Anyway, they make the codes, and then they don't work for other people because using a different machine, or playing a different point in the game results in different locations being used. And some things in that region are fixed for quick access, just to make things really confusing. It just happens that things are generally allocated the same when you use the same machine, and play the same part of the game repeatedly. People who made them sometimes didn't realize that they were dealing with memory that's actually not preallocated, and the addresses can change. If it's the former, a lot of those cheat codes don't function right. I don't remember the start and end of those regions just now. That region of memory (2AB1A) is either the temporary store the game uses to shuffle different transient variables around (things as frequently used as X,Y on the map, and things as fleeting as your selected teleport destination), or the actual region used for core engine modules (in-battle code, and the like). If you haven't tried larger values already, do that first. If they do anything at all, you'd want values larger than 2 or 4, if that's what you're trying, because you'd only do 2 damage, or have 2 attack going into the damage calculation. In any case, it looks like these are meant to be pure value swaps, not multipliers. That means you can't just plug a random value in there.

It's a conditional, so the second line will only run if it evaluates true. I didn't see a damage modifier for single characters on either site you mentioned, and I don't know what the top line would be checking. Not sure off the top of my head what the Hero one is doing. This was on top of not being particularly efficient and doing things like getting two Black Urns and getting Nanami to level 99 and using the stat stone trick to round out her stats to the nearest 5 cause I'm OCD like that. I completed the quest at 18 and a half hours with at least 2-4 of every missable rune and armor, so it's definitely doable even with Valeria as a selection. I was following a guide for the Clive quest and it was the first time I have ever selected Kasumi during any playthrough. Either way, it's one selection of two that's necessary to proceed with the game though my preference is with Valeria. Regardless I've reverted to an earlier save and will live with having chosen Kasumi.

It just seems strange no one else has noticed this oddity before. I would assume it works this way since there would be so many variables tied to that one event otherwise. Anything else that might happen when you recruit someone is left to hope. The recruit codes don't do anything except set the individual character's status. It's possible your selection sets event flags that are used for Rokkaku and other things in lieu of just checking to see who's been recruited.

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