Your best luck in that case would be to make the new name eight characters long, or there might be formatting issues. I can't find my character name this way, but someone better at that sort of thing might be able to find it (editing the name on the first line of the file just changes the text displayed on the save/load screes, not the name of the player container). If you use them to change gender your character will still have the other gender's voice.

However, having never seen or used it, I've no idea if it might corrupt your savegame later.Īnother possibility might be to hex-edit the data on the XBox 360 version of the savefile from your computer. If you use any of the console commands to change your character's race it will break any character past level 1 by screwing up attributes and skills. Seeing as it's a single-player game, I really don't see any tos issues with a converter (you can supposedly do this to redo your perks, or give yourself a billion health, etc., as well). If you can find one of those, and have a friend (or know someone online) with the PC version, you could give them the savegame, run the console command, adjust your name, then convert it back to XBox 360. I've heard there's a converter to change your savegame from XBox 360 to PC and back. I've heard changing your race is a bad idea though. How to Open the Skyrim Command Console: To open the console by press the key, which is to the right of the 1 key and below the Esc key., The only way to change normally is access to console commands or making a new character, console commands are normally only accessible to PC gamers.

In the PC version, /showracemenu worked fine for me, and I successfully changed my appearance (eye-color, mainly), without affecting my skills, level, or anything like that (I recall in Oblivion there was a fairly convoluted way to do it - this is much easier).

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