I want to change the whole codebase to say litecoin, should i just change the details of the blockchain onto the new codebase and distribute for mass adoption?
Thanks
Yes. If you want it to be worthless.
I mean you have to add some innovation to get it adopted.
Litecoin: scrypt algorithm instead of sha256
Bitcoin cash: a large programming team dedicated to it. Bitmain and viabtc mine it also with a lot of power!
Bitcoin gold: not a great currency but is claimed to be asic proof.
If you fork without replay protection, people won't use it as much as they could get scammed.