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FIFA 2005 Career Customizer

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Eire2k6

Club Supporter
THIS THREAD IS ACTUALLY ABOUT AN EASY WAY OF EDITING YOUR DATABASE TO PLAY ANY TEAM IN ANY LEAGUE YOUR FIRST SEASON IN CAREER MODE.

YES, IT CAN BE DONE. ONLY REQUIRES EDITING TWO FIELDS IN ONE RECORD OF THE MAIN DB.

THIS WAS COMBINED BY THE MODERATORS FROM SEVERAL THREADS AND TUCKED AWAY IN THE EDITING FORUM SO FOLKS HAVE TO REALLY LOOK FOR IT.

AT THE MOMENT IT IS ABOUT HALFWAY DOWN ON PAGE 2, AT LEAST WITH MY VIEWING SETTINGS (ANY WAY TO GET A LINK TO THAT PARTICULAR POST HERE?). BUT THERE IS SOME INFO BEFORE THAT HERE ON CHANGING LEAGUES TOO WHICH MIGHT BE USEFUL TO SOMEONE.

AT FIRST I THOUGHT YOU HAD TO RELEGATE YOUR TEAM TO GET THEM, however NOT SO AND IN FACT THE SOLUTION IS MUCH SIMPLER THAN THAT. YOU WILL NOT EVEN HAVE TO ADJUST SQUADS OR ADD CRAPPY PLAYERS OR SET FAVORITE TEAM OR ANYTHING.

READ DOWN A FEW PAGES TO FIND OUT HOW IT CAN WITHOUT HAVING TO RELEGATE YOUR TEAM TO A LOWER LEAGUE.

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You must get around the built-in game blocks of
a) if your team is in an advanced league
b) if your team has too many stars rating

You fix (b) by changing your squad, usually just subbing reserves into the lineup works, esp find the suckiest skill for the strikers

You can fix (a) by demoting your favorite upper-league team to the boonies. Just edit the database using UniDB to export for Data Guy and find the team-league links and rtsg table then demote your team and promote someone else in their place. The editing tutorial has a list of team id's. Re-name your original db file and import using UniDB back into your fifa db.

I tried this with my favorite EPL team and it worked. I am starting a new career from scratch with them in FA League Two / Division Three. If you can get over the shudder of seeing your favorite team relegated multiple times before you step in then it is kind of neat.
 
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luigi7

Youth Team
not the 2nd part, It is useless to start with ya team! Moer fun to just play it normally:kader:


And the Afro Man says no!:kader:
 
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Num Lock

Reserve Team
Originally posted by luigi7
not the 2nd part, It is useless to start with ya team! Moer fun to just play it normally:kader:


And the Afro Man says no!:kader:
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yeah i forgot the fun about playing with a second rate team i'm not even a fan of with players i don't even care about.....
 
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Eire2k6

Club Supporter
Well, not making a value judgement, just letting you know it CAN be done - without any patches that are language-dependent - and it works.

I've seen in my brief time here a lot of grumbling about not being able to play a career with your favorite upper-division team until after all the plaers have retired.

Well, there is a way around it, and in fact your team will probably kick butt for a few promotions with no additions to boot, giving you more upgrades, so you can concentrate more on developing players rather than mass transfers.

Probably mostly an issue with English EPL/1st/2nd division teams as technically I think you are able to coach in the Italian and Spanish first leagues right away. Why EA decided to permit you start off in upper leagues there and in England no matter how bad you make your team look I don't know.
 
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Eire2k6

Club Supporter
Okay, here is exactly what I did.

First I came up with a plan for how to promote and relegate teams.
Blackburn, my team, was going from FA Premier to FA League Two (shudder)
Leicester City, Walsall and Rushden all seemed like a good choices to reverse their relegations from real life soccer last year so...

1. I went to the team creation tutorial and looked up the teamid numbers for each of these teams from the list he has as you go thru the tutorial webpages.
Blackburn = 3
Leicester City = 95
Walsall = 1803
Rushden = 1942
I wrote these down for use in all the following.

2. I used UniDB (downloadable via link on the tutorial webpage) to copy my EA database to an MS Access database (there are instructions on the tutorial webpage on how to do this).

3. I used Blueshell Data Guy (same comments as above) to edit the following items in the database.
in table_leagueteamlinks
the original record with teamid=3 shows leagueid=13, I changed the teamid to 95
the original record with teamid=95 shows leagueid=14, I changed the teamid to 1803
the original record with teamid=1803 shows leagueid=60, I changed the teamid to 1942
the original record with teamid=1942 shows leagueid=61, I changed the teamid to 3

This reverses last year's relegations for these teams, with a whopping relegation for Blackburn instead, and puts all the teams in their new leagues.
However, this only changes the team location in the menus useable for friendlies. You will not find the teams in their leagues in career mode unless you change the schedule generator database also.

4. Again using Data Guy, I opened table_team_lookup to change it as follows.
found the record with teamid=3 has rtsgt=3145742
found the record with teamid=95 has rtsgt=3145745
found the record with teamid=1803 has rtsgt=4194325
found the record with teamid=1942 has rtsgt=5242901
I found all these first and wrote them down to use as follows.
the record with teamid=3 I changed to rtsgt=5242901
the record with teamid=95 I changed to rtsgt=3145742
the record with teamid=1803 I changed to rtsgt=3145745
the record with teamid=1942 I changed to rtsgt=4194325

(NOTE - NEWLY EDITED ABOVE SHOULD BE RIGHT NOW, EVERYBODY BUMPS UP TO THE rtsgt FOR THE LEAGUE SPOT THEY ARE PROMOTED INTO)

This will allow career mode to recognize the league changes in the schedule generator.

5. Now I closed the MS Access databse and use UniDB to put my changes into the EA database.
MAKE SURE YOU COPY YOUR ORIGINAL DATABASE FILE FIRST SO YOU CAN GET BACK!

6. Note you also now should re-set your favorite team setting to the team you wish to play, in its new league, as this makes it possible to play a team with slighty higher skill ratings.
Even if you think you did this previously you will now have to re-enter your choice as the database changes (changing leagues and all) will wipe it out.

7. Finally, as you already know, go into My FIFA squads and move your two lowest-skill outfield players to your striker positions and the remaining 8 lowest-skill to the remaining 8 positions.
This makes your team look real terrible without actually changing a darn thing that you can't back right out of in career mode.

One other thing, I also vastly improved the Blackburn kit by a simple database change as well.
It always bugged me that the game had black numbers for the Rovers home kit instead of red with white outline.
I changed table_teamkits as follows
for the record with teamid=3 and kitype=0 (the Rovers home kit)...
change numbercolorid to 96 (copied from PSG kit database which is same number color)
change namecolor to 17 (the Rovers 3rd jersey color)
change numbercolor to 17

(note my sig has an older version before I got this quite right)

And it all works.

Oh, FYI, in my case before I started my career I also used squad manager to make the following 'trades' (gave about 8-10k more than got in each case so I felt I was being fair)
Newcastle's Alan Shearer to Rovers for Jon Stead and Andy Todd
Celtic's Chris Sutton to Rovers for Paul Dikov and Javier De Pedro
Two good but too old too slow forwards in EA, both just for historical interest to play a couple seasons
Didn't give up anyone who is likely going to have starting job in my career mode as I have Jansen and Gallagher if I didn't have the SAS

The poor Cheltenham Town keeper, just up from the conference for their first league game, facing several hundred premiership goals between the two opposing strikers!

Personally, I'd let this thread die off now or ask to have it moved to the editing or kits forum maybe. I am new to the forum and don't quite have my web legs yet, sorry!
 
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Eire2k6

Club Supporter
()*@&%(@%

I wrote the rtsgt changes down wrong above. Well, scratch your head and it will be apparent.

That's it on this one, promise.
 
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Stuntman

Reserve Team
Originally posted by Rochester Rhino
but what all the people playing on console?
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I've tried just about everything to be able to start with a team from the EPL, but I don't think it can be done on console. Even if you sold the best players on the team I don't think you'd be able to get any team from Germany, England, Spain, France or Italy in your first season.
 
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Eire2k6

Club Supporter
FIFA 2005 Career Customizer download

Anyone have a working link to download the FIFA 2005 Career Customizer?

That does _not_ go thru Soccer Access or File Front (or FIFA International which goes thru File Front). Please.

:Bow:

I can't seem to download any files from or thru Soccer Access.

File Front usually works but the page for this particular file has a circular link back onto itself.
 
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Eire2k6

Club Supporter
take it back, File Front doesn't work after all, same thing every file I try to get is a circular link. wtf, over? am I just stupid and unable to click a button marked "download" properly or what?

this means not only no fifa 2k5 carrer customizer but also no patch for my TCM 2k5 when it gets here today either.
 
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Rochester Rhino

Manager
i just downloaded something from filefront fine, after you click on download, the you select your server. the they tell you to click here and then you might have to wait.
 
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Eire2k6

Club Supporter
not for me. i click on download and then just get the same file info page loaded again. i even turned my popup blocker off and everything but no joy. :boohoo:

stupid question - do you have to be :drevil: "registered" or :drevil: "logged in" or anything (i wasn't, lotsa sites you don't)? :crazyboy:

otherwise i can't figure what the heck i am doing wrong.

plz help :Bow: thx
 
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mixed_boy

Reserve Team
Eire2k6, please give me your e-mail address, and I will try to send you the setup file for the FIFA 2005 Career Customizer...

:)

mixed_boy
 
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Eire2k6

Club Supporter
thanks mixed_boy, but could you re-send it as zip, or at least re-name the extension? outlook has this thing about exe files.

http://files.filefront.com/SetupCarCus/;3677607;;/fileinfo.html

is the link that does not work for me. however, a couple others on file front do not work for me either. i can not even get my registration to process!

fyi the site above does have a screen shot which pretty much explains what the program does. or at least i guess, after all, i really wouldn't know yet huh!
 
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renski

Club Supporter
career customiser is useless, you can't get Premier League sides in the career selection still.
 
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