Jolee Bindo Recruiting Bug Sorta Fix! (Related to Kotor Restored Content Mod)

[Rilith the Rogue]

So. I redownloaded KotOR after all these years, and gave it a shot. Downloaded some mods, made sure none conflicted, etc etc. All was peaches and creme. Saw new nicer textures, models, even restored content. Then an issue.

Coming to the forest floor of Kashyyk to recruit the Jedi hermit, Jolee Bindo, I came to a bug. He would fight some kinrath in a restored fight, and then poof. Stuck in a forever cutscene after he would fight them. I spent days looking things up, and then it hit me. The restored content mod! That's it! It must have changed the recruitment scene! So I searched fixes for that. Booleans this, cheat console that. None worked for me personally. What I found was a solution that at least worked temporarily for me, so I thought I'd share, in case anyone else runs into this issue.

For this sorta fix to work, I believe that the save must be before you go to the forest floor. I'm not sure on that 100% though.

If you have The Kotor Restored Content Mod 1.2 (K1R) installed and all that jazz, navigate to your module folder in the swkotor game file
(Steam, steamapps, common, swkotor, modules)
Find the file titled: kas_m24aa.mod and cut it from the directory, and paste it somewhere else (I put it in the desktop). It should be a movie file. Do not cut the other files that are similarly titled, as you will get an infinite loading screen when trying to go down to kashyyk's forest floor. It should restore the original scene, allowing you to recruit him without issue.
After recruiting him, I pasted the file back to it's original locationthough, with no issue, as I don't know if other files become dependent on it.

If I run into any more bugs regarding this sorta fix, I'll let you know.

Hopefully the K1R Team can fix that scene, as there are some cool bits to it, but not worth something game breaking like not being able to recruit Jolee.

Hope that helps!

[Ying Gosling]

Didn't help((( Now there is no infinite cutscene, but after i click on jolee, i cannot interact with the game exept hud and menu...

[Rilith the Rogue]

Shoot I'm sorry man.
It ended up working for me, but you should be able to restore the file to it's location without a hitch, as long as you had a backup save. If you find another solution, feel free to comment here, and I'll try to update this :)

[prototype81]

This is why I dont use mods and enjoy games in their former glory.

[Rilith the Rogue]

To each their own.
I personally enjoy games from my childhood, or older, but find it hard to replay them when they lack so much in the visual department compared to what is current. As well, some older games hardly function, or have game breaking bugs on today's hardware and software. It's the same reason for me that, while I loved movies on VHS as a kid, I by no means watch them on that format now.
Some games have aged well, and may only need a bugfix, if that.
Others were 'great for their time', but now are very hard for me to play.
Nostalgia and memories are the best buckets of coverup paint for sure.

[heydeb54301]

Wep. I'm sure that I have the same problem as you and thanks for the help

[iaco]

i have exactly the same problem with android version