List of regional version differences (SSBM)

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

Gameplay

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.

• Bowser can Flame Cancel by landing during the ending animation of Fire Breath.
• In the Home-Run Contest, the track ends at 4990.0 ft., and if Sandbag isn’t already on the track when the players strikes it with the final attack and it goes over 4556.9 ft., it will result in No Distance. In the Japanese version, it will start to say No Distance from about 890 meters.

Version 1.1

• Bowser can’t Flame Cancel and it is easier to DI out of rapid hit attacks such as Pichu’s forward smash.
• Home Run Contest track was changed to 4990 meters long, but the bag can’t land anywhere past 11347.2 ft or 3458.5 m.
• The Shadow Glitch was removed.

Version 1.2

• The MMM 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.

• PAL – All changes in 1.2 are present, but there are many more changes.

• Bowser, Kirby, and Yoshi are each heavier.
• Marth, Fox, and Mario are each lighter. This puts Marth below the weight threshold of standing up during Fox's shine.
• Falco's down aerial only spikes for the first half of the animation. The rest sends the opponent slightly up.
• Sheik's up aerial is weakened. In addition, it has one less frame of hitbox lag.
• Marth's down aerial is a meteor smash and in the Home-Run Contest, it sends Sandbag straight down with the bat drops.
• Fox's down and forward smashes are less powerful.
• Fox's up smash weakened, the dealt damage dropped from 18% in NTSC to 17% in PAL, and the dealt knockback dramatically weakened, for example, in the PAL version, Peach would get KO's by Fox's up smash at 83% and higher, whereas in the NTSC version Peach only needs to be at 70% for her to get KO'd by Fox' up smash.
• Yoshi's forward smash is more powerful.
• Peach's dash attack is less powerful.
• Luigi's neutral aerial is less powerful.
• Ganondorf's down aerial inflicts less damage, from 22% in the NTSC version to 21% in the PAL version, his forward aerial has dramatically decreased in terms of knockback, and in the PAL version, his back aerial is more powerful.
• Yoshi's down aerial inflicts less damage, from 44% in the NTSC version to 36% in the PAL version.
• Fox's forward aerial has more range on its hitbox.
• DIing out of Sheik's down throw has been changed so that it can no longer chain throw consistently.
• Fox can tech out of Falco's down throw in the PAL version.
• Link's Spin Attack is no longer a semi-spike.
• Bowser's down throw can hit Mr. Game & Watch.
• Link's super jump glitch was removed.
• Samus' extended grapple beam was removed.
• The Ice Climbers glitch was removed.
• Lag and loading times have been reduced.
• The 'Special Movie' was removed.
• In the Home-Run Contest, the platform is longer and the invisible backwall is a bit farther.
• The Tamagon, Samus Unmasked and Mario and Yoshi trophies have been completely removed from the game.

Language

• PAL

• The NTSC version allows changing between English and Japanese, while the PAL covers 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.
• Names can now include upper and lower case letters but no Japanese character set.
• The Motion Sensor Bomb is called Proximity Mine.
• Distances are always measured in meters.
• When the game's language is set to French or German, the crowd will shout something sounding like "dong-dong" when cheering for Jigglypuff.
• Snag the Trophies is called "Grab a Trophy".

Trophies

• PAL

• None of the trophies have release dates.
• 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..
• Helirin is erronously referred to as Heririn in NTSC games. This is fixed in the PAL version.
• The EarthBound trophies have "Not released in Europe".
• The GameCube's trophy has May 3, 2002, its release date in the PAL region.

• The Tamagon trophy is completely removed and unobtainable altogether.

Character names

All the characters' names are the same in English, Italian and Spanish. Characters not mentioned are the same in English.

English	French	German
Young Link	Link Enfant	Junger Link
Mewtwo	MEWTWO	Mewtu
Jigglypuff	RONDOUDOU	Pummeluff
Pikachu	PIKACHU	Pikachu
Pichu	PICHU	Pichu

Notes

• In the French versions of both Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Pokémon names are in all caps, 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.

See also

• List of regional version differences (SSBB)