The Big Unit Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Old timer here compared to most of you young pups. (I have t-shirts older than alot of you). Not so much a mod request as a mod question.... Does anyone know if anyone has come out with a mod that can re-arrange the teams in each division so I could have it the way it used to be in the mid 80's? I absolutely hate that my Brewers are in the NL, and miss the old setup of: AL East Milwaukee Toronto NY Yankees Boston Cleveland Detroit Baltimore AL West Oakland Texas California (Now LA Angels) Kansas City ChiSox Minnesota Seattle NL East ChiCubs St. Louis Montreal (Washington) Pittsburgh Philadelphia NY Mets NL West Atlanta LA Dodgers San Francisco San Diego Houston Cincinnati If Florida, Arizona, Colorado, and Tampa Bay had to be included, I could always put them in a division I wanted if this mod existed, but just wondering if there's anything out there so far that would allow me to set up the divisions this way. Thanks in advance for any input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyMcM93 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 I think it's possible. My only question is, what about the central divisions? I don't think you can remove those in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Unit Posted August 18, 2006 Author Share Posted August 18, 2006 I could throw some teams in there and make it work like in the AL, Cleveland, ChiSox, Kansas City, Minnesota, etc, if this mod did exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Unit Posted August 20, 2006 Author Share Posted August 20, 2006 Oh well, I take it there isn't an existing mod that allows you to do this. Thanks anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stecropper Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Hory is a wizard at doing those sorts of things. Check out the *61 Mod --- it was his work that moved teams between divisions and eliminated some teams totally as well. So, Yes it can be done & Hory has proved that. Hope this helps, Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hory Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Ok, to do it you need to open team.dat from the database folder in a text editor Every team in the game is listed there You can move teams around by altering values Value 4 determines the league 0=AL 1=NL Value 5 determines division 0=ALW 1=ALC 2=ALE 3=NLW 4=NLC 5=NLE The game needs to have at least two (sometimes you can get away with one) teams in each division so the central divs can't be removed entirely. To remove a team from a league change value 5 in team.dat to 25 and open up org.dat and change value 5 to 0 However you will need to use a schedule excluding said teams, for the configuration you want I don't know if there is one available, the only historical schedules I know of are the 1994 and 1961 schedules - which don't quite match the era you want to replicate However I am currently working on the 1967 schedule, which may be of more use to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Unit Posted August 22, 2006 Author Share Posted August 22, 2006 Thanks Hory. This helps a ton! No worries about the schedule. That's easy to get from http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/sche...hp?y=1989&t=MIL and I get alot of my other info from http://http://www.baseball-reference.com/ but I do have one question about what you said. You say Value 4 and Value 5 and then later in a different file Value 5, does that mean the 4th and 5th sets of numbers in that file? Thanks in advance. I think this can be done maybe pretty easily now one I find out what value 4 and value 5 mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hory Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Ok, so value 4 and 5 in team.dat alter the division and league for a team, so Anaheim circled below have 0 and 0 after values 4 and 5 meaning AL & ALW and the other value 5 I mentioned in org.dat determines whether the club is an active franchise (0=No, 1=Yes) use this for disabling the Rockies, Devil Rays etc, however they must also be moved out of their regular divisions by changing value 5 in team.dat to 25, otherwise it messes up the standings. (25=hidden division, used internally by the game for All Star teams, Heroes, Legends etc) Hope that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Unit Posted September 19, 2006 Author Share Posted September 19, 2006 Hory, I waited for the final MVP'06 release to come out before I messed with the teams and re-aligning. I didn't end up de-activating any teams, I just moved teams around. I think the only teams I moved were the Brewers (out of NL Central to AL East), Cleveland (Out of AL Central to AL East), Detroit (Out of AL Central to AL East), and Tampa Bay (Out of AL East to AL West. I know that one doesn't make sense geographically but wanted AL Central and West to have the same amount of teams (5)). Quick question for you. How do you edit the existing schedule? Or how would I get one to work with this setup? I see the teams were moved correctly but for the teams affected I would like to change them if possible. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronmexico Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Quick question for you. How do you edit the existing schedule? Or how would I get one to work with this setup? I see the teams were moved correctly but for the teams affected I would like to change them if possible. Thanks in advance. You have to take apart the schedule.big file with eagraphics editor, and then extract it. Take the mlb162_1.dat, mlb162_2.dat and mlb162_3.dat files and open it up with any text editor. You will see in that file that the games are aligned going down, and you just change it to what teams you want to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hory Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 You also have to decompress the mlb162_1.dat etc files with eazip before editing too (and recompress before re-importing back into schedule.big) Editing the schedule is a big undertaking, you can import the schedule files into excel which makes things a little easier to do large scale edits, like you are planning with the Brewers moving back to the AL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronmexico Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Ahh, Excel, I should have thought of that. Boy do I feel dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Unit Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 Ok thanks guys. Guess I'll just put things back the way they were then. That sounds like it's WAY over my head. Thanks again guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagger147 Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Ok thanks guys. Guess I'll just put things back the way they were then. That sounds like it's WAY over my head. Thanks again guys. If you need assistance with the schedule, I gave Hory some help with the 2006 A, AA, and AAA schedules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonyrotten Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Man the Mets against Montreal and the Cubbies I remember that! Great times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Unit Posted September 21, 2006 Author Share Posted September 21, 2006 If you need assistance with the schedule, I gave Hory some help with the 2006 A, AA, and AAA schedules. Thanks for the generous offer Dagger but I would need someone to do it completely for me rather than just give me assistance and I would never ask you to take on such a huge task. Just reading what Ron Mexico and Hory said on how the schedule would have needed to be done made my head spin so I wouldn't even be able to do it even if I wanted to. Thanks again though for the very generous offer. :!: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagger147 Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Doing the schedule itself is relatively easy. What I don't understand is how to get it into the game. If you decide in the future to give your idea a try, I'll be glad to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronmexico Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 I can tell you how to do that. You just import the new schedules back into the schedule.big file, and then you put that schedule.big file back in the folder that you found it in, I believe the database folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hory Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 The Big unit - The other alternative is to use the 1994 schedule.big file included here within the MVP 1994 rosters In that schedule the Brewers play an AL Central schedule, Tigers AL East, etc etc All you'll have to do is make the 1994 alignment adjustments within your own rosters. Of course the problem is Colorado and Tampa Bay will have to be disabled, but other than that it's probably the easiest way to get the setup that you want without having to write an entirely new schedule... I can help out with this if needed.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagger147 Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 I can tell you how to do that. You just import the new schedules back into the schedule.big file, and then you put that schedule.big file back in the folder that you found it in, I believe the database folder. Thanks! What program do you use to import it into the schedule.big? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronmexico Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 The short answer is eagraph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hory Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Actually, I could just do a find and replace and 'swap' a team's 2006 schedule over easily, if you keep the league teams split 16-14, it's a simple process.. Just when you change it to 15-15 team or any other split then some major schedule editing will have to happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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