08-08-2010 Roster AND Portrait Update

So, who plays for the Tigers these days?

No, that guy's injured.

That guy? Broken hand.

Oh that guy? Yeah, knee exploded, I.R.

The batting champ? Check Henry Ford Hospital, room 226.

The guy with a 104-mph fastball? The bodypart thing that holds his elbow together snapped. Twang!

Don't even ask about the bullpen.

If you have loaded a recent Detroit Tigers roster, you may be forgiven for thinking MLB went on strike again. No. But we do have a lot of new faces, and with my mod, all of the fresh new faces will actually have, you know, faces.

BTW - the "Rookie" and stuff on there was added in Photoshop. It's not in the mod.

The portrait files and accompanying roster file include every portrait uploaded to this site (minus some minor league Pirates and Aroldis Chapman, because he is not a Major League ballplayer), plus a few others that I modified on my own (mostly Tigers, but I made a few trade deadline picture changes). If the white rings around some of my files bothered you before, they are gone now, for those I saw at least.

I tried it with a franchise (with roster management on auto) and it seemed to work, but I will not support this file's use with Franchises or My Player, so don't bother asking.

I will try to continue to update the portrait file with the rosters as the year progresses, but the pain-in-the-butt-itude of doing so may prevent me.

Step 1: BACK UP YouR FILES

Step 2: Portrait.iff and portrait.cdf go in your MLB 2K10 folder, most likely C:\Program Files\2K Sports\MLB 2K10

Step 3: Roster.ROS goes in your saves folder under Application Data. For Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR USER NAME]\Application Data\2K Sports\Major League Baseball 2K10\Saves

I used TyWiggins's editor to enter the players whose portraits didn't already appear. If you wish to do the same (e.g. if you want your ALREADY STARTED dynasty to use the portraits you just downloaded), here are the added players and their corresponding digits:

Slot Player Number

5 Jeff Clement 9258

9 Allen Craig 9005

12 Ian Desmond 9058

22 Brian Duensing 9305

30 Jim Edmonds 9301

33 Jaime Garcia 9201

39 Craig Gentry 9001

44 Andrew Oliver 9101

48 Luke Gregerson 9254

50 Mark Grudzielanek 9009

60 Jason Heyward 9109

65 Austin Jackson 9154

81 Kenshin Kawakami 9209

90 Brad Kilby 9150

104 Mike Lamb 9250

115 Rodrigo Lopez 9344

119 Colby Lewis 9244

123 Joe Mather 9019

134 John Raynor 9044

139 Ben Sheets 9219

147 Scott Sizemore 9144

149 Jay Sborz 9140

162 Greg Smith 9040

164 Craig Stammen 9240

172 Stephen Strasburg 9340

176 Mitch Talbot 9248

179 Jake Westbrook 441

181 Jordan Zimmerman 9115

192 Brennan Boesch 9315

196 Pedro Alvarez 9148

199 Argenis Diaz 9048

201 OPEN 9215

203 Brad Lincoln 9211

213 Starlin Castro 9311

230 Jose Tabata 9064

234 Brad Thomas 9239

237 Jeff Larish 9164

238 Alfredo Figaro 9183

247 Danny Worth 9264

251 Ryan Strieby 9283

255 Brent Dlugach 9260

259 Enrique Gonzalez 9287

268 Robbie Weinhardt 9187

270 Hector Ambriz 9087

275 Carlos Santana 9060

280 Jason Donald 9335

284 Frank Herrmann 9068

288 Will Rhymes 9235

298 Jeff Frazier 9268

The first number is its spot in the portrait file; the second number is what you have to change their portrait # to in the roster editor.