Help please :) - Maddenator

[DougW]

I ran a thread a couple days ago, and am up to 80+ views with no response. I'm thinking either : 1) No one has an answer or 2) I mislead people with my thread title, and folks thought I was specifically asking the mod creator :). So, on the off chance it's #2 - I'll re-do it with a 'friendlier' title.

If anyone knows anything about this .. Please chime in ! :)

-copy/pasted from previous thread.

I just found this and have been having trouble getting it to work. Would be very cool to get 'see' my FOF team running around in Madden. (yeah, yeah, I could plug in names, heights, weights, numbers, stats myself - but ... oh, soo lazy haha).

Anyway, just wondering if Maddenator works .. and if it does - is it compatible with Windows7 and Madden 08.

Much thanks

[Alf]

/me takes up his Maddenator suit.

Maddenator does work.
And it works for at least Madden 08 and Madden 07 (I have Madden 08, and I know it's been tested with Madden 07, and it used to work with 06).
I'm running it on Windows XP (I have no Win7, so I couldn't tell), but if you can run gstelmack tools in Win7 to get a proper extractor file, you should be able to run Maddenator.


see Maddenator for IHOF : OFFICIAL IHOF Graphics Sticky thread (Madden + in game) - IHOF Forums (http://www.fof-ihof.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24616) (I haven't uploaded them all, but I have about 10 seasons available)

I'll try to summarize the steps to make it work here :

1 - Create a Madden roster file matching exactly your FOF teams "cities and names". mymadden.ros

2 - Run a gstelmack extractor so you have all your 32 teams in a FOFroster.csv file

3 - Run Maddenator using mymadden.ros and FOFroster.csv file

You're done.

You might need to tweak or auto update the depth charts, but your players will be there in Madden.

PS : don't hesitate to ask again if you can't make this work

[DougW]

TYVM for your help Alf :).

Problem.

The Extractor took. The maddenator gave me the following error message (along with my paths) :(.

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/9302/errorwn.jpg (http://img96.imageshack.us/i/errorwn.jpg/)

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/237/errorhcz.th.jpg (http://img707.imageshack.us/i/errorhcz.jpg/)

Any ideas ?

[Alf]

Looks like a Windows issue to me. If I can get the MADDENTOR.ros and FOFRoster.csv file, I could try running Maddenator on my "hopefully" still working machine.

[DougW]

Looks like a Windows issue to me. If I can get the MADDENTOR.ros and FOFRoster.csv file, I could try running Maddenator on my "hopefully" still working machine.

Got it to take :). The extractor is working fine, but still can't get the Maddenator to go on my machine. So I mailed files to my wife, and was able to do it on hers. I run Windows 7, She still runs XP. I imagine my problem is somewhere in that haha. Anyway, I have my solution.

Thanks for your help, and offer to do it for me Alf :)

* for folks finding this thread while doing a search for a similar problem. Very sorry, no solution :(. It appears Maddenator isn't compatible with Windows7.

[wade moore]

I'm about 99.99999% sure it is not that Maddenator "isn't compatible with Windows 7".

The Stelmack Suite wasn't designed for Windows 7. So, generally, there's some hacking - sometimes registry hacking - required to make it work because Windows 7/FOF decide to totally change how it looks for things.

Unfortunately, I don't know what that change is.

[gstelmack]

*Drive By Alert*

The Stelmack Suite wasn't designed for Windows 7.

As much as I've complained about FOF not supporting Vista/Win7 for the longest time, I'm pretty sure this is an inaccurate statement :devil:

So, generally, there's some hacking - sometimes registry hacking - required to make it work because Windows 7/FOF decide to totally change how it looks for things.

The problem you are describing is that when FOF finally got around to supporting Windows 7, it removed the registry key that I was using to find where the FOF install was. So, some folks had to put that registry key back in. At one point before I had a 64-bit OS to test on, I had put in a feature that let you specify the path in a text file, but I don't remember if I pulled it once I fixed the 64-bit issue in the code, so that may or may not be an option.

As for Maddenator, that worked with some DLLs to read the Madden files, and I haven't run it in a long time, so that error could be occurring anywhere. My guess is I've got Maddenator built against the "Any CPU" config, which means that on 64-bit Windows it runs as a 64-bit app, and then fails to load the Madden-reader DLL because it's a 32-bit DLL. That's what that error seems to be indicating. It will probably run fine on 32-bit Windows 7.