Project M

Project M is a hack of Super Smash Bros. Brawl designed to make brawl more like melee. The team who is designing Project M was also the same team who worked to design Brawl+.

Universal Changes

• Melee Air Dodge: Also known as MAD. The melee air dodge system in other words is used for project M.
• Manual L-Canceling: It is now required, similar to melee and smash 64, to use L, R, or Z to cancel lag of aerials. This was one of the more controversial decisions of Project M as many smashers believe that by having an automatic lag cancel system, it reduces unnecessary tech skill.
• Dash Dancing: Changed back to Melee physics
• Crouch Canceling: Re-added from smash 64/melee.
• Down-smash While Holding Down: In Brawl, if you try to d-smash while crouching, it leads to a down tilt. This was reverted
• Ledge-Tech: Being able to Ledge Tech is now back
• Edge-cancel: The useful melee/smash 64 technique to be able to do an aerial (or a recovery) onto the edge of a platform to cancel the ending lag
• Jump-Cancel Grabs
• Powershield: Powershields now properly reflect projectiles back at opponents instead of random directions
• Taunt Canceling: From smash 64, is similar to the physics of edge-canceling, for example, Your-Your-Your-Your-Your too slow.
• Melee Shield-stun
• You can't Autosweetspot Ledges
• Tech Window
• Hitlag Modifier: Moves have changes hit
• Momentum Capture
• Shield During Dash Dance: Self-explained
• Dash Cancel: You can dash and then be able to crouch quickly and do another move, makes it so pivoting among other techniques is easier.
• No Stale Moves: Moves deal the same amount of damage/knockback every time
• Other changes involve changing back characters to melee style, an example is Falco's shine which is now the same as it was in Melee
• Melee style Brawl characters
• Extra stages (such as n64 and sub-space stages)

Links

• Project M Smashboards thread, used as a Q&A thread mostly
• Official Website

The Team

• Project Leader: Shanus
• Lead Character: Developments: SHeLL, Camelot, Strong Bad
• Additional Coders: Dantarion, Yeroc, WindOwl, Almas, Standardtoaster
• Character Design/Development: Shanus, Magus, jiang, Strong Bad, WindOwl, JCaesar, leafgreen386, Falco400, Plum, rPSI
• Backroom Testers: Mango, Lucky, Lovage, Silent Wolf, KirbyKaze, unknown522, RaynEX, Amsah, Faab, BombSoldier, Captain Jack. All beta testers are approved through: application thread
• Graphics/Menu Design: Orca, Guy, VectorAce
• Stage Design: FrozenHobo, GameWatching, Mewtwo2000, Shadic