Yeah, but when you're jiggs and you can pick the direction...
This. It's a stupid stage for many reasons.
Say what?
I can understand your first point. I don't understand what you mean when you argue the point about hacked stages vs textures. First of all, textures do influence results because most people don't practice on an inverted colored Yoshi's Story, so seeing an approach vs. a dash dance looks different than what players are used to.
You might as well say that items should be on because they "influence the game outside of what it is naturally". The point of using hacked stages is to have a larger variety of good stages that players can play on. I'll obviously give people a month or two to play on those stages and it would of course be a side tourney. It would be unfair to make stages legal that out of state players don't have a chance to play on. You're silly.
Erm... He was saying they don't DIRECTLY affect gameplay.
And items are not necessarily on "naturally", what makes you say that? Because they are the default? Pfft. The game gives us an option to turn them off, so having them off is just as legit as having them on.
Hacking new stages in, on the other hand, is completely different. If we are playing with edited stages, we won't be playing "Super Smash Bros. Melee" anymore, we'll be playing "Whatever the **** We Want". This doesn't work, as it pretty much says: "We can put anything we want into the game", which will lead to us essentially making a different game.
Which is fine, but we can't suddenly make that the tournament standard. Notice how advanced Brawl hacking is, yet how there is still Brawl tournaments? And how Brawl+/-/etc... tournaments haven't exactly hit off?
The same thing would happen for Melee. We'd have a large group of Melee players, and a negligible group of Melee+ players.
