8-Player Smash

The original eight characters taunting in 8-Player Smash's Battlefield.

8-Player Smash is a gameplay mode in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. This mode allows eight players to play on the same stage at one time. In addition to red, blue, yellow, and green indicators for players 1-4, players 5-8 receive new indicators colored orange, cyan, purple, and slate respectively. In Team Battles, an additional team color, the yellow team, can be selected.

Players can do time or stock matches in 8-Player Smash, but Coin Battles are omitted from the game mode.

Stages available in 8-Player Smash

Only a select few stages and their Ω Forms can be played on. All stages available in 8-Player Smash as non-Omega Forms can be played on in their Omega Form except Mario Galaxy and The Great Cave Offensive. Sizes of stages may change to accommodate for the larger amount of players. Several of the stages' hazards are also removed. Custom Stages are also not selectable, with the option replaced with the option for switching to Omega Forms.

The Great Cave Offensive

Ω Forms available in 8-Player Smash

The Ω Forms of the above stages are also playable, except for Mario Galaxy and The Great Cave Offensive along with Ω Forms of those listed below:

Stages available with only 5-6 players

Flat Zone X

Pac-Land

Skyworld

Ω Forms available with only 5-6 players

Wii Fit Studio

Mario Galaxy

Gallery

On Big Battlefield
8-Player Smash 1.jpg

On Palutena's Temple
8-Player Smash 2.jpg

On Gaur Plain
8-Player Smash 3.jpg

On Mario Galaxy
8-Player Smash 4.jpg

On Onett

Trivia

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS includes various unused elements within its data for 8-player Smash.
While Ω forms of stages are available in 8-Player Smash, Final Destination itself cannot be used in 8-Player Smash, despite the Ω stages usually being no larger than Final Destination itself.
According to Masahiro Sakurai, 8-Player Smash was almost in Super Smash Bros. Melee, but was "more than impossible" at the time.