And, after a bit of digging through its menus, I found my ticket to travel back in time. So, with a huge hat tip to Mr Gibbed, I downloaded the editor and used it to open up one of my Mass Effect 3 save files. My hunch was right, with just a little bit of digging online leading me to Gibbed’s Mass Effect Save Editor. Basically, if I ever wanted to see Natasha again I needed to extract this face code. This code was super important, as anyone who played through the original games will remember, it was how you ported your Shepard over from game to game. Namely I needed the now famous “Face Code” identification number that the original games spat out for each character you created in the games’ character creation tools.
Put simply, I didn’t need these saves per se, but actually needed specific data locked within. Great, I’d found my original Mass Effect 3 save game files – but those wouldn’t work with Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and if I was going to revisit the world of Mass Effect I was going to do so right from the beginning in the original Mass Effect, not in the final game of the trilogy. I’d thought I’d remember buying Mass Effect 3 on release, and these dates now seemed to confirm that.īut the thing is, though, this in itself was useless to me. And, for those unaware, Mass Effect 3, the final game in the original trilogy, was released in March 2021.
