Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Is The Next Game To Get A PC Port

Smash Ultimate Has Been Ported To PC, And You’ll Be Able To Add Your Own Characters Published Oct 20, 2026, 3:28 AM EDT Sam Woods is TheGamer’s Senior Reporter. He’s been in games journalism since 2020 and has undertaken a variety of roles in that time. These have included roles such as SEO Editor, Managing Editor at DualShockers, and Global Head of Gaming, and he's also been seen on the BBC. He was promoted to the Senior Reporter position in 2025 following a series of high-quality reports and exclusives for TheGamer. Since 2020, Sam has written over 3,000 articles and specializes in telling the stories of the people behind the games. He’s interviewed the biggest game directors, some of the industry’s top talents, told the stories of how indie games came to be, and spoken to players about what really makes them tick. He’s also interviewed some of the world’s biggest musical artists to find out how the medium has inspired their work, and TV and Film actors about their roles in video game adaptations. He even hosted a PAX panel in 2021 and made a documentary in 2024 surrounding the creation of a Disney game. Alongside this, Sam focuses on breaking news. He got the scoop on Perfect Dark’s cancellation, provided context on some AI drama, and revealed that Lady Dimitrescu’s actress would love to step back into the character’s giant shoes. These articles have been picked up by the biggest gaming sites, including IGN, GameSpot, and PC Gamer. He also loves to dive into the numbers behind the games. Sam’s journey in games journalism has taken him all over the world. He’s covered Gamescom in Germany, Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, and Tokyo Game Show in Japan, each on three occasions. He’s been learning Japanese since 2024 with the intention of identifying and translating Japanese-language news and bringing it to English-language audiences first, something he’s done countless times. Sam’s first review was 2020’s Battletoads reboot, and he’s since reviewed games in The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, and Pokemon franchises. We're now entering an unprecedented era for gaming. As generative AI (boo) becomes more popular, players are finding ways to decompile and port their favorite games to PC. We've seen games like Halo: Combat Evolved receive unofficial browser versions, and titles like Super Mario Galaxy have been decompiled and ported at record speeds.The latest effort is an exciting one: a playable PC version of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is now available. We're not sure how happy Nintendo's lawyers will be with this, but it opens the door to some exciting changes. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Gets PC Port With Rollback Netcode In Process While Super Smash Bros. Melee defined the series, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is truly the pinnacle. It compiles every character, stage, and music track from each previous entry into one package, plus tons of new fighters and stages for good measure. Now, you can play it on PC, but you will need your own copy of the game. "Every fighter's moves, hitboxes and frame data as readable source you can change and rebuild in seconds," the description reads. "The battle system itself (dashing, shielding, air dodges, ledges, hitstun) as code you can tune. Rollback netcode. Zero input delay. A locked 60 fps, on weak PCs too, with any controller." As of right now, 85 percent of the game's characters have been added, and you can customize them to your heart's content. The possibilities it opens are far more exciting, though. Modding characters into Super Smash Bros. games isn't new; we've seen Sonic, Shadow, Tails, and Chun-Li in Melee, and hundreds more in Brawl (including Yugi Muto, Crash Bandicoot, Goku, and The Joker). This will, however, be the first time players have been able to add custom characters to Super Smash Bros. Brawl. There are still likely some finer details to be worked out, but gaming and entertainment have come a long way since this type of modding became available for the Smash Bros. series. Imagine Erin Yeager or the Armored Titan facing up against Mario, or Link doing battle with Rick and Morty. Currently, this port is only available on Windows PCs, and it was, sadly, built with the help of AI coding agents, but it's another win for console games making their way to PC. Since it's not distributing copies of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, it sits in a legal grey area; Nintendo's lawyers will likely come after the port, but once it's on the internet, it's there forever. Systems Released December 7, 2018 ESRB E for Everyone: Cartoon Violence, Comic Mischief, Suggestive Themes Developer(s) Bandai Namco Entertainment Publisher(s) Nintendo Engine Proprietary Engine Genre(s) Fighting