Community AdminThis works pretty well!
For the most part, the ME2 and ME3 facecodes work perfectly fine in Legendary Edition as is. The code portions that don't work are the colors: Skin tone, hair color, makeup, etc. In a few cases, the hairstyle codes don't work too. This tool does away with a lot of the guess work and translates all those color codes to LE codes that work if not 100%, then very close.
What I have noticed is not all colors are represented exactly so in some cases close approximations are used. Sometimes the tool even has multiple hair colors mapping to the same hair color. (For example, ME3 Hair E and F both map to Hair J in LE)
I am a bit disappointed that one of my favorite hair colors doesn't seem to map all that accurately though. In ME1 and ME2, Hair Color 3 was a natural coppery red. But according to this tool, it maps to Hair H in LE, which is like a deep crimson.
Anyway, I'm glad this tool exists. Maintaining a consistent Shepard across the Trilogy has always been important to me (As it has to so many of us). If you recall the ME3 Face Import bug back during the ME3 launch, I had written an entire Blog Post on the Bioware Social Network detailing how to retrieve your face code from your ME2 Save file if you created your Shep in ME1.
