Cynapse
Smash Ace
Very well, Lord Taiko. However if there are no Normals (those weird purple and blue things right?) then why do models in Brawl Box have a subfolder called Normals?The shoes were separated to add the shiny effect to them. As you expected, if you're trying to do the same to another model, you'd have to reimport the model or add a spec map.
In general, most of our releases from this point on will have minor or major model edits, so yes, Falcon will have the same troubles.
Also, there are no normal maps. Brawl doesn't support them.