Balanced Smash Bros. Brawl

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Unofficial Smash Bros. Brawl rebalancing update released (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/19/unofficial-super-smash-bros-brawl-rebalancing-update-released/)

by JC Fletcher (http://www.joystiq.com/bloggers/jc-fletcher/) http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/writer_rss.gif (http://www.joystiq.com/bloggers/jc-fletcher/rss.xml) { 11 hours ago } http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/001nintendo001.png (http://nintendo.joystiq.com/)
<center>http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/04/balancedbrawl419.jpg (http://balancedbrawl.net/)</center>The "Balanced Brawl" project, first announced in 2009 (http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2009/06/30/fans-rewrite-brawl-to-balance-characters/), aimed to fix Super Smash Bros. Brawl (http://joystiq.com/tag/super-smash-bros-brawl) by removing overpowered combos and exploitable moves (http://balancedbrawl.net/global-changes/ledgegrab-limit/) and by altering individual characters to improve the competitive balance. It was an impressive project then, and it's been made even more impressive by the fact that you can make use of it in your own copy of the game right now -- without having to install the Homebrew Channel or permanently hack your Wii.

The development team has implemented a clever mechanism that loads the Balanced Brawl files from an SD card. You just have to download (http://balancedbrawl.net/downloads-instructions/) the files to a card (and remove all your saved custom Brawl stages), pop it in the system and launch the Stage Builder mode -- the loader will automatically take over from there.

Looks fucking hot. There's an almost complete list of changes on the site which is

http://balancedbrawl.net

[Funky Fly]

Want. Dunno if my brothers would be down, as they own the Wii and I'm moving out in a matter of days.

[Kane Knight]

Seems like an awesome idea.

[Verbose Minch]

It's sad that there are still tourney fags around.

[Savio]

I don't play it to much anymore also i like it how it is.

[LuigiD]

I never played this competitively and I didn't know most of those moves/combos could be pulled off either. As Savior..I like the game as is. I am really interested with the way they updated the game tho. That is very cool.

[Kane Knight]

I never played this competitively and I didn't know most of those moves/combos could be pulled off either. As Savior..I like the game as is. I am really interested with the way they updated the game tho. That is very cool.

I'm wondering how long until Nintendo tries to block this, though. It could readily allow other mods to enter circulation. And Nintendo hates freedom, so....

[#BROKEN Hasney]

I don't think they really can block this specifically unless they do it with a new disc. The only way Nintendo managed to block the Twilight Hack was by stopping the transfer of the save file from SD card to internal memory. As this runs off the SD Card, I'm betting there's very little it can do, firmware wise.

[Kane Knight]

You may be right. I never really looked into what they did with the twilight hack.

[Poit]

That looks pretty cool.