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[The King of Dust]

Glad to hear it worked. Thanks for taking the time to try it and posting the results here.

[Xeranx]

The King of Dust wrote...

Some of you may already be aware of this little trick, but when I did a search on how to romance Ashley as a female Shepard, all I've found was people saying it wasn't possible and that one youtube video showing the romance scene between femShep and Ash, but the author never explained how he did it.

After wasting 2 complete afternoons on this, I've finally found a way to make it work … sort of. I say “sort of” because I'm fooling the game into thinking my character is male as far as dialogs and cutscenes are concerned. While my Shepard's appearance and voice remains female, this does create 2 small problems :
1-Npcs refer to my character as male. Most dialog in the game works for both gender so that doesn't happen very often, but it's still annoying.
2-During cutscenes (like the cutscene that triggers when you find the beacon on Eden Prime), my character uses the male voice. Again, it doesn't happen often but it's very distracting when it does.

Also, I've only done Therum, Feros and Noveria so far, still need to do Virmire and Ilos. It seems to work so far, and every romance dialog option I've selected has used the female voice, which confirms that they had intended to allow female Shepard to romance Ashley at first, but since I haven't finished the game yet, I can't confirm that it's 100% functionnal.

Now for the meaty part of the post : There are 2 ways to achieve this, one easy but restrictive, and one a bit more difficult but that allows you to use a custom face. Let's start with the easy way.

There's a nice little console command called SetGender that can be used to switch the gender of your character on the fly. SetGender 0 makes you male, and SetGender 1 makes you female. Problem is, this only affects your character's appearance and voice, the game uses another value to determine if the npcs see you as male or female.

This means that for this method to work, you need to start your game as a male character and once you're in the game, open the console and type SetGender 1. You'll then have to save your game and reload to see the changes. If it worked, you character should now have the female appearance. The issue with this method is that you can't use a custom appearance for your character (well you can, but the results will be quite disturbing). Unless you have the default face, using SetGender will only change your body, and your character will retain his custom face.

There is a way around that problem, but it requires hex editing your savegame. Here's how to do it :
First, start your game as a female character, and create your custom face. As soon as you're in the game, save and then exit Mass Effect. Go to your savegames directory, find the game you just saved (YourCharacterName00_01.MassEffectSave) and copy it somewhere (that's your backup in case things go horribly wrong!).

Once that's done, you'll need to extract the contents of your savegame file using a Zip utility. 7-Zip works, not sure about the others. You should now have access to the 3 files which make up a MassEffectSave file, namely player.sav, state.sav and WorldSavePackage.sav.

Open state.sav with your favorite hex editor, and change the value of the 27Ath (634 in decimal) byte to 00 (the value should be 80 if your character is female) to make the game think your character is male. Save your changes, then select the 3 .sav files, do a right-click and select “Send to” --> “Compressed folder” to re-zip then.

Rename the zip to YourCharacterName00_02.MassEffectSave and now open both your unchanged MassEffectSave file and the one you've just created in your hex editor. You'll need to copy the first 2027 (8231 in decimal) bytes from the old file to the start of the new one to make it a valid MassEffectSave file.

Once the changes are saved, copy your new file to your Mass Effect savegame directory and try to load it. If all went well, your character should still have the same look and voice, but should now be considered male by npcs, which allows your female Shepard to romance Ashley.

Edit : this was tried with brand new savegames. The structure of state.sav seems to change a lot depending on where you are in the game, so I'm not sure how to do it mid-game.

I haven't tried it, but you could probably also use this method to romance Kaidan as a male character.

Also, doing this will probably cause problems if you eventually try to import that character in ME3, because they probably won't record lines for the FemShep/Ashley romance in ME3. Not sure about ME2, since there's isn't much dialog with her anyway.

Whew, long post, gonna go play some Mass Effect now. I'll update this thread once I can confirm that the whole romance works.

Edit : fixed formatting ... (curse you OpenOffice writer!)

So I have to copy everything from that marker up into the new file?

Użytkownik Xeranx edytował ten post 06 lipiec 2010 - 12:46

[The King of Dust]

Xeranx wrote...

So I have to copy everything from that marker up into the new file?

Exactly. Just after the 2027th byte, you should see the letters "PK" in the text section of the hex editor. You need to take everything that comes before that "PK" and insert it at the start of your new savegame.

[Xeranx]

Got it, thanks. =)

[Huojin]

another one to say it worked ok... so far! I only just finished Eden Prime though so no status report on how it works for an actual romance. (I altered the gender of my guy Shep) So far everyone thinks I'm a lady and there is no clayface



thanks

[ODST 3]

Just_mike wrote...

Why would you want to romance Ashley?

Because aliens are slimy and so are you if you fukked one

[bass41]

I'm having trouble with this. When I select "send to" and "compressed (zipped) folder" it creates a folder, but I can open it and see the 3 .sav files in windows explorer (not just in 7-zip). It's also much smaller than the original file. I'm doing this whole "send to" operation in windows explorer, by the way, and it's windows 7. I don't know if that matters. I also copied the first 2027 bytes from the original save, as instructed. The save game does not show up when I open the game and try to load it. Also, the "zipped" folder doesn't launch mass effect when I click on it, it just opens and there are the 3 .sav files. I would really appreciate the help of anyone who can explain this in greater detail.

[The King of Dust]

bass41 wrote...

I'm having trouble with this. When I select "send to" and "compressed (zipped) folder" it creates a folder, but I can open it and see the 3 .sav files in windows explorer (not just in 7-zip). It's also much smaller than the original file. I'm doing this whole "send to" operation in windows explorer, by the way, and it's windows 7. I don't know if that matters. I also copied the first 2027 bytes from the original save, as instructed. The save game does not show up when I open the game and try to load it. Also, the "zipped" folder doesn't launch mass effect when I click on it, it just opens and there are the 3 .sav files. I would really appreciate the help of anyone who can explain this in greater detail.

If the default program to handle zip files hasn't been changed to some 3rd-party application on your computer, then Windows will handle it like a folder, so that part about it creating a "folder" when you select "send to -> compressed folder" is normal.

I'm also guessing that the extensions for known filetypes (like .zip) are hidden. This is the default behaviour of Windows, so unless you changed it, it's probably the case. This would explain why you don't see the .zip extension on the folder it creates, and of course renaming the folder would leave the hidden .zip extension, which would explain why ME doesn't see it. Unfourtunatly, I'm not sure where that option is in Windows7, but there's an alternative :

Instead of selecting "send to" and then "compressed folder", select instead "7-Zip" and then "Add to archive...". This should open an archive creation window with multiple options. In the "Archive format:" field, select "zip". Next, in the "Archive:" field at the top, enter the name of your savegame file (something like YourCharacterName00_01.MassEffectSave). You can leave the other options at their default value.

After that, you'll need to copy the first 2027 bytes from the original save, make sure your newly created .MassEffectSave file is the in ME savegame directory. I've never tried with a 7-zip created zip file, but there's no reason it wouldn't work. As for the new file being smaller, it's normal and shouldn't matter.

Hope that helps

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Edit:

I remembered that this was also discussed in the ME General forum and a few screenshots were posted detailling some of the steps, including where the option to show/hide known file extentions is in Windows 7.

Here's the link to the thread:
social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/103/index/4954821

Użytkownik The King of Dust edytował ten post 18 styczeń 2011 - 05:36

[bass41]

Thanks a lot. I'll give this a try.

[bass41]

Thanks again! I finally got it working. I didn't realize I needed to copy the first 2027 bytes IN ADDITION to what was already there in the new file, I was pasting over the first 2027 bytes of the new file. That's why it was so much smaller and it wouldn't load. Thanks for the clarification.

[TRISTAN WERBE]

I want try it to

[Voronwer]

Yes! Pressly called my fem!Shepard 'sir'... I actually prefer it this way.

A bit late, but I still want to say thanks for this. The hex editing worked for me and now I can get some Ash/femShepard. Whoot!

[McBaal]

Cant get it working. I am sure i followed every single step, i marked the needed bytes from the old save file, selected the new one and choose "add". But there are no additional lines, they just get overwritten and the file is still recognized as a ZIP file. ME doesnt find it eather. Too bad, i guess i have to stick with my male Shepard the 100th time, i just cant play without Ashley

I am so bored of male Sheps, always the same old story.

[The King of Dust]

McBaal wrote...

Cant get it working. I am sure i followed every single step, i marked the needed bytes from the old save file, selected the new one and choose "add". But there are no additional lines, they just get overwritten and the file is still recognized as a ZIP file. ME doesnt find it eather. Too bad, i guess i have to stick with my male Shepard the 100th time, i just cant play without Ashley

I am so bored of male Sheps, always the same old story.

Did you take a look at the thread I linked a few posts above? It has pictures from someone else who was having trouble getting it to work. Using HxD and selecting "Paste Insert" when copying the bytes from the original to the new save should definetly not replace anything and just add the selected bytes. As for the file still being recognized as a zip, did you make sure that the extensions for known filetypes aren't hidden?.

[McBaal]

Wow, i didnt expect you to answer in such an old thread

I will try it again, hope dies at last  

[McBaal]

Its alive! Its alliiihiiiihiiveee I suggest you edit your first post with a link to this additional thread for those who are as stupid as me   The freeware Hexeditor you linked to seems to be essential to realy find the needed bytes you mentioned. Other, even more complex non freeware editors appear to screw up.
So far: Live long and prosper :innocent:

[The King of Dust]

McBaal wrote...
I suggest you edit your first post with a link to this additional thread

Done. Happy to hear you got it working.

[droid105]

I like to try this, just asking if anyone could send me a save game of that Shepard please ?

[McBaal]

Uh? Create your own one, thats the point of all this isnt it?

[Yitzhak]

Anyone knowing the character (Ashley) would know it is highly improbable she would romance a woman, gladly I add.

Użytkownik Yitzhak edytował ten post 02 sierpień 2011 - 04:59

[Quething]

Yitzhak wrote...

Anyone knowing the character (Ashley) would know it is highly improbable she would romance a woman, gladly I add.

Hmn, the evidence would seem to disagree.

[Yitzhak]

^That's no evidence, you had to alter the game for that to happen, and still ingame she only does that because it recognizes you as a male.
No retail version allows that.

Story wise given her personality and opinions there's no way that should happen.

[Z28Roxy2]

Old thread I know.

Anyway, has anyone gotten this working with a second play through? It worked for me on the first play through. Got to 50, beat the game, all that jazz. What's cool is it definitely does save your shep as female (for ME2) because I loaded it up again with my now 50 shep and jenkins refers to her as "ma'am" instead of sir. But I tried to edit my new saved game (and I made sure to make the save immediately after talking to Joker and Kaidan). This time it doesn't work though. I'm guessing there might be new information in the saved game with a level 50 char instead of a level 1 char.

I guess I could play the game AGAIN, 1-60 (or as high as I can get), but I was hoping to just do 50-60. I've played the game before but 60 wasn't unlocked since I switched from the disc version to the steam version and had reformatted my hard drive.

[The King of Dust]

I'm pretty sure I tried it with a new game+ and it worked, but that was over a year ago so maybe I'm just imagining things. If you still have a savegame of this character before finishing your first playthrough, you could probably just cheat to add the remaining XP now that levels 50-60 are unlocked.

[Kotetsu31]

Well, I actually got the female Shepard and Ashley romance scene the very first time I played. I got Ashley and Liara fighting over me and I chose Ashley. But this was the very first version of ME1 that came out. When I re-bought the newer version on steam I never could get the female Shepard and Ashley romance scene back without having to change things.