>>30950044Hypothetically, what they're doing now isn't illegal or C&D able. If it's being made by them for them, then it isn't that big of a deal and isn't something like the other ROMhacks or fangames.
Now if they make a big deal about releasing it, then that is another story.
But who is to say that one of the devs sends it to someone unaffiliated with the project to show what they've done and then that person sends a file to people to show what their friends made?