Making Jaal bi

[FeistyGreenSnake]

Title says it all. I'm looking into ways to mod / make Jaal romanceable for Scott Ryder. How can I make this happen? Any advice from modders here? I'm not going to wait for Bioware to get their arse in gear.

 

Let me explain: I was really looking forward to his character. Lexi and Peebee bore me. We've had asari romances before, same with turians. I don't care what the individuals are like, they are still from the same races we've already seen. And no one goes into Mass Effect wanting only to romance humans - so Cora and Gil are out. Gil is handsome and fantastically funny!!, but let's face it, Jaal has a monocle. A monocle!

 

Anyway, back to my original question. When do you think a mod to romance Jaal as a maleRyder will be out? I only ask because I know there are mods for changing Cullen, Dorian, etc.

 

Scott Ryder to romance Jaal:

https://mic.com/articles/172033/mass-effect-andromeda-romance-options-fans-are-pissed-scott-ryder-can-t-romance-jaal#.gl2MBJ6EA

[siekcsroe]

Here's my work on romance mods so far.

 

I'm not that great at explaining things, but I included instructions, the files I edited, backups, where to get WV's MEAExplorer, and all that good stuff. Jaal's romance works fine; I'm testing Liam's and it seems good, too; and I'm going to check out Cora's later to make sure it works.

 

Just like DAI, there are weird animations, occasional misgendering, and mostly silent audio for the pc, so just be prepared for that.

 

Edit: I might have missed a few flirt options here and there. I just skimmed romance vids on YT to double check...

Edit2: Cora's culmination scene doesn't trigger because you get it through an email, I think. But I've reached the end of my limited knowledge and have no idea how to fix it. Maybe somebody else can figure that one out...

Edit3: Updated link and instructions...

Edited April 29, 2017 by siekcsroe

[pizzawarrior]

Thank you a lot for that mod, it's literally going to save my life. (I'm a little dramatic over how much I love a bisexual Liam Kosta.)

 

Your instructions are very clear, so good job on that! However the youtube link isn't available anymore. I managed without it so far but however, when I'm trying to import data, the MEA explorer gives me an error about how it can't find the game in the D:/prog/origin/etc folder when I don't even have a D:/ local disk? I haven't checked if it works in game so far but the error seems weird to me. It may be that I'm doing something wrong, I'm usually technogically inept and English isn't my first language so I may have gotten something wrong.

 

Anyway, thank you again for your hard work! I hope you have a great day !

[telefonmast]

Nice to see that romance-modding is already possible, could you also make a Scott - Suvi romance possible?

 

Thanks ;)

[siekcsroe]

Nope. But if you want to do it yourself, it's possible.

 

Romance modding is fairly straightforward. You just have to find the female gender flag (08 32 5D 76 C0 7D F5 43 B7 80 8A 95 29 88 01 C3 in hex) in conversation files and nullify or change the flag in romance-related scenes, depending on the gender of your pc.

 

I think I'm done with this for a while, personally, though. Too many test playthroughs in too short a time :P

[37bananas]

hi, im new to this so im sorry if this has an obvious answer but the tutorial vid that was linked to in the mod instructions is down so i did what i could? i followed the instructions (trying to get liam) but when i try to import by "right click, import data, and select the edited file" it gives me this error message

http://i.imgur.com/EhDq2nI.png

so instead i did right click and went to plugins>sha1 export/import and made mod jobs for each file replacement and ran that list through the mod manager. it said it replaced the files but when playing the game, when i try to go to the tempest (from a couple of different points in the game), i get an infinite loading screen or it freezes on the departure cinematic. idk if i need to have meaexplorer located in the same folder as masseffectandromeda.exe or something like that? it's in my documents right now.

[siekcsroe]

Try using this version of the modding tool if you're editing conversation files. Just in case. That's around-ish the version I was using when I made the thing. I haven't been able to get a meamod format to work for conversation file stuff, I get the infinite loading screen, too. Trying to figure out if it's a bug or if I'm just doing something dumb...

 

Also, you could try manually finding the files you need in data/win32/sbd/early (look for game/conversation/rel/liam or something like that) by right clicking them, load into vfs (instead of using the snapshot thing. that might be messing things up).

[37bananas]

thanks! i used that version and manually found and replaced the files with no issue but then when i try to run mea it doesnt open, it only shows up as a background process in the task manager?

edit: im going to do a clean install of the game overnight just to make sure all that is how its supposed to be and try it again tomorrow

Edited April 29, 2017 by 37bananas

[siekcsroe]

thanks! i used that version and manually found and replaced the files with no issue but then when i try to run mea it doesnt open, it only shows up as a background process in the task manager?

edit: im going to do a clean install of the game overnight just to make sure all that is how its supposed to be and try it again tomorrow

Oh, I'm pretty sure I know what that is, and it shouldn't require a clean install. Maybe you'll see this before you start that...In the newest version of WV's MEAExplorer there should be a "AnselSDK64" folder. copy those two files into your main MEA directory, and it should work. (Hopefully)

[kiradax]

Just wanna say - I support this and can't wait to see it