Editing Sound Test

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[[File:SmashUltimateSoundTest.jpg|350px|thumb|The "Sounds" menu in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''.]]

{{disambig2|the in-game sound test|Melee's debug sound test|Debug menu (SSBM)/Debug sound test menu|Debug sound test menu}}

'''Sound Test''' is an option that appears in the ''{{b|Super Smash Bros.|series}}'' games.

*In ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'', one can unlock the Sound Test by completing [[Break the Targets]] and [[Board the Platforms]] with all 12 [[character]]s.

*In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'', the Sound Test is unlocked by unlocking all playable [[stage]]s.

*In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', the Sound Test is available without unlocking, though songs and sounds remain hidden until their source character, stage, or [[CD]] is unlocked.

*In ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', the Sound Test is available by default. Some music tracks must be unlocked through [[challenge]]s, as well as through collecting [[CD]]s on the Wii U version, like in ''Brawl'', and voices can be unlocked by unlocking the character. Kirby's Copy Ability voice clips are unlocked after unlocking every character. Unlike previous games, only music and voices are available; sound effects and [[victory theme]]s are not. Additionally, unlike previous ''Smash'' titles, songs in Sound Test cannot be played indefinitely. This time, all songs have a set time limit before it ends. The player can create a playlist by marking songs as favorites, and can choose to have songs play in order or at random, or to repeat a selected song once it is finished.

The Sound Test allows the player to listen to most of the music and sounds in the game. Players can listen to the voices of characters, stage music, and listen to other variety of sounds. In ''Super Smash Bros.'' and ''Melee'', the Sound Test can be accessed through Data Mode; in ''Brawl'', it can be accessed through either [[Data]] or Option Mode; in ''SSB4'' it is located in the [[Vault]] and can also be accessed via the sound settings in Options. If the player leaves the Sound Test while a song is playing and goes back through the menus, the song will still play until it is overridden by another piece of music, or until the player enters the character select screen.

Some pieces of music are unavailable in the Sound Test for unknown reasons; this includes the Fighter Select music in ''SSB'', the [[Giga Bowser]] music in ''Melee'', and the Cruel Brawl theme along with the winter version of {{SSBBMusicLink|Yoshi|Obstacle Course}} in ''Brawl''. ''SSB4'''s Sound Test is missing some character voice clips, such as those of {{SSB4|Duck Hunt}}. In ''Ultimate'', Duck Hunt's noises are present, but those of {{SSBU|Samus}} and {{SSBU|Mr. Game & Watch}} are still missing.

In {{for3ds}}, the Sounds section can be set to play music even when the [[Nintendo 3DS]] is in sleep mode, with the [[L button|L]] and [[R button]]s used to skip between tracks, though the player can only hear the song play if they have headphones.

In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', the playlist feature returns, as does the ability to play music through headphones even while the [[Nintendo Switch]] is in sleep mode.

*In ''Melee'', there are voice clips of the announcer saying  "{{SSBM|Master Hand}}", "[[Giga Bowser]]/Giga Koopa", and "[[Fighting Wire Frames]]"; these were most likely meant for {{SSBM|Classic Mode}} or a similar purpose. Other unused voice clips include "(Character) wins", as in the previous game, and "How to Play". Finally, a clip of the announcer saying "and" goes unused, but later appeared beginning with ''Brawl''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> {{SSBB|Classic Mode}}.

***Furthermore, playable characters have other unused sounds; {{SSBM|Pichu}} and {{SSBM|Pikachu}}, for instance, have unused sounds where they yell "PI-CHU!" and "PI-KA!" respectively, {{SSBM|Marth}} has one where he says [https://youtube.com/watch?v=5ym3QWL2bRM "let's dance" in English] (which is only accessible through the debug sound test), and {{SSBM|Ganondorf}} has a "Hoo-yah!" yell that is also unused. The latter would eventually be used for ''Brawl'', despite Ganondorf having another voice actor for all his other speech.

*In ''Brawl'', most characters also have voice clips in the Sound Test that are unused during normal gameplay. Some of them are also taken from previous ''Smash Bros.'' games: {{SSBB|Ness}}, for example, has one of his high-damage yells from ''Melee'', {{SSBB|Kirby}} has a "Hi!" that resembles more that of the previous games, and {{SSBB|Captain Falcon}} has his voice from when he picks up a heavy item in ''Smash 64''. Most of them (notably the damage yells) would later be recycled in ''SSB4''.

*In {{for3ds}}, some unused announcer voice clips correspond to features from {{forwiiu}}, such as "Yellow Team" and "[[Special mode|Special Smash]]".

===Not in Sound Test===

*In ''SSB4'' and ''Ultimate'', Samus, Dark Samus (''Ultimate'' only), and Mega Man's KO sounds, as well as Mr. Game & Watch's [[on-screen appearance]], [[taunt]] and [[star KO]] sounds are absent, while several sounds for R.O.B. are available.  

*In ''Ultimate'', several special victory quotes, Zero Suit Samus' taunt quotes, all of echoed variants of Blast KO voices which are used for Stamina battle, are not in the Sound Test.

MenuMarioKart8.jpg|A glitch in {{forwiiu}} showing the source of Menu as "Mario Kart 8".

[[File:SmashUltimateSoundTestVoiceJP.jpg|thumb|The voice section in the Japanese version of ''Ultimate'' with the corresponding voice actor of each character; in this case, the [[announcer]], with credit to {{s|wikipedia|Xander Mobus}}.]]

*In ''Melee'', some [[clone]] characters have sounds in their sound test sections that are used only by their base counterparts. For example, {{SSBM|Luigi}} and {{SSBM|Dr. Mario}}'s sound test sections include sounds used only by {{SSBM|Mario}}, and {{SSBM|Ganondorf}}'s sound test section includes the bird shriek heard when {{SSBM|Captain Falcon}} performs the [[Falcon Punch]]. In turn, the sound effect of the [[Warlock Punch]] is heard only in the Universal Sounds section.

*In ''Melee'', the last song that the player listened to (with the exception of songs that don't loop, such as "Opening" and "Ending") will play in the "Gallery" mode of the "Trophies" submenu.

*{{SSB4|R.O.B.}}'s portrait in {{for3ds}}{{'}}s sound test is of his Famicom appearance; while the appearance makes sense in the Japanese version, due to the character's default color scheme, this decision creates a discrepancy in the international versions of the game, which use R.O.B.'s grey costume as his default.

*Sound Test file 50 under "[[Announcer]]" in ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' has the announcer say "Giga Koopa" or "Giga Bowser" depending on the game's language, an otherwise unused sound clip. Interestingly, the languages appear to be swapped: the announcer says "Giga '''Koopa'''" (Bowser's Japanese name) in the English version of ''Melee'', and "Giga '''Bowser'''" in the Japanese version. The PAL release only includes the latter sound clip, where the announcer correctly says "Giga Bowser", due to the release not having a Japanese language option.

*The Japanese versions of ''Super Smash Bros. 4'' and ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' include credits the voice actors of each character in the voice section.

*In ''SSB4'', when a music track is selected or hovered over, a character silhouette from that song's respective universe appears to match the song, with the exception of the ''Dr. Mario'' tracks (which only display a Dr. Mario silhouette), ''{{SSB4MusicLink|Kirby|Mt. Dedede}}'' (which only shows King Dedede), and ''{{SSB4MusicLink|Nintendo|Tomorrow's Passion}}'' (which only shows Little Mac).

**On a related note, if a [[Golden Hammer]] is used to skip a challenge that involves unlocking a character to get a new stage in the 3DS version, when the songs are played in the Sound Test, a question mark symbol is shown until the character is actually unlocked. This does not apply to [[Falco]], [[Lucina]], [[Dark Pit]], [[R.O.B.]], [[Bowser Jr.]], [[Jigglypuff]] and [[Duck Hunt]] (once the Duck Hunt stage is downloaded) as they either share stage music with other characters in the same series or they don't have a home stage and use other stage music.

*In ''SSB4'', every character is missing their swimming voice clip. This is possibly due to characters not being able to swim in the 3DS version.

*Oddly, the sorting of series in ''Ultimate''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> Sound Test is different than the Spirits list and the official website. Normally, {{uv|EarthBound}} is listed first and {{uv|F-Zero}} is listed afterwards, and the third-party series are listed in order of their ''Smash'' debut; in the Sound Test, ''EarthBound'' comes after ''F-Zero'', and the third-parties are grouped together between the {{uv|Splatoon}} and ''Other'' categories.

*In ''Ultimate'', one can hold L or R to rewind or fast-forward through songs.