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A '''fan game''' is a game created by the fans of a work that is explicitly based on said work. In terms of the ''{{b|Super Smash Bros.|series}}'' series, this results in low-budget, non-profit games that imitate the gameplay of the series, while simultaneously allowing fans to create and use characters and stages without having to [[hack]] an existing game. Fan games tend to be created in environments such as Flash, Game Maker, or Clickteam Fusion, and as a result, are almost exclusively sprite-based. Although the games often feature trademarked characters, settings, music, and other such aspects, their lower production values and presentation causes fan games to be considered legal under parody or fair use laws.

Projects that involve [[Gameplay modification|modification of the actual games in the series]], such as ''[[Project+]]'', ''[[Smash Remix]]'', ''[[Brawl-]]'', and ''[[HewDraw Remix]]'', can be considered a type of fan game. Such projects, however, are often considered separate from typical fan games, due to their differing development; fan games are generally created from scratch, whereas mods involve modifying an existing game.

==Notable fan games==
===''Super Smash Flash 2''===
[[File:Super Smash Flash 2 Character Selection Screen.png|thumb|200px|right|''Super Smash Flash 2''{{'}}s current character selection screen.]]
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{{art-wikipedia|Super Smash Flash}}

[https://mcleodgaming.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Smash_Flash_2 ''Super Smash Flash 2''], commonly abbreviated as ''SSF2'', is a fan game made in {{iw|wikipedia|Adobe Flash}}, and developed by the Super Smash Flash 2 Team, led by Gregory "Cleod9" McLeod, and published by McLeodGaming. It is a sequel to the 2006 fan game ''[https://www.supersmashflash.com/play/ssf1/ Super Smash Flash]'', McLeod's first attempt at a ''Smash''-like game made in Adobe Flash which featured gameplay cues closer to a traditional platform game. ''SSF2'' follows much of the same mechanics as the official ''Smash'' games, but differentiates itself by having a 2D pixel art style and much looser content criteria for inclusion of characters who have never appeared in the official games, including playable characters from manga and anime series, such as {{iw|wikipedia|Goku}}, {{iw|wikipedia|Monkey D. Luffy}}, {{iw|wikipedia|Naruto Uzumaki}}, and {{iw|wikipedia|Ichigo Kurosaki}}. There are 48 playable characters in total, 15 of whom have never been playable in the official games and five &mdash; the aforementioned manga and anime characters and the [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Mage_(Final_Fantasy) Black Mage] from {{uv|Final Fantasy}} &mdash; of whom have not appeared in the official games in any capacity. It is available as both [https://www.supersmashflash.com/play/ssf2/ a web browser game] and as [https://www.supersmashflash.com/play/ssf2/downloads/ a downloadable game] for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. The first demo of ''SSF2'', version 0.1a, was released on December 25, 2007. The most recent version, Beta 1.4.0, was released on May 9, 2025. The developers would go on to make another platform fighter, ''{{iw|wikipedia|Fraymakers}}''.

''Super Smash Flash 2'' is considered the most popular ''Smash'' fan game and fosters an active competitive scene, with several of the game's best players, such as {{Sm|LunarySSF2}} and {{Sm|RiVer}}, eventually moving on to compete in official ''Smash'' titles.

===''Super Smash Bros. Crusade''===
[[File:Super Smash Crusade Character Selection Screen.png|thumb|200px|right|''Super Smash Bros. Crusade''{{'}}s current character selection screen.]]
[[File:Crusades Logo.png|center|350px]]

[https://projectcrusade.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Smash_Bros._Crusade_(current) ''Super Smash Bros. Crusade''], often abbreviated as ''SSBC'' or ''Crusade'', is a fan game originally [https://smash-crusade.itch.io/crusade released] on January 2nd, 2010, with the latest update being v0.9.5 on August 8, 2024. ''Crusade'' was originally developed for Windows using the Game Maker 7/8 engine by Team Phalcon, consisting of Phantom7, Falcon8r, and Dr.MarioX. ''Crusade'' has a large number of fighters with 77 playable characters, 88 if including variants, with 38 of them appearing in the official ''Super Smash Bros.'' series, though several play very differently. Up to six players can play simultaneously. Like ''Super Smash Flash 2'', the game is looser than official ''Smash'' games with its criteria for playable characters, including the likes of {{iw|wikipedia|Goku}}, {{iw|wikipedia|Vegeta}}, and [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/weegee Weegee].

===''Super Smash Land''===
[[File:Super Smash Land Character Selection Screen.png|thumb|200px|right|''Super Smash Land''{{'}}s character selection screen.]]
[[File:SuperSmashLandLogo.png|center|350px]]
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[https://www.supersmashland.com/ ''Super Smash Land''] is a fan-made demake of ''Super Smash Bros.'' developed with GameMaker 7 by Dan Fornace, released on September 14, 2011. The game loosely adapts  ''Smash''{{'}}s gameplay to a 2-button layout, one for jumping and one for attacking, while donning graphics and presentation in the style of the original [[Game Boy]]. The game features 6 playable characters, including [[Mega Man]] &mdash; who hadn't appeared in an official game at the time &mdash; and {{pkmn|Vaporeon}}, who has yet to appear in an official game in any capacity. It includes 11 stages as well, with one of which based on the 2009 indie game ''{{iw|wikipedia|Tower of Heaven}}''. Fornace would later go on to develop the platform fighter game ''{{iw|wikipedia|Rivals of Aether}}'', released in 2017. Some elements from ''Smash Land'' were carried into ''Rivals'', such as the ''Tower of Heaven'' stage and Vaporeon's moveset being used as the basis for Orcane, a ''Rivals'' character. 

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==Trivia==
*Currently 10 characters have been playable in fan games before [[Super Smash Bros. (series)|officially]] becoming playable:
**[[Meta Knight]], [[Sonic the Hedgehog]], and [[Cloud Strife]] were playable in [https://mcleodgaming.fandom.com/wiki/Super%20Smash%20Flash Super Smash Flash] before being revealed for ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', and ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'' respectively.
**[[Mega Man]] and [[Sora]] were playable in [https://mcleodgaming.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Smash_Flash_2 Super Smash Flash 2] before being revealed for ''Smash 4'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' respectively.
**[[Duck Hunt]] (under the name Duck Hunt Dog), [[Little Mac]], [[Ryu]], and [[Ridley]], alongside the aforementioned Mega Man, were playable in [https://projectcrusade.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Smash_Bros._Crusade_(current) Super Smash Bros. Crusade] before being revealed for ''Smash 4'' and ''Ultimate'' respectively.
**Notably, [[Simon Belmont]] was planned to be added as a playable character to Super Smash Flash 2 prior to his reveal for ''Ultimate'', however he was revealed for ''Ultimate'' only two days before he would be revealed for the fan game, a fact that was referenced when he was revealed.

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