Sending Taiko a message, the two began to talk and ideas started to snow ball for New Smash. Then, he saw Taiko's New Smash Mario and was intrigued. He knew he couldn't just do another 'recolour' project, as that wouldn't be a 'step up' from what he had accomplished previously. Shun, nearing wrap up of his 'Vibrant Brawl' project was looking for the next texture project to tackle. As he was preparing to continue, Shun sent him a message that he wanted to assist. Instead of dropping the idea, he decided to continue with his own brand of characters labelled 'New Smash' and released two characters under said label. As he was working, someone else beat him to the punch with a 'Smash 4 Mario' making him reconsider. Taiko, after seeing Smash Wii U/3DS Mario, wanted to attempt to create him in Brawl, but by making the textures from scratch. Think of it like Brawl was developed with the visual style of Smash 4. Though we'll be bringing the visual style, we don't plan on replicating Smash 4 1:1, as there are some things that just can't be brought over. Smash 3 is a visual overhaul of Brawl, with the goal of bringing Smash 4's visual style to Brawl.

Smash 3ds mod pack