Featured Guides
Controller Guide
A complete guide to the common controller types in used in competitive Smash.
Character Resource Guide
List of useful tutorials, combo videos, players, and vods for each character in Smash 64.
DI Guide
A guide to DI techniques and how to practice and implement them.
Gameplay Guides
How Kero Wins with Yoshi - Tips and tricks with Yoshi, focusing on the Pika matchup.
Stage Control is Cool - A lecture sort of thing about the basics of stage control and positioning.
Matchup Guide: Pika vs Fox - An outline of both sides of the Pikachu vs Fox matchup
Buffered Pivot Utilts - A picture guide to a technique to perform pivot utilts. Especially helpful for derek stick users, or others that have problems accidentally jumping while trying to pivot utilt.
Some notes on Pika vs Fox - Self explanatory, some assorted matchup notes from a session in the mu.
Vod reviews of Breakthrough and Elated - Two vod reviews of pika players. The breakthrough one is Part 2 because my analysis in Part 1 wasn’t worth posting.
Wario’s edgeguards on falcon - Collection of all of Wario’s edgeguards from g3 top 8.
Game Mechanics
Pika Up-b Fun Facts - Some information about how controller range affects Pika’s up-b distance and angle.
SSB64 Mechanics for Melee Players - Well titled, I think. A somewhat ramble-y lecture.
Answering Frame Questions with BizHawk - Simple demo of how to use BizHawk (a TAS emulator) to answer frame data questions.
DI Mechanics Reference - In-depth guide to the mechanics of DI in 64. Discusses the importance of range, must-read for anyone working on controller mods.
Testing Range on Emulator - How to test your controller’s range on emulator
Tools and Resources
SSB Frame Data - Hitbox display website. Sidebar has links to various other game data stuff. Collaboration between myself, Shears, heyitsjames, and others. J version is here.
Yoshi Armor Break Table - Table showing at what percent every move in the game will break Yoshi’s double-jump armor. See the FAQ for more information on how armor works. Rehosted from Bloodpeach’s website.
Gameshark Code List - Small list of useful gameshark codes for use on emulator or Everdrive. Mostly aimed at practice.
Hijikisoft Mirror - Archive of Japanese developer HIJIKI’s now defunct website. Contains various tools, such as a combo counter, frame data display, and 12CB tracker.