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Quote: Originally Posted by KarateLemonLime

For 2k3 and 2k7, I did those by hand and that was a pain in more ways than one. I actually finished making a program that can help speed up the process and stops my hand from dying earlier today. It’s not the most complicated program ever but it writes down the values faster than I can. I’m not the best at coding so I have no idea how to look at game files or anything (plus I’m not sure if that’s legal or not). It’s still a very slow process with the progress I’ve made but it should narrow down the times from 3+ months to maybe a month or two with my current schedule.

This is essentially what I do in my spreadsheet (logging the default attributes, along with my updates).

(I don't have any files that could help this process, the older games were all on older computers).

It's definitely a slow-burn and not something I would recommend knocking out in a few days. A passion project you pick at slowly rather than something you try to rush up (because I'm not sure if there's much demand for older games).

You will have a nightmare by the time you get to advanced gens because the data explodes. There's something like 40 Attributes and 80 Tendencies, before even factoring Badges. The league also expanded so between Free Agents, Two-Ways, etc we're talking about 800 players instead of the 400 or so you're doing in the 2K3-10 era.