as i was watching my personal patch play through (!), i noticed in the gun demo scene after zaland (the character replaces mustadio...sorta. they actually work together), the sprite changes to some palette-swapped mustadio and then performs the actions, then switches back.
i've found that the sheet for these types of things to be in EVTCHR.BIN, but the shishi sprite mngr does display the whole sheet. any other mngr.s out there i could use to re-do this?