Gibbed Save Editor Mass Effect 1 Values

Gibbed save editor for ME3 info thread. Mass Effect 3 Modding Thread (Last update: ) On page 5 of that thread Afroman12 links to a 'Mass Effect 2 Plot' list. On that list are the settings for the romances with the following note, 'Romance: Pick the person you wish to romance. You're in for a lot of work.
1) Start ME2 game, play a bit and make a manual save. 2) Open up that save in ME2 editor and set your preferred ME1 flags. 3) Start another ME2 this time importing your edited ME2 save. Have to do this, because ME2 only processes ME1 flags during import.

Gibbed was kind enough to make a rather detailed save editor for Mass Effect 2. As usual, though, he didn't bother to add Xbox 360 support. A quick edit and now it does work on the xbox 360. You have to extract your individual xbsav files from your careers for this to work. You can get the source here since I believe Gibbed GPL'd his.

Most information in this guide comes from my own 'trial and error' testing, but now it's time to expand. Know any trick with the Gibbed's Mass Effect 2 Save Editor not mentioned here? Well, just post it to: okogawa@hotmail.com with topic: 'Gibbed Guide' and the name I'll post under credits.
[00] Credits
[01] How to open and edit Mass Effect 2 savegames
[02] How to locate and modify general aspects in a savegame
[03] How to change the name of your character
[04] How to change your class mid-game (and/or give yourself talent points)
[05] How to change your hair (only female hairs so far):
[06] How to change 'colours' on hair, eyebrows, eyes, skins, etc
[06a] Special builds
[07] How to save your face (for later use):
[08] How to 'import' (i.e. replace) a face:
[09] How to get the vanilla hero male/female poster face:
[10] How to change your in-game gender:
[11] How to romance same gender crew members NOT intended by Electronic Arts/BioWare
[11a] Route 1 (the most easy one)
[11b] Route 2 (Advanced)
[12] Extras
[00] Credits
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[01] How to open and edit Mass Effect 2 savegames
1. If you have not done so, download Gibbed's Mass Effect 2 Save Editor
2. locate and load the savegame you want to edit
Each Mass Effect 2 career have it's own unique directory. under Windows XP you can find the directory root folder here:
./Documents and Settings/YourComputerID/My Documents/BioWare/Mass Effect 2/Save
3. Make modifications and save the changes, then click on the 3rd icon (top left) that looks like an ancient 3.5' floppy disk, a window will pop up. Now you can change folder, overwrite or simply give your modified savegame a new name. If you give your save a new name, follow the naming restrictions to be safe i.e. if you do not want to overwrite your (example) Save_0001.pcsav save, then just save it as Save_0002.pcsav - when making major changes, try to not overwrite your original save if you messed up without knowing it.
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[02] How to locate and modify general aspects in a savegame
1. open Gibbed's Mass Effect 2 Save Editor and load the savegame you want to modify
2. click the 'Raw' tab
3. under '[-] 2. Squad' click on '[+] Player' to expand the branch
4. Here you will find lots of good stuff to modify.
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[03] How to change the name of your character
1. Under the 'Raw' tab, '[-] 2. Squad', and a expanded '[+] Player' located the 'First Name' field.
2. Left click on the field that contains the actual name, and simply change it.
3. Save and load your savegame into the game to see the changes.
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[04] How to change your class mid-game (and/or give yourself talent points)
1. In-game calculate how much 'Talent Points' your character would have after a respec and write it up, then load the savegame you want to modify with Gibbed's Mass Effect 2 Save Editor.
2. Under the 'Raw' tab, '[-] 2. Squad', and a expanded '[+] Player' located these two fields directly under [+] Appearance:
Class Friendly name
Class Name
3. In order to now change your class to a new one replace the actual class data in Class Friendly name and Class Name fields with this information:
To become a Sentinel
Class Friendly name: 93951
Class Name: SFXGame.SFXPawn_PlayerSentinel
To become a Soldier
Class Friendly name: 93952
Class Name: SFXGame.SFXPawn_PlayerSoldier
To become a Engineer:
Class Friendly name: 93953
Class Name: SFXGame.SFXPawn_PlayerEngineer
To become a Adept:
Class Friendly name: 93954
Class Name: SFXGame.SFXPawn_PlayerAdept
To become an Infiltrator
Class Friendly name: 93955
Class Name: SFXGame.SFXPawn_PlayerInfiltrator
To become an Vanguard:
Class Friendly name: 93956
Class Name: SFXGame.SFXPawn_PlayerVanguard
4. Your talent points will reset to 'null' after a class change in the editor, so locate the field 'Talent Points' and enter the memorized number of your actual character (or cheat away with a bigger number).
5. Save and load the savegame and then distribute the talent points to your new class. You have to re-drag most battle icons since your class change often use new ones.
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[05] How to change your hair (only female hairs so far):
If you have more hair codes (especially males) post them to okogawa@hotmail.com with topic 'Gibbed haircodes'. Also post a 'signature' name if you want to be credited.
1. Under the 'Raw' tab, '[-] 2. Squad', expand '[+] Player', expand [+] Appearance and then expand [+] Morph Head:
2. Under 'Hair Mesh' replace the right field with any of these meshes you cannot get in the normal face builder:
Important: Might be wise to copy your orginal settings so you later can change back.
BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Mom.HMF_HIR_Mom_MDL
BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Cyberbabe.HMF_HIR_Cyb_MDL
BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Ashley.HMF_HIR_PROAshley_MDL
BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Sexy.HMF_HIR_Sxy_MDL
BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Mohawk.HMF_HIR_Mhk_MDL
3. Locate the 'Texture Parameters' field, click the right field (Collection) [..]
4. Locate these four fields and change the 'value' to:
For the 'BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Mom.HMF_HIR_Mom_MDL'
Hair_Diff: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Mom.HMF_HIR_Mom_Diff
Hair_Norm: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Mom.HMF_HIR_Mom_Norm
Hair_mask: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Mom.HMF_HIR_Mom_Mask
Hair_tang: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Mom.HMF_HIR_Mom_Tang
For the 'BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Cyberbabe.HMF_HIR_Cyb_MDL'
Hair_Diff: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Cyberbabe.HMF_HIR_Cyb_Diff
Hair_Norm: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Cyberbabe.HMF_HIR_Cyb_Norm
Hair_mask: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Cyberbabe.HMF_HIR_Cyb_Mask
Hair_tang: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Cyberbabe.HMF_HIR_Cyb_Tang
For the 'BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Ashley.HMF_HIR_PROAshley_MDL'
Hair_Diff: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Ashley.HMF_HIR_PROAshley_Diff
Hair_Norm: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Ashley.HMF_HIR_PROAshley_Norm
Hair_mask: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Ashley.HMF_HIR_PROAshley_Mask
Hair_tang: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Ashley.HMF_HIR_PROAshley_Tang
For the 'BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Sexy.HMF_HIR_Sxy_MDL'
Hair_Diff: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Sexy.HMF_HIR_Sxy_Diff
Hair_Norm: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Sexy.HMF_HIR_Sxy_Norm
Hair_mask: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Sexy.HMF_HIR_Sxy_Mask
Hair_tang: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Sexy.HMF_HIR_Sxy_Tang
For the 'BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Mohawk.HMF_HIR_Mhk_MDL'
Hair_Diff: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Mohawk.HMF_HIR_Mhk_Diff
Hair_Norm: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Mohawk.HMF_HIR_Mhk_Norm
Hair_mask: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Mohawk.HMF_HIR_Mhk_Mask
Hair_tang: BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.Mohawk.HMF_HIR_Mhk_Tang
5. Save and load the Savegame in ME2
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[06] How to change 'colours' on hair, eyebrows, eyes, skins, etc
Interesting facts: Many don't notice it, but ME1 facial options contain broader colour ranges than the ones offered in ME2. For some very strange reason BioWare decided to normalize colour ranges for ME2. Thus, before Gibbed's Mass Effect 2 Save Editor, then only way to get Freemen (Dune) 'blue within blue' eyes was to make a character in ME1 and then import it into ME2 *without* doing extra modifications in the new facial editor. After lot's of tweaking here is my results..
1. Under the 'Raw' tab, '[-] 2. Squad', expand '[+] Player', expand [+] Appearance and then expand [+] Morph Head:
2. Locate the 'Vector Parameters' field, click the left field (Collection) [..]
3. Then decide on what you want to change:
How to change eye iris-colour:
1. Find the field: 'EYE_Iris_Colour_Vector' and press the (on the right side) '[+] value' field to have it expanded.
2. Enter a new eye iris colour.
If you get any interesting eye, hair or skin colours feel free to post the colour codes (with description) to: okogawa@hotmail.com with topic 'Gibbed colour codes'. Also post a 'signature' name if you want to be credited. If you make a interesting 'build' feel free to forward it as I posted on m

Mass Effect 1 Gibbed Save Editor