SUPER SMASH BROS. FEUD - BIG update in latest post.

[Neweegee]

I know I'm not very informed on the whole legal thing, but I think Nintendo's take-downs have something to do with how much the game is uhh... "Nintendo" or something. Like, compare Fullscreen Mario to Mari0(Mario/Portal crossover), both are remakes of the original Super Mario Bros. 1, they have a level editor, use graphics straight from the original game and were both very popular and known all around the internet. Fullscreen Mario got taken down, wheres Mari0's developers simply went on to do other things.

Here's what I think made the difference:

Warning: small wall-o-text!

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What I think is the key difference between the fate of these games is that Mari0 was crossing over with a franchise that wasn't Nintendo's(Value's Portal), and that possibly had a effect on Nintendo taking legal action. I'm not sure what exactly crossing over does in the legal world, but(correct me if I'm wrong) I don't think there's been any crossover fangame that's been taken down for actual legal reasons. There was also the fangame called Super Mario Crossover and it's actually a remake of 2 Mario games!

There could be a few other things to think of, though. Possibly the timing, since Fullscreen Mario(which had a level editor) became popular just before Nintendo was going to show Super Mario Maker, or Nintendo didn't want to be bothered with going through Value to take down Mari0(something like that maybe, just a guess).

Maybe crossover stuff makes them just not care, it makes Nintendo feel that it's not a threat to it's IP? I know none of those projects were like in 3D and based on an up-to-date game, but I think, if you wanted to continue the project, maybe adding in crossover content(even simple stuff like adding Sonic) or just things you think Nintendo would never do, it might strongly affect the chances of you get into legal trouble. But like I said, I don't know much, and it's just a guess from what I've seen.

tl;dr remix: Maybe material from other companies complicates legal actions for Nintendo, so if you wanted to continue the project, maybe you should add a lot of crossover stuff?