Special Movie

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The Special Movie is a nearly-fifteen minute long bonus video included in the NTSC versions of Super Smash Bros. Melee, found in the Archives sub-menu of the Data menu. The clip itself features the starter characters and their abilities, as well as various single-player modes (both Classic Mode and Adventure Mode), items, stages, and trophies.

Various elements different from the final game can be seen in this clip, such as Peach having different voice clips, and Temple having unused platforms.

The movie is not available in the PAL versions of Melee, speculated to be due to the inability to fit all translated languages of the movie onto the disc.

Content

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The special movie is broken into 18 sections, as well as an introduction and ending.

Introduction

The Special Movie opens up by fading into several different matches. Several different sound effects play during this sequence, but they do not line up with the matches being displayed.

The matches include:

• One on Mute City between Captain Falcon, Pikachu, Ness, and Kirby,
• One on Princess Peach's Castle between Ice Climbers, Yoshi, Mario, and Kirby,
• One on Onett between Ness, Fox, Pikachu, and Ice Climbers,
• One on Jungle Japes between Donkey Kong, Ice Climbers, Mario, and Ness,
• One on Fountain of Dreams between Bowser, Ice Climbers, Mario, and Kirby,
• One on Temple between Sheik, Bowser, Ness, and Yoshi,
• One on Kongo Jungle between Mario, Samus, Link, and Pikachu,
• Another on Princess Peach's Castle between Peach, Mario, Captain Falcon, and Ice Climbers,
• One on Brinstar between Samus, Pikachu, Fox, and Peach,
• One on Corneria between Fox, Bowser, Donkey Kong, and Samus,
• One on Pokémon Stadium between Pikachu, Mario, Bowser, and Fox.

The screen then cuts to the title screen.

Section 1: Mario

Mario's section includes:

• Mario dropping down on Pokémon Stadium and running across it.
• Mario using his taunt on the platforms of Mushroom Kingdom with his red, yellow, brown, and blue alternate costumes.
• Mario air dodging a Falcon Punch.
• Mario catching a Bob-omb thrown by Pikachu, then throwing it back.
• Mario using Super Jump Punch on another Mario, who then returns the attack. This is in a similar fashion to a Luigi Ladder.
• Mario throwing some Fireballs.
• Mario air dodging Donkey Kong's up smash.
• Mario carrying a Crate.
• Mario throwing a Green Shell into a bunch of Goombas and knocking off Bowser.
• Mario fighting Ness.
• Mario and his alternate costumes crouching. In this scene, there are 6 Marios at one time, which is impossible in normal gameplay (without the debug menu).
• Mario jumping off a ledge.
• Mario spot dodging a shot from Fox's Blaster.
• Mario using Mario Tornado to fly up.
• Mario using Mario Tornado to damage opponents.
• Mario using his neutral attack as well as his tilts and smash attacks.
• Mario using Cape to reflect PK Thunder.
• Mario using Cape to reflect Missile.
• Mario breaking a ? Block to release a Mushroom.
• Mario jumping to the top of Peach's Castle.

Trivia

• Some characters are seen having the same alternate costume as another, something that is usually impossible without hacking.
• Bowser, Samus, Ice Climbers, and Ness are the only four characters that do not have a song of their own. Bowser appears right after Captain Falcon and so he uses "Mute City", Samus appears right after Fox and so she uses "Corneria", the Ice Climbers appear right after Pikachu and so they use "Poke Floats", and Ness appears right after Kirby and so he uses "Green Greens".
  • Of these, Bowser is the only character who is not the sole Melee representative of their franchise. However, he is from the Super Mario franchise even though he appears after Captain Falcon; but though being from the Super Mario franchise he uses the song "Mute City" instead of "Princess Peach's Castle". "Princess Peach's Castle" is both Mario and Peach's song for the Mario and Peach sections.
• Although Mario and Peach, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, Link and Zelda, Captain Falcon, Fox, Pikachu, and Kirby use songs from their own franchises, Mario and Peach are the only two ones that do not use one of their credits themes. Instead of Mario having "Super Mario Bros. 3" and Peach having "Rainbow Cruise", they both use the song "Princess Peach's Castle" (which is Bowser's credits theme). "Rainbow Cruise" actually plays on Section 16 (which is "Items"). The remaining eight use a song which is one of their credits themes (like Donkey Kong with "Kongo Jungle", Yoshi with "Yoshi's Island", Link and Zelda with "Great Bay", Fox with "Corneria", Pikachu with "Poke Floats", and Kirby with "Green Greens").
• Fourside, Poke Floats, and Battlefield are the only three unlockable stages (or unlockable stage references) that appear in the Special Movie. Fourside is seen at Captain Falcon's section (Section 8), the song "Poke Floats" plays in Pikachu's section (Section 13) and Ice Climbers's (Section 14)-*where Ice Climbers appear right after Pikachu and use "Poke Floats" like Pikachu rather than "Icicle Mountain".*, and Battlefield is seen in Ness's section (Section 19). And Fourside, Poke Floats, and Battlefield (the two unlockable stage references) appear even if Fourside, Poke Floats, and Battlefield are not unlocked yet; just because Special Movie under Data and Archives is available from the start.
  • However, Battlefield (but Super Smash Bros. Brawl's version) is a starter stage in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. So is Final Destination (also SSBB's version).

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