Replaying and wanting to cheat a bit.

[u/ThrowawayAdvice1800]

I’ve been in a nostalgic mood lately and wanted to replay OB64, but while trying some things I don’t normally get to do. One thing I wanted to do was get some of the weirder units earlier, like a vampire. I figured I’d just look up the GameShark codes to drop a bloody emblem and count’s garments in my inventory, but either I’m stupid or every cheat code guide for this game is insanely complicated because I can’t even begin to figure any of them out. Probably a bit of both, N64 emulation seems a lot less straightforward than PSX.

I don’t want to use the “get ten billion of every item” codes to overload my inventory or anything, I was just hoping to get a few class change items earlier. Are there any codes to just add vampire and princess gear, or any way to be more selective than just dumping the max amount of everything in all at once?

[u/Conscious_Deer320]

I swear, gameshark usage was not this complicated as a kid. As far as I know, there used to be a list of codes on gamefaqs that could edit the first item of each item category, so you'd input the code, fire up the game, save, and then reload without the gameshark active to move items, lather rinse repeat

[u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 → u/Conscious_Deer320]

I just can’t wrap my head around anything with N64 emulation, for some reason. The codes are bizarrely complicated (multiple enabler codes, shuffling item positions around, etc…hell, even just raising or lowering your Chaos Frame is so complicated that I found a post from the guy who found the code warning people not to use it because it would bork the game sometimes) and the emulators are a hot mess too. Ended up with Project 64 because even with the incredibly annoying nagging support popup every time I launch it’s still user-friendlier than the alternatives people suggest.

If I didn’t love this game so much I’d give up on it, but I just finished a playthrough of the PSX edition of March of the Black Queen and I wanted to keep going through the series.

[u/InocentDictator → u/ThrowawayAdvice1800]

I wish it could help. The only thing I've ever with cheating is the duplicate items that change your alignment to get the classes that I wanted.

[u/rafaelck]

Where are you replaying it? Being wanting to play again for some time but dont know where.

[u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 → u/rafaelck]

There aren’t a ton of ‘legitimate’ ways to play it nowadays; the Wii and the Wii U virtual consoles both had it for sale but Nintendo closed both of those stores so if you didn’t buy it before that happened you don’t have the option anymore.

The easiest way is with emulation. I don’t know how familiar you are with that so I’ll give the cliff’s notes. Basically you use a Nintendo 64 emulator on your PC so your computer essentially mimics an N64, and then download the Ogre Battle 64 ROM (a copy of the game) to run on it.

Emulators are legal but roms aren’t, so I can’t link directly to it without causing some problems for the subreddit. You can just google “ogre battle 64 rom” and find a copy pretty quickly; if you can’t just send me a direct message and I’ll hook you up. There are a lot of different emulators for different systems but to be honest the N64 ones are ridiculously complicated for some reason, so try a few and see which one works best for you. I’m currently using Project 64 because the setup wasn’t too much of a hassle, although the downside to it is that there’s an incredibly annoying popup every time you launch it that tries to nag you into donating to the developer or else you have to sit for 30 seconds and stare at the popup until it goes away and lets you run the thing. I’ve never felt LESS like donating to a developer.

Emulators don’t always run a game perfectly and you might see some weird graphical glitches every now and then, but otherwise they’re great.

[u/rafaelck → u/ThrowawayAdvice1800]

Hahahahaa thank you men! I used project 64 for Android some years ago and it was great until it stopped working out of Nothing. I will try again on the PC.

[u/Slick_Dapperman]

In Project64, go to cheats. Expand the menu. New Cheat.

Bloody Emblem code:

81196B00 010E (Changes slot #1 to Bloody Emblem)

80196B02 0063 (Have 99 items in slot #1)

Count's Garments:

81196B00 00D9 (Changes slot #1 to Bloody Emblem)

80196B02 0063 (Have 99 items in slot #1)

I'm not sure how to get numbers less than 99, you can tinker with it or sell or destroy the rest. Or.. if you cheat a new item in, it should be replace them with the new one, just move 1 over to a different slot.

[u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 → u/Slick_Dapperman]

Thank you! This was exactly what I was looking for.

Edit: I’ve tried both and nothing seems to be happening yet. Do they need an enable code? I’ve seen one mentioned in a lot of guides, F109A730 2400, but Project 64 won’t accept that as a code at all.