Investigating the effect of editing PBLA in subcode

Monster Rancher Metropolis: The Laboratory: Technical Research On The Monster Rancher CD Read Process: Ongoing Research : Investigating the effect of editing PBLA in subcode
By alphamone on Sunday, July 4, 2004 - 05:41 pm:

I got an idea after reading that someone was going to mess around with a part of the subcode to change the stats of the monster. I decided to try it myself after finding out that all non "/???" subcodes produce the same thing in both the PAL and NTSC version of the game.

So I decided to do some investigating of my own. All I did was mess around with the PBLAs and a few of the Pframes of an arrowhead subcode (the one from this site) to see what would happen. The result was a very bad arrowhead.

however, this has prompted me to investigate further. My next tries will have all the PBLAs at 0 and the other with all PBLAs at 999999.

I would apprieciate other people to try this out and post their results as I currently do not have many writeable CDs left.

this is the unedited subcode.

[CloneCD]
Version=2

[Disc]
TocEntries=21
Sessions=1
DataTracksScrambled=0
CDTextLength=0

[Session 1]
PreGapMode=0
PreGapSubC=0

[Entry 0]
Session=1
Point=0xa0
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=42
ALBA=-3633
Zero=0
PMin=1
PSec=0
PFrame=0
PLBA=4350

[Entry 1]
Session=1
Point=0xa1
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=45
ALBA=-3630
Zero=0
PMin=18
PSec=0
PFrame=0
PLBA=80850

[Entry 2]
Session=1
Point=0xa2
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=12
AFrame=60
ALBA=-3690
Zero=0
PMin=76
PSec=59
PFrame=68
PLBA=346343

[Entry 3]
Session=1
Point=0x01
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=12
AFrame=63
ALBA=-3687
Zero=0
PMin=0
PSec=2
PFrame=0
PLBA=0

[Entry 4]
Session=1
Point=0x02
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=12
AFrame=66
ALBA=-3684
Zero=0
PMin=4
PSec=26
PFrame=62
PLBA=19862

[Entry 5]
Session=1
Point=0x03
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=12
AFrame=69
ALBA=-3681
Zero=0
PMin=8
PSec=0
PFrame=74
PLBA=35924

[Entry 6]
Session=1
Point=0x04
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=12
AFrame=72
ALBA=-3678
Zero=0
PMin=9
PSec=42
PFrame=30
PLBA=43530

[Entry 7]
Session=1
Point=0x05
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=0
ALBA=-3675
Zero=0
PMin=14
PSec=52
PFrame=40
PLBA=66790

[Entry 8]
Session=1
Point=0x06
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=4
ALBA=-3671
Zero=0
PMin=19
PSec=37
PFrame=26
PLBA=88151

[Entry 9]
Session=1
Point=0x07
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=6
ALBA=-3669
Zero=0
PMin=24
PSec=22
PFrame=45
PLBA=109545

[Entry 10]
Session=1
Point=0x08
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=9
ALBA=-3666
Zero=0
PMin=29
PSec=25
PFrame=7
PLBA=132232

[Entry 11]
Session=1
Point=0x09
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=12
ALBA=-3663
Zero=0
PMin=33
PSec=17
PFrame=7
PLBA=149632

[Entry 12]
Session=1
Point=0x0a
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=15
ALBA=-3660
Zero=0
PMin=37
PSec=28
PFrame=26
PLBA=168476

[Entry 13]
Session=1
Point=0x0b
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=18
ALBA=-3657
Zero=0
PMin=42
PSec=56
PFrame=72
PLBA=193122

[Entry 14]
Session=1
Point=0x0c
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=9
AFrame=70
ALBA=-3905
Zero=0
PMin=47
PSec=33
PFrame=44
PLBA=213869

[Entry 15]
Session=1
Point=0x0d
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=24
ALBA=-3651
Zero=0
PMin=51
PSec=54
PFrame=41
PLBA=233441

[Entry 16]
Session=1
Point=0x0e
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=27
ALBA=-3648
Zero=0
PMin=54
PSec=58
PFrame=10
PLBA=247210

[Entry 17]
Session=1
Point=0x0f
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=30
ALBA=-3645
Zero=0
PMin=60
PSec=48
PFrame=65
PLBA=273515

[Entry 18]
Session=1
Point=0x10
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=33
ALBA=-3642
Zero=0
PMin=64
PSec=45
PFrame=62
PLBA=291287

[Entry 19]
Session=1
Point=0x11
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=36
ALBA=-3639
Zero=0
PMin=69
PSec=3
PFrame=61
PLBA=310636

[Entry 20]
Session=1
Point=0x12
ADR=0x01
Control=0x00
TrackNo=0
AMin=99
ASec=13
AFrame=39
ALBA=-3636
Zero=0
PMin=73
PSec=41
PFrame=6
PLBA=331431

I will try out those two and post the stats when I log on next time.