More Melee...
After more than three years of smashing each other around, players still can't get enough of Super Smash Bros Melee. Countless questions, with new things being submitted and asked all the time... So, check out what's on the minds of the site visitors, and feel free to send in more questions or comments.
Send mail to: DetErest@detstar.com

I was recently browsing your site and came across the Debug Menu for Super Smash Bros Melee which looks really cool. As I'm told, it edits the game in ways I wasn't able to dream of. I also rang Nintendo.co.uk Customer Services but they weren't able to give much info Could you give me any advice on the Debug Menu - I want it megabad. I'll try not to be disappointed if you send me bad news

Nintendo's Customer Service would definitely not want to tell you anything about the Debug Menu...
It's a special menu that can be accessed only with the Action Replay cheat device... And since the device allows you to manipulate what happens in your games, Action Replay is not approved or endorsed by Nintendo.

Det, this isn't really a suggestion but I noticed behind Link in the Zelda Wind Waker pic you used for the 3/7/05 update, there appears to be a ghost of Princess Zelda attempting to kill Link with the Ocarina of Time Master Sword! Take good look just beside him in the direction his eyes are pointing. You'll see.

Three few different screenshots were blended together to make that background... I see the swords, but I can't seem to figure out where you're seeing Princess Zelda... She's not in the picture, but there's definitely an evil figure lurking around...

Does anyone else out there have a question or comment about any of the graphics that have been used on the Detstar homepage? If you have a favorite piece of artwork, feel fee to share your thoughts.

You should cover Soul Calibur 2 on your site (GCN version of course) it's quite a good game, and i think many people would benefit from a section

PS why do you make the different sections of detstar (ie. ssbm.detstar.com) why not detstar.com/ssbm?

As for those subdomains, that's a good question. The subdomains were created when Detstar very first opened.. That's the way it was set up, and it's too difficult to change now. The individual links on all the pages would need to be changed, plus those URLs are indexed by different search engines. So, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and SSBM will stay that way... But any future gamesites will have a normal URL.

You should try it out! its real funny P.S. if you be princess daisy (the tanned version of peach) the legs are tanned than others. Also iv discovered that if you be the white dressed peach her legs are white... Strange i say...

By the way my name is Alma , yes im a girl. I hope you like my funny discovery
Until nextime, bye!

I've received many reports from visitors about Peach's pink underwear, but this is the first time anyone has told me about the other colors that she wears.

In the snapshot of her in yellow, it looks like she's slapping Marth for trying to get a peek up her dress.

In Super Smash Bros Melee I thought u said ditto changed into the character that threw it mine isnt working. WHY?!?!?!?

I believe that I posted that quote from the official Nintendo Power guide to SSBM, that states that Ditto would fight alongside your character... But the guide was obviously written before the game was finished.

When you obtain Ditto with the Action Replay code, he doesn't actually turn into your character. He appears, then vanishes as quickly as he came... This leads me to believe that he would turn into your character, but that part of the game's programming has since been removed. So because he doesn't do his transformation, he disappears instead.

Hi, I just noticed something strange about Super Smash Bros. Melee. I saw your information about the different faces on Peach's vegetables. Once, I was playing in Multiplayer mode with items set to none, I was Peach. I used her vegetable attack and plucked up a bob-omb instead of a vegetable. Then, later I was in Camera mode and I picked up a Mr. Saturn using her vegetable attack. I was hoping you could investigate this and possibly get a picture of Peach in the process of plucking an item. I think the item selection is random and has a very rare chance of occuring, but it happened to me twice before. Thanks,
tell me if you find anything out.

I've received dozens of e-mails about this, but had yet to see it firsthand... After pulling hundreds of vegetables, I had not seen Peach pull anything other than a vegetable. But after reading your e-mail, I was encouraged to try it once more. So I started a match, and on my third try, Peach pulled a bob-omb instead of a vegetable.

Although a screenshot of Peach holding a bob-omb proves nothing, I had decided to press record before I started playing just to be safe...
So, a short 5 second video clip is available here: http://ssbm.detstar.com/stuff/peachpullsbobomb.WMV
(The clip is in Windows Media Video format, and the size is 280kb)

In addition to the Bob-omb and Mr. Saturn, Peach can apparently also pull a Beam Sword. Also, someone has reported that this rare trick can even happen when items are turned off. Just as you suspected, these bonus items for Peach are completely random, and highly unlikely... But it does happen.

You know that screenshot from Super Smash Bros Melee with the crazy hand fighting giga bowser on the foutain of dreams showing an example of debug can the crazy hand die by geting hit or just floating off the stage on purpose?

In my testing while using Master hand, it doesn't appear as if you can move him at all. While technically playing "as" him, he's simply stuck in the air, unable to attack... I don't even believe that he can be killed.

Giga Bowser on the other hand, is fully playable, and the controls for him are the same as Bowser.

I don't know if your entire income comes from the detstar members who pay for that or if you have another source of income but I would suggest making that feature free since its already a low price and not many people have credit cards or cheques to pay for it.

An entirely free website would certainly please everyone... But a website with the the size and traffic of Detstar certainly cannot operate for free. Slowly but surely, Detstar has evolved into a very costly hobby. With this expensive hosting setup, the Members Section was created to give fans a chance to support the site, and reward them with some bonus material.

My income certainly does not come from Detstar. If it did, I'd be living in a cardboard box by now. The Members Section merely helps to offset some of the costs associated with hosting. And although it's true that not everybody has access to a credit card, you can also become a Member with a cash payment.

The people who visit the website are the reason why Detstar is still here after all these years... But if the website is going to stay alive, it's the people who support the website that will make the difference. In the event that the website has to close to the general public because of excessive costs, it's the people who chose to become Members that will still be able to view the site.

First off, I wanted to tell you I like your site, it's a great reasource for any Super Smash Bros Melee. fan.

I happened to be reading the "interesting stuff" section when I recalled that a reflection can be seen on the "Bullet Bill" trophy, much like the Super Metroid start up screen can be seen in the reflection of the Metroid trophy. However, I can't distinguish what the image is on the Bullet Bill. It looked a little like ROB the NES accessory to me, but I can't tell, and I thought maybe if you posted this someone might find out.

It's hard to say if there's aything in there or not... I can imagine all kinds of things. From a certain point of view, I can see a castle. From another, I can see a Super Nintendo controller. I'm posting it here to see if anyone has other ideas...

First just let me comment on your awsome website. It's one of the best (if not the best) gaming sites I've ever been to. Now then, I believe I've found a great new addition to your "interesting stuff" section of Super Smash Bros Melee. You might already know this, but on the Barell Cannon trophy (note the word CANNON, not the regular barrel) there is the message "2L84ME" (meaning "too late for me") printed on the underside. I have no screenshots, but just rotate the trophy so you can see it. I hope this is new to you, as I have not seen it on your "interesting stuff" page.
Thanks :)

For years, I've been wondering why people still kept sending in that "2L84ME" message... I snapped a screenshot of it in 2002, and fully believed that it was already in the "Stuff" section. I distinctly remember typing the heading "Message in a Barrel" for the stuff page. But perhaps it was a late addition to the page that didn't get saved... The screenshot was uploaded to the server with the update, but that same screenshot simply does not appear on any of the "Interesting Stuff" pages.

The only reason I had a look, was because you mentioned that you did not find it on the "Interesting Stuff" page... So I searched through, and was also unable to find it. It's one of the first things that fans discovered in Melee, and I'm as surprised as you are that it wasn't posted on the Melee website. I'll definitely add it.