Is it possible to rename npcs at all!?

[Zalent]

Just wondering!

[PeripheralVisionary]

Not to my knowledge. Also, if you name your horse after an npc you married, the horse will show up in the affection tab apparently.

[Kurzidan]

I'll try starting another new save and editing their NPC character file and see what happens. Just not right now lol.

[Joe Coffee]

Originally posted by Zalent:

Just wondering!

Officially, you can name them whatever you want. Just not officially within the game. I call everybody Billy.

[Tim Timsen]

Not only would you have to change the NPC's name but also every bit of dialogue that mentions that NPC.
Sounds like a lot of fun.
Not.

[Kurzidan]

Tried changing Maru to "Lisa"
Tried first by changing Harvey's love interest to Lisa, Maru's NPC file name to Lisa, her introduction string, to lisa, and her friendship title to Lisa. -> crash
Tried keeping the friendship and introduction as Maru, but otherwise Lisa, because the game wouldn't know what to put in social, and that is something that immediately occurs on load -> crash

Assumed -> No. It will cause your save to crash without finishing load.

Irrelevant -> I use Maru as my Guinea pig on most experiments with a singular target... Because Science. And She's all about Science-y things.

[murometz]

NPC names appear to be hardcoded. I suspect that's because they refer to one another, and it would take a fair amount of effort to turn what is just text, after all, into an extra bunch of variables. Little return for the effort.

[Lollo-hehe]

I've done it. It sucks cause you have to go though almost everything. I started with NPCdispositions.xnb and worked my way through most of the content that related at all to the character. So.. it is possible but it takes a while. If you just want to change the name that appear under the portraits, you go into Npcdispositions.

you want to change abigail to adam or something this is her info:

Abigail: "teen/rude/outgoing/neutral/female/datable/Sebastian/Town/fall 13/Caroline 'mom' Pierre 'dad'/SeedShop 1 9/Abigail

you change the last part 9/Abigail to 9/Adam.

You still have to go though everyone's dialogue and change it though..

[Death2519]

Thank you for telling me what file it is, you can open the file with microsoft notepad and then press ctrl f and type in the persons name. it takes like 2 minutes its so easy. I hope this helps somebody.