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Gameplaymodification, often shorthanded as mod, is a blanket term for unofficial hacks and code alterations that change one or more aspects of the original, or "vanilla" version of a game. The term "vanilla" comes from a common terminology featured in the computing world. Mods range from simple cosmetic changes to total engine and gameplay overhauls that result in the game functioning completely differently.

The first attempts at modding involved Brawl, with such projects generally being viewed as novelties, such as palette swaps for characters and UI changes. Outside of this, forcing the Wii to load such mods was considered difficult, requiring use of the now-inoperable Twilight hack. The increasing complexity of game play mods and the discovery of the Smash Stack exploit, however, caused mods to develop considerably more attention with observers.

Brawl remains the most commonly modded game in the series, primarily utilizing either The Homebrew Channel or the Smash Stack exploit. Mods for Melee often also require the use of applications available for the Homebrew Channel. 19XXTE, a gameplay mod for Smash 64, requires patching a ROM image of the game. Mods for both versions of SSB4 involve the use of kernel exploit chains on their respective consoles primarily using Layered File System (LayeredFS) patchers to overwrite parts of the game's filesystem. Mods for Ultimate require a Switch console released before July 2018 to utilize a recovery mode exploit left over from the development phase of the console, enabling the use of code hooking and file replacement via the Skyline executable patch.

Given the nature of gameplay modifications, it is possible for them to be used for cheating in tournaments. One notable case is the "Super Pichu" scandal in the Ohio Melee scene, where a Smasher named Chaos won cash prizes in tournaments using a stealth-modded setup that buffed much Pichu's traits to win against top-tier characters. However, outside of this case, cheating through gameplay modifications in tournaments is extremely rare, mainly because of the difficulty in installing them onto consoles, and the logistics in having to play on the same modded setup in every round, a difficulty Chaos faced in his own tournament runs.

Since online play was introduced in Brawl, gameplay modifications have been used for cheating online as well. Hacking Giga Bowser to be normally playable is a common method across all online games, using his near-invulnerability to knockback to trivialise beating even highly skilled players. While Brawl did not issue bans for such behaviour, as of Ultimate, while possible, bans are issued. For a period of time, Giga Bowser could even be hacked into playable form on Project Slippi for play in Melee, though this has since been patched. Regardless, cheating does continue to occur on the platform, namely through the use of macros to make advanced techniques easier.[1] Thanks to improvements in moderation, though, they typically get banned quickly.

In 2018, modders found a way to change stages. At first only Hyrule Castle could be replaced, but later it became possible to replace all stages. The mod SSBMSE replaces most stages in the game with more competitive stages modeled after their appearance in other Smash games.

Smash Remix is the most popular mod for the game, and as of Patch 1.5.0, it includes five pages of stages, including stages from newer Smash games and brand new custom stages, as well as multiple "Remix" variants for stages.

While one of the less popular entries in the series for mods, some have been created over the years. SD Remix, released in 2015, features 3 pages of stages: One for the vanilla stages, one with 1-player mode-only stages, and one for newly created stages, with some inspired from other games.

Brawl is the most commonly modded game in the series due to Smash Stack exploit, which makes modding the game much easier to the average player. In these mods, it is common to new stages, often replacing others, that have been made by fans. It is also possible to use newly created slots on the stage selection screen or alternative stages that load when holding a specific button when selecting a stage.

Brawl- and Project M, for instance, replace the ordinarily over-sized Temple with a smaller, more condensed version. Stages with transformations like Castle Siege or Pokmon Stadium are often changed to stay at the most competitive form of the stage. Outside of this, unpopular stages might be entirely replaced with others, such as how Project M replaces the highly non-standard Mario Bros. with a rendition of Fountain of Dreams from Melee.

Legacy TE added stages with the design of stages used for competitive play for each stage, using their theme in background models and textures and playing the same background music, that load when holding the Start, L, or Z button.Legacy XP added over 700 new stages into the game using new slots on the selection screen, as well as variants when holding down specific buttons. Button Shortcuts to quickly select popular Project M stages have also been added.Smash 2 added all stages that were in Melee back into the game.

The Brawl stage Delfino Plaza remade with BrawlBox, adding many setpieces from Super Mario Sunshine usually absent from the stage such as the Grand Pianta Statue, and the red cannon to Pinna Park.

Smash Remix is one of the few mods for Smash 64 that would count as a gameplay adjustment. The original 12 characters and the mechanics of the game are unchanged, however, it adds 18 new fighters (alongside 10 new boss characters), 63 new stages (with about half of them being original), and many new gamemodes, like All Star, Multi-Man Mode, Cruel Multi-Man Mode and Home-Run Contest. Additionally, there are optional selections to change the gameplay significantly by adding elements such as footstooling, air dodging, air dashing, tripping, perfect shielding and ledge trumping.

Gameplay adjustments are rare for Melee, and typically take the form of balance changes, improving lower tier characters or nerfing higher tier characters to remedy the game's notoriously large tier gap. SD Remix was the first balance mod to attempt to balance the entire game as opposed to experimental single-character mods, improving every character lower on the tier list than Peach, though it makes no changes to the base gameplay.

Beyond Melee is also one of the few mods for Melee that change the basic gameplay. Beyond Melee changes mechanics of the game, changes the balancing of characters to try and rebalance them, alongside adding new fighters. Characters like Bowser and Zelda, notable for being nigh unusable in the base game, were given many buffs in order to make them more viable, with some like Zelda and Ness receiving complete overhauls. There are also 7 newcomers to the mod, being Skull Kid, Fay, Wolf, Raichu, Shadow Mewtwo, Sonic, and Meta Knight.

Project M is one of the many modifications made to Brawl, due to the Wii's accessibility for modding. It's also the most popular modification for the game, due to it changing Brawl's engine to be more like that of Melee, alongside extensive rebalancing of the cast. Many fighters got new moves and overhauls, such as Samus gaining an ice beam and Wario gaining a side special based on the dash attack from the Wario Land series.

Gameplay mods for Ultimate first appeared in 2019, a year after the game's launch, with the cancelled and unreleased ProjectNX, which added techniques from Melee. Since then, Melee adjacent Ultimate mods have increased in popularity and accessibility, alongside mods that decrease the game's much-derided offline input lag. Character movesets can also be modified. HewDraw Remix has an improved netcode toggle, though the team behind the mod refrained from releasing it for vanilla Ultimate as using it against someone without the mod would be considered cheating, which could cause legal issues with Nintendo. [2]

For Smash 64, editing animations or models was once very limited. In 2019, Smash Remix became the first mod with such features: A Ganondorf model replacing Captain Falcon got newly created animations for his smash attacks, where he uses a trident weapon. Since then Smash Remix has added multiple other characters, some of which are completely original.

In 2017, the Smash 4 modding tool Smash Forge became compatible with Melee, making it possible import new models over models over Melee characters [3]. Some small mods that replace a costume of a character have been created, for example, a Ryu model import over Captain Falcon [4].

In SD Remix, a few characters got different animations for some moves, though this was done through recycling animations from different moves; for example, Pichu used its roll animation for its Dash attack [6], and Bowser used his aerial item down-throw for his Down aerial [7].

Beyond Melee would later add fully original animations for some characters, such as giving Dr. Mario his Down Air from Ultimate, Donkey Kong getting his dash attack from later Smash games, and Pichu getting a shine.

For Brawl, the tool BrawlBox easily allows modders to replace models and animations. Brawl mods usually feature a lot of new custom models and animations. A popular form of modding introduced with Brawl that would only become possible for earlier games much later is "model swaps", which outright replace an alternate costume with a model from another game, such as another character not yet in or outright inellegible for Smash, or an alternate model for the existing character from a game with a different art style, but without making any modifications to a character's animations or attacks.

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