Posted: 8/9/2010 11:27 AM
Post subject: Dragon Warrior 7 (PS1) Freezing when saving with a cheatcode
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Speed_Man
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30010C93 0002 That GameShark code, it turns the main character into another playable character that leaves at some point. When playing the game runs fine but if I try to save the game it will freeze and produce a corrupt savefile. How do I get the desired result from the code without it freezing? Thank you
Posted: 8/9/2010 9:51 PM
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Patashu
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Likely the game just isn't designed for the main character to be changed like that.
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Posted: 8/9/2010 10:28 PM
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Speed_Man
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Patashu wrote:
Likely the game just isn't designed for the main character to be changed like that.
Then why is such a buggy cheatcode available? Outside of freezing upon saving it works flawlessly, he acts in battle and looks exactly like the character I cheat to make him into. Is it a glitch with an emulator?
Posted: 8/9/2010 11:58 PM
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Scepheo
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Using these cheat codes are mostly comparable to hacking the game. They allow you to force ANY given address in the RAM to a specific value. Some codes work by forcing the address where your hp is stored to the maximum amount, resulting in invincibility. However, games were never designed to be tampered with in such a way, so it is very likely that any given cheat code will crash the game. I hope that helps.
Posted: 8/10/2010 12:05 AM
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Speed_Man
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Scepheo wrote:
Using these cheat codes are mostly comparable to hacking the game. They allow you to force ANY given address in the RAM to a specific value. Some codes work by forcing the address where your hp is stored to the maximum amount, resulting in invincibility. However, games were never designed to be tampered with in such a way, so it is very likely that any given cheat code will crash the game. I hope that helps.
So what I want to accomplish is more than likely impossible?
Posted: 8/10/2010 12:09 AM
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Edward_Tohr
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Is it just when saving the game via the save option, or do savestates do it as well?
Stuffs. Yarr!
Scepheo wrote:
The chance of choosing the right door is 0, because laser-absorbing goats will brainwash you.
Posted: 8/10/2010 12:44 AM
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Speed_Man
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Edward_Tohr wrote:
Is it just when saving the game via the save option, or do savestates do it as well?
Only when saving ingame. Savestate is fine, the game forces you to save a few times though.
Posted: 8/10/2010 12:46 AM
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Edward_Tohr
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Ahh. That was gonna be my next question. :P Hmm. Can you try disabling the cheat at the save dialog, then re-enabling it once it's done?
Stuffs. Yarr!
Scepheo wrote:
The chance of choosing the right door is 0, because laser-absorbing goats will brainwash you.
Posted: 8/10/2010 1:29 AM
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Speed_Man
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The game will still freeze, talking to certain NPCs will freeze the game aswell. I'm really stumped I wanted to do this :/
Posted: 8/10/2010 3:44 AM
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Patashu
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Technically a sufficiently in-depth gameshark code could alter your character and then patch other places in the code to not crash in light of this, but it's probably the case that no one wants to go to all the trouble of figuring that out.
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Posted: 8/10/2010 3:56 AM
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Speed_Man
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It really is quite a shame. Why is the code so popular I wonder if it is so buggy