The Manager Master Thread

[b sirious]

Ciao Rinaldo,
awesome tool!!Just one problem, I edited one of my carrers with N.Forest,but now in the transfer maket, there are never out of contract players, and my team is shown in the coca cola championship1 instead of Premier league, even though I still continue to play in the premier...Why? Thanks in advance!!

 

[fulcj001]

great tool i can get loads of transfer bids now

 

[StevePitts]

Names cannort be changed (because the career file does not allow this)

Is that a practical limitation that you've discovered, because there is nothing to stop names being stored within the players data in the manager mode data file (after all created players, those edited in My Squads and any new players in the patched rosters all result in name strings being added to the saved data file)??

 

[Ashman23]

I actually found a work around for this. I went into my original fifa.db and changed the name of the player (409519), using CM08, then went into my career file with MM08 and changed the name (409519) and got it to work. So now young player 409519 originally Claude Seigre is Martin Skrtel.

 

[Rinaldo]

Ciao Rinaldo,
awesome tool!!Just one problem, I edited one of my carrers with N.Forest,but now in the transfer maket, there are never out of contract players, and my team is shown in the coca cola championship1 instead of Premier league, even though I still continue to play in the premier...Why? Thanks in advance!!

Ciao,
upload somewhere a package with your fifa.db, ita.db and career file. I will take a look.

 

[Rinaldo]

Is that a practical limitation that you've discovered, because there is nothing to stop names being stored within the players data in the manager mode data file (after all created players, those edited in My Squads and any new players in the patched rosters all result in name strings being added to the saved data file)??

Honestly Steve, this first version of MM08 does not exploit all the potentialities of the career file (for example it does not allow to create players in career though it is potentially possible). I was referring to the request to change the name of a player already existing in fifa.db and , in this case, the name to be changed is the one in fifa.db as I don't know what will happen if the player has a name in fifa.db and a different name in B.carrer. It should be investigated. The workaround of Ashman23 works for sure.

 

[Rinaldo]

Just released Beta 0.2

http://hosted.filefront.com/FifaMasterRin

List of changes:

• Free Agent now are not deleted after a save
• National teams now are not inserted in the "transfers market"
• Changes to the sponsor name are now saved properly
• Changes to the players' name are now inhibited
• Added a button to switch home and away teams

 

[Generic Oval]

Thanks, MM08 is great!

Will there be soon a fuction to select all human player-controlled teams? It would be nice if you could choose more than eight.

 

[Ashman23]

Thanks, Rinaldo for the update. I did have a crash after playing with Skrtel in one game, just after the final whistle. Don't know if it's related to him but I will try and recreate it and post back here.

 

[Rinaldo]

Thanks, MM08 is great!

Will there be soon a fuction to select all human player-controlled teams? It would be nice if you could choose more than eight.

Not exactly. The limit of 8 is in the file structure but you can change the teams you want to control, apart from the first 1 that is fixed. So, if you have 8 teams you can use MM08 to change the controlled teams from 2 to 7 and so you can virtually control any team.

 

[Lucage]

Any way to changed the XP reseting or manipulate growth curves?

 

[Generic Oval]

Not exactly. The limit of 8 is in the file structure but you can change the teams you want to control, apart from the first 1 that is fixed. So, if you have 8 teams you can use MM08 to change the controlled teams from 2 to 7 and so you can virtually control any team.

Hey, that's cool, thanks for your answer!

I'm going to check this out!

 

[StevePitts]

this first version of MM08 does not exploit all the potentialities of the career file

I don't doubt it - there is a lot that could be done but perhaps should not??

I was referring to the request to change the name of a player already existing in fifa.db and , in this case, the name to be changed is the one in fifa.db as I don't know what will happen if the player has a name in fifa.db and a different name in B.carrer

I don't believe that the game cares about the player values in FIFA.DB since that table is read exclusively from the manager mode data file. Since players can have names held in the saved data (which you already cater for because created players and those from the patched rosters already show up correctly) it is almost certainly possible to add names to the data area at the end of the table and reference those strings in the same way as they would be for created players.

Any way to changed the XP reseting or manipulate growth curves?

Growth curves exist in the database, not the saved data file, and can already be readily manipulated using DB Master.

Fixing the XP growth problem requires a program that performs the same function as DB Master but for saved data files (whatever happened to Internal Master Rinaldo, have you shelved it or is it simply lower down the list of priorities??) because you would need to save the contents of the career_player_growth_xp table before signing a player (or players) and then merge the new players into that saved data and re-import it.

 

[Rinaldo]

... Fixing the XP growth problem requires a program that performs the same function as DB Master but for saved data files (whatever happened to Internal Master Rinaldo, have you shelved it or is it simply lower down the list of priorities??) ...

Right now, it's just for my best friends
But I think I will review it and make it public sooner or later.

 

[Ashman23]

Just to report that using Skrtel again in a game did not recreate the crash I had, so it must of being something else. My game is running fine, must of been one of those things that happen occasionally.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Hi Rinaldo,

I'm working on a Euro 2008 Mode patch and I've have some questions for you about the MM08 program.

1. If I save a tournament as one of the teams in the first match, (eg Switzerland vx Czech Republic) MM doesn't show anything in the Tournament file - it's just blank. Perche?

2. If i save as a team that plays after the first match, won't the result of the matches before it always be the same, thus reducing chances of a certain team progressing? Eg I choose Portugal and opening match is always say hyopthetically 1 - 0?

3. Can neutral stadiums be set in the tournament file for rounds where the teams are not known? EG Quarter finals and Semi Finals only use two stads Ersnt-Happel and St. Jakob. Also if it could be applied to have a neutral stadium for all games including group stage that would be great as well.

4. Also I have noticed a problem that in Tournament Mode always has 4-4-2 formation as default for all teams. Is there a way to fix the file so that all teams custom formations are shown, including those controlled by CPU? BTW, if a user goes to My Squads in Tournament mode, it sets its team formation to the custom one from 4-4-2.
EDIT: I just did a test in removing the generic formations from the (800's) and it showed the team's custom formation but only with the GK (and resulting in a crash! ). If I went to my squads it would set the user team's custom formation as per usual, but this time the same formation would also be applied to the CPU opponent too.

EDIT: This doesn't have to be neccessarily from the tournament file; If There is something for any of the above that can be done in the fifa08.exe file that would be also help.

 

[simo_yes]

hi rinaldo!

i decided to test out this tool so i started a completely new manager mode career, played one friendly game and saved the game and then i went to use manager mode but i got this error message on opening the file

"Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index."

any ideas?

 

[Rinaldo]

hi rinaldo!

i decided to test out this tool so i started a completely new manager mode career, played one friendly game and saved the game and then i went to use manager mode but i got this error message on opening the file

"Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index."

any ideas?

I need to see a screenshot (with the details of the error open). If not enough I will ask for your db and career. Thanks

 

[Rinaldo]

Hi Rinaldo,

1. If I save a tournament as one of the teams in the first match, (eg Switzerland vx Czech Republic) MM doesn't show anything in the Tournament file - it's just blank. Perche?

2. If i save as a team that plays after the first match, won't the result of the matches before it always be the same, thus reducing chances of a certain team progressing? Eg I choose Portugal and opening match is always say hyopthetically 1 - 0?

Sorry but I didn't understand well what you mean. Can you explain better ?

3. Can neutral stadiums be set in the tournament file for rounds where the teams are not known? EG Quarter finals and Semi Finals only use two stads Ersnt-Happel and St. Jakob. Also if it could be applied to have a neutral stadium for all games including group stage that would be great as well.

The only thing you can do is to assign a stadium to the team or to the final.

4. Also I have noticed a problem that in Tournament Mode always has 4-4-2 formation as default for all teams. Is there a way to fix the file so that all teams custom formations are shown, including those controlled by CPU? BTW, if a user goes to My Squads in Tournament mode, it sets its team formation to the custom one from 4-4-2.

This is a typical situation occurring when the formation assignement has some problems, in this case FIFA 08 use 4-4-2 by default . I suggest you to review the assignement of formation to the teams.

 

[simo_yes]

here you go



and here is a transcript of the full error message:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
at System.Collections.ArrayList.get_Item(Int32 index)
at FifaLibrary08.Manager.Load(Record r)
at FifaLibrary08.Manager..ctor(Record r)
at FifaLibrary08.ManagerList.Load(Table t, Int32 minId, Int32 maxId)
at FifaLibrary08.ManagerList.Load(CareerFile careerFile)
at FifaLibrary08.ManagerList..ctor(CareerFile careerFile)
at FifaLibrary08.FifaEnvironment.LoadCareerLists(EFifaObjects fifaObjects)
at ManagerMaster08.MainForm.Open()
at ManagerMaster08.MainForm.menuOpenFifa08_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
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ManagerMaster08
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Fifa%20Master/Manager%20Master%2008/ManagerMaster08.exe
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System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
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System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
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FifaControls08
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Fifa%20Master/Manager%20Master%2008/FifaControls08.DLL
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FifaLibrary08
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Fifa%20Master/Manager%20Master%2008/FifaLibrary08.DLL
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System.Data
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_32/System.Data/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.dll
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System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
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Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D
Assembly Version: 1.0.2902.0
Win32 Version: 9.05.132.0000
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC/Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D/1.0.2902.0__31bf3856ad364e35/Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.dll
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Microsoft.DirectX
Assembly Version: 1.0.2902.0
Win32 Version: 5.04.00.2904
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC/Microsoft.DirectX/1.0.2902.0__31bf3856ad364e35/Microsoft.DirectX.dll
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************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.