List of regional version differences (SSBM)

Examples of regional differences as demonstrated in the Collection mode; the image on the left is from the American version, while the image on the right uses the Japanese language setting.

There are many differences between the NTSC versions and PAL version of Super Smash Bros. Melee, which are listed here.

Game disc

The text found near the center of the back of the Melee game disc indicates the version of the game.

Version	Text
1.0 NTSC	DOL-GALE 0-00
1.01 NTSC	DOL-GALE 0-01
1.02 NTSC	DOL-GALE 0-02
KOR	DOL-GALE 0-30
PAL	DOL-GALP 0-00

MD5 hash

The version of a .gcm or .iso file of Melee can be determined by checking its MD5 hash.

Version	MD5 hash
1.0 NTSC	3a62f8d10fd210d4928ad37e3816e33c
1.01 NTSC	67136bd167b471e0ad72e98d10cf4356
1.02 NTSC	0e63d4223b01d9aba596259dc155a174
KOR	315d6c0f5f6a0b778af7858a0a19c24e
PAL	5e118fc2d85350b7b092d0192bfb0f1a
1.0 NTSC-J	378be81bb6c38febd847fc4b7f7dc36f
1.01 NTSC-J	f590cbc155097468d7f04e126d7bd898
1.02 NTSC-J	dc07abd4b6a5e1517da575274ceefcf8

General

Version 1.0

All glitches exist, including one that can overwrite Multi-Man Melee scores.

If the player plays as one of the clone characters, lower scores can overwrite higher ones, and if the player plays a clone and then a regular character, the score can duplicate itself on other characters.

In the Home-Run Contest, the track ends at 1521.0 m (4990.0 ft), and if Sandbag isn’t already on the track when the player strikes it with the final attack and it goes over 1389.0 m (4556.9 ft), it will result in No Distance. In the Japanese version, it will start to say No Distance from about 890.0 m (2920.0 ft).
The Screen KOs’ camera is slightly zoomed out and angled as the character’s body is more shown yet upward and hits the screen before visibly falling to the blast zone.

Version 1.01

Home Run Contest track was changed to 4990.0 m (16371.0 ft) long, but the bag can’t land anywhere past 3458.5 m (11347.2 ft).
The all-floats glitch can no longer be performed.
The turnip glitch can no longer be performed.
The shadow glitch can no longer be performed.
The Screen KOs’ camera is at a precise normal angle and the character hits the screen in the center.

Version 1.02

The Multi-Man Melee glitch was fixed, the Superjump Glitch was removed, and many other glitches were corrected.
The announcer now says “A New Record” if a new record is achieved in Multi-Man Melee.
The crowd now says “Ohhh” when the announcer says “Failure” if the player fails in Multi-Man Melee.
The game is now able to record and store negative scores in the single player modes; finishing with a negative score will count as 0 instead of the maximum of 999,999,999.
Many methods of freezing the games no longer cause freezing.
Attacks that deal less than 1% damage now cause hitlag.

KOR version

Identical to 1.02

PAL version

Lag and loading times have been reduced.
Character stock icons shown at the bottom of the screen during a match, as well as target icons shown in Target Test, are considerably smaller.
The progressive scan query shown during the booting of the game if B is held is replaced by a 60 Hz query, which lets the player select between PAL50 (576i50) and PAL60 (480i60).
The "Special Movie" was removed, as was the Archives section in the Data menu (But has data replaced by Captain Falcon's Congratulations cinematic). A dedicated menu selection for the How to Play video replaces the Archives submenu.
Player markers now follow the character's position perfectly, instead of lagging by one frame.
Player markers are not shown above Star KO'd characters or elsewhere after getting KO'd.
Inert hitboxes no longer disable article hitboxes
In Home-Run Contest, when the Sandbag lands on the track it becomes unhittable.
In the main menu, when going to the next screen and then switching to a different entry too quickly, the game now shows the correct information at the bottom of the screen.

Character-specific differences

Bowser

	1.0 NTSC	1.02 NTSC	PAL
Weight	117		118
Down throw	Dependent on enemy weight, so it does not hit Jigglypuff or Mr. Game & Watch		Independent of enemy weight, so it will hit Jigglypuff or Mr. Game & Watch.
Flame cancel	Can perform	Cannot perform

Captain Falcon

	All NTSC	PAL
Rapid jab	Triggered after the A button is pressed or released 3 times (tricky to avoid when attempting to only get the Gentleman)	Triggered after the A button is pressed or released 4 times (the Gentleman is trivial to use)
Knee Smash	Late hit deals 6% damage and has 35 base knockback	Late hit deals 3% damage and has 30 base knockback
Raptor Boost	Can pass through projectiles	Can no longer pass through projectiles

Donkey Kong

	All NTSC	PAL
Giant Punch	Donkey Kong will lose his charge if he is hit out of Spinning Kong	Being hit out of Spinning Kong does not affect Giant Punch's charge.

Falco

	All NTSC	PAL
Down aerial	Has spike angle of 290 for clean and late hit	Has spike angle of 290 for clean hit and Sakurai angle for late hit.
Down throw	Fox cannot tech out	Fox can tech out.

Fox

	All NTSC	PAL
Weight	75	73
Dash attack	Late hit has angle of 72 and lasts 10 frames	Late hit has angle of 55 and lasts 9 frames
Up smash	Clean hit deals 18% with 30 base knockback and 112 knockback growth	Clean hit deals 17% with 26 base knockback and 108 knockback growth
Down smash	Sweetspot deals 15% with an angle of 25	Sweetspot deals 13% with an angle of 30
Fire Fox	Strong hitbox deals 14%	Strong hitbox deals 12% and is 0.75x the radius; covers less distance than NTSC Fire Fox but more than Fire Bird
Reflector	Does not knock Marth down	Knocks Marth down, due to his changed weight
Falco's down throw	Cannot tech out due to unideal math involving throw's weight-based animation speed	Can tech out due to new weight

Ganondorf

	NTSC 1.0	NTSC 1.01	PAL
Neutral aerial	Hits on frames 7-8 then 16-17 This timing results in the second hitbox being active too early, before Ganondorf extends his leg.^[1]	Hits on frames 7-8 then 20-21
Forward aerial	Base knockback is 60		Base knockback is 40
Down aerial	Deals 22%, base knockback is 50		Deals 21%, base knockback is 40
Bunnyhood Double Jab	Can be performed	Cannot be performed
Dark Dive state	Ganondorf is considered grounded during Dark Dive^[2]	Ganondorf is considered airborne
Gerudo Dragon	Can pass through projectiles		Can no longer pass through projectiles

Ice Climbers

	1.0 NTSC	1.01 NTSC	1.02 NTSC	PAL
Freeze glitch	Can perform			Cannot perform
Ice Climbers on fire glitch	Can perform		Cannot perform

Jigglypuff

	All NTSC	PAL
Bowser's down throw	Undamaged by it	Will now take damage from it

Kirby

	All NTSC	PAL
Weight	70	74
Run speed	1.4	1.5
Forward tilt	8 base knockback	10 base knockback Outer hitbox size and disjoint increased
Up tilt		Upward disjoint increased
Dash attack	Clean hit deals 8% and has 66 knockback growth	Clean hit deals 9% and has 50 knockback growth
Forward smash	Clean hit has 24 base knockback Late hit deals 13% and has 18 base knockback Clean hit has slight negative disjoint	Clean hit has 32 base knockback Late hit deals 14% and has 26 base knockback Clean hit has slight positive disjoint Late hit less negatively disjointed
Down smash	Outer hitboxes have 20 base knockback	Outer hitboxes have 22 base knockback
Forward aerial	Landing lag is 20 frames (10 if L-cancelled)	Landing lag is 18 frames (9 if L-cancelled) Disjoint increased
Back aerial		Disjoint increased
Down Aerial	Landing lag is 20 frames (10 if L-cancelled)	Landing lag is 18 frames (9 if L-cancelled)

Link

	1.0 NTSC	1.02 NTSC	PAL
Maximum aerial velocity	1		0.9
Chain dance	Can perform	Cannot perform
Boomerang	Catching the boomerang while airborne cancels the grapple animation, allowing Link to become actionable	Catching the boomerang does not cancel the grapple animation
Spin Attack	Has a lingering semi-spike with a trajectory of 0 degrees		Lingering hit sends opponents at the Sakurai angle

Mario

	1.0 NTSC	1.01 NTSC	PAL
Weight	100		98
Fireball	Increases speed when banking off certain angles on Yoshi's Island (SSBM)	No longer increases speed
Maximum air speed	0.86		0.83

Marth

	1.0 NTSC	1.01 NTSC	PAL
Weight	87		85
Maximum aerial velocity	0.90		0.85
Down aerial	Tipper spikes opponents (tip has angle of 290)		Tipper meteor smashes opponents (tip has angle of 270)
Fox's Reflector	Is not knocked down		Is knocked down, due to changed weight
Whispy blink glitch	Can perform	Cannot perform

Mewtwo

	1.0 NTSC	1.01 NTSC	1.02 NTSC	PAL
Shadow glitch	Can perform	Cannot perform

Mr. Game & Watch

	1.0 NTSC	1.02 NTSC	PAL
Bowser's down throw	Undamaged by it		Will take damage from it
Item pickup glitch	Can perform	Cannot perform
Oil Panic	Bucket and oil turn invisible upon landing on the ground.	Bucket and oil no longer turn invisible.

Ness

	1.0 NTSC	1.01 NTSC	1.02 NTSC	PAL
PK Flash	Opponents hit subsequently by the same attack will experience the staled version of the attack.		Opponents hit subsequently by the same attack will experience the same attack as the first hit opponent.
PK Thunder	Stays active when Ness is hit		Despawns if Ness is hit

There is a long-standing rumor that Ness can charge his up and down smash attacks further over ledges in one version of the game and not others. This is false; in all versions of Melee, Ness can charge his smash attacks over a ledge to the same degree.

Roy

	1.0 NTSC	1.01 NTSC	1.02 NTSC	PAL
Whispy blink glitch	Can perform	Cannot perform

Samus

	All NTSC	PAL
Grapple Beam	Can use Extended Grapple and can bomb jump after grapple is used in midair	Cannot use Extended Grapple and cannot bomb jump out of grapple beam

Sheik

	All NTSC	PAL
Up smash	Deals 17% with 105 knockback growth	Deals 16% with 102 knockback growth
Up aerial	Clean hit deals 12% and late hit deals 9%, both with 120 knockback growth	Clean hit deals 10% and late hit deals 8%, both with 110 knockback growth
Down throw	Trajectory is 80 degrees, allowing guaranteed followup into many other moves, and first hit has fixed knockback value of 90	Trajectory is 60 degrees, only allowing guaranteed followup into dash attack, and first hit has fixed knockback value of 100

Yoshi

	All NTSC	PAL
Weight	108	111
Forward smash	Deals 16% with 94 knockback growth	Deals 17% with 98 knockback growth
Up smash	Deals 14% with 26 base knockback	Deals 15% with 30 base knockback
Down aerial	Deals 51% (all hits)	Deals 38% (all hits)

Young Link

	1.0 NTSC	1.01 NTSC	1.02 NTSC	PAL
Chain dance	Can perform		Cannot perform
Boomerang	Catching the boomerang while airborne cancels the grapple animation, allowing Link to become actionable		Catching the boomerang does not cancel the grapple animation

Giga Bowser

	1.0 NTSC	1.01 NTSC	1.02 NTSC	PAL
Flame cancel	Can perform		Cannot perform

Language

PAL

The NTSC version allows changing between English and Japanese, while the PAL version covers five languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.
Also in the Language selection, English is represented by the Union Jack instead of the American flag.
Names can now include uppercase and lowercase letters and with diacritics; Japanese characters, however, are no longer usable.
The Motion-Sensor Bomb is called the Proximity Mine.
Distances are always measured in metres, as is customary in most European countries.
Snag trophies! is called "Grab a Trophy".
Rainbow Cruise is changed to "Rainbow Ride".
In the NTSC version, the text at the top of the Lottery screen reads "Chance of getting a new trophy"; in the PAL version, it simply reads "New trophy chance".

Trophies

1.0/1.01 NTSC-U to 1.02 NTSC-U: Banzai Bill's trophy name corrected from "Bullet Bill".; Master Sword's trophy's listed game corrected to "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" from "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time".; Various Pokémon had their categories corrected and various text changes.
PAL: None of the trophies have release dates.; Kirby Super Star is referred to as Kirby's Fun Pak.; Star Fox is referred to as Starwing; Star Fox 64 is referred to as Lylatwars.; The NES game Yoshi is referred to as Mario & Yoshi.; The EarthBound trophies have "Not released in Europe".; The GameCube's trophy has May 2002, its release date in Europe. The trophy name is "GCN" instead of "Nintendo GameCube".; The Tamagon trophy is completely removed and unobtainable altogether.; Roy's trophy is listed with "Future Release", despite Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade never seeing an official release in PAL regions.

Character names

The character selection screen in Japanese (left) and English (right).

The Italian and Spanish versions' character names, selection announcements, and crowd cheers are the same as the English versions'. This is mostly true for the German and French versions, with some exceptions:

Name differences
English	French	German
Young Link	Link Enfant	Junger Link
Mewtwo	Mewtwo	Mewtu
Jigglypuff	Rondoudou	Pummeluff
Sheik	Sheik	Shiek

Jigglypuff's German and French selection announcements come from Pokémon Stadium 2, while the other three's are the same as Melee's English version. Jigglypuff's crowd cheer in the German and French versions does not include its name; the crowd says "Go! Go!" and claps three times.

The Japanese version has different romanized names and announcer calls for some characters: Bowser is "Koopa", Jigglypuff is "Purin", Ice Climbers is "Ice Climber", and "DK" is written as "D.KONG". The "Donkey Kong" announcer call is the same in all languages.

Stage names

All stages' names are the same in English and Italian. Stages not mentioned have the same name in all languages.

English	French	German	Spanish
Princess Peach's Castle	Château de Peach	Prinzessin Peachs Schloss	Castillo de Peach
Rainbow Ride	Rainbow Ride	Regenbogen Raserei	Rainbow Ride
Kongo Jungle	Jungle Kongo	Tiefster Kongo	Selva Kongo
Jungle Japes	Jungle Japes	Tropen Trubel	Jungla Jocosa
Great Bay	Grande Baie	Schädelbucht	Gran Bahía
Temple	Temple	Tempel	Templo
Yoshi's Island	Île des Yoshi	Yoshi's Island	Yoshi's Island
Fountain of Dreams	Fontaine des Rêves	Traumbrunnen	Fuente de los Sueños
Icicle Mountain	Montagne Icicle	Icicle Mountain	Montaña Carámbano
Flat Zone	Espace 2D	2D-Welt	Zona extraplana
Mushroom Kingdom	Royaume Champignon	Pilz-Königreich	Reino Champiñón
Mushroom Kingdom II	Royaume Champignon II	Pilz-Königreich II	Reino Champiñón II
Brinstar Depths	Profondeurs de Brinstar	Die Tiefen von Brinstar	Abismo de Brinstar
Mute City	Mute City	Mute City	Circuito Mute City
Big Blue	Big Blue	Big Blue	Circuito Big Blue
Pokémon Stadium	Stade Pokémon	Pokémon Stadium	Estadio Pokémon
Poké Floats	Poké Flotte	Poké-Flug	Poké Globos
Battlefield	Champ de Bataille	Battlefield	Campo de batalla
Final Destination	Destination Finale	Final Destination	Destino final
Kongo Jungle N64	Jungle Kongo N64	Tiefster Kongo	Selva Kongo N64
Yoshi's Island N64	Île des Yoshi N64	Yoshi's Island	Isla de Yoshi N64

Notes

The Japanese discs also have three different known versions, although there are some aesthetic differences exclusive to the Japanese release. This includes graphical changes such as the title screen, certain videos, seal Topis rather than yeti, and some references to Perfect Dark (such as the Proximity Mine design). In addition, the language is set to Japanese on default with only minor alterations in the English setting's text, and the Tamagon Trophy was originally available in-game. Switching languages between English and Japanese will not affect these changes.
In the French versions of both Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Pokémon names are in all caps, referencing how Pokémon names before Generation V are formatted, as well as being changed. In the PAL version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the names of the Pokémon are in all caps in all languages.

External links

MD5 hashes

References

[1] ttp://smashboards.com/threads/ganondorf-hitboxes-and-frame-data.303443/#post-12707516

[2] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwYQs-mRS6E

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