Officers

IDs

Each officer has a unique id - changing this value has some unexpected effects that will be mentioned later in this document.

ID	Officer
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Character Mashing (inc. playing as generic officers)

Probably the most popular/well-known series of hacks throughout all Dynasty Warriors games is the ability to play as generic officers. I say this because the same way that I'll describe how to play as generic officers in this title, is almost identical to the steps required to play as generic officers in every previous title, all the way back to DW3.

As mentioned above, each officer has an ID. Changing this id to a value outside of the playable officer range allows you to use any of the hundreds of non-playable officers that appear in various battles throughout the game. As with the previous games, you can also play as any of the 'peon' enemies, such as privates, majors, guard captains, catapult officers, archers, etc. There are some caveats, though. Their weapon and player portrait will be determined by the officer you choose at the selection screen. Everything else can be swapped around, hence why I call this 'mashing'.

• Their voice and lines can be swapped
• Their moveset can be swapped
• Their skill tree can be swapped

Meaning that you can essentially create your own ideal officer. Or a really stupid one.

Current officer id/model/name 0x007756B4

The value of this address determines the name of the officer you're playing as, and the model. I won't list the entire range here, but the valid values seem to go up to near the 500 mark. It seems like after around 300-350 is where they start to go from generic officers to the peon enemies.

Current voice/lines 0x00772EF8

Changing this address changes both the voice of the officer and therefore their lines when killing an officer, capturing a base, killing X enemies etc. I thought it was worth mentioning that this can be independantly changed, since you can get some funny results.

Current moveset 0x00772F00

Also independant of the ID/model. This means you can use certain officers' weapons with other officers' movesets, for either good or weird results. This moveset value is equivalent to the officer's ID, i.e. if you wanted to use Zhou Yu's moveset, you'd set this to a value of 5. You'll have his moveset, but you'll be using the weapon of the officer you chose in the selecion screen.

Current skill tree 0x775A0

This doesn't typically have too much bearing on gameplay, especially if you're already using a character with good weapons and stats. A specific case where I found this to be very useful, though, is using the skill tree of officers that have the 'Special Start' ability. There's only a few officers that can have this, one example being Zhang Liao. Therefore, changing the value of this address to Zhang Liao's ID allows you to benefit from this skill on any other character. You'll also benefit from his horse abilities too, meaning you can absolutely blast through stages on horseback.

With all of those things in mind, here's a Peasant with Zhao Yun's Dragon Fang, using Zhou Yu's moveset, Lu Bu's voice + lines, and Zhang Liao's skill tree (he started the stage with a Tome).

Steps

1. While at the main menu, or the stage select screen, change one of the addresses above to your desired value
2. Freeze the value in Cheat Engine by crossing the checkbox to the left of the address name/description. Without this, the value will be changed to the officer you select in the next screen
3. In the officer selection screen, pick the officer whose weapons + stats you'd like to use
4. Once you've loaded into the stage preparation screen, check in the 'personal' menu to see if you're using the officer you wanted to use. For peon enemies, their name will be blank.
5. Load in to the stage

Titles

Officer's titles seem to be linked to their Level, however editing their Level in-memory does not seem to alter their title, or vice versa. Theres also a total of 154 titles, whereas an officer's max level is 50, so there may be multiple factors. This title does not seem to be linked to kills, either. Maybe there's 3 different titles for each level?

Changing their XP to over the required value doesn't level them up until getting a kill in-game. Changing their level in-memory does result in their stats being altered according to the weighting of the character - another stat that the game keeps track of.

Title value	Text
00	Lt. General
01	Assistant General
02	Field General
03	Gate General
04	4th Foot General
05	3rd Foot General
06	Lt. Foot General
07	Foot General
08	4th Crusher General
09	3rd Crusher General
10	Lt. Crusher General
11	Crusher General
12	4th Guard General
13	3rd Guard General
14	Lt. Guard General
15	Guard General
16	Winged General
17	Flying General
18	Lt. Support General
19	Support General
20	4th Order General
21	3rd Order General
22	Lt. Order General
23	Order General
24	4th Slashing General
25	3rd Slashing General
26	Lt. Slashing General
27	Slashing General
28	4th Pacifying General
29	3rd Pacifying General
30	Lt. Pacifying General
31	Pacifying General
32	4th Pike General
33	3rd Pike General
34	Pike General
35	4th Dignified General
36	3rd Dignified General
37	Lt. Dignified General
38	Dignified General
39	4th Dispatch General
40	3rd Dispatch General
41	Lt. Dispatch General
42	Dispatch General
43	4th Cohort General
44	3rd Cohort General
45	Lt. Cohort General
46	Cohort General
47	Commander General
48	Restoring General
49	4th Justice General
50	3rd Justice General
51	Tower General
52	River General
53	Sea General
54	Plains General
55	Lt. Justice General
56	Justice General
57	Lt. Moral General
58	Moral General
59	4th Loyal General
60	3rd Loyal General
61	Lt. Loyal General
62	Loyal General
63	4th Trusted General
64	3rd Trusted General
65	Lt. Trusted General
66	Trusted General
67	4th Spear General
68	3rd Spear General
69	Lt. Spear General
70	Spear General
71	4th Resolute General
72	3rd Resolute General
73	3rd Resolute General
74	Lt. Resolute General
75	Resolute General
76	4th Enchanter General
77	3rd Enchanter General
78	Lt. Enchanter General
79	Enchanter General
80	4th Assault General
81	3rd Assault General
82	Lt. Assault General
83	Assault General
84	4th Tiger General
85	3rd Tiger General
86	Lt. Tiger General
87	Tiger General
88	Negotiator General
89	Generous General
90	Right Flank General
91	Ambush General
92	Archer General
93	Lt. Crossbow General
94	Crossbow General
95	Left Flank General
96	Lt. Rank General
97	Rank General
98	Lt. File General
99	File General
100	Lt. Horse General
101	Horse General
102	Lt. Banner General
103	Banner General
104	Lt. Lance General
105	Lance General
106	Sword General
107	Guardian General
108	Crane General
109	Stallion General
110	Garrison General
111	Escort General
112	Commandant General
113	Warden General
114	Distinguished General
115	Capital General
116	Tiger's Fangs General
117	Rising Dragon General
118	4th Tranquil General
119	3rd Tranquil General
120	3rd Tranquil General
121	Tranquil General
122	Peacemaker General
123	Peacekeeper General
124	Crown General
125	4th Elite General
126	3rd Elite General
127	Lt. Elite General
128	Elite General
129	Master General
130	Rear General
131	Front General
132	General of the Right
133	General of the Left
134	4th North General
135	4th West General
136	4th South General
137	4th East General
138	3rd North General
139	3rd West General
140	3rd South General
141	3rd East General
142	Lt. North General
143	Lt. West General
144	Lt. South General
145	Lt. East General
146	North General
147	West General
148	South General
149	East General
150	Perimeter General
151	Chariot General
152	Cavalier General
153	Grand General
154	Lord General

Title tracking

Tracking two different officer's titles as they level up. Both started at level 1. The value does increase with the levels, but it does not exactly mirror it. Maybe the game chooses a random title that falls in each level bracket.

Officer	Lvl 3	Lvl 4	Lvl 5	Lvl 6	Lvl 7
Yuan Shao	Field General	Gate General	Lt. Foot General	4th Crusher General	3rd Guard General
Guan Ping	Field General	Gate General	Lt. Crusher General	3rd Guard General	Lt. Guard General

Stat weighting

This value affects the distribution of the officer's stats: Life, Musou, Attack, and Defense. Strangley it also affects the total points used to distribute these values, i.e. a value of 05 gives a total of 1,079 points to distibute between these four stats, whereas a value of 12 gives 1,105. This value was tested using a base level 1 Zhuge Liang.

Weighting = Individual stat value / Total points to distribute

Value	Weights
00	1,105 Points 0.24 Life 0.24 Musou 0.24 Attack 0.25 Defense
01	1,111 Points 0.25 Life 0.22 Musou 0.25 Attack 0.25 Defense
02	1,056 Points 0.24 Life 0.28 Musou 0.23 Attack 0.24 Defense
03	1,103 Points 0.24 Life 0.24 Musou 0.24 Attack 0.26 Defense
04	1,073 Points 0.24 Life 0.26 Musou 0.24 Attack 0.24 Defense
05	1,079 Points 0.24 Life 0.26 Musou 0.24 Attack 0.24 Defense
06	1,059 Points 0.24 Life 0.27 Musou 0.24 Attack 0.24 Defense
07	1,018 Points 0.23 Life 0.27 Musou 0.24 Attack 0.24 Defense
08	1,093 Points 0.24 Life 0.24 Musou 0.26 Attack 0.24 Defense
09	1,090 Points 0.23 Life 0.23 Musou 0.25 Attack 0.26 Defense
10	1,119 Points 0.24 Life 0.24 Musou 0.24 Attack 0.25 Defense
11	1,119 Points 0.25 Life 0.23 Musou 0.26 Attack 0.25 Defense
12	1,105 Points 0.25 Life 0.22 Musou 0.26 Attack 0.24 Defense

Using the same weighting value, I compared Zhuge Liang (lvl 1) and Zhao Yun's (lvl 47) stat distribution:

Value	Zhuge Liang weights	Zhao Yun weights	Zhuge Liang values	Zhao Yun values
02	1,056 Points 0.24 Life 0.28 Musou 0.23 Attack 0.24 Defense	3,654 Points 0.24 Life 0.25 Musou 0.24 Attack 0.25 Defense	254 Life 296 Musou 248 Attack 258 Defense	896 Life 938 Musou 900 Attack 920 Defense

The percentages are different, however the raw values show that both officers have the same most-favourable stat when their values are set to 02 - Musou.

When testing/comparing Yuan Shao and Guan Ping's titles as they levelled up, both of their weighting values were set to 33. I got Yuan Shao to level 7, then the game autosaved upon finishing the stage. When I returned to camp, I saw that Yuan Shao was back to level 4. So I checked Guan Ping, and saw this:

He's using Yuan Shao's sword. And he's now level 7.

His weapon inventory is also full of Yuan Shao's swords:

His skill tree is also all kinds of fucked up. It seems to be completely random, as Yuan Shao didn't have any of these skills unlocked, and certainly none of the final skills towards the right-hand side.

In game, the weapon remains, but he keeps his actual halberd/trident moveset.

So maybe this is nothing to do with weighting after all. While I was testing the weighting value -- or that's what I thought it was -- the maximum value was 41. There are 41 playable characters. Maybe this value is actually a sort of id that's tied to the officer to contain their weapon information and level/stats. Will have to dig deeper into whether this value is unique for all officers.

Replicated using Zhang Fei and Zhuge Liang by setting Zhang Fei's value to Zhuge Liang's value, then completing a stage. This effectively transfers both the cumulative XP gained (i.e. their level up to now), and the XP gained from the battle, onto the receiving player - in this case Zhuge Liang. Zhuge's weapon model was also changed, in the same way as the previous case. Reverting the values to their default state and completing a stage does mean the officers can go back to being able to level up their own stats, however does not seem to reverse the weapon model+inventory transfer.

Setting every officer's value to 10, the same as Zhao Yun's, then completing a stage with him, did not result in the same effect happening, like I thought it would.

Skills

Each officer has a unique skill tree, and not all of them have the same overall amount of skills to unlock. By level 50, or sooner, an officer will have all skills unlocked. The game keeps track of the number of skills unlocked in the officer's stat block, however it does so with a fucking massive 64-bit number. It's actually the first value to appear in a block, since everything before it is zero'd out. It's most recognisable in a maxed-out officer, since in Hex it'll look like this:

Each of the 6 bytes is at a value of 255. With a level 1 officer, the simplest method to achieve a full skill tree is to set each of these bytes to FF. Individually, this seems to unlock a sort of 'layer' each time. I'm still unsure about how to unlock individual skills within the tree, as there doesn't seem to be a pattern.

Unlocking officers

I compared two save.dat files - one before unlocking an officer, and the second after unlocking Xu Huang. I was hoping to find a simple change from a 00 i.e. not unlocked false, to a 01 somewhere. Among other changes, presumably because the game keeps track of the objectives necessary to unlock each officer, there was indeed a simple 00 -> 01 change at address 1874.

Changing this value back to 00, then reloading the save in-game through the options menu removed Xu Huang from the playable characters list. Looking around this data, there are a lot of repeating values and 0's throughout each block. This, combined with the fact that we know each officer's data is comprised of 168 bytes, led me to select the previous 168 bytes and see what value appears.

It's 01. Meaning this is clearly also an officer (one that's been unlocked). In this case it's Xiahou Yuan, since he appears before Xu Huang.

Moving forward another 168 bytes after Xu Huang's 'unlock status' would theoretically then put us at the next officer's 'unlock status' address. That value is currently at 00, since that officer hasn't been unlocked yet. Let's flip it to 01 and reload the save:

It worked. Apparently this byte is all that determines whether a character is playable, it doesn't matter if the objective to unlock them was actually met.

Again, advancing forward 168 bytes into the next 'block' and flipping the value to 01 allows us to unlock every officer in the game, without doing any of the required objectives.

Officer stat block layout/example/guide

Officer data is structured in the following order:

1. Skills tree (7 bytes)
2. Weapon data/storage (128 bytes total, 8 weapons)
   1. Weapon id (4 bytes)
   2. Damage offset (4 bytes)
   3. Element (4 bytes)
   4. Skills (4 bytes)
3. Officer id (4 bytes)
4. Equipped outfit (4 bytes)
5. Title (4 bytes)
6. Level (4 bytes)
7. XP (4 bytes)
8. Kills (4 bytes)
9. Unlock status (4 bytes)

To illustrate, here's the stat block of base-level Lu Bu. No skills, no XP, no kills, no weapons, etc. Since everything is full of 00's, it can be hard to find specific officers, without a definitive value that's probably unique (such as their XP).

Even if this scenario, when it's difficult to find a specific officer, there are some values that can be used to instantly determine what you're looking at. First, of course, is the officer id. Second, are their weapon id's. This is actually easier, since there will either be a sequence of 8 of them in a row, or one unique value followed by a sequence of AE's, since this is the value the game uses to represent a blank weapon. If you've not used the officer before, or they only have a single weapon, look for those.

In the above screenshot, Lu Bu's is identificable by the id being 10 (16), and his first weapon having an id of 30 (49). Using the weapon id table we know that's the Sky Piercer.

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Warhorses

Horses are stored in much the same way officers are. Their XP and individual stats are all kept track of, however it seems as though their data is around 60 bytes each, since there are less variables to keep track of.

That's how they appear in the save.dat file. I have 4 maxed out horses, so their XP address holds the value 88 13 - 5000. Another easy one to figure out is the Speed, Jump, Destruction, and Attack values. They come 6 bytes after the XP value, since in this screenshot they are all at F4 01 - 500. Each of these values can be adjusted in-game via the memory addresses I've found in the executable, or here inside this save file.

Ingame, using Red Hare with these values doesn't affect the speed of the horse, so there must be a minimum speed + an offset from the Speed stat, however the Destruction value being so low means that the horse gets stuck on even the peon enemies:

Trying the opposite end of the spectrum:

Sadly this doesn't result in a 300mph horse. In fact, it doesn't alter any of the stats in any meaningful way above 500.

Warhorse names

Oh boy, warhorses also have their own pool of names. Two of them. And their own titles. And their own two-part descriptions. All of which are randomly generated. Their prefix and suffix values are stored right next to eachother.

Prefixes

Value	Name	Value	Name	Value	Name
01	Bay	12	Dawn	23	Ginger
02	Chestnut	13	Dusk	24	Royal
03	Grey	14	Evening	25	Cinnamon
04	Blue	15	Harvest	26	Saffron
05	Red	16	Brindle	27	Sparkling
06	Dapple	17	Quiet	28	Valiant
07	Savage	18	Eastern	29	Brave
08	Roan	19	Western	30	Ultimate
09	Chrome	20	Southern	31	Cosmic
10	Dun	21	Northern
11	Pinto	22	Phantom

Suffixes

Value	Name	Value	Name	Value	Name
01	Cloud	12	Bull	23	Sprinter
02	Mist	13	Stone	24	Striker
03	Dream	14	Boulder	25	Emperor
04	Shadow	15	Beauty	26	King
05	Fang	16	Warlord	27	Phoenix
06	Song	17	Sun	28	Titan
07	Fox	18	Moon	29	Wave
08	Leopard	19	Comet	30	Zephyr
09	Cat	20	Dasher	31	Warrior
10	Rat	21	Eagle
11	Tiger	22	Devil

The system does lead to some interesting/cool names, even when randomly generated, such as Cosmic Titan, or Valiant Emperor. If you want just one of these names without the prefix or suffix, you can put either of the values above 31 and it'll be blank.

Models

#	Model	#	Model	#	Model	#	Model
01		05		09		13
02		06		10		14
03		07		11		15
04		08		12

Elements

A horse has the chance to have an elemental ability tied to it, but there's only 3 of them: Fire, Lightning, and Ice. Each of these elements has a chance to bind to any officers/peons you run over with your horse. But nothing crazy.

Description(s)

A horse's description in this game consists of two parts - their eyes and their physique. That's all it comes down to. These are two different values in memory, meaning, like their names, they can be mix and matched. These descriptors tell you about the horse's ability in combat, and it's speed. But I imagine its a very loose fitting system.

In the community, it's widely known that in order to obtain Red Hare, you need to find a red horse with these descriptors:

1. Eyes consider the world
2. Has a heavenly physique

Once you've got a horse with these descriptors, and raised it to level 5, it's model will transform to that of Red Hare - armour and all. However, according to this post, it's not a true red hare unless it also has the "Wind Spirit" skill, since that makes its speed that of the true Red Hare.

Eyes

Value	Description
00	Gaze into the distance
05	Miss nothing
07	View the world in clarity
15	Consider the world

Physique

Value	Description
00	Harbors untold power
01	Has a well-balanced physique
02	Has a superior physique
03	Has a heavenly physique

Skills

A horse can come with a set of 1-4 skills. Or no skills. This too is determined by a single value in the horse's save data block. It follows a pattern/logic, in that the skills stack on top eachother and then reset with a new 'base' skill. I'll list all of the skills a horse can have here:

Skill	Description
Values between 0-15 shuffle these skills:
Arrow Dance	Repels arrows when running
Find Saddle	Acquire a horse after each victory
Find Weapon	Acquire a weapon after each victory
Musou Spirit	Musou guage gradually refills while on horse
Values between 16-31 shuffle these skills:
Renbu Gait	Renbu gauge doesn't deplete while on horse
Arrow Dance	''
Find Saddle	''
Find Weapon	''
Musou Spirit	''
Values between 32-63 shuffle these skills:
Winged Hoof	Damage enemies with a shockwave when landing from a big jump
Arrow Dance	''
Find Saddle	''
Find Weapon	''
Musou Spirit	''
Renbu Gait	''
Values between 64-127 shuffle these skills:
Jagged Hoof	Increased damage when running over enemies
Winged Hoof	''
Arrow Dance	''
Find Saddle	''
Find Weapon	''
Musou Spirit	''
Renbu Gait	''
Values between 128-255 shuffle these skills:
Steel Hoof	Able to charge into large crowds
Jagged Hoof	''
Winged Hoof	''
Arrow Dance	''
Find Saddle	''
Find Weapon	''
Musou Spirit	''
Renbu Gait	''
Values between 256-511 shuffle these skills:
Water Spirit	Able to swim quickly, regardless of current
Steel Hoof	''
Jagged Hoof	''
Winged Hoof	''
Arrow Dance	''
Find Saddle	''
Find Weapon	''
Musou Spirit	''
Renbu Gait	''
Values between 512-1023 shuffle these skills:
Stone Spirit	Able to withstand heavy damage
Water Spirit	''
Steel Hoof	''
Jagged Hoof	''
Winged Hoof	''
Arrow Dance	''
Find Saddle	''
Find Weapon	''
Musou Spirit	''
Renbu Gait	''
Values between 1024-2056 shuffle these skills:
Wind Spirit	Able to run as fast as Red Hare
Stone Spirit	''
Water Spirit	''
Steel Hoof	''
Jagged Hoof	''
Winged Hoof	''
Arrow Dance	''
Find Saddle	''
Find Weapon	''
Musou Spirit	''
Renbu Gait	''

In other words,

with each doubling of the value, a new skill is introduced and the 'pool' is increased, with the horse's random selection of 1-4 abilities now including this new skill.

With the later abilities, such as Wind Spirit, this does make getting a horse with a specific set of skills quite difficult. Even modifying the memory address in real-time, it took ages for me to go through the values sequentially to find one that included both Wind Spirit and Steel Hoof. Imagine how long it'd take if you were to farm horses legitimately.

With this information, it's possible to define your own Ultimate Red Hare:

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Challenge Mode

Leaderboards

The 'personal best' screen shows a list of the top 10 best scores in that specific challenge. This data is also stored. Specifically, the total score, and some sort of ID number for the officer who got the score.

I set a new high score of 1565 in Rampage with Lu Bu, then compared the save files.

Previously, the record was 1500 by Lu Bu also:

After getting 1565, this value changed, but the next byte after was still at 10 00:

I changed the byte of the officer now in second position (i.e. Lu Bu) from 10 to 17, and Xu Zhu appeared:

Just to experiment, I put this 'id' to a stupid number, in this case 147:
Who the hell is Jiang Qin. Must be a generic officer.

Interestingly, in 7th position is Zhang Fei. After his high score is 0C - 16. Since I'm thinking this looks like some sort of unique identifier, I'll check what his value for 'weighting' is set to. Turns out that's also 16.

To test, I'll change some of these leaderboard id's to ones I already know are assigned to specific officers:

• Guan Ping is 33
• Yuan Shao is 36
• Lui Bei is 14
• Dian Wei is 5
• Lu Xun is 7

Weird. The first three officers are correct, but Zhou Yu and Sun Shang Xiang appear where Dian Wei and Lu Xun should appear. I checked their save data and it doesn't seem like I got a value wrong. I'll give Zhao Yun a weighting/id value of 05 and complete a stage in order to achieve the 'stat transfer' trick described above.

Yep, Zhou Yu now has Zhao Yun's spear. And Dian Wei is unaffected. Next, I changed Zhao Yun's weighting/id to 07 and did the same.

SSX now also has his spear. And Lu Xun is unaffected. Seems like I definitely got something wrong.

In order to find out Lu Xun and Dian Wei's true id's, I could check the leaderboards and see if they appear on any of them.

There's Lu Xun, in 5th position in Gauntlet. In the save data for this challenge, his id appears as 06:

But in his block of stats where his XP/level etc. is stored, there is absolutely no 6. Only 7. I've previously downloaded a 100% completed save with all characters maxed out in order to compare the two save.dat files, so I diff'd my current save and the completed save, then navigated to Lu Xun's block:

To double triple quadruple check, I deleted my save and started fresh, and sure enough the value was set back to 06. I must have been fucking around with what I thought was the stat weighting, and accidentally saved the game at some point.

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Weapons

Weapons are stored in blocks of 16 bytes, before each character's general stats. It consists of the following:

• weapon id - a unique identifier for the weapon that the officer wields. This value is specific to even the level of the weapon, i.e. Zhao Yun's first-level weapon 'Dragon Spike' is a different value to Zhao Yun's 'Dragon Fang'.
• damage - This isn't a direct numerical value for the weapon's damage. Instead, it works as a sort of 'bracket' for the damage to fall into. It is affected by the id, in that a lower-tier weapon will have reduced damage, even while value remains the same.
• element - Can be Fire, Ice, or Lightning.
• skills - A set of 1-4 abilities the weapon has.

Weapon IDs

This table is pretty interesting, since you can pinpoint the exact moment they stopped giving a shit about different weapon models for each of the tiers. From Xu Zhu onwards, the first, second, and third weapons all share the same model.

Value	Name	Officer	Image	Value	Name	Officer	Image
00	Rock Crusher	Xiahou Dun		68	Chaos	Cao Pi
01	Wave Breaker	Xiahou Dun		69	Rage Trident	Taishi Ci
02	Thundersmash	Xiahou Dun		70	Savage Trident	Taishi Ci
03	Violent Soul Flail	Dian Wei		71	Tsunami Trident	Taishi Ci
04	Lion's Head Flail	Dian Wei		72	Valor	Lu Meng
05	Beserker Flail	Dian Wei		73	Spirit	Lu Meng
06	Eradication Claws	Sima Ye		74	Courage	Lu Meng
07	Anguish Claws	Sima Ye		75	River Slicer	Huang Guai
08	Necrosis Claws	Sima Ye		76	Mountain Breaker	Huang Guai
09	Twin Vipers	Zhange Liao		77	Sky Lasher	Huang Guai
10	Twin Dragons	Zhange Liao		78	Flashstrike	Zhou Tai
11	Twin Eagles	Zhange Liao		79	Dawnstrike	Zhou Tai
12	Sword of Heaven	Cao Cao		80	Duskstrike	Zhou Tai
13	Blue Blade	Cao Cao		81	Flying Nimbus	Ling Tong
14	Seven Star Sword	Cao Cao		82	Rising Nimbus	Ling Tong
15	Red Dusk	Zhou Yu		83	Lofting Nimbus	Ling Tong
16	Dark Night	Zhou Yu		84	Tryant Strike	Sun Ce
17	Scarlet Dawn	Zhou Yu		85	Glimmer Strike	Sun Ce
18	Silver Swallow	Lu Xun		86	Stoic Strike	Sun Ce
19	Blue Falcon	Lu Xun		87	Dragon's Might	Sun Quan
20	Jade Warbler	Lu Xun		88	Heaven's Might	Sun Quan
21	Madder Rose	Sun Shang Xiang		89	Tiatan's Might	Sun Quan
22	Wisteria Breeze	Sun Shang Xiang		90	Ironhorse Glaive	Ma Chao
23	Lotus Bow	Sun Shang Xiang		91	Dragonrun Glaive	Ma Chao
24	Crescent Moon	Gan Ning		92	Warsteed Glaive	Ma Chao
25	Dancing Dragon	Gan Ning		93	Immortal Blade	Huang Zhong
26	Wing Blade	Gan Ning		94	Battle Master Blade	Huang Zhong
27	Elder Sword	Sun Jian		95	Princeps Blade	Huang Zhong
28	Nine Hook Sword	Sun Jian		96	The Awakener	Wei Yan
29	Golden Pheonix	Sun Jian		97	Bone Splitter	Wei Yan
30	Dragon Spike	Zhao Yun		98	Stormhowl	Wei Yan
31	Dragon Fang	Zhao Yun		99	Blue Dragon Ji	Guan Ping
32	Dragon Talon	Zhao Yun		100	Black Dragon Ji	Guan Ping
33	Blue Dragon	Guan Yu		101	White Dragon Ji	Guan Ping
34	Black Dragon	Guan Yu		102	Firestorm Staff	Pang Tong
35	White Dragon	Guan Yu		103	Blizzard Staff	Pang Tong
36	Serpent Blade	Zhang Fei		104	Typhoon Staff	Pang Tong
37	Python Blade	Zhang Fei		105	Wizard Club	Dong Zhuo
38	Viper Blade	Zhang Fei		106	Magus Club	Dong Zhuo
39	Brilliance	Zhuge Liang		107	Augur Club	Dong Zhuo
40	Distinction	Zhuge Liang		108	Sword of Kings	Yuan Shao
41	Enlightenment	Zhuge Liang		109	Sword of Severity	Yuan Shao
42	Strength and Virtue	Liu Bei		110	North Star Sword	Yuan Shao
43	Heaven and Earth	Liu Bei		111	Blaze Staff	Zhang Jiao
44	Yin and Yang	Liu Bei		112	Blight Staff	Zhang Jiao
45	Moonflower	Diao Chan		113	Judgement Staff	Zhang Jiao
46	Dewflower	Diao Chan		114	Allure	Zhen Ji
47	Rainflower	Diao Chan		115	Charm	Zhen Ji
48	Sky Piercer	Lu Bu		116	Seduction	Zhen Ji
49	Demon Bane	Lu Bu		117	True Grace	Xiao Qiao
50	Heron Blade Halberd	Lu Bu		118	True Beauty	Xiao Qiao
51	Bone Crusher	Xu Zhu		119	True Luster	Xiao Qiao
52	Chaos Crusher	Xu Zhu		120	Emerald Dew	Yue Ying
53	Whirlwind Crusher	Xu Zhu		121	Emerald Veil	Yue Ying
54	Heavens Destroyer	Xiahou Yuan		122	Emerald Mist	Yue Ying
55	Heavens Smasher	Xiahou Yuan
56	Heavens Cutter	Xiahou Yuan
57	Destroyer	Xu Huang
58	Annihilator	Xu Huang
59	Obliterator	Xu Huang
60	Splendor	Zhang He
61	Mystery	Zhang He
62	Ostentation	Zhang He
63	Phoenix Wing	Cao Ren
64	Dragon Scale	Cao Ren
65	Tortoise Bite	Cao Ren
66	Havoc	Cao Pi
67	Mayhem	Cao Pi

This of course lends itself to swapping weapons between officers, without the risk of irreversibly fucking up your character's inventory/weapons permenantly, as is the case with the stat transfer method earlier. If you simply navigate through your officer's weapon slots 16 bytes at a time, starting from their id, you can fill up your inventory with a bunch of different weapons that you're absolutely not supposed to be using:

But, unlike in later entries to the series where weapon switching is a mechanic, the moveset and animations doesn't change. But with some imagination and some help from the table above, you can end up with some pretty decent looking swaps...

Liu Bei with the twin fans:

Giving Zhou Yu Dian Wei's weapon somehow also works pretty well!!:

Turn out Sima Yi doesn't actually have hands:

Lu Xun holding Xu Zhu's 600 pound club with his wrist:

Damage

This address seems to function as an offset to add to the weapon's base damage. As you might expect, third-tier weapons have a higher base damage than first-tier ones. For example, Guan Yu's 'Blue Dragon' with a damage value of 0 results in a weapon with 60 damage. Increasing this value to 06 changes the weapon's damage to 66. Keeping this value at 06 and changing the id of the weapon to 33, i.e. his third-tier weapon, gives us 70 damage. Reverting the damage back to 0, it goes down to 64 - still higher than the base damage of his first-tier blade.

• The maximum value seems to be 32 - the UI can't display a higher value than 100 damage. The game might still keep track of it, though.
• This base damage doesn't change across officers/levels

An officer's second-tier weapon actually has a lower base power, since these weapons instead favour attack speed. Of course, increasing the damage value can easily solve this. Sadly, the speed and range of a weapon aren't stored in save data.

Skills

Weapons can have up to five skills attached to them. The value shuffles sets of 1-5 of them, in the same way as horse abilties. However this means things get even more complex.

Skill	Description
Values between 1-15 shuffle these skills:
Air Wave	Upon attack, sends out a wave of air that damages enemies
Mystic Seal	Elemental damage is stengthened
True Musou	Every Musou attack is a True Musou
Leech	Life gauge recovers slightly when inflicting damage
Values between 16-31 shuffle these skills:
Concentration	Musou gauge depletes quickly, but is stengthened
Air Wave	''
Mystic Seal	''
True Musou	''
Leech	''
Values between 32-63 shuffle these skills:
Balance	Gain the advantage in a weapon deadlock
Concentration	''
Air Wave	''
Mystic Seal	''
True Musou	''
Leech	''
Values between 64-127 shuffle these skills:
Beserk	Attack increases greatly, but defence drops massively
Balance	''
Concentration	''
Air Wave	''
Mystic Seal	''
True Musou	''
Leech	''
Values between 128-255 shuffle these skills:
Renbu Spirit	Chains stay active longer
Beserk	''
Balance	''
Concentration	''
Air Wave	''
Mystic Seal	''
True Musou	''
Leech	''
Values between 256-511 shuffle these skills:
Arrow Sight	Deflect arrows while attacking
Renbu Spirit	''
Beserk	''
Balance	''
Concentration	''
Air Wave	''
Mystic Seal	''
True Musou	''
Leech	''
Values between 512-1024 shuffle these skills:
Flash	Chance to instantly defeat weaker opponents and deal heavy damage to officers
Arrow Sight	''
Renbu Spirit	''
Beserk	''
Balance	''
Concentration	''
Air Wave	''
Mystic Seal	''
True Musou	''
Leech	''

Game executable memory addresses

Memory addresses that house various values I've managed to find.

Address	Desc
077B11B8	Current health
007B2938	Current KO count in stage
007B2958	Current highest chain
007B2944	Current XP gained from pouches
007B2948	Current XP gained from kills

Officer stat locations

Zhao Yun

Address	Desc
007B3D08	XP
007B3D00	Officer title
007B3D04	Level
007B3CF8	Stat weighting
007B3CFC	Equipped outfit

Guan Yu

Address	Desc
007B3DB0	XP
007B3DB4	Kills
007B3DA8	Officer title
007B3DAC	Level
007B3DA0	Stat weighting
007B3DA4	Equipped outfit

Zhang Fei

Address	Desc
007B3E58	XP
007B3E5C	Kills
007B3E50	Officer title
007B3E54	Level
007B3E48	Stat weighting
007B3E4C	Equipped outfit

Xiahou Dun

Address	Desc
007B3678	XP
007B3670	Officer title
007B3674	Level
007B3668	Stat weighting
007B366C	Equipped outfit

Dian Wei

Address	Desc
007B3720	XP
007B3724	Kills
007B3718	Officer title
007B371C	Level
007B3710	Stat weighting
007B3714	Equipped outfit

Sima Yi

Address	Desc
007B37C8	XP
007B37CC	Kills
007B37C0	Officer title
007B37C4	Level
007B37B8	Stat weighting
007B37BC	Equipped outfit

Zhou Yu

Address	Desc
007B39C0	XP
007B39B8	Officer title
007B39BC	Level
007B39B0	Stat weighting
007B39B4	Equipped outfit

Lu Xun

Address	Desc
007B3A68	XP
007B3A6C	Kills
007B3A60	Officer title
007B3A64	Level
007B3A58	Stat weighting
007B3A5C	Equipped outfit

Sun Shang Xiang

Address	Desc
007B3B10	XP
007B3B14	Kills
007B3B08	Officer title
007B3B0C	Level
007B3B00	Stat weighting
007B3B04	Equipped outfit