This thread is here to promote Brawl+, not talk about how much I suck at Brawl. Thank you!

Did you ever dream of a faster version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl? Of being to cancel move animations like in the old Smash games (called L-cancelling)? Of a version where characters are all more balanced, meaning being able to be good again with Captain Falcon, Ganondorf, Ness, Marth and many other old Super Smash characters? Of a version where random tripping doesn't happen? etc. Basically, did you ever dream of a more competitive version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl?

Well, it seems like a few people already noticed that Brawl lacked a few things that made the series technical and competitive in the past. A group of MLG players at SmashBoards.com are creating a new version of Brawl by adding a few lines of codes on a file to make it play more and more like Melee. It's basically a hack that alters the game's mechanics to suit those who miss good ol' Smash! Trust me, it's fricking good! PLEASE NOTE, they are not attempting to make Melee 2.0, and they never will.

You will need The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, an SD card and SD card reader and obviously a copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl to install everything. It involves installing the Homebrew Channel. Don't worry, it won't break your Wii unless you're a retard and try to load a PAL or JPN Wii game so it can update new codes that shouldn't be in your American Wii (if you have one that is) in the first place! You will also need Gecko OS to implement the codeset. If you still want to play old Brawl, you can, but you absolutely need to launch the Homebrew Channel in order to play Brawl+.

PLEASE NOTE everything is still in beta testing! I've been playing with it all week and it's been the first time in a LONG TIME that I've had this much fun playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Not everything is perfect, obviously, and I personally think there are some things that need to be fixed like the stun rate and auto-L cancelling, which makes every characters a bit too easy to use and make combos that would otherwise be impossible to pull out in Melee (you still need to be good to pull them out though), but other than that, it seems the team at SmashBoards made a good job at keeping the best of both worlds. Some stuff in Brawl will remain, like the air dodge, and some stuff from Melee will not make a comeback, like wave-dashing. Good riddance! =P

You might think "Well, they can basically add any code! That's crap, we don't have any words on what they can add in the codesets!" Well, let me just say it's all lies! Here's what an admin at the site said about this: "Of course - we'd like everyone's opinion on this codeset. While we are trying to produce the most competitive set available, this is still a community project. Everyone's opinion should be considered, and will be provided that they can present their points in a structured, comprehensible manner."

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So, if you want to contribute to the project and share ideas with the ingenious people working on this awesome project, here's the link to the thread about it.

- Here's the link to download the latest codesets from the BrawlPlusery.
- Here's the link to their IRC channel if you need more help on how to install everything.
- Here's the link to a thread that explains a bit more what Brawl+ is really about.
- Here's the link to the Official Brawl+ Video Thread, updated daily!
- Here's the link to the general Character Balance discussion thread.
- If you want to learn more about what has changed in terms of move balance, here's the link to the changelist.

Enjoy Brawling like you never did before! I know I will! ^_^

old kinda but still true

though i should also mention that some aspects of brawl+ are unbalanced; for example the ability to combo through just Dair.

I wouldn't really call it a definitive version. The original game would be the definitive version.

I would say much the same.

I think Brawl is fine the way it is.. but then again I didn't play Melee and I just play for fun.

IMO - Melee > Brawl

So to me this would be definitive.

Well, soulsamurai knows his stuff! =P

Brawl was just too slow. Combos are not "impressive" to see. Brawl+ changes just that! Check out these videos (NOTE: Most of these are OLD videos at the time I didn't even know it existed. Check the before last link in the OP or visit the Official Brawl+ Video Thread to see more videos):









Seriously, who would want to go back to the old slow Brawl after playing Brawl+? Only people that like to get destroyed by defensive characters that are only good if you camp anyway (which makes matches really boring), or overpowered characters like Meta Knight, Pit and Zelda!

Oh, they also want to add the dynamic camera Melee had. You know, the not "zoomed out" one that was good?

Balanced characters???? Brawl is the one that has balanced characters. Go back to meelee and just look how unbalanced Falco was.

Brawl it's a lil bit slower, but again, characters are more balanced (imo) than the other 2.

Btw, i dont really see too much of a difference on those videos :s

You can really see the difference between the good characters from the bad characters in Brawl, it's unbelievable.

What was good in Melee is that every single character were good. You just had to practice with them. Sure, some of them shine more than anyone else (ex: Bowser, Ganondorf), but it's still easy to win against them with other characters (ex. Jigglypuff, Dr. Mario). Falco is no match to my Ganondorf, just saying! ;)

In Brawl, camping characters own everyone, it's not even funny. Just camp in a corner, spam your B shit, shield+grab when your enemy gets close to you, air combo, repeat. Sure, there are ways to get those characters out of there, but cheap players will play cheap with cheap characters. It's inevitable.

Before commenting on this, I suggest everyone tries Brawl+. New players might hate it because they will die too easily, old players will definitely prefer Brawl+ for the technical aspect of it. You can STILL PLAY casually in Brawl+. It is fun to find new combos with every characters now, because the stun rate is different, the gravity on some characters are lower, etc.