^(belated) thanks for that Giorgio
So, turns out I actually missed a character out from the database, whoops. The character in question,
Wen Cheng Xiao, has a profile in both official guidebooks, but I thought he was unused because I simply could not find him in the game; I always encountered a different character, Zai Hong En, at the Kowloon Dentist instead. I made a topic about this waaaay back in 2006 actually
viewtopic.php?t=31623However recently I discovered I was wrong - after watching Bluemue's video of one of his Kowloon room raids, specifically the Moon Child Bldg, I was very confused to see that he found Cheng Xiao in the dentist! So I investigated this myself and found out that, in fact, they are both at Kowloon Dentist - it just seems to be entirely random who you get. I entered and exited the dentist numerous times and found it kept changing between the two - in fact at a couple of points, I witnessed one TRANSFORM into the other in front of Ryo's very eyes! I'm not sure if the programmers intended this or whether its a glitch/oversight, as the Golden Dentist next door is always empty - no NPC can be found in there. I'm thinking one of them must have been meant to be put in there, especially considering the guidebooks say Hong En is at the Golden Dentist (when as I said, he is actually at Kowloon Dentist with Cheng Xiao).
So the long and short of it; I had to go back and add Cheng Xiao, as he is not unused as I first thought, meaning there are actually
701 characters in the game, not 700. It bothers my OCD slightly that the total isn't a round number, but there you go
For those who actually care, the updated database is still in the link in my signature. Enjoy!
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 7:03 pm