w/ NHL:LE's shutdown soon, any way to d/l official roster updates?

[doncicfan77]

The Better Than EA roster updates are great, but as a Stars fan, the latest official NHL: Legacy Edition rosters will always hold a special place in my heart (I'm a Stars fan and they happened to be really good that year). With the servers shutting down in a couple of months, these rosters will become much harder to get.

I feel like there used to be a way to download them online, through EA's site even, but all their NHL 16 pages direct to the home support page, and Legacy Edition/last-gen 16 isn't even listed on their games list.

I do have the rosters in 360 format, but my 360's on its last legs and only works sporadically, so I'd really like to have that roster file (specifically, EA's official Roster Update #8 for Legacy Edition) in PS3 format. Does anyone know where I could even get my hands on something like that? Is any kind-hearted saint with a PS3 and the Legacy Edition disc willing to upload Roster Update #8?

Or, failing that, does anyone know if/how I could convert the 360 roster file into PS3 format? I've seen quite a bit of stuff on how to convert PS3 to 360, but less about 360 to PS3.

If anyone can help me out, they'll have my eternal gratitude.

[rangers9911]

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I checked my 360 and I don't seem to have the roster update and my 360 doesn't connect to the internet. Fortunately, you can convert NHL: LE from 360 to Ps3 and vise versa. Takes a few programs but, it can be done!

[tinpanalley]

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Is any kind-hearted saint with a PS3 and the Legacy Edition disc willing to upload Roster Update #8?

How would you know that it was roster update 8? I don't recall them ever being numbered.

[doncicfan77]

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How would you know that it was roster update 8? I don't recall them ever being numbered.

IIRC the only place I've actually seen them numbered is on the Download Rosters screen, where you select which update you want to download. At least that's the case on 360, dunno about PS3. But I've never seen them numbered like that anywhere else.

I checked my 360 and I don't seem to have the roster update and my 360 doesn't connect to the internet. Fortunately, you can convert NHL: LE from 360 to Ps3 and vise versa. Takes a few programs but, it can be done!

If 360 -> PS3 works with Horizon & Brute Force, I'll definitely be giving it a try! Sounds like the answer I was hoping for. For some reason I was thinking it could only convert PS3 -> 360, so this is great news, thanks so much! Now I can forever ogle at Benn/Seguin's ratings in their prime, crank up Roope Hintz's potential and live in an alternate reality where this puck gets an extra millimeter in Game 7 2OT against the Blues. An alternate reality where the Stars aren't in position to jump to the #3 pick and draft Heiska, but compromises must be made after all. Really grateful, thanks again!

[rangers9911]

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If 360 -> PS3 works with Horizon & Brute Force, I'll definitely be giving it a try! Sounds like the answer I was hoping for. For some reason I was thinking it could only convert PS3 -> 360, so this is great news, thanks so much! Now I can forever ogle at Benn/Seguin's ratings in their prime, crank up Roope Hintz's potential and live in an alternate reality where this puck gets an extra millimeter in Game 7 2OT against the Blues. An alternate reality where the Stars aren't in position to jump to the #3 pick and draft Heiska, but compromises must be made after all. Really grateful, thanks again!

Should work without an issue. I used to convert ps3 to 360 and vise versa. Good luck and happy hunting...and I hope you find comfort in that alternate reality :P

[iambanana]

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I've been trying to get current rosters for RPCS3 but legitimately cannot make Bruteforce Save Data work at all despite several tutorials and someone in another thread trying to give me instructions.

[doncicfan77]

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I've been trying to get current rosters for RPCS3 but legitimately cannot make Bruteforce Save Data work at all despite several tutorials and someone in another thread trying to give me instructions.

I had to make sure I was running BFSD in Administrator Mode, and, very importantly, had to add an entry for NHL Legacy to the games.conf file in BFSD's installation folder (if you open that file in a txt editor, you'll see it has entries for all the NHL games up to 15, but not Legacy, so you just have to add it at the bottom). Before I did that, the Decrypt PFD option was greyed out and I couldn't decrypt the roster file.

Just on the .0001% chance the games.conf issue happens to be your problem, this is what you should copy/paste into the file (at the bottom on a new line, for simplicity's sake):

; "NHL® Legacy Edition"
[BLUS31540]
;disc_hash_key=
secure_file_id:*=45415F53504F5254535F4E484C313600

If the roster save you're trying to install (the folder with SYSDATA and PARAM.SFO inside it) isn't named BLUS315400200, that _might_ also be an issue, not certain about that though. BLUS31540 is obviously the game's ID, and then the last four numbers are different depending on the type of save. The game uses 0200 for rosters, and so the first rosters saved will be BLUS315400200, the second will be 0201, and so on. I sorta remember reading where a guy was having issues because he was trying to install rosters with a suffix of 0202, i.e. the third roster save of the guy who uploaded them, but the guy who downloaded them didn't have any other roster files, so the game was getting confused by the 0202 since it expects to find a 0200 and 0201 first. Take all that with a grain of salt, just something I vaguely remember

[iambanana]

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games.conf file in BFSD's installation folder (if you open that file in a txt editor, you'll see it has entries for all the NHL games up to 15, but not Legacy

This does not appear to be true. I don't find anything searching for "nhl" or "blus" in the file. Adding the lines at the end you suggested doesn't seem to make sense given the file is all html but adding it doesn't seem to do anything for me.



The program doesn't appear to detect anything anymore. Before the roster file at least appeared in the program with its image and everything. Dealing with this broken program is a complete nightmare and I'm just going to give up. My experience attempting to use it does not match what anybody tells me is supposed to happen. It almost feels like a massive troll.

[doncicfan77]

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Might seem like a silly question, but are you using a .txt editor to open games.conf, like Notepad or Notepad++? (You might have to right-click and use the "Open With..." option from the right-click menu.) Because it should definitely not have any HTML =p Sounds like its extension might've gotten associated by another program.

The games.conf file is just a text document with an entry for each game to tell Bruteforce a particular hash key it needs for each individual game. You might try uninstalling and re-installing Bruteforce from a fresh download, this one is the one I used. Another option, if you plan to do any roster editing, you can also use NHLViewNG, since (IIRC - not 100% sure) its download includes a games.conf file for all the NHL games (you don't need any of the asset packs, if you do download it).

[iambanana]

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Might seem like a silly question, but are you using a .txt editor to open games.conf, like Notepad or Notepad++?

Yes.


I installed a fresh copy of Bruteforce Save Data using your link. The games.conf file looks as expected until I open it where it gets rewritten into html code and the program doesn't function properly, creating the same scenario. The games.conf.bak that Notepad++ creates still has the stuff as it was before opening Bruteforce Save Data.


So I did it again and made the games.conf file read-only so that weird transformation of the file could not happen. The process finally seems to work as expected but the rosters do not seem to have changed. I even tried loading the roster file which has the proper name (Better Than EA Rosters) and time stamp for when I had pasted it into the file system but the players in the rosters do not appear to have changed despite the rosters being from Molifox's 08-31-2021, 04:23 post. I am unsure if I've copied the wrong files (all of them) or copied them to the wrong place (\RPCS3\dev_hdd0\home\00000001\savedata\BLUS315400 200) but given the name and timestamp appear in the game I'm not sure what went wrong.

[doncicfan77]

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Yes.


I installed a fresh copy of Bruteforce Save Data using your link. The games.conf file looks as expected until I open it where it gets rewritten into html code and the program doesn't function properly, creating the same scenario. The games.conf.bak that Notepad++ creates still has the stuff as it was before opening Bruteforce Save Data.


So I did it again and made the games.conf file read-only so that weird transformation of the file could not happen. The process finally seems to work as expected but the rosters do not seem to have changed. I even tried loading the roster file which has the proper name (Better Than EA Rosters) and time stamp for when I had pasted it into the file system but the players in the rosters do not appear to have changed despite the rosters being from Molifox's 08-31-2021, 04:23 post. I am unsure if I've copied the wrong files (all of them) or copied them to the wrong place (\RPCS3\dev_hdd0\home\00000001\savedata\BLUS315400 200) but given the name and timestamp appear in the game I'm not sure what went wrong.

Follow-up! The issue you were having with games.conf sounded so strange and random that I had no idea what the issue could be, but I was just now experimenting a little bit, and found that when I opened games.conf through Bruteforce itself (i.e. right-click -> Settings -> Open games.conf), I also got a bunch of random HTML! This seems to be a bug in Bruteforce, no idea why it happens, but I can only reproduce it when I specifically open the file through Bruteforce. It does screw up your games.conf file, though, so without running Bruteforce, try just opening games.conf directly like an ordinary file, in your Bruteforce install folder. You may need to right-click -> Open With Notepad++ if Windows doesn't recognize the .conf extension, or tries to open it with Bruteforce by default.

If it's still bugged with the HTML stuff—for me it was, after I had opened it through Bruteforce and triggered the bug—you can just delete it and replace it with the backup (i.e., after deleting the bugged games.conf, rename games.conf.bak to games.conf). The backup shouldn't be bugged, and at this point you should have a working games.conf file, which you can add the Legacy Edition entry to, if it still doesn't have it. You shouldn't need to set it to read-only if you make sure never to open it through Bruteforce, but as long as it has the Legacy Edition data and isn't glitched, it should work fine either way. I'd avoid opening it through Bruteforce just to be safe though; if you need to open it again, I'd just keep opening it directly like a normal text file.

The other thing I wanted to mention, though: I also tried molifox's 8/31 roster file several months ago, since it was the most recent one I could find at the time, but like many people in that thread and yourself, I could never get it to work with Bruteforce. Like another user in that thread (mattrock123 in the thread's post #123), the most recent roster file I got working was Reff99's 1/25/2021 post here. The savedata location you mentioned is correct, and you don't even need to replace the individual files; the BLUS315400200 (/201/202/etc.) folders are the actual roster saves, so you can just drop the entire BLUS315400202 folder directly into dev_hdd0\home\00000001\savedata. If you already have a BLUS315400202 roster already working with RPCS3, though, don't replace it with the download, but rename it to something like "BLUS315400202 old" before dropping the new -202 folder into \savedata.

The reason for this is that we use Bruteforce to decrypt the downloaded roster (which is encrypted to only work with its original PS3), unlock the save to work with any PS3, re-encrypt and rebuild it, THEN copy its now-unlocked SYS-DATA into the old BLUS315400202 roster file that already works with our personal RPCS3 install (replacing the old SYS-DATA file in the original save). Then you can just delete/rename/move the downloaded roster file whose SYS-DATA we decrypted & borrowed, so you can re-name the original save back to BLUS315400202 with its new SYS-DATA, ready to be loaded in-game. We're basically tricking the (emulated) PS3 into thinking it originally created the save data we want to use, so we need our own existing roster file with the same filename that already works with RPCS3.

If you just copy the download to your savedata folder, without decrypting and copying its contents to a native save file, the game will still show you the roster file, with the "Better Than EA" name and all, it will just give you a corrupt file error message if you try to load it.

Sorry for the late reply, haven't been playing much lately so it didn't occur to me to see what was going on here on the boards. Hopefully you've already gotten it straightened out, but if not and you happen to see this, I don't mind trying to help with any other roadblocks that come up.

[Yugiohtraderz97]

Re: w/ NHL:LE's shutdown soon, any way to d/l official roster updates?

Hey you can copy the rosters to a USB drive and then transfer them and If you could I'd really love a copy my self