NHL 2K8 Editor (Snowdrift)

[Jlnhlfan]

Re: NHL 2K8 Editor (Snowdrift)

No, I'm sorry, you're just wrong. It's unfortunate that you had a problem and that it corrupted your file but you are simply wrong. If anyone corrupts a file using this tool, it's actually verifiable through the amount of testing the tool has gone through that it is user error.
Secondly, what do you gain by alerting the community that they shouldn't use it without trying it for themselves first? Have you seen the number of pages and replies the tool has gotten? Was that all made up by people because snowdrift has some secret agenda in life to corrupt people's NHL2K8 saves? That would be pretty pathetic.
Explain your problem, give a description of what you did, how you captured the save and opened it and then what you did with the editor. What you did is like walking by a restaurant in the morning when it's closed and saying, "this restaurant sucks, they never open".

I edited some ages of some created players (some were to be under 16), and transferred some players to the National Teams.

[Jlnhlfan]

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I've never had anything of the sort with this editor.

And even if so, he says in his post to use it at your own risk. and why not keep backups of your files? is it really that difficult?

I wish I could show you guys what I'm talking about, but the site doesn't want me showing you unless I have 5 or more posts.

[snowdrift]

Re: NHL 2K8 Editor (Snowdrift)

I edited some ages of some created players (some were to be under 16), and transferred some players to the National Teams.

Okay, that's almost certainly not the problem. Those are both simple operations that work for me when I try them.

The file got corrupted, so the only option was was given was the "Delete" option.

I saw your screenshot. It makes me think that you missed a step when you transferred the file to your XBox. If you do anything wrong when transferring the file to the 360, the XBox will think the file is corrupted like that even if it's not.

Everyone seems to get this wrong so I think I'm going to copy/paste this stuff to the first post later on. (XBox users correct me, please, if I messed up on any of these steps, or if any are missing.)

First of all, you have to have Horizon installed on your computer to use the editor with the XBox 360. I don't know what you did, so I'll just repeat all the steps to doing the transfer:

1. Before you start, back up your old save file in case things go wrong.
2. Open your OLD/ORIGINAL XBox 360 save file (*.ROS or SaveGame.DAT) with the editor. Edit whatever you want, then save the file with the name "SaveGame.dat".
3. Now open Horizon.
4. In Horizon, open your OLD .*ROS or *.FRN save file (Tools -> Package Manager -> Open).
5. Go to the CONTENTS tab.
6. Right-click "SaveGame.dat" and then click "Replace".
7. Choose the NEW file you saved with the editor in Step 1 as the replacement.
8. You should get a message that the file was replaced successfully. Now click "Save, Rehash, and Resign".
9. Transfer the file back to your 360.

I think you can also use the Device Explorer in Horizon for the same thing, but I have no idea how that works.

the New York Rangers, in my roster, have Sonic characters in them

Wow. Knuckles to dig pucks out of the corners, Sonic's speed in transition... I would pay a lot of money to see a grittier Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, with NHL 2K8's gameplay.

Erm, sorry... back to the topic at hand...

[Jlnhlfan]

Re: NHL 2K8 Editor (Snowdrift)

Okay, that's almost certainly not the problem. Those are both simple operations that work for me when I try them.



I saw your screenshot. It makes me think that you missed a step when you transferred the file to your XBox. If you do anything wrong when transferring the file to the 360, the XBox will think the file is corrupted like that even if it's not.

Everyone seems to get this wrong so I think I'm going to copy/paste this stuff to the first post later on. (XBox users correct me, please, if I messed up on any of these steps, or if any are missing.)

First of all, you have to have Horizon installed on your computer to use the editor with the XBox 360. I don't know what you did, so I'll just repeat all the steps to doing the transfer:

1. Open your OLD/ORIGINAL XBox 360 save file (*.ROS or *.FRN) with the editor. Edit whatever you want, then save the file with the name "SaveGame.dat".
2. Now open Horizon.
3. In Horizon, open your OLD .*ROS or *.FRN save file (Tools -> Package Manager -> Open).
4. Go to the CONTENTS tab.
5. Right-click "SaveGame.dat" and then click "Replace".
5. Choose the NEW file you saved with the editor in Step 1 as the replacement.
6. You should get a message that the file was replaced successfully. Now click "Save, Rehash, and Resign".
7. Transfer the file back to your 360.

I think you can also use the Device Explorer in Horizon for the same thing, but I have no idea how that works.



Wow. Knuckles to dig pucks out of the corners, Sonic's speed in transition... I would pay a lot of money to see a grittier Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, with NHL 2K8's gameplay.

Erm, sorry... back to the topic at hand...

I don't know what this "Horizon" is. I use a MacBook Air.

[Jlnhlfan]

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Plus, when I downloaded Horizon, it instead gave me a setup for this thing called "Pepopunef". I don't know what it is, and nothing came up when I did a Google search.

[snowdrift]

Re: NHL 2K8 Editor (Snowdrift)

I don't know what this "Horizon" is. I use a MacBook Air.

It's a program for editing XBox 360 saves. Apparently, you can use Velocity instead on a Mac. Its usage is almost exactly the same as Horizon's. I don't know if it's a reliable program though. There's also a tool called Vantage for the Mac, but I know literally nothing about it.

Plus, when I downloaded Horizon, it instead gave me a setup for this thing called "Pepopunef".

I don't know what happened there, but that's definitely wrong. The Windows installer is Horizon-Setup.exe

[Jlnhlfan]

Re: NHL 2K8 Editor (Snowdrift)

It's a program for editing XBox 360 saves. Apparently, you can use Velocity instead on a Mac. Its usage is almost exactly the same as Horizon's. I don't know if it's a reliable program though. There's also a tool called Vantage for the Mac, but I know literally nothing about it.




I don't know what happened there, but that's definitely wrong. The Windows installer is Horizon-Setup.exe

Okay, Snowdrift.

[Jlnhlfan]

Re: NHL 2K8 Editor (Snowdrift)

It's a program for editing XBox 360 saves. Apparently, you can use Velocity instead on a Mac. Its usage is almost exactly the same as Horizon's. I don't know if it's a reliable program though. There's also a tool called Vantage for the Mac, but I know literally nothing about it.




I don't know what happened there, but that's definitely wrong. The Windows installer is Horizon-Setup.exe

Thing is, Velocity seems to use a different format than Horizon.

[snowdrift]

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Thing is, Velocity seems to use a different format than Horizon.

I saw your latest screenshot. You should only have one file in there, SaveGame.dat. The other file shouldn't be there.

I can't test with a 360, but this seems to work with Velocity:

1. File -> Open -> Package -> Choose the *.ROS file you want to modify.
2. Right-click SaveGame.dat, hit REPLACE FILE, then select the actual file you made with the editor. (It will look like nothing happened, but it doesn't matter.)
3. Click "Rehash/Resign" on the right. You're done.

If you still see two files in there, though, it might not work unless you get a fresh roster file from your 360 to inject the save into.

Can't you just attach the actual save files to your post? (I mean both the original *.ROS and the edited *.DAT files). I wouldn't mind looking at them myself.

[Jlnhlfan]

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No, I cannot attach the files.

[Jlnhlfan]

Re: NHL 2K8 Editor (Snowdrift)

I saw your latest screenshot. You should only have one file in there, SaveGame.dat. The other file shouldn't be there.

I can't test with a 360, but this seems to work with Velocity:

1. File -> Open -> Package -> Choose the *.ROS file you want to modify.
2. Right-click SaveGame.dat, hit REPLACE FILE, then select the actual file you made with the editor. (It will look like nothing happened, but it doesn't matter.)
3. Click "Rehash/Resign" on the right. You're done.

If you still see two files in there, though, it might not work unless you get a fresh roster file from your 360 to inject the save into.

Can't you just attach the actual save files to your post? (I mean both the original *.ROS and the edited *.DAT files). I wouldn't mind looking at them myself.

I get an error every time I try to resign/rehash.

[snowdrift]

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I get an error every time I try to resign/rehash.

My guess, based on that error message, is that the file, or the folder/drive you have it in, is read-only. That's a Mac problem, so I can't really help. Try copying all of the files to a personal folder on your computer that you can normally save to, and work with the copies. If it's still giving the same error, the file itself is locked... and there's nothing I can do across the Internet in that case. You'll have to figure out why your Mac is not giving you permission to access the file.

[Jlnhlfan]

Re: NHL 2K8 Editor (Snowdrift)

RIP my hopes of modding the file so I can release players from Denmark and Ukraine

[WWEDX2007]

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Hey Snowdrift you've been quiet for a bit, working on anything you'd like to share?

[tinpanalley]

Re: NHL 2K8 Editor (Snowdrift)

Hey Snowdrift you've been quiet for a bit, working on anything you'd like to share?

I hope he's working on "time off from modding".