I've remember playing with these characters, trying to see if they would let me break the collision system.
With Serah, it behaves like a ghost, you can play with her, but no model so it's invisible.
However, Dajh it's too corrupted, you can only move the camera.
Something interesting with Serah is that, playing with her will not trigger the routine that loads the map blocks, so if you go forward you will be walking in the air
, as the collision system remains but with no new block models loaded.
I've worked with the party on the PS3 version savegame with this info:
The party offsets (although hasn't tested them much) are as follows:
0x1BE21: First Party Character
0x1BE25: Second
0x1BE29: Third
0x1BE2D: Fourth
0x1BE31: Fifth
0x1BE35: Last one
Active party
0x1BE39: First one
0x1BE3D: Second one
0x1BE41: Third one
Party's leader seem to be at 0x1BE45
And the Character list goes as follows:
00: Boss : Hope with the Dreadnoght.
01: Change Dummy: Can't move, only camera
02: Fang on a Chocobo
03: Hope on a Chocobo
04: Light on a Chocobo
05: Snow on a Chocobo
06: Sazh on a Chocobo
07: Vanille on a Chocobo
08: Doge (Dajh): behaves like Change Dummy
09: Fang
0a: Gadot: Doesn't appear in the 7th (It's likely it's assets are inside Hanging Edge data)
0b: Hope
0c: Le Breau: Doesn't appear in the 7th (It's likely it's assets are inside Hanging Edge data)
0d: Lightning
0E: Sazh
0F: Serah: It's a ghost, you can move but no model is visible, you can't interact with anything (including saves) and the game will not load the 3D blocks
of the area if you advance forward, although there are objects and collision loaded.
10: Snow
11: Vanille
The best way to go, avoiding the game to freeze if by changing one of the last three characters (0x1BE2D, 0x1BE31 or 0x1BE35) with the one you want.
If you change your party and put a character with a chocobo you will be able to play, but most menues will get locked and if you hit a monster the game
will freeze (maybe this doesn't happen in Archylte Steppe).
I'm not able to essay this in the PC version, as I haven't found a save editor yet nor I was able to locate the party's offsets in the RAM.
Now, if we see the Gadot and Le Breau behaviour, we can infer that, Dajh was an exclusive character of some zone and maybe, all these configurations could be Bodhum related, not being playable after Crystal Stasis but in a flashback of the days before the Purge, I remember VIRGIN KLM managed to dump some corrupted audio that matched the dialogue of some characters in Snow's Bodhum flashback. |