Hi,
There are problems with the Fifafs regenerator when used to regenerate the Fifa06 zdatas, because there are more than in Fifa2005 and since some are bigger, it can't handle the ammount of data and will corrupt some files inside the zdata.bigs
The tricky part about it is that you won't notice a thing untill you select a team that needs a file that is corrupted, then while loading the match your Fifa06 will crash with a fifa06.exe error message back to windows desktop.
FifaFS is used as the fatrebuilder in MonkeyDragon's Utilities Working 06 program and I noticed the error after importing Inter Milan flags that it wasn't working anymore (the team Inter Milan), since these flags never gave a problem in Fifa2005 I suspected something and viewing the file changing dates I found they were supposed to be in zdata5.big, I opened it with biggui and to my horror I discovered that almost all files inside weren't compressed anymore and they were corrupted.
I had the same error importing Ajax flags inside zdata6.big which got corrupted also! So I imported the flags manualy with big gui and fshed, rebuild the fat and bh with the fatbuilder that came with Kit Raptor and all went well. (doing this after I restored previous backups of the corrupted files)
I submitted FifaFS.exe to some more tests (making a bat file that imported graphics into zdata5.big) and it is indeed corrupting the file, when watching the dos box closely you will even see a line "****" or sometimes a string of lines "****" appearing, when it starts to corrupt things (no kidding I swear, must be the programmer that put that in to warn him when he tested it back for Fifa2005) but if you open the fifafs.log it gives no errors in its text output.
I advise everyone using it to check your files with big gui to see if you got a lot of uncompressed files inside your zdata.bigs, there should be almost none in fact, if you have a lot, then it's time to restore your backups :/
I will send this message also to MonkeyDragon to warn him the fifafs.exe is screwing things up badly.
EDIT : continued my testing and it continues to corrupt files, but not always, it's more like 50/50 but once is enough to put a timebomb in your zdata files (imagine playing a career or tournament and the files of the last team you meet in the league get corrupted lol)
On the bright side, the fatbhbuilder from Socceraccess, which they shipped with their kit raptor, seems stable as a rock, not a single error yet.
There are problems with the Fifafs regenerator when used to regenerate the Fifa06 zdatas, because there are more than in Fifa2005 and since some are bigger, it can't handle the ammount of data and will corrupt some files inside the zdata.bigs
The tricky part about it is that you won't notice a thing untill you select a team that needs a file that is corrupted, then while loading the match your Fifa06 will crash with a fifa06.exe error message back to windows desktop.
FifaFS is used as the fatrebuilder in MonkeyDragon's Utilities Working 06 program and I noticed the error after importing Inter Milan flags that it wasn't working anymore (the team Inter Milan), since these flags never gave a problem in Fifa2005 I suspected something and viewing the file changing dates I found they were supposed to be in zdata5.big, I opened it with biggui and to my horror I discovered that almost all files inside weren't compressed anymore and they were corrupted.
I had the same error importing Ajax flags inside zdata6.big which got corrupted also! So I imported the flags manualy with big gui and fshed, rebuild the fat and bh with the fatbuilder that came with Kit Raptor and all went well. (doing this after I restored previous backups of the corrupted files)
I submitted FifaFS.exe to some more tests (making a bat file that imported graphics into zdata5.big) and it is indeed corrupting the file, when watching the dos box closely you will even see a line "****" or sometimes a string of lines "****" appearing, when it starts to corrupt things (no kidding I swear, must be the programmer that put that in to warn him when he tested it back for Fifa2005) but if you open the fifafs.log it gives no errors in its text output.
I advise everyone using it to check your files with big gui to see if you got a lot of uncompressed files inside your zdata.bigs, there should be almost none in fact, if you have a lot, then it's time to restore your backups :/
I will send this message also to MonkeyDragon to warn him the fifafs.exe is screwing things up badly.
EDIT : continued my testing and it continues to corrupt files, but not always, it's more like 50/50 but once is enough to put a timebomb in your zdata files (imagine playing a career or tournament and the files of the last team you meet in the league get corrupted lol)
On the bright side, the fatbhbuilder from Socceraccess, which they shipped with their kit raptor, seems stable as a rock, not a single error yet.