(12-27-2015, 08:08 PM)Ryudo Wrote: Unless cheats really were used to change the characters. (7 normally is Asch's character digit, so maybe he tried to add Asch and ended up setting Natalia to Slot 7 instead by accident. ) If that's not the case then just keep it as a game bug imo, and not a PCSX2 bug.
Even if I wanted to do that, I'd have no idea how to
The one thing that gets me is that this happened on two different files (while one was a New Game + of the other, idk if that would matter) and never on console. If it was a rare bug, I wouldn't expect it to happen twice in a row. I kind of have a theory, not sure how legit it is...
Everything regarding character slots and Natalia worked FINE up until Grand Chokmah. There were plenty of times before that (Akzeriuth, etc) where, like solo battles in the Colosseum, you had a party of 6 that went down to 1, then back to 6 again.
My guess is that SOMETHING, either a really wonky game bug or a PCSX2 bug (possibly related to the DEFAULT speedhacks I had enabled AT THE TIME but disabled afterwards) somehow messed up Natalia in Grand Chokmah. She never appeared at the docks to be re-recruited (Jade is drinking at the bar and needs to be talked to, Tear comes to cheer you up and is added automatically, Guy is being healed at the inn by Ion with Anise and can't be re-recruited until after speaking to Peony). If memory serves, normally the game PREVENTS you from talking to Peony without re-recruiting Jade and Natalia first
(not 100% sure on this).
So maybe the act of Natalia bugging out and not being at the docks allows the game to progress without her in the active party by putting her in slot 7? Or maybe she was somehow already put into slot 7 beforehand and that's why she wasn't at the docks, but slot 7 is still considered "in the party" for the purposes of talking to Peony? Chicken/egg scenario. But I have a feeling that whatever messed up, messed up there.
I entered the Meggiora Highlands with slot 6 empty and Natalia
likely in slot 7. Choosing the two 3 person parties I think brute forces the party creation rather than shuffling around slot numbers, so when the two parties recombine, that caused Natalia to be in both slots as vsub mentioned. What causes Natalia to go from being in both slots 6 and 7 (usable in game), to just slot 7 (unusable in game) is another mystery.
Thanks again for all your input everyone.
Let me know if there's something you'd like me to test to see if we can get to the bottom of this.
Edit: And thank you so much vsub, your fix worked great!