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Character Selection Bug

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worldjem7

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What this does:
Doing this will swap the character portrait at the bottom of the selection screen to a different character. Also, the Stock Character Icon at the bottom of the screen while in-game will change to the character in the portrait. The actual character you selected will always remain the same.

1sts
C.Falcon (Blue)
Kirby (White)
Yoshi (Light Blue)

2nds
D.Kong (Green)
Kirby (Green)
Link (White)
Marth (White)
Peach (Green)
Roy (Yellow)
Zelda (White)

How to do it:
1)Pick a character then deselect it.
2)Hold the Player Token above any of the 1sts and hit "Y".
3)Hit L+R+START
4)Go back to the screen you were just at.
5)Your character should now have one of the firsts
in the character portrait at the bottom of the screen


This was tested with SSBM 1.0 NTSC N.A.
This works with ALL versions of NTSC.
This also works on PAL version.
It works on both languages.
All characters can do this with the exception of the 1sts.

NOTE:
- The character you select to play (not the portrait) will always be the default colour
- If a character has both a 1st and a 2nd then two people can do this with the same character and both be the default colour of that character

- The player farthest away from Player 1 has the most priority when doing this trick. So, 4>3>2>1 when using the same character
- You can also do this trick by holding the token over any 2nd.
- This will NOT work in "Team Battle."
- Hitting "Y" ONCE will switch the portrait to a 2nd if your character has one.
Otherwise, it will switch back to your original character.
- If you held the Player Token above a 2nd you cannot switch to a 1st.
- Hitting "X" or "Y" after hitting "Y" once will return the portrait to the original character.
- Hitting "X" will ALWAYS return the portrait to the original character.
- ALL 1sts have no character to switch to
- ALL 2nds have only 1 character to switch to and that is one of the 1sts
- ALL characters that are 1sts and 2nds will be the same colour listed above when you switch to them.
You can't switch to any other colour.
This colour is always the first one to the "Y" side of the colour choices
except for when Koopa (Bowser) changes where he can switch to Green Kirby
ex.: If you hit "Y" when selecting Peach she will turn green
ex.: If you hit "Y" when selecting Kirby he will turn white
etc.



CHARACTER LIST
This shows each character's character they can switch to.

C.Falcon
- None

Dr. Mario
- Yoshi

D.Kong
- C.Falcon

Falco
- Yoshi
- Zelda

Fox
- C.Falcon
- D.Kong

Ganondorf
- Yoshi

Ice Climber
- Kirby
- Peach

Kirby
- None

Koopa (Bowser)
- Kirby (White)
- Kirby (Green)

Link
- Kirby

Luigi
- Kirby
- Link

Mario
- Kirby

Marth
- Kirby

Mewtwo
- Kirby
- Marth

Mr. Game & Watch
- C.Falcon
- D.Kong

Ness
- Kirby
- Marth

Peach
- Kirby

Pichu
- Yoshi
- Roy

Pikachu
- Kirby
- Peach

Purin (Jigglypuff)
- Kirby

Roy
- Yoshi

Samus
- Kirby

Yoshi
- None

Young Link
- Yoshi

Zelda
- Yoshi

_________________________

CATEGORY LIST
This shows each switchable character the characters that can switch to them.

1sts
C.Falcon (Blue)
- D.Kong
- Fox
- Mr. Game & Watch

Kirby (White)
- Ice Climber
- Koopa (Bowser)
- Link
- Luigi
- Mario
- Marth
- Mewtwo
- Ness
- Peach
- Pikachu
- Purin (Jigglypuff)
- Samus

Yoshi (Light Blue)
- Dr. Mario
- Falco
- Ganondorf
- Pichu
- Roy
- Young Link
- Zelda

2nds
D.Kong (Green)
- Fox
- Mr. Game & Watch

Kirby (Green)
- Koopa (Bowser)

Link (White)
- Luigi

Marth (White)
- Mewtwo
- Ness

Peach (Green)
- Ice Climber
- Pikachu

Roy (Yellow)
- Pichu

Zelda (White)
- Falco
____________________

Have fun with it! :)
 

Link_enfant

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Does this work on other versions ?
I'll maybe try this on NTSC 1.1, and also PAL if 1.1 works =)
 

worldjem7

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Yes, please feel free to try this on any other version of SSBM.

Please let me know if they do work and I'll update the thread accordingly. :)
 

keeper

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I'm going to try this when I'm done eating.

Edit: I forgot how to tell which version of SSBM you have. If I recall, you look at the memory card data of it, but I forgot which color means which.

Edit: I made a video of me doing it with the Fox and Captain Falcon combination.
 

HT F8

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"Okay, fine, I won't pick Samus anymore. I'll even pick Kirby! ...oh wait hold on a sec. LRSTART. Alright let's go now."

"READY... GO!"

"WTF!?"
 

keeper

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I stopped reading after how to do it and which characters and thought making a video would be fun anyway. >__>
 

Kevin

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Saw you do this at Grmo's tourney, cool ****. Never knew about it until that day, I was totally confused.
 

worldjem7

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They're called "1sts" and "2nds" based on if you can switch to them or not. It's a sort of priority.

If you get a 1st you can switch to a 2nd but, if you get a 2nd you can't switch to a 1st.

Therefore, the 3 characters that you can switch to would be the first ones you switch to.

Get it? :)
 

DtJ Jungle

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so funny, on the livefeed we saw court pick white kirby and we were liek ROFL WAAAT

then it was peach, and we were confused as ****.
 

worldjem7

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lol yeah, I was surprised to find my discovery at Revival. I guess this thread got some traffic lol.
 

Lovage

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lmao everyone was doing this glitch at revival.
zhu said he banned dreamland because he actually thought cort was going Kirby. and then lost the set 3rd match because cort went mute city.
 

jmlee337

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Slippi.gg
LEE#337
lmao everyone was doing this glitch at revival.
zhu said he banned dreamland because he actually thought cort was going Kirby. and then lost the set 3rd match because cort went mute city.
Wait....in a tournament set?
that doesn't seem very fair
 

jmlee337

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Slippi.gg
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the icon is still on the correct character. no johns
Good point, forgot about that

I was watching the stream, and I saw Cort going with 'Kirby' so I told my friend to watch, because he's just getting into smash and uses Kirby, but then when I looked back, I was like, "WTF, Peach?"
 

HT F8

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so funny, on the livefeed we saw court pick white kirby and we were liek ROFL WAAAT

then it was peach, and we were confused as ****.
Good point, forgot about that

I was watching the stream, and I saw Cort going with 'Kirby' so I told my friend to watch, because he's just getting into smash and uses Kirby, but then when I looked back, I was like, "WTF, Peach?"
It's like deja vu all over again.
 

SFAT

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Kirby is the ugliest character imo. It's cool with Fox because he goes to Falcon. So people think you are playing a legit character. But little do they know.. you are playing an even better one rofl.

Great find.
 

missedwithtruestrike

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this sounds so freakin neat....
but i was a wee bit confused until i read through it a few times...
it makes sense to me now...i think, ill try it out this weekend i suppose
 
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