Redump, CRC-32 cafdbf0e, SHA-1 46385c20de633aafff7d330f3cad773b4c818ea2, EXE date 2009-01-22
Credit
The first unlock codes for this disc are lee4's. A first version circulated by 2009 (reposted on
GameFAQs from codemasters-project), and lee4's own post of 2014-08-23 is mirrored on GameHacking.org (game 103882,
41 entries). Several codes here perform the same writes as lee4's, and the credit for those writes is his:
Unlock Kliff Undersn and Unlock Justice are byte for byte his "Unlock Kliff & Justice".
The first two lines of Unlock all gold and black characters are byte for byte his "Enable Slash Modes including
Gold and Shadow". Our code adds one line for Justice.
Max play time writes the same play-time field as his "Have All Characters' colors".
All story endings starts at the same address as his "Have All Ending & EX Ending".
2009 set: superseded.Verdict: the 2014 version is the correct one. The 2009 version is superseded. Its addresses are 8 bytes too low for this executable. They permanently set SE and VOICE volume to 1, and they leave several unlocks out.
Cheat-device master code, the same in both versions: 902D62A0 0C0B5850
+0x233, +0x234: inside the gold/black halfwords of characters 22 and 23 (sets Order-Sol's)
Have All Characters' colors
+0x1E8 (16-bit): play time, set to 65535 minutes
+0x1E0 (16-bit)
Enable Slash Modes including Gold and Shadow
+0x208 ... +0x237: gold/black flags of characters 1-24
+0x200 ... +0x22F: SE volume and VOICE volume set to 1, gold/black flags of characters 1-20 only
Enable Normal-EX and AC-GG-GGX
+0x240 ... +0x25B: EX flags of characters 2-23 (not Sol), +0x256/+0x257, Extra Menu (+0x258) and the debug flags +0x259 ... +0x25B; not the GG/GGX bits
+0x238 ... +0x253: Justice gold/black, Kliff, Justice, GGX mode, EX flags of characters 1-21
Have All Missions Completed
+0x2130 ... +0x243F
+0x2128 ... +0x2437: misses the last six mission grades
Have All Secret & Special
+0x245C ... +0x2477
+0x2454 ... +0x246F
Have All Ending & EX Ending
+0x24A0 ... +0x24CF
+0x2498 ... +0x24C7: overwrites the last entry of the record table before +0x24A0
Have All Story
+0x24D0 ... +0x24EB
+0x24C8 ... +0x24E3: misses the last characters' story flags
SE and VOICE volume
In 2009 Voluntas reported that the unlock codes forced SE and VOICE
volume to 1. The SOUND screen keeps its volumes in system data:
BGM volume at +0x1FC;
SE volume at +0x200;
VOICE volume at +0x204.
The 2009 Gold/Shadow code starts at +0x200 and writes 1 to every halfword. In PCSX2, from a fresh save with only that
code on, the SOUND screen reads BGM 48, VOICE 1, SE 1, against BGM 48, VOICE 47, SE 40 without it. RAM confirms that
the code changes nothing outside +0x200 ... +0x22F. The 2014 version starts 8 bytes later and leaves the volumes alone.
The same report's missing story paths and secrets match the 2009 story and secrets codes ending 8 bytes early.
Both versions tested
2014 (lee4's post)
2009 (repost)
Codes on
EXTRA MENU appears. Gallery 154/154. Kliff and Justice. Start panel: MODE (AC/GG/GGX) and CHARACTER (NORMAL/EX). Volumes untouched.
No EXTRA MENU. Gallery 133/154. Kliff and Justice. Start panel: AC/GGX and NORMAL/EX, but no GG. SE 1, VOICE 1.
After a save, cold boot without codes
Everything stays. Gallery 153/154. The game's own play-time check (65535 minutes) adds GG + GGX and Sol's EX flag, which the code does not write.
No EXTRA MENU. Gallery 139/154. SE 1 and VOICE 1 stay. The value its "colors" code wrote at +0x1E0 is reset to 0.
Not covered
Sol's EX flag and Justice's gold/black flag. Ky, Potemkin, Faust, Johnny, I-No and A.B.A have no cleared story ending.
EX for A.B.A and Order-Sol. Gold/black for Robo-Ky, A.B.A, Order-Sol, Kliff and Justice. GG mode. The last six mission grades. The last characters' story flags. Record-table entry 4 is overwritten.