While you're at the main menu, make sure "Model Dismemberment" in the "Options" section of Settings is enabled, then exit out of the game. Prerequisite Step: If you just installed Jedi Academy for the first time, start it up at least once and get to the main menu, so the game generates the config file. Simply follow the steps below and never worry about it again. So, as advertised, the following method will enable dismemberment to work flawlessly without the need to open the console and will work with new games and old saves, with no need to enable it at the start of every level.
I thought I'd post this as a resource for everyone, with my hope being that this guide will become the be-all-end-all to any other guide out there.
There still seems to be a lot of speculation on how to do this properly, so I decided to dig through my old files and share my method with you all. I just recently reinstalled Jedi Outcast and began browsing this subreddit for news/new mods and I saw posts that, after all these years, were still asking how to enable dismemberment in Jedi Academy. After doing a lot of digging & research, I actually got it to work seamlessly about two years ago, but neglected to post it because I simply just didn't think to do so, so I apologize for that. I tried every guide out there, and none of them are successful or repeatable. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.So, like many of you, I was disappointed that dismemberment didn't work quite like it did in Jedi Outcast. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.