ESPN NHL 2K5 (Xbox) 2018-19 Roster Development Thread

[Fiddy]

ESPN NHL 2K5 (Xbox) 2017-18 Roster Development Thread

I miss the days I would spend hours on rosters with Finn's editor. I spent so much time on it that 2k actually used my roster base as their official roster updates for a year. LOL

They would just change the names of the minor league players because of them not playing any games at the NHL level. I got a shout out in the thanks section in the game manual. ha!

Keep up the great work guys..

(Name top right of the picture.. The good old days!)

[tinpanalley]

Re: ESPN NHL 2K5 (Xbox) 2017-18 Roster Development Thread

I miss the days I would spend hours on rosters with Finn's editor. I spent so much time on it that 2k actually used my roster base as their official roster updates for a year. LOL

They would just change the names of the minor league players because of them not playing any games at the NHL level. I got a shout out in the thanks section in the game manual. ha!

Keep up the great work guys..
(Name top right of the picture.. The good old days!)

It's amazing to me that these games can still generate passionate interest even if it's just in a few of us. I play NFL 2K5 every year and it never gets old. I started playing the NHL 2K series again about a year ago because I had already left the contemporary EA game for the 2016 PS3 Legacy version and despite being great it really does hit a wall where the boredom is hard to ignore. And while I've played MLB 2K12 every year for a few games, the lack of any kind of decent roster attention makes it less interesting. MLB2K5 wit rosters would be incredible. But no editor and the create player limit of 25 kills that chance. What I didn't imagine was that people like snowdrift, WWEDX2007, molifox were going to make versions I didn't know well play so beautifully. 2K8 and 2K10 are phenomenal but it's really going to be a blast playing 2K5's ESPN presentation with contemporary rosters. All I can do is test and comment so the praise goes to them, but it's great to be able to play these games and it speaks a lot to how good they still are and what, in summary, a sports video game should be and how all the supposed innovations today seem to do nothing but get us further away froma model that was working fine 10 years ago.

[WWEDX2007]

Re: ESPN NHL 2K5 (Xbox) 2018-19 Roster Development Thread

I miss the days I would spend hours on rosters with Finn's editor. I spent so much time on it that 2k actually used my roster base as their official roster updates for a year. LOL

They would just change the names of the minor league players because of them not playing any games at the NHL level. I got a shout out in the thanks section in the game manual. ha!

Keep up the great work guys..

(Name top right of the picture.. The good old days!)

I've heard of your roster work and sure enough, your name is in my ESPN NHL 2K5 manual.

ESPN NHL 2K5 as a game brings back childhood memories for me because it was my introduction to the NHL 2K series. This is the game I played with my brother and dad. and that's why I'm hard at work on an update. for them, for any of the OS community who still care. and even as a tribute to people like you Fiddy.

I've played NHL 2K Dreamcast, NHL 2K2 Dreamcast, NHL 2K3 PS2, ESPN NHL 2K5 PS2/Xbox, NHL 2K6 PS2, NHL 2K8 360 and NHL 2K10 PS2/360. While 2K8 and 2K10 are special because of their unique gameplay and good roster work by molifox/austrianredwing and snowdrift, I just keep coming back to 2K5. even though I have perhaps double of the workload I had with NHL 2K10 PS2.

[WWEDX2007]

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[WWEDX2007]

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[WWEDX2007]

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Started using stock menufaces for players.


1. Ron Tugnutt -> Andrew Hammond
2. Martin Biron -> Semyon Varlamov
3. Jean-Sebastien Aubin -> Spencer Martin
4. Karlis Skrastins -> Nathan MacKinnon
5. Saku Koivu -> Gabriel Landeskog
6. David Vyborny -> Erik Johnson
7. Tomas Koivisto -> Mikko Rantanen
8. Brad Ference -> Tyson Barrie
9. Mike Leclerc -> Mark Alt
10. Mike Van Ryn -> Sven Andrighetto
11. Denis Hamel -> Mark Barberio
12. Brad Chartrand -> Gabriel Bourque
13. Shawn McEachern -> Blake Comeau
14. Gordie Dwyer -> J.T. Compher
15. J. P. Vigier -> Samuel Girard
16. Tim Connolly -> Tyson Jost
17. Sandis Ozolinsh -> Vladislav Kamenev
18. Shawn Horcoff -> Alexander Kerfoot
19. Janne Niinimaa -> Anton Lindholm
20. Ed Jovanovski -> Patrik Nemeth
21. Geoff Sanderson -> Matt Nieto
22. Radek Dvorak -> Duncan Siemens
23. Raffi Torres -> Carl Soderberg
24. Derek Armstrong -> Dominic Toninato
25. Chris Dingman -> David Warsofsky
26. Jimmie Ölvestad -> Colin Wilson
27. Alexei Semenov -> Nikita Zadorov
28. Jan Hlavac -> Nick Foligno
29. Kirk Maltby -> Jack Johnson
30. Kamil Piros -> Josh Anderson
31. Stu Barnes -> Oliver Bjorkstrand
32. Luke Richardson -> Alex Broadhurst
33. Ray Whitney -> Matt Calvert
34. Jason Smith -> Taylor Chorney
35. Zigmund Palffy -> Ian Cole
36. Eric Godard -> Brandon Dubinsky
37. Marek Malík -> Markus Hannikainen
38. Garnet Exelby -> Scott Harrington
39. Jame Pollock -> Seth Jones
40. John Tripp -> Dean Kukan
41. Alexei Morozov -> Mark Letestu
42. Bruno St. Jacques -> Sonny Milano
43. Goran Bezina -> Ryan Murray
44. Karel Rachunek -> Markus Nutivaara
45. Jon Klemm -> Artemi Panarin
46. Darby Hendrickson -> Lukas Sedlak
47. Jason Woolley -> Thomas Vanek
48. Marek Zidlicky -> Alexander Wennberg
49. Ladislav Nagy -> Zach Werenski
50. Christian Backman -> Cam Atkinson
51. Patrick Traverse -> Jamie Benn
52. Jamie Storr -> Ben Bishop
53. Pavel Kubina -> Radek Faksa
54. Sergei Zubov -> Martin Hanzal
55. Nik Antropov -> Julius Honka
56. Alexei Smirnov -> Mattias Janmark
57. Trevor Linden -> Stephen Johns
58. Kimmo Timonen -> John Klingberg
59. Sami Salo -> Esa Lindell
60. Steve Begin -> Marc Methot
61. Steve Rucchin -> Greg Pateryn
62. Alexandre Daigle -> Tyler Pitlick
63. Mike Zigomanis -> Alexander Radulov
64. John Jakopin -> Brett Ritchie
65. Dan Hinote -> Antoine Roussel
66. Jody Hull -> Tyler Seguin
67. Steve Kariya -> Devin Shore
68. Francis Boullion -> Andreas Athanasiou
69. Darryl Sydor -> David Booth
70. Ryan Smyth -> Danny DeKeyser
71. Jaroslav Obsut -> Jonathan Ericsson
72. Kent McDonell -> Martin Frk
73. Andreas Lilja -> Luke Glendening
74. Milan Kraft -> Mike Green
75. Deron Quint -> Darren Helm
76. Danny Markov -> Nick Jensen
77. Eric Lindros -> Dylan Larkin
78. Denis Arkhipov -> Anthony Mantha
79. Nic Wallin -> Frans Nielsen
80. Derrick Walser -> Gustav Nyquist
81. Steve Konowalchuk -> Xavier Ouellet
82. Keith Primeau -> Yohann Auvitu
83. Marty Murray -> Matthew Benning
84. Pavel Bure -> Drake Caggiula
85. Yanic Perrault -> Leon Draisaitl
86. Pavol Demitra -> Zack Kassian
87. Sean Brown -> Jujhar Khaira
88. Rob Davison -> Oscar Klefbom
89. Vladimir Vujtek -> Adam Larsson
90. Sheldon Souray -> Milan Lucic
91. Alyn McCauley -> Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
92. Robert Esche -> Cam Talbot
93. Bryce Salvador -> Darnell Nurse
94. Jan Bulis -> Iiro Pakarinen
95. Steve Montador -> Jesse Puljujarvi
96. Michal Handzus -> Ty Rattie
97. Chris Herperger -> Kris Russell
98. Eric Weinrich -> Andrej Sekera
99. Ales Pisa -> Anton Slepyshev
100. Christoph Brandner -> Aleksander Barkov
101. Antti Laaksonen -> Nick Bjugstad
102. Marc Chouinard -> Henrik Borgstrom
103. Ronald Petrovicky -> Connor Brickley
104. Matt Bradley -> Evgenii Dadonov
105. Chris Simon -> Aaron Ekblad
106. Bates Battaglia -> Jonathan Huberdeau
107. Jeff Finley -> Denis Malgin
108. Mark Bell -> Maxim Mamin
109. Robyn Regehr -> Mike Matheson
110. Brendan Shanahan -> Jared McCann
111. Steve Sullivan -> Ian McCoshen
112. Ken Belanger -> Jamie McGinn
113. Peter Schaefer -> Alexander Petrovic
114. Hans Jonsson -> Mark Pysyk
115. Patrik Stefan -> Colton Sceviour
116. Jonathan Cheechoo -> Vincent Trocheck
117. Krystofer Kolanos -> Frank Vatrano
118. Oleg Tverdovsky -> MacKenzie Weegar
119. Ivan Majesky -> Keith Yandle
120. Ziggy Palffy (International) -> Jeff Carter
121. Mark Smith -> Kyle Clifford
122. Craig Adams -> Drew Doughty
123. Steve McCarthy -> Derek Forbort
124. Nolan Baumgartner -> Kevin Gravel
125. Eric Daze -> Alex Iafallo
126. David Ling -> Adrian Kempe
127. Joel Kwiatkowski -> Alec Martinez
128. Keith Carney -> Torrey Mitchell
129. André Roy -> Jake Muzzin
130. Nolan Pratt -> Dion Phaneuf
131. Bryan Helmer -> Tobias Rieder
132. Joel Bouchard -> Nate Thompson
133. Jordan Leopold -> Tyler Toffoli
134. Brent Johnson -> Devan Dubnyk
135. Johan Hedberg -> Alex Stalock
136. Daniel Briere -> Louie Belpedio
137. Mariusz Czerkawski -> Jonas Brodin
138. Jim Dowd -> Charlie Coyle
139. Jason Doig -> Matt Dumba
140. Greg De Vries -> Mikko Koivu
141. Tyler Arnason -> Tyler Ennis
142. Niklas Sundstrom -> Zach Parise
143. Brad Isbister -> Joel Eriksson Ek
144. Jiri Slegr -> Marcus Foligno
145. Jim Fahey -> Mikael Granlund
146. John LeClair -> Luke Kunin
147. Shane Hnidy -> Ryan Murphy
148. Jean-Francois Labbe -> Matt Murray
149. Curtis Brown -> Nino Niederreiter
150. Dean McAmmond -> Gustav Olofsson
151. Brad Larsen -> Phil Kessel
152. Barret Jackman -> Nate Prosser
153. Josh Green -> Kyle Rau
154. Stephen Weiss -> Nick Seeler
155. Roman Hamrlik -> Jared Spurgeon
156. Greg Johnson -> Ryan Suter
157. Yannick Tremblay -> Daniel Winnik
158. Ryan Bayda -> Jason Zucker
159. Steve Shields -> Carey Price
160. Tomas Vokoun -> Antti Niemi
161. Kyle Calder -> Karl Alzner
162. Brian Savage -> Jordie Benn
163. Eric Boulton -> Paul Byron
164. Mike Knuble -> Shea Weber
165. Steve Passmore -> Jaroslav Halak
166. Manny Fernandez ->: Petr Mrazek
167. Andrew Cassels -> Joel Armia
168. Cam Severson -> Max Pacioretty
169. Marco Sturm -> Brendan Gallagher
170. Sergei Zholtok -> Jeff Petry
171. Scott Gomez -> David Schlemko
172. Mika Noronen -> Linus Ullmark
173. David Legwand -> John Tavares
174. Stanislav Chistov -> Vladimir Tarasenko
175. Ales Kotalik -> Jonathan Drouin
176. Steve Staios -> Andrew Shaw
177. Pavel Trnka -> Phillip Danault
178. Henrik Tallinder -> Jacob de la Rose
179. Igor Kravchuk -> Nicolas Deslauriers
180. Jason Strudwick -> Byron Froese
181. Kirill Safronov -> Matthew Peca
182. Brian Willsie -> Andrej Sustr
183. Chris Nielsen -> Charles Hudon
184. Todd Warriner -> Noah Juulsen
185. Radoslav Suchy -> Mike Reilly
186. Jiri Bicek -> Artturi Lehkonen
187. Murray Baron -> Nikita Scherbak
188. Jean-Sebastien Giguere -> Pekka Rinne
189. Radovan Somik -> Viktor Arvidsson
190. Mike Sillinger -> Roman Josi
191. Marc Denis -> Jusse Saros
192. Rhett Warrener -> Ryan Johansen
193. Bob Boughner -> Filip Forsberg
194. Simon Gagne -> Kevin Fiala
195. Scott Ferguson -> Nick Bonino
196. Craig Rivet -> Ryan Ellis
197. Jay McKee -> Craig Smith
198. Radek Bonk -> Miikka Salomaki
199. Sergei Gonchar -> Anthony Bitetto
200. Miroslav Satan -> Alexandre Carrier

[WWEDX2007]

Re: ESPN NHL 2K5 (Xbox) 2018-19 Roster Development Thread

Something I've seen working on rosters via the editor, apparently every skater has a different skating style.

There are 6 different types (0-5), they can't be globally set.

I'm wondering what the differences between these are.

[tinpanalley]

Re: ESPN NHL 2K5 (Xbox) 2017-18 Roster Development Thread

Something I've seen working on rosters via the editor, apparently every skater has a different skating style.

There are 6 different types (0-5), they can't be globally set.

I'm wondering what the differences between these are.

Probably physical style of their movement. Games did a lot of that back then, I remember College Hoops letting you choose how players shot, how they dunked, etc..

[WWEDX2007]

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I've learned more about NHL 2K working on this game than any other, they really crammed everything they could into this game.

[tinpanalley]

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I've learned more about NHL 2K working on this game than any other, they really crammed everything they could into this game.

I was playing a bit today, it's amazing.

I played MLB2K5 as well, I just really wish someone had made an editor for it. I have the World Series edition where you're given a whole list of great World Series moments from history to jump into and play in.

[WWEDX2007]

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[WWEDX2007]

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Current version of the roster has been made available in the initial post for testing/proof of concept. Considering just updating the file here as each team is finished.

[tinpanalley]

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Current version of the roster has been made available in the initial post for testing/proof of concept. Considering just updating the file here as each team is finished.

Nice. I'll happily test for you with whatever teams are done. [emoji106]

[WWEDX2007]

Re: ESPN NHL 2K5 (Xbox) 2018-19 Roster Development Thread

First post updated with a new version of the save that includes the just finished updated Columbus Blue Jackets.

[tinpanalley]

Re: ESPN NHL 2K5 (Xbox) 2017-18 Roster Development Thread

Current version of the roster has been made available in the initial post for testing/proof of concept. Considering just updating the file here as each team is finished.

Well, I finally had a game with Chicago playing against the Bruins. Fantastic. Really. A clear distinction between better and worse players, great hearing some of the names including ones I didn't think I'd hear. Two things I can't figure out are

1) can I put this game in Widescreen on original XBOX or not? Is it good to go as long as the system is chosen to output 16X9?

and

2) I have to get some good sliders or play with them more. Although a few quick tweaks and by the third period, I was playing some really great feeling hockey with this 13 year old game.


Amazing!! Well done!! Looking forward to more! The day I get to play with my Leafs I'll be in heaven.