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[Anonymous No.9803518]

New Akaneia Build update released, adds Lucas (Mother 3) and Sonic the Hedgehog.
https://youtu.be/Ngxk59RAmS4
>What's this
A mod of Super Smash Bros Melee that adds more characters and stages while keeping the original gameplay and character balance (think of it as Smash Remix but for Melee).
It's also compatible with Slippi for online multiplayer.
>Who are the new characters
As of now you have Wolf, Diddy Kong, Charizard, Lucas and Sonic.

[Anonymous No.9803547]

>>9803518
does Akaneia work on slippi again? I remember slippi breaking m-ex builds awhile back and I forgot about Akaneia afterwords

[Anonymous No.9803552]

>>9803518
>while keeping the original gameplay and character balance
...so they didn't fix mewtwo or luigi?

[Anonymous No.9803553]

It seems like a waste to just add characters that came out in Smash games after Melee.

[Anonymous No.9803710]

>>9803518
>GBA Lucas

[Anonymous No.9803714]

>>9803518
Ohnononnono Beyond Melee sisters, i thought we beat them to it.

[Anonymous No.9803716]

>>9803552
IIRC, most people just use 20XXTE to play rebalanced characters instead.

[Anonymous No.9803721]

>>9803710
Yeah i don't get it. They followed up on Meleefied Wolf/Sonic from Smash 2 but decided to take a step backwards with Lucas.

[Anonymous No.9803775]

>>9803518
Does this one has unlockable and new single player content?

[Anonymous No.9804146]

My uncle at Nintendo sent me this.
This is very real, trust me bro.

[Anonymous No.9805101]

does cdromance lurk here? pls upload/post akaneia iso

[Anonymous No.9806947]

Now it needs Wario and Dedede and that's it.

[Anonymous No.9807037]

>>9803710
>>9803721
>Why don't we get the proto version instead of the final version?
I wonder.

[Anonymous No.9808756]

>>9803547
it is compatible with lylat for netplay

[Anonymous No.9808967]

>>9807037
Anon, that picture i posted is from another Melee-related mod.

[Anonymous No.9808971]

>>9803721
Young Link Lucas

[Anonymous No.9809563]

>>9808967
Maybe the in-between design didn't turn out to be as "historically accurate" as the artist intended.

[Anonymous No.9809728]

>>9809563
and it's still GBA Lucas which wasn't relevant prior Melee's PR&D (1999), Spaceworld (remember what happened to Ganondorf?), and Mother 64 planned release (late 2000).
Regardless of that, Akaneia decided to neglect that design after basing off two Meleefied versions of Brawl characters from another Melee-related mod for whatever reason.

[Anonymous No.9809752]

Soft reminder that leftovers of Mother 64's Oshe Castle are seen in Onett via reflections, on top of Lucas already being in mind for the game before the cancelation was known.
Using the 2004 design, or anything after the cancellation of EB64, fundamentally doesn't make sense unless you don't want your mod to be distinguished from zoomer modpacks with the least effort applied or cater to Smash boomers.

[Anonymous No.9809770]

>>9803714
Their version of "Melee" Sonic is amazingly garbage, it's only funny how Beyond Melee tried to get ahead by putting out WIPs for quick clout.
I'm glad Akaneia put out their own take of Sonic just to prove then otherwise.

[Anonymous No.9809782]

>>9808971
Imagine Smash had their own Hat Ken

[Anonymous No.9809796]

>>9803775
No, but i would suck anyone's dick if they get this as a working level in Melee
https://youtu.be/SnzoAn1rAZY

[Anonymous No.9809807]

>>9809728
>>9809752
It was more recently revealed that the designs basically went back to the drawing board right after the platform shift. This design is circa 2000~2001 -- very closely after the N64 version's cancellation and most likely before Melee's late-2001 release -- so therefore the hypothetical "merger" design of late-N64 Lucas in final-GBA style is not "historically accurate". Test images are just test images, not one recognized the reference picture until it was ripped in the past few years. That said, this Lucas design would have been really cool instead, but I guess it was asking too much to have yet another model set up on time.

[Anonymous No.9809961]

>>9809807
>the hypothetical "merger" design of late-N64 Lucas in final-GBA style is not "historically accurate".
It's not a merger towards to the 2004 design at all, it to keep in style of the traditional Mother clay model designs. In fact, if they went with Lucas succeeding Ness regardless, that's something Sakurai would typically do when redesigning characters for Smash with what he has.
That's the entire point of that version of a Meleefied Lucas.

[Anonymous No.9809976]

There's actually another Melee mod that focuses on porting over whatever was done in Smash 2 to Melee.
https://twitter.com/Turbo__DX/


Although, this was originally a separate modpack for Brawl. The mod already contains a fully backported Wario and Lucas in their Smash 2 appearances and a more SF64-esque Melee Wolf.

[Anonymous No.9809981]

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[Anonymous No.9809990]

>>9809961
>if they went with Lucas succeeding Ness
Then it probably would've been the design in N64 previews, yes, but that's only in the scenario where deadlines were met and Lucas replaced Ness.
>something Sakurai would typically do when redesigning characters for Smash with what he has
Not really, he designs aren't -that- drastically off the original artstyle, if anything he would've gone with rigging the more realistic body proportions for Melee.

[Anonymous No.9810090]

>>9809990
>but that's only in the scenario where deadlines were met and Lucas replaced Ness
Even so, that was the most realized scenario that Lucas design could ever appear in Melee. Anything, with the exception of Pokemon, after Sakurai's precious project plan is locked out.
>if anything he would've gone with rigging the more realistic body proportions for Melee.
I guess, though he would still have to replace Ness over all at the last minute.

[Anonymous No.9810119]

>>9803518
honestly is kinda lame, they are basically just backporting brawl mods to melee for the most part
the volleyball is cool though

[Anonymous No.9810193]

>>9809961
>he can't tell the difference between the Mother 1 & 2 clay models

[Anonymous No.9810250]

>>9810119
While lame, those grifters behind that shitty Melee mod tried to rush out their Sonic backport for quick clout.
Since it's high quality backport, I'll consider it justified.

Now Akaneia devs needs to do NEW characters now.

[Anonymous No.9810302]

>>9810119
Dont worry they'll add a Marth clone from the SFC Fire Emblem games soon.

[Anonymous No.9810309]

>>9810302
I know Connor Rentz is working on Akaneia but don't joke of that.

[Anonymous No.9810341]

I’m impressed with how far modding for this game has gotten, I knew about this mod adding characters but I didn’t know about stages as well. I know Brawl modding got wild but that’s a different game on a different engine.

I’m not actually that interested in expanded content, but it would be very interesting to know how they accomplish all of this. I looked at melee hacking some years ago but back then it seemed like editing hex values was as far as things had gotten.

[Anonymous No.9810398]

>>9810193
The other anon saying the redesign is a composite/merger of the beta n64 and final gba design. I'm telling him the Smash 2 redesign is just the beta design but in the signature look of the series, which includes the first two games.

[Anonymous No.9810959]

>>9810341
My issues with Melee (and by extension Ultimate) modding is that a quarter of the scene keeps trying to paywall mods and tools behind patreons instead of just leaving up a tipjar.
Slippi is understandable since it's it own thing and maintaining the online can be a bitch. But pay walling a tool to make clones or some Goku Animemelee mod is just nasty bullshit.