With that huge misconception out of the way, we have arrived at the juicy, quivering, supple heart of this argument. In the eyes of our scene's most prominent and experienced event organizers, any NTSC version of the game is acceptable for tournament play. If you attend a major, you accept the possibility of playing on any of the three versions. None of the rulesets at our scene's largest tournaments make any distinction about legal versions of play beyond NTSC. You may notice something strange and earth-shattering. Peep the Melee rulesets for Big House, CEO, EVO, Genesis, Shine and even the old "community standard" Apex ruleset. However, despite what these RAMPANTLY DECEPTIVE 1.2 zealots will tell you, there exists absolutely no precedent for 1.2 being the accepted version at majors. majors), where rulesets are more likely to be standardized and scalable to mega-events rather than whatever your local card shop TO thinks would "totally work out, Jeremy." However, when you are considering sweeping changes that affect the entire competitive community, it is best to look at issues from the highest level of organization (i.e. Some uninformed goobers out there will try to tell you that v1.2 IS the standard simply because it's the most common, and they will often cite anecdotal evidence about their regional TO to back up their claim. The 20XX isos that have become a popular practice tool/alternative for people who can't find a disc have a mix of both 1.0 and 1.2 mechanics enabled by default, but these hacks were never intended for tournament use anyway so this has little bearing on the issue of the "definitive" version. 1.2 is the most recent revision of the game and is probably the one you're most likely to encounter, as there are more 1.2 discs in circulation than any other version excluding PAL. If you are not familiar with the multifarious version differences between these revisions and PAL, this article is a helpful reference tool.Ĭurrently, there is no version of Melee that is considered the end all be all DEFINITIVE version for tournament play. If you came to this post hoping to see some dank memes, turn back now because it's about to get rill rill srs up in hurr BLAT BLAT BLAT$$$$$$$$īefore I get to the thrust of my argument, there's some background that ought to be discussed about the three versions of NTSC Melee (1.0, 1.1, and 1.2).
Hey what's up subredditblasterzzz it's jer boi Chandy and while I normally post here to make light of serious community issues, today I would like to make an argument about an issue that is not only very near and dear to my heart, but also DELICIOUSLY topical given the recent explosion of discussion regarding the possibility of implementing a new "v1.3" memcard hack to fix dashback inconsistencies among other things.