Best Way to Practice?

[ShadowzVoid]

I was wondering what the best way to practice everything is. I need to practice a lot of basic tech so I was wondering if I should go for Vanilla Melee on Gamecube, Vanilla Melee on Dolphin, Vanilla Melee on Dolphin with color coding for Basic Tech, Netplay Melee with Dolphin, or 20XX on Dolphin?

 

[AirFair]

Wow. 20XX on Wii is good, so homebrew that. Regular melee is good too. Just play on a CRT please.

 

[Heavy Gomez]

For basic tech it doesn't really matter what you practice on as long as you're using a good setup. Really the only thing that matters is that you're using a no or low input delay setup so, like AirFair said, a CRT.

20XX is good if you're trying to learn some fancy **** or heavily improve on your fundamental tech but when you're just starting out with the basics vanilla melee will work just fine.

 

[fatman667]

Best way to get better is to play against other real people. For tech, I'd definitely try to get 20XX Melee any way possible. Though Dolphin has quite a bit of input lag, unless you use the official adapter from Nintendo or possibly the new one Mayflash created then the input lag becomes less noticeable. For Gamecube, you're gonna have to do some modding, physically to be exact, if you want 20XX on it. I'd probably go with 20XX on Dolphin though for a few reasons, CPU random DI, flash on L-cancel or red flash when failed to L-cancel, single player mode, and forced Sheik CPU if you want to practice on Sheik if you ever need to practice comboing her. Though ideally you'd want 20XX on a console, Wii, Gamecube, or Wii U, if you have the Gamecube adapter for Wii U, all work.

EDIT: Yea play on CRT if you can, high end gaming monitors and EVO monitors are a decent choice too, but CRTs have lowest input lag possible. CRTs are cheap too, so might as well. Just NEVER play on an HDTV, those are the absolute worst option for Melee. High end gaming monitors and EVO monitors have input lag, but it's only noticeable at the highest technical level play, since the input lag is below 1-frame or maybe even below .5 frames. Don't be super discouraged if a gaming monitor is your only choice, I'd still try to get a CRT though. If a low input lag monitor is your only option though, don't be surprised if people doesn't go to your place to play Melee, so you'll have to go out to play instead.

 

[EPsilon933]

gaming monitors

Just to add some more info, the EVO monitor lags by 8.3 ms on game mode (exactly half a frame). There are better monitors out there being used in MLG events and sometimes you'll see them at fighting game tournaments too. You don't have to be at the highest level of technical play to feel the EVO monitor lag. You probably only need to be at mid-high local level to have it affect you (too much to want to play on it, even if you play Peach). Monitors also don't have component cable inputs, so you'd need to spend ~$60 for an adapter

CRTs are just easier to buy and better to use (for Smash)