brute force Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 when playing and testing these mods, what files should i back up in case something goes wrong? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeB Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 What mods are you talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbullsfan4life Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 I just backup the data folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeB Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 I think you should, in general, back up the database, stadiums, models.big, uniform.big, and portraits.big. If you are going to mod anything else that is not listed here, please do yourself a favour and do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APR Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Backup the whole MVP folder, thats what I did, and I haven't had to worry about backing up or not backing up anything...ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoltinJoeCarter Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 yea just back up your game man, its only a few gigs, thats the easiest thing to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeB Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 And if you screw up and can't find the files, you don't need to reinstall the game. The originals are are disc one. Just click on My Computer, right click on the CD drive that disc one is in, and click Explore. From there on you can find all of the files. Some of them are in compressed folders, but they're all there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brute force Posted August 14, 2005 Author Share Posted August 14, 2005 so the files are not in comporessed format on the disc. Sounds like i really dont have to worry about backing up if all the files on the original disc are not compressed. I had thought they came compressed as in most games????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastasports1 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 so the files are not in comporessed format on the disc. Sounds like i really dont have to worry about backing up if all the files on the original disc are not compressed. I had thought they came compressed as in most games????? Yep, you don't need to backup anything. It's all on your disc 1 and 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torement Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 personally i would install one mod at a time make sure that mod works then back up your data folder that way if you install 15 mods and then the 16th causes your game to crash you will have a backup copy with the 15 mods that work installed saves from having to install the mods over (plus sometimes a mod wont crash your game but if you try to reinstall it, it might) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee4Life Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 personally i would install one mod at a time make sure that mod works then back up your data folder that way if you install 15 mods and then the 16th causes your game to crash you will have a backup copy with the 15 mods that work installed saves from having to install the mods over (plus sometimes a mod wont crash your game but if you try to reinstall it, it might) That's a very, very good point torement. I've been doing that since the mods came out for this new game and I haven't had a problem yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brute force Posted August 14, 2005 Author Share Posted August 14, 2005 one other thing: I guess the "my documents" folder should be backed up since all the profiles and options are there??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brute force Posted August 14, 2005 Author Share Posted August 14, 2005 thanks guys. you sure know your stuff. can i ask a question about mvp edit or should that be in another forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torement Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 thanks guys. you sure know your stuff. can i ask a question about mvp edit or should that be in another forum? first use the search feature to see if your question about mvpedit has been posted.....there are ALOT of posts about mvpedit up here so more than likely your question has been answered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big shmooz Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 I think you should, in general, back up the database, stadiums, models.big, uniform.big, and portraits.big. If you are going to mod anything else that is not listed here, please do yourself a favour and do so. If you are doing any modding, the advice you give is best of all. (unless you back up the entire game, which in my opinion is overkill) Since if you put the files back in from scratch, (off the disk) you lose all the additions you added on your own. My rule of thumb is simple, when I put in a new file no matter what it is, I create a backup of the file that preceded it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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