After working on ESPN NHL 2K5 for the past day I've decided to officially begin the roster project, I have also realized this is gonna be a massive undertaking and a thread is gonna be needed to keep track of my progress. I previously
gauged interest on this in 2015 and various comments were made in Snowdrift's threads before having to go back on-topic.
Attributes, ages, captaincies, equipment and jersey numbers will all be as close to reality as possible (within the game's limitations)
MIKEY'S ESPN NHL 2K5 UPDATED ROSTERS (as of October 2nd, 2018)
Modern:
ANA, ARI, BOS, BUF, CAR, CBJ, CGY, CHI, COL, DAL, DET, EDM, FLA, LA, MIN, MTL, NJ, NSH, NYI, NYR, OTT, PHI, PIT, SJ, STL, TB, TOR, VAN, VGK, WPG, WSH
Historic:
All
RESOURCES:
Wanna make rosters for ESPN NHL 2K5? If you can help with the project in any way it would be much appreciated!
Flying Finn's ESPN NHL 2K5 Editor (Newer Version):
You need this editor to do anything in ESPN NHL 2K5 that is large scale, this is a newer version than the one that's on Finn's OS Arena and the reason that matters is that you can right click "Clear NHL Reference" which removes the player's menuface (A must for removing inaccurate photos) Credit to ZeroPucks for the link to this version of the editor/the files within and of course thanks to Finn for creating it. (Contact me if having this up is an issue)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/15o901dtbkjlf0d/ESPN_NHL_2K5_Editor.7z
Default Roster:
This is necessary as it's the only way you can keep in-game faces for whenever you need them. Once you see a face you want in an edited roster you open both in Finn's editor and copy the whole player from the Default Roster to your edited roster. and the player will have that face in-game.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uS9...ew?usp=sharing
In-Game Faces (Incomplete):
Why is this important? Aside from the abundance of different faces than the in-game editor gives you Created Skaters cause problems in the game which prevent Season and Franchise from working properly, therefore it is advised to turn unwanted existing skaters into someone new with information and the vast selection of in-game faces which can't cause problems. with these images you can see what you're copying from in a vanilla roster to an edited one. which reduces the amount of time you'll need to spend on console.
Also included is an "info.txt" file which tells you information about the default roster, such as what players use existing faces in the game and which ones don't have any.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Rmm8yv3RmDgysnDT5xPD40fKRyqMNjmk?usp=sharing
Equipment:
The equipment images here correspond with what you set in the editor. If you set a player's helmet to 1 you'll see what it's in the image of 1 and etc.
Goalie pads and helmets will be pictured in the future.
Helmets (Skaters): https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...qm?usp=sharing
Skates (Skaters and Goalies): https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...eo?usp=sharing
Sticks (Skaters and Goalies): https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...6D?usp=sharing