CT's Default PC Names.

[Samurai Quan]

Hi. Can anyone tell me how I would be able to change The default PC names in CT. I've tried to look through the ROM to find where its stored
and the closest I've come is this:

Geiger's Offsets.txt:

"3E4ACC   3E4B1A   DATA   Yes   No   "(00E) Unknown - Appears to be data, perhaps PC related (7 distinct fields of 64 byte data?)"   3/15/2004."

I've fiddled around with the data in between those offsets and nothing happened to the default names (not even the slightest glitch).
I'm guessing that's not where the default names are stored or my changes
simply were not taking affect.

I've seen nothing on this before, so either this is something people have not really looked into or you simply cannot change this (which I refuse to believe!).

If there is anyone who knows anything about/how to do this, please
enlighten me. Thanks  

[Azarath]

Go to the Lauranda ruins in 65,000,000,000bc after Lavos crashes.

[ZeaLitY]

He means, actually change them.

I think it might be string related, where the game defaults to anything related to those <Crono> and <Marle> tags you can use in text boxes to reference the names. Perhaps if you changed it to <Jim>, it would change the default as well.

[Geiger]

If you look for the characters' names with a table loader, you will find them, but they will be split up a bit (like in the middle of names).  This is because they are stored in a compressed event packet.

The default names are set in one of the first few screens (do not remember exactly which one), with a MemCpy command.  I used the same command in the Temporal Flux teaser to change the PC names around and make it look like Marle was not in the party.

---T.Geiger

[Samurai Quan]

Thanks! I found the MemCpy command holding the default name values
in the Load Screen. It's all in hex (obviously), so I opened up a CT table file and changed the values to the letters of my choice. Simple.
Thanks again.  

[Geiger]

I found the MemCpy command holding the default name values
in the Load Screen.

Good job.  I could not remember if it was in the Title or Load screen.

---T.Geiger