(There was a rumor going around Sakurai might of refused to include Pac-Man if he was stuck with the Ghostly Adventures design, not sure if that was ever verified if that was true though).
Wanna know what else I think about this mod Check out my blog here. If there was any disagreement at all we might not know about it because it stays behind closed doors. I dont know about you, but this seems like an S-Rank to me.
Since at least it seems like Sakurai has picked a design choice that the 3rd Parties are generally happy with. If they don't like a way the Smash teams designs their character they'd probably step in but I don't think they've needed to. Both parties probably negotiate it at least especially when the characters are newcomers, but otherwise I'm not 100% sure it's completely the 3rd parties decision in question. So I'm not entirely sure it's completely the 3rd Party team's decision for the design. And there are many designs over the years that Sakurai could of picked to bring Megaman into Smash and picked a more straight up upgrade to 3D for the 2D sprites of the Classic Megaman games. (Ghostly Adventures Pac-Man didn't even make it as an Alt). Click to expand.They did use the Pac-Man design closer to the Pac-Man World games then the Ghostly Adventures design that everyone feared was going to be used. The file Unleashed Project v.1.0 is a modification for Sonic Generations, a (n) arcade game.