Pokemon Stadium

Wario Ware

Yoshi's Island (Brawl)

Yoshi's Story (Melee)

Dreamland

Fountain of Dreams

Green Hill Zone (PM)

UPDATE 4/17/15:

CSP" and the name of the stage and follow Username: rorycosgrove (

So we can share stages very easily through Miiverse. Anyone who has stages that fit the criteria mentioned please upload them to Miiverse with "and the name of the stage and follow Username: https://miiverse.nintendo.net/users/rorycosgrove/empathies ) and I will use this Miiverse account to share the stages that we plan to use for tournaments and any stages that anyone else wants using my Miiverse accounts "Yeah!" list.

UPDATE 4/23/15:

Thanks to the great work of our builders and testers (notably builder @ Smearglangelo and testers @ FS Fantom and @ Rynhardt ) we have 2 stages ready for tournament use. I will link them and encourage everyone to download once we get them finalized

UPDATE 5/19/15: We now have 3, well tested, balanced tournament-ready stages, courtesy of builder @ Smearglangelo . They are:

CSP WarioWare Inc.

CSP Pokemon Stadium

CSP Yoshi's Island (Brawl)

Here are the download instructions:

1. Open Miiverse on your Wii U

2. Click "Activity Feed"

3. Click "Search Users" and type in "rorycosgrove"

4. Click on the account from the search results, then click "Activities"

5. Click "Yeahs" and you'll find the list of stages

6. Download ONLY the stages that say "Custom Stage Project" in the description by clicking on the post and clicking "Start." This will open Smash and download the stage

7. Repeat step 6 for all CSP stages. The process should take approximately 10 minutes

Hello all. Yes, I'm not the first or the only person to have said it, but many players have spoken about the prospect of a "Custom Stage Project," to do for custom stages what the massively successful Custom Moveset Project accomplished for custom specials in Smash 4. I'm creating this thread to gather and organize the focus on this specific goal into one place where we can define a concrete way to go about doing this.The goal here is to agree on standardized Custom Stages that can (and SHOULD) be legalized for tournaments, discuss the best uses for them on stage lists, and how to organize them on multiple Wii U setups.Yes that's still very general. Legalized for which tournaments? Which stages should be used? All of the questions you may have can be discussed in this thread as we forge ahead with this project, although I may answer many of them as you read on.So especially with the Wii U Smash's "free draw" stage builder, the possibilities for Custom Stages are virtually endless, so how do we decide which stages are worthy of being tournament-legal? Well the best way to start (as many already have) is by rebuilding existing Smash stages. Specifically those that were either legal in previous games and removed from Smash for Wii U, and static versions of those that have obtrusive hazards or transformations but viable neutral forms. Through the new Stage Builder it's possible to recreate all of these stages either perfectly or extremely closely, acceptably enough for the community to embrace all of them in competitive play.Here are a few strong examples, many of which I've seen recreated already:The first 3 would be the easiest to bring into the game at first, in my opinion.So in the recent Nintendo Direct it was confirmed that the next Smash Wii U patch will allow players to share Custom Stages between Wii Us. This essentially eradicates the major argument against using Custom Stages in tournaments. Whether it be through Miiverse or simply by sharing with Nintendo Network friends, spreading stages with other players will be very doable and quite easy I believe. Should the latter be the scenario, I will personally provide Custom Stages to everyone once a decision has been made on which should be used.So now it's up to you guys to share your designs, and we can use polls to determine the most accurate renditions of each stage. It's completely open to discussion, but for the time being I think we should focus on Pokemon Stadium, Wario Ware, and Yoshi's Island, as a way to test a selection of Custom Stages in tournaments.In the Smash community I go by G5|CoZmos. I'm a T.O, a player, and founder and co-manager of Game5 Smash : a growing Smash organization based in New York. My crew hosts tournaments at 3 different venues, with turnouts of over 40 entrants, featuring notable competitive players such as iQHQ XFiRE|Vinnie and John Numbers. We are willing and prepared to test this project out at all of our events and strongly encourage others to join us.I realize that this post could use better organizing. I have many thoughts and ideas regarding this subject and I did my best to lay them out here for everyone, and I hope we can all make progress with the Custom Stage Project by discussing this together!NOTE: this is NOT a place to share everyone's Custom Stage designs. There is already a thread for that purpose. The only designs that should be shared here are potential contenders for the most accurate recreation of past (or hazardous) stages.