Built on the decompilation: Super Smash Bros. Melee

Super Smash Bros. Melee (Melee Unlocked)

Game: Super Smash Bros. Melee → (GameCube, 2001)

Melee Unlocked: a native Windows port of the GameCube NTSC 1.02 release, with two engines you pick in the launcher. The main one is a port built from the Melee decompilation: the C code is compiled for Windows and the project’s own runtime stands in for the console, with graphics through Direct3D 12 or 11, a native sound mixer, and controllers read directly. The second, which the project started with, is a static recompilation of the original PowerPC code (with Slippi’s Gecko codes) to C++, kept for the mods that need the original code. On both, the game logic stays at the console’s 60 Hz while the display runs at any frame rate: in-between frames come from the game’s own animation and physics data, not from image interpolation. It has Slippi online play with rollback against Slippi Dolphin players, DLSS and DLAA, up to 8x internal resolution, optional 16:9, GameCube adapter support, .gci memory card saves, and an in-game settings panel. It runs mods such as 20XX TE, Training Mode CE, Akaneia, ACE, Melee 3D, and Melee Maker, plus imported costumes. Since 0.9.1 there’s an experimental Linux build (the port only, on OpenGL), and the latest, 0.9.15, came out on October 21. Its author states it was developed with the help of the AI models Fable 5.1 and GPT 6 Astra, and about 360 of its 504 commits list Claude as co-author.

You needYour own Super Smash Bros. Melee disc image, NTSC 1.02. Plus 64-bit Windows with a Direct3D 12 graphics card (Direct3D 11 also works, without DLSS) or, for the experimental build, x86-64 Linux with an AVX2 CPU and OpenGL 4.5. Online play needs a Slippi account, created in the Slippi Launcher.

How it gets to PC

Port of a decompilation

Console

Nintendo GameCube

Original studio

HAL Laboratory

Year

2001

Author

Hero88go

Stars

141

Last activity

2026-10-30 · today

Decompilation

100%

Latest version

v0.9.82 · 2026-10-30

License

GPL-3.0

Language

C++

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