Arcade-kabinetti

In Fighting Game Kabinetti you have two games, Melee and Tekken5, and they are played with different inputs. Tekken5 is played with the integrated arcade style buttons, where Melee is played with a Gamecube Controller (the black ones you see next to the keyboard).

# Table of contents

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- Basic idea of melee

- QUICK GUIDE TO ACTUALLY PLAY SOME MELEE

- Controls

   - About Gamecube Controller buttons

   - Melee controls

       - About special moves

       - About Smash attacks

- A word about competitive Melee

# Basic idea of Melee

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Each player has 4 stocks, or lives. Whoever takes the last one from the opponent, wins. Damage is represented as percents, and more percents you have the further away you fly from attacks (meaning more knockback). When you fly to the blast zones, which are at the bottom, top and sides of the stages, you get KO'd and lose a stock.

So hit the opponent, do damage, knock them off stage, don't let them come back (i.e. edgeguard them) and take their stock. Do this four times and win!

# QUICK GUIDE TO ACTUALLY PLAY SOME MELEE:

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To get in game, after pressing green PLAY button in Slippi, you are presented with a view "1-P mode / Online play" (unfortunately online doesn't yet work) do this:

- Go to Main Menu by pressing red B button twice

- Navigate to VS.Mode and select it by press big green A button

- Select Melee (you can exit this character selection screen with long B button press)

- Select your character by placing your token on a character square with A button

(- This Melee version is optimized for competitive Melee, so it doesn't contain any party elements of Melee. If you are into that, click "4-man Survival test" on the top, select "Item switch", and from the top select the desired item spawn rate. Also "Additional rules" -> "Random Stage" will let you pick more stages when doing random stage selection. In competitive Melee there are only 6 most competitively suitable stages available.)

- Press Start, select a stage (or randomize it by just pressing start) and VOILA, you are IN GAME!

# Controls

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## About Gamecube Controller buttons

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The gamecube controller has four face buttons on the right side. They are

- GREEN: A

- RED: B

- GRAY on top: Y

- GRAY on the right: X

There's also the tiny gray button on the middle, which is

- Start

The buttons on the back of the controller are

- GREY Left trigger L

- GREY Right trigger R

- VIOLET button Z

It has two control sticks, the left grey one, and the right yellow one, also called "C-stick", because the is a C letter on it (well, not visible on these old ones).

There's also a d-pad, or directional input pad on the left.

## Melee controls

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Every character has same set of moves, but the actual moves are different. For example both Mario and Link have a neutral B, but Mario shoots a burning hot fireball where as Link shoots a fierce arrow. We'll now go over the buttons and their binds.

Face buttons

- Y: jump

- X: jump (yes, another jump bind)

- A: normal moves

- B: Special moves

Back buttons

- L: shield

- R: shield (yes, another shield bind)

- Z: grab

Sticks

- Left stick: Move character, walk, crouch, dash, jump etc.

- C-stick: Smash attacks = strong KO moves

Press left stick to directions for four different special moves:

- Up B

- Down B

- Side B

- Neutral B (no directions!)

And last the most important one:

- D-pad UP: taunt

Note also you can end match by pausing with Start, then pressing:

- L + R + A + Start

### About special moves

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Some special moves, or B moves, can be charged by holding down B button, like Link's neutral B arrow, or produce different ones when press multiple times, e.g. Marth's side B. Try picking Marth and do his side B "sword dance" by holding left stick to one side and pressing B -> B -> B -> B rhythmically. You should get four different moves in a row if done right.

### About Smash attacks

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The strongest moves in the game are generally the Smash attacks, done by pressing C stick to a direction (also by pressing left stick and A, which can be then charged by holding direction + A). The basic idea is to do like 100% damage to your opponent, and then knock them off stage by performing a Smash attack.

# A word about competitive Melee

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Really the most hype thing about Melee, at least for me, is the fact that people play it competitively, and the meta has developed over 20 years to produce amazing, fast paced and infinitely complex gameplay with super tight execution and matchup strategies. I'll maybe expand this part in the future, but for now, if you are into competitive fighting games, I really recommend checking out competitive Melee related documentaries, videos and channels from Youtube, like

- Things of Beauty: Super Smash Bros. as Spectator Sport

- The Greatest Story in Melee History (video by boolmaster)

- The Smash Brother Documentary (video by Amazing Shadow)

- The Donkey Kong Renaissance (video by wusstunes) (as a DK main I'm biased towards the epicness of this)

- AsumSaus (channel amazing long videos about Melee mechanics and quirks)

- MeleeMoments (channel amazing short videos of clips)

- turndownforwalt (channel, goes over happenings in tournaments)

Also www.metagamedoc.com is a story about the "Era of the five gods", a period of many years during 2010 decade, where five players, the Five Gods, won basically every major tournament there was. The players are Mew2King, Mang0, HungryBox, Armada and PPMD, of which two, Mang0 and HungryBox are still active.

NB Original guide by MonkiMong