Classic Mode is a 1-player mode in Super Smash Bros. Melee. The player chooses a single character and a difficulty level, then battles through 11 different stages, eventually meeting up with Master Hand. The battles and the order in which they are take place are, for the most part, completely random (other than the basic layout, which is elaborated on in the below section).
Crazy Hand will appear if the difficulty is set to "Normal" or higher, and if the player has cleared the rest of the mode in under 18 minutes.
Types of battles[]
Regular battle[]
All characters except Ganondorf, Roy, and Mr. Game & Watch are eligible to fight the player throughout the mode's three 1-on-1 battles, with their home stages listed below. In this mode, neither Poké Floats nor any Past Stages are used. In Stage 1 on Very Hard Difficulty, the opponent will wear its third alternative costume. In Stage 7 on Hard or Very hard, the computer will usually try to avoid the player at all costs, sometimes by walking off the screen. During the fight with Mewtwo, the theme for Poké Floats will play. During the fight with Marth, the Fire Emblem theme will play. As for the fight with Yoshi, the Yoshi's Story stage has the theme for the Yoshi's Island 64 stage as its alternate music.
Below is the list of all the teams the player can fight in Classic Mode. Both the characters for each team and the stage fought on is listed. There are a total of 29 teams. All playable characters aside from Zelda/Sheik and Roy can fight alongside the player. Allies all use their first alternate costume. On Very Hard Difficulty, the first opponent wears its third alternative costume. When fighting a team of Mario and Bowser on Battlefield, the theme for Princess Peach's Castle plays.
Stage
Teams
Battlefield
Bowser + Mewtwo
Bowser + Peach
Bowser + Zelda
Mario + Bowser
Big Blue
Captain Falcon + Falco
Samus + Captain Falcon
Brinstar
Samus + Fox
Corneria
Fox + Falco
Fountain of Dreams
Kirby + Pichu
Fourside
Ness + Mewtwo
Great Bay
Link + Young Link
Marth + Link
Zelda + Young Link
Green Greens
Kirby + Jigglypuff
Kirby + Pikachu
Icicle Mountain
Kirby + Ice Climbers
Kongo Jungle
Donkey Kong + Fox
Mushroom Kingdom
Link + Luigi
Luigi + Dr. Mario
Mushroom Kingdom II
Mario + Peach
Mute City
Fox + Captain Falcon
Onett
Ness + Peach
Pokémon Stadium
Pikachu + Jigglypuff
Pikachu + Pichu
Temple
Link + Zelda
Peach + Zelda
Zelda + Marth
Yoshi's Island
Yoshi + Ness
Yoshi's Story
Yoshi + Luigi
Giant battle[]
Just like the teams, the giant characters the player fights are picked randomly from a group that has already been predetermined by the game. All playable characters aside from Zelda/Sheik and Roy can fight alongside the player. The first ally uses the second alternate costume, while the second uses the first alternate costume. Interestingly, this list includes every single Mario character overall, including sub-series (but oddly, not Peach). During the battle against Giant Young Link, Saria's Song plays.
Just like the teams, and the giant characters the player fights, the multiple-character fight is picked randomly from a group that has already been predetermined by the game. This level consists of 9 chosen characters consisting of 10 multiples of themselves. During the battle against 10 Donkey Kongs at Jungle Japes, the theme for Kongo Jungle plays.
All characters except Ganondorf, Roy, and Mr. Game and Watch are eligible to appear as a metal character in this 1-on-1 battle against the player. The stage will always be Battlefield.
Rewards[]
Clearing as Mario without using any continues will challenge the player to defeat Dr. Mario, where victory results in unlocking him.
Clearing with any character on any difficulty will challenge the player to defeat Jigglypuff, and beating it results in unlocking it.
Clearing with 10 characters will challenge the player to defeat Young Link, and beating him will unlock him.
Clearing with all starter characters will challenge the player to defeat Marth from the Fire Emblem series. The challenge against him will also occur if the player gets a Game Over using every starter character.
Clearing with Marth will challenge the player to defeat Roy.
Clearing with all 24 characters will challenge the player to defeat Mr. Game & Watch.
Clearing with Mr. Game & Watch will unlock the Flat Zone stage.
Clearing with all characters gives the player the Donkey Kong Junior Trophy.
Clearing on Hard or Very Hard without using any continues gives the player a trophy of Master Hand.
Clearing on any difficulty with any character will give the player a trophy of the character used based on their appearance in one of their games. Both Zelda and Sheik's trophies are obtained simultaneously.
Trivia[]
Oddly, Ganondorf will never appear as an enemy fighter, nor will Mr. Game & Watch outside of the Multi-Character Battle. Roy will never appear at all. Sheik will also never initially appear, only ever as a transformation for Zelda, who will never appear as an ally. Despite their absences, they all have the necessary intro poses programmed into the disc. [1]
Each stage will never have the same character as an opponent character or ally as the player's character.
