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

[Anarchy666]

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

i've successfully edited the conferences/divisions so that you have 14 team SEC, ACC, Big Ten (with divs), 12 team Pac-12 (with divs), divisions for American, and got rid of the WAC.

also added an extra team to make it 121. i reckon you can make it 122, as the capacity of the depth chart db allows for a max of 122 teams (NCAA FB 11). however the player db capacity is 8470 (70*121, also NCAA 11). mathematically it isn't safe to have 122 teams, but do the CPU teams use up all 70 roster spots season-by-season? if they don't then there will be enough slack in the system to get away with 122.

i've only advanced from initial preseason to week 1. my editing didn't touch schedules, as i wanted to know how far i could edit conference alignments without it crashing, and i was able to scroll thru the conference outlooks in the magazine without problems.


if your wondering how i did the conference edits, i didn't do any team swapping, just editing the team db and the sttm db. what this means is that every season there will be a lot of work getting the schedules correct, which would require a spreadsheet of templates for future conference schedules, known future non-conf opponents, including annual rivalry games, the most laborious part will be filling the teams schedules, especially after the first few seasons. also the bowls will need editing as well.

as for the extra teams, you would need to save a separate dynasty file with those rosters included, bascially its a placeholder. then in the db editor, open the player tab and export the csv, then copy the players from the teams, and add those records to the player csv from your actual dynasty file, remembering to adjust the total number of records on the top row. team db has a TTYP which needs to be changed from 1 to 0. Coach db certain values need changing (or just copy the values from the placeholder dynasty file you used to copy the players from). also the depth chart db the info relating to the extra teams will also need to be copied over. plenty of work i'm afraid.

[Anarchy666]

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

ok it failed to advance from week 14 to week 15.

so i used the madden db editor to advance to week 15, and it did advance to the championship week. except it failed to fill the bowl slots with the div champs!

on the plus side, i was able to successfully edit the Poinsettia Bowl into a Pac-12 Title game, and the game did fill the 2 slots with the division champs. just not the others.

i'll attempt another full season sim, but with an edited schedule which has a full slate for each conference.

also it crashes when you access the "Strongest conferences" feature in the magazine, but as this feature isn't important, its something one can live with in order to have a WAC-free dynasty.

[antdroid]

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

ok it failed to advance from week 14 to week 15.

so i used the madden db editor to advance to week 15, and it did advance to the championship week. except it failed to fill the bowl slots with the div champs!

on the plus side, i was able to successfully edit the Poinsettia Bowl into a Pac-12 Title game, and the game did fill the 2 slots with the division champs. just not the others.

i'll attempt another full season sim, but with an edited schedule which has a full slate for each conference.

also it crashes when you access the "Strongest conferences" feature in the magazine, but as this feature isn't important, its something one can live with in order to have a WAC-free dynasty.

I tried early on with 14 team conferences with crashing occuring. I think it had to do with removing the WAC entirely. I tried for a while before i gave in with my current realignment mod.

Youre taking a slightly different approach though so i hope you get better results though i think some of the computations are hard coded to the game.

[Anarchy666]

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

change to Poinsettia to Pac-12 = week 14 to 15 crash

infact most of my attempts at conf or bow mods flounder at the advance to week 15 point

looks like you have to use TSWP. my conf alignment just about squeezes into the 60 swap limit, with 1 swap leftover.

C-USA and MW swap around, Pac-10 and Big 12 swap, Big Ten and MAC swap, Big East and Sun Belt swap, WAC i've renamed The American, which basically is the West Division of the real life American with a few additional teams added, Big East is American East with W. Virginia, the 3 draddys from ACC/SEC now C-USA

BIDX the numbers for the BCS Bowls do impact on bowl invites.

[Anarchy666]

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

sussed out how "at-large" Bowl invites work (non BCS Bowls that is)

teams with winning records are given preference over .500 teams, and .500 over sub .500 teams

within the above parameter, bowl slots are filled according to coach poll rank, with the computer avoiding scheduling a Bowl matchup between conference teams

as for the Bowl priority, the lower the BIDX number, the more prestigious the Bowl is.

Rose/Fiesta/Sugar/Orange are supposed to be 25-28, i have run a simmed season with those Bowls BIDX edited to something else, and the BCS teams did not fill those bowls.

[Anarchy666]

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

i managed to put together a six-year schedule rotation for a 13 team Big Ten conference with divisions of 6 and 7 teams, which was pretty hard, as 13 team conference split into 2 division isn't exactly the easiest to come up with a full rotation for, as the division with 7 will always have a number of teams that can't play a full division schedule. Pac-12 i think is next hardest having to work around USC/UCLA always having cross division games against Cal/Stanford.

[Anarchy666]

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

ok i've attached my conference alignment, bowl tie-ins (for the conference alignment

this is for NCAA FB 11 only, since older versions have different number of teams, i.e. NCAA 09 has 119 and 4 independents, not sure how we can do those versions

Big Ten - 13 teams, so we're losing one, which is Maryland, they'll go back to ACC, where they belong anyway. Purdue is now in the East Division rather than West. check out my 6 year Big Ten schedule rotation (no weeks, that is currently a WIP, but the opponents and venues have been settled on).

SEC - 12 teams, losing 2. Missouri goes back to the Big 12, and as Vanderbilt is a basketball draddy school and this being a football only game, they can leave. meaning Texas A&M has to be placed in the East Division since the 2 departing schools were both East Division teams

Pac-12 - 12 teams, no change.

Big 12 - 10 teams, would be no change except Missouri are moving back to the Big 12, so West Virginia can move back to the Big East (yes Big East, more on that later)

ACC - 12 teams, losing 2. obvious choices are the two basketball draddys Wake Forest and Duke. Maryland returning means Louisville reverting to Big East).

MW - 12 teams, no change.

now we have that problem of what to do with the WAC, with no western teams left, nor can we play with 10 conferences, nor edit the actual numbers per conference. so i got creative and split The American conference into 2 separate conferences, and brought back the Big East name.

Big East - 9 teams. West Virginia and Louisville as i've already mentioned. the 6 teams that made up the East Division of The American, plus Memphis.

The American - 9 teams. 5 out of the 6 teams that made up the West Division of The American, plus Southern Miss, UAB, UTEP and Louisiana Tech

C-USA - 9 teams. it bears little resemblence to the real life C-USA (for starters, no divisions or title game). but teams have to play in a conference, except Notre Dame, BYU and Army

Sun Belt - 8 teams, again like C-USA, they have to be a member of a conference. just not as prestgious as C-USA teams

MAC - 11 teams, losing 1 team, which is Buffalo (they make a good travelling partner for Marshall in C-USA anyway)

working on further conference schedule templates, and then a way of compiling a schedule for future seasons via a spreadsheet, which is going to be a pain

[Culture Rot]

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

Can anyone modify Xbox rosters?

[Anarchy666]

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

fairly certain an Xbox save file can be changed via SaveBuilder to a .max file, then extract the main file from the PS2 save, which can be edited via the db editor.

then convert back to a Xbox file

i think that is it.

[Culture Rot]

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

fairly certain an Xbox save file can be changed via SaveBuilder to a .max file, then extract the main file from the PS2 save, which can be edited via the db editor.

then convert back to a Xbox file

i think that is it.

Minotauri himself has tried mightily to get it to work, and the best we could come up with was a roster that said "corrupted" when tried to load in game. Its never been able to work. I'm not sure if that is the method he used or something different. I will donate to anyone who can make this possible.

[Anarchy666]

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Minotauri himself has tried mightily to get it to work, and the best we could come up with was a roster that said "corrupted" when tried to load in game. Its never been able to work. I'm not sure if that is the method he used or something different. I will donate to anyone who can make this possible.

the only other thing i can think of is using SaveConverter (similar to SaveBuilder).

having always been PS and never Xbox, i don't really know that much about that particular platform i'm afraid.

[antdroid]

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

the only other thing i can think of is using SaveConverter (similar to SaveBuilder).

having always been PS and never Xbox, i don't really know that much about that particular platform i'm afraid.

The Xbox and PS2 roster save is EXACTLY the same file structure except the xbox one has a header at the beginning which I am not smart enough to understand. You can remove the header and it'll load perfectly in DB Editor. I can then update accordingly.

But I then try to insert the same header back in and the couple people who've tried say it says corrupt when loading in the console.

I've used a similar process and it works fine for Madden on PS2 and Madden on Vita.

[Culture Rot]

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

The Xbox and PS2 roster save is EXACTLY the same file structure except the xbox one has a header at the beginning which I am not smart enough to understand. You can remove the header and it'll load perfectly in DB Editor. I can then update accordingly.

But I then try to insert the same header back in and the couple people who've tried say it says corrupt when loading in the console.

I've used a similar process and it works fine for Madden on PS2 and Madden on Vita.

This really haunts me

[Culture Rot]

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

Is it possible to take a roster from one year (madden or NCAA), and convert it to another year?

For example

NCAA 2003 on 2006

Or Madden 2008 on 2007

On XBOX

Thanks!

[starallgame]

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

I am hoping that we get 2017-18 rosters for PSP/PS2 this year.