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Ballard44’s World Cup tournament and tv popups
Installation
All you need to install the WC ‘patch’ are the fifa.db, eng.db, and the korea.trm…all the other files are just for graphic purposes and don’t have to be installed for the WC ‘patch’ to work!!!!
Both the database files are updated through July 22nd.
These files replace all the Korean League graphic files and the Korean League clubs, too
1) Copy and paste the fifa.db and ENG.db into the correct folders at …/data/cmn/ and …/data/cmn/fe respectively
2) Also, copy and paste the korea.trm into the …/data/cmn/fe folder
3) Remember that any saved careers must be removed or the rosters for all leagues will ‘double up’!
4) PLAY and enjoy
If you’d like to install the graphics…continue
5) Install Ariel’s ‘fapremierleaguepopbuild10.exe’. Once installed, play a game to make sure it’s working and use it if you like it!!! You’ll notice that with his installer you can un-install his patch back to the original pop-ups.
6) Open z_data_06.big w/ BigGUI. Scroll down and find the indctors.hud and indicator#’s_static.fsh files. ‘Import’ the same files (in the WinZip) over them and ‘compress’ both. Close BigGUI
7) Open EA’s Graphics Editor (included, if u don’t have it), hit the ‘import wizard’ button, check ‘Add files to external TAR’, and hit ‘next’.
8) Hit the ‘browse’ button and go to …/data/gui/pause and click on dial.big. Next, hit ‘add’ and add the dial.fsh and dial.o files from the WinZip.
9) Hit ‘next’…the files will import…close the Editor
10) Copy and paste all the .big files to their proper locations
11) The league.big and stubs.big …/data/gui/league folder
12) The eaticket.big …/data/gui/tickets folder
13) The bl83.big …/data/gui/back folder. Note-you just need to paste this file. You do not have to add it into the back.big file
14) PLAY and enjoy
About the World Cup set-up
There’s 36 national teams in this ‘league’…I would/could have added more but the game originally only came w/ 37 total…Way too much work to add teams. Paraguay was the only team not included in this ‘league’. China was replaced by Holland.
The ‘season’ starts out in August. Teams will play 15 ‘league’ matches. These matches are TOTALLY meaningless!!!
I had to add ‘league’ matches for 2 reasons. 1st, it was needed to make the korea.trm file work properly and 2nd it lets the game have the correct ‘tables’. There’s now a table for the meaningless ‘season’ and a separate ‘tournament’ table.
So, just set your training schedule and simulate until the final ‘season’ match in December.
In January, the World Cup qualifying matches start!!! There are 6 groups w/ 6 teams each.
The groups are…
A) Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, USA, and Uruguay
Australia, Cameroon, Korea, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tunisia
C) Finland, Italy, Russia, Scotland, Spain, and the Swiss
D) Austria, Croatia, Holland, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden
E) Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, and Ireland
F) Belgium, England, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, and Turkey
You will play a home and away match against each team in your group – 10 matches total. Note - These groupings will never change. If you want to switch the teams around, you’ll have to edit the .trm file yourself!!!
32 of the 36 teams will qualify for the World Cup. Not exactly tough, but it’s what I had to work with
The teams will be ‘ranked’ in the table at the end of qualification 1 – 36. The last 4 teams will fail to advance.
Rankings (or where you finished) are semi-important in that the team that finished 1st will play the 17th, 18th and 32nd placed teams in the group stage and so on.
Group Stage plays out just like in real life. There will be 8 groups w/ 4 teams each.
You play each team in your group just once; the top 2 teams from each group will advance.
Those 16 teams will play down to 8 teams, then down to 4, and then the WC final!!!
Its single match, sudden death all the way through.
Problems
The main problem with this ‘patch’ is once you are officially eliminated for the WC the game will crash to the desktop. I’ve tried to find solutions to this, but haven’t. Not only does the crash suck, but you won’t be able to find out who wins in the end!!!
Questions/comments/suggestions???
Ballard44’s World Cup tournament and tv popups
Installation
All you need to install the WC ‘patch’ are the fifa.db, eng.db, and the korea.trm…all the other files are just for graphic purposes and don’t have to be installed for the WC ‘patch’ to work!!!!
Both the database files are updated through July 22nd.
These files replace all the Korean League graphic files and the Korean League clubs, too
1) Copy and paste the fifa.db and ENG.db into the correct folders at …/data/cmn/ and …/data/cmn/fe respectively
2) Also, copy and paste the korea.trm into the …/data/cmn/fe folder
3) Remember that any saved careers must be removed or the rosters for all leagues will ‘double up’!
4) PLAY and enjoy
If you’d like to install the graphics…continue
5) Install Ariel’s ‘fapremierleaguepopbuild10.exe’. Once installed, play a game to make sure it’s working and use it if you like it!!! You’ll notice that with his installer you can un-install his patch back to the original pop-ups.
6) Open z_data_06.big w/ BigGUI. Scroll down and find the indctors.hud and indicator#’s_static.fsh files. ‘Import’ the same files (in the WinZip) over them and ‘compress’ both. Close BigGUI
7) Open EA’s Graphics Editor (included, if u don’t have it), hit the ‘import wizard’ button, check ‘Add files to external TAR’, and hit ‘next’.
8) Hit the ‘browse’ button and go to …/data/gui/pause and click on dial.big. Next, hit ‘add’ and add the dial.fsh and dial.o files from the WinZip.
9) Hit ‘next’…the files will import…close the Editor
10) Copy and paste all the .big files to their proper locations
11) The league.big and stubs.big …/data/gui/league folder
12) The eaticket.big …/data/gui/tickets folder
13) The bl83.big …/data/gui/back folder. Note-you just need to paste this file. You do not have to add it into the back.big file
14) PLAY and enjoy
About the World Cup set-up
There’s 36 national teams in this ‘league’…I would/could have added more but the game originally only came w/ 37 total…Way too much work to add teams. Paraguay was the only team not included in this ‘league’. China was replaced by Holland.
The ‘season’ starts out in August. Teams will play 15 ‘league’ matches. These matches are TOTALLY meaningless!!!
I had to add ‘league’ matches for 2 reasons. 1st, it was needed to make the korea.trm file work properly and 2nd it lets the game have the correct ‘tables’. There’s now a table for the meaningless ‘season’ and a separate ‘tournament’ table.
So, just set your training schedule and simulate until the final ‘season’ match in December.
In January, the World Cup qualifying matches start!!! There are 6 groups w/ 6 teams each.
The groups are…
A) Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, USA, and Uruguay
Australia, Cameroon, Korea, Nigeria, Senegal, and TunisiaC) Finland, Italy, Russia, Scotland, Spain, and the Swiss
D) Austria, Croatia, Holland, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden
E) Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, and Ireland
F) Belgium, England, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, and Turkey
You will play a home and away match against each team in your group – 10 matches total. Note - These groupings will never change. If you want to switch the teams around, you’ll have to edit the .trm file yourself!!!
32 of the 36 teams will qualify for the World Cup. Not exactly tough, but it’s what I had to work with
The teams will be ‘ranked’ in the table at the end of qualification 1 – 36. The last 4 teams will fail to advance.
Rankings (or where you finished) are semi-important in that the team that finished 1st will play the 17th, 18th and 32nd placed teams in the group stage and so on.
Group Stage plays out just like in real life. There will be 8 groups w/ 4 teams each.
You play each team in your group just once; the top 2 teams from each group will advance.
Those 16 teams will play down to 8 teams, then down to 4, and then the WC final!!!
Its single match, sudden death all the way through.
Problems
The main problem with this ‘patch’ is once you are officially eliminated for the WC the game will crash to the desktop. I’ve tried to find solutions to this, but haven’t. Not only does the crash suck, but you won’t be able to find out who wins in the end!!!
Questions/comments/suggestions???
