There's another problem with hacking Tooie... Even if we DO get past the nightmare crashes, the games memory is much like CBFD's, albeit not quite so bad. Nothing ever stays where it's put, and every time you finally find the variable you're looking for, chances are it'll have moved to another address by the time you get to the place where you have to use is. And I've always found fiddling with pointers to be a COMPLETE nightmare, actually finding where they are is one thing, and then you discover that there's a pointer which points to the 2nd pointer, which points to the function. So you have to fix 2 codes. Then you discover the THIRD pointer, and so on...
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What if they just locked the controls, changed the camers, and added the talking picture thingies over the screen?It would have the same effect.
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That's basically what they DO do, but they also use object/warp mods when a different room to the one you're already in is involved. The warp mod tells the camera where to come in.
The control lock is an interesting one though... When I went looking for the cutscene mod in BK a few months ago, I found what I can only describe as "demo control codes". They basically have a programmed set of moves for banjo to execute, one for each cutscene. So if you switch the control code to, say, the digit for the MM intro scene, banjo will act as he does in that demo. Many digits in this modifier seem to have completely random effects, he randomly attacks the ground, jumps around, etc...
The 2nd control code is for viewpoint/control set. Say, for example, a level has 2 cutscenes in the same place, a cutscene and a demo. This has a different digit for each type. It also allows you to take control of banjo at any time by changing the digit to 03 or 09 (depends what area you're in). Setting it to 0A causes banjo to act out the SnS ending cutscene (IE: If you put it to 0A in freezeeasy peak, banjo does all the moves he does to get to the Ice Key, if you do it in Gobi's Valley he does the moves he uses for the coffin, etc etc... If you do it in a non SNS level the game crashes)
Finally, the simplest of the demo control codes: It's a simple activator which can be set to 1 or 0. It switches between whether you can move freely, or whether you're stuck in one spot (IE while talking to a character).
I highly suspect that there are more of these, but again, hacking them is horrible because if you go to a digit which has no actions assigned to it, the game crashes. So we have to turn to emulators, and unfortunatly PJ64 can only use emucheat, which moves the bytes all over the place, and Nemu64 has probably the most akward hacking program I've ever come accross...
