Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Character Hacking Guide.

**Spiral** · #1 (**permalink**) 09-23-2007, 01:00 PM

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SEARCHING
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Okay, firstly, install [Only Registered users can see links . Click Here To Register...] The readme is inside, so there's no point in me repeating it.
Next, boot up MGS Portable ops. Open the CWCHEAT menu (default is to hold down select for 3 secs), and scroll to search cheats.
Select Start text search from the list. Enter your character's name that you wish to hack, and it'll find results in a few seconds. Press Circle to exit, and go to continue text search.The name of the character you searched will be displayed along with results. Press Triangle at this point, and the cursor will hilight the first result.
Press square on the result, then Circle, and the memory viewer will open up at the corresponding address.

The address we are looking for will have a format something like this when opened in the memory viewer:

PARA-MEDIC............
...........^K..^K.....

And so on. I can't remember exactly because my PSP is bricked at the moment, waiting for my friend to lend me his Pandoras Battery ^_^.
If the result you've just checked isn't the correct one, just press circle and try the next.So keep checking the results out one by one going down until you hit the very one we want, as above.
Once you've found the right one, press circle from th results screen to go back to the Search Cheat menu, and select memory editor. It should be open at the address you last viewed.
At this point, you might notice that if you scroll up or down you'll find data on all of you other recruits, so you can edit them from there too.

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SKIN HACKING
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Starting from the first letter of the recruits name in the memory editor, count backwards 13 bytes. The byte you land on is you character skin.

Here is a list of all of the available character skins in the NA version. Tkae a look at the list below, and replace the character byte we just found with whatever skin byte from below you wish.

00: Snake
01: Null
02: Eva
03: Para-Medic
04: Ocelot
05: Major Zero
06: Raikov
07: Gene
08: Python
09: Ursula
0A: Elisa
0B: Teliko
0C: Venus
0D: Cunningham
0E: Signit
0F: Sokolov
10: Roy Cambell
11: Lynx Soldier
12: Shirtless Snake
13: GA-KO
14: Lynx Soldier
15: FOX Unit 1
16: FOX Unit 2
17: FOX Unit 3
18: Female Soldier 1
19: Female Soldier 2
1A: Female Soldier 3
1B: Scientist 1
1C: Scientist 2
1D: Scientist 3
1E: Nurse 1
1F: Nurse 2
20: Nurse 3
21: Technician 1
22: Technician 2
23: Technician 3
24: Officer 1
25: Officer 2
26: Officer 3
27: Government Official
28: Ocelot Unit
29: KGB
2A: GRU
2B: Biccamera
2C: Yodobashi
2D: Sakuraya
2E: Ubook
2F: Wondergoo
30: Sofmap
31: Joshin
32: Nestage

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STAT HACKING
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First, let's do HP. From you character name, go forwards until you hit two bytes that are a few bytes apart that are identical. Of course, they're only identical if you're at full HP, if you wounded, the first byte of the pair will be lower. Change both bytes to any value you wish, though I personally recommend C6 (198 HP).
Just as you did with HP, go forwards starting after the HP byte until you hit two bytes that are a few bytes apart just as you did with HP. Well, actually, it may be two pairs of bytes that are identical. Eg, instead of E2 00 00 00 E2 00 it may be E2 C3 00 00 E2 C3. Anyway, play with these values as you with, I can't remember exactly how it was set out. A little further on you're gonna find a byte that feels a little isolated, surrounded by 00's.
This is your Sense value, and can't go any higher than 99, or rather, 63.

Now for the attributes. If you're soldier, from left to right, has a series of attributes that go as AACBCCCSCAB then starting from the Sense byte, you keep going till you find a series of bytes that go:
02 02 00 01 00 00 00 03 00 02 01, because 00=C, 01=B, 02=A and 03=S. Unfortunately, I can't remember how to change the jobs, but when I remember then I'll post it here.

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ITEM HACKING
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Stright after the 11 bytes that determine the persons attributes, there are 4 pairs of bytes that store items. If you change the second byte in an empty pair to A0, you get stealth camoflauge, for example, and changing an empty pair into 13 20, I think, gives you a machete... Or was that a bowie knife? Aww, it doesn't matter. Experiment at will, but remember to unequip the person of any items/weapons unless you want to risk losing them.

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Credits
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This tutorial is a production of myself, Lacerax, AKA, Luci and it's written to be newbie friendly. Enjoy!
Now, I know it'd be better if nobody used hacked players online, but unfortunately, they're all over the place. It'll be fixed with MPO+, but until then, there's nothing we can do apart from join the chaos.