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

[antdroid]

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

Thanks for taking a look at the issue for me. No, I did not make any updates or changes. I had previously downloaded and used your old 2018-NCAAFootball PS2 dynasty file and converted it from NCAA Football 11 to use for NCAA Football 09. I'm not sure it will help but I have attached the original zip file that I downloaded with the included roster and dynasty file. I had started this dynasty before you had created the new 2021 rosters. I appreciate all your help.

Ok I fixed it! Here's what I did for future reference, though the problem should be resolved moving forward I hope.

First off, the bowl games that you used did not match what was in the original NCAA 2009 game, so that's why the scheduling froze. There was an additional bowl game in the modded file, which threw the game off.

So I created a new dynasty and simmed the pre-season to create a new schedule. I then opened up this new dynasty and extracted the Schedule and the Bowl configuration tables out of it. I then took Weeks 15 and onward (Championship Week and Bowl games) out of the new dynasty SCHD and overrided your dynasty's SCHD for these weeks. (For Reference, SEWN is the column in SCHD table for Schedule Week) I also removed the extra line you had since you had an extra bowl game that did not exist.

I then modified the new dynasty's BOWL config to add the Big Ten/Pac12 games in there. I also updated the Trophy to make it show the right one.

Then I imported it the fixed schedule and bowl tables into you dynasty file and it seems to work. Let me know!

[rom3]

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

Ok I fixed it! Here's what I did for future reference, though the problem should be resolved moving forward I hope.

First off, the bowl games that you used did not match what was in the original NCAA 2009 game, so that's why the scheduling froze. There was an additional bowl game in the modded file, which threw the game off.

So I created a new dynasty and simmed the pre-season to create a new schedule. I then opened up this new dynasty and extracted the Schedule and the Bowl configuration tables out of it. I then took Weeks 15 and onward (Championship Week and Bowl games) out of the new dynasty SCHD and overrided your dynasty's SCHD for these weeks. (For Reference, SEWN is the column in SCHD table for Schedule Week) I also removed the extra line you had since you had an extra bowl game that did not exist.

I then modified the new dynasty's BOWL config to add the Big Ten/Pac12 games in there. I also updated the Trophy to make it show the right one.

Then I imported it the fixed schedule and bowl tables into you dynasty file and it seems to work. Let me know!

Awesome! This is great to hear. The problem with the scheduling makes sense and I have made a note in case I run into the same issue in the future. I will play through the fixed dynasty and let you know how it goes. I definitely appreciate all the help!

[rom3]

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

Ok I fixed it! Here's what I did for future reference, though the problem should be resolved moving forward I hope.

First off, the bowl games that you used did not match what was in the original NCAA 2009 game, so that's why the scheduling froze. There was an additional bowl game in the modded file, which threw the game off.

So I created a new dynasty and simmed the pre-season to create a new schedule. I then opened up this new dynasty and extracted the Schedule and the Bowl configuration tables out of it. I then took Weeks 15 and onward (Championship Week and Bowl games) out of the new dynasty SCHD and overrided your dynasty's SCHD for these weeks. (For Reference, SEWN is the column in SCHD table for Schedule Week) I also removed the extra line you had since you had an extra bowl game that did not exist.

I then modified the new dynasty's BOWL config to add the Big Ten/Pac12 games in there. I also updated the Trophy to make it show the right one.

Then I imported it the fixed schedule and bowl tables into you dynasty file and it seems to work. Let me know!

I deleted the bad dynasty file from my memory card and imported the attached fixed dynasty file. It appears I am getting the same freezing issue when trying to sim through the same game on the schedule (San Jose State). Could this be the bad dynasty file with the schedule issue instead of the fixed one?

[antdroid]

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

I deleted the bad dynasty file from my memory card and imported the attached fixed dynasty file. It appears I am getting the same freezing issue when trying to sim through the same game on the schedule (San Jose State). Could this be the bad dynasty file with the schedule issue instead of the fixed one?

just to make sure, i re-saved the file as a new name in case they got mixed up.

I verified this sims all the way through the entire season. I'm currently simming the off-season and next season just to make sure there's no additional bugs

Update: I simmed it through the full next season and no crashes.

[Removed broken file]

[antdroid]

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

Note to Realignment Modders:

So for some reason I didn't do this before, but I just realized that when you do a major conference realignment, where you swap out full conferences (i.e. Big Ten <-> MAC, Pac-12 <-> Conf USA), you need to swap the conf ID (cgid) as well. This way, trophies are corrected. In my previous dynasty mods, I didn't do this and left the conf numbering the same. MAC and Conf USA never got trophies, and Big Ten and PAC 12 gave tropies to the regular season winner as normal instead of the title game winner.

so in my example above:

Big Ten CONF, DIVI, and TEAM needs to change CGID from 1 to 7 (dgid = 2, 3)
MAC change from 3 to 1 (dgid = 15)
PAC 12 change from 10 to 4 (dgid = 8,9)
CUSA change from 4 to 10 (dgid = 15)

And for reference: UTID (Trophy ID) for Big Ten is 3 and Pac 10 is 9

[rom3]

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

just to make sure, i re-saved the file as a new name in case they got mixed up.

I verified this sims all the way through the entire season. I'm currently simming the off-season and next season just to make sure there's no additional bugs

Update: I simmed it through the full next season and no crashes.

The .psu file in the Zip file appears to be empty. I tried to import into my memory card and it says it is invalid. The file size is 0KB. I apologize for all the trouble but greatly appreciate all your help.

[antdroid]

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

The .psu file in the Zip file appears to be empty. I tried to import into my memory card and it says it is invalid. The file size is 0KB. I apologize for all the trouble but greatly appreciate all your help.

Whoops. Try this.

[rom3]

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

Whoops. Try this.

The dynasty works perfectly now! I am able to play through all the weeks without any issues. Thank you so much for your help fixing the issue. You saved my dynasty.

[esayem]

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

So I’ve been trying to figure out a way to implement neutral site games and I came up with a few findings.

If you change a team’s home stadium (SGID) to a neutral site, like Army-Navy in Philly, then you just end up with a team playing their home games there and the crowd isn’t split. I did this with Navy vs Northeastern.

I tried it with FAMU at UF-UGA in Jacksonville and it actually did split the crowd which I found interesting. I changed FAMU’s home stadium to Jacksonville and sure enough the crowd was split. All end zone art is unaffected, which was disappointing.

There must be somewhere in the editor where we can access neutral site games because I can’t figure out how the game knows to make certain matchups neutral site. There must be a reference somewhere.

I might have messed up when I tried a bowl game for a home stadium. I was going for Army to play in the Alamodome, but I ended up at Buffalo’s stadium for some reason. I’m going to revisit that later.

[antdroid]

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

I've been working on a simple Coach Editor excel macro spreadsheet that lets you edit some of the attributes of coaches in dynasties.

It let's you edit the following things:

Coach Names
Skin Color
Coach Prestige
Off/Def Playbooks
Offense Type
Off/Def Passing Ratio
Off/Def Aggessiveness
Off/Def Sub Percentage
Recruiting / Training / Discipline Ratio

These are the main things that affect the gameplay in dynasty mode.

To use this, you'll need to export the COCH table out of your Dynasty save file using Madden DB Editor (or Madden Xtreme DB Editor), and copy/paste the data into the Input tab in this spreadsheet file. Instructions are included.

Once you're done, you can save the Output tab as a CSV to import back into your dynasties.

Make sure you have a backup in-case something goes wrong!

https://github.com/antdroidx/NCAA-Football-PS2-Coach-Editor

[antdroid]

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

Neutral Game Sites


So today, jet5195, and I were discussing about Neutral Site games. We discovered that there is a table on the gamedisc file, STRMDATA.DB, called NESG, that contains the 4 neutral-game defaults in the games.

ARMY-NAVY
TEXAS-OKLAHOMA
FLORIDA-GEORGIA
COLORADO-COLORADO STATE

Anyway, I was able to modify it by adding the Apple Cup (Washington-WSU) as a neutral game and set it SGID to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

In the Quick Game mode, the stadium ends up being randomly chosen. In Dynasty mode, however, the Rose Bowl is selected!

Anyway the NESG file would need to be modified and a new game disc would have to be burned to get this mod to work.

The columns are:

SGID - Stadium
NMFL - Name of Field?
NSFT - Neutral Site First Team
NSST - Neutral Site Second Team

Change the SGID to the stadium you want and the two team IDs into NSFT and NSST. I'm not sure what NMFL does yet.


Also, I started collecting random spreadsheets of data I've made over the years and dumped it on a github repository here:

https://github.com/antdroidx/NCAA-Football-PS2-Modding-Resources

[antdroid]

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

I've cleaned up the first 5 posts with updated links, instructions, etc

If anyone has more links to add to the front page posts, let me know and I can add them! I've been gone for 2.5 years so there's probably new info I'm missing!

Also we have a discord to chat about this stuff: https://discord.gg/NrMvtaFs7D

[antdroid]

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

COACHING CAROUSEL MOD

So you can kind of make a coaching carousel.

At the end of the season, say, after the NT game, you can go into COCH table in your save file, and set every FBS team's CFUC to 1. This sets every coach as a user coach.

Then go back in the game, and change "fire" coaches manually.

The game will then auto-populate the coach from the pool of available head coaches (mostly from FCS).

So, one idea is to make a "free agent" pool of coaches in the FCS.

You can also, at this point, take the fired coaches, which will now show as "NO TEAM", and try to put them on teams that will want to hire them as well.

After this is done, you can save, and then go back into your COCH table and remove the CFUC from all the CPU teams.



To set this up, ahead of time, I would recommend changing all the FCS coach names and ratings to whoever you want, so when the teams hire new coaches, it's all set-up.


I have tried this in NCAA 07 on PSP, and it worked beautifully. Some of the changes that happened:

Texas Tech hired Kellen Moore
UCLA hired Alex Grinch from USC
Virginia hires Deion Sanders
and so on...

The other thing to note is that the "fired" coaches are swapped with the "hired" coaches, so they become part of the free agent pool for the next time you do this.

[Brock]

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

Aren't recruiting tendencies in the coaches profiles as well?

[antdroid]

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

Aren't recruiting tendencies in the coaches profiles as well?

I'm not sure. I think it's more of a combination of off/def strategies and the recruiting percentage in the off-season, but I could be wrong. I don't know which column that would be anyway.