When we distribute the files, it could technically be considered illegal because we are distributing copyrighted material. Nintendo, however, seems to not care, mainly because they care more about pirating and no one can create the entirety of Brawl from the files we distribute (they'd still be missing a great deal of files that people haven't edited/have no point in editing). Selling these files, however, is very illegal and I'm sure Nintendo would hop right on it and file a lawsuit as soon as they heard about such a thing, and they'd probably shut down the entire Brawl Hacking community because of it.
And modding games is legal as far as we're concerned, but Nintendo could find some way to make it "illegal" if they felt modding games was a big enough problem.
And modding games is legal as far as we're concerned, but Nintendo could find some way to make it "illegal" if they felt modding games was a big enough problem.
