Dan Salvato. For the player formerly known as Dan, see This article is about the player. For the player formerly known as, see Smasher:Super Dan

Dan Salvato, previously known as Internet Explorer, is a former professional smasher from New Jersey. He was known as one of the best Melee Link players in the United States, and was also considered one of the best Project M Link players in the world. He is known for his high technical precision and development of a new Link metagame. He was one of the founding members of Rutgers Maylay as an undergraduate. Salvato was also a developer on the Project M Development Team and he is currently the lead developer of 20XX Tournament Edition.

Dan Salvato retired from playing Smash in 2015, though he has infrequently attended tournaments for Melee since, still using Link; he has since continued to work on 20XX Tournament Edition, adding in additional features such as Universal Controller Fix.

Outside of Smash, he is best known as the creator of Doki Doki Literature Club!, a 2017 visual novel that quickly gained mass popularity upon release.

Tournament placings [ edit ]

Tournament Date 1v1 Placement 2v2 Placement Partner Zenith 2013 June 1st-2nd, 2013 13th — — KTAR 7 July 6th-7th, 2013 9th — — Apex 2014 January 17th-19th, 2014 25th — —

Tournament Date 1v1 Placement 2v2 Placement Partner GENESIS 6 February 1st-3rd, 2019 1025th (DQ) — —

Trivia [ edit ]

Dan Salvato also speedruns various games, and currently holds four world records for Yoshi's Story . [1]

. There is an Easter egg in Doki Doki Literature Club! referencing Project M. When the game is loading, the warning screen may say "PM died for this."

referencing Project M. When the game is loading, the warning screen may say "PM died for this." Dan Salvato is also the creator of FrankerFaceZ, an external Twitch emote provider.