Find a Friend Akihiko Glitch

[remote sequoia]

Hello! I'm making this thread after being asked to by the mod's creator, as seen below. I'd like to add that since then there has been other nights where Akihiko has appeared as available, that it only happens with him, and that I'm playing with FeMC if that changes anything.

Also, Bebe's Rank 0 teleported me to the classroom hallway (where he would be if Rank 1 or above) instead of the Economics room where he is actually unlocked.

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oh that bebe rank 0 thing is a known issue

can you send an in game screenshot of how it looks on 4/24 @remote sequoia

And if possible can you send your save along with the name and difficulty setting

and also your mod list too if possible

[remote sequoia]

I've already gone past 4/24 but I can take a screenshot the next time it happens

[kind fractal]

yeah please do

[remote sequoia]

Where are the saves located?

[kind fractal]

i can’t remember, i don’t mod steam

i’ll have to retest tonight when i get off of work

[remote sequoia]

Fair enough, I'll look it up

Here's my mod list

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P3P sapphic

hoping that isn’t causing the problems

if you have a day where it happens again, can you save, send a screenshot

then retry with sapphic disabled

[remote sequoia]

I shall

For the save file, do you need bin, binslot, or both?

[kind fractal]

just the bin

but i’ll need the name and difficulty setting too

hopefully you’re not using a custom difficulty setting or else it won’t work on hardware

like your player name in case that’s not clear, how it’s spelled exactly

[remote sequoia]

First Name: Kotone
Last Name: Shiomi

And I am using a custom difficulty unfortunately

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sadge

yeah i’ll guess i’ll just try my own save from the start

since it’s so early in game

if it’s sapphic classic i guess im gonna have to figure out how that mod works and make a compatibility version

[tight rapids]

I think I should have a 4/24 save or something near it. what's the issue here?

[remote sequoia]

With Find a Friend (and possibly Sapphic Classic interfering?) Akihiko sometimes appears available for his social link at night, and if I click on it I get an infinite loading screen

[tight rapids]

I assume that save you sent is on 4/24?

[remote sequoia]

No, my save is already past it, hence why I said I'd try to grab a screenshot next time it happens (4/24 was the first instance, but not the last)

[tight rapids]

gotcha. I'll just use one of my saves then

[remote sequoia]

Found something else in the meantime, Tanaka showing up in the menu before he's actually available.

Although I'm not sure how that specific Confidant is unlocked, so it could be nothing

[tight rapids]

you have to hear a rumor (persona 2 reference) about it from Saori after you reach rank 2 with her

yeah bonq have fun with this one lmao (my only social links are junpei and SEES rn for reference)

it should be showing rio as this is the first day you can join clubs

although well you technically have to choose a club

i am also able to reproduce what you saw on 4/24 in the evening; this is the field it attempts to load (likely hangs bc the school isnt available at night)

[kind fractal]

ok so add another requirement to that then outside of just date lol

guess i gotta figure out why akihiko is showing up then

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rio is normal there i believe

[tight rapids]

oh wait yeah I'm stupid

I think my brain read that and read it as Saori for some reason

LMAO

I think I even clicked it and it warps me to the 2f hallway where Rio normally is but I was thinking Saori

so it's just aki

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wait @tight rapids

is akihiko also showing up at night?

[tight rapids]

ues

yes

[tight rapids]

it actually tries to load this field and so it soft locks

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well because this is super early and i have a femc save around then

i should be able to test this super easily

[remote sequoia]

Took me a while since I had the whole meeting Aigis event, but here's a screen of it happening yet again, since I said I'd send one asap

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ok yeah that’s definitely something to do with sapphic classic honestly

[remote sequoia]

I see
Well I'll just continue to ignore the fake Akihiko slinks then

I mean, it'd be great if you found a way to make them fully compatible, but considering Sapphic Classic is a port of a super old PSP mod, I'm gonna assume it'd be far more trouble than it'd be worth

[kind fractal]

well

outside of the thing with it being available on the 4/24 day

seems like it’s being tripped up because of the romance character link value function thing whatever the fuck

i’ll have to take a look at it when i get home

[remote sequoia]

Best of luck with that
I'd help, but I don't know the first thing about this game's code lmao

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god i wish testing on hardware easier

i have to recompile in aemulus since there's so many fields

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finally got in game

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just curious about this

is akihiko not at that rank

oh holy shit

am i fucking stupid oh my lord

((BIT_CHK(2007) && CMM_GET_LV(var80) == 0 && CHK_DAYS_STARTEND(4, 23, 1, 23)))

akihiko definitely isn't available that fucking early holy shit

@remote sequoia you around to do a quick beta test :33333

very strange that it just completely ignored whether or not the bit flag was on

unless akihikos bit flag is just on on that day?

clear your cache and try again

[remote sequoia]

Sorry I didn't see this sooner
I'm down to try the new version, but the save file I'm using is my current playthrough, so all I can test is whether or not it happens again
I could start a second save but getting to 4/24 just to press square and see what happens would be painfully slow

[tight rapids]

• 4/24 after school: only rio shows as probably intended, but it brings you to the 2f hallway instead of the gym hallway
• akihiko shows as an option in the gym hallway and at night prior to cache rebuilding. after rebuilding the cache he's gone (this is me saying you'll need to update the files again)
• you left an extraneous file (h06_03.flow.bf) in
• the format for h06_03.flow is incorrect, causing a crash. here is a corrected file

[kind fractal]

alright sweet so i just need to fix the rio thing and the bebe thing

and then modify each file once so you don’t need to clear cache

thanks brawler

you’re a true G

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hey so uh....

what field is the fucking corridor next to the volleyball club

006_016?

fuck it we ball

[remote sequoia]

Hey you should know, launching P3P through Reloaded II doesn't work at all if I have that version installed, I get this (below) and then the vanilla game launches. When I replaced it with the previous version from Gamebanana, it worked again. I'm also including the log.

[kind fractal]

yeah that's my bad

lemme fix that right now

@remote sequoia try that

sorry brawler fixed that earlier and i never sent an updated build

@tight rapids that should hopefully feature correct warping for starting both bebe and rio

dunno about saori, i think she's in two different fields and that sounds hard

[tight rapids]

I can take a look later. is it just bebe/Rio that need testing?

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yup

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well it's only when starting their link

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lol so question

no one questioned it but

some characters have different fade effects

kaxushi, akinari, and yukari all have circle swipe fade out effects

while everyone else is normal

i massively prefer the circle wipe so im gonna turn them all into the circle wipe effect

[tight rapids]

where's the question here lol

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oh sorry i got distracted

should i leave them all as the circle wipe or should i change it to the fade out effect

femc, aigis, ryoji, and maiko all use the circle wipe effect

while everyone else is normal

[tight rapids]

femc is a social link? 😳

let me check first

rio warp does not work, still sends me to 2f

(i cleared my cache as well)

i think the circle wipe is better

so i would say switch everyone over to those

[kind fractal]

alright sounds good

rio warp doesn't work

is she rank 0?

it should work???????

[tight rapids]

she is indeed rank 0

and it does indeed not work

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it'd be really fucked up if i forgot to save again

[tight rapids]

that would admittedly be rly funny

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try again

[tight rapids]

that gave me like 500 syntax errors and a crash

[kind fractal]

you can also try this so you don't have to clear your cache

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what the

[tight rapids]

lol

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how does that even happen

[tight rapids]

yeah that's a really weird error

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ok fixed that

i was doing search and replace in notepad++ and it fucked up somehow

[tight rapids]

send the new file over?

[kind fractal]

nah i fixed it

[tight rapids]

im saying send it to me haha

i just want to confirm that nothing else got messed up bc i'm still crashing on my end

[kind fractal]

oh lol

send the log over

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ok i broke all of the fields lol

one second

@tight rapids try this

WAIT

WAIT WAIT WAIT

found the problem

turns out there was a MSG_WND_CLS; instead of MSG_WND_CLS();

[kind fractal]

ok tested on hardware with bebe

and it works

haven't tested rio

ok so rio "works"

but i got the field wrong 😭

i fucking knew it was 6, 20

thanks mod menu

should be final

[tight rapids]

if it works on hardware it should work on PC too assuming no issues with the conversion

hopefully lol

I don't have a save for bebe but I can test rio

works as intended

minor thing before you push the update, can you add "> " in front of this message?

I think that makes it consistent with other dialogue choices

(everything looks good otherwise)

[kind fractal]

wow has that always been like that lol

also i still need to fix the h06_16 field lol

uhhhh

brawler didn't you send me a fixed file?

nevermind

i never fixed it for hardware

ok fixed and final

https://gamebanana.com/mods/482247

another update pushed

just found another bug 🙃

hidetoshi doesn't show up in the social link menu when needing to start the link

[kind fractal]

got it