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

[Brock]

Ok I downloaded a roster from gamefaqs and played though a season, and everything went perfect, I even imported my draft class. So, it's possibly my settings, with your franchise file?

I had put all of the management to cpu for all coaches, including Jon Rivera, before I went to the owner mode. I also changed ownership during that time.

[antdroid]

Quote: Originally Posted by Brock

Ok I downloaded a roster from gamefaqs and played though a season, and everything went perfect, I even imported my draft class. So, it's possibly my settings, with your franchise file? I had put all of the management to cpu for all coaches, including Jon Rivera, before I went to the owner mode. I also changed ownership during that time.

Ok so this could be a firmware issue. I get crashes/frozen game when I use my PS2 Slim 75001 model (actual console). I was using 70012 and just tried 77001 firmwares on emulator and they work fine.

[antdroid]

Okay Conference Realignment Schedules are now updated.

You'll notice one team has kind of screwed up schedule and that's Army. They only have like 6 games on their schedule and I can't figure out why. Other than that, it should work out for every team.

Updated: Schedules are fixed now. Added an add-on pack for Schedules and associated Bowl games - This may only work with NCAA 2007 though. Still working on 06 version.

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Here's my conference Realignment trial.

If you are interested, download the zip.

In the zip will be a bunch of csv files, and a spreadsheet. It also includes an already modded save for NCAA PSP 07. It is unencrypted so you'll need to use PPSSPP to play it and/or save it encrypted.

To mod your own NCAA 06 or NCAA 07 save, download Madden DB Editor 3.0.

Open your save file in DB Editor and for import the csvs into the following tables in your save:
BOWL - Only for 07!
CONF
DIVI
STTM
SCHD - Only for 07!
TSWP

Then you need to open up the TEAM table in the editor.
Also open up either STTM.csv or the excel spreadsheet and go to the STTM page. Now you have to manually edit the teams database CGID/DGIDs to move teams around. If you look at the Excel version, it's color coded and sorted already to what it should be. So just look for the red numbers to modify.

Unfortunately, we can't import the csv to this particular table - it crashes.

Anyway, let me know what you think!

[Brock]

Maybe it's just a first year issue, could you just sim after the resigning period for me please. It doesn't matter who you resign.

[antdroid]

Quote: Originally Posted by Brock

Maybe it's just a first year issue, could you just sim after the resigning period for me please. It doesn't matter who you resign.

Attached.

I think i found another bug with the schedules sighs. also testing this out on PS2 now.

[Brock]

Quote: Originally Posted by minotauri

Attached. I think i found another bug with the schedules sighs. also testing this out on PS2 now.

Thanks! Hopefully I can finish the rest of the offseason and pre-season, etc without any issues.

[antdroid]

Quote: Originally Posted by Brock

Thanks! Hopefully I can finish the rest of the offseason and pre-season, etc without any issues.

Yea. This bug is worrisome though, because I plan on playing on my ps2 not my emulator whenever that time comes, and it's not working on PS2. Hopefully it's just a year 1 issue. I had this type of bug come up on the PSP development of the franchise but it was resolved, and this file was imported directly from it. Once I wrap up this NCAA thing I'm debugging through I may take a look at how player IDs are structured and if that's an issue with Madden 06 (since I'm using Madden 08/12 as a base)

[antdroid]

Yikes, something went wrong on the PS2 trial. Sim in the first week doesn't work. Box score is wonked up like crazy. The conference structure worked though.