Finding Event ID's and NPC appearance with CheatEngine

[radical dreamer]

To find event ID's for npc's that don't have dialogue scripted yet, simply log into retail FFXI, talk to an npc that you DO know the event ID for, and while their text is still active, do a search for the value of that event. For my example I used Danzhor in Lower Jeuno, and Biora in Lower Jeuno. Danzhor always starts off with an event ID of 185, (in hex as 0x00B9 in Danzhor.lua) and Biora starts off with 205 (in hex as 0x00CD in Biora.lua).

After you find the codes that display your event ID's, you can talk to other npc's and you'll see that their current event ID is shown. You can do this in retail FFXI to get things that are missing in Darkstar Project.
Demonstration here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkpdnGPG80
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To find NPC appearance values without digging into dats or whatever, just search for the npc's name. You'll find one or more addresses, but once you get to doing this right, you'll know which one is right. Anyway when you find the address, open in memory viewer and on the same line as the name, go 4 bytes from the right and five lines down. That is the start of the npc's appearance.
For example if you search for Domenic in Lower Jeuno, you'll see that Domenic's value comes out to be 040000100420043011401150006000700000

Which translates out to this for the npc_list.sql
0x0100040000100420043011401150006000700000
Demonstration here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hor44ApgwO0


Now I hope that helps somebody. I don't know of any standalone program currently that can display this info, but maybe someone can turn this info into a program that automatically watches for event id's and lets you search for npc appearance..