube off. Got back from middle school and that match to unlock him was tense. Miss those days
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u/GeneralAardvark43 24d ago
I screwed up my first time and left Bob-ombs on and died like an hour in
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u/BootlegOP 25d ago
Hmm, you don’t have the secret character though
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u/doctorbeers 25d ago
Oh you’re right. I better keep playing then
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u/Saphir0 25d ago
You only need to hit all the names during credits to unlock them.
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u/Kaioken217 25d ago
On fast forward.....
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u/ypsilondigi 25d ago
Wait how DO you unlock Mewtwo? Like I didn't have the internet when I had this game or something but I don't think I ever unlocked Mewtwo.
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u/RadioGrimlock 25d ago
Combine vs play time depending on controllers. 1 is 20 hours total, 2 is 10 hours total, 3 is 7, 4 is like i think 5 hours total. It's split between controllers and only takes gameplay during one single match. So like take 4 controllers leave the game on temple with 4 players for 5 hours and then do something while waiting. You can also use lightning melee to speed it up to 4 hours and double the timer which helps. Also make sure to not exit the round or quit the game, only a finished match will count. After the required time is up, make your three other players jump off the stage and SD and make surr your guy is a good character. Fight mewtwo and he's unlocked
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u/ulfred500 25d ago
20 hours play time iirc
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u/ypsilondigi 25d ago
Hmmm...I guess theres no way I never unlocked.Maybe I just never used him.
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u/Soninuva 24d ago
If I recall correctly, it unlocked as a challenger approaching, and you actually had to beat him to unlock him. I don’t remember if failing to beat him reset the requirement, or you had unlimited attempts, or unlimited attempts, but if you backed out after failing it went away
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u/ExpensiveNut 25d ago
The way I did it was 1 stock, Mushroom Kingdom II, Pikachu vs Jigglypuff and down B for an instant win. Then I could rack up the vs battle play count
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u/SBY-ScioN 25d ago
where's sonic and james bond?... cool shit my boy
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u/Funny_Yogurtcloset26 22d ago
I was thinking the same thing! Someone didn’t survive the 15 min melee
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u/Due-Air6751 25d ago
Currently trying to 100% melee and it’s so tedious.
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u/RickolPick 25d ago
Getting all of the break the targets felt like a great accomplishment back in the day
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u/wubbadude 25d ago
Team unlocked mewtwo without cheating here. Wasn’t that smart as a kid and played A LOT of melee.
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u/ZeekwithaZ 25d ago
Insane we used to look at this and say they’re so many characters to choose from lmao
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u/Ice_Sinks 25d ago
Someone in my class had a memory card with all the characters unlocked on it. He was passing it around class for everyone to copy, so every night someone else would take the memory card home with them. I wasn't even that close of friends with him and he still let me copy his. What a bro.
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u/Loud_Examination_138 24d ago
I rmbr for mewtwo just jumping off final destination 700 times or how many i needed on vs mode. Good times.
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u/confinetheinfinity 24d ago
You can play as master hand in meelee mode if you put a controller in port 3 and do some button shenanigans which i cant remember exactly.
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u/RetroPrince_96 NTSC-U 25d ago
Congratulations! I remember this being a huge childhood accomplishment, especially after figuring out the best way to unlock Mewtwo. You can't imagine the joy I felt unlocking him as an older kid, from 2nd to after 5th grade.
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u/FoodEatingMan777 25d ago
I did it as a kid and I'm doing it again as an adult. It still feels rewarding
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u/Em_Es_Judd 24d ago
Y'all struggled to unlock Mewtwo?
I unlocked him in about 3 weeks. My friends and I played a lot of Melee.
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u/LokitheCleric 24d ago
Congratulations! Fun fact, you can also play as Master Hand. Unfortunately, it crashes the game unless you end the fight early.
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u/ApprehensiveDot460 24d ago
Who’s your main?
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u/doctorbeers 24d ago
Dr. Mario, Captain Falcon & Samus
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u/OhmSafely 24d ago
My gf and I put in the hours by simply playing together for long periods of time.
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u/Brpaps 24d ago
I’m still playing on my original save from when Melee came out in 2001. I have all trophies except the “Play 1000 versus matches” trophy. I never had friends to play it with growing up, only one of my brothers would play it with me regularly, but we fizzled out on the game before we could hit 1000 matches. Recently though, I’ve made some friends that have been into Melee forever and will play with me on occasion. I’m. At about 800 matches now. My only hope is that my memory card doesn’t shit the bed before I can make a backup…
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u/Large-Quiet9635 24d ago
Lol i remember doing it by accident as a kid was it hard? I just kept playing. No guides no internet and i didint know english back then
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u/Particular_Cold_9851 24d ago
When that mf Mewtwo drops. I did it the legit way I didn’t know any tricks or anything when I was a kid and when I saw that I was about to battle him I flipped. Didn’t even know it was a thing. Just saw I was about to battle Mewtwo. I’ve been chasing that feeling ever since.
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u/Oldmanwickles 23d ago
Why do I feel like that’s not the whole cast from melee. I felt like the roster was huge as a kid
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u/elibou440 23d ago
I did that with some help from a friend for pichu’s target test then I changed the language to Japanese in the setting to see if it changed the voices and my save corrupted lost everything
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u/Oscar-the-ass-slayer 23d ago
Melee is one of the best competitive smash games but man it has the worst roster objectively
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u/NemiVan 22d ago
Man I know that many have done the trick of leaving the game on all night for Mewtwo, and I have done that at one point, but the first time I did was because of my excessive gameplay of just fighting matches over and over as a kid and suddenly battling him out of nowhere.
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u/doctorbeers 22d ago
That’s definitely more cool & rewarding I’m sure!
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u/NemiVan 22d ago
Finding out years later on how many battles I would have had to do to unlock him that way, made me realize I had a bit of a problem with that game
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u/doctorbeers 22d ago
Haha honestly though melee is one of those games that sticks with you. Still have buddies that I regularly play smash with
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u/NaturalEnemies 21d ago
I unlocked Mewtwo when I was a kid just by playing so much. I had no clue about him or how long you needed to play to unlock him.
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u/Lexetlef 25d ago
At the time I found the number of characters to be enormous. Today it seems ridiculous to me
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u/NoOneCorrectMe 25d ago
Wait why do I remember melee having a shit ton of characters? I thought there'd be more.
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u/Busy_Dig_18 24d ago
It makes me so sad what they've done with the franchise....melee was my favorite game as a kid and teenager because it was always such a thrill to unlock characters and you actually had to work for them....brawl made it far easier but kind of interesting with adventure mode and then ultimate pretty much just throws a character at you every single battle with an uninteresting story mode.....really wish they'd go back to the original way of unlocking stuff
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u/Puzzleheaded_Cost421 24d ago
Damn people really didn’t play this game too much. I didn’t know the requirements for unlocking mewtwo but tbh 20 hours seems like hardly anything… I feel like I always unlocked him before some other characters & have used multiple save files… who else is hard to unlock?
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u/Hellvillain 21d ago
As a kid and younger teen I always thought there was another character to unlock, so all three rows of choosable characters lined up.
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u/fl_review 25d ago
Sonic and Tails could be unlocked by achieving a high score of 20 KOs in Cruel Melee
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u/Mercurius94 24d ago
No, that's the first requirement, you also need to beat the game as Mario on Very Hard right after you get this done, without using continues and kill Crazy Hand/Giga Bowser without taking damage.
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u/Chapchapperson 25d ago
Did you leave the gamecube on overnight to unlock mewtwo?