The Super Smash Bros. franchise has become quite popular since its unexpected popularity (by Nintendo’s judgement at least), and has since risen to a near professional fighting game level status.

There are professional Smash Bros. players and there are tournaments for the game worldwide – however many fans repeatedly plea to Nintendo to either include different characters, or to stop adding in annoying, gimmicky mechanics.

This is where the team behind Super Smash Flash 2 have come in – they’ve created a flash based, pixelated Smash Bros. clone of sorts that seems to play very much like the real thing. Featured above, you can watch the game’s latest direct broadcast, styled similarly to Nintendo’s Direct Broadcasts.

The best part? They’re adding in lots of wild characters that Nintendo would never even dream to include.

Here is the current roster for Super Smash Flash 2:

• Newcomers
  • Lloyd Irving
  • Tails
  • Goku
  • Black Mage
  • Naruto Uzumaki
  • Bomberman
• Veteran Fighters
  • Ness
  • Meta Knight
  • Sonic
  • Pikachu
  • Sheik
  • Captain Falcon
  • Jigglypuff
  • Zelda
  • Donkey Kong
  • Wario
  • Yoshi
  • Fox McCloud
  • Samus
  • Kirby
  • Link
  • Mario

The game’s latest update, version 0.9, comes with a whole host of updates and enhancements, all of which can be found below:

• New and improved knockback system
• New 16:9 window resolution
• Options for fullscreen hardware-scaling for lag-free gameplay (For Cltr+F fullscreening)
• Secondary buttons for shield and jump are now customizable
• Dashing is now implemented with custom options for each player
• New menu design with original music
• Customizable player names
• Menu is now 99.9% usable with keyboard keys alone
• Several Event Mode matches and a new Target Test stage added
• New characters and stages
• Loads of new stage hazard content to explore
• Significantly improved AI behavior
• Dozens of optimizations made to help maximize game stability
• ..And more!

Lastly, the next character reveal was teased at the very tail end of their direct broadcast – did you see who it was?

Oh alright fine I’ll spoil it for you – it’s Isaac, the protagonist from the Golden Sun franchise.

You can play Super Smash Flash 2 here via the McLeod website, and you can also download the game directly from them as well.