IP owner vs publisher vs dev ... that is never a good combo but that's what happens when the winner is greed (IP owner wants another perfect hit to make their IP worth more, publisher wants another hot selling product as cheaply as possible, dev wants to ship as quickly as possible eith as little trouble as possible - since this is a first time dev there's no way they were getting any per unit income from this title). When GREED wins, noone wins. Maybe the community can fix it though, there are clearly ROMs out there and some people are already delving into the files, maybe a reverse engineer can fix the code and make it playable... doubt it'll get released but as long as it is released before it is advertised broadly there might be enough fixed copies out there to stop it being entirely taken down (Nintendo is involved after all *sigh*).