Play as Party Leader

Big thank you to delpirero. Their cheat table (uploaded by ukesvd) saved me a lot of time finding the player character pointer. Download their CT here:

https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy7rebirth/mods/97

This is a patch file that modifies your game's exe, meaning you don't need Cheat Engine for it to work.

Probably only works for Steam version, don't plan on buying the EGS version so I can't make it.

IMPORTANT INFO:

-There will be bugs, including missing/broken animations, and in some cases you can softlock yourself (I'll go over ways to prevent this below). For these reasons I don't recommend this for a first playthrough. You might be stuck without realizing it, and the sillier bugs can break immersion. I think the softlocks are always easily escapable by doing one of the following:

- Retry battle

- Re-load autosave or manual save

- Restart from checkpoint through the pause menu

- If you're completely unable to progress, close the game, restore your backup .exe, and restart from last checkpoint.

Play it safe. Keep a few save files, and save often (when you know you're not stuck).

-Highly recommend you stay mostly with Cloud during Nibelheim Flashback, particularly for the Mako Vacuum, sitting at benches, or the valve inside the reactor. Big glitches and potential crashes.

-Stick with Cloud when you're exploring a town during the main story. Weird stuff happens if you're controlling a character who's not meant to be in your party. It can even teleport you past event triggers, causing a softlock. If you see a smiley face icon above your head, switch back to Cloud immediately and see if you can progress (or reload to be safe).

-Only Cloud can mount/ride a Chocobo, or do the Chocobo catching minigame (and other stealth segments). Probably the same for other things that have unique animations.

-If a character gets stuck in a T-Pose, save your game and re-load (save in a new slot if you want to be extra safe, but it should be fine).

-World Intel should be fine to do. A lot of animations won't play correctly, but I don't think any will get you stuck. If Chadley calls it'll probably freeze up, but you can skip the scene most of the time.

-Occasionally Chadley calling will screw you. Some calls are un-skippable. In those cases you'll probably need to quit and re-load your last save.

- Minigames that force you to play as a different character MUST be started as Cloud, or the game will crash after the minigame is over, losing your score. Your first attempt may be buggy, but if you pause > Retry it will work correctly. This happens with the Yuffie Chocobo gliding minigame in Cosmo Canyon. Have not tested yet with others (such as