How to get Trues' ESPN overlay to work in TC7?

[Edam]

It works in '61 and '07 but doesn't show in TC7.

[Jim825]

What stadium have you been playing in? I'm guessing that your problem is because you're playing in one of the unlockable classic stadiums (e.g. Griffith, Shibe, etc.) that came with MVP2005. If you use those stadiums, the game uses different overlay files (data frontend coopov.big and cooplay.big) rather than the overlay files used for other stadiums (data frontend igonly.big and ingame.big).

When I tried playing an exhibition game in Griffith Stadium, I saw the normal Total Classics overlay. If I play a game in classic Yankee Stadium which replaced an AAA stadium, I could see Trues ESPN overlay (see screenshots below).

I would expect that you would see this same behavior with the '61 mod or with MVP07. Perhaps you were not using one of the unlockable stadiums when you tested on these two releases.

UPDATE: I figured out how to get the ESPN overlay to show up in the classic stadiums. Here's what you need to do:

1. Copy ingame.big to cooplay.big

2. Copy igonly.big to coopov.big

Now, the "regular" and "classic" overlays will be the same. I tried this out this afternoon and verified that it does work.

Classic Yankee Stadium (replaced aa03nite.big):

Tiger Stadium (one of the classic unlockable stadiums):

Griffith Stadium (another classic unlockable stadiums):

[Edam]

For whatever reason, that didn't work for me, even with a non-locked stadium.

[Jim825]

What mode are you playing -- Exhibition or Dynasty? All of the things I showed were with Exhibition games.

[Edam]

I tried it in Exhibition although I'd like it to work in Dynasty.

[Jim825]

Your screenshot shows the Cooperstown overlay files (coopov.big and cooplay.big). Can you show a screenshot (with file dates) for ingame.big and igonly.big to make sure you've got the right ones installed?

[Edam]