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Well, they're planning on releasing a new game made by themselves. However after talking to a lawyer, they discovered that continuing their work on PM could cause Nintendo to sue them and their new game, arguing that they used Brawl/PM/Nintendo assets as some sort of base for their new commercial game

That's according to a PM member, atleast

What I don't understand is how the PM team think Nintendo could make that claim without any sort of ground to stand on.  It's basically saying "You were once a hacker, so everything you're doing after that must be based on your hacking work."  They'd have no proof unless they saw the source code, and even then, there are many things one does in code that simply don't change a whole lot in terms of execution.  Also, many 2D games have used other games as bases for something, like sprites or whatever, and have had no issues.  For example, the Robopon games on Gameboy Color clearly have Pokemon style overworld trainer sprites going on for their trainers, but they AREN'T Pokemon's overworld trainer sprites, so they're fine. If they were pixel-by-pixel copies, there'd be an issue, but no two assets are exactly the same.