I’d like to republish an old post of mine from the Smash Bros. Legacy blog. It seems relevant again since modding new characters and stages into Melee is beginning to be considered as the new standard.
When it comes to modifying tournament legal stages in Project M builds, Legacy TE’s stance had never changed from its conception: characters and stages from 3.6 are the only acceptable versions of Project M content for tournament use.
TE was made with this ethos in mind, and had never wavered, despite
numerous attempts by the community to use unfinished leaked Project M
content or community-modified deviations. Up until 2.5, TE continued to make sure
the integrity of Project M 3.6’s content was intact.
So without further a do, here’s the bulk of the post I wrote a few years ago:
In some discussions on the Project M subreddit and other places, there has been some confusion over what types of
changes you can make to the game, and what kinds of changes should be
considered acceptable. To help clarify this issue, we’d like to supply a
few key definitions that will help distinguish between the many
different kinds of “modifications” one can possibly make to Project M:
Aesthetic changes:
visual or audio changes that don’t affect gameplay, but can sometimes
adjust players’ perceptions and at worst be deceptive or distracting.
This is a gray area, as some players use particular audio or visual cues
when playing that can potentially be disrupted.
Net-new inclusions: additions
to the game that simply give more of the same in a careful way, as to
never replace key tournament content or result in any kind of gameplay
change. i.e. Kirby’s 9th and 10th costume options, alt stages
Quality of Life feature additions: net-new additions to the game that enhance non-gameplay changing features. ie. working replays, edit controls from the CSS.
Crash fixes:
file edits that don’t necessarily change aesthetics, nor in-game
behavior, but simply correct potential game crashes. Examples are memory
leak fixes, or Kart ROB’s Clear Mode edit.
Hardware-viability balance change:
Changes to the game that only directly affect hardware-related aspects
of the game to make the experience more consistent across every type of
hardware i.e. UCF
Gameplay-changing modifications:
any edit that would result in gameplay changes, including but limited
to: character moveset changes, some PSA adjustments, some animation
tweaks, stage collision changes, blast zone changes, etc
It’s
our belief that of the 6 possible types of changes above, only
definitions 1-5 are worth considering. Changes as defined by definition
#6 are never permissible, and have no place in a PM 3.6 build.
Why,
you might ask? What’s wrong with “balancing” a stage’s blast zone or
“improving” a collision? Well the first question to ask is, who truly
has the authority to make that call?
The
Project M Development Team have been disbanded since December of 2015,
so there is no true authority to be making these changes. In light of
this reality, no matter how “good” the change might be, no
gameplay-changing modifications should be made.
Let’s
ignore that for a second, and assume a group comes together and assumes
the role of “authority” of the game’s development and get away with it.
Let’s also assume the group came to a consensus where all parties were
satisfied over what changes to implement. A push improperly executed
will leave the community split, frustrated, and confused. There’s a
branding issue there, too. What “version” are each of these edited
stages? They can’t be called 3.6 stages. They can’t be called 3.61
stages either. So there really is no good title for them. Good luck
explaining this all to new players or less involved community members.
Not
to mention this opens the floodgates to variety of other possible
changes that can be argued to be made, including character balance
changes, or additional characters on the roster.
This only scratches the surface of potentially problematic outcomes that could result from such a change.
The
“gameplay update” debate has been a contentious topic since the PMDT
disbanded in 2015. There’s been a desire to correct mistakes left in
3.6, and not for no reason: it’s not a perfect game. But what Smash game
is perfect? Is disrupting a healthy meta 3 years in the making really
worth a few little tweaks?
Since this is a longer post, we’ll give you a TL;DR summary:
Legacy
TE is committed to being faithful to Project M 3.6 as always. This
means we will reject any non-3.6 variations of PM content and will not
include them in any build.
Obviously Melee differs from PM a number of ways, but when it comes to what changes through modding come into play to become the definitive version of the game, I think it’s worth giving this list a second glance.
Slippi kind of guarantees a limited list of changes you can make before you’d desync with another player. It’s flexible enough to allow changes type 1 (aesthetic) without permitting any other kind. With 20XX, we’ve had additional costumes and stages, but now with m-ex builds like Akaneia, we’re seeing net-new characters being added as well.
As far as Project M goes, Project+ ended up being the perfect solution to make a variety of community-driven changes to PM, that change all 6 different kinds of modification as written above, and don’t claim to be PM 3.7. And of course I’m thrilled Legacy TE is the base. :)
NOTE: this is a repost of a blog article I wrote on
7/15/2015. Saving it here for posterity.
App + Service Icons
The OneDrive link contains four folders, two called
“black” and two called “white” each with its respective color of the
icons. Each color has .png and .ico versions. Each icon is 256 x 256 and
supports transparency. I found most of these icons by hunting in the
Windows 10 system files.
Two folders here, one is virtually a direct extraction of
the .dll files in Windows 10, and the other is a version of the icons
in PNG (some icons didn’t convert, however, and are missing). Download here.
Note: these are for personal use only, and Microsoft owns the rights to most of these images.
Download Windows 10 Technical Preview Custom Folder Icons
NOTE: this is a repost of something I wrote on
1/24/2015. I’m saving it here for posterity.
If
you’re a #WinPhan, chances are you’ve already downloaded the Windows 10
Technical Preview Microsoft pushed out today to Insiders.
You’ll notice many differences from Windows 8.1 to the Preview of 10, and one of them is the set of folder icons.
However,
not all icons are “modernized,” such as the users folder, search
folder, and others. So I took it upon myself to create icons myself that
matched the same style.
You can download the official Windows 10 Technical Preview icons as well as my custom icons below:
Note:
This link won’t work for you if you haven’t set up a X-large version of
your avatar picture yet. To learn how to set your profile picture on
your Xbox One, use
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