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A Texture Hack is a hack used through the Homebrew Channel that alters a character's palette swap colors into different designs. This process was pioneered by Pharrox, a user on Smash World Forums. The hack involves the individual coding of the characters being changed to fit the design wanted. There are several websites dedicated to texture hacking, designing some characters to look like classic remakes from older games.

The project has eventually grown to incorporate stage textures, item textures, and even Final Smash textures (i.e., the artwork seen during Peach's Final Smash).

Initially blank DVDs were necessary in order to make or download texture hacks, but PhantomWings managed to make a hack that allowed for texture hacks to be stored on SD cards, making them much more popular and accessible. Now, the only thing required is an SD card, the Homebrew Channel and Gecko OS.

Primary Texture Hacking Teams

• Stack Smash
• Elite Smash Hackers
• Kitty Corp.
• ]Syntax Error[, the first team as well as the ones who released a guide to the masses on how to do texture hacking, was unfortunately broken up by their host site for fear of a lawsuit from Nintendo. Their textures were given to Stack Smash, who placed them in a completely separate file on their download directory all to themselves.

External Links

• A Smashboards guide to Texture hacking with the homebrew channel

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