From what I heard at the time, because the game could already have been made to work without SSD and the premise that it needed it was mostly just marketing.
@faithxvoid: What's that supposed to mean? It's not a conspiracy. There's no money to be made from game preservation. That's the biggest obstacle it faces.
Yeah Sakurai, we want it ported too. Other than successfully implementing fast and precise aim on a handheld, it's not really a "touch screen" game, and the controls are also regarded by most as physically strenuous.
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