For the past nine months, Myougi and her team have been working on a more functional and feature filled version of Melee designed for Netplay. With the Melee Netplay Community Build, playing the game online would simply be the matter of finding an opponent and heading right into the match.
Stability, the number one goal during the project, is always taken into account before adding anything. In fact, Fountain Of Dreams's background elements are disabled in order to achieve said stability all throughout the build. Only the most optimal and essential of features are added but this doesn't mean that they aren't adding a bit of flavor to it.
Boasting not only a new Electric blue themed Character Selection Screen, MNCB also features an edited Stage Selection Screen with fully functional Stage Striking and a redesigned Main Menu to fit in with the motif. Alongside Stage Striking, many stages have been edited to become competitively viable. New stages range from maps such as Fourside-Smashville, Fourside with the Smashville layout to Skyrule Temple, a modified version of Hyrule Temple with a layout similar to Skyloft in Project M.
Other additions include many quality of life improvements. This includes having features like Salty Runbacks, a simple Debug mode, 8 character name tags, being able to use the same color as your opponent and more. Ever hated how matches always go to sudden death if both players are at the same stock by time the timer runs out? The build automatically makes the player with the lower percentage win.
The best part about this is that it's completely tournament-legal. It doesn't add anything intrusive and is relatively simple and quick to install. The moment the ISO is booted up, everything is unlocked right away. Every time the build is ran, it'll go off without a hitch. Since it basically goes over an ISO, TOs using DIOS-MIOS or Nintendont can simply patch the ISOs they use and have business go on as usual, albeit enhanced.
MNCB is a great blessing to the Netplay community as well as to the Melee scene overall. Interested in it? Potential users can download it on it's official thread. For future announcements you can either follow the official thread linked beforehand or Myougi on Twitter.
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