UEFA EURO 2012 Ultimate Perfect Patch

[RobbieD_PL]

Hi guys,

After not doing the UEFA EURO 2024 patch this year for FIFA16, I went back to the UEFA EURO 2012 DLC for FIFA12. I released an Unlicensed and Finalists Roster patch for this DLC about a year or 2 after the 2012 finals, but looking back at it now, I can see that some of the players still had incorrect squad numbers. I also had players still with fake player IDs, but I now have had those fixed. I'm also aware of @Skoczek 's great work with keeping the MWM version up to date, so I'm looking to combine his work with mine here.

Features that I want to include in this patch (provisional list):
- All 53 UEFA national teams in 2012 with players updated to February 2012 FIFA12 or August 2012 FIFA13 ratings.
- Accurate starting XIs & formations for all 16 finalists, some to be updated from FIFA13.
- Having every single player in the Euro 2012 database with real IDs & ratings.
- Adding all player faces throughout the FIFA series (yes, even up to FIFA22!)
- As many national teams with 2 sets of licensed 2012 & 2010-11 kits.
- Adding players that retired after the Euro 2012 qualifiers which have Euro 2012 style minifaces &/or real faces.
- All licensed 2010 kit sets from 2010WC.
- Updated generic kits for Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Bosnia, Finland, Iceland, Israel, Switzerland, Slovenia with 2012 sets from 2014WC (I've added the UEFA EURO 2012 badges to these kits in my Unlicensed & Finalists patch).
- Updating kits for Belgium, Norway & Northern Ireland to their 2012-13 kit sets from 2014WC.
- 3rd 2012 kits for France, Netherlands & Portugal from 2014WC.
- Adding national stadiums - at least those stadiums which have featured in the FIFA series: Estadio da Luz, Ataturk, Millennium Stadium, Luzhniki, Ernst-Happel Stadion, St. Jakob Park, Athens Olympic Stadium
- Adding daytime versions of the 8 host Euro 2012 stadiums
- Adding player callnames from 2014WC to the DLC eng_us_2 commentary files. If it will be possible to do this for English commentary, I will then look at the DLC's other 6 audio languages
- Updating the Kazakhstan anthem in the dlc anthems soundbank
- Fixing incorrect stadium announcer player names & team IDs

 

[RobbieD_PL]

An Idea that I've had for ages about the EURO 2012 minifaces. Would it be possible to update the generic kits on the minifaces to use the texture of the licensed kits from 2014WC? All the minifaces use the 2012 kit textures, not the 2014 ones.

See here Vasiliy Berezutsky:

Or Anatoliy Tymoshchuk:

Ukraine's GK minifaces have the same green shoulders & grey chest like the Adidas 2012 GK kits for Greece:

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Some more examples:

Eidur Gudjohnsen:

Philippe Senderos:

Mikael Forsell:

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Portugal's home 2012 kit had 2 variations (one deep red, the other normal red):

France's 3 2012 kits & 2 different GKs:

Netherlands 3 2012 kits:

 

[Skoczek]

An Idea that I've had for ages about the EURO 2012 minifaces. Would it be possible to update the generic kits on the minifaces to use the texture of the licensed kits from 2014WC? All the minifaces use the 2012 kit textures, not the 2014 ones.

See here Vasiliy Berezutsky:

Or Anatoliy Tymoshchuk:

Ukraine's GK minifaces have the same green shoulders & grey chest like the Adidas 2012 GK kits for Greece:

my idea is to make a VirtualPro, assign a kit to a club team and assign a face using Revoultion Mod or smth and it automatically generates.
Not sure if that's how it works.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Does anyone have the roster update released by EA for the DLC? @Dmitri @V.K. ?

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Hi guys,

So I've tried updating the default database to remove the generic names & IDs for Ukraine's players, adding the 3 GKs who were called to the finals & updating the formation of Ukraine. However, anytime I try to go into Team Management, the game crashes to desktop?

 

[RobbieD_PL]

3 Squads updated: Ukraine, Wales & Iceland.

 

[V.K]

Does anyone have the roster update released by EA for the DLC? @Dmitri @V.K. ?

Sorry, I don't.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

3 Squads updated: Ukraine, Wales & Iceland.

One more team updated: Serbia.

BTW, it seems impossible to add new player names in playernames table, without causing a crash in Team Management. How to work around this? Ideally, I'd prefer the best to have all the player names sorted by alphabetical order & removing any unnecessary duplicates.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

One step forward, 2 steps back. By adding corresponding jerseyfonts from FIFA16, I've now been able to add the following diacritics on the back of players shirts:

Ę/ę, Ł/ł, Ń/ń, Ć/ć, Č/č, Ś/ś, Š/š, Ż/ż, Ž/ž

However, because the jersey font #25 (which is Puma 2012 font), was included in the euro.bigs by default, the updated jersey font file isn't picked up in game & so the nations that had Puma kits with accents (Czech Republic, Slovakia & FYR Macedonia) don't have those updated accents.

How the #*&! do I regenerate the .bh files of the euro.bigs successfully? Trying to remove the font file in the big with File Master12 causes all the .bh reference to be messed up...

Another thing is accents in the menus. 2 problems. Certain accented characters aren't saving in the euro_ng_db.db, even when the font which is used in the DLC has them.

Ó - Upper case o-acute (for Ólafur Skúlason)
Ė/ė - Both upper & lower case e with dot (for Mantas Savėnas)
Ț/ț & Ș/ș - Both upper & lower case t & s with comma (e.g. Țîgîrlaș, Ștefan Radu, Mățel & Chiricheș) - Strangely enough, putting T with cedilla (Ţ/ţ) shows the T with comma in the UEFA EURO menus, but S with cedilla is used in Turkish, so this doesn't work for Ș/ș.
Î/î - i-circumflex (e.g. Țîgîrlaș on both "i"s) - this one is strange for me because it is an accent used in French as well.

I'm wondering if there could be some limitation in the .xml file for the euro .db, which prevents saving those characters? I even have this problem saving in DB Master which is the same version that I use for the FIFA16 database (not DBM12).

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Guys, does anyone have the FIFA12 version of FHL-BH-Editor? I can't find it anywhere & I can't run neither the FIFA15 nor the FIFA13 versions in the FIFA12 main directory....

 

[RobbieD_PL]

2 more teams updated, Bosnia & Slovakia, Bosnia with licensed 2012 kits from WC2014 & Slovakia with Miroslav Karhan in the starting lineup (& a EURO style miniface)!

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Arrrrggghhh, the playernames table is driving me insane! Is there anyway to sort the nameids by alphabetical order, remove the unused names and them have these new nameids applied in players table for firstname, lastname, commonname & jerseyname columns?

 

[RobbieD_PL]

So, it seems that with one player too many in the database, the DLC crashes? I removed the one player who wasn't in the Slovakia squad & it fixed the problem. In any case, 2 more teams updated today: Montenegro & Belarus. No new players, but Aliaksandr Martynovich gets an upgrade from 62 to 67 as a starting CB.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Georgia updated and now with 77 rated Kaladze as captain, the team gets a rating boost from 3 stars to 3.5 stars.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Armenia was updated yesterday & 3 teams updated today: FYR (North) Macedonia, Albania & Estonia. Henrik Mkhitaryan is now rated 81 (his earliest rating in the FIFA series as opposed to his WC2010 rating of 58), Masis Voskanyan has his real ID & is upgraded to 53 from 49. Albania has the captain Atlin Lala & the striker Erjon Bogdani added to the starting lineup, removing Elvin Beqiri & Arsen Sykaj who never played in the ECQ 2012 matches. Both Lala & Bogdani have hidden EURO minifaces.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

All Unlicensed teams, except the 6 minnows: Andorra, Faroe Islands, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta & San Marino, have now been updated. I need to go over the player trait codes to compare between the fake players & WC2014 to see if there are any traits that can be added for players. I have done this already for 3 teams: Ukraine, Azerbaijan & Moldova.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

I'm also trying to find a copy of the trial version of the UEFA EURO 2012 DLC, specifically the database.

It appears that there were at least 2 fake players added who were removed upon release of the DLC:

One is the Latvian RM rated 61 V. Aukselis (fake & downgraded Vitalijs Astafjevs)
Another is the Slovak CDM rated 63 Z. Strnad (fake & downgraded Zdeno Strba).

If I can find the trial/demo .db that has those 2 players, I can add the real players to the DLC with downgraded ratings.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

So, first minnow team updated: Malta. Plus all the unlicensed teams' players now have updated traits.