Although I have just returned only a few months ago, I used to play almost 15 years ago now when I was kid.
During that time I learned about dat swapping from friends who would share images of their characters with equipment that looked far better then what the game had at the time. From there I discovered FFXIDATs, like most of you lol. The day that we found out that the site would be closing I felt I had to download as much as I could before it all came crashing down. And so I did with the intention of sharing what I'd saved with the community.
UNFORTUNATELY, the laptop I used to download them had gone missing a short time after, and the flash drive I used to back up the dats had been damaged beyond function. So the dats I had meant to preserve and share on FFXIAH with everyone would remain lost, for a time. It wasn't until literally today that we had found the laptop with the dat files. Excited, I finally begun the process of being able to share what I had meant to share near a decade and half a go. As a disclaimer, some of them have the original authors notes, and but some don't... but I obviously take no credit for making any of these.
Why I'm doing this? It's part of XI's history, and it's something I want(and intended) to share with the community for many years now. These creators have come and gone from XI, but they should be remembered for the content they made.
DATS
Elvaan Male Judge Gabranth Hands and Feet
Elvaan Male Judge full set
Elvaan Griffin Knight set
Hume F4 hair to Taru M
Disembowler Polearm

Valec's Outfit: Includes images, and Tenzen's GK

Dragonslayer sword collection; all races

FFX's Brotherhood; all races

Imperial Rose Shield; EM

"Seal" sword and Shield; HM and EM

Unknown sword and shield set; all races



Elvaan M "Wasio" face swaps; Red and Black hair


Ultima Weapon set; ALl races(supposidely)

Z Swords

NPC/MONSTER/CHOCOSWAPS
Undead Hound monster swap

Airship chocobo dat swap

FFXII Moogle swaps



Goobbue Racer chocobo dat swap

Mog House Moogle's wearing DRG AF AND RELIC


Classic Final Fantasy Cactaur

Celestial mandragora swap

Exdeath

POKEMON COLLECTION
Swap monsters to look like Pokemon
Camerupt

Charizard

Combee

Diglett

Ditto

Magikarp

Psyduck

Zubat

Haunter

Pikachu

Jigglypuff

Magneton

Marill

Oddish

Voltorb

Weedle

Snorlax

I have stored these dats on my Google Drive. You can pick individually the ones you want. Unfortunately some of them dont have images, or the model viewer I have wasnt playing nice.