Help with upgradable characters needed and more

[David]

@David,
Easy solution without saves and HEX:
Warning, you'll lost all progress when exit:
Sooo...
Stage mode: bandits etc.
boss, which drops special bottle
you drink. You die.
state: 18 ball appears and transforms you into the same char with another powers
text "NEXT LEVEL!" appears.
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Doubts: It could only work in Stage.
You'd have to do it again every time you exit LF2.
You'd have to create a LOT of characters, which can be choosen by cheats.
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Another idea? No? So HEX only...

The thing that you're planning to do requires much knowledge which few (if not nobody) people actually possess. Therefore, I fear that this idea will encounter serious problems in regard to its realization...

I'm afraid there's no one who can do this... or I underestimate some HEX-ers

that would be good idea, but if i set cheat to 5467454 or something like that, hard to find, so nobody can use the cheat...
Or
I make chars selectable and cheats findable for example:
*char* level 1
*char* level 2
*char* level 3
so you don't lose the data when you exit lf2

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OO I still dont know how to do it.....