NBA Live '95 Player Patch V3.01 ------------------------------- written by Lutz van Hasselt and Everett Fitzgerald (the author looks forward to answer all your questions and comments, but to save him some time, read this text first before you ask) What's new 3.00 -> 3.01 ----------------------- - rosters updated in 95-96.exe and players.exe (through 10-23-95) Introduction ------------ This is an unofficial patch for the commercial game NBA Live '95 by EA Sports, based on hex editing. It provides the executable with data of new players, who were not originally in the game, most noteably Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and David Robinson, and generally updates the rosters, regarding trades, the recent NBA draft and the two expansion teams. Other than that, it replaces the 93-94 stats with 94-95 stats and includes retouched skill values and starting lineups, plus LOTS more. What's new 2.xx -> 3.xx ----------------------- - full 95/96 rosters with all the trades and rookies - the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies replacing the all-star teams - legend teams with your all-time favorites, check out Magic, Larry, Wilt, Dr J, Kareem etc. - every NBA all-star team since 1992 - Dream Teams 1, 2 and 3, with official DT3 roster as announced - more national teams - special silliness mode - UCLA and Duke championship teams - all-NBA and all-rookie teams of each year since 1991 - more brilliant athletes and thinkers of our time and the past: Al Bundy, Bill Clinton, Dan Quayle, Beavis and Butthead, Raymond Luxury Yacht, our great Pope, Helmut Kohl and more than 300 even more wonderful and intelligent more or less human beings - teams of slam dunk specialists, 3 point shooters, tall and short players - a free dead Indian with every registered patch version - inclusion of anyone who asked me to be in the game - more accurate season performance of Jordan and Rodman - new installation routine - corrected starting lineups for both exhibition and season play (maybe that was already fixed for the last version, I can't remember) - support for the official PAS/16 sound and joystick patch Files ----- install.exe 94-95exh.pat 94-95sea.pat 95-96.pat legends.pat silly.pat players.pat stuff.pat readme.txt If you are missing something, note that the full .zip-file is available at ftp.cdrom.com /pub/games/something or via e-mail at willwink@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de All other files from former patch versions can be deleted. Installation ------------ This patch replaces all former patch versions, most probably downloaded by you under the name nbapv2**.zip, nbapat**.zip or nbapatch.zip. You can delete all the files created by unzipping one of the above mentioned, namely patch.1, patch.11, patch.111, patch.2, exhibi.bat, league.bat and gosuns.msg (support the quest for disk space). Copy all the unzipped files into your main NBA directory, which is the directory where nba95.exe is located. Make sure an original, unchanged copy of nba95.exe either as on the CD or as from the PAS/16 patch is available in this directory. Run install.exe by typing 'install' (Return), then follow the instructions appearing on your screen. The program will automatically determine if your .exe-file is the original or the PAS/16 patch. You will be asked if you want to install the following files: 94-95exh.exe, 94-95sea.exe, 95-96.exe, silly.exe, players.exe, stuff.exe and legends.exe (read below for details) Each of those requires about 1.1MB of HD space. When finished, you can choose one of the created .exe-files to start. If you decide to install some more files than originally chosen, just run install.exe again. You can delete the .pat-files after the installation if you keep the corres- ponding .exe-files. 95-96 ----- This is probably the most important file. It includes the probable 95-96 rosters of all 29 NBA teams, with all the offseason moves like rookies and free agents signings, retirements and trades, including the Price, Rodman and Majerle trades. I tried to pick the 12 players for each team who have the best chances to make the roster on 11-02. IMPORTANT: This league is not created for season play. It will give weird results trying to start a league with it and the game will most probably crash sooner or later. The reason for this is, that there is no way for me to change the calendar, so that the expansion teams could participate in the season and that I'd have to give a lot of players wrong portraits. IMHO, it wouldn't make any sense making this work with season play. 94-95sea -------- You already know this file from elder patch versions. It contains updated 94-95 rosters with 94-95 stats and corrected starting lineups. A few players use wrong portraits, but Jordan, Barkley and Robinson are there. 94-95exh -------- Also taken from the last patch version (with a few corrections). It's the same as 94-95sea, but without any wrong portraits. Don't try using this for league play, it won't work. This might seem pretty useless to you, as you have the 95-96 version, but if you are a nostalgic sort of a person, you shouldn't delete this, as it might be cool to check it out again in a few years. legends ------- This features all-time greats as all-star teams with Magic, Larry, Dr J and others. Hint: When going for 100 with Wilt Chamberlain, switch off the color on your monitor (if possible) to enhance the realism of experiencing a historic event. players ------- This means you. If you mailed me, load this, check out your favorite team and guess who's on. If I messed up your look or your number, or if you don't agree with your skill values, read on to find out how to change this yourself. I tried to make the skill values as realistic as possible, so I did not exaggerate. Don't take it personal if your values are too low; of course, I have never even seen you play, I just made them up from your own comments. I just hope I did not forget anyone, there's quite some chaos in my mailbox. Some people forgot to gave me their favorite team. Just check out the players menu to find out where I put you. Trade yourself if you don't like it. Don't start a league with this. silly ----- This is meant for more sensible use of NBA Live '95. Forget this ridiculous crap about Jordan, Barkley and the others. This is the real thing. Michael Jordan, who the fuck are you? Here are the real heroes, regardless of their current state of decay or their nobility. Each of those teams would kick any NBA team's ass any day. Just check out the rosters and look who's on. The different logos might help you to find stuff. When you see a blockers logo, you'll find real NBA players, (with silly lineups), when you see allstar logos, you'll find a compilation of the dumbest guys from other teams. If you think, your skills are not good enough in the 'players' file, you'll find yourself in one of the teams marked with the slammers logo. This is how good you are in your wildest dreams (at least the wildest 'dry' dreams :-) A lot of people have been complaining that this game is far too easy and that they beat their opponents by 100 even on all-star level etc. In that case, take the 'very worst' team and try to beat the 'very best', just look for the jammers logos. All the other teams use stealers logos, except a few original logos, like for Dallas and Denver. It should be pretty obvious what bunch of morons you'll find on those teams. Of course, Clinton and Quayle are with the Bullets and Al Bundy is on the Bulls roster. Oh yeah, and check out the Highland team, huh huh. The other teams suck. stuff ----- Here, you'll find everything not contained in one of the other files. Check out Dream Teams 1-3 (abbreviated DT 1-3, or find the jammers logos). If you are arguing with someone if DT 1 or DT 2 was better, just invite him to your place and find out (well, actually, you'll just find out who's better with his joystick (no pun intended), but it's fun anyway). Just in case this is too exciting for you, the slammers logos indicate other national teams which may be crushed by your Dream Teams (nice for relaxing after work). The teams with the blockers logos are all-NBA or all-rookie teams of each season since 91/92 and you'll find all the allstar teams starting at the same season behind the allstar logos, named W 92, E 92, W 93 etc. There are even more teams to have fun with (look for stealers logos). Don't even think of starting a season with this file. How to edit the game yourself ----------------------------- NBA-Ed 2.02 has just been released. It is a great tool, written by Jose de Leon, allowing to edit all the player data. It has lots of new features since v1.x, most importantly player name editing and PAS/16 patch support. It's easy to use and generally brilliant. It's available at ftp.cdrom.com in /pub/games/new or pub/games/something or in whatever directory. Or mail the author (Jose) directly at ug930009@omega.scs.carleton.ca. If you get it and create a cool league, check out the NBA-Ed doc files on how to create a small patch file and upload it. Share your work with others. Jose and I have put so much time into the editor and the patch respectively, now it would be pretty cool to relax and enjoy other people's creations. If moves are made, look for the trade/copy options of NBA-Ed instead of the trade option of NBA Live. Using the latter with patched versions may cause some trouble. Future versions --------------- Version 3.02 is due to release at about the start of the season, after the teams had to reduce their rosters to 12 players. Shortly after that, EA Sports is going to release NBA Live 96, which is supposed to come with a full editor. If the 3D graphics don't totally suck, I'll probably buy it and stop patching NBA Live 95. Look for v3.02 and other patches on ftp.cdrom.com. Or e-mail me about me, you won't receive it automatically. Legal bits ---------- This patch is freeware. Spread it, put it on your CDs, on your WWW sites, whatever, as long as you don't sell it for profit. Please spread the whole .zip-file. If you spread parts of it, you should at least include this text. Feel free to use it as a basis for your own creations of leagues, though. This patch was written by Lutz van Hasselt and Everett Fitzgerald. Original idea, silly stuff, the 'stuff' and 'players' leagues and the 94-95 and 95-96 leagues by Lutz van Hasselt Legends by Everett Fitzgerald. Any resemblance to Suns forwards or Spurs centers dead or living is purely coincidental and not at all meant to violate any fucking rights. Thanks to --------- -Jose de Leon for NBA-Ed. Without him, this would not have been possible. You just can't create 500 new players just with a hex editor -EA Sports the best computer game since Doom -Bernd Schmidt for some technical help -Jose again for the infos on the PAS/16 patch -Everett Fitzgerald for the legends patch -EA Sports again for the joystick patch -BHSCard for his continuous support and infos -Jacques Chirac for the radiotherapeutics -Bill Gates for everything -anyone else I forgot FAQ --- Q:You already said last time you'd retire from patching. You remind me of Charles Barkley. A:Uhhh. Oh yeah. Sorry for that. Q:Don't you know how to spell 'Vancouver'? A:Well, no, it wasn't on Wheel of Fortune yet, so how should I know... Actually, there's not enough space allocated for it, I know how to change the pointers, but I somehow can't apply team names that are longer than the original ones, and it used to say 'Western'. Q:When will the next version be finished? A:A few days into November. Q:What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9? A:42. Q:I have started a league with 94-95exh/95-96 or whatever and it works. A:Not really. Have a close look at the stats of the new players, they are probably rather messed up. Plus, your game may crash sooner or later. Q:Someone uploaded something to ftp.cdrom.com, but I get my permisson denied. A:Due to security reasons, you can't download stuff from their /incoming directory. You'll have to wait for them to check the file and move it to the /new directory. Q:Magic and Larry can't run or jump on your Dream Team 1. A:Well,they couldn't, in 1992. Check out 'legends' to see them in their prime. Q:What is the PAS/16 patch you mentioned? A:It's an official patch by EA Sports fixing some problems with joysticks and PAS/16 sound cards. Check out ftp.ea.com or the Electronic Arts WWW site or any site where you usually get your game patches. Q:How do I register the patch? A:Of course you don't. It's freeware. Q:Player X has the wrong skin color/shooting hand etc. A:You can change those things easily with NBA-Ed 2. Nevertheless, any infos about such mistakes are appreciated. Q:Is there a life after death? A:No. Q:Why can't you make a patch that can be used for season play without wrong portraits? A:The offset that is used for the portraits is also used for loading season data during league play, so if someone uses someone else's portrait, he'll use his stats. Especially if someone has the no-portrait-avaialble sign (All-Star Center's portrait), the game will load some random data as stats and calculate with it, which gives very strange statistical results and will probably sooner or later crash the game due to a divison by zero or overflow error. This is actually bad programming style by EA Sports, but hey, mine is even worse, I used to have a C-64. Q:How do you pronounce 'Raymond Luxury Yacht'? A:'Throatwobbler Mangrove'. Q:Team A traded player X to team B for players Y and Z. What now? A:Check out NBA-Ed 2. It's pretty easy to make the trades or to apply new players. Or, search ftp.cdrom.com for someone uploading the changed league. Q:Who is Willi Wienke? A:Does it ring a bell when I say 'Ja...! Schlecht! Unzureichend! Sechs!'? No? Q:Fuck you! It just says:'No portrait available'. I want my Jordan portrait. And Butthead's jersey should read 'AC/DC'. And Kelly Bundy has long hair. A:Sorry, I can't (yet) include any of my own graphics. I have to stick to what is in the game already. Q:The Grizzlies and Raptors still have all-star logos. And the announcer keeps giving wrong team names. A:see above Q:Can you change the calendar, so that the Raptors and Grizzlies can take part in season play? A:Not with hex editing. You'll have to wait for EA Sports to do it. They have the source code. Q:Is this patch legal? A:I don't know and I don't care. Legal/illegal/scheissegal. Q:What does 'scheissegal' mean? A:Check out your favorite English/Hungarian phrasebook. Q:The patch crashed, even though I played only exhibition games. A:If you got some (maybe messed up) message ending with 'Would you like to try to run the program anyway (Y/N)', when starting the game, the crash was most probably caused by memory problems. If not, there might actually be a bug. Mail me the exact part of the game where the crash occured and the patch file you used, and I'll try to help you out. Q:How do I unzip? A:42. Q:Can you make the backboards shatter/the players fight? A:Yeah, sure, and I can make beer out of water (or was that whiskey?). Q:The memory message at the beginning is corrupted. A:Well, I had to write the new names somewhere. It sure is more elegant to find some old names to overwrite, but this was somehow easier for me. Q:How do I run your patch with Windoze 95? A:Drop dead. Q:Are you really from Germany? A:Unfortunately yes. NBA coverage is really poor around these parts. Any info by European users on how to receive American TV channels other than CNN Int. , TNT Eur. and NBC Super Ch. is greatly appreciated. Rumors are that there are ways to pirate US Army TV and they are said to cover games live. Q:Oh no! It said, my hard disk is corrupted. My dad's gonna kill me. A:Dumbass. Q:Are there other patches? A:Look for alltime.zip on ftp.cdrom.com, with all-time greats for each team. Q:Where do I get NBA-Ed 2? A:FTP to ftp.cdrom.com or e-mail Jose de Leon, address ug93etc., see below. Q:Who is Roy Black? A:No, no, ask: Who WAS Roy Black? Tsshehheh! Q:What about editing portraits, 95-96 season play, correct announcements and real courts and jerseys for the expansion teams? A:NBA Live 96 will be released in, I guess, November. It will have all those features. (If you have NHL 96, NBA 96 will look about the same.) Q:What do you really get if you multiply 6 by 9? A:Uh, I dont'know, huh huh. other questions and comments ---------------------------- General questions about the patch go to willwink@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Please send your comments about the legends league to Everett Fitzgerald, ERocDMAd@aol.com For stuff related to NBA-Ed, ask Jose de Leon (ug930009@omega.scs.carleton.ca) Jose also accepts gifts, especially nudes. If they have big tits, though, send them to me instead. For general questions on NBA Live '95, check out the NBA Live '95 FAQ, available at ftp.netcom.com /pub/av/avatarx/faqs, ftp.cdrom.com and other places. Complaints about DOS and Windoze go to bgates@microsoft.com. And now enjoy the game and always remember to rake at the Gates of hell. Cheers, Lutz.