[Guide] Modding, Editing, and Porting PSP & PS2 NCAA

[antdroid]

Re: [Guide] Modding, Editing, and Porting PSP & PS2 NCAA

That was my guess as well. If I'm not mistaken, with the Dynasty Editor/EA DB you can edit the bowls, with conferences goes to them/what not. Maybe figuring out how to remove the WAC from getting a bowl bid?

OT: But did you already place, or is it possible to add the rookie contract scale in madden?

I had been editing the bowl games actually... and i think that's where my issue was. I'm simming a season now, but I changed the Conf USA Championship game to American Athletics Conf and I forgot to change the ID number on the bowl game! That would explain a lot. Now, if this works, I'm gonna go back to seeing if I can remove the WAC completely again. I pushed them to HS level and it still simmed, so hopefully...

As far as Rookie Scale, I was looking into that a couple weeks ago. I found the scale for Free Agents, I believed, and I modified the heck out of it and it didnt seem to do anything in the game.

The DBs in the save are:

SACP / SADP / SLRI / SAYP

CP is coaches
DP I thought was Free agents, but it might actually be Draft Picks!
RI is Restricted Free Agents, Salary Cap, and Max Contract Value.?
YP is Minimum Salary for Years Pro

[antdroid]

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Look at that. The teams that got realigned are playing in the conf championships

debugging rocks. spent 3 hours messing around and all i had to do was change ONE "4" to a "3"

[Brock]

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Look at that. The teams that got realigned are playing in the conf championships

debugging rocks. spent 3 hours messing around and all i had to do was change ONE "4" to a "3"

Lol, happens to the best of us.

BTW, you're madden 06 franchised is glitched. When I try to sim the preseason, the game crashes when teams sign free agents.

[antdroid]

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Lol, happens to the best of us.

BTW, you're madden 06 franchised is glitched. When I try to sim the preseason, the game crashes when teams sign free agents.

ugh. I'll look into that tomorrow. I think the problem might be having to start the game at Week 1 instead of preseason. I believe this was the same issue with Madden 12 on PSP.

Edit: did you sim a full season first, and then it crashes in the following offseason?

[Brock]

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ugh. I'll look into that tomorrow. I think the problem might be having to start the game at Week 1 instead of preseason. I believe this was the same issue with Madden 12 on PSP.

Edit: did you sim a full season first, and then it crashes in the following offseason?

It crashes during the first week of the preseason when the teams start to resign. The second time I tried, I turned off cpu's ability to sign free agents and fill rosters. I then was stuck at the Browns vs Jet's game in preseason, week 1. When I pressed O to select the game the dates changed to Sept 11, and still wouldn't let me play or simulate.

[antdroid]

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It crashes during the first week of the preseason when the teams start to resign. The second time I tried, I turned off cpu's ability to sign free agents and fill rosters. I then was stuck at the Browns vs Jet's game in preseason, week 1. When I pressed O to select the game the dates changed to Sept 11, and still wouldn't let me play or simulate.

Yes, I tried this last night before I went to bed. It doesnt let me proceed past the Jets/Browns game. This happened on other versions because the breakdown chart wasnt fulfilled but you could manually modify the team and it would be fine but for some reason it's not working for Madden 06. I noticed the breakdown restrictions are a lot lighter too, so that's also weird. I'll take a look at it this morning after the UW women huskies beat stanford

[antdroid]

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I found out how to generate schedules now! But this is going to be quite a project I think...

There's a database called TSWP (Team Swap). It gets populated when you start a dynasty and move around Div 2 teams with Div 1. I took it, and changed a couple div 2 teams I swapped with Utah and Colorado for the Pac 12 and it generated a schedule properly!

Now I have to wonder if it'll work with my realignment or not... since the Pac 12 is 12 teams now, not 10. But this is exciting. I still want to know how it generates schedules though. Seems weird that it doesnt read off the database, unless I'm missing another clue.

[antdroid]

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You can create your own bowl games by adding or modifying the BOWL database in a dynasty! I just made the Mountain West Championship game.

[Brock]

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You can create your own bowl games by adding or modifying the BOWL database in a dynasty! I just made the Mountain West Championship game.

That's huge. So we can add all of the current day bowls, and add the conferences that play in them?

[antdroid]

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That's huge. So we can add all of the current day bowls, and add the conferences that play in them?

I may have spoke a tad soon. I made ONE bowl. I added another and weird things happened. Will need more work. I'm still trying to figure out scheduling too.

Update: It worked the first time I tried it and then I posted that it worked, and of course, after subsequent trials, I can't get it to work properly. Sigh. I'm going to go back to working on scheduling. haha.

[antdroid]

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I was rummaging for ideas and I re-read the conference guide for CH2k8 and it dawned on me... Maybe I can swap the teams from the new 14 team conferences into TWO 8 team conferences from FCS conference, then go into the CONF database and modify the prestige and level of each conference to make them top tier again. I may not even have to... since I manually adjusted teams to divisions (this would be scheduling purpose only) but I think this could work out well esp since those teams tend to play really weak non-conf teams anyway

Update: this trial was a fail. It just doesnt schedule Div 1AA schools at all, so all the teams I swap just have 3-4 games on their schedule and a ton of byes. boooo

[Brock]

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I believe I found the Team Prestige column (TMPR) It had my team Clemson at 4, which they are in game, and had USC at 6. Scale goes from 1-6.

Not sure how to edit it because you can't import csv and I can't scroll down to the column. I wish you could just double click and edit.

[antdroid]

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I believe I found the Team Prestige column (TMPR) It had my team Clemson at 4, which they are in game, and had USC at 6. Scale goes from 1-6.

Not sure how to edit it because you can't import csv and I can't scroll down to the column. I wish you could just double click and edit.

Yea. You can change the TEAM db in dbeditor by right clicking on any ROW, and selecting the column in the pop up menu.

I wish there was a more simpler click and edit function though. I dont know if the source code was ever released for that program but it'd be nice to modify that.

There's another db editor that lets you just click and modify called Egorgiy NHL DB Editor. You can google and find it. I've had mixed results using it though. It doesn't always save.

[Brock]

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Yea. You can change the TEAM db in dbeditor by right clicking on any ROW, and selecting the column in the pop up menu.

I wish there was a more simpler click and edit function though. I dont know if the source code was ever released for that program but it'd be nice to modify that.

There's another db editor that lets you just click and modify called Egorgiy NHL DB Editor. You can google and find it. I've had mixed results using it though. It doesn't always save.

You can only scroll so far down the pop up menu, but I was able to change the prestige of a few schools. If I'm not mistaken, this effects recruiting right? I know they have to win to maintain or elevate their prestige.

[antdroid]

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You can only scroll so far down the pop up menu, but I was able to change the prestige of a few schools. If I'm not mistaken, this effects recruiting right? I know they have to win to maintain or elevate their prestige.

Yea it does affect recruiting. Clemson almost always wins or gets in the top3 in every season I sim so if they're not highly prestiged, they will be soon.

Hmm I see what you're talking about. I can't scroll or use arrows either.

You can try the Egorgiy editor:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzUet6uUqQooZFZPaS1fRGdINUU