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melee-unlocked

Super Smash Bros. Melee with unlocked FPS as a native Windows build with Slippi online play. Current release is in ALPHA. Bring your own NTSC 1.02 ISO.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 12, 2026 · 48 upvotes (top 18%) · 0 views

Niche: retro gaming emulators and ports · 98 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▲ +20% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • Dev tools
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Recompiling a proprietary GameCube game into a native PC binary, decoupling hardcoded 60Hz physics/animation systems for unlocked frame rates, and implementing rollback netcode requires elite reverse-engineering and systems programming skills.

What it would actually take: Requires static/dynamic binary translation of GameCube PowerPC machine code to x86-64, reverse-engineering Melee's physics engine to decouple render loops from logic ticks, and integrating Slippi's custom GGPO rollback netcode. This demands deep expertise in console emulation, assembly patching, and low-level C/C++ systems engineering.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 560 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #73 of 561 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 265 days after the earliest competitor.

  • melee-pc · github · 2026-09-14 · 314 upvotes · similarity 0.73
  • melee-ps3 · github · 2026-11-02 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • melee-web-fighter · github · 2026-09-27 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • Melee-X · github · 2026-09-29 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • WindowSmash · github · 2026-10-18 · 326 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • BrawlRecompiled · github · 2026-10-22 · 108 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Smash4PC · github · 2026-10-25 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • NewSuperPaperBros · github · 2026-10-17 · 71 upvotes · similarity 0.56

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