dennisjames71 Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 File Name: Negro League Baseball Mod (dennisjames71) File Submitter: dennisjames71 File Submitted: 31 Oct 2011 File Updated: 19 Nov 2011 File Category: Total Conversion Mods Version: 3.0 NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALLBy dennisjames71 After nearly a year of work…I wanted to finally present my All-Negro League Baseball Mod for MVP Baseball. After making my first negro league uniform last December, the effort snowballed into a full-fledged mod, thanks to all of the knowledge I’ve picked up and applied since then. At first I went at it for the purpose of making it for myself because of my love for the Negro Leagues; but I figured I would share my effort here so others may enjoy it as well. So here’s what this thing is: *A complete mod that transforms MVP Baseball into an 18-team (plus 2 EAST/WEST All-Star Teams) Negro League Mod. I’ve pulled some of the best all-time players from each franchise and through multiple eras, into a single team. Teams such as the New York Lincoln Giants will mostly have players from their best years in the 1910’s and early 1920’s for example. *I’ve utilized the excellent Complete Book of Baseball’s Negro Leagues (John Holoway) and some Ootp All-Time Negro League spreadsheets to obtain the tough to find career statistics of many of the players. Statistics and Ratings for the better known players are more ‘polished’ than some of the lesser known players. Thanks to DylanBradbury’s superb batting/pitching calculators, I feel I was able to develop good but rough ratings for some lesser-known players who had very little information. I have portraits for the popular players and decided to use a generic negro league portrait for other players instead of the ‘blanked-out’ photos. *Practically every single aspect of this game has been modded to get the user into a term me and redeck coined when we did our TC 1927 Integration series; historical immersion.All music (walk-up & jukebox) is changed to very early blues and jazz songs.Thanks to bctrackboi11; you’ll find “old” and worn baseball bats and a dirty, hard-to-see baseball.African-American crowd in each of the 18 stadiums with celebrities like Joe Louis, Robert Johnson, and Duke Ellington making an appearance.All fireworks visuals are removed. All fireworks and sirens sounds have been removed when a home run is hit. You will just hear the crowd roar.All of the created uniforms are from the most popular eras of each franchise. Some teams (like the KC Monarchs) have 2 sets of home/road uniforms. *I’ve modded/made 18 stadiums for the Negro League teams. They are typically modifications of the stock 1927 stadiums along with others. These are interpretations of well-appointed stadiums for the teams to play in and are by no means accurate; but they provide an excellent environment to play the games in. *Much thanks to bctrackboi11 for his excellent and iconic 1942 KC Monarchs home uniforms and New York Cubans uniforms in which he gave permission to use. Credit goes to Thome25 for his late 40’s/early 50s New York Cubans uniforms which adds a nice touch as well. I had completed the remainder of the uniforms along with the brand new, original uniforms I made for the East and West all-star teams. *I used many of the cyberfaces for popular players that me and redeck had in out TC 1927 Integration Mods. They were done predominantly by Homer and jogar84 and others. I apologize if I missed any of the other cyberface makers who allowed us to use them in our previous mods. *I want to give thanks to my old partner redeck for being a motivator for making Negro League material when we worked on our mods in the past Winter/Spring. His painstaking work on those rosters enabled me to use many of the players and ratings into my full Negro League mod. Thank you bud. *A ton of thanks goes out to OTBJoel for stadium and team audio. Back in the spring and before his epic Legends of the Booth mod; he was kind enough to provide his Legends to announce proper city/stadium names as well as team names for my mod personally. You will hear Ernie Harwell announce the game is between the “Homestead Grays versus the Kansas City Monarchs” for example. *Unfortunately because I do not know player audio, there will be little of that throughout the game but perhaps if I am able to learn those skills, I can always update this project. Also since this was done prior to the Legends of the Booth release; this will have Kiper/Krukow play-by-play and commentary. *Much thanks goes out to DylanBradbury who had created a tentative schedule that has a few kinks that we will iron out and it is included in the game. It is a 126-game schedule for Dynasty Play but please bear with us while we correct certain issues with it. *Finally thank you Jim825 for keeping the flame burning of your excellent efforts of Total Classics Baseball. You have been an inspiration from Day 1 for me. My mod is by no means the ‘end-all-be-all’ and definitive Negro League Mod but its accuracy and realistic values I feel are good enough for many of the Classic Baseball fans here at MVP Mods to enjoy and perhaps be inspired to create their own work or improve upon the foundation I have laid down, hopefully. Lastly, this effort was done because of my enduring passion and respect for this group of men who played a wonderful style of baseball in the Negro Leagues. It was my nod of admiration and a way of creating a historical experience with these superb players and the game they played. Feel free to try this out guys and I hope you enjoy the experience. It was well worth the effort to me. -Dennis ------------------------------------------- *** VERSION HISTORY *** v3.0 Fixed issue in Dynasty mode where the wrong teams are displayed in the team standingsRestored file that removes fireworks and siren sounds after home runs are hit v2.0Added player name audio to about 175 playersFixed some minor stadium issues v1.0Initial release ------------------------------------------- Click here to download this file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennisjames71 Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 Some screenshots: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DylanBradbury Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Downloading as I type this. It looks amazing! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim825 Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 This looks great. I'm looking forward to trying it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennisjames71 Posted November 1, 2011 Author Share Posted November 1, 2011 Hey thanks Jim and Dylan...I am excited to get your reaction on this project and hope you guys enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim825 Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 I'm interested in learning how you disabled the home run fireworks and music. That would be applicable to some of my current (and future) mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennisjames71 Posted November 1, 2011 Author Share Posted November 1, 2011 Hey there Jim, Yeah, I was pretty jazzed when I discovered how to eliminate the fireworks and siren sounds after hitting a home run. All you have to do is copy the attached file "hsfxhdr.big" into your /data/audio/hmrn_sfx folder and that's it. The only sounds you will hear is the crowd cheering and the random walk-up music clip. Of course I was thinking that it would be a great benefit for every non-modern MVP mod. As far as the fireworks visuals, it is only a matter of blanking out the alpha file of the assorted 'last chunk' of graphics files in the extracted stadium folder. I am sure that I will be able to help you out with that if you would like. Dennishsfxhdr.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoRedSox34 Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 Thank you Dennis!!! Looking forward to hitting with the legend Josh Gibson!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benglez Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Robert Johnson in the house!!!!! & Congrats Dennis....great, great mod...thanks a lot for this piece of baseball history... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kado456 Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Wow . . . dennisjames71 you are amazing thank you so much for this mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redeck Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 stunning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanBradbury Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Dennis, I finally got to play my first game with your mod. It's amazing! You should be very proud of the result. I played as Homestead versus the St. Louis Stars, losing 9-4. (I'm way out of practice playing.) Great job, man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennisjames71 Posted November 7, 2011 Author Share Posted November 7, 2011 Robert Johnson in the house!!!!! & Congrats Dennis....great, great mod...thanks a lot for this piece of baseball history... Hey thanks benglez...you're right, that's exactly what I was trying to offer with this mod, baseball history...and unfairly, baseball history that has been largely ignored until recently. The fact that you know who Robert Johnson is makes you a cool guy too. Hope you are enjoying the mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennisjames71 Posted November 7, 2011 Author Share Posted November 7, 2011 Wow . . . dennisjames71 you are amazing thank you so much for this mod. Hey you are welcome kado...I hope you are having some fun playing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennisjames71 Posted November 7, 2011 Author Share Posted November 7, 2011 Dennis, I finally got to play my first game with your mod. It's amazing! You should be very proud of the result. I played as Homestead versus the St. Louis Stars, losing 9-4. (I'm way out of practice playing.) Great job, man! Dylan, It makes me happy to know that you genuninely enjoy this mod. I know that you have mentioned in the past that you do not generally have a lot of time to play MVP so it really means a lot that you had a chance to play a game and had fun with it. Thanks so much for the kind words and the classiness that typifies you. Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennisjames71 Posted November 7, 2011 Author Share Posted November 7, 2011 stunning BRO! It’s awesome to hear from you again and thank you for the exceptional comments on my mod. I have to say that you were an important part of the ball rolling on this about a year ago. I was going to only try my hand at making some Negro League uniforms and maybe a couple of custom stadiums; but your ideas and our brainstorm really motivated me to take on the task of going for it all with a full mod. Also, as I mentioned in my release notes; your ratings/statistics info on the players we had in our Phase #1 and #2 mods was extremely helpful with taking on these rosters. Anyway, I hope you and the family are doing well and I am sorry about your Tigers, I really wanted them in the Series and to win it all after they beat the Yankees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim825 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Version 2 of this outstanding mod has been released. Using the audio files from Total Classics 10, I was able to add player name audio to about 175 players. If you are a fan of classic baseball and haven't tried this mod yet, you need to get it. You won't be disappointed! :good: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee4Life Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Version 2 of this outstanding mod has been released. Using the audio files from Total Classics 10, I was able to add player name audio to about 175 players. If you are a fan of classic baseball and haven't tried this mod yet, you need to get it. You won't be disappointed! Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyoulio Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Can You please give me step by step instructions on how to load this module. I read your read me file and still can not load it. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim825 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Can You please give me step by step instructions on how to load this module. I read your read me file and still can not load it. Thanks It's very simple: 1. Download the mod 2. Open up the Negro_League_Baseball.7z file with a utility like WinRAR 3. Extract the explodeme.exe file from the Negro_League_Baseball.7z file 4. Double click on the explodeme.exe file 5. When it starts up, it asks you for the location of the MVP Baseball install that you want to install the Negro League mod on top of. Browse to the location where you have the game installed (for example C:\Program Files\EA Sports\MVP Baseball 2005) and click OK. 6. A progress bar will display as the mod is being installed. When it is done, the window will close. 7. Start the game as you normally would and the mod will appear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UBL Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 awesome work, man ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myseason Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Love the mod as well and looking forward to the Dynasty fix. I simulated the season and it got stuck at the end of the regular season. Maybe the error has to do with timing, such as the game expects the MLB season to last longer than the MILB season, but in this instance it does not. I don't know. Great Work!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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