Melee-X v2

Super Smash Bros. Melee running natively on an original Xbox. Not an emulator: the decompiled game is compiled for the Xbox and drawn by its own GPU.

Fully playable. Matches run around 30-60 fps depending on the stage, menus at 60, and the game always ticks at full speed. It's still in development, so a crash can happen, but it's unlikely.

What's new in v2

• Fixed: black screen or hang on the intro movie. v1 could hang on the first frame of the intro on many consoles. That's fixed, and it works on composite and on component cables to an HDTV, at 480i or 480p, 4:3 or 16:9.
• 720p is now experimental and opt-in. v1 switched to 720p whenever the dashboard allowed it. Now a dashboard set to 720p still gets 480p; turn it on with 720p = 1 in settings.ini if you want to try it (matches run slowly there for now). A v1 settings.ini is updated automatically.
• New progressive setting: progressive = 0 forces 480i even when your dashboard allows 480p.
• Quit to the dashboard: hold L + R + Back + Black on any controller.
• Better crash logs in boot.log when something does go wrong on the GPU.

Known issues: Classic mode's team intro cards (Team DK and friends) show the right half black, and the match timer isn't centred at 16:9. Both are visual only.

You need your own disc image of Super Smash Bros. Melee NTSC-U 1.02 (GALE01). Nothing from Nintendo is included.

Install

1. Unzip Melee-X-*.zip.
2. Put your Melee disc image in the Melee-X folder next to default.xbe.
3. FTP the whole Melee-X folder to your Xbox (for example F:\Applications\) and launch it from your dashboard.

Want a disc instead? tools/make-xiso packs everything into a burnable ISO. The full steps, saves, settings and controls are in the README.

What's in the zip

Melee-X/
  default.xbe      the game
  default.tbn      dashboard icon
tools/
  make-xiso        packs the game and your disc image into a burnable ISO
README.md
LICENSE.md