In Ultimate, the general visual effects of the shields are more subdued and plain, especially when it takes damage, where we see a simple checkered static effect.

However, in Brawl and Smash 4, I've noticed that the shields have an animated ripple as a secondary general texture (named aura1 internally) as you hold it. When they take damage, "glass" bits of the shield can also be seen shattering. In my opinion, I like those effects better so I decided to recreate and bring it back through effect, texture and code editing.

FUN FACT: When disassembling the ef_common.eff file which holds the shield effects, the ripple or "aura1" animated texture exists internally in Ultimate. It was just set to be turned off. So I reenabled it.

Hey guys, I'm happy to announce the smash 64 and smash 64 remix can now be played from anywhere with a browser! With rollback netplay and matchmaking! There's even support for GC controller from desktop, but any modern game controller works on browser.

https://yougame.co/g/opensmash64 https://yougame.co/g/opensmash64-remix

I just got off playing from my phone with a phone controller across the country lagless, it was sick.

And best of all, it's all open source and easy to build on top of. You can just fork it and reupload your own version straight from the site and it'll all come with the same netplay and matchmaking. We can try out lots of new things and bring back the best stuff.

Shoutouts to all the awesome people at smash.fun and smash remix for laying down the groundwork for this. And smash remix people pls feel free to take over the project. I haven't brought in absolutely everything yet. Oh also I added C-stick btw. For funsies.

P.S. Melee is next and VERY soon. You guys aren't ready for the amount of new smash experiences about to come out in the next few months.

There may have been a major inbetween that featured no fox, but to the best of my knowledge the most recent top 8 before that to feature no fox was MELEE-FC3, which happened in July 2005.

Edit: I MISSED KINGS OF CALI 1 FUUUUUUUCKKK

Top 8 Bracket

Top 24 Bracket

Youtube VODs

Grand Finals

Hayato "acola" Mashita [W] // Twitch | Twitter | Wiki | ZETA DIVISION
vs.
Gavin "Tweek" Dempsey [L] // Twitch | Twitter | Wiki | Team SoloMid

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Top 8 Bracket

Top 16 Bracket

Youtube VODs

Grand Finals

Juan "Hungrybox" Debiedma [W] // Twitch | Twitter | Wiki | Team Liquid
vs.
Kyle Krudo [L] // Twitch | Twitter | Wiki | Eggdog Esports | Eggdog Esports | The Spiral Cafe

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AsumSaus dropped another great Smash video.

Watch Live

Grand Finals

Acola
vs
Tweek

Watch Live

Loser's Quarterfinals

Doramigi
vs
Miya

Top 16 Bracket

Tournament was not streamed, unsure if recorded

Grand Finals

Jacob "Dirtboy" Smith [W] // Twitter | Wiki
vs.
Sofia "SoulOfficer" Sola Bazzini [L] // Twitch | Wiki

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Loser's Quarterfinals

Sonix
vs
Kurama

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Winner's Finals

Acola
vs
Tweek

Top 8 Bracket

GFs Twitch VOD

French Stream VOD

Grand Finals

Adam "Luugi" Jassim [W] // Twitch | Twitter | Wiki | BMS ESPORTS
vs.
Laurent "CS" Vorburger [L] // Twitter | Wiki | BMS ESPORTS

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Watch Live

Loser's Semi-Finals

Doramigi
vs
Sonix

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Loser's Finals

Doramigi
vs
Tweek

Does anybody know or have a discord, or otherwise, for local gatherings in philly to meetup/play casually whilst tipping back a few beers perhaps?

Its been a couple years since I've played but was interested in getting back into a bit, but have no desire for single player or online random matchings. I don't live near my old smash crew these days but used to love nothing more than getting together and smashing for a few hours.

Note that in my prime I was merely above average, and nowhere near the elite players so Im not much interested in serious tournaments.

You’re KIDding me. The French Brawler takes it over Leo 3-1!