Question

[Kingwilham]

Once you've downloaded a hack, is there a way to make it so that the hack can co-exist along with the character it goes over? In other wards, how do you make your character selection screen look like this:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCmLkHjkWI" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCmLkHjkWI</a>

[Victory Badguy]

The only way that you can have two characters co-exist, like having Sonic and Shadow or Ike and Naruto, is by porting one of the characters over another character, which is usually glitchy and takes a fair amount of work.

[Akiba Red]

Or using the Alternate File Loader.

[Kingwilham]

If I may ask, how do you port a character over another?

[xxmasal22xx]

If I may ask, how do you port a character over another?

depends on who you are replacing and who you are replacing them with.

start by opening up an unedited character.pac of the character you want to port, and exporting ALL animations, models, and textures.

Next open a clean character.pac of the character you want to replace, and replace the model, animations and textures with the ones you exported.

Send me the files and ill do it for you.

[Segtendo]

I actually tried porting Sonic to Olimar once so I could use Shadow. However, there were some weird things going on, like I think there were Pikmin still and Sonic used some of Olimar's animations. Sonic still had Olimar's sounds IIRC.

[xxmasal22xx]

I actually tried porting Sonic to Olimar once so I could use Shadow. However, there were some weird things going on, like I think there were Pikmin still and Sonic used some of Olimar's animations. Sonic still had Olimar's sounds IIRC.

Yes, unless you do a SFX hack, they will have the sounds of the original character, gimme a lil and ill c what i can do.


ALSO!

in the vault, click on characters and fox, there is a shadow there with his own epic moveset.

[chaoticfox]

If I were to download this "epic shadow" would the Shadow Final hack work over it?

EDIT: Wait, porting a character is only a matter of replacing files? That doesn't sound too hard...

[scorcher9910]

If I were to download this "epic shadow" would the Shadow Final hack work over it?

EDIT: Wait, porting a character is only a matter of replacing files? That doesn't sound too hard...

Yes and no. You have to export all files (animations, model, etc.) and replace the new character's files with those. It needs a PSA to have the original character's moveset.
However!
They are usually extremely glitchy and do not usually work well. So it's kind of a try-at-your own-risk-if-you're-knowledgeable-enough thing.
Also, what do you mean by "would one hack work over another hack?"
That makes no sense. O_o

People these days just can't be happy with one character at a time. 
xD just kidding.