Development on the popular Super Smash Bros. mod Project M has come to a screeching halt today, as the Project M team has officially announced that they will stop working on any further updates. The link for the files used to patch Super Smash Bros. Brawl in order to play the mod have also been removed from their site.

We realize that this will come as a shock to many of our fans. Please, forgive us. Again, it’s been an excruciating call to make, but it’s been made a bit easier by our satisfaction with the previous and final release, v3.6. We’ve spent six years polishing Project M, and rather than let it drag on through another several years of dwindling development and change-fatigue in the competitive circle, we’re going to consider our work complete.

They go on to say that they have other, new projects that they will be focusing on in the future.

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[NostalgicMillennial]

Sounds like a C+D to me.

 

[storm75x]

inb4 SSB4 Project M

 

[ov3rkill]

It would be interesting if these guys moved on to SSB4 and with total support from Nintendo.

 

[Meteor7]

It would be interesting if these guys moved on to SSB4 and with total support from Nintendo.

That, sir, would be miraculous.

 

[Trolling]

Ridley was just too big for this mod, so it broke

 

[Reploid]

Poor made news. I didn't understood what project M is and why is it halted.

 

[Arras]

Poor made news. I didn't understood what project M is and why is it halted.

the popular Super Smash Bros. mod Project M

As to why it is halted, nobody knows.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Maybe Nintendo is going to make Brawl a downloadable Wii title for Wii U like Punch Out! Or Metroid Prime Trilogy?

 

[MarioFanatic64]

Who knows? The team might have been commissioned by the Smash 4 team to make a "legacy mode" DLC with Melee physics.

 

[Chary]

Poor made news. I didn't understood what project M is and why is it halted.

No one knows why it's been halted, it's pure speculation at this point. That's...sort of why there's a discussion thread. The only possible bit of "information" as to why comes from a reddit post by an unconfirmed member of Project M saying the mod was taken down because they caught wind that Nintendo was going to take legal action.

 

[MajinCubyan]

Its a shame but if you still want to play it or never got around to trying it, they have a mediafire mirror with 3.6 up yet. Click here

Enjoy.

 

[FusionGamer]

Two theories:
1: It's because they're using third party characters Nintendo doesn't have a license to and internally can't scantion the mod.
2: They're working on a new game and want to break away from the legal grey area.
3: Highly remote, but Nintendo bought them out and they can't say anything.

 

[jDSX]

Well this is very shocking news did it happen overnight? I mean a C&D letter for a mod? Really?

 

[CathyRina]

That I'm aware of, nope. Not for pal or korean copies.

Sucks. I've been waiting with this mod till I could play it on my actual Wii.

 

[cvskid]

Sucks. I've been waiting with this mod till I could play it on my actual Wii.

You might be able to play it through a usb loader just get the ntsc version and force ntsc in the options for the usb loader.

 

[link6155]

If they had legal issues with Nintendo, why didn't they mentioned it? It makes no sense if that was the case because there would be no harm in doing so.

 

[mrissaoussama]

For anyone who wants to download project m, here is the link :
https://web.archive.org/web/20150919194229/http://projectmgame.com/en/download

 

[RemixDeluxe]

Sucks. I've been waiting with this mod till I could play it on my actual Wii.

You can play it on a modded Wii or Dolphin emulator. Take your pick.

 

[RevPokemon]

Sad to see an end to such a great project

 

[CathyRina]

You can play it on a modded Wii or Dolphin emulator. Take your pick.

Me wanting to play it on my actual wii already implies that I have a "jailbroken" wii and don't want to use an emulator.