Name change issue

[Chees3y]

Hello!
I downloaded the latest build of NHSE and used it to edit the name of my villager, however, the letters in-game are still sent from my old name and the villagers treat me like a brand-new person. Is there a way to fix this?

[kwsch]

Changing the player's name runs a bytewise replacement throughout all of the loaded savefile-parts.

NHSE/NHSE.WinForms/Editor.cs

Lines 331 to 336 in 83169b8

	if (pers.PlayerName != TB_Name.Text)
	{
	var orig = pers.GetPlayerIdentity();
	pers.PlayerName = TB_Name.Text;
	var updated = pers.GetPlayerIdentity();
	SAV.ChangeIdentity(orig, updated);

If the mail/villagers are comparing things differently, then things will need to be documented on how they need to be updated, prior to being able to be implemented in NHSE.

[Chees3y]

Is this something I can go in and fix later? Or is my save kinda fucked?

[kwsch]

You can always change it back to your original name, or reuse the same backup.

You can also try hex editing the decrypted save files to do a byteswap (with 00 padded to match the same length) with the unicode strings you want to replace.

I did the identity-replace (which is a u64+string byte pattern) rather than just a string-replace, because some people can enter really dumb names (short) that may be present elsewhere in the save but not stored as a string value.

Example:

Player name is "H", wants to replace with "Herman"

Replace: 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
With:    48 00 65 00 72 00 6D 00 61 00 6E

This becomes problematic if:

Player name is "H", wants to replace with "J"

Replace: 48 00
With:    49 00

Doing the ^ replacement will likely hit other regions that weren't storing the players name, and just so happened to have the same value. So it's something to be careful of.

[berichan]

You can manually update a villager's player name/island name memory string as of b97082c. Identities will not update, but this should be enough if all you've done is changed your name in NHSE.

The postbox editing is a whole other can of worms.

[LauraWebdev]

Am I reading this issue correctly, that there isn't a way to change your name, at least in a way where you don't see your old name in game anymore (in new content)?

[cactysman]

I've discovered that a villager's personal.dat in decrypted dumps contains a line that seems to be the mail's signature line starting at 0x00041BD8 (please someone confirm if this is a static offset).

Just go search for 46 00 72 00 6F 00 6D in a hex editor to find the "From".

But since that is an English string there, maybe switching to a different language (Switch settings) and back would also solve this without having to hack this in, at least for now 🤔

[hp3721]

@cactysman 0x36a50 (GSavePlayerOther) + 0xb188 (GSaveMailUserInfo) = 0x41BD8, which is the offset you found, so I would assume it is right.

[Maryjoanna25]

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[Gamerguy2234]

Hey, I'm trying NHSE for the first time and I'm mainly concerned with the issue of villagers treating me like a new person. I'm speaking from experience using the latest release as of this comment. Is there a workaround for this?