Recent content by Smash G 0 D

Hi all, I'm Rishi (otherwise known as SmashG0D). I wear a lot of hats in multiple games but most people know me as a top Melee player. I want to throw my support behind a few points, and provide brief elaborations: 1) Let's start from scratch with what we consider to be "viable" stages. Max...

Yeah I did some searching in this thread and figured out what I was doing wrong. I changed them back to Indexed images, but leaving them as RGB color images worked fine when I imported them in.

https://smashboards.com/threads/official-melee-texture-hack-thread.361190/page-58#post-20353209

I was trying to edit Peach textures by exporting them from DAT texture wizard, editing in Photoshop, and importing the edited textures back in. I noticed some of Peach's textures (e.g. her eyes and face) come in as "Index" files that I can't edit in Photoshop. Anyone know how I can bypass this?

Hey guys - I downloaded the "Shadow Sword" texture pack for Marth, which gives him darkness effects on Dair, meteor hit sideB, and neutral B. I was wondering if anybody knew how to change the coloring of the darkness effect, as I haven't been able to find anything on that in these forums.

Yeah you just need to know where your opponent will be after you hit them. This becomes trickier when you start playing against opponents with better SDI, but you'll get better at it over time. You'll start to get a sense of how far the opponent will get sent based on their % range.

It's really a 3-step process: practice, practice, and training (which some might call practice). Eventually you internalize hitboxes and start getting better at visualizing where people will end up after connecting hits. The human brain is really good at forecasting events if it is familiar with...

Grabs/lasers/shines at low %. Stay moving so you don't get grabbed, and try not to get CC-dsmash'd. Shield both DownB hits and punish. WD in place OoS if you're having trouble punishing quickly enough. When Luigi is at mid-% you can go for more combos. He's slow enough in the air that you can...

Comboing spacies off-stage more is helping. I find that even if they DI Fair away and I can't get a true follow-up, I can react to most recovery options... or at least be in a strong position. So thanks!

I think The Moon is a great example of someone who is adept at this. Sometimes it is difficult to resist the temptation to go for a long, optimized combo on a spacie off of a grab, but sometimes you've just gotta throw in a Dthrow or Fthrow and punish the missed tech. At the end of the day, it's...

Don't undervalue the power of *doing nothing*. Empty landings are earned by conditioning your opponent to expect an attack on the way down, and can be your key to a grab or an assertion of stage control. If you're really afraid, you can air-dodge either in place, or perhaps through your...