Now, the only thing required is an SD card, the Homebrew Channel, and program to load the codes and textures, commonly Gecko OS or Riivolution. Initially, blank DVDs were necessary in order to use texture hacks, but PhantomWings managed to create a hack, exploiting Brawl's use of data created and saved on an SD Card, that allowed for texture hacks to be stored on and loaded from folders on SD cards, making them much more popular and accessible. Over time, the popularity of texture hacking has caused several other kinds of hacks to become available, such as music hacks, moveset hacks, and, eventually, model swapping, vertex hacks, custom animations, and even the insertion of completely new models. The project has eventually grown to incorporate stage textures, item textures, Final Smash textures (e.g., the artwork seen during Peach's Final Smash). Examples include changing a Pokémon's appearance to its shiny form, or making characters appear similar to newer characters from other games, such as making Meta Knight appear as Galactic Knight from Kirby Super Star Ultra, or Fierce Deity Link, seen to the right. The basis of most textures is to make a character(or stage etc.) appear similar to something else. There are several websites dedicated to texture hacking. The hack involves the individual coding of the characters being changed to fit the design wanted. This process was pioneered by Pharrox, a user on Smash World Forums. For a catalog of many available texture hacks, please visit Brawl Vault.Ī Texture Hack is a hack used through the Homebrew Channel that alters a character's palette swap colors into different designs. The textures of Link's model have been modified and replaced to make him look like his Fierce Deity form from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. 3 Moveset Hacks (Project Smash Attacks\Plan Zero)Īn example of a texture hack.