Mini-Game Crash

[Ivanhoe]

I just finished doing a Majors-A ball roster mod. I imported it into the game. Once the game loads up I decided to check out a few players by playing the batting mini-game. The mini-game loads up, it shows a close up of the batter and then crashes.

It doesn't matter what player I use it crashes. I played an exhibition game and a dynasty game with the same players and no problems.

I remember someone else had this problem and I searched for the solution but could not find it.

Any thoughts?

[Matroska]

It happens with every roster, its not your fault.

[snepp]

Do a search for "mini game crash" and select the "Search for all terms" option, you will find a load of info on this problem.

[Matroska]

Quoted from Big Shmooz

The fix was already posted for the batting minigame crash. You need to have Shane Reynolds in the game. Manually install this into the attrib.dat file in the correct alphabetical order (based on last name of the players)




Here is what was posted... Here's how you solve it:




After exporting the rosters with MVPedit, open up the file attrib.dat in the mvp2005/data/database folder (where you exported the rosters) and insert the following string of text where it should be according to the alphabetical order.




0f844e070,0 Shane,1 Reynolds,2 37,3 0,4 0,5 0,6 10,7 27,8 115,9 29,10 244,11 1,12 0,13 0,14 0,15 0,16 1,17 743,18 1,19 5,20 11,21 0,22 0,23 43,24 12,25 11,26 10,27 10,28 2,29 0,30 0,31 1,32 1,33 0,34 0,35 0,36 0,37 0,38 2,39 0,40 2,41 1,42 0,43 0,44 0,45 7391,;




Apparently, EA has programmed the mini game to use Shane Reynolds as the pitcher & when he's not in the rosters it crashes.




You guys should thank kraw for finding the error.

Incase you hadnt found it yet.

I tried it and it did work.

[Ivanhoe]

Thanks everyone. I'll try this when I get home.

[Ivanhoe]

A quick question or two:

How do I open the attrib.dat file?

Word, Notepad or is there a special program?

How do I reload it into the MVP folder?

Sorry for asking so many questions...

[evil1182]

Notepad works fine, just after you put S.Reynolds just X out then press yes when asked to save and that's It, that's what i did.

[Ivanhoe]

Thanks.

[sfgiantsflgators]

i tried the shane reynolds fix, but no go.

i put it in between "jose reyes" and "paulino reynoso", which by my calculations, is where reynolds would fall in alphabetically. what did i screw up?

[Stetson]

on 2 installs of MVP; my office CPU it worked, but didnt work on the one here at home.. Dont know why, also know there are others that it hasnt worked for either.. Not sure as to why.

[evil1182]

i tried the shane reynolds fix, but no go.

i put it in between "jose reyes" and "paulino reynoso", which by my calculations, is where reynolds would fall in alphabetically. what did i screw up?

I just put in back in myself and I put in the same location you said and it works fine, make sure you put the whole string of text in correctly.

0f844e070,0 Shane,1 Reynolds,2 37,3 0,4 0,5 0,6 10,7 27,8 115,9 29,10 244,11 1,12 0,13 0,14 0,15 0,16 1,17 743,18 1,19 5,20 11,21 0,22 0,23 43,24 12,25 11,26 10,27 10,28 2,29 0,30 0,31 1,32 1,33 0,34 0,35 0,36 0,37 0,38 2,39 0,40 2,41 1,42 0,43 0,44 0,45 7391,;

[sfgiantsflgators]

I just put in back in myself and I put in the same location you said and it works fine, make sure you put the whole string of text in correctly.

0f844e070,0 Shane,1 Reynolds,2 37,3 0,4 0,5 0,6 10,7 27,8 115,9 29,10 244,11 1,12 0,13 0,14 0,15 0,16 1,17 743,18 1,19 5,20 11,21 0,22 0,23 43,24 12,25 11,26 10,27 10,28 2,29 0,30 0,31 1,32 1,33 0,34 0,35 0,36 0,37 0,38 2,39 0,40 2,41 1,42 0,43 0,44 0,45 7391,;

nope - went through and checked every character. nothing. i've tried selecting different pitchers in-game. nothing. different batters. nothing.

[evil1182]

nope - went through and checked every character. nothing. i've tried selecting different pitchers in-game. nothing. different batters. nothing.

I really dont know what to tell ya, I could send you my attrib.dat if you want just PM me your email.

[awoooooo]

please send me your attrib.dat too, i also have a problem and i already tried what Matroska did and it didnt work ill just pm you my email. Thanks.

PS: sorry for my english because im from switzerland and we dont speak english here. :cry:

[sfgiantsflgators]

an update: tried evil's file and still nothing. if anyone discovers a reason why this is so, please post it. i've searched through other threads and have noticed similar problems - apparently the fix will work for one person but not another. thanks again to evil for his help and those who found the "reynolds" fix for attempting to solve a weird problem. guess i'll just have to do the pitching games and move on. :?

[ronmexico]

Can anyone else help me with something else simliar to this?

Is there another fix besides this, because it will be deleted when I export my updated rosters with the new attrib.dat. It will be overwritten, and I just wanted to know if I could avoid that.

[evil1182]

I don't think so, just edit the updated attrib.dat when the new roster's come out.

[big shmooz]

If somebody could figure out how to import the rosters without an error back to making a new mbe file in mvpedit, then use that as the base for further editing the rosters, that should work to eliminate this problem of having to manually put in Reynolds every time after an edit.

[ronmexico]

Can I create Shane Reynolds and stick him in A ball? If I give him that same hash code of 0f844e070 I would live with the inaccuracy for 1 player.

[ronmexico]

What is that error with MVPEdit that won't allow me to import the rosters that I have from the attrib.dat files?

[big shmooz]

The error you get is a runtime error 3163 & it says that the field is too small to accept the amount of data you attempted to add. Try inserting or pasting less data.

[ronmexico]

Don't I need all the data in the database folder to make an mbe file? Thats what I imported.