@beardalaxy @ArdanianRight
>i do think that a lot of smash players or at least TOs want to pretend like nintendo sponsoring an event makes them a legitimate tournament because the FGC gives them shit about not being a real fighting game all the time.
That makes sense, but even Masahiro Sakurai said that he never intended Smash to be a competitive fighting game. He even partially came up with the idea for Smash after defeating a noob in King of Fighters at a local arcade when he was younger. I also remember him saying that he semi-regrets creating Melee as it wasn't what he intended Smash to be.

>in fact I think you might actually be able to use it on a gamecube if you have the right equipment
The Gamecube does have that modem and broadband adapter, but that was only ever officially used for LAN games and Phantasy Star Online along with a few Japan-only games. And those network adapters are rare as hackers later found out that they can be used for homebrew and piracy via exploits, so Nintendo had to discontinue them. Plus, the network adapters are not compatible with the Wii and from what I've heard, homebrew on actual GameCube hardware is tedious.

There is a WIP project that is aiming to fully decompile Melee's source code (you still need to provide a legitimate ISO to abstract the game assets for legal reasons). This could open the door to more mods including a native PC port with online. I can see more tournaments embracing this as long as they do it legally (requiring the ISO to compile as I mentioned previously).

https://github.com/doldecomp/melee

@einziggurat @ArdanianRight @beardalaxy It requires a Melee ISO to extract assets in order to compile. This is what keeps it legal (or at least in a legal gray area).