hacking a boss modifier for Mega Man X5, and need some help

[bowsersenemy]

i'm looking to change who i fight, in the third "virus" stage. the stage where you fight X if you're zero, and zero if you're X. a code has recently been found for the PSX version, that changes which zero you fight, (maverick or not) but it won't change WHO you fight.

now, i have found a "current character modifier" and it's a bit buggy, but if you're X, and you change to one of X's armors, the game will try to addapt, but badly. if you change to Zero, you'll get no changes at all. doing so and then walking into the boss room also yields no results. if you're X, you still fight zero, even though you set your character to zero. unless i have to die off first, this doesn't help any.

i'm kind of at a loss here as to what i'm supposed to do. i've hacked all sorts of codes, but i just can't seem to get the search results down while making this one. if it's any help, i'm using GCNrd on the gamecube version of Mega Man X Collection. any and all help would be greatly apreciated.

[Helder]

The game probably stores somewhere who has entered the stage and only re checks who is loaded during the check after you die and it reloads the stage. Try maybe looking for something like that.

[bowsersenemy]

so put a read breakpoint on the current character address, and see where it takes me, right? sounds like a plan. there's two sections that show which character you are, but i'll see if i can give it a shot.