Sound Test

The "Sounds" menu in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Sound Test is an option that appears in the Super Smash Bros. games.

• In Super Smash Bros., one can unlock the Sound Test by completing Break the Targets and Board the Platforms with all 12 characters.
• In Super Smash Bros. Melee, the Sound Test is unlocked by unlocking all playable stages.
• 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 challenges, as well as through collecting CDs 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 themes 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 Obstacle Course in Brawl. SSB4's Sound Test is missing some character voice clips, such as those of Duck Hunt. In Ultimate, Duck Hunt's noises are present, but those of Samus and Mr. Game & Watch are still missing.

In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, the Sounds section can be set to play music even when the Nintendo 3DS is in sleep mode, with the L and R buttons 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.

Unused sounds

There are occasions where the Sound Test has sound clips that were never used in-game:

• In Super Smash Bros., voice clips of the announcer saying "Bonus Stage", "Draw Game", "Are you ready?" and "Final Stage" go unused; in the Japanese version, there is also an unused announcer clip for "Jigglypuff" (rather than "Purin", its Japanese name).
• In Melee, there are voice clips of the announcer saying "Master Hand", "Giga Bowser/Giga Koopa", and "Fighting Wire Frames"; these were most likely meant for 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's Classic Mode.
  • Crazy Hand's sounds are located within the Master Hand section, all except the sound heard when the player KOs him.
    • Furthermore, playable characters have other unused sounds; Pichu and Pikachu, for instance, have unused sounds where they yell "PI-CHU!" and "PI-KA!" respectively, Marth has one where he says "let's dance" in English (which is only accessible through the debug sound test), and 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: Ness, for example, has one of his high-damage yells from Melee, Kirby has a "Hi!" that resembles more that of the previous games, and 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.
  • Voice clips of the announcer saying "Stage Clear" and "Fighting Alloy Team" also go unused, as well as additional final countdown timer clips starting from "ten".
• In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, some unused announcer voice clips correspond to features from Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, such as "Yellow Team" and "Special Smash".

Not in Sound Test

• In Super Smash Bros., the announcer voice clips "Defeated", "Race to the Finish/Hurry to the Battle Stage", "Wins/Win", "Congratulations", and "Incredible" are not in the Sound Test; they are only accessible through the debug menu.
• The "Multi-Man Smash" voice clip is not present in the for Wii U Sound Test, despite being present in for 3DS.
• 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.

Gallery

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  The Sound Test as it appears in Super Smash Bros.

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  The Sound Test as it appears in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

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  The Sound Test as it appears in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

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  The Sound Test as it appears in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.

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  The Sound Test as it appears in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

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  A glitch in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U showing the source of Menu as "Mario Kart 8".

Trivia

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 Xander Mobus.

• In Melee, some clone characters have sounds in their sound test sections that are used only by their base counterparts. For example, Luigi and Dr. Mario's sound test sections include sounds used only by Mario, and Ganondorf's sound test section includes the bird shriek heard when 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.
• R.O.B.'s portrait in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS'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), Mt. Dedede (which only shows King Dedede), and 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's Sound Test is different than the Spirits list and the official website. Normally, EarthBound is listed first and 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 Splatoon and Other categories.
• In Ultimate, one can hold L or R to rewind or fast-forward through songs.

See also

• Music (SSB)
• Music (SSBM)
• Music (SSBB)
• Music (SSB4)
• Music (SSBU)