as this all apparently appeared beneath my nose...
HUZZAH! finally, we're going to have supersmashbros for the calc! I'd be glad to help with some of the sprites, if you'ld like, just give me size data and the thing I'm supposed to do and I'll give it a try!
If he does make an 83 version (and probably will), I think it is likely to be for Ion, but since he using most of his own routines, porting to Venus would probably be easy.